Microsoft Corp Hangs Vista

I realise there is already a similar thread about this, however as my version of Windows Vista is the release and not Beta, I just wanted to see if others shared my problem on the same version as me.My system:Asus A8N SLI Premium (nVidia chipset)Athlon XP 64 3500 (Single Core) CPUMaxtor 80GB HD IDEXFX 256mb GraphicsBasically, I installed Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit onto my system as a fresh install. The install went fine. I have the exact problem, but with the 32 bit Vista Home Premium OEM. Funny thing is that I can get it up and running IF I leave the boot cd in, but choose not to boot from it. Otherwise I sit at a black screen forever. I went with a new install rather than an upgrade.I suspect the raid array that I'm not using may be causing me some problems.

I have nothing to substantiate that however.I am using the same Asus mobo as you are.I gave up and reloaded the backup of XP I ran prior to trying to load Vista.Scott. Mine freezes about every 20 minutes for 30 seconds. Running Vista Home Premium 32 Bit on a Dell XPS 410. I did an upgrade from XP Pro sp 2. Check this: Look for Brakham's post.I was having a similar problem with a Dell Dimension DM061/E520 running Home Premium upgraded from XP Media Center.

Lockup/freezes would occur randomly and sometime very frequently. I have 2 CD/DVD drives. Went through all kinds of gyrations with Dell. Finally decided to try this on my machine. My orange cables were on SATA 1 and 4, so I moved them to 4 and 5 to keep the drives in order. Then, restart, go into setup with F2 on boot screen. Scroll to drives, enter to expand, scroll to SATA-1, enter, right tab to set to off, repeat for 4 and 5 but set to on.Make sure to power down and disconnect power before opening the case, push power button for 10 seconds to drain reserve power.

Keep contact with the case to avoid a static charge.Check the event viewer, expand Windows Logs, check System for errors with iaStorV. That was the symptom that I was seeing. Have now been up for over 40 hours without even a blip. Don't have a clue why this worked.Addendum: Replaced this cable swap fix with a BIOS and Firmware update for Phillips DVDROM on April 2nd and still have no freezes as of April 22nd. Several fresh installs due to the fact that I could no longer boot the system except in safe mode. I also tried repairing old installs.

Microsoft Corp Hangs Vista Free

Only thing that helps is re-installing sp2 in safe mode and rebooting. If I install sp2 in normal mode I can also reboot successfully, but only once and then the problem re-occurs. I'm just now trying to download drivers for the nforce chipset directly from NVIDIA. Don't know if it will help but I'm going to try. The ASUS drivers haven't done anything useful to fix the problem.

I'm also randomly experiencing crashes in the nvidia 162 WHQL drivers when logging off.