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[JoshW02@hotmail.co.uk]

What about doing one of them system health reports I think its in tools somewhere "near" event viewer also.

[Wainui]

Snuffy,

I disabled Gadgets long time ago. I have another program called TClock2 which sits in the bottom right of the screen. I did disable that and it had no effect. I also disabled a few other programs that I use.
I will disable Media Center now. Thanks for the tip.

The Pic I took of Currently Running Programs in Windows Defender is too large
to post here. But here is what I have running :

Ms. Desktop Windows Manager: 1500
Ms. Internet Explorer: 3768
Ms. Media Center Media Status Aggregator Service: 412
Ms. Media Center Tray Applet: 1700
Ms. Sink to receive asynchronous callbacks from WMI client application:2740
Ms. Task Scheduler Engine: 1568
Ms. Windows Explorer: 1588
Windows Defender: 2792
Windows Internet Explorer: 3796

Avira Workstation: 1676
McAfee Site Advisor:1684 (for IE7 only)
DC Loading: 1692 (Desktop Calendar)
TClock2: 1716 (Clock Program)
Adobe Flash Player Helper: 2812

[JoshW02@hotmail.co.uk]

Welcome sorry but I can't help, im sure some1 can!

[felix8406]

I thin you should remove one of these two, Avira Workstation or McAfee Site Advisor. It's not advisable to run two anti-virus programs in a PC. I don't know is that the issue though.

[Wainui]

Felix,

I did try that. I uninstalled McAfee Site Advisor but that made no difference.
There is something else that happens every so often, I have a PCI Sound card because the onboard sound card in not compatible with Vista and every so often (about once in every 4 ro 5 Startups) I get a little message saying "Installing Device Driver Software" - SB Audigy which is my sound card. While this is happening everything is frozen.

[felix8406]

Maybe you can try disabling or removing the sound card. I wonder, why is your built-in sound card not compatible? Did you installed Vista or did come with the PC?

[Wainui]

Felix,

I tried all that. No good. I bought the Asus Mobo and installed Windows XP. Everything worked fine, no problems and onboard sound worked OK. I then ran the Vista "Upgrade Advisor" software to check if I could install Windows Vista. The program said Yup all OK. However, after installing Windows Vista Home Premium (Upgrade) I noticed there was no sound coming out of the speakers. Device Manager said "This device is working properly"

I then downloaded Realtek's latest Vista drivers for the Sound chip (ALC660).
The onboard sound worked every now and when it didn't work I noticed Device Manager had loaded the Windows XP drivers for the sound card.
I got intouch with Azus and they told me that my Mobo (K8V-VM) is "Not Vista ready" and they will no not be making anymore BIOS updates.

So, I disabled the onboard sound in the BIOS and installed a SB Audigy PCI Sound card.

[Snuffy]

There is something else that happens every so often, I have a PCI Sound card because the onboard sound card in not compatible with Vista and every so often (about once in every 4 ro 5 Startups) I get a little message saying "Installing Device Driver Software" - SB Audigy which is my sound card. While this is happening everything is frozen.

So, I disabled the onboard sound in the BIOS and installed a SB Audigy PCI Sound card.

There should be a SWITCH on the MOBO to disable the onboard sound.
Realtek AL660 Sound is Vista Compatible...in fact the Vista Ac97 Default (WDDM) drivers are AL660... ASUS might not have the correct drivers but MS has... i recommend 1. remove the addin card. 2. delete all sound in reference to control panel -> sound. (so that NO SOUND is shown. reboot and let Vista find/install the (WDDM) Drivers.

Realtek Semiconductor Corp. High Definition Audio System Software Ver:R1.67
Driver Package R1.67
Realtek HD Audio Driver support all of Realtek HD Audio Codec in Vista/WinXP/Win2000/Win2003 .
1. Vista WHQL Supporting: ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC260, ALC262, ALC268
2. Windows 2000/XP WHQL Supporting: ALC880, ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC861VC, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC260, ALC262, ALC267,ALC268
3. HDMI Device WHQL Support: ATI HDMI Devices
4. OS Supporting: Microsoft WindowsXP, Widnows2000, Vista x86/x64

Also the McAfee should be uninstalled as noted in earlier posts..
I also would disable

DC Loading: 1692 (Desktop Calendar)
TClock2: 1716 (Clock Program) (TClock2 v1.20 32-bit for Windows 9x/NT4/2000/ME/2000/XP/2003 displays the - nothing about Vista Compatible) and is more that a Clock Program- which can be problems in Vista.)
Adobe Flash Player Helper: 2812

one problem at a time is the easy way to solve..

BIOS version for your MOBO. Which one do you have installed?
if it is not v 0803. I recommend you get and install.

Developer: Asus
OS: Win All
Size: 485 KB
Download time: 56K: 1m 9s 64K: 1m <1 s 128K: 30s 768K: 5s
Last Updated: January 19th, 2007 06:27
Category: C: \ BIOS \ Asus

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/BIO...IOS-0803.shtml

Avira Workstation I hope is Version 7.

[obiwakka]

Try increasing the power to full or max, that worked for me.

[Wainui]

Snuffy,

The BIOS I have is version 0902

I have tried Realtek HD Audio Driver version 1.67 right through to version 1.76
The problem I was having is that those drivers would only work once. When I shutdown the computer and restart Windows would load an old HD Audio driver dated 12 June 2006. I have not tried selecting "No Sound" in the Control Panel it was always Ms.Default Sound. I will give it a try.

Will also try your other tips and get back to you.

Thank for your help.