Vista Freeze and Auto-Reboot

I have seen some of the gurus on memory that post in this ng comment that
the results from the Microsoft diagnostic is not definitive and that a more
exacting tester is needed if one is to eliminate memory as a possible cause.
I have used Azureus on x64 Vista without the behavior you describe. I will
leave the memory issue to the gurus in the hope that one will respond. In
the meantime I suggest you take a look at this KB article:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936212/en-us

"Quik" <> wrote in message
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> Well I reinstalled Winamp, Azureus and Firefox and I had them running all
> at
> once now and the computer crashed again. It took longer to crash but it
> crashed. I was looking at vista's resource monitor and it was telling me
> almost 150 hard fails/min on the Azureus.exe process. I did a test with
> Microsoft's Memory Diagnostic and I had 2 runs with it and 0 errors...
>
> It just happened recently though, I had the computer running for a month
> and
> a half without problems and its starting to give me problems now.

I have had the same type of problem, but I was lucky, when I changed the
powerunit from a 350W to 420W the computer worked just fine.


Good luck
"Quik" <> skrev i meddelandet
news:4517B1BE-236C-41BE-8433-...
> Hello,
>
> My computer freezes and reboots when I surf the web. I use Firefox,
> Internet
> Explorer just doesn't cut it for me. My Windows is fully up to date. It
> also
> happens when I use Azureus.
>
> AMD Athlon 64+ X2 6400+ Black Edition
>
> Zalman CNPS9500 AM2 Cooling
>
> WD Raptor 36 GB Primary Hard Drive
>
> ASUS M2N-E SLI Motherboard
>
> Seagate 7200.1 500 GB Hard Drive
>
> Ultra X-Finity 600w PSU
>
> OCZ Vista Upgrade Dual Channel 4096MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz Memory
>
> BFG Tech nVidia 8800 GTX 768 MB Video Card
>
> Apevia Black X-Plorer ATX Mid-Tower Case (to which I have attached 3 80mm
> fans and one 120mm fan)
>
> What do you think it can be?
>

Colin,
A faulty memory stick could be the cause.
In that case the OP might want to download Memtest86
(http://www.memtest86.com/), the memory test utility recommended by
many (one of Charlie's favorites).
Direct D/L link for ISO version:
http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.4a.iso.zip
Direct D/L link for floppy installer: http://www.memtest86.com/memtest34a.zip

I also think that the 600W PSU might be working at max capacity, let us not
forget that he has a 6400+ processor (this beast eats 125W!) and an 8800GTX
card (another watts eating device).

Carlos


"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

> I have seen some of the gurus on memory that post in this ng comment that
> the results from the Microsoft diagnostic is not definitive and that a more
> exacting tester is needed if one is to eliminate memory as a possible cause.
> I have used Azureus on x64 Vista without the behavior you describe. I will
> leave the memory issue to the gurus in the hope that one will respond. In
> the meantime I suggest you take a look at this KB article:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936212/en-us
>
> "Quik" <> wrote in message
> news:380B1AAF-72DB-475C-8B3C-...
> > Well I reinstalled Winamp, Azureus and Firefox and I had them running all
> > at
> > once now and the computer crashed again. It took longer to crash but it
> > crashed. I was looking at vista's resource monitor and it was telling me
> > almost 150 hard fails/min on the Azureus.exe process. I did a test with
> > Microsoft's Memory Diagnostic and I had 2 runs with it and 0 errors...
> >
> > It just happened recently though, I had the computer running for a month
> > and
> > a half without problems and its starting to give me problems now.
>

Thanks for jumping in Carlos! I needed the help.

"Carlos" <> wrote in message
news:B36F4CF7-6D48-4E30-A337-...
> Colin,
> A faulty memory stick could be the cause.
> In that case the OP might want to download Memtest86
> (http://www.memtest86.com/), the memory test utility recommended by
> many (one of Charlie's favorites).
> Direct D/L link for ISO version:
> http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.4a.iso.zip
> Direct D/L link for floppy installer:
> http://www.memtest86.com/memtest34a.zip
>
> I also think that the 600W PSU might be working at max capacity, let us
> not
> forget that he has a 6400+ processor (this beast eats 125W!) and an
> 8800GTX
> card (another watts eating device).
>
> Carlos
>
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
>
>> I have seen some of the gurus on memory that post in this ng comment that
>> the results from the Microsoft diagnostic is not definitive and that a
>> more
>> exacting tester is needed if one is to eliminate memory as a possible
>> cause.
>> I have used Azureus on x64 Vista without the behavior you describe. I
>> will
>> leave the memory issue to the gurus in the hope that one will respond.
>> In
>> the meantime I suggest you take a look at this KB article:
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936212/en-us
>>
>> "Quik" <> wrote in message
>> news:380B1AAF-72DB-475C-8B3C-...
>> > Well I reinstalled Winamp, Azureus and Firefox and I had them running
>> > all
>> > at
>> > once now and the computer crashed again. It took longer to crash but it
>> > crashed. I was looking at vista's resource monitor and it was telling
>> > me
>> > almost 150 hard fails/min on the Azureus.exe process. I did a test with
>> > Microsoft's Memory Diagnostic and I had 2 runs with it and 0 errors...
>> >
>> > It just happened recently though, I had the computer running for a
>> > month
>> > and
>> > a half without problems and its starting to give me problems now.
>>

You are welcome, Colin.
Our beloved 64-bit NG is too quiet lately so I tend to take a peek at this
one and do my stuff here too.
I am electrical engineer so hardware always attracts me (second place after
women!).

Carlos

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

> Thanks for jumping in Carlos! I needed the help.
>
> "Carlos" <> wrote in message
> news:B36F4CF7-6D48-4E30-A337-...
> > Colin,
> > A faulty memory stick could be the cause.
> > In that case the OP might want to download Memtest86
> > (http://www.memtest86.com/), the memory test utility recommended by
> > many (one of Charlie's favorites).
> > Direct D/L link for ISO version:
> > http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.4a.iso.zip
> > Direct D/L link for floppy installer:
> > http://www.memtest86.com/memtest34a.zip
> >
> > I also think that the 600W PSU might be working at max capacity, let us
> > not
> > forget that he has a 6400+ processor (this beast eats 125W!) and an
> > 8800GTX
> > card (another watts eating device).
> >
> > Carlos
> >
> >
> > "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
> >
> >> I have seen some of the gurus on memory that post in this ng comment that
> >> the results from the Microsoft diagnostic is not definitive and that a
> >> more
> >> exacting tester is needed if one is to eliminate memory as a possible
> >> cause.
> >> I have used Azureus on x64 Vista without the behavior you describe. I
> >> will
> >> leave the memory issue to the gurus in the hope that one will respond.
> >> In
> >> the meantime I suggest you take a look at this KB article:
> >> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936212/en-us
> >>
> >> "Quik" <> wrote in message
> >> news:380B1AAF-72DB-475C-8B3C-...
> >> > Well I reinstalled Winamp, Azureus and Firefox and I had them running
> >> > all
> >> > at
> >> > once now and the computer crashed again. It took longer to crash but it
> >> > crashed. I was looking at vista's resource monitor and it was telling
> >> > me
> >> > almost 150 hard fails/min on the Azureus.exe process. I did a test with
> >> > Microsoft's Memory Diagnostic and I had 2 runs with it and 0 errors...
> >> >
> >> > It just happened recently though, I had the computer running for a
> >> > month
> >> > and
> >> > a half without problems and its starting to give me problems now.
> >>
>

I think I may have gotten it fixed. I believe the problem was from the AMD
Dual Core Optimizer program that AMD offers on their site. I had installed it
to see if there was a difference, there wasn't. I think that may have caused
all the recent problems I had. I'll let you know if it happens again. Thank
you all for helping.

By the way Carlos, I was thinking about changing the PSU, I might do it
soon, there are too many power cables in the case and it's very noisy.

Nevermind, I don't have it fixed, it just recently started happening again
after 5 days of having it under full control. What could the problem be?