Vista freezing for no apparent reason

My Vista has started to freeze for no apparent reason. It will be working
fine, and then all of a sudden it will completely freeze, where there is no
egg timer, the cursor does not move, there is no hard drive activity at all
and crtl+alt+del does nothing, as the PC is not respnsive to anything. It
seems to happen more when watching video files, either form the hard disk or
streamed over the internet, but it can also happen when typing in a Word
document with nothing else open, and so it is hard to find any pattern. I
have to press the reset button to use the PC again. The recovery options
display, but then there are no entries in event viewer to give any clue of
the cause. Help would be very much appreicated.

I would suspect your Display Adapter driver is not functioning correctly.
Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) can be used to 'uninstall' the driver, and
'scan for hardware changes' to refresh the driver (Action menu)

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"AJ" <> wrote in message
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> My Vista has started to freeze for no apparent reason. It will be working
> fine, and then all of a sudden it will completely freeze, where there is
> no
> egg timer, the cursor does not move, there is no hard drive activity at
> all
> and crtl+alt+del does nothing, as the PC is not respnsive to anything. It
> seems to happen more when watching video files, either form the hard disk
> or
> streamed over the internet, but it can also happen when typing in a Word
> document with nothing else open, and so it is hard to find any pattern. I
> have to press the reset button to use the PC again. The recovery options
> display, but then there are no entries in event viewer to give any clue of
> the cause. Help would be very much appreicated.

Sorry, I should have mentioned it in my original post; I have already
searched for new drivers for the display adapter, and found none, and rolled
back to the old driver. Rolling back did not help.

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

> I would suspect your Display Adapter driver is not functioning correctly.
> Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) can be used to 'uninstall' the driver, and
> 'scan for hardware changes' to refresh the driver (Action menu)
>
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> "AJ" <> wrote in message
> news:E11B555A-E170-412C-B4BD-...
> > My Vista has started to freeze for no apparent reason. It will be working
> > fine, and then all of a sudden it will completely freeze, where there is
> > no
> > egg timer, the cursor does not move, there is no hard drive activity at
> > all
> > and crtl+alt+del does nothing, as the PC is not respnsive to anything. It
> > seems to happen more when watching video files, either form the hard disk
> > or
> > streamed over the internet, but it can also happen when typing in a Word
> > document with nothing else open, and so it is hard to find any pattern. I
> > have to press the reset button to use the PC again. The recovery options
> > display, but then there are no entries in event viewer to give any clue of
> > the cause. Help would be very much appreicated.
>

Now here's something else. When I try to open System Restore, an error
message appears stating: There was an unexpected error. The file name or
directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. (0x8007007B). System
Restore will now close. Is this part of the problem, or a different problem?
How do I solve this now?

"Bob" wrote:

> Run System Restore to a time before the problem began.
>
> "AJ" <> wrote in message
> news:E11B555A-E170-412C-B4BD-...
> > My Vista has started to freeze for no apparent reason. It will be working
> > fine, and then all of a sudden it will completely freeze, where there is
> > no
> > egg timer, the cursor does not move, there is no hard drive activity at
> > all
> > and crtl+alt+del does nothing, as the PC is not respnsive to anything. It
> > seems to happen more when watching video files, either form the hard disk
> > or
> > streamed over the internet, but it can also happen when typing in a Word
> > document with nothing else open, and so it is hard to find any pattern. I
> > have to press the reset button to use the PC again. The recovery options
> > display, but then there are no entries in event viewer to give any clue of
> > the cause. Help would be very much appreicated.
>
>

AJ;625041 Wrote:
> My Vista has started to freeze for no apparent reason. It will be
> working
> fine, and then all of a sudden it will completely freeze, where there
> is no
> egg timer, the cursor does not move, there is no hard drive activity at
> all
> and crtl+alt+del does nothing, as the PC is not respnsive to anything.
> It
> seems to happen more when watching video files, either form the hard
> disk or
> streamed over the internet, but it can also happen when typing in a
> Word
> document with nothing else open, and so it is hard to find any pattern.
> I
> have to press the reset button to use the PC again. The recovery
> options
> display, but then there are no entries in event viewer to give any clue
> of
> the cause. Help would be very much appreicated.

I have this exact problem. It happened for the first time 2-3 weeks
ago. It has happened 4-5 times since then. Two of the times I watched
streamed video, the other times it happened during some random action
like normal surfing etc.

I have Vista x64


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Qatsi

system specs please AJ ....cpu / gpu / ram..


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E2180 @ 3.2ghz
arctic cooler pro 775
5GB pc5300 @ 801mhz
Asus P5K premium
160GB seagate 7200
coloursit 600w psu
PNY 8800GT 512mb

Qatsi;633208 Wrote:
>
> I have this exact problem. It happened for the first time 2-3 weeks
> ago. It has happened 4-5 times since then. Two of the times I watched
> streamed video, the other times it happened during some random action
> like normal surfing etc.
>
> I have Vista x64

_My_specs:_
Asus P5N32-SLI Premium
Intel Core 2 QUAD Q6600 2.4GHz
GeCube Radeon HD2900XT
4 x Corsair TWIN2X2048 (tot. 4 GB)
Seagate Barracuda ST3500630AS 500GB


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Qatsi

are u OCed or stock ...?


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skunksmash

E2180 @ 3.2ghz
arctic cooler pro 775
5GB pc5300 @ 801mhz
Asus P5K premium
160GB seagate 7200
coloursit 600w psu
PNY 8800GT 512mb

skunksmash;633309 Wrote:
> are u OCed or stock ...?

all stock


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Qatsi

ok your H/W seems fine its gotta be a software issue ..
what periferals do u run ..i know there are still some that play havo
with vista.
do u have the latest GPU drivers from ATI ..
from your earlier post it said your system was running fine up untill
few weeks ag
the easiest method would be to roll your pc back to a time when ther
was no problems ..otherwise u will have to trawl through your system t
find the app/driver vista is choaking o
:

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E2180 @ 3.2gh
arctic cooler pro 77
5GB pc5300 @ 801mh
Asus P5K premiu
160GB seagate 720
coloursit 600w ps
PNY 8800GT 512mb