Windows 7 crashes frequently

[Kieran]

hello,

I installed windows 7 in dual boot on my machine Packard Bell iPower X9775. I after a few minutes a blue screen comes. it tells me to check the installed ... no other software installed yet, which could affect just Windows 7? I think there is still some incompatibility with the system? if someone has an idea ...

thank you.

[shahid khan]

The recommended minimum requirements for Windows 7 are:

• 1GHz processor
• 1GB of RAM
• 16GB hard disk space
• Graphics card with DirectX 9 support and 128MB of memory

Which version you have installed? 32-bit or 64-bit?

[darshit]

Try upgrading your video card drivers. What error message it giving you?

[Tillie]

See this http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win.../beta-faq.aspx you can get help there. Hope this will help.

[Rudra.J]

Minimum Requirement is the configuration which will be running windows but not perfectly... To run Windows 7 smoothly use the Recommended Configuration :

2Ghz Processor
2GB RAM
256MD Graphics card DirectX 10 and above suppport.

[captainpun]

It finally happened, my brand new PC (replacing my "old" one because Vista was way too slow, unstable etc.), crashed only after 1 week of using it.
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I purchased a brand new laptop for work the day windows 7 came out (oct. 22 in Canada), HP Pavilion dv6, suckered in by the reviews that Windows 7 was thoroughly beta-tested, and because I am used to a windows environment. The First week had been great: it would boot fast, my PC was silent, I had 30+ office documents open at the same time, and I was using all the new features of the OS (aero, the screen halving etc.) and wasn't even close to bringing my PC to its knees. I felt productive, and confident that my PC was powerful.
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I had also purchased the upgrade to Windows 7 Pro, because I was pretty sure I needed the backward compatibility with XP software, and the easy network tools could also come in handy. And that's where the mayhem began:
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Today I had the first compatibility issue with software at work (note, this software had been tested and working for Vista).
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Minute 0- I proceeded to run XP mode. Lo and behold, it isn't preinstalled! Not only do you need to download XP mode off the Microsoft Website, you need to download the virtual PC separately (2 separate files). No biggie.
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Minute 15 - I download 500 Megs & install, the installation takes a while, is mostly a silent install so I don't have a clue what's going on. It reboots. I receive no notification or shortcut created on my desktop. I'm getting a little nervous because I've seen this before when Microsoft halfasses their software...
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Minute 25 - I find the virtual PC in my start menu, reassured, I click on it.
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Minute 26 - ERROR! I receive a notification (with that "Bing" error sound as if I smacked my head against a brick wall) asking me kindly to GO IN MY BIOS TO ENABLE VIRTUAL HARDWARE CAPABILITES. Pardon me? Now I have been foolish enough to stick around with Microsoft for long enough to know how to play around with my BIOS, but I honestly thought those days of primitive nerdy command prompt-looking screens were a relic of the past.
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Minute 28 - I enter my BIOS, takes no time at all to enable the feature (I don't understand why they didn't enable it by default). Reboot.
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Minute 31- I see a familiar screen upon start-up asking me for my password to get into Windows 7, and the lovely Windows start-up tune playing in the background
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Minute 31- CRASH! that feeling of familiarity was just an illusion! I had been ambushed with my worthy old opponent: the blue screen of death! You'd think Microsoft would make it green, or change things up a bit throughout the years. No. the unmistakable window informing me of my fatal errors was dumping my RAM and preparing for a reboot. My whole body is itching.
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Minute 33 - full reboot in normal mode, back to the 2-second glimpse of my password screen. CRASH! the same crash as before, and I still hadn't touched my PC. I was absolutely appalled, but somewhat impressed by the extraordinary programming prowess that it must have taken for Microsoft to create a fully automatic looping reboot with a blue screen in the middle. Quite the acrobatics if you ask me. I felt Goosebumps popping out all over my body.

The beautiful thing about this crash is that the start-up tune would play and hold the very last note while crashing, as if it were some sort of grand finale. I shall dub this crash the Mozart 7-64bit.
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Minute 35 - I try to reboot in safe mode with the network available. It still crashes. That’s when I start to worry
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Minute 37 - I reboot in full safe mode. Panicked, I enter my password before I give it a chance to crash on me.
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Minute 38 -! Phew, Windows safe mode. I am in! Windows safe mode is like an oasis in a desert filled with blue-screen vultures pecking away at my precious time. This safe mode was a little different since Microsoft had the curtsey to immediately popup a link to system restore; a desert cactus for me to suckle on. Thank you Microsoft, I am glad you're here for me now.
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Minute 40 - not many system restores to choose from, I pick the first one.
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Minute 50 - restoring
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Minute 55 - Restoring
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Minute 60 - Restoring
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Minute 62 - Windows is starting up screeching slowly. Everything seems back to normal, but the desert cactus had some sort of paralyzing serum in it: my computer is slow now, and for the last 15 minutes (and during the whole hour it took me to write this), the fan to my laptop hasn't stopped guzzling. Oh and of course, the virtual PC is gone. In hopeless despair, I give up.

Bottom line: It didn't take long for Microsoft to cripple the newest contender in my PC arsenal. Did I learn anything? Yes. I was naive to think that Microsoft and their army of programmers could miraculously turn the piece of shit they called Vista into a pot of gold with Windows 7. It's more like a gilded turd; one that if you tap a little too hard, the outer shell will pierce and you enter in contact with the soft smelly underbelly that we are all too familiar with.

Do I suggest buying a Mac? No, I have never used a Mac. I had an iphone for 6 months and it was a relatively positive experience. All I can do is hope that someday a proper OS comes out that can run on a powerful machine and run stably with the demands of everyday needs.

[odatpotter]

captainpun, that was some fun reading. sorry to hear of your experience.

in an effort to share your pain I'll tell you i have had bad luck with mine as well. i ran the rc for 3 months, it was fine. but i hadn't really thrown everything at it. when i installed the valid copy, i had little problems until i put it into production. i loaded it up with whatever i would normally use and then the crashes began. i did the restore too. step by step it would be ok, then wham.

i loved the dialog box after the reboot saying how it was either memory, system board or power supply.

between you me and the fire hydrant, I'm guessing it is in fact the OS.

anyway, i took it out of production for now, and in a month or so, or maybe after sp1 comes out, I'll give it another go.

btw, i would have thought if it came pre-loaded, you be less likely to have problems.

I built my pc last year and have ran unbuntu, and both beta & rc on this without issue so i seriously doubt it's the machine

As a Windows 7 OS fans, update the windows 7 from windows xp means less compared with the band-new PC with Windows 7 installing.
Moreover, you may also want to maintenance Windows 7.

[spinyol]

I think that the solution is deactivating all video hardware acceleration options in adobe software like Adobe Reader, FlashPlayer, etc.

My ramdomly crashes are finished.

[jesse]

Hello,
Inorder to avoid any sort of crashing and other incompatibility issues with the Windows 7 operating system, it is recommended that one should always do a clean install of the same, that is after eradicating the older operating system.

[TehChief]

here are the real minimum requirements for

window home basic, window 7 starter

• 1GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64 / AMD) Processor
• 512 MB of System RAM
• A 20-GB (X64) or 16-GB(for 32 bit aka x86) Hard Drive, on a traditiomal or solid state disk (SSD) whit atleast 15 GB of available space.
• Graphics adapter that supports DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphic memory

and for every other version of windows 7 (home premium, Professional, Ultimade and Enterprice)

• 1GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64 / AMD) Processor
• 1GB MB of System RAM
• A 40-GB (X64) or 16-GB(for 32 bit aka x86) Hard Drive, on a traditiomal or solid state disk (SSD) whit atleast 15 GB of available space.
• Graphics adapter that supports DirectX 9 graphics and 128 MB of graphic memory

[greatwillies]

According to my experience dual booting system can create the problem for Windows 7 operating system. So basically you can try to use single booting machine for that, your problem will be solved.