PhoenixRedeemer
New Member
I give up. I'm asking for help.
I want to love Vista. I really do. So much that I've been using Vista x64 Home Premium for several months now, putting up with constant freezing in the vain hope that the problem would be solved in The Solution Center or a windows update one day.
But it's finally bugged me to the point I can't keep this up.
Pretty much from the word go Vista was locking up hard. Its response to pretty much any problem it encounters is immediately freeze and be unrecoverable. It's not all random and without pattern, however.
Initially it was clear that Windows Update was causing an issue. Shutting off Windows Update didn't stop the freezing, but it prevented the system from freezing 100% of the time minutes after the OS loaded up. Trying to update manually did the same thing. I eventually discovered that there is a temp folder I can delete related to updates that will stop this problem, but it only works for a day or two before it goes back to freezing.
Oh, but that's not all... I've been able to figure out a number of specific things that can cause freezes over repeatedly doing them... Sort of. For example:
* If I start up Google Chrome or Firefox within 5 minutes of getting to the desktop, there's a good chance I'll freeze on some random web page.
* A video player made my system freeze. A flash one. One I'd run perfectly fine before. I went to the page, freeze. Restarted. Went back to the page, immediate freeze. Stopped going to that page... Next day that page and that player worked fine.
*iTunes hates me. It loves to freeze during downloads, which is the worst time it can. Click 'Get' button for a podcast? Freeze. Dare to sneeze at a download while it's downloading? Freeze. And that's literally it. It's like if I just leave it alone and let it work, it'll work. But as soon as I click anything or dare look at it the wrong way while something is download I better pray because there's a 50/50 chance the whole system is going down.
*Same thing happened with a download off of the Steam service. I download off Steam all the time, but oh yes, it still happened.
Perhaps you noticed the same pattern I have. Network activity. What to do about it? Hell if I know. I'm hoping someone here can offer guidance, because I have no idea what to do about it. It just doesn't go away.
To top it all off, it's literally a freeze. There's no last minute dump of error information into the log. No, as far as the log is concerned, that freeze is the end of the world. The best I get is the next log item saying that the previous shut down was unexpected.
I'm at the end of my rope here, and about to launch Vista into the sun with a mighty rage-fueled catapult of hate. Any help would be appreciated, and I'd probably give you my body if you asked.
I want to love Vista. I really do. So much that I've been using Vista x64 Home Premium for several months now, putting up with constant freezing in the vain hope that the problem would be solved in The Solution Center or a windows update one day.
But it's finally bugged me to the point I can't keep this up.
Pretty much from the word go Vista was locking up hard. Its response to pretty much any problem it encounters is immediately freeze and be unrecoverable. It's not all random and without pattern, however.
Initially it was clear that Windows Update was causing an issue. Shutting off Windows Update didn't stop the freezing, but it prevented the system from freezing 100% of the time minutes after the OS loaded up. Trying to update manually did the same thing. I eventually discovered that there is a temp folder I can delete related to updates that will stop this problem, but it only works for a day or two before it goes back to freezing.
Oh, but that's not all... I've been able to figure out a number of specific things that can cause freezes over repeatedly doing them... Sort of. For example:
* If I start up Google Chrome or Firefox within 5 minutes of getting to the desktop, there's a good chance I'll freeze on some random web page.
* A video player made my system freeze. A flash one. One I'd run perfectly fine before. I went to the page, freeze. Restarted. Went back to the page, immediate freeze. Stopped going to that page... Next day that page and that player worked fine.
*iTunes hates me. It loves to freeze during downloads, which is the worst time it can. Click 'Get' button for a podcast? Freeze. Dare to sneeze at a download while it's downloading? Freeze. And that's literally it. It's like if I just leave it alone and let it work, it'll work. But as soon as I click anything or dare look at it the wrong way while something is download I better pray because there's a 50/50 chance the whole system is going down.
*Same thing happened with a download off of the Steam service. I download off Steam all the time, but oh yes, it still happened.
Perhaps you noticed the same pattern I have. Network activity. What to do about it? Hell if I know. I'm hoping someone here can offer guidance, because I have no idea what to do about it. It just doesn't go away.
To top it all off, it's literally a freeze. There's no last minute dump of error information into the log. No, as far as the log is concerned, that freeze is the end of the world. The best I get is the next log item saying that the previous shut down was unexpected.
I'm at the end of my rope here, and about to launch Vista into the sun with a mighty rage-fueled catapult of hate. Any help would be appreciated, and I'd probably give you my body if you asked.
My Computer
System One
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- Manufacturer/Model
- Custom
- CPU
- C2D E8500
- Motherboard
- Some gigabyte board that won a Newegg award. It will eat you
- Memory
- 8 GB Dominator
- Graphics card(s)
- Nvidia GTX 9800+
- Sound Card
- HTO Striker 7.1
- Monitor(s) Displays
- 2
- Screen Resolution
- 1280x1024 (both displays)
- Hard Drives
- 2 (1 TB, 120 GB)
- PSU
- I'll look it up again if that ever becomes important
- Case
- XClio Full ATX
- Cooling
- Arctic Pro fan of some sort, who cares
- Mouse
- All I know is it cost $40 and has too many buttons
- Keyboard
- The oldest thing I have. And the most reliable
- Internet Speed
- Cable, I don't know, a billion heptamites a second
- Other Info
- dual boots, Vista x64 on 120 GB HD, XP x86 on 1 TB HD, I use Vista x64, and it hurts mommy, it hurts; MAKE IT STOP FREEZING