Right, I made a couple of threads a while ago, then forgot about them (Sorry!), but now I'm just rounding all my problems up in one thread, for sorting out.
The main problem is freezing. Sometimes, my computer just freezes. I've noticed this happening at three specific times. Either on the vista login screen, usually if its been left there for a few minutes. If not there, then as its logging on, near the end when things like MSN and AIM are signing on, getting all their popups coming up with email notifications. And finally, its happened a couple of times on closing utorrent.
When it freezes, its just completely stopped. Keyboard doesn't do anything, caps lock and all that doesn't turn on the lights, No mouse movement, and leaving it doesn't do anything, it requires a restart. I've tried updating my wireless drivers, with no luck, and since its happened also updated my graphics drivers. Still nothing. Last night, I tried to get memtest working, but couldn't get it on a bootable DVD for whatever reason, so settled for the vista memory diagnostic thing. Set it to run the full memory test 10 times overnight, it managed 7 passes by the morning (about 10 hours of testing) where I had to end it, and it hadn't found any errors.
Secondly, when I shut my PC down, it sometimes just sits on the 'shutting down' screen not doing anything. If I leave it like this for a while, it bluescreens, though I usually just turn it off with the power button before this. If it helps, I can let it happen again next time to have a look at the crash dump.
An unrelated problem I have has only happened twice, a few weeks apart from each time. When logging in, I put the password, the screens go black, but the desktop doesn't come up. However, its not frozen, I can bring up the task manager and it shows the processes running, not the full set but still a lot. Logging out using the task manager and logging back in doesn't sort this, it requires a full reboot. No idea what causes this either, and it reboots into windows fine after that.
Hope its ok having it all as one thread, but I'm not sure what could cause any of these, and I'd rather avoid having to reinstall vista. Temperatures are all fine, idle around 35, up to 50 under full stress, and there's no problems when gaming, so I don't think that's a problem.
Specs:
[email protected]
4Gb ram
P5b mobo
HD4850 1Gb
Vista x64
Dual monitors.
The main problem is freezing. Sometimes, my computer just freezes. I've noticed this happening at three specific times. Either on the vista login screen, usually if its been left there for a few minutes. If not there, then as its logging on, near the end when things like MSN and AIM are signing on, getting all their popups coming up with email notifications. And finally, its happened a couple of times on closing utorrent.
When it freezes, its just completely stopped. Keyboard doesn't do anything, caps lock and all that doesn't turn on the lights, No mouse movement, and leaving it doesn't do anything, it requires a restart. I've tried updating my wireless drivers, with no luck, and since its happened also updated my graphics drivers. Still nothing. Last night, I tried to get memtest working, but couldn't get it on a bootable DVD for whatever reason, so settled for the vista memory diagnostic thing. Set it to run the full memory test 10 times overnight, it managed 7 passes by the morning (about 10 hours of testing) where I had to end it, and it hadn't found any errors.
Secondly, when I shut my PC down, it sometimes just sits on the 'shutting down' screen not doing anything. If I leave it like this for a while, it bluescreens, though I usually just turn it off with the power button before this. If it helps, I can let it happen again next time to have a look at the crash dump.
An unrelated problem I have has only happened twice, a few weeks apart from each time. When logging in, I put the password, the screens go black, but the desktop doesn't come up. However, its not frozen, I can bring up the task manager and it shows the processes running, not the full set but still a lot. Logging out using the task manager and logging back in doesn't sort this, it requires a full reboot. No idea what causes this either, and it reboots into windows fine after that.
Hope its ok having it all as one thread, but I'm not sure what could cause any of these, and I'd rather avoid having to reinstall vista. Temperatures are all fine, idle around 35, up to 50 under full stress, and there's no problems when gaming, so I don't think that's a problem.
Specs:
[email protected]
4Gb ram
P5b mobo
HD4850 1Gb
Vista x64
Dual monitors.
