ASUS Striker II Extreme

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Hey Slim read this..My system just got buggered up with the nforce drivers not installing correctly, could'nt get network going with teaming..Vista said drivers failed ect. Get this..I uninstall just the nforce 9.64 package(not video drivers) and install the new nforce 15.17...network and teaming starts working again. Great I'm thinking then..bam screen freezes while looking at a web page in IE7. I figured ah just a bug reboot(my system has never frozen before..bsod yes crash yes but never frozen screen). Reboot, 10mins later bam frozen again..WTF I tried uninstalling 15.17 and putting 9.64 back and the damn thing would not install correctly. I've just restored from a full system back-up from a few days ago...all is well again no freezes. Could it be a bad driver install for you?

At the moment, on 15.17, when im installing something, or even listening to music and browsing the web, process by process starts not responding. Eventually everything will stop responding (Takes about 5 minutes (and its just done it about 3 times as im typing this) then everything just goes back to normal, it starts responding again. This never happened on the 9.64 drivers or pre 177.xx drivers (i installed 15.17 with the 177.xx drivers so its hard to trouble shoot, silly me). So at the moment im assuming its the 15.17 drivers that are mucking with the HDDs (because i seem to get this non responding crap when the HDD is being accessed, ie downloading, sound or installation. Strangely enough, it doesnt happen in games. Go figure.

So im going to install 9.64 drivers and see if i lock up in games/desktop. Im pretty sure 9.64 makes me lock up in games but. I think i tried it before i reinstalled vista. (For the record this is a clean vista install. It has only had 15.17 and 177.39 drivers on it).

Does anyone have any suggestions as to the problem or solution? Does anyone have/have had this problem?

Edit: Installed SMU from the 9.64 only (Im assuming SMU = System management unit? Therefore it is whats causing the processes screwing up? and SMbus = System management bus? ie thats whats making my SLI not freeze. So according to my thinking SMU from 9.64 + SMbus from 15.17 should equal win. Please tell me if theres something wrong with that line of thinking).