No it's not because this doesn't happen coming out of standby or
hibernation. The laptop will be running for hours without issue and
then all of a sudden just freeze up completely. It actually goes in
and out of hibernation/sleep perfectly fine without a single issue.

What's irritating about this is that there's no way to troubleshoot
since it seems random and there are no events in the event log around
the time of the freeze that would help me figure out the problem.

On Mar 16, 6:00 am, Nick Goetz <n...@sympatico.ca> wrote:[color=blue]
> Problems after comming out of standby/hibernation are not uncommon.
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> That "is" a valid answer and not a bad workaround/solution.
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> Nick Goetz
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> "Mobilehavoc" <tejas.nadka...******.com> wrote innews:1173968038.082638.159860@l75g2000hse.googlegroups.com:
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> > That's not really a valid answer...I'll see the next time this happens
> > and continue the troubleshooting. Was just wondering if anyone else
> > who had these problems found a solution or stopgap.[/color]
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> > On Mar 15, 10:04 am, "PC Tech Solutions" <john...@pctech-
> > solutions.com> wrote:[color=darkred]
> >> It can be a number of things. But some good advice is, when you are
> >> done with the computer for the day, turn it off! Don't just clost
> >> the lid put it in standby/hibernation and walk away.[/color][/color]
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> >> <tejas.nadka...******.com> wrote in message[/color][/color]
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> >> > So I've been runningVistaHome Premium on my Sony VAIO SZ since
> >> > Feb 9th and overall it's been running remarkably well. Haven't
> >> > really had any crashes, all the apps I've installed have worked
> >> > flawlessly and I'm actually getting better performance in apps,
> >> > games inVistathan XP (dual-booting XP so I've been able to
> >> > compare).[/color][/color]
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> >> > However, I have a really strange problem in that at veryrandom
> >> > timesVistaseems tofreezeand the only thing that will remedy it
> >> > is to hold down the power button to turn it off.[/color][/color]
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> >> > It's only happened a few times and is not normal occurence. For
> >> > example it was running for about 7 days straight without a reboot,
> >> > then last night I installed this week's Windows Updates and the
> >> > system restarted.[/color][/color]
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> >> > This morning I woke up around 8AM and went to check my email, I
> >> > opened the lid and it had frozen. The clock still said 2:50AM which
> >> > would mean that is when the catastrophe happened. I restarted it
> >> > and it came back up fine.[/color][/color]
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> >> > I checked the Event logs and there's nothing around that time at
> >> > all. I remember using the laptop until around 1:50AM or so so it
> >> > was idling when this happened. The other times it's happened also
> >> > seem to be either during or right after it's been idling. However,
> >> > puzzlingly like I said it'll sometimes run 7 or more days straight
> >> > at a time (including numerous hibernation resumes and standby
> >> > resumes).[/color][/color]
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> >> > Any ideas what could be causing this problem? The only thing in the
> >> > logs was an "Unexpected shutdown of Windows" at 2:48AM which is
> >> > sort of a "duh!" moment.[/color][/color]
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> >> > Overall I'm lovingVistabut this is frustrating because I can't
> >> > diagnose what the problem is. I have all my power setting timers
> >> > turned off (Hard drive powerdown never, hibernate never, standby
> >> > never, etc).[/color][/color]
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> >> > Oh and this has always happened while the laptop is plugged in. If
> >> > anyone knows of any culprits or things I can try please let me
> >> > know. I'm going to see how long it runs after this mornings
> >> > incident.[/color][/color]
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> >> > FYI...Memory test came back fine and like I said it runs everything
> >> > beautifully 90% of the time.- Hide quoted text -[/color][/color]
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