Jon

"Cameron." <Cameron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7DE0BCAB-9188-4269-89A0-4114646686FC@microsoft.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I have a new ASUS system, Core 2 Duo with 2 gig DDR RAM, 256 xfxforce
> PCIexpress video and Vista Ultimate installed on a brand new SATA HDD.
>
> I, too, am getting regular system freezes. Anything can trigger it -
> video,
> sound even loading a web page in IE can cause the system to lock up for 30
> seconds or longer.
>
> I am able to intervene by repeatedly pressing any key (usually the DEL
> key)
> until I get things back.
>
> It's really annoying and looking around the Internet and this newsgroup
> here
> it is plainly obvious that this is an issue.
>
> Trouble is, nobody is offering any serious solutions beyond updating
> drivers
> etc. - all of which I have done. From what I can see, a lot of people are
> winding back to XP.
>
> I bought this system and spec'd it up to specifically run Vista. It'd be
> a
> shame to go back to XP but reliability is more important to me than
> functionality.
>
> Am I missing any steps here?? Is there a simple solution?



The explanation is simple, but the solution isn't because it requires action
on numerous fronts.

You have too many (or particular) processes running that are hogging cpu
time (or disk access time etc ). The solution is to reduce their number or
to configure them differently.

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Jon