>>> I notice a few users on the forum are trying to pin the blame on 3rd-party >>> virus scanners. Thought I'd let you know that I am not running any virus >>> scanner (yeah, I'm an idiot). I am running the Windows Defender beta, but I >>> don't think that's the problem.
In add/remove programs under the NVIDIA Drivers I have the following options:
- Remove all NVIDIA drivers, including Display - Remove all NVIDIA drivers, except Display - Remove only the following * NVIDIA Display Driver * NVIDIA Ethernet Driver Components * NVIDIA IDE Driver * NVIDID nForce PCI System Management Driver
> >>> I notice a few users on the forum are trying to pin the blame on 3rd-party > >>> virus scanners. Thought I'd let you know that I am not running any virus > >>> scanner (yeah, I'm an idiot). I am running the Windows Defender beta, but I > >>> don't think that's the problem.
RobertFord wrote: > I have a gigabyte board as well.
> In add/remove programs under the NVIDIA Drivers I have the following options:
> - Remove all NVIDIA drivers, including Display > - Remove all NVIDIA drivers, except Display > - Remove only the following > * NVIDIA Display Driver > * NVIDIA Ethernet Driver Components > * NVIDIA IDE Driver > * NVIDID nForce PCI System Management Driver
> I'm not on a Raid setup either. Just one drive.
Yep - I see that. Doesn't really look like any of those have much to do with RAID.
In my Device Manager I see a "SCSI and RAID controllers" section, in which there is a "Silicon Image SiI SoftRaid 5 Controller" item. I clicked "Update Driver" in that guy's properties, and it installed a newer driver, but I'm still experiencing the Big Freeze(tm).
I'm glad to here that my PC is not the only one with this problem... I don't know about freezing, but... here goes.
I just bought a new Mesh PC about 3 days ago, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core, Windows XP Professional SP2, NVIDIA GeForce 6100.
After setting up the hardware, I installed Norton Antivirus and Norton Firewall... then AOL. I tried to install some Windows Updates. They downloaded fine, yet, even after three hours they wouldn't install... the progress bar didn't move a milimeter. I tried to shut down, and again they tried to install 11 updates, without any success after a long time. I was forced to reboot, and, on the advice of a £1.00 per minute Mesh helpline, went back to factory settings, and started the whole installation of Windows again, yet have again run into the same problem.
I have experienced no freezing, but it doesn't install any Update, nor can it install, for example, Java... again it just doesn't have any progress. And for some reason, clicking on "System" in the Control Panel takes literally 10 minutes before it actually appears on screen...
What is going on, or, how can this be fixed, or what should I do? I'm not bad at computers, but no expert either. Or is it a case of, sit tight, and wait for Microsoft to do something?
"mabster" wrote: > RobertFord wrote: > > I have a gigabyte board as well.
> > In add/remove programs under the NVIDIA Drivers I have the following options:
> > - Remove all NVIDIA drivers, including Display > > - Remove all NVIDIA drivers, except Display > > - Remove only the following > > * NVIDIA Display Driver > > * NVIDIA Ethernet Driver Components > > * NVIDIA IDE Driver > > * NVIDID nForce PCI System Management Driver
> > I'm not on a Raid setup either. Just one drive.
> Yep - I see that. Doesn't really look like any of those have much to do > with RAID.
> In my Device Manager I see a "SCSI and RAID controllers" section, in > which there is a "Silicon Image SiI SoftRaid 5 Controller" item. I > clicked "Update Driver" in that guy's properties, and it installed a > newer driver, but I'm still experiencing the Big Freeze(tm).
Hello all , another poor sucker with an AMD 64 3500 and nvidia 6600 vc , same symtoms as the rest of you running similar machines , just pray to god that microsoft can fix this as it is their F*** up that has effectively made my computer vulnerable to attack .Best I can say is that if anyone suffers a virus problem we should all club together and sue their asses .This is not acceptable from a company who makes such obscene profits as Microsoft .Good luck too all and hope anyone reading this reports in as we need numbers to make Microsoft sit up and take notice .
"Tolomus" wrote: > Hello all you fellow sufferers...
> I'm glad to here that my PC is not the only one with this problem... I don't > know about freezing, but... here goes.
> I just bought a new Mesh PC about 3 days ago, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core, > Windows XP Professional SP2, NVIDIA GeForce 6100.
> After setting up the hardware, I installed Norton Antivirus and Norton > Firewall... then AOL. I tried to install some Windows Updates. They > downloaded fine, yet, even after three hours they wouldn't install... the > progress bar didn't move a milimeter. I tried to shut down, and again they > tried to install 11 updates, without any success after a long time. I was > forced to reboot, and, on the advice of a £1.00 per minute Mesh helpline, > went back to factory settings, and started the whole installation of Windows > again, yet have again run into the same problem.
> I have experienced no freezing, but it doesn't install any Update, nor can > it install, for example, Java... again it just doesn't have any progress. And > for some reason, clicking on "System" in the Control Panel takes literally 10 > minutes before it actually appears on screen...
> What is going on, or, how can this be fixed, or what should I do? I'm not > bad at computers, but no expert either. Or is it a case of, sit tight, and > wait for Microsoft to do something?
> Thanks in advance for reading this...
> James.
> "mabster" wrote:
> > RobertFord wrote: > > > I have a gigabyte board as well.
> > > In add/remove programs under the NVIDIA Drivers I have the following options:
> > > - Remove all NVIDIA drivers, including Display > > > - Remove all NVIDIA drivers, except Display > > > - Remove only the following > > > * NVIDIA Display Driver > > > * NVIDIA Ethernet Driver Components > > > * NVIDIA IDE Driver > > > * NVIDID nForce PCI System Management Driver
> > > I'm not on a Raid setup either. Just one drive.
> > Yep - I see that. Doesn't really look like any of those have much to do > > with RAID.
> > In my Device Manager I see a "SCSI and RAID controllers" section, in > > which there is a "Silicon Image SiI SoftRaid 5 Controller" item. I > > clicked "Update Driver" in that guy's properties, and it installed a > > newer driver, but I'm still experiencing the Big Freeze(tm).
Well, you can add me to the list of sufferers too. I have genuine Windows XP Pro and have had the same trouble since the Genuine Advantage (bit of the opposite for us) tool update. I am running AMD XP 3500+ and have Nvidia NForce 4 M/B and Nvidia 6600GT grafix.
My Dell laptop (XP Home/Intel chippery) took the update fine and is OK.
"Joachim Horn" wrote: > RobertFord wrote: > > I am beginning to wonder if this will ever get fixed for us...
> <sigh>
> [....]
> > interest and can see my 6 month old £3600 worth of PC running for > > the remainder of its days without any further updates of my _paid in > > full_ MS products because MS put up an update which was clearly not > > ready for the public.
> Same here (11 months).
> > I wonder how many people out there have problems with this WGA > > update and wouldn't even know where to start as to fixing it, or > > even realise there was a problem. Must be thousands, my parents > > would be the classic example.
> Very frustrating, indeed.
> As long as MS is focussing to Digital Rights Management more that to > customer service, and as long as MS is paranoidly going to criminalize > their dedicated customers until there's proof to the contrary, we > perhaps cannot see a light at the end of the tunnel (unless it's the > train coming from the other direction). > MS must withdraw this strange "tool" which is nothing but a chain on > the honest user's feet. Write a new "tool" and try again, MS, but don't > leave us alone with this problem! > What will the next tool bring? Total lock of the machine right after > booting?
> Thanks again, Robert. We only can hope that more and more users world > wide are experiencing this freezing effect on thier clean (not "tuned") > machines. > Mad at Microsoft, > Joachim
Yup, looks like a common theme - I have a Gigabyte board with Nvidia Ultra 4 chipset - Gigabyte K8NF mobo. I will try and get rid of the NV4 raid driver too.
> >>> I notice a few users on the forum are trying to pin the blame on 3rd-party > >>> virus scanners. Thought I'd let you know that I am not running any virus > >>> scanner (yeah, I'm an idiot). I am running the Windows Defender beta, but I > >>> don't think that's the problem.
Martyn Atkins wrote: > Well, you can add me to the list of sufferers too. I have genuine > Windows XP Pro and have had the same trouble since the Genuine > Advantage (bit of the opposite for us) tool update. I am running AMD > XP 3500+ and have Nvidia NForce 4 M/B and Nvidia 6600GT grafix.
> My Dell laptop (XP Home/Intel chippery) took the update fine and is > OK.
> Hope MS can get this fixed soon.
> Regards, > Martyn
> "Joachim Horn" wrote:
>> RobertFord wrote: >>> I am beginning to wonder if this will ever get fixed for us...
>> <sigh>
>> [....]
>>> interest and can see my 6 month old £3600 worth of PC running for >>> the remainder of its days without any further updates of my _paid >>> in full_ MS products because MS put up an update which was clearly >>> not ready for the public.
>> Same here (11 months).
>>> I wonder how many people out there have problems with this WGA >>> update and wouldn't even know where to start as to fixing it, or >>> even realise there was a problem. Must be thousands, my parents >>> would be the classic example.
>> Very frustrating, indeed.
>> As long as MS is focussing to Digital Rights Management more that to >> customer service, and as long as MS is paranoidly going to >> criminalize their dedicated customers until there's proof to the >> contrary, we perhaps cannot see a light at the end of the tunnel >> (unless it's the train coming from the other direction). >> MS must withdraw this strange "tool" which is nothing but a chain on >> the honest user's feet. Write a new "tool" and try again, MS, but >> don't leave us alone with this problem! >> What will the next tool bring? Total lock of the machine right after >> booting?
>> Thanks again, Robert. We only can hope that more and more users >> world wide are experiencing this freezing effect on thier clean >> (not "tuned") machines. >> Mad at Microsoft, >> Joachim
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bikingviking 937 wrote: > Hello all , another poor sucker with an AMD 64 3500 and nvidia 6600 > vc , same symtoms as the rest of you running similar machines , just > pray to god that microsoft can fix this as it is their F*** up that > has effectively made my computer vulnerable to attack .Best I can > say is that if anyone suffers a virus problem we should all club > together and sue their asses .This is not acceptable from a company > who makes such obscene profits as Microsoft .Good luck too all and > hope anyone reading this reports in as we need numbers to make > Microsoft sit up and take notice .
> Rant ended thankyou
> "Tolomus" wrote:
>> Hello all you fellow sufferers...
>> I'm glad to here that my PC is not the only one with this >> problem... I don't know about freezing, but... here goes.
>> I just bought a new Mesh PC about 3 days ago, AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual >> Core, Windows XP Professional SP2, NVIDIA GeForce 6100.
>> After setting up the hardware, I installed Norton Antivirus and >> Norton Firewall... then AOL. I tried to install some Windows >> Updates. They downloaded fine, yet, even after three hours they >> wouldn't install... the progress bar didn't move a milimeter. I >> tried to shut down, and again they tried to install 11 updates, >> without any success after a long time. I was forced to reboot, and, >> on the advice of a £1.00 per minute Mesh helpline, went back to >> factory settings, and started the whole installation of Windows >> again, yet have again run into the same problem.
>> I have experienced no freezing, but it doesn't install any Update, >> nor can it install, for example, Java... again it just doesn't have >> any progress. And for some reason, clicking on "System" in the >> Control Panel takes literally 10 minutes before it actually appears >> on screen...
>> What is going on, or, how can this be fixed, or what should I do? >> I'm not bad at computers, but no expert either. Or is it a case of, >> sit tight, and wait for Microsoft to do something?
>> Thanks in advance for reading this...
>> James.
>> "mabster" wrote:
>>> RobertFord wrote: >>>> I have a gigabyte board as well.
>>>> In add/remove programs under the NVIDIA Drivers I have the >>>> following options:
>>>> - Remove all NVIDIA drivers, including Display >>>> - Remove all NVIDIA drivers, except Display >>>> - Remove only the following >>>> * NVIDIA Display Driver >>>> * NVIDIA Ethernet Driver Components >>>> * NVIDIA IDE Driver >>>> * NVIDID nForce PCI System Management Driver
>>>> I'm not on a Raid setup either. Just one drive.
>>> Yep - I see that. Doesn't really look like any of those have much >>> to do with RAID.
>>> In my Device Manager I see a "SCSI and RAID controllers" section, >>> in which there is a "Silicon Image SiI SoftRaid 5 Controller" >>> item. I clicked "Update Driver" in that guy's properties, and it >>> installed a newer driver, but I'm still experiencing the Big >>> Freeze(tm).
>>> Hmmmmm.
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