Windows Vista Locks up.

Well, it's been happening from builds 5112 and up.

Until 5384 and later, I used to get a lock up with a high pitched sound
coming from my speakers EVERY time. Now, it's been more stable. But, it
happens still.

Now, it is held in two main areas. Video viewing and 3D Gaming. It sucks
that when you rant on a game, Windows locks up. Now, Here's the deal. I have
tried to disable Aero and see if it works. Nothing. It wouldn't do. I try
installing DX9, and it does work for the session. After, forget it. It will
do it again.

Now, other users are saying that the CPU or graphicas card overheats. Well,
with an idle temperature of 36C and at most 50C, I won't say it overheating
for a Prescott. The video card is doubtfully overheating as I get no
artifacting. I did implement a fan to it to replace stock heatsink.

Laast night, I decided to look at my BIOS for fun and I found that EHCI Stop
for OHCI handover. The description was to disable this feature for OSes that
does not support EHCI. IS Vista EHCI compliant?

If that's the case, what's wrong or COULD be wrong?

Specs for the PC:

Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHZ 800FSB
ASUS P4S800D-X
1GB RAM Kingston Dual Chanel DDR400
Aopen Geforce FX 5200
160GB Maxtor HDD
10.2GB Fujitsu HDD
LG GSA-4163 DVD-RAM drive
CD 52X CD drive. (Afreey)

Check to see if a BIOS update is available for your mobo.

"lhuser" <lhuser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F928301C-4B09-4100-B616-42D260C6F19C@microsoft.com...
> Well, it's been happening from builds 5112 and up.
>
> Until 5384 and later, I used to get a lock up with a high pitched sound
> coming from my speakers EVERY time. Now, it's been more stable. But, it
> happens still.
>
> Now, it is held in two main areas. Video viewing and 3D Gaming. It sucks
> that when you rant on a game, Windows locks up. Now, Here's the deal. I
> have
> tried to disable Aero and see if it works. Nothing. It wouldn't do. I try
> installing DX9, and it does work for the session. After, forget it. It
> will
> do it again.
>
> Now, other users are saying that the CPU or graphicas card overheats.
> Well,
> with an idle temperature of 36C and at most 50C, I won't say it
> overheating
> for a Prescott. The video card is doubtfully overheating as I get no
> artifacting. I did implement a fan to it to replace stock heatsink.
>
> Laast night, I decided to look at my BIOS for fun and I found that EHCI
> Stop
> for OHCI handover. The description was to disable this feature for OSes
> that
> does not support EHCI. IS Vista EHCI compliant?
>
> If that's the case, what's wrong or COULD be wrong?
>
> Specs for the PC:
>
> Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHZ 800FSB
> ASUS P4S800D-X
> 1GB RAM Kingston Dual Chanel DDR400
> Aopen Geforce FX 5200
> 160GB Maxtor HDD
> 10.2GB Fujitsu HDD
> LG GSA-4163 DVD-RAM drive
> CD 52X CD drive. (Afreey)

Try setting your bios to the safe "default" values and see if you have the
same problem.

--

Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"lhuser" <lhuser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F928301C-4B09-4100-B616-42D260C6F19C@microsoft.com...
> Well, it's been happening from builds 5112 and up.
>
> Until 5384 and later, I used to get a lock up with a high pitched sound
> coming from my speakers EVERY time. Now, it's been more stable. But, it
> happens still.
>
> Now, it is held in two main areas. Video viewing and 3D Gaming. It sucks
> that when you rant on a game, Windows locks up. Now, Here's the deal. I
> have
> tried to disable Aero and see if it works. Nothing. It wouldn't do. I try
> installing DX9, and it does work for the session. After, forget it. It
> will
> do it again.
>
> Now, other users are saying that the CPU or graphicas card overheats.
> Well,
> with an idle temperature of 36C and at most 50C, I won't say it
> overheating
> for a Prescott. The video card is doubtfully overheating as I get no
> artifacting. I did implement a fan to it to replace stock heatsink.
>
> Laast night, I decided to look at my BIOS for fun and I found that EHCI
> Stop
> for OHCI handover. The description was to disable this feature for OSes
> that
> does not support EHCI. IS Vista EHCI compliant?
>
> If that's the case, what's wrong or COULD be wrong?
>
> Specs for the PC:
>
> Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHZ 800FSB
> ASUS P4S800D-X
> 1GB RAM Kingston Dual Chanel DDR400
> Aopen Geforce FX 5200
> 160GB Maxtor HDD
> 10.2GB Fujitsu HDD
> LG GSA-4163 DVD-RAM drive
> CD 52X CD drive. (Afreey)

Okay, I shall try this one more time. I'll need to install it first as well!

to the user who asked for newer BIOS:
I do have a newer, but it is a Beta BIOS and I am not daring to try this.
Crucial and dangerous.

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> Try setting your bios to the safe "default" values and see if you have the
> same problem.
>
> --
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban
> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
> (For email, remove the obvious from my address)
>
> Quote from George Ankner:
> If you knew as much as you think you know,
> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>
> "lhuser" <lhuser@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:F928301C-4B09-4100-B616-42D260C6F19C@microsoft.com...
> > Well, it's been happening from builds 5112 and up.
> >
> > Until 5384 and later, I used to get a lock up with a high pitched sound
> > coming from my speakers EVERY time. Now, it's been more stable. But, it
> > happens still.
> >
> > Now, it is held in two main areas. Video viewing and 3D Gaming. It sucks
> > that when you rant on a game, Windows locks up. Now, Here's the deal. I
> > have
> > tried to disable Aero and see if it works. Nothing. It wouldn't do. I try
> > installing DX9, and it does work for the session. After, forget it. It
> > will
> > do it again.
> >
> > Now, other users are saying that the CPU or graphicas card overheats.
> > Well,
> > with an idle temperature of 36C and at most 50C, I won't say it
> > overheating
> > for a Prescott. The video card is doubtfully overheating as I get no
> > artifacting. I did implement a fan to it to replace stock heatsink.
> >
> > Laast night, I decided to look at my BIOS for fun and I found that EHCI
> > Stop
> > for OHCI handover. The description was to disable this feature for OSes
> > that
> > does not support EHCI. IS Vista EHCI compliant?
> >
> > If that's the case, what's wrong or COULD be wrong?
> >
> > Specs for the PC:
> >
> > Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHZ 800FSB
> > ASUS P4S800D-X
> > 1GB RAM Kingston Dual Chanel DDR400
> > Aopen Geforce FX 5200
> > 160GB Maxtor HDD
> > 10.2GB Fujitsu HDD
> > LG GSA-4163 DVD-RAM drive
> > CD 52X CD drive. (Afreey)
>
>
>