I have been having major problems with Vista for the past 10 days. It seemed
to start after 2 updates on May 13th and I spent several hours on the phone
with Microsoft on May 18th and things seemed better - the remaining problem
is that the system locks up after a period of inactivity - usually and hour
or two. It has also locked with a backup program running and thus fails to
complete the backup.

Each of the following errors seem to re-appear in the event log each time
the system locks -

Event ID 45 - volmgr – the system could not load the crash dump driver

Event ID 7000 – Service Control Manager Event Log Provider - The Parallel
port driver service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it
has no enabled devices associated with it.

Event ID 6008 - Event Log System - The previous system shutdown at 9:41:14
AM on 5/22/2008 was unexpected.

I have to shut down using the power button and restart.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Kathie Meier

Check your "Hibernate" "Sleep" etc parameters.



BRRNESE wrote:
I have been having major problems with Vista for the past 10 days. It seemed
to start after 2 updates on May 13th and I spent several hours on the phone
with Microsoft on May 18th and things seemed better - the remaining problem
is that the system locks up after a period of inactivity - usually and hour
or two. It has also locked with a backup program running and thus fails to
complete the backup.

Each of the following errors seem to re-appear in the event log each time
the system locks -

Event ID 45 - volmgr – the system could not load the crash dump driver

Event ID 7000 – Service Control Manager Event Log Provider - The Parallel
port driver service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it
has no enabled devices associated with it.

Event ID 6008 - Event Log System - The previous system shutdown at 9:41:14
AM on 5/22/2008 was unexpected.

I have to shut down using the power button and restart.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Kathie Meier

I had previously checked my power/sleep/hibernate settings and the computer
is set to maximum performance, no sleep, no hibernate

"propman" wrote:

Check your "Hibernate" "Sleep" etc parameters.



BRRNESE wrote:
I have been having major problems with Vista for the past 10 days. It seemed
to start after 2 updates on May 13th and I spent several hours on the phone
with Microsoft on May 18th and things seemed better - the remaining problem
is that the system locks up after a period of inactivity - usually and hour
or two. It has also locked with a backup program running and thus fails to
complete the backup.

Each of the following errors seem to re-appear in the event log each time
the system locks -

Event ID 45 - volmgr – the system could not load the crash dump driver

Event ID 7000 – Service Control Manager Event Log Provider - The Parallel
port driver service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it
has no enabled devices associated with it.

Event ID 6008 - Event Log System - The previous system shutdown at 9:41:14
AM on 5/22/2008 was unexpected.

I have to shut down using the power button and restart.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Kathie Meier

Can't offer any constructive help at this stage, but you are not alone.
I am having the same problem (I have a new PC and for 6 weeks it
performed faultlessly then the random locking up started on 23rd May). I
have checked temperatures and memory and it doesn't look like it is a
hardware issue. It always seems to happen when the machine is inactive,
but the period can be anything between a couple of hours and a couple of
days. Apart from WIndows updates, the only change to the machine around
the time it started was that I swapped my Belkin WiFi card for a Netgear
one. I will probably try changing it back next week and see if it makes
any difference.

Good luck.


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chrisevans

I posted a subsequent message but I don't think it was in this thread. From
many reports it appeared the random freezing could be hardware related - but
everything was clean on diagnostics so I began with replacing the hard drive
since I would benefit from a bigger one anyway - I cloned the original drive
using acronis software realizing that if it was a Vista problem I might still
have the issue - however - since installing the new drive around May 20th all
has been well - so I can only assume that the hard drive was in fact the
source of the problem...

Kathie

"chrisevans" wrote:


Can't offer any constructive help at this stage, but you are not alone.
I am having the same problem (I have a new PC and for 6 weeks it
performed faultlessly then the random locking up started on 23rd May). I
have checked temperatures and memory and it doesn't look like it is a
hardware issue. It always seems to happen when the machine is inactive,
but the period can be anything between a couple of hours and a couple of
days. Apart from WIndows updates, the only change to the machine around
the time it started was that I swapped my Belkin WiFi card for a Netgear
one. I will probably try changing it back next week and see if it makes
any difference.

Good luck.


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chrisevans

Thanks for the update, Kathie. Hope it all continues to perform OK.


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chrisevans