RC1 64bit Not Responding

Night Hawk · 12 May 2009

You watch it will likely turn to be something in the bios needed or a driver disk much like seen when going to install XP on a sata drive used on older systems. The F6 option all over again for those?

bum · 13 May 2009

That brings up a question. Was AHCI mode selected in the BIOS before installing W7?

Night Hawk · 13 May 2009

That would likely have an effect with a sata drive on an existing installation of Vista maybe with 7 already on needing the correct driver installed. Using AHCI mode in Windows Vista

I came across one reference for OCZ SSD drives that might help. Troubleshooting - Installing and configuring your new OCZ SSD. - OCZ Forum

djroberts · 13 May 2009

It was not. It was set to IDE mode. I attempted to change it to AHCI mode and W7 crashed in a non-recoverable way. I'll do some more research on AHCI.

Night Hawk · 13 May 2009

That'll do it! Since 7 is close to Vista the first link there provides some information on how to go about changing modes while preserving the existing installation.

bum · 13 May 2009

Unlike XP, Vista and 7 have SATA drivers that load during setup. Enable AHCI before setup. It'll be a lot less trouble and should install faster.

Night Hawk · 13 May 2009

Well the problem is not so much the installation but seen once 7 is on and the mode is changed from ide to AHCI. That's when you need to see that driver installed in order to preserve the present.

The other problem is being seen with the newer SSD type drives were several complaints like this have been seen. That's still a rather new drive technology where a look at the brands as well as type may play a role in finding one that won't run into problems. Even with sata or even ide drives some rather cheap brands are being sold at a lot of places.

brian5 · 21 May 2009

Since installing Windows 7 x64 RC1, I get "(Not Responding)" a lot on all kinds of applications (IE, firefox, Excel, Explorer, ...)

The applications do come back eventually and there's typically a lot of disk I/O that occurs. I have used Resource Manager and Task Manager to determine if any programs look like a problem. There aren't any obvious ones. I've shut down apps like antivirus, proxy server, readyboost, but nothing seems to help. I've changed many BIOS options (to see if that would make a difference) but have currently gone back to the default.

Based on posts above, I'm going to check the AHCI settings in my BIOS to test impact.

My config:
Intel i7-920 2.66 ; MSI X58 Platinum ; EVGA NVidia 9800 GT 512MB ; Corsair DDR3 6GB 1600MHz ; Samsung 20X DVDRW ; HD SATA 500GB+250GB+1TB+1TB ; Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate x64 RC1

djroberts · 21 May 2009

Interesting Brian. We both have i7 920s and x58 chipsets. Everything else looks different. I wonder if it's the x58 chipset causing the issue. When it stalls my cpu usage stays low. It basically feels like an artificial wait.

Night Hawk · 21 May 2009

It depends on how you are connected online. In order to see the 64bit connected I actually had to change ISPs entirely!

When the installation is first finishing and detects an active connection you will see a screen come up for "home network, Work Place, or Public" where most simply click on the Home option. That will see you online right off.

If you ignored that entirely or that never came up the problem may be with the drivers for the network adapter not being 64bit compatible or you need to recycly power on a modem as well as making sure the IE options don't list anything in the connections tab for dial-up there when trying to use the connect to internet option in Network + Sharing.

RC1 64bit Not Responding

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