After a fresh installation of Vista Home Premium, my pc freezes randomly. If
i decide to wait it out it magically unfreezes but this is a constant habit.
It leaves the pc clock frozen at the time of the freeze. Suprisingly it lets
me play full screen games but nothing else. Reinstalled multiple times,
downloaded all updates with no change. Perhaps my motherboard isnt
compatible? or my graphics card is just dumb? :S any help would be much
appreciated.

Foxconn RC4107MA-RS2 Motherboard
Intel 3.4ghz Dual Core Processor
Nvidia 7600GT Graphics Card (256mb)
1gb RAM

Goto [url]www.foxconnchannel.com[/url] and download all teh latest drivers and re-apply
all, restart and see if this helps.

"Koopa" <Koopa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7BDCB9DA-0CBB-407A-B775-6C0C90F26269@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> After a fresh installation of Vista Home Premium, my pc freezes randomly.
> If
> i decide to wait it out it magically unfreezes but this is a constant
> habit.
> It leaves the pc clock frozen at the time of the freeze. Suprisingly it
> lets
> me play full screen games but nothing else. Reinstalled multiple times,
> downloaded all updates with no change. Perhaps my motherboard isnt
> compatible? or my graphics card is just dumb? :S any help would be much
> appreciated.
>
> Foxconn RC4107MA-RS2 Motherboard
> Intel 3.4ghz Dual Core Processor
> Nvidia 7600GT Graphics Card (256mb)
> 1gb RAM
>[/color]

You might check in Task Manager to see if one of your cores is spiking to
100% while the other has spare capacity. Make sure to change view to show
both cores and if so, you may be able to change the affinity for some apps
to compensate. Vista has this problem on my machine with many apps running
where XP did a better job of allocating.

"Koopa" <Koopa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7BDCB9DA-0CBB-407A-B775-6C0C90F26269@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> After a fresh installation of Vista Home Premium, my pc freezes randomly.
> If
> i decide to wait it out it magically unfreezes but this is a constant
> habit.
> It leaves the pc clock frozen at the time of the freeze. Suprisingly it
> lets
> me play full screen games but nothing else. Reinstalled multiple times,
> downloaded all updates with no change. Perhaps my motherboard isnt
> compatible? or my graphics card is just dumb? :S any help would be much
> appreciated.
>
> Foxconn RC4107MA-RS2 Motherboard
> Intel 3.4ghz Dual Core Processor
> Nvidia 7600GT Graphics Card (256mb)
> 1gb RAM[/color]

Foxconn doesnt really have an updated bios for my motherboard, it has all
sorts of different things i can flash it for but none make any sense to me..
nothing along the lines of a clear useful bios update anyway

"Robert Bowden" wrote:
[color=blue]
> Goto [url]www.foxconnchannel.com[/url] and download all teh latest drivers and re-apply
> all, restart and see if this helps.
>
> "Koopa" <Koopa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7BDCB9DA-0CBB-407A-B775-6C0C90F26269@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > After a fresh installation of Vista Home Premium, my pc freezes randomly.
> > If
> > i decide to wait it out it magically unfreezes but this is a constant
> > habit.
> > It leaves the pc clock frozen at the time of the freeze. Suprisingly it
> > lets
> > me play full screen games but nothing else. Reinstalled multiple times,
> > downloaded all updates with no change. Perhaps my motherboard isnt
> > compatible? or my graphics card is just dumb? :S any help would be much
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Foxconn RC4107MA-RS2 Motherboard
> > Intel 3.4ghz Dual Core Processor
> > Nvidia 7600GT Graphics Card (256mb)
> > 1gb RAM
> >[/color]
>
>
>[/color]

I downloaded the "multi meter" gadget for my sidebar, it shows little core
percentage use each and about 50% ram use....

"John Barnes" wrote:
[color=blue]
> You might check in Task Manager to see if one of your cores is spiking to
> 100% while the other has spare capacity. Make sure to change view to show
> both cores and if so, you may be able to change the affinity for some apps
> to compensate. Vista has this problem on my machine with many apps running
> where XP did a better job of allocating.
>
> "Koopa" <Koopa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:7BDCB9DA-0CBB-407A-B775-6C0C90F26269@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > After a fresh installation of Vista Home Premium, my pc freezes randomly.
> > If
> > i decide to wait it out it magically unfreezes but this is a constant
> > habit.
> > It leaves the pc clock frozen at the time of the freeze. Suprisingly it
> > lets
> > me play full screen games but nothing else. Reinstalled multiple times,
> > downloaded all updates with no change. Perhaps my motherboard isnt
> > compatible? or my graphics card is just dumb? :S any help would be much
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Foxconn RC4107MA-RS2 Motherboard
> > Intel 3.4ghz Dual Core Processor
> > Nvidia 7600GT Graphics Card (256mb)
> > 1gb RAM[/color]
>
>[/color]

Use what you want, but in task manager I show spikes to 100% that never show
up on Gadgets.

"Koopa" <Koopa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:7D265BD3-54F8-4A40-90BA-D37523B49BBB@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I downloaded the "multi meter" gadget for my sidebar, it shows little core
> percentage use each and about 50% ram use....
>
> "John Barnes" wrote:
>[color=green]
>> You might check in Task Manager to see if one of your cores is spiking to
>> 100% while the other has spare capacity. Make sure to change view to
>> show
>> both cores and if so, you may be able to change the affinity for some
>> apps
>> to compensate. Vista has this problem on my machine with many apps
>> running
>> where XP did a better job of allocating.
>>
>> "Koopa" <Koopa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:7BDCB9DA-0CBB-407A-B775-6C0C90F26269@microsoft.com...[color=darkred]
>> > After a fresh installation of Vista Home Premium, my pc freezes
>> > randomly.
>> > If
>> > i decide to wait it out it magically unfreezes but this is a constant
>> > habit.
>> > It leaves the pc clock frozen at the time of the freeze. Suprisingly it
>> > lets
>> > me play full screen games but nothing else. Reinstalled multiple times,
>> > downloaded all updates with no change. Perhaps my motherboard isnt
>> > compatible? or my graphics card is just dumb? :S any help would be much
>> > appreciated.
>> >
>> > Foxconn RC4107MA-RS2 Motherboard
>> > Intel 3.4ghz Dual Core Processor
>> > Nvidia 7600GT Graphics Card (256mb)
>> > 1gb RAM[/color]
>>
>>[/color][/color]

I have this exact problem with the same foxconn motherboard (rc4107ma-rs2h), I got a free vista upgrade from PC world but after installing it my pc would freeze and then come back to life when it felt like it! the time froze aswell which was a nightmare keep reseting it! In the end I went out and bought a new vista certified graphics card (as i had a feeling the onboard one was causing it) but it never helped at all.
I dont think its anything to do with cpu usage as I use power hungry music editing tools for very long periods of time and would "sometimes" manage to get through a few hours without it freezing but then other times doing something as simple and easy as opening an empty folder or scrolling down a page it would freeze for a good 5-10 mins. In the end I put XP back on and wont try putting vista on again until the service pack next month aparently.
I have a feeling its got to be something to do with the motherboard?

The service pack is available NOW.

"djmastas" <djmastas********.com> wrote in message
news:djmastas.372a47@no-mx.tabletquestions.com...[color=blue]
>
> I have this exact problem with the same foxconn motherboard
> (rc4107ma-rs2h), I got a free vista upgrade from PC world but after
> installing it my pc would freeze and then come back to life when it
> felt like it! the time froze aswell which was a nightmare keep reseting
> it! In the end I went out and bought a new vista certified graphics card
> (as i had a feeling the onboard one was causing it) but it never helped
> at all.
> I dont think its anything to do with cpu usage as I use power hungry
> music editing tools for very long periods of time and would "sometimes"
> manage to get through a few hours without it freezing but then other
> times doing something as simple and easy as opening an empty folder or
> scrolling down a page it would freeze for a good 5-10 mins. In the end
> I put XP back on and wont try putting vista on again until the service
> pack next month aparently.
> I have a feeling its got to be something to do with the motherboard?
>
>
> --
> djmastas[/color]

I have exactly the same problem. After change of the HDD and clean install of Vista and upgrade to SP1, the system randomly freezes for about 5 minutes, even the clock freezes. Nothing in event log.
When I reinstall the old HDD also Vista sp1 but upgrade on existing XP installation, everything works no freezes... so hardware should be fine.
What could be a solution?

I had issues with the intel chipset drivers causing very similar symptoms -
all solved by a driver update so make sure you have the latest



"wgo" <wagoossens@telenet.be> wrote in message
news:wgo.3kbq25@no-mx.tabletquestions.com...[color=blue]
>
> I have exactly the same problem. After change of the HDD and clean
> install of Vista and upgrade to SP1, the system randomly freezes for
> about 5 minutes, even the clock freezes. Nothing in event log.
> When I reinstall the old HDD also Vista sp1 but upgrade on existing XP
> installation, everything works no freezes... so hardware should be
> fine.
> What could be a solution?
>
>
> --
> wgo[/color]

Thanks for the suggestion. Could you indicate where I can find the intel chipset drivers?

Intel website maybe?

[url]http://mysearch.intel.com/corporate/default.aspx?culture=en_US&q=chipset+drivers&category=all&adv=0&value=0[/url]

--

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP
Windows Desktop Experience


"wgo" <wagoossens@telenet.be> wrote in message
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>
> Thanks for the suggestion. Could you indicate where I can find the intel
> chipset drivers?
>
>
> --
> wgo[/color]

How can I check which chip driver set is currently installed?

wgo <wagoossens@telenet.be> wrote:
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>
>Thanks for the suggestion. Could you indicate where I can find the intel
>chipset drivers?[/color]

You DON'T even know if you NEED Intel chipset drivers!! You may have
a non-intel board.

You are in over your head. Take your machine to a competent tech.

Hm. Not really helpfull your remark.