Random System Freezes-Vista

I performed a clean install of Vista from XP on a new Dell Dimension E250.
The only problem I noticed thus far is a random system freeze lasting 30-60
seconds and then the system resumes normal operation like nothing happened.

Does anyone have a solution?

I have the exact same problem it will just become non responsive for a couple
mins and then start to act normal again. It drives me up the wall. I have a
dell dimension 9150. With Pentium d Processor and 2 gigs of ram. If anyone
has a suggestion it would be greatly apprciated


"jdavidm" wrote:

> I performed a clean install of Vista from XP on a new Dell Dimension E250.
> The only problem I noticed thus far is a random system freeze lasting 30-60
> seconds and then the system resumes normal operation like nothing happened.
>
> Does anyone have a solution?

Same thing. It's been happening since I installed Vista, and I can't find any
reason for it doing this. All my drivers are up to date and everything.

I have a Dell XPS Pentium D, with 2 gigs as well.

I wish someone would recognize this as an actual problem. It never used to
do this under XP, so I can only assume it's a Vista related issue.

I agree with you. I have a AMD Athlon 64 x 2 dual-core system with 2 GB of
RAM and despite a clean install and the latest drivers, I get these random
freezes that last anywhere from a few seconds to a minute, after which the
system continues to function - most of the time. There have been times where
it froze so long that I simply did a hard reset. I look forward to hearing
what the solution is to this one.

Regards,

Ron

"crazylegsmurphy" wrote:

> Same thing. It's been happening since I installed Vista, and I can't find any
> reason for it doing this. All my drivers are up to date and everything.
>
> I have a Dell XPS Pentium D, with 2 gigs as well.
>
> I wish someone would recognize this as an actual problem. It never used to
> do this under XP, so I can only assume it's a Vista related issue.

Ditto on a brand new HP system ... very frustrating. I'm using a switch and
occasionally toggle between the HP and a laptop, but there doesn't seem to be
any connection. It happened again last night when the laptop wasn't even
turned on.

"crazylegsmurphy" wrote:

> Same thing. It's been happening since I installed Vista, and I can't find any
> reason for it doing this. All my drivers are up to date and everything.
>
> I have a Dell XPS Pentium D, with 2 gigs as well.
>
> I wish someone would recognize this as an actual problem. It never used to
> do this under XP, so I can only assume it's a Vista related issue.

Myself and a co-worker are having this same issue as well. We both are
running 64-bit. My system is listed below, It was well endowed. Anyways,
mine has frozen several times in the past 2 weeks. Sometimes, a
CTRL-ALT-DEL, would wake it up, and I would open task manager, but about 20
sec.s later, it would freeze again. A few times it froze and I had to hard
reset. Another time it froze I was just printing pictures and halfway
through it froze and stopped printing. Another time I was downloading a big
file and it froze. It's all random when it freezes. Don't see anything in
task manager hogging CPU, other than idle process. I think it's gotta be
linked to a security update. I did the system restore as well before all
this and still no good. Really no sure how to trouble-shoot this issue.

AMD X2 5000+
4GB PC8500 RAM
Gigabyte motherboard
dual Nvidia 7600 GS video cards; PCI-E 16
Seagate SATA 300GB Raid (Mirror)




"Dooozle" wrote:

> Ditto on a brand new HP system ... very frustrating. I'm using a switch and
> occasionally toggle between the HP and a laptop, but there doesn't seem to be
> any connection. It happened again last night when the laptop wasn't even
> turned on.
>
> "crazylegsmurphy" wrote:
>
> > Same thing. It's been happening since I installed Vista, and I can't find any
> > reason for it doing this. All my drivers are up to date and everything.
> >
> > I have a Dell XPS Pentium D, with 2 gigs as well.
> >
> > I wish someone would recognize this as an actual problem. It never used to
> > do this under XP, so I can only assume it's a Vista related issue.

I have just built a new PC based on Vista Home premium and it too randomly
freezes for a while then wakes up... often some processes continue to run
during this frozen state while others refuse to function at all, I have
noticed that all hard drive activity is suspended during these times...
sometimes the mouse pointer becomes frozen too... and occasionally it
requires a hard re-boot

I have run diagnostics on everything, updated drivers, flashed bios's etc.
to no avail.

If anyone can help I would really appreciate it, it is spoiling what would
otherwise be a pleasurable computing experience!!

Vista Home Premium
Core 2 Duo E6700
Nvidia GTS 8800 320mb
Asus P5N-E SLI motherboard w/RealTek onboard sound
SATA 500GB hard drive
Wireless internet card...

Anyone have any suggestions??



"bodytech" wrote:

> Myself and a co-worker are having this same issue as well. We both are
> running 64-bit. My system is listed below, It was well endowed. Anyways,
> mine has frozen several times in the past 2 weeks. Sometimes, a
> CTRL-ALT-DEL, would wake it up, and I would open task manager, but about 20
> sec.s later, it would freeze again. A few times it froze and I had to hard
> reset. Another time it froze I was just printing pictures and halfway
> through it froze and stopped printing. Another time I was downloading a big
> file and it froze. It's all random when it freezes. Don't see anything in
> task manager hogging CPU, other than idle process. I think it's gotta be
> linked to a security update. I did the system restore as well before all
> this and still no good. Really no sure how to trouble-shoot this issue.
>
> AMD X2 5000+
> 4GB PC8500 RAM
> Gigabyte motherboard
> dual Nvidia 7600 GS video cards; PCI-E 16
> Seagate SATA 300GB Raid (Mirror)
>
>
>
>
> "Dooozle" wrote:
>
> > Ditto on a brand new HP system ... very frustrating. I'm using a switch and
> > occasionally toggle between the HP and a laptop, but there doesn't seem to be
> > any connection. It happened again last night when the laptop wasn't even
> > turned on.
> >
> > "crazylegsmurphy" wrote:
> >
> > > Same thing. It's been happening since I installed Vista, and I can't find any
> > > reason for it doing this. All my drivers are up to date and everything.
> > >
> > > I have a Dell XPS Pentium D, with 2 gigs as well.
> > >
> > > I wish someone would recognize this as an actual problem. It never used to
> > > do this under XP, so I can only assume it's a Vista related issue.

"jdavidm" wrote:

> I performed a clean install of Vista from XP on a new Dell Dimension E250.
> The only problem I noticed thus far is a random system freeze lasting 30-60
> seconds and then the system resumes normal operation like nothing happened.
>
> Does anyone have a solution?

"jdavidm" wrote:

> I performed a clean install of Vista from XP on a new Dell Dimension E250.
> The only problem I noticed thus far is a random system freeze lasting 30-60
> seconds and then the system resumes normal operation like nothing happened.
>
> Does anyone have a solution?

I too have the same problem on a new system, Quad Processor, Nvidia8800
video, 4 gigs ram.. nice paperweight... Vista freezes so often and so
randomly I have resorted to using my old system and have VERY seriously
considered loading XP on my new one... I really hope mickysoft gets off
their heiny and finds out what the problem is... I know that it is not
something related to peripherals... too many people with the same evil
experiences... and by the way i tend to LOVE microsoft products... this has
just driven me batty.

The same as each person posted here, I get random freeze-up for approximately
30secs then resumes as normal. For me it is approximately once every 24hrs.
One time this has occured is during boot up, the green progress bar pause for
about 30secs before continuing, maybe this is a clue to help find out what
causes this. This can occur at any time, regardless of what programs are
running. Here is some common symptoms.
* Disk activity stops.
* Media Center stops (shows no-signal).
* Clock in sidebar stops ticking.
* Internet Explorer shows "not responding". Can click tabs with delayed
effect, once the system resumes IE cycles through each tab which was clicked.
* click 'X' to close program but delayed effect until after the system
resumes again.
* Can click on shortcuts to start a new program but delayed effect until
system resumes again. After resuming, each program which was clicked will
start.
* Everything resumes as normal after about 30secs.

I believe this is a fairly new occurence for me, I don't remember this
happening more than two months ago. Since the system resumes as normal,
there is no bug reports sent to Microsoft and so I don't believe anybody will
be working to fix this problem. Did anyone find a cause for this yet?