Hi,

I have problems with freezes in Vista Home Premium 32bits (SP1)
It arrived first a few days ago: After an hibernation of 4-5 hours, Vista was Freezed. I did a reboot. It restarted well. But since then I have ALWAYS a freeze after 10-15 minutes.
I must add that I have done hibernations for 6 month now without problems (because Vista freezed often already on shutdown) and I have done no modification (soft-hard) on the Pc.

It freezes about 5-15 minutes after Start depending on what I do.
It freezes also if I do nothing!
It freezes also if Aero, or Indexing disabled or whith a clean boot.
It freezes also on a safe mode start after loading the CRCcheck driver!
After a normal start CHKDSK is sometimes running automatically, and it says that it has repared 1-4 files.

I have consulted your site and this forum before posting and have done almost everything you recommend:
I have opened the box: no dust, no overheat.
I have made a check of the memory: all is ok!
I have made a check of the hard-disk : all is ok
I have verified the drivers: everything ok.
I have run Antivirus (AVG) : all ok
I have run Hijackthis for the Registry and analyzed : all is ok also here
I have run SFC: no problems
Also no malware and I do not overclock.

One track I have is : I cannot read the Event's Journal.
The Icon of he EVENTS OBSERVER in the Control Panel Administrative Tools has a yellow exclamation mark and a red cross and when I click on it there is an IMMEDIATE Freeze.
What does that mean? Where are those journal files situated?

Would be very thankful for any help.
Regards

Guy

try a system file check, go to start search type cmd,hold shift and ctrl and press enter
Type sfc /scannow in the box that opens.

In your start menu do you have administrative tools, If not, go to start right click in the blank space under help and support and click properties,start menu,customize.
Set this setting and see if you can get to event viewer from there.

Hello Guy9, did you only do 1 sfc if so you need to do 3, each time you run your sfc it repairs more. First I want you to follow this.

Bring up your elevated command and type this.

Findstr /c:"[SR]" %windir%\logs\cbs\cbs.log >%userfrofile%\Desktop\sfcdetails.txt

This should bring bring up and put your sfc report on your desktop from there you can upload it to us, also you should run your sfc command 3 times each time it makes repairs.

So please let us know when you are done, and send us the reports.

Tom

Do you have SP2 installed?

You will have to do a repair install or fresh install.
Do you have the install disc. Can you get access to a computer with a burner?
Repair disc may work or you could burn a live linux cd and boot with that to remove any files you want to keep and do a fresh install.

Repair Install For Vista

Clean Install with a Full Version of Vista

Tutorials thanks to Brink

SystemRescueCd