Freezes While Streaming (and Randomly)
Jan 14, 2009
I have an issue wherein Vista (Ultimate 64-bit) Will freeze up completely forcing me to reset / reboot. This has occurred a few days after I put the computer together and installed all the software. It does not happen reliably. The first two times it happened, I was using Firefox in a window, in front of a video game (in windowed mode). This does not happen every time I do that, and has not happened from doing that in about a week.
The problem recently resurfaced in a more reliable fashion while using the Play-On media server software to stream Hulu to my Xbox. The computer froze after about 5 minutes of doing this, and then after about 8 minutes of doing this. I re-installed the most recent network driver, and tried switching ethernet ports. Next time it happened after about 10 minutes, twice in a row. So this is a very reliable circumstance to cause the freeze..........
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Apr 4, 2008
I'm having a problem with my system. It randomly freezes, I have no idea why and most times its when I'm doing something differently. Its freezed during 2 different games, during a burning of a cd, and even while trying to get into the favorites menu on internet exlorer.. I tried looking in the event viewer for the system but not sure what I need to look for. I have no viruses according to Nod32. I have Vista Ultimate running on amd 3700, 1 gb ram, 75gb hard drive, geforce 8800 gts graphics card, ecs motherboard and a dvd burner. Here is a HiJackThis log................
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May 27, 2008
I know this is not new but after some time using vista the system just freezes, no sound, no UI, then all of a sudden it tries to generate a report with the blue screen of death... fails and then restarts. At the moment the machine restarts.
BAM! The system says there is no hard drive and no booteable devices. I unplug everything. power off the system and then on again and then vista loads normally WTH!?
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Nov 18, 2009
I have a Toshiba satellite A135-S2346. It's always worked fine. One day it when I plugged my ipod charger into it, it froze. Now the laptop wont start at all it has a 1 in 3 chance of starting, if it does. It freezes at the Toshiba logo, and makes a static, popping noise from the speakers. Anything I can do? Or began to figure the issue out?
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Jun 6, 2008
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tons and tons of questions from users, who are having problems with windows vista and streaming videos online, like on Internet and every other place online and no real source for handling this issue. no it is not the internetconnection and no it is not the drivers. we have all tried to re-install these 40 times and we all got the newest versions but still the streaming stops, pauses, glitches, hops and simply makes watching videos online a pain in the *** with windows vista.
i have lost my patience ... i've googled, searched, read and read some more about solving this issue with no result yet. please - if anyone out there knows how to really fix this problem, then please write it in this thread, because i feel stupid that i just purchased a new 2000$ laptop with windows vista and a bunch of other cool stuff, and the computer works even worse than my old computer. i really don't want to go back to xp, so please help me fix this issue?
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Setup of network is as follows
Vista premium pc to
Belkin modem router to
internet.
xbox to belkin router
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Aug 18, 2008
vista 64bit...8gigs of ram. core 2 duo processor. Here is the error
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Problem Event Name: BlueScreen
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033.......................
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