I was interested to read your post, I have a 3month old Acer Aspire5100
laptop, was working tiptop. Until I recieved & installed my Vista upgrade.
The first few days ok, enjoying the new Vista, then the nightmare began,
everyday now for no apparent reason it randomly freezes. This has happened
after less than 5 minutes like it did today, or after an hour, no way back.
Switching off, this sometimes has not been possible either as the power
button didnt respond for over an hour yesterday!

These random freezes occur more & more often now, have spoken to Acer they
dont no the possible cause, it looks like it all points to Vista, especially
since I came here oh dear many people same problem, what & when are Microsoft
Vista going to realise this is a serious issue, highly frustrating, let alone
the hours now spent time wasting, I wonder what the hourly rate is for
personal dead time....

Where to go from here? please?

"tejas.nadkarni******.com" wrote:
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> So I've been running Vista Home 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 in Vista than
> XP (dual-booting XP so I've been able to compare).
>
> However, I have a really strange problem in that at very random times
> Vista seems to freeze and the only thing that will remedy it is to
> hold down the power button to turn it off.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> Overall I'm loving Vista but 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).
>
> 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.
>
> FYI...Memory test came back fine and like I said it runs everything
> beautifully 90% of the time.
>
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