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uTorrent Drops Connectivity On My New Vista PC After A Few Minutes


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I recently purchased a brand new HP S3120n media center PC which came pre-loaded with Windows Vista Home Premium. So far, I've installed uTorrent v1.7.2 on the system and noticed a major problem. If I start downloading a new torrent, the "Disk Overloaded" error appears after a few minutes (which is normal as the FAQ explains) but Vista then loses all network connectivity and the only way to get things working again is to restart the system.

I'm certain that this is not a problem with my Linksys WRT54GX4 router since I have several other PCs which all use Windows XP Pro SP2 and none of them ever experience this behavior. I don't think it's a problem with this PC's wireless card since using other software that downloads at maximum speeds (such as NewsLeecher) works fine as expected.

I've tried 2 things so far to see if I can get around this problem:

* I installed the Vista TCP/IP patch which is available here. It didn't solve the problem.

* I went in to uTorrent's advanced settings and set the net.max_halfopen value to 4. It didn't solve the problem either.

Is there any way that I can resolve this problem? Installing Windows XP isn't an option since the manufacturer doesn't supply drivers for that OS seeing as this is a newer hardware model.

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Here's a screen capture of uTorrent once it overloads (shortly after being opened). You can see here that the network connectivity icon in the system tray displays an exclamation mark. The names of the torrents have been intentionally blanked out for privacy reasons.

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Here are screen captures of the Windows Task Manager processes tab and there are two of these images since not all of the information fits in the first shot.

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If there's any further information that you might need, let me know.

EDIT: I just realized that the task manager was probably not what you were referring to in your request, so here's a copy of the contents from the Process Explorer summary right after this problem occurs:

Process    PID    CPU    Description    Company Name
System Idle Process 0 91.41
Interrupts n/a Hardware Interrupts
DPCs n/a 0.76 Deferred Procedure Calls
System 4
smss.exe 404 Windows Session Manager Microsoft Corporation
csrss.exe 528 Client Server Runtime Process Microsoft Corporation
wininit.exe 576 Windows Start-Up Application Microsoft Corporation
services.exe 620 Services and Controller app Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 772 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
ehmsas.exe 3216 Media Center Media Status Aggregator Service Microsoft Corporation
unsecapp.exe 3752 Sink to receive asynchronous callbacks for WMI client application Microsoft Corporation
WmiPrvSE.exe 3820 WMI Provider Host Microsoft Corporation
dllhost.exe 3056 COM Surrogate Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 832 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 884 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 928 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
audiodg.exe 1108 Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 1004 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
WUDFHost.exe 2132 Windows Driver Foundation - User-mode Driver Framework Host Process Microsoft Corporation
dwm.exe 2356 3.81 Desktop Window Manager Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 1036 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
taskeng.exe 2232 Task Scheduler Engine Microsoft Corporation
taskeng.exe 2676 Task Scheduler Engine Microsoft Corporation
SLsvc.exe 1144 Microsoft Software Licensing Service Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 1188 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 1292 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
spoolsv.exe 1480 Spooler SubSystem App Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 1504 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
LSSrvc.exe 1832 Hewlett-Packard Company
nod32krn.exe 244 NOD32 Kernel Service Eset
svchost.exe 332 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 416 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
svchost.exe 500 Host Process for Windows Services Microsoft Corporation
SearchIndexer.exe 516 Microsoft Windows Search Indexer Microsoft Corporation
lsass.exe 632 Local Security Authority Process Microsoft Corporation
lsm.exe 640 Local Session Manager Service Microsoft Corporation
csrss.exe 588 Client Server Runtime Process Microsoft Corporation
winlogon.exe 960 Windows Logon Application Microsoft Corporation
explorer.exe 2456 Windows Explorer Microsoft Corporation
MSASCui.exe 2888 Windows Defender User Interface Microsoft Corporation
hpsysdrv.exe 2900 hpsysdrv Hewlett-Packard Company
OSD.exe 3032 OsdMaestro main program OsdMaestro
RtHDVCpl.exe 3096 HD Audio Control Panel Realtek Semiconductor
SnapfishMediaDetector.exe 3108 Snapfish Media Detector
nod32kui.exe 3116 NOD32 Control Center GUI Eset
sidebar.exe 3124 Windows Sidebar Microsoft Corporation
ehtray.exe 3144 Media Center Tray Applet Microsoft Corporation
explorer.exe 1356 Windows Explorer Microsoft Corporation
procexp.exe 624 3.05 Sysinternals Process Explorer Sysinternals
utorrent.exe 2412 1.52
iexplore.exe 3060 Internet Explorer Microsoft Corporation
rundll32.exe 3132 Windows host process (Rundll32) Microsoft Corporation
kbd.exe 2824 KBD EXE Hewlett-Packard Company

There might be some extra junk in there since I've only had the system for about a day and haven't gotten around to uninstalling all the pre-loaded software that I don't need.

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