Solved System becoming buggy ever since SSD/Ram update.

[XweAponX]

Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1.

I was given two Dell OptiPlex 980 workstations, halfway decent machines, 8 GB of RAM, I installed windows 7 Ultimate into both. I installed my GEForce GT 730 which I think was at least a gigabyte of RAM, cheap card made by EVGA but they are halfway decent into one of them because that card could tolerate YouTube’s 60 FPS on various videos.

I had been running one of them, the one with the GT 730, As a Plex server and it was finally giving me the playback quality that I wanted without starts and stops during playback. The other machine I stuck a 7300 GS that I found in some trashcan, and it ran great after I cleaned all of the caked on dirt out of the GPU fan and lubricated the bearings. I had been using that one for Deepin Linux and Ubuntu as well as the windows 7 drive.

About two months ago I found a Crucial MX 200 500gb SSD, for an insanely good price on eBay I think it was, at the time my Plex server was running great and so I just transferred the drive using Aomei’s SSD migration tool. Even though that I read that those particular drives are intended more for storage rather than for operating system use, I contacted Micron who makes the things and they told me I could use it that way.

Everything appeared to work great and I installed the crucial storage manager for the drive, and I set it up with overprovisioning. Later on I added eight more gigabytes of RAM from the other machine, and then I installed a GTX 750 Ti video card which brought my benchmark way up. But even that has started to come down, by at least 200 points. That was about three weeks ago, but since then various programs have started to become unresponsive, like the crucial storage manager for one, I can’t maintain my solid-state drive now. And just today it started refusing to apply a drive letter to my flash drive when I plugged it in. It detected it, but no drive letter was assigned and the built-in virtual drive manager would either crash or not even run, and when it did finally run it would detect the drive but then it would go into a not responsive state and I couldn’t even apply a drive letter with that. I was able to use minitool partition manager to do it once, but then even that program stopped working and I ended up having to do it through Aomei, which ended up being the only utility I could use to mount my flash drive.

I had decided to do an in-place install and “upgrade“ my windows 7, to see if that would repair some of these issues.

So after a whole day of locating Windows 7 installation medium, and many of those failing to even be the proper format for an in place install, I had to spend hours locating a disk that would work, and after finding that and Rufus-ing the image to my thumbdrive, I was finally able to start the in-place install after about seven hours of trying. .

Well the system did the first parts of the install, it just took a long time to go through all of the steps and when I finally got to the last step and the final reboot, the system rebooted and it’s come up to that blue background with the squiggly lines, and nothing else, it hasn’t started the finalization, from what I remember it is supposed to bring up some windows for you to finish the final steps, but is just sitting there. I have a mouse that moves around on the screen, but that’s it.

However, I’m running this into my big screen TV and without the video drivers installed it’s heavily overscanned (underscanned?) so I can’t see if there is any text or progress bars or something beyond the range of the image on my screen. I am about ready to turn off the machine and check all of the ram, I don’t know if it will start the installation from the beginning all over again, from what I recall it usually starts up from the last set of steps.

I’m just wondering what this issue might be though, maybe it started when I added the extra ram, maybe one of the sticks is bad, so I may try to run a Windows memory test. But a lot of these problems, I’ve never seen the system do this in all the time I have been running Windows 7: its just basically, you start up a program, and it just sits there and it doesn’t start. Maybe I will get a rundll32 timeout error. Especially some of the parts of the control panel like where the programs and features are, there is that little control panel for adding or removing features and that won’t come up, it’s blank. That was the first symptom of this progressive bug. So this is stumping me, it maybe somebody has gone through the same thing and knows what is causing this, that would be great. Thanks.

Apologies for the Tome.

Oh yes, additional apologies if I posted this in the wrong forum, but not knowing what the basic issue is yet, I put it here for now, if there is a better place for it I’m sure it will be moved, thank you.

 

[XweAponX]

What's happened so far: I force-rebooted the machine, and tried to boot from my Hiren's BCD Thumbdrive. Nope, it would not detect. Even using "F12" to force the Boot Choices Menu, when I selected USB, I got an error message that I needed to use a device with a working boot partition. But my Hiren's BCD and the Windows 7 x64 Thumbdrive both failed to boot, I got the "press F1 to try again, F2 to enter setup" message, and neither key would do anything, machine was totally locked up.

But I was able to run the Motherboard Diagnostics for the machine, it ran a Mem test, said there was nothing wrong. So I just rebooted, but before I did that I shut off my C States, cos I saw it in a very old post in here when I was searching for similar OS Install hangup issues. After I did that, setup resumed with a "Setup hardware" process. I thought, "Finally it's gonna finish" - Nope.

But after it "detected" the hardware, I got a huge ugly grey square box that said that the hardware could not be detected, Windows 7 could not be installed to this computer, but that "Setup would resume after a reboot" - Which it did NOT) Grrr. So my only option was to roll back the In-Place "Upgrade" Install.

So I have my system back to how it was before I tried to "upgrade", and with C States off, my Crucial Storage Executive runs. So do a couple of other things, but it is still getting hung up when USB devices are installed.

The version of Win 7 I had been using was a 48-in-1 AIO (of stock disk images), but the ISO image I have for it seems to have gone BAD. Why the hell would it go BAD after using it for 8 years? And I have kept it saved on several different storage HDDs. How could ALL of my ISOs for that image have gone BAD? Or could it be a motherboard hardware error? So unless I have a burned copy of that, I'm screwed, and I hope to hell THAT image has not gone bad too. The 64 bit Win 7 disk I found earlier Worked, but gave me that "This version of Windows 7 Can't be installed to this machine" cack. Why didn't it give me that message BEFORE I went through 90% of an install? .

What a waste of a day, but I'll have to try again tomorrow. Cos I have stuff turned on that can't be turned off except from that "Add or Remove Features" Menu, and I really need to shut it all off.

 

[wither 2]

Does this help with the USB problems?-

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[XweAponX]

Does this help with the USB problems?-

Access Denied

I’ll give it a try when I get on my machine, why does it say “access denied“

 

[file3456]

why does it say “access denied“

Because this particular version of the forum software called vbulletin will fetch the link and display the page title instead of the full URL like:

www.google.com

What more than likely happened is that when this site fetched the page title, Microsoft's server didn't allow this IP address for this forum which is using SoftLayer to fetch the page title. In return you see the link shown as Access Denied.

I don't particularly care for this feature in a bulletin board software. On my forum the actual link is shown which helps keep things transparent. Even though the more keen would be wise to look at the bottom left of their browser to see where the link takes them. Although, on a mobile device you don't have that. I don't even think security plagued Tapatalk shows links to URLs.

Here's a website that will allow its page title to be fetched. Fooling Automated Surveillance Cameras with Patchwork Color Printout - Schneier on Security

 

[XweAponX]

I downloaded the diagcab, ran it - I tried to let it unmount one of my drives, and it failed to unmount it.

I've got my 48-in-1 disk, I had burned two of them, even used them multiple times. But now I am suddenly getting a 0x7E error, and everywhere I look for a solution to that, brings me to a spammy "Tweakbit" repair kit link (hundreds of em, it's a spam- faux fix app). Know any way to get past 0x7E? Why would my fookin disk AND ISO images suddenly start failing to load the Setup64? This sucks. And I know I can repair this all with that version of Windows, if it is a software problem and not a hardware problem

 

[XweAponX]

My forum test: Access denied | cyberpcforum.com used Cloudflare to restrict access

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Yep! I block an absolute ton of ASNs in CloudFlare and in a security script. So since this website using Softlayer is blocked in CloudFlare you see that. But clicking the link will take you there. It's just that this forum wasn't allowed to fetch the page title.

I used to use Cloudflare (by using 1.1.1.1 for DNS?) until I discovered it totally blocked access to a lot of the sites I visit. Cloudflare is 1.1.1.1, innit? 8.8.8.8 or 4.4.4.4 is googol? I have PIA now, which I think has Cloudflare built in, but it allows me to go where I need to go. Sometimes links copied from Reddit posts can lead to virii. But the protection I get from PIA is sufficient for now.

So: the 0x7E error, is related to some wbemupgd.dll issue - I didn't even HAVE that dll, so I found it on that DLL site. I copied it to the syswow64 folder and regged it using the 64-bit regsvr32 in System32 (Which confuses the *ook out of me, 64 bit stuff is in System32 and 32 bit stuff is in Syswow64?) I got it regged by entering the exact paths for regsvr and the proper location for wbemupgd. I actually had to edit my environment paths, so that they referred to %systemroot%\System32\Wbem\ rather than C:Windows\System32\Wbem.

But after doing that I am STILL getting the 0x7E! I'm copying the ISO image to my laptop which is an i3/8gb, and I used that image to install Windows 7 in 2013 when I got the 48-in-1 version of Windows 7. I had used a 10-in-1 of Windows 8 when I was running that, that came from the same place, and I have a 20-in-1 for Windows 10 (that I never use cos I hate that bloat-OS).

Everything is working better since I disabled my C states. There is another feature for these i5's that enable the CPU to run well beyond their specs, I had shut that off too, but I turned it back on, Seems like the C-States deal was what was preventing my Crucial Storage Executive from running. It's actually java, and it uses an internal Browser called JxBrowser that latches onto an internal version of Chromium. When you shut down the app, it all vanishes. But it depends on your java working properly.

So all of my apps are working now, except for the Windows Features control panel is still BLANK.

And I'm starting a new search for dependable Windows 7 x64 installers. I had heard of a site that provides nothing but stock OS installers, but I can't find it now.

 

[wither 2]

Did you use these instructions from the link I provided for you-

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I wonder if this will help with your last question-

ISO - Disk Image File : Extract to the Desktop

I was trying to reinstall Vista recently on two dual boot drives and continuously got the 07E error after Windows loaded during the boot process. It seems the BIOS was using an NVIDIA Network Controller. Best I could figure out is that I needed to prepare a bootable disc with the NVIDIA driver and run it when I got to automatic repair in the Vista installation process. However, I never tried it because I got an ISO from someone which installed Vista up to SP2.

 

[XweAponX]

Did you use these instructions from the link I provided for you-

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Yah,

I downloaded the diagcab, ran it - I tried to let it unmount one of my drives, and it failed to unmount it.

I wonder if this will help with your last question-

ISO - Disk Image File : Extract to the Desktop

Yah that looks useful, and someone must have used the steps from here to make the disk I used to use.

I was trying to reinstall Vista recently on two dual boot drives and continuously got the 07E error after Windows loaded during the boot process. It seems the BIOS was using an NVIDIA Network Controller. Best I could figure out is that I needed to prepare a bootable disc with the NVIDIA driver and run it when I got to automatic repair in the Vista installation process. However, I never tried it because I got an ISO from someone which installed Vista up to SP2.

That's interesting, I have an Nvidia network controller (Nvidia Geforce 10/100) on my other machine, ASUS M2N MX-SE, but on this machine I have an Intel(R) 82578DM Gigabit Network Connection I get the 0x7E when I click on "Setup64.exe" in the root folder of the installer. Should I be using the regular "setup.exe" file?

I finally found a good 64 bit image I'll try later. Right now, the most important stuff is working, so I may as well mark this Solved for now... When I try again I'll re-open this issue if I have trouble.

It appears that my Sandisk Cruzer Fit might be going bad, I've had it for about 8 years and I use it to install both Windows and macOS, so I go back and forth between having to format it GPT and MBR. I don't use fat32, should I have used fat32? Don't think Rufus gives me that option. I use Rufus to make a Windows Installer or Hiren's BCD, and TransMac to create a macOS install medium. TransMac works quicker than using the Mac Disk Utility. And my Mac Pro 2,1 can only run Lion, so...

 

[file3456]

I believe Rufus should give you the option to chose FAT32, and I believe you'd want to use FAT32 with a GPT.

 

[XweAponX]

I believe Rufus should give you the option to chose FAT32, and I believe you'd want to use FAT32 with a GPT.

So, try formatting the image using GPT and fat32? I think MBR only gives me NTFS option, but I'll look again and make sure. But that still does not explain why two DVD+R DL disks I burned the image onto, that used to work, don't work now.

 

[wither 2]

I don't know much about these network controllers. I couldn't disable it in the BIOS to see if it was actually causing the problem. After I got all the updates installed, the first thing I did was reinstall the graphics driver and I think installing that controller was optional but since it was listed in the BIOS, I installed it. Then I had to reinstall software for the monitor as well as the software for all the other peripherals.