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re: computer constantly "halts" while running vista
Friday, July 7, 2006 at 12:50 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ryan
(43 messages posted)
Thanks for the reply! I'll have to look into this. I hadn't thought it would be
a BIOS setting, but that's definitely a possibility. Glad you got it working on
your system!
-Ryan
On Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 7:33 am, james wrote:
>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.
>
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