Vista Freezing

555guy

I've been trying to sort out a Vista Home pc for somebody else , which was constantly freezing (hard reboot required to get ti running again) and after trying everything I could think of , I resorted to a factory reset and re-installed Vista from the recovery partition. PC worked fine while I had it and when I dropped it back to its owner , it initailly worked fine but is now freezing again.

This is driving me mad cause I've spent a fair bit of time at it. At this stage it boils down to replacing the RAM even though I ran memtest+86 and no errors found, but I suspect this won't sort the issue either !!!:mad:

Has anybody else had similar problems and managed to resolve it ?

PC is a HP pavillion AMD 2.00 Ghz with 2GB of RAM.

Payton

What way is it freezing, when connected to the net or running a program?
Have you installed all the Vista updates, Java, or Adobe shockwave or flash player?

partyatmygaff

Although AMD 2GHz (What kind of 2GHz AMD?), 2GB RAM and Windows Vista is not a recipe for responsiveness and performance you should not be getting slow downs and hangs with a clean install.

Have you tried checking out the HDD? Failing that, i'd imagine the user just ended up bloating the computer with the likes of Internet Explorer toolbars and spyware.

555guy

on the verge wrote: »

What way is it freezing, when connected to the net or running a program?
Have you installed all the Vista updates, Java, or Adobe shockwave or flash player?

Windows loads and then it could frezze when you try to open an apllication - internet explorer / windows explorer etc ... not any one particular app. Fresh install of windows and all updates installed.

partyatmygaff wrote: »

Although AMD 2GHz (What kind of 2GHz AMD?), 2GB RAM and Windows Vista is not a recipe for responsiveness and performance you should not be getting slow downs and hangs with a clean install.

Have you tried checking out the HDD? Failing that, i'd imagine the user just ended up bloating the computer with the likes of Internet Explorer toolbars and spyware.

AMD 64 X2 processor, but PC was running perfectly after the install and is not bloated as its a fresh install now with just Office & AVG as apps on it - nothing else. The only thing thats new since install is a 3 mobile braodband dongle/modem.

yoyo

I installed 4 gig RAM recently to bring my machine up to 8gigs, got similar freezing problems, total lock up in windows 7. I of course ran memtest overnight, no errors. It puzzled me until I took a look inside the case and saw one RAM module wasn't fully secured.
The heat of the components can cause loose RAM to bulge and come loose if not properly secured, as memtest doesn't make use of any component other than RAM the heat wasn't much in the case, well thats my theory anyways.
In short try reseating the RAM

Nick

demanufactured

Windows 7 would run fine on that machine...id suggest an upgrade

555guy

yoyo wrote: »

In short try reseating the RAM

Nick

One of the first things I did .... no difference

demanufactured wrote: »

Windows 7 would run fine on that machine...id suggest an upgrade

Seriuosly considering it