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Vista Freezing Problem at Startup

Nebor

Nebor

Lifer
So I built a new PC. A couple of them, actually. A high end one to run the 47" 1080p LCD in the living room, and a low end one as a desktop.

The living room PC has:
E6600 Processor
Abit AW9D-Max Motherboard
2 GB Corsair XMS PC2-800
Geforce 8800GTS 640mb
2x250gb WD hard drives in RAID 0
Some pioneer SATA DVD burner that reads really slow...
Fusion HDTV5 PCI tuner
Antec Sonata 3 case
Antec Trupower 650w power supply (this PC killed 2 of the stock Sonata 3 500w power supplies)
Windows Vista Ultimate

Things seemed ok at first, but after I ran all my windows updates, the computer became very prone to freezing after starting up. I searched on the internet, and it seems like a lot people have this problem, but no one really has a solution. It'll start up, start to load a few start up programs then BAM, total freeze. No blue screen, no error. JUst frozen. I think it's related to some service.

If I start in safe mode, it never freezes. Starting regularly, it freezes 2/3s of the time. Really annoying have to start it up 3 times just to be able to use it.

By contrast, the low end desktop
E4400
nForce 650i Ultra motherboard
2GB Corsair XMS PC2-800
Geforce 8600GTS
1xSeagate 750GB hard drive
Antec Sonata 2 case
Windows XP home.
Is getting a lot more use, because it's extremely reliable.

So any ideas on what's wrong with Vista? What service is causing me so much pain?



This thread originated in Windows/PC Software, but it looks like it'll fit better in Operating Systems, due to the need to troubleshoot Windows and perhaps Windows services. The Windows/PC Software forum is intended mainly for apps that run on Windows or other PC OSes. Good luck with the troubleshooting. 🙂

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mechBgon
 
In case you've not run Orthos and Memtest86.
Do so immediately just ruling out any hardware related issue.
Also update to the newest bios (po2) from eVGA.
If still persists, remove one add-on component at at a time to isolate the indicted component if there is.
Note: your system pretty much mimics my 2nd rig (plus minus a couple components)
 
Originally posted by: videopho
In case you've not run Orthos and Memtest86.
Do so immediately just ruling out any hardware related issue.
Also update to the newest bios (po2) from eVGA.
If still persists, remove one add-on component at at a time to isolate the indicted component if there is.
Note: your system pretty much mimics my 2nd rig (plus minus a couple components)
Click to expand...

The problem computer doesn't have an eVGA board... It's an Abit.
 
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