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

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
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers
[url]www.elephantboycomputers.com[/url]
Don't Panic!

Hello

Thank you for your feedback. Didn't know that the MSDN Version of Vista SP1
is not "officially", it was clearly declared as a final version!

In this case, I will reinstall Windows XP, still have a backup on the
fileserver. Will probably be faster that removing Vista SP1, and I know that
I can do my work with XP (have already lost so much time with Vista...)

regards,
Franz


"Malke" <malke@invalid.invalid> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:%238vwb02gIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
>
> 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
> --
> MS-MVP
> Elephant Boy Computers
> [url]www.elephantboycomputers.com[/url]
> Don't Panic![/color]

Franz Schenk wrote:
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> Hello
>
> Thank you for your feedback. Didn't know that the MSDN Version of Vista
> SP1 is not "officially", it was clearly declared as a final version!
>
> In this case, I will reinstall Windows XP, still have a backup on the
> fileserver. Will probably be faster that removing Vista SP1, and I know
> that I can do my work with XP (have already lost so much time with
> Vista...)
>[/color]
Another Vista user comes to his senses.

Cheers.
[color=blue]
> regards,
> Franz
>
>
> "Malke" <malke@invalid.invalid> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:%238vwb02gIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>>
>> 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
>> --
>> MS-MVP
>> Elephant Boy Computers
>> [url]www.elephantboycomputers.com[/url]
>> Don't Panic![/color][/color]

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Be Afraid ... Be Very Afraid ... of Francis' RELATIVES!

Frank, hard at work on his Vista computer all day:
[url]http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/warriorshtm/compost.htm[/url]

The MSDN And Technet Copies Of Vista With Service Pack One Is The Final
Release Version, However It Is Mainly 4 Developer's, And IT Professionals,
And Is 4 Evaluation Use Only, Just FYI.

"Franz Schenk" wrote:
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> Hello
>
> Thank you for your feedback. Didn't know that the MSDN Version of Vista SP1
> is not "officially", it was clearly declared as a final version!
>
> In this case, I will reinstall Windows XP, still have a backup on the
> fileserver. Will probably be faster that removing Vista SP1, and I know that
> I can do my work with XP (have already lost so much time with Vista...)
>
> regards,
> Franz
>
>
> "Malke" <malke@invalid.invalid> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:%238vwb02gIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...[color=green]
> >
> > 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
> > --
> > MS-MVP
> > Elephant Boy Computers
> > [url]www.elephantboycomputers.com[/url]
> > Don't Panic![/color]
>[/color]

"Franz Schenk" <franzNO-_-SPAM.no-sPAMschenk@fitit.ch> wrote in message
news:17DCC532-A6B0-4040-ABB3-7D380F18C993@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Hello
>
> Thank you for your feedback. Didn't know that the MSDN Version of Vista
> SP1 is not "officially", it was clearly declared as a final version![/color]

It is.. it is there for people that need to test it works on their system
before they use it on a system they /need/.
As you can see it causes problems on some machines where it interacts with
the drivers in a bad way.
Now you have done the test and found it to fail you need to wait until Dell
fix the drivers before you can install it.
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>
> In this case, I will reinstall Windows XP, still have a backup on the
> fileserver. Will probably be faster that removing Vista SP1, and I know
> that I can do my work with XP (have already lost so much time with
> Vista...)[/color]

Personally I wouldn't have put Vista on an XP machine I was using for work.
I would buy a new machine with Vista on but I can't see any compelling
reason to upgrade an existing machine that works. The same goes for any OS
and machine combination IMO.
The old "if it works, don't fix it" applies to computers as much as anything
else.