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So I bought Vista back in Feb. I installed it on this system (32 bit)
and it's been running great ever since. I updated drivers as they come
out and such. So my boot up times have been pushing about 5 minutes so
I decided to reinstall Vista again (have a lot of useless crap on here)
and I installed it on another drive.
Well after the install my pc just randomly locks us for no apparent
reason. I installed all the updated drivers and it still just randomly
locks us. Sometime it takes a few minutes and sometimes it's just
instantly after windows boots. Since the only thing I've changed between
the installs from last Feb to now is the harddrive I tried another
harddrive and the same thing happens. I also tried installing 64bit
Vista and it locks up just as bad. I also tried unplugging all my usb
devices (printer, scanner, ipod, my mouse and keyboard are usb those
stayed plugged in) and still happens. I even did a memory check using
memtest86 and everything came out find with that.
I'm not exactly sure what's going on. I have a perfectly fine Vista
install (with exception of a lot of crap installed and long boot up
times, which is why i want a new install) that doesn't lock my pc up but
when I try a new one with a different drive it does. The lock up is
just that a lock up. Everything freezes and nothing response to
anything. No blue screen or anything.
My system is Quad Core Pc on a Nvidia i680 chipset with a Nvidia 8800GTX
and 4 gigs of memory. I also have a Xfi sound card. I'm installing this
on a 330gig seagate drive. My current drive that this is installed on
is a Seagate 160gig.
Does anybody have any suggestions? I'm just not sure what to do now.
Thanks for your help!
Ryan K
and it's been running great ever since. I updated drivers as they come
out and such. So my boot up times have been pushing about 5 minutes so
I decided to reinstall Vista again (have a lot of useless crap on here)
and I installed it on another drive.
Well after the install my pc just randomly locks us for no apparent
reason. I installed all the updated drivers and it still just randomly
locks us. Sometime it takes a few minutes and sometimes it's just
instantly after windows boots. Since the only thing I've changed between
the installs from last Feb to now is the harddrive I tried another
harddrive and the same thing happens. I also tried installing 64bit
Vista and it locks up just as bad. I also tried unplugging all my usb
devices (printer, scanner, ipod, my mouse and keyboard are usb those
stayed plugged in) and still happens. I even did a memory check using
memtest86 and everything came out find with that.
I'm not exactly sure what's going on. I have a perfectly fine Vista
install (with exception of a lot of crap installed and long boot up
times, which is why i want a new install) that doesn't lock my pc up but
when I try a new one with a different drive it does. The lock up is
just that a lock up. Everything freezes and nothing response to
anything. No blue screen or anything.
My system is Quad Core Pc on a Nvidia i680 chipset with a Nvidia 8800GTX
and 4 gigs of memory. I also have a Xfi sound card. I'm installing this
on a 330gig seagate drive. My current drive that this is installed on
is a Seagate 160gig.
Does anybody have any suggestions? I'm just not sure what to do now.
Thanks for your help!
Ryan K