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Ternerito
I've been running Vista Ultimate x86 for about a month, I'm quite happy with
it. This is the first complete crash of the OS I experienced.
At the time of the crash, my computer was moderately busy: ripping a CD with
EAC, syncbackup was trying to establish a connection to a network share, one
instance of Firefox was open. A couple of explorer windows were open as
well.
At one point the 'busy' cursor started going on one of the explorer windows
while I was browsing it, and that was it. I could see the CPU usage meter
close to zero, but nothing worked. I tried closing the explorer windows
(not responding), and that seemed to do the trick, I had my PC back, but it
turned out that it was just for a minute or so.
I scheduled a disk check for next reboot. As the ripping had ended, I
closed EAC. I closed Firefox too, and I was waiting for syncbackup to
finish and then restart the PC, but again the PC got completely
non-responsive. I tried right click on the toolbar to open task manager: no
effect. Pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del but no joy.
After about a minute the screen went dark with just the mouse cursor,
nothing else working. After a while a small box pops up: "logon process
has failed to create the security options dialog" with a red X icon and
"Failure - Security Options" and an OK button. Pressing the OK button got
me into a loop of back screens and "Failure - Security Options" boxes, I
ended up resetting the PC.
Strangely enough, Event Viewer and Reliability Monitor had no record of this
crash... it never happened. Hmm, that's one way of keeping reliability
numbers high. -)
I googled for this problem and found hundreds of hits, some reporting this
problem from RC1 or RC2 versions of Vista, so definetely I'm not alone. I
am using build 6000.
I found but a handful of hits about this issue on the Microsoft website.
Worse, they all those where pointing to some 'feedback' place on
connect.microsoft.com, to which a have no access.
Sounds like one of those issues waiting for a service pack, possibly that
would be service pack 1.
HTH,
Luca
it. This is the first complete crash of the OS I experienced.
At the time of the crash, my computer was moderately busy: ripping a CD with
EAC, syncbackup was trying to establish a connection to a network share, one
instance of Firefox was open. A couple of explorer windows were open as
well.
At one point the 'busy' cursor started going on one of the explorer windows
while I was browsing it, and that was it. I could see the CPU usage meter
close to zero, but nothing worked. I tried closing the explorer windows
(not responding), and that seemed to do the trick, I had my PC back, but it
turned out that it was just for a minute or so.
I scheduled a disk check for next reboot. As the ripping had ended, I
closed EAC. I closed Firefox too, and I was waiting for syncbackup to
finish and then restart the PC, but again the PC got completely
non-responsive. I tried right click on the toolbar to open task manager: no
effect. Pressed Ctrl-Alt-Del but no joy.
After about a minute the screen went dark with just the mouse cursor,
nothing else working. After a while a small box pops up: "logon process
has failed to create the security options dialog" with a red X icon and
"Failure - Security Options" and an OK button. Pressing the OK button got
me into a loop of back screens and "Failure - Security Options" boxes, I
ended up resetting the PC.
Strangely enough, Event Viewer and Reliability Monitor had no record of this
crash... it never happened. Hmm, that's one way of keeping reliability
numbers high. -)
I googled for this problem and found hundreds of hits, some reporting this
problem from RC1 or RC2 versions of Vista, so definetely I'm not alone. I
am using build 6000.
I found but a handful of hits about this issue on the Microsoft website.
Worse, they all those where pointing to some 'feedback' place on
connect.microsoft.com, to which a have no access.
Sounds like one of those issues waiting for a service pack, possibly that
would be service pack 1.
HTH,
Luca