Doe the event logs reveal anything?
Have you tried downgrading to 2GB of memory with just one matched pair of
1GB Dims?
How much virtual memory do you have allocated?
"Hendrik Seliger" <HendrikSeliger@xxxxxx> wrote in
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> Hi!
> I am totally frustrated and clueless with my Vista Ultimate system.
> Usually
> after a few minutes after booting, the system freezes solid, no BSOD, no
> dump, only reset "solves" the situation. I can consistently generate a
> crash
> by opening Word and just keeping <return> pressed until a few pages are
> there
> - lock-up.
>
> System is AMD Athlon X2 6000+, 3 GB memory, ASUS M2N32-SLI Premium
> motherboard.
>
> I have by now replaced the graphics adapter (NVIDIA instead of ATI, so all
> other drivers), updated the BIOS, put in a stronger power supply, tried
> with
> almost all on-board devices disabled (USB, firewire, LAN, audio, one of
> the
> SATA controllers), moved the harddrive to the other SATA controller
> disabling
> the unused one, removed one set of memory, then the other, ran memtest86,
> .... Even under a "diagnostic startup" I get the same result.
>
> UNLESS I boot with only 1 core enabled. Then it seems to work fine.
>
> Now, since it also happens in diagnostic mode and I excluded most of the
> hardware (except for the CPU), I'm a bit lost as to what could still cause
> these crashes. For now, the system is completely useless, as by the time I
> started the application I need, the system has frozen and it's groundhog
> day
> all over.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what I can still do (besides scrapping the
> system
> and buying a pencil instead)? I'd appreciate any help. Greatly!!
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Cheers,
> Hendrik