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Tom
"PG" wrote in message
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>I have posted in some detail on this issue here last week
>
>
> I actually have more information now.
>
> 1. As I probably described last week, the eventual or creeping system hang
> begins with one application going non-responsive. Activating another
> application window, either by task bar or by direct clicking, makes that
> application nonresponsive. Then clicking on another application makes
> that nonresponse. Often clicking on the Start menu makes it appear and
> then lock, or sometimes it does not appear at all.
>
> 2. The multi-application (system?) hang (all showing "not responding")
> does never involves a total freeze on things.
>
> a) The network interrupt (?) continues to work: when in IE that is
> connected to a video stream with a Flash/WMP plugin, while the video may
> freeze, the audio continues to play and for a long time.
>
> b) The mouse input interrupt continues to work. The mouse pointer can be
> moved. A click will have no effect, but the cursor moves.
>
> This is not due to failing hardware or screwed system software: Windows
> Memory Diagnostic has been done quite a few times in the last months and
> reports the RAM is good. chkdsk /r has likewise been done several times
> and reports clean since the last time two or months ago it found some
> screwed indexes. Moreover, the hard disk manufacturer's own disk test
> tools are showing pass/green (Seagate Tools for Windows and DOS), although
> the disks probably have 13,000 +/- 1500 hours of use (that applies to the
> notebook as well). SFC /scannow finds only one unrepairable, non-critical
> file ('azroleui.dll.mui') this file has been effed up for months, well
> before the frequent system hangs. Registry cleaners (Reg First Aid Plat
> and Crap Cleaner) have been used. I recently Defragglered the drives it
> had not been done in 5-6 months, and yes, Windows defragger had been
> turned off. The cooling system fan/heat sink was changed a couple of
> months ago and Everest Ultimate has been reliable in reporting both CPU
> and disk drives' temperatures, with a dramatic average temp decrease after
> cooling fan/sink replacement. Temperature is not a problem. Driver
> software has been updated, upgraded, and re-installed for just about every
> device (video, wireless and ethernet adapter, sound, keyboard "quick
> keys", multi-mem card reader). You name the diagnostic tool and test, and
> just about every orifice has been checked on this Vista.
>
> In the past, I would not see Vista hang at all even 1 time in a month.
> And now it happens at least 5 times a day. It always requires the power
> button being pressed to restart.
>
> Why it is doing this is still a mystery. What have I not considered or
> done?
>
How's your input voltage? Take out any surge protection.
news:Xns9D6188A1F2C6UVAA@207.46.248.16...
>I have posted in some detail on this issue here last week
>
>
> I actually have more information now.
>
> 1. As I probably described last week, the eventual or creeping system hang
> begins with one application going non-responsive. Activating another
> application window, either by task bar or by direct clicking, makes that
> application nonresponsive. Then clicking on another application makes
> that nonresponse. Often clicking on the Start menu makes it appear and
> then lock, or sometimes it does not appear at all.
>
> 2. The multi-application (system?) hang (all showing "not responding")
> does never involves a total freeze on things.
>
> a) The network interrupt (?) continues to work: when in IE that is
> connected to a video stream with a Flash/WMP plugin, while the video may
> freeze, the audio continues to play and for a long time.
>
> b) The mouse input interrupt continues to work. The mouse pointer can be
> moved. A click will have no effect, but the cursor moves.
>
> This is not due to failing hardware or screwed system software: Windows
> Memory Diagnostic has been done quite a few times in the last months and
> reports the RAM is good. chkdsk /r has likewise been done several times
> and reports clean since the last time two or months ago it found some
> screwed indexes. Moreover, the hard disk manufacturer's own disk test
> tools are showing pass/green (Seagate Tools for Windows and DOS), although
> the disks probably have 13,000 +/- 1500 hours of use (that applies to the
> notebook as well). SFC /scannow finds only one unrepairable, non-critical
> file ('azroleui.dll.mui') this file has been effed up for months, well
> before the frequent system hangs. Registry cleaners (Reg First Aid Plat
> and Crap Cleaner) have been used. I recently Defragglered the drives it
> had not been done in 5-6 months, and yes, Windows defragger had been
> turned off. The cooling system fan/heat sink was changed a couple of
> months ago and Everest Ultimate has been reliable in reporting both CPU
> and disk drives' temperatures, with a dramatic average temp decrease after
> cooling fan/sink replacement. Temperature is not a problem. Driver
> software has been updated, upgraded, and re-installed for just about every
> device (video, wireless and ethernet adapter, sound, keyboard "quick
> keys", multi-mem card reader). You name the diagnostic tool and test, and
> just about every orifice has been checked on this Vista.
>
> In the past, I would not see Vista hang at all even 1 time in a month.
> And now it happens at least 5 times a day. It always requires the power
> button being pressed to restart.
>
> Why it is doing this is still a mystery. What have I not considered or
> done?
>
How's your input voltage? Take out any surge protection.