Re: Strange Vista Bug Continues...

Forgot the extra info-

Ive had a strange problem happen twice now. Ive installed Vista on many
PC's, but the last two i have done have caused problems. They are new
builds with fresh harddrives (SATA). Everything is going fine and Vista
installs without problems. When i deliver the pc's to my clients i pop
their old HDD and put it either in an external HDD caddy or on an IDE cable.
I try and copy some files across (documents / photos) from then on i have
problems. The PC's lock up when trying to access programs etc. Vista takes
ages too boot up etc.



"Adrian Brown" <adrian@apbcomputerservices.co.uk> wrote in message news:...
> Ok, following on from the bug i had (ive pasted the details below again)
> Ive scanned the drive with the maxtor/seagate tools and no problems. It
> seems to be something to do with the harddrive as if is start a checkdisk
> it almost instantly causes problems, you can move the mouse but nothign
> responds. If you try and go into ctrl-alt-delete you get a message saying
> a 'logon process has failed to create the security options dialog'. It
> seemed to start when i put an old harddrive onto the system to copy data
> across, until this point everything was fine.
>
> Any other suggestions would be great

This also moves onto unable to update windows, copy files off the computer
as almost any prolonged harddrive acces causes the pc to enter a state where
the mouse moves but the ystsem is basically unresponsive

"Adrian Brown" <adrian@apbcomputerservices.co.uk> wrote in message
news:eo1%23LxkfIHA.4436@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Forgot the extra info-
>
> Ive had a strange problem happen twice now. Ive installed Vista on many
> PC's, but the last two i have done have caused problems. They are new
> builds with fresh harddrives (SATA). Everything is going fine and Vista
> installs without problems. When i deliver the pc's to my clients i pop
> their old HDD and put it either in an external HDD caddy or on an IDE
> cable.
> I try and copy some files across (documents / photos) from then on i have
> problems. The PC's lock up when trying to access programs etc. Vista
> takes
> ages too boot up etc.
>
>
>
> "Adrian Brown" <adrian@apbcomputerservices.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:...
>> Ok, following on from the bug i had (ive pasted the details below again)
>> Ive scanned the drive with the maxtor/seagate tools and no problems. It
>> seems to be something to do with the harddrive as if is start a checkdisk
>> it almost instantly causes problems, you can move the mouse but nothign
>> responds. If you try and go into ctrl-alt-delete you get a message
>> saying a 'logon process has failed to create the security options
>> dialog'. It seemed to start when i put an old harddrive onto the system
>> to copy data across, until this point everything was fine.
>>
>> Any other suggestions would be great
>

Have you set the secondary HDs to be slave drives?
--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"Adrian Brown" wrote:

> Forgot the extra info-
>
> Ive had a strange problem happen twice now. Ive installed Vista on many
> PC's, but the last two i have done have caused problems. They are new
> builds with fresh harddrives (SATA). Everything is going fine and Vista
> installs without problems. When i deliver the pc's to my clients i pop
> their old HDD and put it either in an external HDD caddy or on an IDE cable.
> I try and copy some files across (documents / photos) from then on i have
> problems. The PC's lock up when trying to access programs etc. Vista takes
> ages too boot up etc.
>
>
>
> "Adrian Brown" <adrian@apbcomputerservices.co.uk> wrote in message news:...
> > Ok, following on from the bug i had (ive pasted the details below again)
> > Ive scanned the drive with the maxtor/seagate tools and no problems. It
> > seems to be something to do with the harddrive as if is start a checkdisk
> > it almost instantly causes problems, you can move the mouse but nothign
> > responds. If you try and go into ctrl-alt-delete you get a message saying
> > a 'logon process has failed to create the security options dialog'. It
> > seemed to start when i put an old harddrive onto the system to copy data
> > across, until this point everything was fine.
> >
> > Any other suggestions would be great
>
>

Yes, There is a possiblity it was due to the harddrives being in SATA 1
mode on a SATA 2 board, this shouldnt have caused a problem , but i couldnt
test it fully, in the end i replaced the drives.

Adrian

"Mick Murphy" <MickMurphy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C7107041-BE77-4651-9F80-6511A7893C7F@microsoft.com...
> Have you set the secondary HDs to be slave drives?
> --
> Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia
>
>
> "Adrian Brown" wrote:
>
>> Forgot the extra info-
>>
>> Ive had a strange problem happen twice now. Ive installed Vista on many
>> PC's, but the last two i have done have caused problems. They are new
>> builds with fresh harddrives (SATA). Everything is going fine and Vista
>> installs without problems. When i deliver the pc's to my clients i pop
>> their old HDD and put it either in an external HDD caddy or on an IDE
>> cable.
>> I try and copy some files across (documents / photos) from then on i have
>> problems. The PC's lock up when trying to access programs etc. Vista
>> takes
>> ages too boot up etc.
>>
>>
>>
>> "Adrian Brown" <adrian@apbcomputerservices.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:...
>> > Ok, following on from the bug i had (ive pasted the details below
>> > again)
>> > Ive scanned the drive with the maxtor/seagate tools and no problems.
>> > It
>> > seems to be something to do with the harddrive as if is start a
>> > checkdisk
>> > it almost instantly causes problems, you can move the mouse but nothign
>> > responds. If you try and go into ctrl-alt-delete you get a message
>> > saying
>> > a 'logon process has failed to create the security options dialog'. It
>> > seemed to start when i put an old harddrive onto the system to copy
>> > data
>> > across, until this point everything was fine.
>> >
>> > Any other suggestions would be great
>>
>>