Temporary Vista lockups
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Interesting... I'm about to install Vista on my main rig at home now that I can get decent sound and RAID drivers, but I'm still just a little cautious 
It's working great on my Dell Inspiron e1505 and my Thinkpad T60, so here's hoping. Glad you figured it out though!
It's working great on my Dell Inspiron e1505 and my Thinkpad T60, so here's hoping. Glad you figured it out though!
Using the "Have disk" method I was able to force it over to nvstor32.sys and v9.31 (rather than v8.24 of the nvstor.sys driver noted in my post above) of the sataide drivers, which is what is supposedly current for nForce 4 Vista 32 sataide as represented by the v15.00 nForce drivers. Still no temporary random lockups, yay.
theoutsider
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have you put the new service pack on,as Idid and that`s when the lockups started,I know this for a fact as I tried everything Ihave seen posted and since taking service pack 1!! of I have not had one single lockup issue.
I have the exact same problem with outlook 07 Geo.
I have vista ultimate, core2 2.6ghz, 2gb ram, ati aiw1900.
Anyway I haven't figured a way to fix it besides not using outlook of course
Mine only does it quite rarely though usually when it has issues with an attachment.
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After reading all the way through it sounds like they may be different, but I get a total lockup of the system for awhile, when taskmanager comes up it says outlook is dying (not responding) and so forth.
I've had this problem before. Symptoms are exactly as you describe, and with constant hard drive activity while it's happening. It happens most often during times of heavy hard disk use.
Go into event viewer, and under Windows Logs > System, you'll see some events with EventID 9 which correspond to your lockups. The message will be similar to this, "The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period.".
When I first had this problem, searches on the internet suggested that it was a problem with the Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver. In my case, the bug was caused not by a faulty driver but by a BIOS setting on my Asus P5W DH Deluxe motherboard.
There's a setting in the BIOS called "AHCI", which I had turned on. After I turned it back off again, the problem went away.
So for anyone else having this sort of problem and other fixes didn't work, you might want to take a look at AHCI.
Go into event viewer, and under Windows Logs > System, you'll see some events with EventID 9 which correspond to your lockups. The message will be similar to this, "The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period.".
When I first had this problem, searches on the internet suggested that it was a problem with the Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver. In my case, the bug was caused not by a faulty driver but by a BIOS setting on my Asus P5W DH Deluxe motherboard.
There's a setting in the BIOS called "AHCI", which I had turned on. After I turned it back off again, the problem went away.
So for anyone else having this sort of problem and other fixes didn't work, you might want to take a look at AHCI.
Do you have any exclamation marks in the log when this happen?
Maybe a wild guess but NCQ on some disk together with Nforce4 chipset may produce stalls (this assumes you have the IDE/SATA Nforce Drivers installed). The PC locks up completly except the mouse pointer just to resume a while latter, with lots of errors in the log regarding disk operations, could happen randomly.
Maybe a wild guess but NCQ on some disk together with Nforce4 chipset may produce stalls (this assumes you have the IDE/SATA Nforce Drivers installed). The PC locks up completly except the mouse pointer just to resume a while latter, with lots of errors in the log regarding disk operations, could happen randomly.
i have strange probelms with my ide/sata controller asus p5w-dh deluxe
if i set it to standard ide and set my pata to standard mode (hdd's sata, dvd pata) dvd's will burn verify correctly with nero but when i look the dvd is empty setting the controler to enhanced mode on sata +pata fixes the prob
if i set it to standard ide and set my pata to standard mode (hdd's sata, dvd pata) dvd's will burn verify correctly with nero but when i look the dvd is empty setting the controler to enhanced mode on sata +pata fixes the prob
I had a nforce4 mobo until a month or so ago, and it was just never quite entirely right on either PATA or SATA. Fought with it for two years, with random lockups in both XP and Vista that only occurred just enough to be annoying, and would usually release to normal operation again after a minute or so. Dunno if it wasn't the right drivers or just fundamentally fubared somehow. It also ate three hdd, tho I can't prove for sure that was the mobos fault --even tho that is by far the most hdd failures I've had in a two year period.
Anyway, my new X38 chipset mobo has been flawless so far, so yay. Good luck on your issues.
Anyway, my new X38 chipset mobo has been flawless so far, so yay. Good luck on your issues.
Dont know about mobo borking the HDD's but it had and has problems with several HDD brands when NCQ is enabled (corruption, stalling, etc). Also the HW NV firewall function is borked. Things where not better with manufacturers putting whimpy cooling solution for the chipset. Asus with their sleeve micro fan of worst quality, 'sue them' quality for sure.
