A lot of us regard Norton's AV as evil...wouldn't surprise me if it were
that...
You might bring up task manager and leave it sitting on the screen so you
don't have to start it when the system hangs...
Dana Cline - MCE MVP
"Jamie" <Jamie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Saw this behavior even before Norton was installed, so I don't think it's
> the
> primary cause. Not using Norton Suite, just Antivirus. Tried Internet
> Suite
> when it first came out (a year or two ago maybe) and promptly returned it
> to
> Symantec because the performance was so poor. Luckily, they allow a
> software
> return since I bought directly from their online store.
>
> I had trouble when I first installed the SIG SATA controller card and
> Vista.
> Within a minute of booting, it would start acting like a process was
> hogging
> the CPU (mouse would jump occassionally, but I could never get enough
> control
> to diagnose). Boot into safe mode and it would work fine.
>
> I suspected an IRQ conflict of some sort, but nothing was indicated in
> device manager. I think there's some device that doesn't like sharing an
> IRQ. I decided to move the SATA controller card to a different slot
> anyway.
> Once I did that, it started behaving much better. But still see the lock
> ups
> every few days.
>
> I will try the other things you suggest.
>
>