scott wrote:
>> The utterly weird thing is, it behaves perfectly under [several 
>> different variants of] Linux, but continues to randomly freeze when 
>> running under Windows. [I have reinstalled Windows several times now. 
>> Interestingly, it always seems to hang at the same places in the 
>> installation sequence.]
> 
> Sounds to me like it is one particular piece of hardware/driver 
> malfunctioning.

This is my feeling also. It used to work just fine, and now it doesn't, 
despite multiple reinstalls, which suggests a hardware issue. (But I 
have no idea which bit of hardware.)

I did think perhaps it was the audio - my sister mentioned the sound 
suddenly stopped working a while ago, and sure enough the machine locked 
shortly after I installed the audio drive.

...but then I reinstalled without the audio driver, and it still 
randomly hangs. *sigh*

> I would try booting Windows in safe mode and seeing if that is stable.

Ah, the joy of intermittent faults. Is it *really* gone? Or is it just 
not happening right now? :-/

> If so then I would reboot normally and disable all non-critical hardware 
> in device manager.  If it is still stable then selectively restart 
> hardware until it you find the culprit.  If you are really lucky a 
> driver update might fix it...

Well, currently I have installed Windows plus every update that Windows 
Update will give me. I haven't *seen* it crash since that time, but.....

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