- Mar 27, 2007
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I just recently assembled a new computer and installed Vista SP1 on it, SP1 was included in the installation image and the version is RTM. All my device drivers and BIOS have been updated to their latest versions.
And now to the problem. I leave my computer to idle for a long period of time, say an hour or so. When I try to resume activity by opening start menu, it may open start menu half-way and then just loop the loading mouse cursor, when this happens I can't move the cursor anymore. Or if I lock the computer and come back after an hour, I can log in just fine, but Vista keeps looping the Welcome message and does not proceed further.
I have no other choice but to use cold restart. I've also checked Windows event logs and there isn't anything else except few mentions of unexpected shutdown. However, if I leave any program to run so that there is some disk/cpu/ram activity while I'm gone, I can resume working even after a few hours without problems. At first I thought that Vista has problems waking up my hard drive, but disabling it from power settings didn't help. The computer has no problems on load, I've played loads of games so it is not a general instability problem.
Specs:
Vista SP1 RTM
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 (BIOS F12)
4x 2GB Kingston ValueRAM
Core2Duo E8200
Radeon 3870 (Catalyst 8.2)
Seagate 7200.11 (AHCI enabled)
Does anyone have any clues as to what might cause this system freeze if left to idle too long? Thanks in advance.
And now to the problem. I leave my computer to idle for a long period of time, say an hour or so. When I try to resume activity by opening start menu, it may open start menu half-way and then just loop the loading mouse cursor, when this happens I can't move the cursor anymore. Or if I lock the computer and come back after an hour, I can log in just fine, but Vista keeps looping the Welcome message and does not proceed further.
I have no other choice but to use cold restart. I've also checked Windows event logs and there isn't anything else except few mentions of unexpected shutdown. However, if I leave any program to run so that there is some disk/cpu/ram activity while I'm gone, I can resume working even after a few hours without problems. At first I thought that Vista has problems waking up my hard drive, but disabling it from power settings didn't help. The computer has no problems on load, I've played loads of games so it is not a general instability problem.
Specs:
Vista SP1 RTM
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3 (BIOS F12)
4x 2GB Kingston ValueRAM
Core2Duo E8200
Radeon 3870 (Catalyst 8.2)
Seagate 7200.11 (AHCI enabled)
Does anyone have any clues as to what might cause this system freeze if left to idle too long? Thanks in advance.