Vista 64 issues

matt100

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Is it common for windows 64 to pretty much constantly be telling you one process or another has stopped working?

Its doing my head in! Either its the installer service, host process service etc etc etc.

Is this just my experience or is it just one of those things with being 64bit? my 32bit copy was flawless.
 
64 bit will show up problems with unstable hardware, where 32bit wont.
Like me moving from XPPro32 to Vista64 & having to lower my overclocks.
Unstable Ram timings can do the same.
 
Could be... buy a legal copy and try again. If it still doesn't work then there's a hardware problem somewhere.

Please no more piracy talk or I'll have to dump your thread and I don't want to do that :)
 
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I figure it could be a RAM issue too, I switched at the same time as upgrading so it could be that, I'll memtest it. Its bluescreening a lot too.
 
NathanE said:
Check your memory voltages.

DDR2 is very sensitive about voltages.
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hmm

I seem to be sort of getting somewhere by putting my pc back to stock which really I ought to have done from the off for installing windows.

Is it so sensitive to the point where 2.15v which is over the mfr 2.0-2.1v would upset it?
 
Don't think 0.05v is going to affect it.

What did you put back to stock? Are you overclocking the CPU then?
 
I was yeah, it was a very safe 3.2 on a Q6600 G0, I'm reinstalling now which seems to be going ok apart from defender reckoning it had stopped working.

I seem to get a silly amount of "display driver has stopped responding" etc too, only since vista 64 though. I have xp64 I could give a whirl I guess, I've just got used to vista, I like it.

Mind you I'm on my xp laptop now that just works.. period.
 
matt100 said:
I seem to get a silly amount of "display driver has stopped responding" etc too, only since vista 64 though. I have xp64 I could give a whirl I guess, I've just got used to vista, I like it.
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Never had that, had/have the computer jam up with excess hard drive use and ie7 on v64 is a joke :mad: Are you running an nvidia card as there is a patch to improve things supposedly (I'm running ATI).

As to programs locking up - depending on the program it can happen quite frequently (ie 7 seems to be my favourite for some reason :confused: - I put it down to a plugin, probably quicktime but can't be certain), however any decent program should work properly by now.
 
yeah its an 8800gtx.

attempting to install 60 updates now and the updater module has stopped working a couple of times.

Not terribly impressed but I'll soldier on!
 
i sometimes get com surrogate has failed.. i close it and carry on like nothing has happened... prob happens once a week or fortnight.
 
Noto said:
i sometimes get com surrogate has failed.. i close it and carry on like nothing has happened... prob happens once a week or fortnight.
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when viewing folders with video files in them?

update your codecs and it should go away. or just ignore it.


I'm fed up with program crashes making my vista reliability score hang around 4.0, there's never been any real problems, but I run a lot of beta stuff that tends to crash and it drags the score down :(
 
mattyrigby00 said:
if windows was installed when overclocked, file(s) mightve got corrupted during the install.
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I've reinstalled tonight all at stock and it only seems slightly better...

still during updates it has some process or other stop working and keeps bluescreening due to the memory manager? Is that faulty sticks?
 
matt100 said:
I've reinstalled tonight all at stock and it only seems slightly better...

still during updates it has some process or other stop working and keeps bluescreening due to the memory manager? Is that faulty sticks?
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See if they pass Memtest/Orthos if not then start crying :(
 
matt100 said:
I've reinstalled tonight all at stock and it only seems slightly better...

still during updates it has some process or other stop working and keeps bluescreening due to the memory manager? Is that faulty sticks?
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It sounds exactly like my memory problems, I had to downclock/reduce timings to stabilise the system. In the end, the ram had to be RMA'ed :( I hope the same is not true with you.
 
I gave them a go with the vista memory tester thing and they seemed to be ok.. I'll try memtest.. its test 5 isn't it?
 
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