Vista 64-bit hardlocks

[tdawg]

Hello All,

I have been running Vista Ultimate 64-bit for about a month now. Everything was running smoothly up until last week. Since last week, my system has been hardlocking out of the blue. Sometimes it happens when the screensaver comes on, sometimes it happens when watching a video (i.e., a show I had recorded) for 10 or 15 minutes, and sometimes it happens when the hard drive sounds like it's trying to spin up when trying to wake back up. I'm thinking it might be a video card problem, but I haven't changed anything with my system since I installed Vista a month or so ago.

I'm using the built-in drivers for my x850 pro as well as the two ATI Theatre 550 tuners I have in my system. Come to think of it, I'm using the built-in functionality for everything in or attached to my computer. I've tried installing ATI/AMD's drivers for both the gpu and the tuners, but it never completes fully, so I'm just going with the defaults, which have been working well to this point.

The hard drives have been chugging along nicely this whole time and there's nothing that makes me think they're going bad; no screeching or clicking or anything. I checked the memory with MS's built-in memory utility, but it came clean.

My basics of my system is:

MSI Neo2 Platinum (nforce3)
Athlon 64 3000+
1.5gb ram
ATI x850 pro
ATI TV Wonder Elite
Visiontek Theatre 550
Vista Ultimate 64-bit

Any ideas would be great. If I didn't make something clear, please let me know.

Thanks in advance,
Trevor

 

[toekramp]

what are you using for audio? onboard?

 

[tdawg]

Yes, I am using onboard audio

 

[xtknight]

Is anything listed in Event Viewer when this happens?

It just locks up? No blue screen or crash dumps? When it does, can you describe what happens to your sound and display? Does sound repeat or does the display get in any way corrupt?

 

[Mem]

I would run Memtest86+ to make sure no memory problems(its more thorough then Vista's one),btw there are new 7.4 AMD/ATi drivers out.

 

[tdawg]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Is anything listed in Event Viewer when this happens?

It just locks up? No blue screen or crash dumps? When it does, can you describe what happens to your sound and display? Does sound repeat or does the display get in any way corrupt?

It just locks up. Sound stops and display freezes like a snapshot. No corruption or anything. I can't remember what the event viewer says exactly, but I'll check when I get to my computer.

 

[tdawg]

Originally posted by: Mem
I would run Memtest86+ to make sure no memory problems(its more thorough then Vista's one),btw there are new 7.4 AMD/ATi drivers out.

Will memtest86+ work on 64-bit vista? I'll give it a try if it does.

 

[Mem]

Originally posted by: tdawg

Originally posted by: Mem
I would run Memtest86+ to make sure no memory problems(its more thorough then Vista's one),btw there are new 7.4 AMD/ATi drivers out.

Will memtest86+ work on 64-bit vista? I'll give it a try if it does.

You run Memtest86+ via making a bootdisk,so it checks the memory before any OS is loaded or started.

 

[tdawg]

Originally posted by: Mem

Originally posted by: tdawg

Originally posted by: Mem
I would run Memtest86+ to make sure no memory problems(its more thorough then Vista's one),btw there are new 7.4 AMD/ATi drivers out.

Will memtest86+ work on 64-bit vista? I'll give it a try if it does.

You run Memtest86+ via making a bootdisk,so it checks the memory before any OS is loaded or started.

Ok. I'll give that a try as soon as I get a chance.