Vista Premium 32bit Freezing

roakes

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Hey all,

Vista has started to play up a little, works a charm application wise etc. but for some reason it has started freezing at random. Never doing anything in particular, just browsing, chatting etc. even when watching a movie or something it just freezes. I can't link it to any one activity and it probably happens once every few days, although twice today. I realise it's a long shot but any ideas?

Thanks
 
No nothing in event viewer as it just freezes rather than blue screen or whatever so don't think anything gets logged.

Will give memtest a bash, guess it could be the problem.
 
roakes said:
No nothing in event viewer as it just freezes rather than blue screen or whatever so don't think anything gets logged.

Will give memtest a bash, guess it could be the problem.
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Also make a check for new drivers for anything/everything. My laptop used to freeze randomly as you describe around once a week, but doesn't anymore. I can only assume it was newer drivers.
 
I also have been experiencing random lock up's with vista 32bit and like you say nothing gets logged, as far as im aware all my drivers are up 2 speed and i have no hardware faults, think i'll try the memtest.

this has only just started happening to me within the last cpl of nights and i aint installed any new hard/software.
 
I also experience this. Most of the time, everything restarts after a minute or two. It's like someone pressed the pause button.

I thought it was probably lack of memory, as I'm running 1GB.
 
Mine never kicks itself back in.

Well, updated to latest nvidia drivers otherwise not much else to update.

Ran the Vista memtest option at boot and that passed ok, created a proper memtest cd from the downloaded iso but it didnt seem to work...strange
 
DAS said:
I also experience this. Most of the time, everything restarts after a minute or two. It's like someone pressed the pause button.

I thought it was probably lack of memory, as I'm running 1GB.
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I have been getting this as well & i have 4GB of ram & using vista64 Ultimate.
 
Memory should be fine else I'm sure you'd either get an event log entry or the thing would crash. I've had something similar with XP and for me it turned out to be a remembered network drive connection that it seemed to be randomly trying to connect to resulting in the freeze, disconnected that drive and it stopped the problem.

Strange that Vista should do this in all honesty as I was under the impression that Vista had much better multi-tasking and multi-threading code so even a gone bad network excursion shouldn't grab all the mill time.
 
:mad: Its not only frustrating but awesomely annoying too! Hope you get it sorted man. I can't really think of anything to help you here cos i'm having pretty much the same trouble with it.
 
I've just sussed my problem and i hope it might help you too. Basically i'm using 1 gig of Geil memory with Vista.

In the motherboard bios the memory timings were all set to 'auto'. Upon finding the timing settings for my ram off the Geil site, i manually entered them and set the memory voltage to 1.9v (default voltage from Geil site said 1.8v for my particular ram) before memory voltage was set to 'auto', i saved and exited and i've never had lockup, restart, MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, IRQ_NOT_LESS_THAN etc etc errors since. Where as before i done this the computer would blue screen so much i'd literally feel like throwing the lot out of the window.

I hope this helps you and others,
 
Unfortunately not so much as I dont get bluescreens, it just freezes. Glad you sussed your particular problem tho :)
 
No blue screens here either, been trying to pinpoint a solution to this, but no such luck :( sometimes i can have a couple of lock ups within 20 mins of each other, most times it runs sweet as a nut, this is really annoying as when it freezes up, it also stops dead anything i may be downloading :confused:
 
Only freezes i've personally had have been when overclocking and not supplying enough voltage or with AUTO settings.

On XP here but i'm sure the same principle could apply if a piece of hardware doesnt get the required power.

As XysteR said, try settings your memory timings and voltages manually to see if that clears up the problem, i know some old bios's have done that for me when i have things stuck on AUTO.

Make sure not to under or over volt anything though, i won't be held responsible if you get locked out of the PC because of an incorrect bios setting preventing the PC from booting.
 
Ok im still suffering random lock ups, seems to be more frequent while gaming, Thing is ....now when i try the memtest, it just freezes up after 15/20% and i have to restart manually, any ideas?
 
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