New Install And System Hangs
Mar 26, 2008
Made the dive to Vista 64 on a new build. It is on an Asus Maximus Extreme with 2 gig of RAM and an 8800 Ultra video card. I setup to WD raptors in RAID 0. verything with the install seemed to go without a hitch. The install is from a Vista Ultimate 64 builders pack. The install starts with no problems at all and it sees my raid array without installing any drivers. The install does the copy, expansion and so on without a hickup. It is after I enter a user name and password, date, etc and the system initiates into its "performance check" when it completely hangs. It never leaves the first splash screen of the performance check. I let it sit for over an hour and still no progress.............
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Aug 25, 2009
Im running vista 64bit home premium on my acer desktop. Its been absolutly fine until today. I uninstalled a game and suddenly...well.. every time I close any application the system hangs up/stalls..the cursor goes into 'wait' mode and I can't do anything, the windows key does nothing, etc. Task manager does come up after cntrl/alt/dlt, but it wont do anything - the cursor won't even close it. If Im in a game and tab out, the same thing happens. Sometimes it happens once Ive booted. The desktop pic may be there but the desktop icons wont be...If I go to the menu screen and hit log off then suddenly things happen as they should, but the machine, naturally, logs off. Ive run a virus scan using avast, but it found nothing.
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Mar 31, 2008
I'm trying to get around a problem in Outlook (2007), whereby Outlook hangs for around ten minutes if you hit key or click the mouse whilst it is mid-stream of checking a POP3 mailbox. To this point, I've tried just about everything, recreating the Outlook profile, recreating the Windows profile, installed SP1, uninstalled SP1, installed other office hotfixes, uninstalled same hotfixes, installed Vista SP1, uninstalled Vista SP1, installed Vista hotfixes, uninstalled Vista hotfixes.
The next thing I want to do, short of a fresh clean install of Vista, is to do an inplace re-install of Vista. However, in the Home Premium stakes, all I have is an OEM disk, which is what the machine came with. Does anyone have any way this can be done? I want to try this as a last-resort fix, as it did work for me in resolving a problem with a different Outlook 2007 problem on a Vista Business machine, but I feel kind of stuck, and in a position where I now have to purchase a Home Premium Upgrade, just to get the disk. Seems a lot of expense to go to, just for a piece of plastic.
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Mar 23, 2008
When I start Windows Mail, it often hangs the whole system for a minute or so. Even Ctrl-Shft-Esc won't work to help me see what's going on. Finally, everything jumps back into action! I tracked down a log entry that says "A request to write to the file "C:Users...AppDataLocalMicrosoftWindows MailBackup empWindowsMail.MSMessageStore" at offset 0 (0x0000000000000000) for 2097152 (0x00200000) bytes succeeded, but took an abnormally long time (61 seconds) to be serviced by the OS. This problem is likely due to faulty hardware. Please contact your hardware vendor for further assistance diagnosing the problem." A hardware problem seems unlikely, as everything else works fine....and I'd need a bit more information to go back to my 'hardware vendor' anyway!
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Jun 21, 2008
I'm trying to install Mario Teaches Typing 2 (Yes, from the Win 95 days) on my Vista Windows Home Premium system using Compatibilty Mode. It starts installing okay, but then it hangs with this error message:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: AppHangXProcB1
Application Name: ntvdm.exe
Application Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Application Timestamp: 4549adf0
Hang Signature: 3fda
Hang Type: 32
Waiting on Application Name: hpqste08.exe
Waiting on Application Version: 82.0.173.0
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Hang Signature 1: f98fcc1eb065216f2118c4433ce642fc
Additional Hang Signature 2: 39ee
Additional Hang Signature 3: 38d04008f00861830867acb48460f00e
Additional Hang Signature 4: 3fda
Additional Hang Signature 5: f98fcc1eb065216f2118c4433ce642fc
Additional Hang Signature 6: 39ee
Additional Hang Signature 7: 38d04008f00861830867acb48460f00e
I was told that this software would work on Vista in compatibility mode before I bought it for my kids.
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Dec 27, 2008
I'm having some trouble doing a clean install of vista on my machine. I had already installed it once back in January of 2008, and was going to do a clean install here last night. I formatted my hard drive, and start the installation it will go through all of its steps until it states that it needs to restart. It restarts then goes to the part where it says it is "completing installation" and then it just hangs. Things I've tired:.........
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Aug 2, 2009
Was installing service pack 2 and system crashed now can not even get back to my old vista. Seems to be loading and then I get: !!oxc 0190005!! 9293/45274 (registrymachineschemawcm.//microsoft-...) Then it freezes. I let it stay here for 18 hours and nothing. Tried to boot with my old vista windows disk and can not get a fix or get back to loading anything. Latest error said windows can not fix problem. Frequant black screen of death after bios or it goes to above point and stops.
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Mar 6, 2009
Currently My Vista Home Premium SP1, 32bit, has IE7 running and I downloaded IE8 from the official MS site. Questions: 1. Is it advisible to have IE8 in my system? And if so, 2. Can I just install IE8 over the old version, or is there a special procedure? And if so, 3. What does it consist of? Open-Minded.
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Feb 21, 2009
I would like to try a system repair but when I put my windows vista premium disk into the dvd player it only gives me the option to install and not repair. How do I go about getting the repair option?
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Jun 27, 2008
I was informed by the developers over at Flagship Studios that I may have a corrupt install of DX10 on my system. I went to reinstall DX10 but it tells me that I have the most up to date version and aborts the install. Does anyone know a way I can reinstall DX10? Also, I would like to try intalling DX9c to see if it helps any. Can someone link me to wich download I should use for this?
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Jul 8, 2008
I have (or had) Vista Business on my HP Pavilion dv2670br and I also installed opensolaris on it. I had read this article (Vista SP1 won't install on dual-boot systems: Microsoft) before installing the SP with the stand alone file downloaded from MS's website, but since I did not have Enterprise or Ultimate I didn't think I would have problems. Silly me.
Now I do not know if it is the grub loader itself or the fact that opensolaris uses ZFS. I tried going through the steps here: Recovering the Vista Bootloader from the DVD - NeoSmart Technologies Wiki, to no avail. I suspect I will have to go through a very destructive process, but thankfully I won't really lose much since it is a relatively new laptop with very little university work on it.
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Aug 11, 2008
I build a computer last night for a relative and could not get a clean install on the system, always got BSOD. I tried XP Pro (error), Vista Ultimate x86 and even Vista Ultimate x64 but always had some issue. I did remove all external USB/Firewire/Sound/TV Tuner card etc so it was only running on Mainboard/1 Ram Stick/HDD/ DVD Burner and Video card. Still get an BSOD so i changed the RAM for one out of my wifes computer but it didnt make a difference. Hate to think my sister inlaw got a faulty product as she has gone back home out west with reciept and had to leave the computer with me to resolve the issue. Any ideas what maybe causing this as i had a late night on it and i am to damn tired to think of what else apart from a fauly pasrt it could be.
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Apr 25, 2009
i have tried to re-install the vista operating system on my sons packard bell pc using the recovery partition but this has failed it hangs at the "starting windows for the first please wait" screen we weren't given a disk so i am downloading a copy and want to activate it using the proper key that came with the pc but it isn't printed on the case so i am stuck as to what i can do the pc was bought from curries christmas 2007 do i have any options through them or packard bell
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Mar 23, 2008
I did a hard install of SP1 over two hours ago on my desktop. The system installed and configured updates-went up to 100%..however...it is still hanging-what I mean by that is I am still on the blue installation screen and it says "Configuring Updates-do not turn off computer" I am not sure what to do...should I just shut it off and restart?
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Jun 6, 2008
I recently built a new computer and I would like to move my current install of Vista to the new system without reinstalling it. My only problem is that both setups will be using a raid 0 array for the installation and I don't know if I will be able to boot off the old disks with the new hardware. My old PC was a nForce 4 based AMD rig and my new one is a P35 based Intel rig. Is there a way that I can install the drivers for the new raid array prior to booting with it?
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Jul 29, 2009
I need wipe off entire C drive and perform a clean install Vista over current installed Vista. Here is the steps I went through and had problem finally:
1. I boot up with Vista Home Edition DVD;
2. Get on "Install Now" window, and click the "Install Now" get into next step;
3. The update option is disabled (which is good because I need clean install), I click the advanced option, the next window only show couple partitions without showing C drive!
4. After all the tries to load drive, refresh drive, etc. The C drive never show up!!
How can I get clean re-install over exist vista system?
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Jun 3, 2008
Windows Update has not yet installed SP1 on my Vista Home Premium system. Should I install it manually?
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Jun 27, 2008
I had to reinstall all of my software due to a corrupted system file. After re-installing Microsoft Office, I am having difficulty with getting my Microsoft Frontpage re-installed. How do I get this program re-installed?
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Jun 29, 2008
I partitioned a new hard drive and formatted it using my Windows XP Home Ed. SP2 Install CD. I then installed Win XP. I then installed Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit on the other partition. ( I have two partitions on a single drive, C: and D This has been working great for me for the last 5 months. Today I have a reason to perform a repair install on just the Windows XP partition. I have performed a Win XP repair install successfully in the past using the XP SP2 install CD but never when my system was set up as dual boot. If I perform a repair install using my WinXP install disk to repair the Windows XP installation, will this leave my Vista partition untouched? Will it at all interfere with the system's ability to multi boot? I'm not very concerned about not being able to boot up into Windows XP but it's extremely critical that my system's ability to boot up into Vista is not compromised.
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Dec 2, 2009
Ive just formatted my hard drive and got a new graphics card -ATI 4870. When I try to run a game, using 'steam' it tries to install directx before failing, so I found the download myself and tried, it failed. The error said: 'INTERNAL SYSTEM ERROR OCCURRED refer to DxError.log and DirectX.log in your windows folder to determine problem.' So what any ideas, I need directx but I cant have directx. Wasnt sure if this post should go in here, gaming or graphics card. I figured here as its more a software issue.
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Sep 4, 2008
i bought this acer PC and i hate the recovery disc. i have a cd key on the side of my case. Can't i borow a Vista home premium 32bit disc and use the cd key on the side of my case because i H8 recovery disc's. it doesn't give the options to format or which hdd to install system on
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Jul 29, 2009
A friend's Vista SP1 PC is failing to install Windows Updates and also some other updates such as those for Itunes. The symptom is that the updates get downloaded but the installation phase never finishes (he's left it for 12 hours!). In the case of the Windows Updates, there are several updates that try to install themselves as the PC is shutdown or even restarted, but the message "Installing 1 of 6" never advances: the only recourse is to switch the PC off.
As I was looking at the PC, I noticed one thing which may have a bearing on this and may even be the cause: the System Restore applet (windowssystem32 strui.exe) fails to run. It displays an initial User Account Control window but the "Restore System Files and Settings - choose a restore point" window never appears. No error message is displayed and there are no entries in any of the Event Log logs.
It occurred to me that if System Restore is buggered, this might prevent any updates working if the first thing they try to do is to create a restore point before installation begins. I can't find any reference to System Restore failing to open its initial Window - I've looked on support.microsoft.com and done a general Google search for "Vista System Restore fails". All the info seems to describe possible problems if you get slightly further and select a restore point which then fails to install properly.
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Feb 5, 2008
I just purchased a Toshiba A205-7464 laptop before Christmas and have been having a problem lately with the wireless internet hanging on me.
I will be online for a certain period of time, sometimes hours, sometimes 10 minutes. I will try to go to a website, not always the same one, and IE will just hang, no graphics will come up, the green bar just stops halfway through and it just hangs. I get no error page or anything but in order to get it working again, I have to reboot. It is really starting to tick me off because it is starting to happen more frequently. I have uninstalled McAfee and installed my own Security Software (CA Suite).
Here are some stats on my PC:...
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Oct 23, 2008
I have built up a new system...been running perfectly since August 2008.
2 nights ago I had just finished an update to itunes and some other apple software which required a restart. Upon restart, the system hung while booting.didn't get to the user account log-in screen.it froze with a blackscreen with the mouse cursor sitting there in the middle.
I have done the following things and observed the following behaviour:I have not added any hardware to the system Windows Update has doing automatic updates the systems boots and runs perfectly in safe mode with networking I have reverted to a couple of different restore points prior to installing the apple software...no change I have disabled all non-Microsoft software from starting up via Windows Defender...no change I can get the system to boot to where it displays the user accounts login screen. When I click on an account and enter the password it will hang at that point. Mouse continues to respond but no further response. Disk drive light goes solid but no sound of the disk operating If at the user account log in screen I select to shut the system down it will hang during shutdown checking the event logs shows a range of various fatal errors.I can provide more info on this at later posts if needed but the messages look quite similar to other posts given for a range of different behaviours so I am not sure which if any are relevant. Booting to the Vista CD and doing a repair found no errors. In short, my perfectly happy and functioning system has suddenly gone mental for no obvious reason.
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Feb 10, 2010
I have a recurring problem in that my computer randomly will freeze and become non responsive(though I can move the mouse during these freezes). When clicking on a link or trying to view an e-mail I get the message "Not Responsive" as I watch the Windows "circle" rotate in the middle of the screen. Usually within 15 seconds to a minute the computer again returns to usable state. It used to happen only in Windows Mail. But about two weeks ago it started happening when using other programs, IE, Firefox, etc.
My system specs are as follows:
Dell Dimension E521
Vista Home Premium 32 bit
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 3800+ 2GHz
2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs
256MB NVIDIA Geforce 7300LE TurboCache
Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio
Optiquest 19" widescreen lcd 1280 x 768
250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™
Tower
Dell USB Keyboard and Dell 2-button Scroll Mouse
DSL 3.0 Mbps down 384 Kbps up
To this point I worked with Dell support to try to solve the problem. After doing a disk cleanup, removing temp files, etc. that didn't fix it, they had me perform a restore to Factory Settings. However even after doing that and reinstalling my programs and data files, the problem persists. I have tried opening Windows in safe mode and the problem doesn't occur then. BTW, there are no error messages when this occurs.
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Oct 18, 2008
When Dreamscape is running, Vista will periodically hard hang (will not respond to any input except hardware reset).
On reboot all desktop dispay setting are trashed.
Vista is UFAPP
(Useless For Any Practical Purpose)
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Jun 10, 2009
Good Evening / Morning / Other
I have a PC running Vista x64 specs-
MB Asus P5VD2-VM
CPU Core 2 Duo 6700
GPU BFG Nvidia 8600GTS
HD Seagate 500GB Sata
RAM 4 GB DDR2 (System only uses 3GB due to chipset lacking memory remap)
For the past year its been occasionally hanging at random - sometimes repeatedly each day, othertimes once every few days. I have run ram tests and its found nothing. Its not overheatring. The only other thing I can think of is the hard drive when I run seagates tools it cant complete the long tests but it does the short test - can anyone thing of any other diagnostics I can try.
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Mar 23, 2008
I just bought parts for a new computer, today i finished putting together, now when I try to install Vista, it hangs at the 'loading files....' screen. I've tried installing XP Pro too, and it gives me a STOP C0000221' Unknown Hard Error' after it copies all the files, and tries to start the installation.
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Mar 23, 2008
I can start the install fine, let it run to expand files et al, and then it needs to reboot. Thats where the problem starts. My comp reboots all ok until I get the message "Press a key to boot from CD/DVD or something similar, and then it hangs. Forever!
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Jan 31, 2008
So this is the first issue I've really had with this. I try to uninstall the current SP1 to install the new refresh and this is what happens. All goes well until stage 3. Stage 3 gets to 74-75% and "hangs". When I say hangs... it does progress... SLOOOOOWLLLLYYY. Eventually its gets to about 85% then jumps to 100% and eventually says "uninstall has failed" and reverts changes. It's 11:30pm right now. I started the uninstall at ~6:15pm. Between it going slowly and then reverting the changes, thats how long it took. Tried this twice so far, both with the same result. I previously uninstalled a different version of the SP, no issues.
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Mar 27, 2008
My Vista very often hangs, usually on shutdown. I have to pull the plug. Will this damage my laptop if I keep doing it? I have to though cos its hung. Problem Reports and Solutions is useless of course it doesnt specify anything. If it wont damage the laptop then I can just keep pulling the plug when it happens.
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