Random Vista hangs.

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Hydria

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Well I'll start out by saying I'm pretty new to vista and so far my experience with it is pretty bad so far. I recently built a new system and I decided to try out vista and I planned on getting 4gigs of RAM (1gig x4) and I read that the 32bit operating systems can't see all 4gigs of RAM so I went with the 64bit edition. Any way after a sketchy install/reinstall with vista I finally got it pretty stable so I thought. But lately I have been having random lockups and blue screens of death I know its not the ram because I have tested each stick individually and they checked out but I cant seem to put my finger on the problem.


System Specs:
Motherboard-GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 AM2
Processor-AMD X2 6400+ Black Edition
RAM-Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 800
Video Card- MSI 9600GT
Hard Drives- 160g(SATA) and 2x 80g (IDE)
Power Supply-Antec NeoPower 650

Any and all help is much appreciated. Sorry for the spelling its a bit late over here. And if you need more system info let me know the sooner I can get this fixed the sooner I can get back to enjoying vista.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Amd 6400+ Black Edition
    Motherboard
    GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 AM2
    Memory
    4gig Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 800
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI 9600GT
    Hard Drives
    160g western digital sata2 16mb cache
    2x seagate 80g ide 8mb cache
    250g seagate sata2 32mb cache
Hydria said:
Well I'll start out by saying I'm pretty new to vista and so far my experience with it is pretty bad so far. I recently built a new system and I decided to try out vista and I planned on getting 4gigs of RAM (1gig x4) and I read that the 32bit operating systems can't see all 4gigs of RAM so I went with the 64bit edition. Any way after a sketchy install/reinstall with vista I finally got it pretty stable so I thought. But lately I have been having random lockups and blue screens of death I know its not the ram because I have tested each stick individually and they checked out but I cant seem to put my finger on the problem.


System Specs:
Motherboard-GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 AM2
Processor-AMD X2 6400+ Black Edition
RAM-Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 800
Video Card- MSI 9600GT
Hard Drives- 160g(SATA) and 2x 80g (IDE)
Power Supply-Antec NeoPower 650

Any and all help is much appreciated. Sorry for the spelling its a bit late over here. And if you need more system info let me know the sooner I can get this fixed the sooner I can get back to enjoying vista.
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Welcome to the Vista Forums :party:

My first suggestion would be to download and run some maintenance utilities. Just to be sure the system is running smoothly. Here's a link to a short list of utilities that should be able to help you: http://www.vistax64.com/software/139514-short-list-utilities-vista.html

You can also do some manual tune ups of Vista by following this excellent tutorial written by Shawn:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81176-speed-up-performance-vista.html

Let us know if that works for you.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Intel Q6600 Quad Core 2.4 Ghz
    Motherboard
    Dell 0TP406
    Memory
    4 X 1 GB DDR2 Kingston 800 Mhz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Nvidia 8800 GT 512 MB
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dual Dell 22" Widescreen
    Screen Resolution
    3360x1050
    Hard Drives
    320 GB Internal Main
    500 GB USB External
    160 GB USB External
    2TB USB External
    Internet Speed
    DSL 3MB
Thanks for the speedy response currently downloading a few of those programs right now. Windows live onecare and Advanced Windows Care seem like pretty decent programs. But I got to thinking today could it be some of the programs I'm using? Here is a list of programs I frequently use.

Bitlord (torrents)
Firefox
Windows media player
MSN
X-fire
and various other games

Only seems to happen when I'm using bitlord and when I'm browsing the net with multiple windows open and windows media player. My PC should be able to take that kinda load I would think.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    Amd 6400+ Black Edition
    Motherboard
    GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 AM2
    Memory
    4gig Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 800
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI 9600GT
    Hard Drives
    160g western digital sata2 16mb cache
    2x seagate 80g ide 8mb cache
    250g seagate sata2 32mb cache
First thing you should do is run Memtest86 and get a clean bill of health on the ram. Swapping chips is NOT a full test.

After that, it's drivers. Start by checking the event logs, you might get lucky. Then try disabling as many bits of hardware as you can. Physically remove them or disable them in bios if you need to.

Do this until you can get a stable system, then add them back one at a time.

Good luck.
 

My Computer

System One

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