I just purchased a brand new HP DV6458se laptop with Vista on it. Loaded all the updates. Runs fine, that is until I run Yahoo games, spades, which is a Java Ap. plays fine, then all of the sudden, for no reason locks up, keyboard,mouse inactive, the only thing I can do is a power down and power up. Any Ideas?

Originally Posted by lhuser

Okay, it's been happening since the first builds of Vista. First, it was sound issues, but that went away, but it still does it now. I'm on Pre-RTM and I am not liking the fact that it may do it if I ever buy it. Now, here's the deal: If I listen to music and browse, fine, but out of the blues, it will lock up with a high pitch sound. The mouse will not move and the only way to resume operations is by reseting it. Now, that's not all. If I play videos, it will lock up eventually, so with 3D gaming, that recquires DirectX 9 or higher. Why does it lock up??? I want to use it standalone because it's all stable and stuff, but if it locks up, it kills the fun Specs: ASUS P4S800D-X Intel Pentium 4 HT 3GHZ 800MHZ FSB 1GB RAM DDR400 Dual channel (Currently running 2GB RAM DDR333 dual channel. it will be reverted back to one shortly) Nvidia Geforce FX5200 160GB Maxtor DiamondMax 9 10.2GB Fujitsu HDD Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 sound card A 430W Antec PSU LG GSA-4163B DVD-RAM drive Afreey 52X CD drive