Vista Ultimate Freezing

I am running Vista Ultimate x32, Service Pack 1, Build 6001.
AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core 6000+ on Asus M2N68-AM Motherboard. 2GB RAM.

I have the windows installed on a Samsung 80Gb disk, and I have a Toshiba 500Gb Hard disk drive.

My Operating System keeps on freezing every couple of hours, with only the reset button working.
I can post the event logs if you want me to.

I really don't know, What information I can give you guys to help me out.
I'd really appreciate it. Thanks.

Re: Vista Uttimate Freezing

Try my method to provoke wrong drivers to manifest http://www.vistax64.com/973966-post8.html

Re: Vista Uttimate Freezing

Hi Faraze Mullick, welcome to the board.

Besides what Flavius suggested, you may also approach hardware wise. Here are few things you can try one at a time or all at one time. If not helping we start from there.

First, open up the case to make sure no dust balls tangle up the heat sinks and fans; blew it out with spray air if needed.

Next check all components and connections are seat and secure especially SATA connects. Bad SATA or loosen connections are a none cause for random freezing. Disconnect and reconnect, wiggle, shack and push hard on the SATA connectors at the HDDS. Replace the SATA cables with aftermarket ones asap.

Finally, run a memtest and chkdsk to eleminate the possibility of bad rams or bad HDDs.

One more, the power supply could also be faulty but let's not worry about it yet unless you have means to test it.

Hope this helps and report back.


Bruce

Flavius , I tried your method to prove wrong drivers to manifest, the things is I didn't get a BSoD after I restarted, it booted normally.
Should I reset my verifier now? Or let it be?

Bruce2 , I cleaned the heat sinks and the fans, and reconnected all the cables. I haven't replaced the SATA cables with aftermarket ones yet.

I just replaced my SATA HDD and RAM a couple of weeks ago. Ran a memtest and chkdsk which showed no errors.
I'll see in a couple of hours if it still freezes or not.
Or is there something else I should do?

Thanks guys.

Faraz Mullick said:

Flavius , I tried your method to prove wrong drivers to manifest, the things is I didn't get a BSoD after I restarted, it booted normally.
Should I reset my verifier now?

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Yes stop verifier. Check condition your power supply unit,may you have to check disk any stronger tool than system tool for example MHDD ->HDDGURU: MHDD

I ran MHDD, showed no errors but Windows keeps giving me "Windows has detected a Harddisk problem'

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Undoubtly you have some trouble with disk.Of course make data copy if you haven't.Have you checked SMART status of disk?MHDD also have this option...

Yeah, I checked the SMART status. The error comes up even when SMART is enabled.
The BSoD and the Freezing has stopped though.
The Error comes up every 15-20 mins.

Should I just throw away the ATA disk and Install a clean Windows Vista in the SATA Disk?