Windows 7 freezes

just tried driver cure...
says everything is up to date ...
=(

seems like only x64bit are having issues

try doing this
go to power options and select high performance
try if that works
it worked on my 32bit win7rc

Already tried that =(
I looked at some forums, and apparently my ram is not supported by my mobo, so that might be the issue.
i am going to go to frys today and return that ram. and pick up some new one while i wait for my real ram to get here from amazon.

thanks, ill repost.

Are you using Webroot?

I found that if you are using webroot for your anti-spyware and anti-virus your system will lock up all the time. Uninstall webroot, and install Kaspersky. This should fix the freezing problems. And Kaspersky is a better anti-spyware and anti-virus program anyway.

This may sound like the most basic and lame reasons why your 64-bit Win7 RC continues to freeze up during or just after boot, or randomly there-after. It has been bothering me for a while until I had a friend come over and triple check everything with me. Here's what we found:

The mobo has dual-channel RAM abilities and was using it. The problem is that I was using three ram sticks (in four slots; all the same type of chip). Dualchannel does not like this. It specifically says to use even number of idential ram chips, filling up the same channels before going to the next (meaning, in my case, fill up channal A, or channel B, but not one from each).

So, we removed the lone RAM chip from Channel B, leaving me with two chips in Channel A (one in each of the slots), and the computer has been running flawlessly. I'm down to 4gb of RAM until I can go out and buy another identical ram chip, but that's not really an issue right now.

My setup, installed RIGHT NOW and stable (if it helps)
GIGABYTE MOBO: EP45T-UD3LF
Intel Q9550 Core 2 Quad - stock @ 2.83Ghz
4GB RAM KVR1333D3 (cheapo, I know)******
XFX GTX260 Graphics Card
2x WD 1TB HDD @ 7200rpm

Read up on Dual Channel RAM technology and how you should install it.

Like I said, this is such a rookie mistake and I'm not sure how I overlooked it, but I did. I hope no one comes across the same stupid problem as me. I'm just glad I didn't have any busted hardware or have any complex software issues.

Hi

New user to this forum here.
I have been looking for this post since Windows 7 came out, even before when i tried using Vista.

Vista Sucks!!! hope most of you agree!!

Windows 7 -- I would say a great master peace for a first draft, needs some work, but not alot, very stable, more user friendly, definitly improves performance of a machine!

BUT....

I have mostly the same problem. Windows 7 freezes completly, no matter how mutch time its working. Can work 1 minute, 10 or even afew hours, or even freeze when its booting up.

Its definitly a driver conflict problem. But from what i have read here, its mostly comun with Asus hardware present in the computer.

My computer:

Motherboard: Asus P4S800D-X - Not a bat piece of crap!
Graphics: Asus ATI Radeon AH3650 512mb - Excelent pieace of crap, runs everything.... most recent game played, Guitar hero World tour and Prototype.
Memory: 2Gb DDR - ram 400mghz
Processor: Intel 3.000 Ghz
Sound card: Creative SoundBlaster Live 5.1 --- The crapiest peace in my computer.

And until now i have been running with fully updates windows XP, And i have been running everything i throw at it... From design programs, Autocad 2009, 3D Studio 2009, to hard demanding games, Prototype, Grid, Bioshoc, X3.... etc...
Of coars not with full graphics cause my CPU cant keep up with my Graphics Card... Obviously!!!!!

To pin point my problems.... on the freezing part!!
Tried to follow all you's solutions, updated evety power management drive, grafics drive.... you name it...

Got to a point of some stability.... the computer doesnt freeze as mutch....
But one major Freeze still happens.

When i play a game or demande more work from my pc like graphical movement or animation, like games, movies, stuff like that.... There it is Here comes Mr. Freeze and no Batman in sight!!!!!!

Fixable problem? YES.... Pressure on the hardware makers to update every peace of hardware drivers, at least since the Pentium 4 series!!

Hope you'all have enjoyed my little story!!!
Hope there will be more insight to this matter!!!

Thank you all.
For direct contact: on msn.

I have found a solution to my problem.
For me it was not a software issue (NOT Win 7) it was a combination of hardware.

Someone told me:
"Ok the 7800 GTX is still supported, although driver updates to help with that card (bugs, ect) where stopped about this time last year. Does your friend happen to have 4GB or more in his system?, if the answer is yes, im afraid its a driver issue, under windows, you cant have a 7800 GTX and 4GB+ of system memory with another video card, the NVIDIA driver will puke all over itself, this is a known bug, and as it is a old card there are no plans to correct it.

So best bet, get a cheap GeForce 8 8600 GT (or better), to solve this problem, any 8/9/GTS/GTX series card wont have this problem, I recommedned at least a GeForce 8 8600 GT beacause the 8600 GT is as powerful as a 7800 GTX ."

Which its true in my case because my computer started acting up after i upgraded to 64bit from 32bit (which only allows 3 gigs of ram).

Goodluck out there !

New user to this forum as well.

I've been using, or rather testing, Windows 7 since the Beta came out. I used both x86 and 64bit RC1 versions and both x86 and 64bit RTM versions.

The Beta and RC1 versions were installed on my old AMD PC. The specs were the following

Mobo: Asus M2N32 WS Professional
CPU: AMD Athlon64 x2 4000+ @ 3.12GHz
RAM: OCZ DDR2-800 2x2GB
GPU: XFX 8800GT AlphaDog Edition.
HDD: Caviar Blue 640GB & 2x Samsung SpinPoint F1 1TB

On this system with all the version I installed on I had no problem at all. I was so please by the performance I decided to have my MediaCenter machine and my gaming machine with Windows 7 so I waited for the RTM version to come out!

About a month ago I bought a few new parts and changed the configuration on both my gaming rig and on the media centre so it was perfect time to format those machines and have them both with Windows 7. The configuration of the machines are bellow.

Media:
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-MA770T-UD3P
CPU: AMD Phenom x3 720
RAM: Kingston DDR3-1333 2x1GB
GPU: Sapphire HD4770
HDD: WD Caviar Blue 640GB

Gaming:
Mobo: MSI P55-GD65
CPU: Intel Core i7 860
RAM: Corsair Dominator DDR3-1600 CL8 2x2GB
GPU: 2x XFX 8800GT AlphaDog Edition in SLI
HDD: 2x WD RE2 750 in RAID 0 & WD Caviar Black 1TB

The Media PC has the x86 Windows 7 Professional RTM and the Gaming rig has the 64bit variant. These two system are unstable like hell with no reason to be! Both Machines will freeze with no reason at all. I stressed test both machines with more than one program for more than an hour and had no problem, but when doing everyday tasks the whole thing would freeze and I have to reset it! Sometimes this happened an hour after start-up, sometimes even days. One thing is for sure, I rarely get the chance to properly shut-down these machines.

These machines have nothing in common besides Windows 7, yet they have exactly the same problems! If anyone has ever seen anything like that please let me know!

I have an Asus Z99S series laptop and it started freezing as others have described. I changed the power settings but this didn't help me so I then downloaded the latest driver for the ATI Mobility Radeon HD2400 graphics card and the problem has been solved.