ITunes causes Windows Vista 32 bit to hang

Whenever I have tried to do anything that involves video with iTunes, regardless of whether my new video iPod is connected, my machine grinds to a complete halt after several seconds.
It starts with iTunes not responding, then explorer stops responding to mouse actions, then all other applications stop responding and all I/O appears to cease (no hard drive activity, no keyboard input acknowledged, no response to a quick press of the power button, no network activity). I've not got a BSOD - maybe I've just given up waiting before one appears.
I have tried removing and reinstalling Quicktime and iTunes and the problem remains. I had manage to add a load of video podcasts to iTunes but now that means I can't open it at all because as soon as it starts/finishes downloading something it kills my machine.
Some help would be greatly appreciated.
Windows Vista P4 3Ghz, 2.5GB DDR2, Radeon X1950 PCI-E, 500GB SATA RAID0

Hmmmm. Unfortunately, most of the helpful documentation and discussion i've seen about the RAID issues has related to the Intel Matrix Storage Manager drivers, and most of the SATA documentation and discussions relates to PCs with nVidia video cards (and/or other nVidia componentry).
I had a quick check at ASUS, and it looks like it might be worth doublechecking to see if your BIOS is up to date. (Some of the BIOS updates they are listing there mention improved SATA compatibility and performance.) But I'm a bit uncomfortable about that advice, since there's a P5SD2-X and a P5SD2-X SE motherborad being listed there.
so it might be prudent to doublecheck your motherboard model prior to any attempted BIOS upgrades. This ASUSTek document may be of some assistance:
Where to find my model name?
Once you've established to your satisfaction what particular model you have, here's links to the two different model pages:
Model: P5SD2-X
Model: P5SD2-X SE
If you're at all uncertain as to how to proceed with this, please check in on the ASUSTek FAQs and forums for the relevant Motherboards. (There's links to the left of each of the model pages.) I don't have an ASUS motherboard myself, so they are going to be in a better position to give you focussed advice on the process.

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Hi,
I've been observing some strange phenomena on my Windows Vista which my wife recently correlated to running ITunes. I'm pretty sure she is right about ITunes being the cause.
When ITunes has been running for a while, the shortcut buttons at the bottom of the screen (one for each running application) end up being drawn shifted, such that the rightmost one appears UNDER the circular icon with the Window's logo flag (the "start" button), but the actual button is still in it's correct place. The result is is that when you click on a button, it activates an adjacent application!
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Mark Z.
Lets break this down step by step.
In your first question you say that when itunes is running for a while it shifts the buttons on the task bar. when this happens you have to unlock the task-bar and manually fix the task bar.
Right click the task bar and select unlock task bar
Fix the task bar
And then right click the task bar again and select lock the task bar.
If it helps you might need to close itunes to fix this problem.
(Note itunes 7.5 has a lot of problems in it hopefully the next itunes update will resolve this.)
Your next question states that when you try to up date quick time you get a message saying that the"Information received from the Quick Time server is invalid. Please try again later."
The best way to fix this is to download the installer files off of the apple website and install them.
Here is the link to the quicktime installer.
http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
Download and install the installer which is the updated version of quick time
(There is an option to download both itunes and quick time )
(Quick time version 7.3.1) (If you redownload itunes the version is 7.5)
Hope this helps,
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I'd like to have a closer look at that error message please.
Generate the error message again. While the error message box is open, hold down the Alt key and hit the PrtSc key. Paste the screenshot into an image file (using a program like Paint), and save the file.
Start a reply here and click the wee camera icon at the top of the reply window. Click "Choose file", browse to the image file, select the file and click "Open". Now click "Insert file" to insert the screenshot into the reply.

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That version is quite old now, though its fine if you don't have a device that requires a newer version for syncing or want to use the latest features. Should you want to bring things up to date howver, and have problems updating, then for general advice see Troubleshooting issues with iTunes for Windows updates.
The steps in the second box are a guide to removing everything related to iTunes and then rebuilding it which is often a good starting point unless the symptoms indicate a more specific approach. Review the other boxes and the list of support documents further down the page in case one of them applies.
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iTunes
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Bonjour
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This article describes device filter issues that can be caused by application conflicts:
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Head back into Windows Update and attempt to get updates again. If they still fail, this time with an 8000FFFF error code, try the following Microsoft document:
Windows Update error 8000FFFF
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Hi.
I just purchased an ipod nano and installed itunes on my PC (windows vista). It worked the first time but would crash 1/4 of the way through syncing my library to my ipod.
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Completely unimpressed...I have owned 10+ phones/mp3 players in the past and have never had an issue (hadn't been using itunes) with transferring files, etc.
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Check out the articles below to troubleshooting issues with iTunes not starting for you on your computer. You may have to uninstall iTunes and then reinstall.
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