RANDOM FREEZES

[Guest]

HELLO, SRY IF THIS IS THE WRONG PLACE TO POST THIS BUT I NEED HELP ASAP!!!
MY VISTA ULTIMATE JUST KEEPS RANDOMLY FREEZING FOR NO REASON AT ALL. IT WILL
BE RUNNING SMOOTHLY WHILE I SURF THE WEB AND THEN BOOM JUST COMPLETLY
FREEZES, MOUSE WONT MOVE I CANT OPEN TASK MANAGER NOTHING. SO THEN I HAVE TO
TURN IT OFF AND ON AND THEN SELECT START WINDOWS NORMALLY TO GET IT TO WORK
AGAIN BUT THEN EVENTUALLY IT JUST FREEZES AGAIN=( DIS USE TO NEVER HAPPENS
AND IT IS REALLY BUGGING ME SINCE I CANT GET ANYTHING DONE ON ACCOUNT THAT IT
FREEZES ALL THE TIME. PLEASE HELP, THANK YOU!

 

[Malke]

HELLO, SRY IF THIS IS THE WRONG PLACE TO POST THIS BUT I NEED HELP ASAP!!!
MY VISTA ULTIMATE JUST KEEPS RANDOMLY FREEZING FOR NO REASON AT ALL. IT WILL
BE RUNNING SMOOTHLY WHILE I SURF THE WEB AND THEN BOOM JUST COMPLETLY
FREEZES, MOUSE WONT MOVE I CANT OPEN TASK MANAGER NOTHING. SO THEN I HAVE TO
TURN IT OFF AND ON AND THEN SELECT START WINDOWS NORMALLY TO GET IT TO WORK
AGAIN BUT THEN EVENTUALLY IT JUST FREEZES AGAIN=( DIS USE TO NEVER HAPPENS
AND IT IS REALLY BUGGING ME SINCE I CANT GET ANYTHING DONE ON ACCOUNT THAT IT
FREEZES ALL THE TIME. PLEASE HELP, THANK YOU!

You haven't given us enough information to get focused help. We don't
know anything about your computer or how you installed Vista. Locking up
("freezing") can be caused by faulty hardware such as bad RAM or by
faulty drivers. Please see this link for the details you need to include
in your next post:

http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

You will note that one of the suggestions there is that you not post in
all capital letters. On Usenet (where you are posting) it is considered
shouting and rude but more importantly (because you want people to read
your post and give you an answer) it makes your post very hard to read.


Malke

 

[ray]

HELLO, SRY IF THIS IS THE WRONG PLACE TO POST THIS BUT I NEED HELP ASAP!!!
MY VISTA ULTIMATE JUST KEEPS RANDOMLY FREEZING FOR NO REASON AT ALL. IT WILL
BE RUNNING SMOOTHLY WHILE I SURF THE WEB AND THEN BOOM JUST COMPLETLY
FREEZES, MOUSE WONT MOVE I CANT OPEN TASK MANAGER NOTHING. SO THEN I HAVE TO
TURN IT OFF AND ON AND THEN SELECT START WINDOWS NORMALLY TO GET IT TO WORK
AGAIN BUT THEN EVENTUALLY IT JUST FREEZES AGAIN=( DIS USE TO NEVER HAPPENS
AND IT IS REALLY BUGGING ME SINCE I CANT GET ANYTHING DONE ON ACCOUNT THAT IT
FREEZES ALL THE TIME. PLEASE HELP, THANK YOU!

YOU DON'T NEED TO YELL!

As another poster mentioned, this could well be a hardware issue. IMHO the
easiest way to rule out many hardware problems would be to boot a Linux
Live CD - it it freezes in a similar fashion then it's a hardware problem.
If it doesn't, then about the only remaining hardware possibility would be
the hard disk, so run 'badblocks' from the Linux Live CD.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 00:48:00 -0700, TRUTH HUNTER <TRUTH

HELLO, SRY IF THIS IS THE WRONG PLACE TO POST THIS BUT I NEED HELP ASAP!!!
MY VISTA ULTIMATE JUST KEEPS RANDOMLY FREEZING FOR NO REASON AT ALL. IT WILL
BE RUNNING SMOOTHLY WHILE I SURF THE WEB AND THEN BOOM JUST COMPLETLY
FREEZES, MOUSE WONT MOVE I CANT OPEN TASK MANAGER NOTHING. SO THEN I HAVE TO
TURN IT OFF AND ON AND THEN SELECT START WINDOWS NORMALLY TO GET IT TO WORK
AGAIN BUT THEN EVENTUALLY IT JUST FREEZES AGAIN=( DIS USE TO NEVER HAPPENS
AND IT IS REALLY BUGGING ME SINCE I CANT GET ANYTHING DONE ON ACCOUNT THAT IT
FREEZES ALL THE TIME. PLEASE HELP, THANK YOU!

Ouch! Please don't yell at us. We can hear you if you type normally,
in mixed case.

Random freezing is much more likely to be a hardware problem than a
Windows one. I'd suspect overheating, bad RAM, or power issues.

 

[Lyhn]

Do you by any chance have Daemon Tools Installed? I've experinced the same
behavior, and it turned out that it was some sort of conflict with SPTD that
Daemon Tools uses.
http://www.duplexsecure.com/downloads

I even got BSODs every now and then. So I uninstalled Daemon Tolls and made
sure that SPTD was uninstalled 100% and no files of SPTD remained.

I haven't had any freezes after that.

I now use Virtual CD which haven't caused me any trouble yet:
http://www.virtualcd-online.com

 

[Randor]

Hi!

I have had this kind of freezing around one time each 2 days for 6 months
now.
And my hardware (memory, hard disk, BIOS, video, . . ) was tested and
everything is OK.

I'm about to install this reliability update which seems to be the solution
:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...9D-C33D-48DB-A7E3-62EEF7C1F7C2&displaylang=en

Bye!