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[Solved]Ok, I thought I was pretty good but...HELP!!!
Ok, so here's the story and then I'll answer the requisite questions. I've been a geek for 15+ years and know my way around Windows fairly well although I've been a Solaris Sysadmin for most of my professional career. I bought a Gateway DX4710 last year to replace an old E-Machine as a disposable gaming machine (Yes, I put a good video card in it :) ) I was running Windows 7 Ultimate RC 7100 for quite a while with no issues at all and decided to go legit and bought the upgrade. Here's where I'm at:
With AHCI enabled I restored to Vista and upgraded - IaStor.sys BSODs
Without AHCI I restored to Vista and upgraded - Processes hang under load
Without AHCI clean install from upgrade media - Processes hang under load
With AHCI clean install from upgrade and force install chipset drivers and Intel Matrix Storage crap - Whole system hangs within minutes of boot
With AHCI clean install from upgrade - Haven't done anything with it but install updates
By "under load" I mean adding my entire music collection, which is only 200+ gig, to WMP. Watching resource manager I see the processes start to go "Not Responding". I checked my internal drive for errors and didn't get any and am checking the smaller of my externals now. I'll provide whatever information you guys need :)
On to the questions:
Current Operating System, pre-install
• Do you have a single OS on your computer, are you planning on multi-booting with this installation? Planning on dual-booting Ubuntu 9.10 after Win7 is square
• Are you multi-booting now? No, 100 gig of unallocated space on the disk though.
Current Hardware
• How many internal hard drives (HD) are connected to your system? 1
• Are they IDE or SATA? SATA
• How many DVD drives are connected to your system? 1
• Are they IDE or SATA Drives? SATA
• Any external HDs used? 2
• Are they connected by USB or eSATA? USB
• Check Disk Management for any HDs listed with a yellow triangle and explanation point? All Healthy
• Is this a New Clean HD? No
• Have you pre-formatted the HD? It was reformatted before install using GParted
Windows 7 installation details
• Which build number and version of Windows 7 are you installing? Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade
• Are you installing a 32 bit (x86) or 64 bit (x64) OS? x64
• Where did you get the ISO file from? Store bought disk.
Installation Media
• Using a USB memory key? No
• From another partition or hard disk? No
• From a DVD? Yes
Other
• Any Over Clocking of the RAM, CPU or GPU? No
Solution: The problem ended up being a bad/incompatible video card. Once the GTS 250 was replaced with a 9800 GTX+, everything worked flawlessly. Just goes to show you that even though it's supposed to work, always question what's changed. Thanks everyone!
Last edited by JMack89427; 11 Jan 2010 at 12:52. Reason: Solution added.
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