Franz Schenk wrote:
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> Have updated my Dell Vostro 1700 with Vista SP1. Since then, the computer
> sometimes freezes completely. The mouse pointer disappears, <ctrl alt del>
> has no effect. Have waited onetime for two hours, the system is still
> freezed. Have then to press for 8 seconds the power button, and the system
> restarts. This happened 4 times since the SP1 installation
>
> There is absolutely nothing logged appart the dirty shutdown event
> message. Had never this problem before the SP1 upgrade 10 days ago, so
> it's most probably not HW related.
>
> Any advice? Thank you in advance for any help!
> Franz[/color]

Uninstall SP1. Wait until it is officially out and then go to Dell's website
for your Vostro 1700 before you install the SP. See if there are any
patches that need to be applied first. For instance with XP SP2, there were
about 8 patches that need to be installed on HPs before the SP.

You might also want to post about the issue here:
Vista SP1 Issues - Support via Technet (for betas) -
[url]http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1992&SiteID=17[/url]

Malke
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