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Win 7 X64 Frequent Crashes / Reboots
I recently built a new PC and installed Win 7 Ultimate RC on it. Â It constantly crashes/reboots itself when using the Windows UI. Â It seems to be fine in Safe Mode. Â When I say using the Windows UI I mean using a browser (tried IE and Chrome) as well as just browsing through control panel or typing a search into a browser search box.

Frequently the display driver crashes or the UI gets slight distorted again like the display driver is having issues. Â I tried to stress test it by running Fallout 3 for an hour and had no problems.

Posted: Saturday, October 24, 2009 1:02 PM

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Win7 Random Shutdowns / Reboots
Curious if anyone else has ran into this as well. So far Win7 RC1 has been running great for me but just earlier I noticed my computer shut itself off randomly. Then turned back on about 10 minutes later. I remember vista had similar issues with putting computers into sleep mode at first.

Posted: Friday, May 22, 2009 10:13 PM

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Win7 Spontaneous Reboots - How To Debug?
need help debugging spontaneous windows 7 reboots. reboots within minutes of last boot. reboots even when activity is idle. system is stable on vista 64 but with occasional nVidia driver issues.

Posted: Saturday, January 17, 2009 4:26 PM

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Win7 X86 RTM - Continuous Reboots Into Recovery Mode
I've been running Win7 throughout the beta program and have seen this at least twice on other machines. Now it has happened to my machine and I want to understand the root cause and how to fix. Please keep in mind that I've been doing this for many years at an Enterprise level - this is truly a stumper for me.Scenario:Win7 Ultimate x86 fresh install on a Dell i9300. I purposely created a single partition on the disk so as not to have the default ~200MB partition (via diskpart during preboot install).

System has run fine since installing the RTM code until last weekend: after installing Win updates and rebooting, the system immediately went into the endless reboot system recovery cycle and I am no longer able to boot into Win7Troubleshooting:I've run the repair manually off a bootable USB key; originally, the repair process reports completing successfully, however, there are two failures (0x490 IIRC) on winload.exe and the BCD. Digging deeper, I have attempted to rebuild the BCD clean manually.

Resetting the BCD to known good values resulted in an immediate stop upon boot (0xc0000001 in winload.exe). Attempting a repair after that failed, with the repair not being able to find a Win7 installation (even though the GUI portion of the repair process reports the correct install). Taking this further, I built a new clean Win7 box, did a BCD /export, took that and did a BCD /import on the production machine, then did a repair to let Win7 fix any discrepancies in the BCD.

This gets me to the point I am at now, the system continually reboots into recovery, does a full check, reboots, and goes throught the process continually. If I boot to my USB key and run a repair manually, I get a report of no problems being detected.This is extremely frustrating and strange (to say the least). I know the hardware is good (have run chkdsk, sfc, etc).

I'm hoping that someone out there (at MSFT) can scrape the internal KB and get a read on what's going on. I really do not want to reinstall everything from the ground up (no, I do not have a backup, I know, I know) and more to the point, as I've seen this on several good machines to date, I'd like to understand the root cause as mentioned above.Thanks for any and all help.

Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 1:19 PM

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Solved 64-bit Win7 Can't Handle 4 GB RAM Without BSOD/reboots?
I've put together a new clone system with the intent of running 64-bit Win 7 Pro on it. Until it becomes available, I have 32-bit XP Pro installed on it. Nothing is overclocked, in fact, the memory is "underclocked" for stability. I'd rather have it stable than gain some trivial performance improvement.

Previously, when I first built it up, I installed 64-bit Ubuntu "Jaunty" on it with 8 GB of RAM installed in it (4 X 2GB). The Linux distro installed and was perfectly stable.

To get a "heads up" on Win 7 issues, I downloaded and installed the trial Enterprise edition. Since I couldn't find any MD5 for the ISO, I downloaded the file twice and did a binary compare on the two downloads to ensure they were the same. Also, I see that the Java applet that downloads the ISO file also has some kind of "verify process" built-in that runs at the end of the download (a checksum?). I burned a DVD in XP Pro using Nero 8 with data verification on (after burning, it reads the burned disk and compares the disk's contents with the ISO file).

Since 32-bit XP Pro can't even fully use 4 GB, I uninstalled 4 of the 8 GB (two modules) when I installed XP on the box. When the entire 8 GB was in the MoBo, I ran MemTest86+ for long periods without errors. To do so, however, I had to "underclock" the memory to DDR2-800 speeds. It couldn't successfully run at DDR2-1066 speeds. A problem that, by checking various support BBS's, was found to be common with my MoBo and the RAM modules in question. After pulling the two modules, I left the memory timing at the conservative settings. I also let MemTest86+ run overnight and got no errors with the two modules installed. My plan is (or, was) to put the entire 8 GB of RAM back after I got 64-bit Windows 7 running on it.

Posted: 10-04-2009

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Win7 RC Crashes With BSOD
Starting IE8 or trying to run the device manager or the event viewer, WIN7 RC crashes with BSOD.

Clean installation on Sony Vaio VGC-JS1E_S, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo E7200 2.53GHz, 3072 MB RAM, Intel(R) G45/G43 Express Chipset, BIOS: AMI R0202T4, 09.02.2009, Version 2.5, System up to date.

Posted: Monday, May 11, 2009 10:43 AM

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Win7 Crashes When I Turn Off The Monitor
I'm using the RC1 (build 7100 I believe). I have an nVidia GeForce 8600 GT connected via DVI to an Acer p223w monitor set at 1680x1050 resolution. Windows 7 always crashes (reboots) whenever I turn off the monitor (i.e. I press the power button to turn it off). It doesn't crash if the monitor sleeps (via power saving feature); only when I physically turn the monitor off.

It doesn't crash Win XP when I turn off the monitor. And after I installed the June 18, 2009 nVidia (beta) Win 7 WHQL drivers, the problem seemed solved as it no longer crashed (tested only twice and on the same day though) when I turned the monitor off but after about a week or so, it started crashing again.

I'm currently using the 64 bit version of Win 7 RC1 but I had the same problem with the 32 bit beta version of Windows 7. With the launch date of Windows 7 coming soon, I hope to have this problem resolved by then.

Posted: Monday, July 06, 2009 1:36 AM

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Win7 64 Bit Crashes After Install On First Reboot
OK so after buying 64 bit, dual core laptop(l305-S5934 Toshiba) I had a copy of Win 7/64 bit, and after a partition of the drive loaded the 64bit version, and it lo0adedÂ and updated perfectly no issues, down loaded antivirus and few other neat things I wanted, and restarts to a blue screen crash dump.So figured it was bad load, formated that partition reloadd, did it again, ok figured it may be updates and drivers, does it even if I dont update, it just crashes only way ot bring it up is in safe mode.

so my quiestion is this as I am sort of a newb on lap tops, could this lap top not like the 64 bit version, yet even though I can up grade to Vista 64 bit?Toshiba Satelite,L305-S5934, 2.0 turion X2 64, RM-70, 3 GB pc-6400 DDR2 Ram, 250 gb hdd.Now its has ran perfectly with Win7 32bit since loading , in fact the Vista partition is having shut down issues and & is stable as a rock.Thanks for any ideas that might give me chance to get the 64bit version going is appreciated.

Posted: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 12:02 AM

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Win7 Crashes When Try To Boot Win98 In Virtual PC
So I wanted to install 98se in windows virtual PC just to test it out.The install process didn't go to well, but I finally managed to get to the "loading screen".And then windows 7 gave me a Blue screen that said that the 2nd core did not reply with a clock signal in the alloted time or something of the sort.I realize that WVPC doesn't support 98 (and I was just testing it out not really planning to use it too much) , so I'm not really asking for a fix, rather just alerting Microsoft about this.

Posted: Sunday, January 10, 2010 12:22 AM

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Cannot Install Win7 RC, Crashes And Restarts Continuously After First Reboot
I have an ASUS M2N68-VM MB with 4GB Ram and a 1TB HD. I have attempted to install Windows 7 64bit RC bit which I downloaded 2 days ago.Windows gets thru the install process, then re-boots the PC for the first time.During the first reboot, I get the the "Windows" screen where the red/green/blue balls move around, then the PC reset and Restarts.

It will continue to do that infinitum.If I try andÂ go to "Safe Mode"Â windows says it has not finished installed yet and will not let me.The PC was running Unbutu upÂ until now,Â and has been a stable box working as a Video Server. NothingÂ wrong with the hardware.Â

Posted: Monday, August 03, 2009 3:58 AM

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Win7 Crashes After Visual Studio 2010 Installation
Machine(Windows 7) crashes and restarts without any warning or message prompt. This has occured after the installation of Visual studio 2010. Having multiple instance of Visual studio 2010 IDE open causes this crash.

Posted: Monday, August 09, 2010 10:34 AM

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Win7 Laptop Can See XP By IP, Not By Name
I've read a lot of threads about Windows 7 servers not being able to see XP servers, but didn't see a lot of clear resolution to the issue.

Just got a new notebook with Win 7 Pro (32 bit). I cannot get it to see our office file server by name (633D). However, it can see it fine by IP address (192.168.0.103).

What should I look at first?

Posted: 11-30-2009

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Laptop Running On Battery In Win7
When running Windows 7 RC via battery, the graphics wash out to a point where using the laptop is near impossible. I have checked my power management settings and there seems to be no issue there. Any ideas?

Posted: Friday, May 08, 2009 7:13 PM

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Install Win7 On A Desktop And Laptop Using 1 License
Would I be allowed to install Windows 7 on a desktop and laptop using 1 license.

Posted: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 11:19 AM

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Laptop Stops Operating Often After Win7 Install
I installed windows 7 after it came out for the the very first time. No problems occured and i was very satisfied (all the issues vista had were solved). I went on and installed the next windows 7 version when the older version was expired in summer.

After the installation my computer stops working for some minutes and the ctrl+alt+del (windows task manager) does not respond too. It comes to normal operation again after some minutes with all the software running normal too.

Any ideas? I cant understand how the same operation software (windows 7) can cause such a problem.

Posted: 10-11-2009

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Laptop Can't Find Desktop Computer - Both Win7
I have a home network set up on my desktop running Windows 7. Homegroup is NOT activated. My laptop has INTERNET access from the wireless card to the router attached to the desktop, but I can't get the laptop to "recognize" the desktop computer. When I type in computer name, it tells me that it can't locate that computer.

So I can't print from my laptop, because the printer is attached to the desktop. I've tried everything I can think of -- renaming networks, etc. -- nothing has worked. The weird thing is that the laptop could find the printer last week, and I don't remember changing anything. Advice???

Posted: 2 Weeks Ago

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Vista Upgrade To Win7 Failed - Dell Precision M6300 Laptop
I am having problems upgrading Vista to Win7rc ultimate, on my 6 month old Dell Precision M6300 laptop. When I do the compatibility test online it says we are OK to install/upgrade. When it fails the install it gives me the below error message:

The following issues are preventing Windows from upgrading. Cancel the upgrade, complete each task, and then restart the upgrade to continue.

An error prevented a required compliance check from completing. Cancel the installation and try upgrading again.

Upgrading Windows will affect the following features:

Windows Mail is no longer included in Windows; however your e-mail files and settings will still be available after the upgrade. To send and receive e-mail you will need to install a new e-mail program. You can get e-mail programs from other software manufacturers or from the Microsoft website.

Upgrading Windows will affect the following devices and/or programs:

These devices might not work properly after the upgrade. Before upgrading, we recommend updating the drivers for these devices. Cancel the upgrade, open Control Panel and search for "update device drivers", or go to the device manufacturer's website to search for updated drivers.

CSR BlueCore Devices: DELL Mobile 360 in DFU - CSR Driver

I have disabled the Bluetooth in the BIOS, and turned off the 2 bluetooth service but is keeps finding it. How can I get the install to go through? I don't need the mail system or the Bluetooth. Is there a way to skip the compatibility check and force the install.

I have installed this Win7rc OS on 7 year old computers, why can I get it to load on my new Dell?

Posted: Thursday, May 14, 2009 4:42 PM

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EXPLORER.EXE Crashes, MMC.EXE Crashes, Moviemaker.exe Error
I want to love Win7 so badly, but this is just crazy. I'm about to go back to good old XP, simply for the stability. I'm about fed up with Windows 7 after only using it for two weeks. Off of a brand new and formatted clean install, with only Norton NIS 2010, Itunes, Adobe Reader, and Firefox 3.5.7 installed, I get constant explorer.exe crashes.

Shortly followed by an mmc.exe crash, then it just gets caught up in a never-ending explorer.exe crash that only a reboot resolves, for a short time. All drivers are up to date, and all Win 7 updates have been applied.

I've even formatted and re-installed Win7 only to have explorer begin crashing a day later. This is all on a stock Dell Inspiron 545 quad core, 8GB RAM, etc. I'm very tech savvy and am about jump off of the Win 7 bandwagon. Maybe the Apple Mac commercials are correct, another fumbled attempt at a stable OS from Microsoft?

After extensive reading, it appears that many others are suffering through this ____ also. Some get it while attempting to right click any icon, some when launching apps, some, like me , for no apparent reason at all. I don't ever get the BSOD, but the computer is essentially non-functional due to explorer restarting all the time.

I've done a ton of reading and have tried sfc /scannow, which found no errors. I've tried shellexview, to no avail for the context handlers. I've uninstalled and re-installed all non-MS apps. I've tried everything that I've read, and it eventually starts crashing again. It is very random, and I can find no patterns that cause the explorer crashing.

It works for two days, then goes haywire. Sometimes it only works for an hour before the explorer crashes begin. And yes, this is a fully licensed and legal copy of Win 7 Pro that I purchased through CDW. A side note, this computer ran WIN XP perfectly. All hardware has been tested and is perfect. If anyone has found a fix for this issue, then please chime in! Below are the errors that populate the Event Viewer:

Activation context generation failed for "c:program files (x86)windows livephoto galleryMovieMaker.Exe".Error in manifest or policy file "c:program files (x86)windows livephoto galleryWLMFDS.DLL" on line 8. Component identity found in manifest does not match the identity of the component requested.

Posted: Saturday, January 09, 2010 7:28 PM

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Extended Monitor From Laptop Doesn't Default Laptop When Unlocked
I have my HP 8530 docked on an HP docking station which has an external monitor connected to it. I extended my desktop between the 2 and made the external monitor the primary display. When i un-dock the laptop it does not auto change this and make the laptop screen the default again so all i can see is the extended portion of the laptop. Is this a feature or a glitch?

Posted: Tuesday, May 12, 2009 7:10 PM

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Win Can Access Xp Laptop But Xp Can't Access Win7
Why is it that I can do anything to my Xp laptop shares from Windows 7 but Xp asks for a username and password to access Win?

Am I supposed to know what this username and password is? Did I create a username and password while not paying attention?

I've turned off password protected sharing in advanced sharing settings, turned on file and print sharing, both computers are joined to WORKGROUP. I went through the file sharing setup wizard on Windows 7 which spat out a password at the end but like so what? There's no username to go with it and it doesn't work if you enter that password from Xp anyway.

Can someone please put me on the right track here?

I hope that MS realise that there's an ocean of idiots like me that just want to copy a file from PC A to PC B at home and that the wizard should set all this up for us and not make us google around for half an hour just to find out how to copy a file from box to box. Unless it's intentionally not backward compatible?

Posted: 06-09-2009

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Reboots Every Hour
i have had windows 7 64bit version installed for a couple months on my pc, and these 2 days it's kept rebooting. it goes off (no shut down message, it all happens all of a sudden), and after a second or 2 the machine boots up again. before loading the os the pc prompts me to choose if i want to start windows normally. i press enter and windows starts up with no problems at all. when a system error occurs, after rebooting it usually notifies me that the system was recovered from an error. but it displays no message.

now, my question is this. i heard that before the coming out of the windows seven final version, microsoft would have you install an update that reboots your machine every 2 hrs to "suggest" people buying the os... how kind of them, really... whatever, is this possibly the case? if this is, i guess i gonna downgrade to windows vista till i can buy windows 7.

Posted: 09-01-2009

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Win 7 Reboots On Its Own
I'm having a problem on my Gateway FX6800 with 64-bit Windows 7 RC, rebooting on its own. Â It always happens when there has been no activity on the computer for a while.Â I come back toÂ find the computer rebooted and when I log in, I get a message box that the systemÂ had shut down unexpectedly or something to that effect.Â

A friend suggested that there might be something happening when it is trying to go into a power saving mode, but I have been unable to confirm this.I have the PC set up to dual bootÂ Windows 7 and Vista.Â Â This has not happened in Vista for the 2 months that I have had the computer.Â

I only recently installed Windows 7, and I did not notice it until several days after I had Windows 7 installed.Â As much as I prefer Windows 7 over Vista, I'm going to return to Vista until I resolve this issue.If you have any suggestions on resolving this issue please let me know.

Posted: Friday, July 31, 2009 3:07 PM

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RC 7 Randomly Reboots
I am running Windows RC 7 with Weather Display.Â A personal weather station is connected via a USB port.Â Weather Display collects the information from the weather station via a data connection and then posts it to a website for viewing from any web browser. As such, the computer is left on 24/7. However, the computer now reboots almost daily between 0300 - 0430.Â This interrupts the flow of weather information updating the weather site.

The computer is a brand new Dell Studio Hybrid with 4 gig RAM.Â No additional software was installed other than what comes with the computer except for a firewall and antivirus program which have been successfully used on the previous computer with the same Weather Display software.Â In addition, it was successfully operating properly with Windows Vista before installing RC7. Ensuring updates have been installed, but issue continues.

Posted: Friday, June 05, 2009 12:57 AM

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Spontaneous Reboots
Here is the last time it crashed... every time it does i seem to get something different for codes on it and the only that seems to remain constant through out is windows 7 rc 7100.. if anyone has any ideas on this or would be able to help i can shoot you the rest of the bugcheck codes.

Log Name:Â Â Â Â Â System
Source:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power
Date:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 10/27/2009 10:29:53 AM
Event ID:Â Â Â Â Â 41
Task Category: (63)
Level:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Critical
Keywords:Â Â Â Â Â (2)
User:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â SYSTEM
Computer:Â Â Â Â Â MicahChester-PC
Description:

The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly.

Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
Â <System>
Â Â Â <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power" Guid="{331C3B3A-2005-44C2-AC5E-77220C37D6B4}" />
Â Â Â <EventID>41</EventID>
Â Â Â <Version>2</Version>
Â Â Â <Level>1</Level>
Â Â Â <Task>63</Task>
Â Â Â <Opcode>0</Opcode>
Â Â Â <Keywords>0x8000000000000002</Keywords>
Â Â Â <TimeCreated SystemTime="2009-10-27T15:29:53.600815200Z" />
Â Â Â <EventRecordID>14475</EventRecordID>
Â Â Â <Correlation />
Â Â Â <Execution ProcessID="4" ThreadID="8" />
Â Â Â <Channel>System</Channel>
Â Â Â <Computer>MicahChester-PC</Computer>
Â Â Â <Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
Â </System>
Â <EventData>
Â Â Â <Data Name="BugcheckCode">26</Data>
Â Â Â <Data Name="BugcheckParameter1">0x5002</Data>
Â Â Â <Data Name="BugcheckParameter2">0xfffff780c0000000</Data>
Â Â Â <Data Name="BugcheckParameter3">0x8dd6</Data>
Â Â Â <Data Name="BugcheckParameter4">0xff009f45fffffffe</Data>
Â Â Â <Data Name="SleepInProgress">false</Data>
Â Â Â <Data Name="PowerButtonTimestamp">0</Data>
Â </EventData>
</Event>

Posted: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 3:59 PM

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Periodic Self Reboots
I have installed the RC1 and am experiencing a periodic self reboot problem where the computer self reboots.Â This is an annoying problem to say the least does anyone have an answer to this problem as during the beta test cycle I had the same problem which lead me to abandon the windows 7 beta's.

Posted: Sunday, May 17, 2009 10:59 PM

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System Reboots Without Cause
I've built a Windows 7 based Media Center that thus far has worked out relatively well (still waiting for Web Guide and DVRMS Toolbox equivalents though). However, there have been two instances where the system seems to have rebooted without any reason. It's hard to tell what happened just before because the TV wasn't on when the reboots happened.

Here are some Application/Event logs from the last reboot.

The Desktop Window Manager has exited with code (0x40010004)

Windows detected your registry file is still in use by other applications or services. The file will be unloaded now. The applications or services that hold your registry file may not function properly afterwards.

DETAIL -

2 user registry handles leaked from RegistryUserS-1-5-21-1184975037-2693692086-1529535424-1002:

Process 2896 (DeviceHarddiskVolume2WindowsSystem32SearchIndexer.exe) has opened key REGISTRYUSERS-1-5-21-1184975037-2693692086-1529535424-1002Control PanelInternational

Process 4812 (DeviceHarddiskVolume2WindowsSystem32winlogon.exe) has opened key REGISTRYUSERS-1-5-21-1184975037-2693692086-1529535424-1002Control PanelInternational

System:

The process mst.exe has initiated the restart of computer NEMESIS on behalf of user NEMESISDVR User for the following reason: Application: Maintenance (Unplanned)
Reason Code: 0x40001
Shutdown Type: restart
Comment:

The process C:Windowssystem32winlogon.exe (NEMESIS) has initiated the restart of computer NEMESIS on behalf of user NEMESISDVR User for the following reason: No title for this reason could be found

Reason Code: 0x500ff
Shutdown Type: restart
Comment:

Posted: Monday, April 27, 2009 2:27 AM

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