windows vista freezing

[Paul]

I am getting a lot of freezes with windows vista, where the mouse only works
then a couple of mins later that freezes too. The only way round is to
switch off, into safe mode, then re boot into windows.

It seems to have stopped now I have removed the Nvida 64 bit latest drivers
and reverted to the ones that came with the disc.

Is anyone else having problems, is it the drivers or something more serious?

(I tried removing them & reinstalling the Nvidia ones to no avail)

Paul

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

You might want to try running the memory diagnostic tool as well. Freezing
is more often a symptom of a hardware problem.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Spirit]

Video drivers can cause the problem.. as Rick said its usually hardware
however
your video drivers are notorious for this sudden freeze and then recovery.

 

[Guest]

I have a similar problem but I have only noticed it in Explorer. The screen
seems to freeze in Explorer but I can move the mouse and open other progs but
then they stop and I go into ghost mode. The hard drive light shows that it
is running while this is happening. Then it's like Bingo and everything comes
back to life. Occasionally I have had to reboot but I removed Yahoo messenger
and assorted bits from yahoo and that seems to have sorted that out but I
still get this annoying freeze anyone have any ideas. Degs

 

[Paul]

Well, I checked the memory but it came up no faults found, so I un installed
the Video drivers, and ran it for a day or so, no problems.

I then tried re-installing the Nvida drivers and bingo, it locked up again
about 1/2 hour later.
So, I've uninstalled them again, and after 4 hours no lock ups.

Guess it is the drivers after all.

 

[Guest]

Are all you guys all trained to say "hardware problem"???

 

[Spirit]

Glad you found it, as I said video drivers are notorious for this problem.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Depends, David. If it is probably a hardware problem, then that's what I say
it is. Freezing is nearly always a hardware issue, most commonly flakey ram,
though on occasion it proves to be video driver related.

By the way, us "guys" (and many are woman as well, so I use the term loosely
and generically) base this on years of dealing with systems that freeze up.
No one "trained" anyone to state that it's a "hardware problem" other than
our own experience.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Guest]

Good morning, I am getting screen saver/vista lock ups with the original
drivers and with the newest drivers from evga (nvidia). Any thoughts on how
to remedy this ? Perhaps I need to change the video card ?

 

[Spirit]

I have heard that Nvidia's newest drivers as of July 5, 2007 caused issues.
Try reverting back one or two as a test. (I put the date there so in future
someone reading this post might realize the issue could have been fixed
by a newer driver.)

 

[Guest]

I only have the original and new drivers to choose from. I'll go back to the
original and see what happens. I just set my screen saver to "blank/no
screen saver" and my PC did not freeze. I'll have to try to narrow this down
to a driver or hardware issue.

 

[Guest]

Paul

The problem is not with the hardware its Windows Vista...Now SP1 like thingy
for Vista right now...and we have to see and wait what microsoft does abuot
it.

I suggest you install windows XP on your machine. and don't even think about
dual boot. Remove Windows Vista install XP and wait for another 4 months when
all the bugs dieout by microsoft for Vista lol.

I had the same problem i had to manually plugoff.shut down my pc start in
safe mode and then shut down properly and then reboot and then my bad windows
freezed...i did it about 20 times every day lol...until i decided to remove
Vista for now.