Last Updated on December 3, 2019 by Christopher G Mendla
Since getting this laptop with Vista Home Premium around January 08, I’ve had a number of crashes (surprise Surprise). This afternoon, the machine crashed and rebooted with an even log of
Error 4/22/2008 1:33:03 PM iaStor 9 None
Logging in after the reboot and doing a ‘check for solutions’ pointed to the IAStore driver from intel and pointed me to the Intel Site. So far, so good. The intel site suggested downloading and installing a driver patch of Intel(r)TurboMemory_All.exe . So far, so good. I downloaded and installed the 32 bit version. At the end of the install, it wanted to do a reboot. OK.
When I rebooted, the machine simply hung on startup. (The black screen with the useless little green bar going left to right). After about 20 minutes it became obvious that it wasn’t going to boot so I did the ‘hold the power button in and shut it down’ trick.
When the machine tried to boot again, it could not and went into the repair/system restore mode. My guess is that it undid the intel patch. I checked the event viewer and saw that there have been five previous crashes from IAStor averaging about one a month (Computer PMS??)
Fortunately the system restore got things running again and I didn’t lose anything especially a program I just installed a couple of days ago. I don’t have time to screw around with it right now so I’m going to leave well enough alone. Anyway, I’m not sure if the blame goes to Intel, Windows or just plain old dumb luck. Time to think about buying those XP machines before they stop selling XP in June..
Yes, I had the same problem on my HP notebook. I installed Intel(r)TurboMemory_All without any probs but the computer still locks up and I get the blue screen of death about 2 or 3 times a week. The help and advice is always the same its apparently worse when the computer boots up and a lot of drivers and startup programs are competing for memory. I found out if I delete a lot of the start up programs and refrain from starting up any new apps until the computer has fully booted up I can run happily with no crashes. This is very annoying however and not what I expected when I bought a new laptop with microsofts latest and greatest new operating system 🙁