RC hangs ~every 4 seconds for about 2-3 seconds

[iceman845]

Pretty much the title here. Except sometimes it will work just fine if I'm not doing too much. The startup also hangs after the splash logo to the login screen for about 10 seconds. In build 7000, there was no lag at all. Any ideas? Driver suggestions? Not sure....

Thanks!

 

[Brink]

Hello Iceman, and welcome to Seven Forums.

You may just have a corrupted or bad installation. You might try a clean install to see if it will run better for you this time around.

Shawn

 

[iceman845]

Sadness.

I will do another clean install and see how it goes. Thanks for the input.

 

[RST101]

Fresh installs are good, I wish I did not have to wait till the fifth of may for an excuse to do another clean one. The experience will do you no harm. Good luck hope you find your bug.

 

[Brink]

I hear you Iceman. Please post back and let us know how it went for you.

 

[Night Hawk]

If you still see problems with a second try let us know how you are installing one or both 32? 64bit? RCs or just one? If you burned to disk you may have seen a bad burn.

 

[sevsman]

This is a strange problem indead!!

I used to get it with vista x64. It would freeze every now and again (quite regular though) and if i re-installed it might go or it might stay.

It was weird that i always used the same disc and sometimes there weren't any problems and at times there where.

I still use the same disc to this date and i haven't had any problems with it for over a year now.

My specs at the time where

AMD X2 6000
Nvidia Geforce 7600GT
4x 1 Gig Kingston 667
Multiple HDD's but the install drive was a sata2 WD Caviar 80Gig

Hope this give you an idea if it might be driver based maybe if you have a GPU like mine...

 

[Digger]

startup repair? bad gadget installed? bad program installed?


ahhhhhhhh.... an upgrade

 

[sevsman]

Well it wasn't a gadget for me as it would do it as soon as i used the system.

And upgrade!!!! Don't swear at me! j/k

 

[iceman845]

AMD X2 6000
Nvidia Geforce 7600GT
4x 1 Gig Kingston 667
Multiple HDD's but the install drive was a sata2 WD Caviar 80Gig

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Bahaha I'm AMD 3800x2 (x86 version of RC 7100 Primary os)
7600gt
DDR 400 1gb
Sata 2 (160, 250)

Thats pretty funny. I did try a dif. driver for the vid card but that must not be the case. I will do a fresh install but impending finals will hold that at bay until Tuesday.

Just to clarify, the exact symptoms are:
A 10 sec hang (almost exactly, every time) at the space b/t splash logo and user password input. Major hanging almost guaranteed when searching in the start menu. (5+ seconds) But when moving around windows (explorer, media player) thats when i get these 2-3 second hangs.

But yeah, like I said, I have to get through this weekend and I'll follow up.
I'll start off by reburning the iso for the clean install.

 

[sevsman]

I never had a hang during password input as i never used to use one.

However the exact symptoms were the same when trying to use explorer and pretty much any media apps...

 

[Night Hawk]

What make and model board are you running there? From the specs you listed so far you pointed out having four 1gb dimms on a board likely seeing four dimm slots? Often when all dimm slots are populated certain boards will have problems!

That and device drivers like those for video seeing a bad install will tend to see Windows lag at times. If the drivers were the latest they might be too new for that model series if you went with an update rather install from the cd.

As far as seeing a bad install I originally saw a few of those with the 7000 builds where the 32bit 7 at the time saw 4 total(2 Home Premium from connect) and the 64bit twice with 4gb here(2x2gb). If this was an upgrade attempt and not a clean install on a fresh primary try that.

 

[iceman845]

What make and model board are you running there? From the specs you listed so far you pointed out having four 1gb dimms on a board likely seeing four dimm slots? Often when all dimm slots are populated certain boards will have problems!

That and device drivers like those for video seeing a bad install will tend to see Windows lag at times. If the drivers were the latest they might be too new for that model series if you went with an update rather install from the cd.

As far as seeing a bad install I originally saw a few of those with the 7000 builds where the 32bit 7 at the time saw 4 total(2 Home Premium from connect) and the 64bit twice with 4gb here(2x2gb). If this was an upgrade attempt and not a clean install on a fresh primary try that.

Abit AN8-Sli, 2x512. Only populated 2 dimms (sorry i was sketchy on the spacifics) but yeah only a gig. I also tried an old version of the Nvidia display drivers as well as the beta build (current) drivers which showed no difference in performance.

And yes, it was a clean install. So like others have mentioned, I will try reburning/ installing agian. Thanks!!

 

[Night Hawk]

Hopefully you won't need a second download and a fresh burn in case of a bad blank will see better results. I've tossed a few of those at times here! I prefer clean installs and even deleting a partition entirely to see a new fresh one go on to insure the best possible results. That way there's nothing left to get in the way.

 

[iceman845]

Hey sevenforums:
This is follow up to my problem. I redownloaded the rc from the website, new beta key and everything, reburned at the slowest speed. Installed, and the boot-up was very fast. I started installing my programs 1 at a time rebooting after each. Then I went to install my Office 07, and THAT was the culprit. Weird huh? I forgot that I got a different copy of Office for my last install, and I was mass installing all my programs so I didn't make the connection.

Thanks everyone for your input~! Problem solved.

 

[Xcode]

Hey sevenforums:
This is follow up to my problem. I redownloaded the rc from the website, new beta key and everything, reburned at the slowest speed. Installed, and the boot-up was very fast. I started installing my programs 1 at a time rebooting after each. Then I went to install my Office 07, and THAT was the culprit. Weird huh? I forgot that I got a different copy of Office for my last install, and I was mass installing all my programs so I didn't make the connection.

Thanks everyone for your input~! Problem solved.

Mine is hanging and acting slow after the office 07 SP3 update today.. yesterday this install was fine.. not today..

 

[sevsman]

Thanks for the feedback on your discovery's iceman.

Still weird though that i had the exact same problems back then, and i only ever use office 2003 as most emails i send are to work emails, and the users don't have enough privileges to install the computability update.

And i won't remember to save as 2003 files every time i do one. (always in a rush)

 

[Brink]

Iceman,

I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out. Thank you for posting back what you found out to be the culprit.

 

[Captain Zero]

Glad you got it worked out.

 

[Night Hawk]

Glad to hear it! If you run into more items by chance don't forget to get back to us on them.

Here I'm still trying to debug one item on the 32bit RC while everything fell together on the 64bit! That would be one stubborn tuner card software/driver headache! I'll likely end up performing another inplace upgrade for the 32bit anyways since that went well for the 64bit side of things!