Vista 32 Bit - Intermit System Freezes

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rkent57

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My Sys:
32 bit Dell 8400 Dimension 3.4 ghz, 925 chipset and HT technology. 4gb of ram (3.4 showing), NVIDIA 6800 w/256 ram. SB Audigy Z2 sound card. BIOs is also current and nothing to tweak in there either...Performance is set to "power user."

I did a CLEAN install of Vista 32bit Ultimate. All drivers are up to date and all Vista updates done to include SP2.

After my final updates I did a defrag, a virus scan using CA Anti-Virus suite and also used CCleaner to fix any errors during the install and clean up any orphans etc.

I went through many Vista tips and tricks sites and diabled all the useless programs/mem-hogs etc. and also went thru the "Services" section and disabled the appropriate programs not required for a home user.

Problem:
After all the tweaks etc, my system seems to come to a halt (I get the spinning wheel for the cursor) and the system just spins for about a minute or so until something in the background lets go and then the system starts running again. Consistently does this...it just acts like it's running on low memory when there is plenty!!!

*No noise from the CPU indicating anything running, just quiet and then after a short while...the system just cranks back up like whatever's causing this is done and lets the OS get back to whatever it was tasked with doing before it just went idle...Hybernate is NOT enabled.

Task manager does not show anything hogging resources to cause the system to go into a holding pattern!!!

My mem-manager (Windows Vista Service Manager) states I have 69% mem available but the OS is running like I only have 500mb installed!

I've checked eveywhere I can imagine to find out WHY this happens but no luck. I've disabled all kinds of crap (per Vista articles on optimizations) and it makes no difference!

I removed Win XP MCE only as I wanted to upgrade to a more current system and had this extra Vista OS available. WinXP MCE ran fine and never lagged on me EVER!!!

I'd rather NOT go back to WinXP MCE as I like some of the newer featurs of Vista.

*This also happened with Win-7 32 bit....tried that OS as well...I can only guess these OSes were only ment for Core 2 Duo systems?

Any insight appreciated...:sarc:
 

My Computer

System One

rkent57 said:
My Sys:
32 bit Dell 8400 Dimension 3.4 ghz, 925 chipset and HT technology. 4gb of ram (3.4 showing), NVIDIA 6800 w/256 ram. SB Audigy Z2 sound card. BIOs is also current and nothing to tweak in there either...Performance is set to "power user."

I did a CLEAN install of Vista 32bit Ultimate. All drivers are up to date and all Vista updates done to include SP2.

After my final updates I did a defrag, a virus scan using CA Anti-Virus suite and also used CCleaner to fix any errors during the install and clean up any orphans etc.

I went through many Vista tips and tricks sites and diabled all the useless programs/mem-hogs etc. and also went thru the "Services" section and disabled the appropriate programs not required for a home user.

Problem:
After all the tweaks etc, my system seems to come to a halt (I get the spinning wheel for the cursor) and the system just spins for about a minute or so until something in the background lets go and then the system starts running again. Consistently does this...it just acts like it's running on low memory when there is plenty!!!

*No noise from the CPU indicating anything running, just quiet and then after a short while...the system just cranks back up like whatever's causing this is done and lets the OS get back to whatever it was tasked with doing before it just went idle...Hybernate is NOT enabled.

Task manager does not show anything hogging resources to cause the system to go into a holding pattern!!!

My mem-manager (Windows Vista Service Manager) states I have 69% mem available but the OS is running like I only have 500mb installed!

I've checked eveywhere I can imagine to find out WHY this happens but no luck. I've disabled all kinds of crap (per Vista articles on optimizations) and it makes no difference!

I removed Win XP MCE only as I wanted to upgrade to a more current system and had this extra Vista OS available. WinXP MCE ran fine and never lagged on me EVER!!!

I'd rather NOT go back to WinXP MCE as I like some of the newer featurs of Vista.

*This also happened with Win-7 32 bit....tried that OS as well...I can only guess these OSes were only ment for Core 2 Duo systems?

Any insight appreciated...:sarc:
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Rkent

I have that exact system running win 7 32 bit (7600) and vista 32 dual booted. I had a similar problem and the only way I got rid of it was to not index as docs, and stop the windows media sharing service. The only way I was able to diagnose was using a third party app called process explorer by (used to be systernals) now MS. Just google porcess explorer.

If that doesn't help let me know and I will see if i can duplicate it on mine. Im doing dual duty here and in win 7 so if you need help pm me and give me the thread so I can find it

Ken
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Dell Inspiron E 1405
    CPU
    [email protected]
    Memory
    4 gigs
    Graphics card(s)
    integrated intel 945
    Sound Card
    integrated
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900
    Hard Drives
    300 gig internal
    Internet Speed
    10 down 1.5 up
Process Explorer is an exceptional app here. It can also replace task manager:

technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Along with Autoruns where you can see what loads at startup:

technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

If your hard drive is running over in reliability monitor, open up indexing options, and either disable it if you don't like it or rebuild the index and leave your pc alone for a while if you do.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Sony Vaio Z46GDU
    CPU
    [email protected] w/6MB L2 cache 1066MHz FSB
    Memory
    6GB DDR3 1066MHz SDRAM
    Graphics card(s)
    9300M GS 256MB + Intel Integrated 4500MHD
    Monitor(s) Displays
    13.1" WXGA True Colour Tough
    Screen Resolution
    1600x900
    Hard Drives
    320GB SATA 7200RPM
    Internet Speed
    1MB/s
If you have the same system and are running Win 7 32 bit...are you having the same problems or is Win 7 running better? I did not like Win 7 as it did the same thing! I did not stick with it for very long...I have a copy of Win 7 and will format and run it if it will clear up the problem?
 

My Computer

System One

Frostmourne said:
Process Explorer is an exceptional app here. It can also replace task manager:

technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx

Along with Autoruns where you can see what loads at startup:

technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx

If your hard drive is running over in reliability monitor, open up indexing options, and either disable it if you don't like it or rebuild the index and leave your pc alone for a while if you do.
Click to expand...

Just make sure you dont use it to replace task manager if your system is under alot of load, will be quite frustrating waiting 4 minutes for process explorer to open, I agree, a great app

Run memtest to make sure. http://www.memtest86.com/ get the windows .ISO and burn to disk, check it out
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Self Built
    CPU
    Core2Quad Q9550 @ 2.83Ghz O.C'd to 3.86Ghz
    Motherboard
    XFX Nvidia 790i Ultra SLI
    Memory
    4x2GB Corsair DDR3@ 1333Mhz
    Graphics card(s)
    Asus Nvidia GTX 280
    Sound Card
    Creative PCI Express X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro Series
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Benq 24in 1920x1080, Viewsonic 22in 1680x1050
    Screen Resolution
    1920x1200 + 1680x1050
    Hard Drives
    Samsungx2 750GB SATA II 32MB SATA Hard Drive RAID 0 array
    PSU
    Antec 850Watt
    Case
    Cooler Master Cosmo S 1100 Extended ATX No PSU Aluminium Blk
    Cooling
    7x 120mm Fans
    Mouse
    Logitech G7, Logitech G9
    Keyboard
    Logitech Dinovo Edge, Logitech Dinovo Mini
    Internet Speed
    24Mbit p/s
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