Vista hangs for 30 seconds

[D]

New Dell with Vista home premium installed. From the start it
intermittently hung, everything appears to stop including the 'gadget' clock
that starts 30 seconds later. As I put more onto the PC the more frequent
the hanging and its not associated with any particular activity. Is it
Vista or hardware? Any solution? I've installed the updates as they come
so I assume I'm up to date.
Regards

 

[Andre Da Costa[ActiveWin]]

Could you be hardware issue, I'm suspecting video card. Have you installed
the latest drivers for your video card? Also check the Event Viewer to see
if there are any error messages that might indicate what is going on.

 

[Peter Foldes]

Andre

Could you be hardware issue

LOL I doubt that the OP is Sorry but could not resist Andre
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[RGuillaume]

There is a known issue with Dell's Dimension 9200/XPS 410 that shows the
symptom you are seeing. Vista's eventlog would then also show "Iastor
timeout errors". If you have such a system, you should try one or better
both of the following:

- update the firmware of your optical drive(s)
- move the optical drive's sata connector(s) from sata port(s) 2 (and 3) to
sata port(s) 4 (and 5). Disable the now unused sata ports in the BIOS and
enable the now used ones.

That workaround worked for most of the affected systems.

Good luck


Andre

Could you be hardware issue

LOL I doubt that the OP is Sorry but could not resist Andre
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[D]

Thanks Andre, you are right with a hardware issue. Dell support centre
flags up an issue with Dimension and Phillips DVD. Firmware updated and now
OK.
Regards.

 

[D]

Spot on Rene. thanks.

There is a known issue with Dell's Dimension 9200/XPS 410 that shows the
symptom you are seeing. Vista's eventlog would then also show "Iastor
timeout errors". If you have such a system, you should try one or better
both of the following:

- update the firmware of your optical drive(s)
- move the optical drive's sata connector(s) from sata port(s) 2 (and 3)
to sata port(s) 4 (and 5). Disable the now unused sata ports in the BIOS
and enable the now used ones.

That workaround worked for most of the affected systems.

Good luck


Andre

Could you be hardware issue

LOL I doubt that the OP is Sorry but could not resist Andre
--
Peter

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