dv4t freezes on network usage.

Alrighty, so I've got me a problem with my shiny new laptop.

For about a week, I've been getting complete system lockups under heavy network usage. For example, transferring files from my desktop computer to it, it'll lock up completely and I'll have to forcibly restart it with the power button.

I've removed the junk that it came with, and keep it updated through Windows Update, and I'm still confused as to what would make this happen.

Specs:
Vista Home Premium 64 bit
P8400 2.26 GHz processor
2 GB RAM
802.11 b/g, no Bluetooth
That's all the important stuff, I guess...I'm really lost as to why it's doing this. I haven't found any similar cases in all of my Googling, the only thing remotely close is that the calculated time of completion freezes. In my case, the whole system just refuses to do anything.

 

Actually, I seem to have fixed it. I manually installed the latest drivers for the Broadcom chip from the HP site, and I think it's gotten better. No crashes under transferring files.

 

When I was unzipping a 7gb file on my external harddrive my laptop locked up, but I let it sit there for about 20 minutes and all was fine. Since there's a lot of hard drive activity the GUI locks up.

 

You shouldn't be getting a hard lock because of file transfers on a vista machine. Will it be slower, sure but thats def. not normal behavior. Might want to look into your chipset drivers there

 

It was just that folder and the winrar window that locked, rest was fine and usable.

 

Ah, well thats more reasonable! Still not good...cant replicate it either maybe its a bug? I do know I hung explorer for a moment on folder that was having a rar file that was 8Gb with about 1000 zip files in it being extracted but it came back fairly quickly

 

Nevermind, mine's freezing again. It was fine for a couple transfers, but now it returns. It locks up in Firefox as well.