Almost no response from windows 7..angry wife

that what i did on the Dell web site and the description of my components is what I put. Sounds like I need to power off and open it. One for tomorrow.

Just be sure not to touch the electronics without discharging any static electricity first by touching the case.

You may have done this hundreds of times for all I know but we can't assume that here.

Have installed Sea Tools for Windows as they are Seagate drives in the array.

Various tests say unavailable. Only ones I can run are Generic tests and both short and long are passed.

Just a quick one.......how much virtual memory is available?

right click computer , properties , advanced system settings ,advanced tab then under performance select settings then select advanced

under the change tab make sure its set to automatic

Looks like a clean install with just raid, chipset drivers, Windows and Kaspersky would have been faster. I do know that for my Studio 1558 laptop, there are several drivers that are listed under my service tag that are not to be installed. So that cannot be relied on. You can cross reference the Dell listed hardware with Everest or PC Wizard. There is a System Reliability Test included in Everest.

has the bonjour repair had any affect?

Win7 can be allergic to RAID. You might want to try reinstalling to a single HD to test the difference.

gregrocker said:

Win7 can be allergic to RAID. You might want to try reinstalling to a single HD to test the difference.

I have been running RAID0 on my desktop (Ultimate x86) since the 7 RC days and never had a problem. I suggest a clean install before breaking his RAID.

EDIT: If the OP has an extra HDD, could try using that after disconnecting the other drives, would accomplish the same thing.

As a bit of history I bought this pc for myself and ran it with the a same configuration and using pretty much identical software under Vista 32 bit. I upgraded (downgraded!) it to Win7 64 bit (format and clean install) and since then it has had problems. I dont believe my wife uses any software that i didn't use although does uses itunes.

I'm ok at following instructions, but my eyes glaze over a bit at the thought of reinstalling OS and changing hardware configuration!!! I was going to let it run without bonjour for a bit and see if that makes a diference before trying another step (otherwise we wont learn anything). Unfortunately my daughter just failed her exams so we are panicing looking for a new school so my wife won't be on her computer much at the moment.

I thnk the next step is a repair install as Greg suggested since what i have is the original Dell Vista 32 bit OS plus a Win7 64bit upgrade disc. I am asusming a complete install involves reinstalling Vista and then doing the upgrade again as the upgrade needs to find a genuine exisiting OS to upgrade.

Not sure if this is important. In checking the virtual memory as requested it says 4029Mb. However I notice that there is no paging file. i thikn i might have removed this when I defraged the drive so that I could partition it and forgot to turn it back on. Could this be a contributor to slow performance?