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I have posted in some detail on this issue here last week
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I actually have more information now.
1. As I probably described last week, the eventual or creeping system hang
begins with one application going non-responsive. Activating another
application window, either by task bar or by direct clicking, makes that
application nonresponsive. Then clicking on another application makes
that nonresponse. Often clicking on the Start menu makes it appear and
then lock, or sometimes it does not appear at all.
2. The multi-application (system?) hang (all showing "not responding")
does never involves a total freeze on things.
a) The network interrupt (?) continues to work: when in IE that is
connected to a video stream with a Flash/WMP plugin, while the video may
freeze, the audio continues to play and for a long time.
b) The mouse input interrupt continues to work. The mouse pointer can be
moved. A click will have no effect, but the cursor moves.
This is not due to failing hardware or screwed system software: Windows
Memory Diagnostic has been done quite a few times in the last months and
reports the RAM is good. chkdsk /r has likewise been done several times
and reports clean since the last time two or months ago it found some
screwed indexes. Moreover, the hard disk manufacturer's own disk test
tools are showing pass/green (Seagate Tools for Windows and DOS), although
the disks probably have 13,000 +/- 1500 hours of use (that applies to the
notebook as well). SFC /scannow finds only one unrepairable, non-critical
file ('azroleui.dll.mui'); this file has been effed up for months, well
before the frequent system hangs. Registry cleaners (Reg First Aid Plat
and Crap Cleaner) have been used. I recently Defragglered the drives; it
had not been done in 5-6 months, and yes, Windows defragger had been
turned off. The cooling system fan/heat sink was changed a couple of
months ago; and Everest Ultimate has been reliable in reporting both CPU
and disk drives' temperatures, with a dramatic average temp decrease after
cooling fan/sink replacement. Temperature is not a problem. Driver
software has been updated, upgraded, and re-installed for just about every
device (video, wireless and ethernet adapter, sound, keyboard "quick
keys", multi-mem card reader). You name the diagnostic tool and test, and
just about every orifice has been checked on this Vista.
In the past, I would not see Vista hang at all even 1 time in a month.
And now it happens at least 5 times a day. It always requires the power
button being pressed to restart.
Why it is doing this is still a mystery. What have I not considered or
done?
<Message-ID: [email protected]>
I actually have more information now.
1. As I probably described last week, the eventual or creeping system hang
begins with one application going non-responsive. Activating another
application window, either by task bar or by direct clicking, makes that
application nonresponsive. Then clicking on another application makes
that nonresponse. Often clicking on the Start menu makes it appear and
then lock, or sometimes it does not appear at all.
2. The multi-application (system?) hang (all showing "not responding")
does never involves a total freeze on things.
a) The network interrupt (?) continues to work: when in IE that is
connected to a video stream with a Flash/WMP plugin, while the video may
freeze, the audio continues to play and for a long time.
b) The mouse input interrupt continues to work. The mouse pointer can be
moved. A click will have no effect, but the cursor moves.
This is not due to failing hardware or screwed system software: Windows
Memory Diagnostic has been done quite a few times in the last months and
reports the RAM is good. chkdsk /r has likewise been done several times
and reports clean since the last time two or months ago it found some
screwed indexes. Moreover, the hard disk manufacturer's own disk test
tools are showing pass/green (Seagate Tools for Windows and DOS), although
the disks probably have 13,000 +/- 1500 hours of use (that applies to the
notebook as well). SFC /scannow finds only one unrepairable, non-critical
file ('azroleui.dll.mui'); this file has been effed up for months, well
before the frequent system hangs. Registry cleaners (Reg First Aid Plat
and Crap Cleaner) have been used. I recently Defragglered the drives; it
had not been done in 5-6 months, and yes, Windows defragger had been
turned off. The cooling system fan/heat sink was changed a couple of
months ago; and Everest Ultimate has been reliable in reporting both CPU
and disk drives' temperatures, with a dramatic average temp decrease after
cooling fan/sink replacement. Temperature is not a problem. Driver
software has been updated, upgraded, and re-installed for just about every
device (video, wireless and ethernet adapter, sound, keyboard "quick
keys", multi-mem card reader). You name the diagnostic tool and test, and
just about every orifice has been checked on this Vista.
In the past, I would not see Vista hang at all even 1 time in a month.
And now it happens at least 5 times a day. It always requires the power
button being pressed to restart.
Why it is doing this is still a mystery. What have I not considered or
done?