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

Anyone got an answer?

hey

I'm not sure why it would be causing that? Did you check device manager for any known problems? Also check Event Viewer, the system records all tasks then reports anything that might be causing problems....

regards

Jordan

My card is not suported and here's an error before the hard reset:

Audit events have been dropped by the transport. The real time backup file was corrupt due to improper shutdown.

put in a different sound card .. see if it locks up.. my sound blaster live would lock up and do that same high pitched sound too. i was using winxp and i was playing MP3's
windows vista wouldnt let me use my sound blaster live card so im back to useing my onboard sound ports

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

I am fortunate that it’s not doing it for me during DVD’s etc but some games it just keeps happening, there are tonnes of results about this through Google but no solutions that I can find but vague references to Creative cards (every single one) and Western Digital HDD, of which I use three so that’s not the answer I want to read right now.

System Info:

O/S: Vista Ultimate (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_rtm.061101-2205)
BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ (2 CPUs), ~2.4GHz
Memory: 3326MB RAM (Should be 4)
Page File: 1008MB used, 5822MB available
DirectX Version: DirectX 10
Video: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX
Driver Version: 7.15.0011.5824 (English)
Sound: Audigy 2 Platinum
Driver Version: 6.00.0001.1241 (English)

The worst offenders are the Company of Hero’s demo and Titan Quest but its happening way to often with all games, no dumping me on the desktop or BSOD just total freeze so I have to hard re-boot using my power switch, its driving me to drink.

So I’m guessing my friends will never hear me say the words “for the love of ****** re-load!� again.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I am fortunate that it’s not doing it for me during DVD’s etc but some games it just keeps happening, there are tonnes of results about this through Google but no solutions that I can find but vague references to Creative cards (every single one) and Western Digital HDD, of which I use three so that’s not the answer I want to read right now. System Info: O/S: Vista Ultimate (6.0, Build 6000) (6000.vista_rtm.061101-2205) BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4800+ (2 CPUs), ~2.4GHz Memory: 3326MB RAM (Should be 4) Page File: 1008MB used, 5822MB available DirectX Version: DirectX 10 Video: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX Driver Version: 7.15.0011.5824 (English) Sound: Audigy 2 Platinum Driver Version: 6.00.0001.1241 (English) The worst offenders are the Company of Hero’s demo and Titan Quest but its happening way to often with all games, no dumping me on the desktop or BSOD just total freeze so I have to hard re-boot using my power switch, its driving me to drink.

Hi unregistered,

I am going EXACTLY thought the same problem.

OS: Vista Ultimate
Motherboard: ASUS M2N32-SLI Wireless Deluxe Edition
CPU: AMD 64 (Windsor) FX2 Dual Core Processor 2.8GHz
Memory: mushkin 4GB DDR2 800Mhz
Video: Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS

Prime95 gave me 1 BSOD in 10 tests.
Haven't tested Mem86.

Windows Vista Ultimate randomly locks up while on games, and specifically when trying to launch certain applications, e: Lineage II, Norton 2008 Internet Security.

All system devices show properly installed. All drivers updated, including flashing BIOS to the latest version.

Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Same Unregistered as above, replying to the subject, as editing is not allowed.

read if you have vista locking up on you randomly or during games - Neowin Forums

Your board is MSI (Award) so that solves your problem (sadly, it doesn't solves mine). I'll try replying that person to get the exact version of the BIOS.

-- Unregistered.