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Old 01-21-2008, 05:40 AM
Colin Barnhorst
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Re: Vista Freeze and Auto-Reboot

Thanks for jumping in Carlos! I needed the help.

"Carlos" <Carlos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B36F4CF7-6D48-4E30-A337-2B4875440BD5@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Colin,
> A faulty memory stick could be the cause.
> In that case the OP might want to download Memtest86
> ([url]http://www.memtest86.com/[/url]), the memory test utility recommended by
> many (one of Charlie's favorites).
> Direct D/L link for ISO version:
> [url]http://www.memtest86.com/memtest86-3.4a.iso.zip[/url]
> Direct D/L link for floppy installer:
> [url]http://www.memtest86.com/memtest34a.zip[/url]
>
> I also think that the 600W PSU might be working at max capacity, let us
> not
> forget that he has a 6400+ processor (this beast eats 125W!) and an
> 8800GTX
> card (another watts eating device).
> :)
> Carlos
>
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
>[color=green]
>> I have seen some of the gurus on memory that post in this ng comment that
>> the results from the Microsoft diagnostic is not definitive and that a
>> more
>> exacting tester is needed if one is to eliminate memory as a possible
>> cause.
>> I have used Azureus on x64 Vista without the behavior you describe. I
>> will
>> leave the memory issue to the gurus in the hope that one will respond.
>> In
>> the meantime I suggest you take a look at this KB article:
>> [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/936212/en-us[/url]
>>
>> "Quik" <Quik@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:380B1AAF-72DB-475C-8B3C-C6B5B97B0191@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>> > Well I reinstalled Winamp, Azureus and Firefox and I had them running
>> > all
>> > at
>> > once now and the computer crashed again. It took longer to crash but it
>> > crashed. I was looking at vista's resource monitor and it was telling
>> > me
>> > almost 150 hard fails/min on the Azureus.exe process. I did a test with
>> > Microsoft's Memory Diagnostic and I had 2 runs with it and 0 errors...
>> >
>> > It just happened recently though, I had the computer running for a
>> > month
>> > and
>> > a half without problems and its starting to give me problems now.[/color]
>>[/color][/color]

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Old 01-21-2008, 05:40 AM