MikeReiner
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Ok, I'm having trouble finding the right words to put all of this in. It's going to take a bit of talking so please bear with me here.
Let me just start off with my specifications.
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64
CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 630
RAM: Super Talent DDRII 800 2x2GB
MOBO: MSI K9A2 CF
GPU: eVGA GeForce 8800GT
HDD: WDC WD5000AAKS
Now then, this story starts with my last computer.
My last computer, and my current one, when running Windows XP Pro 32 SP3, are solid as a rock. I have no issues, everything is fantastic.
However, on both my old machine and my current one, if I install Windows 7 Pro 64 (or Ultimate 64), everything will run beautifully.. for about a month. In fact, I just installed this July 7th, and it is now August 4th, and my issues have surfaced.. again.
What are my issues?
Well, freezing. Every once in a while, my system will just completely freeze up. I can make it happen consistently if I open FireFox and a bunch of tabs all at once, and if I have music running, that music will freeze as well (very obnoxious...)
If I opened a bunch of tabs, right now, with music playing, the music will start popping, slowing down, becoming heavily distorted as the pages load. This will either progressively get worse and my system will freeze, or it will finish and the music will go back to normal.
Note however, this will also happen in Chrome or IE. Also, my media player, winamp, does not have to be open and running for this freeze to take place, if anything it just lets me know that my system is about to freeze.
I have had this issue transcend two computers with completely different hardware (the only part shared between the two is the GPU..), two different versions of Windows 7, and many different drivers, bios updates, etc..
I have had this happen on both machines through at least 3 installations of Windows 7. I install it, it works great for about 3 weeks, then it becomes an unusable mess because it wont, stop, FREEZING.
And now, throughout all of this, I'm starting to get BSoDs. Stop 0x7F parameter 8, which according to MS is a 'double fault' which means I might have hardware problems or heating problems. My system runs cool. HDD is low 30s C, CPU is low 40s C, GPU is low 50s C. I have two 120 MM case fans blowing air at over 80 CFM.
So.. I ran western digital hard drive diags and memtest86.. both came back with no errors.
If the trend is the same, I can reinstall Windows 7 right now, have it work fantastically for 3 weeks, then reinstall again, or just go back to Windows XP and have no issues at all.. which I really, really, do not want to do.
I started feeling like Windows 7 just sucked or something, but I know far too many people running 7 64 with no issues.. most of them have been using the same installation they made when Windows 7 came out.
I'm just so aggravated right now, and I don't know what to do anymore. I'm a tech, I've trouble shooted and fixed so many computers and have figured so many things out, but all these years of being able to solve problems and not being able to fix my own damn computer is really starting to etch away at my sanity.
Let me just start off with my specifications.
OS: Windows 7 Pro 64
CPU: AMD Athlon II X4 630
RAM: Super Talent DDRII 800 2x2GB
MOBO: MSI K9A2 CF
GPU: eVGA GeForce 8800GT
HDD: WDC WD5000AAKS
Now then, this story starts with my last computer.
My last computer, and my current one, when running Windows XP Pro 32 SP3, are solid as a rock. I have no issues, everything is fantastic.
However, on both my old machine and my current one, if I install Windows 7 Pro 64 (or Ultimate 64), everything will run beautifully.. for about a month. In fact, I just installed this July 7th, and it is now August 4th, and my issues have surfaced.. again.
What are my issues?
Well, freezing. Every once in a while, my system will just completely freeze up. I can make it happen consistently if I open FireFox and a bunch of tabs all at once, and if I have music running, that music will freeze as well (very obnoxious...)
If I opened a bunch of tabs, right now, with music playing, the music will start popping, slowing down, becoming heavily distorted as the pages load. This will either progressively get worse and my system will freeze, or it will finish and the music will go back to normal.
Note however, this will also happen in Chrome or IE. Also, my media player, winamp, does not have to be open and running for this freeze to take place, if anything it just lets me know that my system is about to freeze.
I have had this issue transcend two computers with completely different hardware (the only part shared between the two is the GPU..), two different versions of Windows 7, and many different drivers, bios updates, etc..
I have had this happen on both machines through at least 3 installations of Windows 7. I install it, it works great for about 3 weeks, then it becomes an unusable mess because it wont, stop, FREEZING.
And now, throughout all of this, I'm starting to get BSoDs. Stop 0x7F parameter 8, which according to MS is a 'double fault' which means I might have hardware problems or heating problems. My system runs cool. HDD is low 30s C, CPU is low 40s C, GPU is low 50s C. I have two 120 MM case fans blowing air at over 80 CFM.
So.. I ran western digital hard drive diags and memtest86.. both came back with no errors.
If the trend is the same, I can reinstall Windows 7 right now, have it work fantastically for 3 weeks, then reinstall again, or just go back to Windows XP and have no issues at all.. which I really, really, do not want to do.
I started feeling like Windows 7 just sucked or something, but I know far too many people running 7 64 with no issues.. most of them have been using the same installation they made when Windows 7 came out.
I'm just so aggravated right now, and I don't know what to do anymore. I'm a tech, I've trouble shooted and fixed so many computers and have figured so many things out, but all these years of being able to solve problems and not being able to fix my own damn computer is really starting to etch away at my sanity.