System freeze since SP1 update

[Franz Schenk]

Have updated my Dell Vostro 1700 with Vista SP1. Since then, the computer
sometimes freezes completely. The mouse pointer disappears, <ctrl alt del>
has no effect. Have waited onetime for two hours, the system is still
freezed. Have then to press for 8 seconds the power button, and the system
restarts. This happened 4 times since the SP1 installation

There is absolutely nothing logged appart the dirty shutdown event message.
Had never this problem before the SP1 upgrade 10 days ago, so it's most
probably not HW related.

Any advice? Thank you in advance for any help!
Franz

[Malke]

Uninstall SP1. Wait until it is officially out and then go to Dell's website
for your Vostro 1700 before you install the SP. See if there are any
patches that need to be applied first. For instance with XP SP2, there were
about 8 patches that need to be installed on HPs before the SP.

You might also want to post about the issue here:
Vista SP1 Issues - Support via Technet (for betas) -
http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/...1992&SiteID=17

[Franz Schenk]

Thank you for your feedback. Didn't know that the MSDN Version of Vista SP1
is not "officially", it was clearly declared as a final version!

In this case, I will reinstall Windows XP, still have a backup on the
fileserver. Will probably be faster that removing Vista SP1, and I know that
I can do my work with XP (have already lost so much time with Vista...)

[kevpan815]

The MSDN And Technet Copies Of Vista With Service Pack One Is The Final
Release Version, However It Is Mainly 4 Developer's, And IT Professionals,
And Is 4 Evaluation Use Only, Just FYI.

[dennis@home]

It is.. it is there for people that need to test it works on their system
before they use it on a system they /need/.
As you can see it causes problems on some machines where it interacts with
the drivers in a bad way.
Now you have done the test and found it to fail you need to wait until Dell
fix the drivers before you can install it.

Personally I wouldn't have put Vista on an XP machine I was using for work.
I would buy a new machine with Vista on but I can't see any compelling
reason to upgrade an existing machine that works. The same goes for any OS
and machine combination IMO.
The old "if it works, don't fix it" applies to computers as much as anything
else.

[hobo125]

Hi umm I'm pretty good with computer's so i would recommend to make a separate partition on you're hard drive install Xp or vista?? when that's done open your hard-drive in my computer and get Ur stuff out....

[Nil]

But you're not good enough with them to realize you're responding to a
27-month old message, without quoting the original so nobody has a clue
what you're talking about, and in the end you don't make sense anyway.