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re: computer constantly "halts" while running vista
Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 7:33 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by james
(3 messages posted)
hi there,
i had the same problem with my PC and i know for a fact its nothing to do with the
power of your PC has i have an FX55 an 2GB ram 500GB hard disk and SLI'd graphics
cards which in a word is 'sweet'.
So I then realised it even existed when i switched my hard drives back around so
that i was running XP again. If you look in you event logs you should find errors
called 'downshifting'.
So it must be a bios problem. Im not sure as yet what Vista does to the bios but
its funky. I eventually solved the problem by hardware reseting my bios, so not just
by choosing the optimized defaults or top performance or whatever. I had to take
the pin out of my motherboard that connects the battery (or you could just take out
the battery start up your machine without it then, shut down and put the battery
back in again ) this then solved the problem. Hope this helps and microsoft find
a solution as i want to be able to run a dual boot system.
On Friday, June 23, 2006 at 11:37 pm, Ryan wrote:
>Hello,
> I installed the Beta 2 over a clean and updated version of XP, but now my machine
>freezes up for a fraction of a second once every second. The hard drive seems like
>it's "pulsing" every second (the HD indicator light flashes a little every second).
> Very disruptive.
> Hardware shouldn't be too much of an issue... 2.8 gHz processor, 768MB RAM, 50
>gig HD that's mostly empty. Any suggestions would be appreciated. So far I like
>what I've expereinced, but this is really making it hard to evaluate Vista.
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