What size/brand power supply do you have? You may need larger. Make certain
that the extra power connector is firmly attached to the video cards. Mine
wasn't initially and I had many problems.

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Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"CeeBee" <t24041753********.com> wrote in message
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>
> I have acquired a problem in the past couple of months with Vista
> locking up. Pressing the reset seemingly being the only way to restore
> normality. I know not where this fault has originated , ie I can't
> trace it to a particular software/hardware change on my PC.
>
> My system is quite modern and used to work fine so I am fairly certain
> it is not hardware induced so I won't go into great detail except to add
> that on the video side I have 2 X NVIDIA GeForce 9600 Gt's working in
> SLI.
>
> The most common activity when it freezes is to be watching video,
> usually WMV, although another area it seems fairly frequent is whilst
> having conversations on chat sites (makes you look really rude!)
>
> I checked the Windows application log and whenever this happens it
> always seeems to say:
>
> ! Information Date/Time LoadPerf 1000 None
> ! Error Date/Time LoadPerf 3011 None
> ! Error Date/Time LoadPerf 3012 None
>
> Tried searching for solutions to the LoadPerf stuff but not being a
> technocrat kept mentally disappearing up my ***.
>
> Any ideas - short of a total back-to-the-drawing-board solution - would
> be greatly appreciated. Sorry about the length of this but it's driving
> me nuts.
>
>
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