Guess what - freezing/locking up!

Hi all,

I have a new ASUS system, Core 2 Duo with 2 gig DDR RAM, 256 xfxforce
PCIexpress video and Vista Ultimate installed on a brand new SATA HDD.

I, too, am getting regular system freezes. Anything can trigger it - video,
sound even loading a web page in IE can cause the system to lock up for 30
seconds or longer.

I am able to intervene by repeatedly pressing any key (usually the DEL key)
until I get things back.

It's really annoying and looking around the Internet and this newsgroup here
it is plainly obvious that this is an issue.

Trouble is, nobody is offering any serious solutions beyond updating drivers
etc. - all of which I have done. From what I can see, a lot of people are
winding back to XP.

I bought this system and spec'd it up to specifically run Vista. It'd be a
shame to go back to XP but reliability is more important to me than
functionality.

Am I missing any steps here?? Is there a simple solution?

"Cameron." <Cameron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7DE0BCAB-9188-4269-89A0-4114646686FC@microsoft.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I have a new ASUS system, Core 2 Duo with 2 gig DDR RAM, 256 xfxforce
> PCIexpress video and Vista Ultimate installed on a brand new SATA HDD.
>
> I, too, am getting regular system freezes. Anything can trigger it -
> video,
> sound even loading a web page in IE can cause the system to lock up for 30
> seconds or longer.
>
> I am able to intervene by repeatedly pressing any key (usually the DEL
> key)
> until I get things back.
>
> It's really annoying and looking around the Internet and this newsgroup
> here
> it is plainly obvious that this is an issue.
>
> Trouble is, nobody is offering any serious solutions beyond updating
> drivers
> etc. - all of which I have done. From what I can see, a lot of people are
> winding back to XP.
>
> I bought this system and spec'd it up to specifically run Vista. It'd be
> a
> shame to go back to XP but reliability is more important to me than
> functionality.
>
> Am I missing any steps here?? Is there a simple solution?



The explanation is simple, but the solution isn't because it requires action
on numerous fronts.

You have too many (or particular) processes running that are hogging cpu
time (or disk access time etc ). The solution is to reduce their number or
to configure them differently.

--
Jon

Hi Jon,

Thanks for your input, an interesting thought. How would I go about
narrowing that down to find the culprit?


Cam.

Me again,

Just hold on this problem for the moment. ASUS have just issued a BIOS
update a couple of days ago and after installing that, Vista discovered a
whole heap of new devices and (touch wood) things are running smoothly now.
I've run a number of tests that previously would have resulted in a freeze-up
and things are good.

Hmmm...




"Jon" wrote:

>
> "Cameron." <Cameron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7DE0BCAB-9188-4269-89A0-4114646686FC@microsoft.com...
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a new ASUS system, Core 2 Duo with 2 gig DDR RAM, 256 xfxforce
> > PCIexpress video and Vista Ultimate installed on a brand new SATA HDD.
> >
> > I, too, am getting regular system freezes. Anything can trigger it -
> > video,
> > sound even loading a web page in IE can cause the system to lock up for 30
> > seconds or longer.
> >
> > I am able to intervene by repeatedly pressing any key (usually the DEL
> > key)
> > until I get things back.
> >
> > It's really annoying and looking around the Internet and this newsgroup
> > here
> > it is plainly obvious that this is an issue.
> >
> > Trouble is, nobody is offering any serious solutions beyond updating
> > drivers
> > etc. - all of which I have done. From what I can see, a lot of people are
> > winding back to XP.
> >
> > I bought this system and spec'd it up to specifically run Vista. It'd be
> > a
> > shame to go back to XP but reliability is more important to me than
> > functionality.
> >
> > Am I missing any steps here?? Is there a simple solution?
>
>
>
> The explanation is simple, but the solution isn't because it requires action
> on numerous fronts.
>
> You have too many (or particular) processes running that are hogging cpu
> time (or disk access time etc ). The solution is to reduce their number or
> to configure them differently.
>
> --
> Jon
>
>
>

Hello Cam,

This is only a begining, you can start here

Open IE--->Tools--->Manage Add-ons, and uncheck any BHO's that you don't
recºgnize.

You can also use the Software Explorer in Windows Defender to look at
unneedy programs and block them--

Good luck
--


"Cameron." wrote:

> Hi Jon,
>
> Thanks for your input, an interesting thought. How would I go about
> narrowing that down to find the culprit?
>
>
> Cam.
>

"Cameron." <Cameron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:44C1C63F-1903-4A7C-8814-05F0725EF74C@microsoft.com...
> Me again,
>
> Just hold on this problem for the moment. ASUS have just issued a BIOS
> update a couple of days ago and after installing that, Vista discovered a
> whole heap of new devices and (touch wood) things are running smoothly
> now.
> I've run a number of tests that previously would have resulted in a
> freeze-up
> and things are good.
>
> Hmmm...
>
>
>


Nice one. Good to hear a successful bios update story. Hope it continues
that way.

--
Jon

"Chad Harris" <vistaneedsmuchowork.net> wrote in message
news:uQTKEkNzHHA.3448@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Cameron--
>
> I read the rest of the thread and see the Bios Update seemed to make your
> freezes go away. Something I should add to my list, but the rest of the
> list is a good set of options to use in checking for resource consumption.
> Glad you solved your problem.
>
> Good luck,
>
> CH
>

Yep, one to add to the list here too. Hadn't considered that one in relation
to system freezes previously. Learn something new every day.

--
Jon