Cameron.

Me again,

Just hold on this problem for the moment. ASUS have just issued a BIOS
update a couple of days ago and after installing that, Vista discovered a
whole heap of new devices and (touch wood) things are running smoothly now.
I've run a number of tests that previously would have resulted in a freeze-up
and things are good.

Hmmm...




"Jon" wrote:

>
> "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.
>
> --
> Jon
>
>
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