ASUS mobos random lock ups (join the club!!)

[pmr]

Lately I've seen people complaining (all over the web ) about random lock ups at start up with asus mobos and/or long boot up times.
I have the same problem with my p5n-e sli and I think it has to do with some kind of sh!tty M$ update. Till windows gets updated, in a fresh install, I don't have any kind of problem (I think), I just can't track it down and it's pissing me off.

By doing this I hope that you guys with the same problem share your experiences and together try to find an answer to this.

 

[loserdave]

not sure if this is the same thing that is happening to you ,,, but,,,,
I had a Nvidia4 chipset board,(machspeed) that started doing that after XP auto connected for an upgrade. i tracked it down to a security service running in the background that was conflicting with Windows Explorer. service pack 2 was of no help. and even Restoring to an earlier stable setup didn't help.
I am sure there was a work around,, but i was not enough of a guru to fix it.

I know it was not hardware , because Kubuntu64 ran just fine.

 

[loserdave]

check out this blog, you may find it useful
http://www.theeldergeek.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t190.html

 

[pmr]

Thanks man. I'll try not to update those 5 files and see what happens. If the problem continues I'm afraid I have to install vista one year early than I expected....