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7 Lockups, just like Vista, but a discovery
One of my main systems runs an ECS RS400A motherboard, a 3ghz P4, 2gb memory, not a screamer by any stretch, and it uses the non-mainstream ATI Radeon Xpress 200 chipset. It runs like a rock under XP or *nix, but ever since the first Vista betas, it has locked up after the Vista boot for only a few minutes, no matter what video driver it was running. So I decided I didn't have time to fool with Vista and kept the box on XP where it has happily run for years.
Now I'm trying 7, and find a related issue. Under Firefox (same conditions as above), while browsing webpages, 7 will lock up after some random period of time. Today, after the last lockup, rather than just push the button again, I decided to leave the machine on and go to my appointment. Upon returning several hours later, I found the machine alive and responsive, and running fairly well; in fact this message is created under that same boot. So it seems whatever this lockup is will eventually clear itself if you have that kind of time. I'm unsure how much time it takes at this point, but no doubt, it appears that it's not fatally hosed, just temporarily waylaid for some unknown period of time.
Any clues out there?