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Old 03-21-2007   #3 (permalink)
LaRoux


 
 

Re: Vista Feezes up often for about 10-20 seconds, Any ideas?

This sounds like it could be a bad drive doing retries and remaps. I assume
your Raptors have SMART so you might look for something that can give you
SMART reporting just to see if you are registering hard errors.

"Chris Henry" <xperties@xperties.net> wrote in message
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>I built a new system just for Vista which consist of:
>
> - Intel Duo Core 2 e6600 cooled by Sunbeam Tuniq Tower 120
> - Asus p4B Premium Vista Edition
> - 4 gigs of Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C4 DDR2-800 XMS2-6400 Xtreme
> Performance Memory
> - 2 Western Digital Raptor WD1500AHFD 150GB Serial ATA 10,000RPM Hard
> Drive w/16MB Buffer
> - BFG GeForce 8800 GTS OC 320MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Video Card
> - Powered by Thermaltake W0117RU Toughpower 750W Power Supply w/Active PFC
>
>
> I'm not using Onecare or any other virus software now. I have UAC off and
> windows search disabled. I'm using Office 2007 and some other basic apps.
> While doing nothing more than browsing the web with either IE6 and/or
> Firefox (latest) or reading/checking e-mail the PC will freeze for about
> 10-20 seconds. I've searched google and found hundreads of others having
> the same issue but no one has found a solution. My drivers are all the
> latest as of today and Vista is 100% updated with any new updates.
>
> Any other service I can try to disable that Vista has inflated the OS with
> that might stop this feezing?



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