Random Vista hangs.

[Hydria]

Well I'll start out by saying I'm pretty new to vista and so far my experience with it is pretty bad so far. I recently built a new system and I decided to try out vista and I planned on getting 4gigs of RAM (1gig x4) and I read that the 32bit operating systems can't see all 4gigs of RAM so I went with the 64bit edition. Any way after a sketchy install/reinstall with vista I finally got it pretty stable so I thought. But lately I have been having random lockups and blue screens of death I know its not the ram because I have tested each stick individually and they checked out but I cant seem to put my finger on the problem.


System Specs:
Motherboard-GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 AM2
Processor-AMD X2 6400+ Black Edition
RAM-Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 800
Video Card- MSI 9600GT
Hard Drives- 160g(SATA) and 2x 80g (IDE)
Power Supply-Antec NeoPower 650

Any and all help is much appreciated. Sorry for the spelling its a bit late over here. And if you need more system info let me know the sooner I can get this fixed the sooner I can get back to enjoying vista.

 

[.Joe]

Well I'll start out by saying I'm pretty new to vista and so far my experience with it is pretty bad so far. I recently built a new system and I decided to try out vista and I planned on getting 4gigs of RAM (1gig x4) and I read that the 32bit operating systems can't see all 4gigs of RAM so I went with the 64bit edition. Any way after a sketchy install/reinstall with vista I finally got it pretty stable so I thought. But lately I have been having random lockups and blue screens of death I know its not the ram because I have tested each stick individually and they checked out but I cant seem to put my finger on the problem.


System Specs:
Motherboard-GIGABYTE GA-M57SLI-S4 AM2
Processor-AMD X2 6400+ Black Edition
RAM-Crucial Ballistix Tracer DDR2 800
Video Card- MSI 9600GT
Hard Drives- 160g(SATA) and 2x 80g (IDE)
Power Supply-Antec NeoPower 650

Any and all help is much appreciated. Sorry for the spelling its a bit late over here. And if you need more system info let me know the sooner I can get this fixed the sooner I can get back to enjoying vista.

Welcome to the Vista Forums

My first suggestion would be to download and run some maintenance utilities. Just to be sure the system is running smoothly. Here's a link to a short list of utilities that should be able to help you: http://www.vistax64.com/software/139514-short-list-utilities-vista.html

You can also do some manual tune ups of Vista by following this excellent tutorial written by Shawn:

http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/81176-speed-up-performance-vista.html

Let us know if that works for you.

 

[Hydria]

Thanks for the speedy response currently downloading a few of those programs right now. Windows live onecare and Advanced Windows Care seem like pretty decent programs. But I got to thinking today could it be some of the programs I'm using? Here is a list of programs I frequently use.

Bitlord (torrents)
Firefox
Windows media player
MSN
X-fire
and various other games

Only seems to happen when I'm using bitlord and when I'm browsing the net with multiple windows open and windows media player. My PC should be able to take that kinda load I would think.

 

[MonsterMaxx]

First thing you should do is run Memtest86 and get a clean bill of health on the ram. Swapping chips is NOT a full test.

After that, it's drivers. Start by checking the event logs, you might get lucky. Then try disabling as many bits of hardware as you can. Physically remove them or disable them in bios if you need to.

Do this until you can get a stable system, then add them back one at a time.

Good luck.