Vista Not Responding Half The Time

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#1 comstrikeiscool
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I just did a fresh install of vista. I installed call of duty world at war and microsoft office. After I installed call of duty 2 I started having problems. Half the time nothing is responsive and the only way to make it respond is either Alt+Tab a couple times until it becomes unfroze or hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete and hit "Cancel." Does anyone know what's going on? My PC specs are Q9450, 9800GT, 4 GB Memory, 250GB Hard Drive.
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#2 teddyrob
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I just did a fresh install of vista. I installed call of duty world at war and microsoft office. After I installed call of duty 2 I started having problems. Half the time nothing is responsive and the only way to make it respond is either Alt+Tab a couple times until it becomes unfroze or hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete and hit "Cancel." Does anyone know what's going on? My PC specs are Q9450, 9800GT, 4 GB Memory, 250GB Hard Drive.comstrikeiscool

If you are fresh installing then I would reset everything back to stock levels in the bios just in case.

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#3 comstrikeiscool
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[QUOTE="comstrikeiscool"]I just did a fresh install of vista. I installed call of duty world at war and microsoft office. After I installed call of duty 2 I started having problems. Half the time nothing is responsive and the only way to make it respond is either Alt+Tab a couple times until it becomes unfroze or hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete and hit "Cancel." Does anyone know what's going on? My PC specs are Q9450, 9800GT, 4 GB Memory, 250GB Hard Drive.teddyrob

If you are fresh installing then I would reset everything back to stock levels in the bios just in case.

What do you mean reseting to stock levels?
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#4 -MuddaFudda-
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try shutting down. holding delete, load optimised defaults, save and quit, post back if this doesnt work
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#5 comstrikeiscool
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I tried it, but its still not working. Any other possible suggestions?
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#6 Fraustbite_0
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If I'm looking at this properly, everything was fine with your clean install after installing Call of Duty World at War and MS Office, but after installing Call of Duty 2, your system became unstable? Uninstall call of Duty 2 and see how your system performs then. If the problems go away, then the problem has something to do with Call of Duty 2. Perhaps there are conflicts between Call of Duty 2 and Call of Duty World at War due to the order in which you installed them (Call of Duty 2 being the older game and Call of Duty World at War being the new?) Start with removing Call of Duty 2 and then remove Call of Duty World at War. See how your system is then. THEN Re-install Call of Duty 2 (see how it runs), then World at War (test again). Let us know what happens.
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#7 comstrikeiscool
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Fraustbite_0, thanks for the suggetion. However, it still is messed up. When I restarted it said I changed hardware settings or something even though I didn't. Perhaps the call of duties just totally messed it up. Maybe I should install vista again?
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#8 Elite-Realist
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yes do that but that is vista. By any chance can you go back to xp?
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#9 comstrikeiscool
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yes do that but that is vista. By any chance can you go back to xp?Elite-Realist
Yes I can go back, but I know plenty of people who are perfectly fine with Vista.
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#10 rob1101
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[QUOTE="Elite-Realist"]yes do that but that is vista. By any chance can you go back to xp?comstrikeiscool
Yes I can go back, but I know plenty of people who are perfectly fine with Vista.

I bet you know more people who are perfectly fine with XP :P
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#11 LibertySaint
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go to your system properties... u know where u can see your vista index score. click performance. go to advance and then click event log, if u have any errors or critical events please post them by clicking copy details into text on the right hand side of the event log.
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my internet is so slow
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#17 gmaster456
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Not sure if anybody else mentioned this yet but do you have all of the latest drivers for everything?
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After much research I have found that the first word in the title of your post is your culprit.

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#21 Daytona_178
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Did you update Vista to the latest version?

Did you download the latest drivers from the motherboard manufactures website?

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#22 Rickylee
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Did you update Vista to the latest version?

Did you download the latest drivers from the motherboard manufactures website?

Daytona_178

Did you see it's a 2 year old post?

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#23 JimmyJumpy
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[QUOTE="Daytona_178"]

Did you update Vista to the latest version?

Did you download the latest drivers from the motherboard manufactures website?

Rickylee

Did you see it's a 2 year old post?

Yeah, right. The guy's probably committed by now. Or he has Windows 7 :)

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#24 Daytona_178
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[QUOTE="Daytona_178"]

Did you update Vista to the latest version?

Did you download the latest drivers from the motherboard manufactures website?

Rickylee

Did you see it's a 2 year old post?

eh, good point :(