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Hangs Glitches After I Buy?
Installed RC on XP machine (belongs to my son but built by me). It ran perfect. No runs, no glitches no errors.
[Specs are his in the hardware].
I’m the experimenter – loaded and am using Windows 7 x64. The laptop I own is running Win 7 (RC). I liked it so much I bought the 3 set Family pack before it disappeared. Then we downloaded a Upgrade Copy x64 Student price and purchased the back up media.
I really don’t know how much detail you need to help me determine what the heck is wrong with this thing!!!! Besides that it is possessed.
Originally his had a Samsung 80 gb hd and a Western Digital 60 gb. I loaded his copy of x64 and it ran fine for the couple of days I had it on. Moving his pictures and music sort of filled half of each drive and I got to thinking he deserved better to go with his brand new OS so I purchased a Western Digital 500gb SATAII drive, selected it for Boot leader, slaved the 80 gb Samsung to the dvd player for storage for lack of knowledge on how to image one drive to the next opted for a clean (upgrade) install.
I loaded it at my house, differing in the peripheral set ups – I use a KVM switch, etc. so when it hung up or glitched I figured it was my stuff affecting it. Win 7 didn’t like the old Soundblaster Audigy card, so I pulled it out and switched to onboard. It didn’t like the add on front USB / SD card reader so I got a compatable Win7 reader. Got it up and going, adding Antivir Avira, Spybot S&D and AdAware. Zonealarm flaked out so I left it to 7’s firewall. It still kept glitching so I stripped it down to bare walls, loaded the above and waited.
Seemed ok. Wouldn’t let me register it, probably because I loaded it so many times. Microsoft support walked me thru the adjustments to get it registered, I moved and filed his pics and music and school files from a (my) external drive where I put them for safe keeping, closed the case and took it to his home.
Originally it sported a ATI HD 2900. Well after I delivered the machine the glitches got worse and then the ‘video card has encountered and recovered from a serious blah blah blah.’ Hmm. More and more often it went black, recovered and gave the error. Then while searching for the newest drivers the internet hung up. So I packed it back up and took it home. Did research, found the card was incompatable, grabbed his old ATI x700PRO which was listed as compatable, shoved it in – everything fine for a few hours- hung again. Called Microsoft walked thru basic steps they asked for, seemed like it would be ok, hang up phone and within 3 minutes the computer hangs again. Cursor works, but everything else unresponsive. HD light on and seems to be searching for something. Reset, works for minutes or hours and hangs again. Ctl-Alt-Dlt does not work.
I’m thinking drivers. Give up. Reinstall for the nth time. Loaded only Microsoft Security Essentials So, no third party software, nothing but a clean install after writing 0’s to both drives. No errors showing on Hard Drive test, extended or brief. Still hangs. Call Microsoft. 4 hours. The machine is taken over while I watch and he reviews errors (since the BSOD does not happen- computer just hangs-) nothing shows in the errors (mouse still works).
The whole time he is doing all kinds of stuff – booting – rebooting- hard shut down, resets- checking msconfig- (says, well I see you don’t have third party software on here…) Loads drivers for video card, downloads Microsoft essentials – installs it…..THE DANG THING DOESN’T EVEN FLINCH!!! So he says I marking this case closed. And we hang up.
I shut off. Came back maybe 30 minutes later, turned it on, messed around put gadgets up, put background on – went to check mail, got in and out. Looked at some stuff (trying to keep it busy). Closed and opened IE several times. Hung again on IE.
Thought it might be network card (built in) because I noticed after the update from microsoft for the onboard LAN downloads speeds went waaaay down. From 1mps to 34kbs. Ouch. Disabled in bios – shoved in another one in a PCI slot. Win7 recognizes, loads and here we go again. Played solitaire ( nothing else running) for several hours off and on. It went to sleep, it waked up with keyboard. Opened IE and withing a couple of minutes –hung- HD light on, solid. A blip every so often no pattern, no noise.
Microsoft Phone guy said it might be the HD even new. So I pack it up, take it back swap it out, buy a cheapish n9500GT pcie graphics card (poor old x700pro was struggling with lines and colors).
One more time. Strip it all out. New HD. New cheap compatible video card. Wipe the drives. Clean install. Play cards while downloading Security Essentials. Fine and dandy. Fine for a little while. Read forums just in case. Then IE open = computer hang.
Following forums advice:
1.disable IPhelper.
2. Un-enable IVP6 – few glitches- few restarts.
Couldn’t find NVSVR or NVSTORE32. Seemed fine. Surfed the net. Read some mail. Played cards open and closed folders.
3.Edited the EnableActiveProbing to 0. Loaded Flawless Flash Video per instructions.
4. Turned the ‘allow comp to turn off to save power’ on the net adapter to off.
Worked fine for a day. At least it wasn’t every time I used IE. Now it hang on just about everything except Solitaire.
I found a error in the error file of {-hash of a file is not valid \device\cdrom0\64bit\Asushwio.sys}
I assumed it was the master dvd/cd not valid with 64 bit drivers and rerouted cables to the HP DVD drive and the HD 80gb and eliminated the extra drive (it was just to fill a hole). Nothing
Still Hangs. Except on Solitaire.
I will probably call Microsoft again, but I am hoping someone will take a look at this long post- spot the obvious and tell me what to do.
Why did the RC run so smoothly? Could it be it was because it was 32bit?. Will these hangs go away if I load the 32 bit version?
Thank you, very much.
Amosbiz
Last edited by AmosBiz; 02 Feb 2010 at 19:51.
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