FX405 Screen Freeze

[abc4712]

I. After upgrading to WINXP SP1 I experience random screen freezes, mostly when moving the mouse, but often even doing nothing for some minutes. Sometimes I have to restart the PC 4 or 5 times a day.

This problem seemed to have gone after updating to SP2 first prerelease, but came back after some updates. Anyone else had same experience/solution?

II. I tried to downlod the hotfixes from the Sony download center. When I want to install them, I get a message (translated from German) "Sorry, you are not allowed to open this SW-package."
What's wrong?

- Wilfried

[kee-lo_]

Sounds to me like you need to reinstall the Sony shared libraries.

Not sure why your screen is freezing. Hopefuly there's a graphics update?

[abc4712]

Don't believe it's a bad graphic driver, but I will wait about 2 weeks, than completely reinstall the machine, test it and than upgrade to SP2 and see what's happing. I'm afraid this will not help. Some time ago I did a complete reinstall without SP1. This workd fine. Than I installed all available patches one after the other. Just when I found one module where the PC began to behave badly SP2 RC1 came out - and I forget what module it was. So I believe, there is an incompatibility bewtween the MS patches and my box or my installed SW. Just wondering if anybody else experienced the same.

- Wilfried

[kee-lo_]

Yep, apparently some hotfixes disagree with the VAIO