I've been getting the same error - this was after installing SP1 the other
week. Has anyone found a fix for this yet? Or has Microsoft released a patch?
"lostonion" wrote:
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> I down loaded spyware doctor 5.5 with antivirus, took off AVG
> and installed and ran the new one. Found a few things but nothing bad.
> Searching on the internet proved that no one really has a clue.
>
> Except for the posts on bad hard drives. I have two 500gigs a maxtor as
> drive 1 and WD as drive 2 downloaded and ran tests, S.M.A.R.T was fine on all
> drives. Drive tests also tested good except for one small problem. My SATA
> cable was causing an error. I changed the cable and so far all is well
> almost 24 hours with out a slowdown or error.
>
> Off all the posts I have read none had suggested changing the HD cable.
>
> "jlk" wrote:
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> > Unfortunately, that did not solve the problem. But I've discovered that it
> > happens when vista backup (set to backup to an external western digital
> > mybook drive) comes on automatically, and I happen to start a progam. The
> > program then crashes, the physical ram gauge spikes to 99% and gets stuck
> > there, and everything slows to a crawl. Control ALT Delete will then
> > (evenually) cause the logon error message. Then, unplugging the external
> > drive will eventually get the physical ram gauge to go down (to about 15%)
> > and the machine's performance will improve but not come back to normal. Only
> > rebooting makes it useable again. For now, I'm going to disable automatic
> > vista backup and see what happens.
> >
> > "Heather1995" wrote:
> > Quote:
> > > Yes, do let me know if that works. With all the postings on the internet of
> > > people that are having this problem and virtually no solutions listed by
> > > anyone (including Microsoft), I'm curious about this.
> > >
> > > The slow down "bug" got me a week ago! Thought it was a virus or some bad malware. I thought the computer was locked up but the cursor would still move, it was just really was just really slow, taking 3 or 4 minutes to respond to a mouse click!
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