Windows Vista Ultimate locks up

I have been having major problems with Vista for the past 10 days. It seemed
to start after 2 updates on May 13th and I spent several hours on the phone
with Microsoft on May 18th and things seemed better - the remaining problem
is that the system locks up after a period of inactivity - usually and hour
or two. It has also locked with a backup program running and thus fails to
complete the backup.

Each of the following errors seem to re-appear in the event log each time
the system locks -

Event ID 45 - volmgr – the system could not load the crash dump driver

Event ID 7000 – Service Control Manager Event Log Provider - The Parallel
port driver service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it
has no enabled devices associated with it.

Event ID 6008 - Event Log System - The previous system shutdown at 9:41:14
AM on 5/22/2008 was unexpected.

I have to shut down using the power button and restart.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Kathie Meier

Check your "Hibernate" "Sleep" etc parameters.



BRRNESE wrote:

I had previously checked my power/sleep/hibernate settings and the computer
is set to maximum performance, no sleep, no hibernate

"propman" wrote:

Can't offer any constructive help at this stage, but you are not alone. I am having the same problem (I have a new PC and for 6 weeks it performed faultlessly then the random locking up started on 23rd May). I have checked temperatures and memory and it doesn't look like it is a hardware issue. It always seems to happen when the machine is inactive, but the period can be anything between a couple of hours and a couple of days. Apart from WIndows updates, the only change to the machine around the time it started was that I swapped my Belkin WiFi card for a Netgear one. I will probably try changing it back next week and see if it makes any difference.

Good luck.

I posted a subsequent message but I don't think it was in this thread. From
many reports it appeared the random freezing could be hardware related - but
everything was clean on diagnostics so I began with replacing the hard drive
since I would benefit from a bigger one anyway - I cloned the original drive
using acronis software realizing that if it was a Vista problem I might still
have the issue - however - since installing the new drive around May 20th all
has been well - so I can only assume that the hard drive was in fact the
source of the problem...

Kathie

"chrisevans" wrote:

Thanks for the update, Kathie. Hope it all continues to perform OK.