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I recently upgraded my ASUS Laptop (ASUS G2S), with 4GB of ram and a new WD 320GB 7200rpm hard drive. I also went from Vista x86 Ultimate to Vista x64 Ultimate (because ram and x86 OS's) This is my development laptop, that I run Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and SQL Server 2008 Developer SP1 (x64 bit version).

Visual Studio will randomly just lock/deletes project files, and it ask where to save the file again. Browsing through explorer the file disappears. (it happens 4-8 times a day). The only way to fix is top create a new file with the same name and copy and paste from visual studio.

SQL server will just lock when running queries out of the blue. (Query Hits The Server Profiler But Nothing Returns. Restarting the SQL Server Service is not a fix.)

The only fix is to give the laptop a restart

SATA controller is a Intel ICH8M ver. 8.7.0.1007.

I did see visual studio doing something similar with Vista x86.

Would this sort of thing be caused by a driver problem?

Possibly Could Be Source Control Software As Well

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Are you using any source control like subversion? - either on the machine or on another box? – UndertheFold May 12 '09 at 15:31
Yes I am using Subversion, Code and Database SQL Scripts Are Stored Under Version Control On My Development Server. I am using TortioiseSVN v1.6.1 On The Laptop. – Elijah Glover May 13 '09 at 2:06
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Sounds like source control is doing funky stuff :( – Pure.Krome May 13 '09 at 5:38
Database Is Not In Source Control And Is Locking, For A Period Of Min... – Elijah Glover May 13 '09 at 9:01
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I don't know much about the software you're using, but from a computer repair guy perspective, when random files start to poof we look at bad RAM and bad hard drives as a possibility. Do you experience any freezing or file loss in any other situation? Any crashing or other bad behavior? If so,

  • Have you run a full chkdsk /r on the drive?
  • Have you run memtest 86 on your new RAM?

    If not, and it's just that program, then it's probably not related to anything I'm talking about =)

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    I am going to attempt to do a memory test. No freezing. – Elijah Glover May 13 '09 at 9:04
    did you come up with any resolution on this one? – Happy Hamster May 15 '09 at 14:40
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    I agree that it sounds like a ram/hdd issue, but I'd head to the event logs first, to see if an error there narrows things down very quickly.

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