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Re: Guess what - freezing/locking up!
Cameron--
I read the rest of the thread and see the Bios Update seemed to make your
freezes go away. Something I should add to my list, but the rest of the
list is a good set of options to use in checking for resource consumption.
Glad you solved your problem.
Good luck,
CH
"Cameron." <Cameron@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:44C1C63F-1903-4A7C-8814-05F0725EF74C@microsoft.com...
> 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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