Vista - Vista Locks Up

Ran SpinRite over night (Windows not involved). It locked up at about 50%,
so I believe the problem is in the SATA controller, southbridge, or drive.
Not likely a Vista problem at this point.

"Andy" wrote:

> GDay All,
>
> Jamie, I had very similar issues with a Gigabyte GA-8I955X Royal motherboard
> and WinXP Pro, including similar event log entries to 'The device,
> \Device\Scsi\SI31121, did not respond within the timeout period'.
>
> The problem turned out to be the South Bridge, an Intel ICH7 chip yours will
> be an ICH4. It went bad possibly from overheating even though it was cooled
> by a small fan.
>
> All I can suggest is that you monitor the temperature of your south bridge
> and if it seems excessive or, from cold, it heats up too quickly, then plan
> to buy a new motherboard.
>
> --
> Regards
> Andy M
>

Thought I'd post an update in case someone else had issues like this.

Ended up removing two cards from machine. I removed a US Robotics Fax Modem
that didn't have a Vista compatible driver. Supposedly one is forthcoming
from USR, but I removed it anyway since it was of no use without driver. I
also removed my ATI TV Wonder 650 card. Hated to remove that, but I thought
it might be an issue.

System is very stable now. Of course, not sure which card is the issue. I
need to put the TV tuner card back in to see if the system remains stable or
begins having issues again.

I really need the fax modem more than the TV tuner card, but I haven't seen
a heck of a lot of reasonably priced (<=$40) Vista compatible fax modems
yet. If someone has a suggestion, please post.

Once I get the time to do this, I'll post the results.

Jamie

"Jamie" <Jamie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
newsB23AD72-B122-44E9-8677-FBB4EE9EAB16@microsoft.com...
> Saw this behavior even before Norton was installed, so I don't think it's
> the
> primary cause. Not using Norton Suite, just Antivirus. Tried Internet
> Suite
> when it first came out (a year or two ago maybe) and promptly returned it
> to
> Symantec because the performance was so poor. Luckily, they allow a
> software
> return since I bought directly from their online store.
>
> I had trouble when I first installed the SIG SATA controller card and
> Vista.
> Within a minute of booting, it would start acting like a process was
> hogging
> the CPU (mouse would jump occassionally, but I could never get enough
> control
> to diagnose). Boot into safe mode and it would work fine.
>
> I suspected an IRQ conflict of some sort, but nothing was indicated in
> device manager. I think there's some device that doesn't like sharing an
> IRQ. I decided to move the SATA controller card to a different slot
> anyway.
> Once I did that, it started behaving much better. But still see the lock
> ups
> every few days.
>
> I will try the other things you suggest.
>
>

"Jamie" <jwpear.n0spm@sc.rr.com> wrote in message
news:OwIrEwj1HHA.1344@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Thought I'd post an update in case someone else had issues like this.
>
> Ended up removing two cards from machine. I removed a US Robotics Fax
> Modem that didn't have a Vista compatible driver. Supposedly one is
> forthcoming from USR, but I removed it anyway since it was of no use
> without driver. I also removed my ATI TV Wonder 650 card. Hated to
> remove that, but I thought it might be an issue.
>
> System is very stable now. Of course, not sure which card is the issue.
> I need to put the TV tuner card back in to see if the system remains
> stable or begins having issues again.
>
> I really need the fax modem more than the TV tuner card, but I haven't
> seen a heck of a lot of reasonably priced (<=$40) Vista compatible fax
> modems yet. If someone has a suggestion, please post.
>
> Once I get the time to do this, I'll post the results.
>
> Jamie
>
> "Jamie" <Jamie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> newsB23AD72-B122-44E9-8677-FBB4EE9EAB16@microsoft.com...
>> Saw this behavior even before Norton was installed, so I don't think it's
>> the
>> primary cause. Not using Norton Suite, just Antivirus. Tried Internet
>> Suite
>> when it first came out (a year or two ago maybe) and promptly returned it
>> to
>> Symantec because the performance was so poor. Luckily, they allow a
>> software
>> return since I bought directly from their online store.
>>
>> I had trouble when I first installed the SIG SATA controller card and
>> Vista.
>> Within a minute of booting, it would start acting like a process was
>> hogging
>> the CPU (mouse would jump occassionally, but I could never get enough
>> control
>> to diagnose). Boot into safe mode and it would work fine.
>>
>> I suspected an IRQ conflict of some sort, but nothing was indicated in
>> device manager. I think there's some device that doesn't like sharing an
>> IRQ. I decided to move the SATA controller card to a different slot
>> anyway.
>> Once I did that, it started behaving much better. But still see the lock
>> ups
>> every few days.
>>
>> I will try the other things you suggest.
>>
>>
>
>
With Broadband most people find a fax modem redundant unless the have a
separate phone line.

The tuner card is probably the culprit.



--
Ian

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 13:43:08 +0100, "Ian Betts" <igb123@talktalk.net>
wrote:

Hi There,
>>
>With Broadband most people find a fax modem redundant unless the have a
>separate phone line.
>
>The tuner card is probably the culprit.

How do you send a fax using broadband?

If I remove my fax modem, Vista FAX stops working.

Bye for now.
Bye for now,

George Dingwall

Invergordon, Scotland

http://www.georgedingwall.co.uk

I have the same issues with vista with my current setup.

System Manufacturer: XFX78I
System Model: XFX nForce 780i 3-Way SLI
BIOS: Default System BIOS
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) III processor (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz

Description: SB X-Fi Audio [8C00]

Has a nvidia nforce serial ata controller for my sata drives. I think its the vista drivers that cause it to do that. Because running xp x64 pro it doesnt lock up under heavy drive useage like it does in vista.

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