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htoonthura   10-04-2007 at 04:58:49 PM

Hello

I installed vista ultimate edition a few days ago. it runs fine at all times. but yesterday , when i shut down , it freezed.

the machine is overclocked. but it should not be an issue because i am dual booting with xp and xp is completely fine. anyway... to find the problem, i put it back to stock speed. but it stills freezes. i ran all kinds of anti virus,spyware test but it is clean. i have no idea what is happening. do you guys have any suggestions.

Thanks.

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plguzman   10-04-2007 at 05:11:46 PM
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Did you check your device manager, to see if there are any hardware conflicts? By freezing, you mean a BSOD and then suddenly shuts down, or the machine just freezes, and you have to restart using the reset button?

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ghostwalker   10-04-2007 at 05:26:37 PM
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I get this problem sometimes. It usually happens for me when my wireless USB network adapter desides to drop the connection and I have trouble picking it up again. I'll try unplugging and plugging it in again and if that doesn't work then I'll try a restart which nearly always, if not always results in Vista hanging at the 'shutting down' screen. so it could be a problem with Vista and some hardware element of your computer i guess.

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htoonthura   10-04-2007 at 05:27:35 PM
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htoonthura wrote :

Hello

I installed vista ultimate edition a few days ago. it runs fine at all times. but yesterday , when i shut down , it freezed.

the machine is overclocked. but it should not be an issue because i am dual booting with xp and xp is completely fine. anyway... to find the problem, i put it back to stock speed. but it stills freezes. i ran all kinds of anti virus,spyware test but it is clean. i have no idea what is happening. do you guys have any suggestions.

Thanks.




thank you for your response. it just freezes. nothing happens. i have to reset it through the reset buttom or power. there is no conflict in device manager and i have all the updates. i have no idea. it runs completely fine except the shut down problem. any ideas?

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htoonthura   10-04-2007 at 05:29:13 PM
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plguzman wrote :

Did you check your device manager, to see if there are any hardware conflicts? By freezing, you mean a BSOD and then suddenly shuts down, or the machine just freezes, and you have to restart using the reset button?




i notice that a lot of people have this issue. How do we solve this problem? your help is appreciated.

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spaztic7   10-04-2007 at 05:50:00 PM
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I notice that it hangs, not freezes, after updates have been installed. Now this isn’t limited to just windows updates but any OS or component update (like video card drivers, sound driver, and such). It also hangs for a couple of minutes at startup. I figured this is just configuring the updates.

This might help???

I am running Vista Ultimate 64bit addition.

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plguzman   10-04-2007 at 07:29:11 PM
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I had that hanging problem at startup, and it was one of my USB devices that was conflicting with Vista (my printer with a card reader). Unfortunately this printer doesn't have a Vista driver (but it works perfectly with a compatible driver), but the card reader is a no go now. I just disabled and everything went well. Now Vista boots very fast.

@ htoonthura: did you try to do a restore?. If the problem is happening since yesterday, you could restore from 2 or 3 days ago and it should disappear.

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htoonthura   10-04-2007 at 07:39:19 PM
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plguzman wrote :

I had that hanging problem at startup, and it was one of my USB devices that was conflicting with Vista (my printer with a card reader). Unfortunately this printer doesn't have a Vista driver (but it works perfectly with a compatible driver), but the card reader is a no go now. I just disabled and everything went well. Now Vista boots very fast.

@ htoonthura: did you try to do a restore?. If the problem is happening since yesterday, you could restore from 2 or 3 days ago and it should disappear.




i have the restore point, but i want to solve the problem directly. Unless i can fix the problem , i will have the similar problem in the future. thanks for your suggestion though.

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plguzman   10-04-2007 at 07:45:56 PM
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htoonthura wrote :

i have the restore point, but i want to solve the problem directly. Unless i can fix the problem , i will have the similar problem in the future. thanks for your suggestion though.



The thing is, if it's hard to find, is better to first eliminate the problem, then determine what things did you do before the problem begun, and do them 1 by 1, until the problem appears again. In that case you will easily locate the origin of the problem.

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Rabidpeanut   10-04-2007 at 08:46:14 PM
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I noticed you had vista installed. To fix the problem remove vista.
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aevm   10-04-2007 at 10:06:08 PM
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Ah, yes. Then you can install MS-DOS 5.0. I think I still have those floppies somewhere :)

Now seriously: I hear that the Vista SP1 has already been sent to beta testers. With a little luck your Vista experience will become much better in a couple of months.

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plguzman   10-04-2007 at 11:55:34 PM
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Vista SP1 Beta can be downloaded now from several websites.

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aevm   10-05-2007 at 02:43:51 AM
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Cool! Maybe I'll give it a try at work, if I can find an unused box.

I wouldn't recommend it to the OP though. Every time they do this they get a truckload of bug reports back. It's safer to wait until they fix the most interesting bugs.

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htoonthura   10-08-2007 at 06:26:29 AM
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plguzman wrote :

The thing is, if it's hard to find, is better to first eliminate the problem, then determine what things did you do before the problem begun, and do them 1 by 1, until the problem appears again. In that case you will easily locate the origin of the problem.




Hello guys

thank you for your replies. I , however, can figure it out myself. I am going to share with you. I disconnect the wireless connection before i shut it down. Then problem solved. I might try with a different nic card to see if the problem goes away. So far , i have no problem with shut down.

Thank you.

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Zorg   10-08-2007 at 06:50:57 AM
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aevm wrote :

your Vista experience will become much better in a couple of months.

They got to you. :( Are they holding your wife and kids hostage? ;)

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aevm   10-08-2007 at 02:13:52 PM
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No, I bought shares :)

Seriously now: I'm a programmer, I've had to read thick books on the subject, and here's something I've found in lots of books:

- first version, if there's lots of pressure for early release, usually sucks badly
- second version (called SP1 or 1.1 or 2.0, doesn't really matter) is usually acceptable (because the first version was tested by tons of people and because the developers fixed bugs instead of starting new features)
- third version is OK, it adds some useful new features
- further releases suck; the new features are useless, the code is bloated

Not sure exactly how this works for Microsoft. It think it applies to XP/SP1/SP2 pretty well.

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Zorg   10-09-2007 at 04:37:51 AM
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aevm wrote :

- third version is OK, it adds some useful new features
- further releases suck; the new features are useless, the code is bloated

Not sure exactly how this works for Microsoft. It think it applies to XP/SP1/SP2 pretty well.

Let me get this straight, your saying that MS skipped XP SP3 and went straight to XP SP4 which is Vista? :lol: :lol:

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spaztic7   10-10-2007 at 12:13:45 AM
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The drivers did fix teh scrathy sound problem i was having

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