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Even I have a MSI Motherboard, I don't go to their site, instead I go to Nvidia Site (because I have a Nvidia Chipset 790i) then I do download their latest drivers.
Sometimes Motherboard and other pc peripherals manufacturer doesn't have the latest drivers


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Hey, I'm sorry I didn't post a link to the drivers, I didn't want to confuse anyone. There are different chipsets and different motherboards, and I didn't want to break anyones stuff by not being sure. I also didn't see that there was a beta version, or drivers that new. The one i'm using now is from 2006, but I'm going to upgrade to that one and see what happens... I've gotten 7 blue screens today so far :-(.

The slowdown is fixed, the BSODs are not. We'll see how this new driver fares me.

Ha.

No luck. Of course not.

links to my recent minidumps if anyone is interested in peeling them apart.

http://whathuhstudios.com/minidump/minidump3.zip

I was having similar problems when I made the switch to Windows 7 from Vista a few months back. For some reason Windows 7 was much less stable than Vista for me also. It was especially unstable when trying to move files accross the network.

I tried some voltage changes in bios and the one change that had a positive effect was bumping up the northbridge voltage a bit. Made all the difference for me. That's all I can think of for now, hope you get this figured out soon.

Interesting. I would never ever EVER think to bump the NB voltage when it worked great in Vista before, but adding a bit of a stability boost to that area might just do the trick. Thanks for the tip! I see you're using an nVidia chipset though, I have an Intel G45, so it might be different causes. PS: 4.32 Ghz? Really? I can't keep mine stable over 3.0, and its not because of heat! (of course, i have a q9400, not a 9650).

I'm going to try the 7264 version of the kernel, and see if that helps anything. 7100 worked fine for me, 7201 and 7229 haven't been so lucky. I get a lot of page_fault_in_nonpaged_area, and system_service_exception errors, and I think that's the kernel crapping out, not a driver. We'll see.

you still having no luck dcostalis ? hope you get it sorted for RTM

dcostalis said:

I can't keep mine stable over 3.0, and its not because of heat!

I'd just like to mention that, of course, I am not currently overclocking my chip. I just wanted to make that clear before i get a ::facepalm:: from someone telling me that's the problem

7echno7im said:

Shot in the dark, but try a check disk. Random BSODs can be a result of bad sectors. I know i just suggested this on another thread, but it is something that is overlooked. Slow HD access times my be hinting at a failing drive. I had a drive that got slower and slower until it died. I think it was trying to read the corrupted data over and over which resulted in a slow read time.

If the check disk comes back with unrecoverable data, its bad, and plan to move any critical data off the drive/machine.


Other BSODs I have seen were RAM OC'd too high. Try resetting BIOS to defaults. I could OC my rig higher in Vista that Windows 7 for some reason.

I ran chkdsk (with blue screens happening as often as they have, I've run a few actually), and nothing crazy came up. A few bad pointers or whatever, but didn't really do any good for the bsods. The speed issue ended up getting fixed with updated ACPI drivers, thanks to usamsa.

I agree though! chkdsk IS overlooked, and every major operating system except Windows makes you run a low-level disk scan after X number of kernel crashes. I wish MS would put that into 7.

I'm not overclocking anything at all right now, my RAM is running at its standard 800mhz. I haven't even bothered to OC my stuff since I installed 7, because it just runs so damn fast already! The only time I've tweaked it up to 3.0 Ghz or so is when I'm encoding a lot of video. That extra 10% or so makes a 45 minute job get done in 40 ;-)

Well, here's an update.

Within a half hour of booting the new 7264, got another blue screen.

I upped my voltages one notch on my board, as chev65 suggested, and we'll see if I have any luck with that.

Another thing I've noticed is my mouse "freezes" for a bit during bootup. It'll be working fine, then will be completely non-responsive for about a second or two halfway through bootup. I assumed it's just loading some drivers, but maybe someone has seen that happen as a symptom of a problem before.

Hopefully my constant bumping of my own thread will end up leading to help someone else with this crap I've been going through