Windows 7 Hanging - System Unusable?
Dec 5, 2012
We have a Maingear tower gaming system that is hanging after login for 20 to 30 minutes. This doesn't happen in Safe Mode; however we have reinstalled Windows 7 from scratch 4 times and reconfigured the SSD back to RAID 1 (former problem had them in another config). Patriot RAM 12GB passes with flying colors with Memtest 86+. We are at our wits end - tried just about everything other than dropping it off a tall building. We've removed extraneous cards, disabled legacy USB in BIOS, all to no avail. About 1 in 10 times it boots up and stays clean. Otherwise, it's useless and can't be used (just a spinning blue windows symbol).Even if you wait 1/2 hour and it clears up, it will rear it's ugly head later, making the system unusable.
This system has a clean install with only Zone Alarm installed (has the problem without Zone Alarm, too).We have very little to no BSOD and fan is running fine.Shall we pull the NVIDIA card?There was a shorted USB panel that was replaced by Maingear before this happened, but that may be a red herring. The panel works fine now.This is an i7 970 3.2 GHz 6 core system, ASUS X58 Sabertooth motherboardI thought it was hardware - not so sure now as Safe Mode seems stable
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Dec 8, 2012
We have a Maingear gaming system that is hanging after login for 20 to 30 minutes. This doesn't happen in Safe Mode; however we have reinstalled Windows 7 from scratch 4 times and reconfigured the SSD back to RAID 1 (former problem had them in another config). Patriot RAM 12GB passes with flying colors with Memtest 86+. We are at our wits end - tried just about everything other than dropping it off a tall building. We've removed extraneous cards, disabled legacy USB in BIOS, all to no avail. About 1 in 10 times it boots up and stays clean. Otherwise, it's useless and can't be used (just a spinning blue windows symbol).
I thought it was hardware - not so sure now as Safe Mode seems stable.We have little to no BSOD, fan is running fine. Should we try removing the NVIDIA video card?This is an i7 970 3.2 GHz 6 core system with an ASUS Sabertooth X58 motherboard, 2 1 TB drives set to RAID 1 mirroring.The system is back to clean install with only Zone Alarm installed (problem happens without Zone Alarm, too).Is there any program that could give us insight as to what the system is doing when it locks up?This system had a shorted USB panel that was replaced by maingear and it is appears to have started around that time; but that may be a red herring. The USB panels works fine now (nothing is plugged into it right now).
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Jul 17, 2010
I've been using win 7 ultimate (64bit) for almost week now. In that period I had one serious problem repeating 5 times if I'm not mistaken.
Message: "The file system structure on the disk is corrupt and unusable. Please run the chkdsk utility on the volume Data."
Volume Data is logical drive. Lots of personal data is stored there using WindowsXp. As soon as I installed win 7 and tried to move some data from System partition to Data partition my PC started having these issues. I've run some diagnostic tools that win 7 offers and learned that Dirty Flag bit was raised on logical drive. I've run chkdsk utility along with checking bad sectors and problem was fixed but only for a day. Problem usually arises when I try storing data on that drive. Chkdisk fixes this but on very short period of time. PC is year old and in that period I have never experienced any kind of trouble with HDD.
This message keeps repeating : A fatal hardware error has occurred.
Reported by component: Processor Core
Error Source: Machine Check Exception
Error Type: Unknown Error
Processor ID: 2
I have large amount of data stored on Data partition there for I'm not able to format that partition.
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Jul 17, 2010
So I've been using my Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit install on my Sony AR670 laptop for a couple months straight now with no real issues but this one that started last week with no apparent cause and is getting very annoying.The system 'hangs' or 'freezes' in a way when I do certain things like create a new file/folder or select a file from a 'browse' file box, especially say when I upload a file to a forum, like this one, using the "Manage Attachments" option... I use Chrome but this happens even in Windows so I'm sure it's not Chrome related... it has something to do with file access is my guess.During the 'hang' I can still move the mouse and scroll windows but I can't press buttons, open menus, or issue any 'commands' if I do I get the windows 'alert' sound and nothing happens. The length of time of the 'hang' varies from a couple seconds to maybe 15 seconds or so when really bad.Because it's so hard to describe exactly I haven't had much luck searching for a similar problem.It also happens when renaming or moving files... The file will seem to revert back to its original name for a few seconds during which time I can't really do anything. If I try to rename it or move it again I get a message the file no longer exists then it will change to the name I gave it the first time.
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I bought an acer 4830TG in august 2011. Here's the description: AS4830TG-2434G75MN | Product Model..Everything worked fine with it. It was a very good machine... So when it was stolen from me I bought the exact same model and things went sour:I burned the recovery discs and subsequently installed a fresh Windows 7 Ultimate x64.Then I carefully installed all the necessary drivers etc... Exactly as i did with the first one.The problem is that every time i start an application that read/writes to the hard drives intensively, everything slows down, hangs or crash.When making a copy from my desktop computer over the network (directly through a crossed cat5e cable), the throughput initially reaches 50-70 Mb/s and rapidly comes down to 10-15 Mb/s. At this point, I can't to do anything with my laptop while copying in background... My browser is unresponsive for several seconds at a time, then is responsive again, then is unresponsive etc... If I try to play a video with VLC it seems it can't buffer more than 10 seconds of video before buffering again for several seconds (I solved that particular issue by moving the video file to a ramdisk prior to playback)... Simply opening My documents or the control panel takes more than a minute.
On rare occasions, the system crash and I get a BSOD. Note however that if I let the copy finish without doing anything else, everything works fine except for the low throughput. I know I can expect more than 15 Mb/s because with the first 4830TG it was generally over 50Mb/s.This kind of behavior also occurs when I'm burning a disc, when �torrent is checking a file, when I'm copying files from one partition to another etc.I can't figure out where lies the problem:
- all drivers are listed as "up to date" by windows update and there is no unknown device listed.
- RAM usage appears normal, the system is not overloaded with unnecessary applications. (At boot it uses about 1.2Go with AVG 2012 free, daemon tools, Malwarebyte's and dropbox)..
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Sep 19, 2012
I have two problems dealing with Windows Explorer on my 32/64 bit microsoft MSI Laptop. I use Firefox browser not Windows Explorer which keeps getting involved/active anyway I guess.Whenever I try to use the search feature (for the computer not the internet) the computer gets hungup and says Windows Explorer is not responding what do I want to do so I select Stop Program and it usually does stop but once or twice had to shut it down.Don't know why this is happening and if anyone has ideas I'd love to hear them.So - I figured to just remove Windows Explorer but I can't find it anywhere on my computer.On two separate methods to remove it Windows Explorer is not on the list and if I go into search looking for it I get hung up SPINNING WHEEL AGAIN.Which is interesting because I have the same problem for different reasons I guess right now on my Apple Snow Leopard too so I'm having a special I guess on SPINNING WHEELS. I forget who did that song back in the 70s but maybe I should look it up.
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Jan 2, 2010
I noticed something similar happening in my previous laptop using Vista, but in Windows 7 it's almost unusable. As I'm typing the cursor will change positions either on the application (to another area of same application), or will jump to another document. At times I'll start to highlight something in Word to delete it, and as I hit "delete" the cursor switches to another part of the document, highlighting another paragraph and deleting it instead of what I was trying to delete.
At other times I see the cursor leave the document, go to one of the icons of another application at the bottom of the screen. Just as I hit "return" the cursor is now in another document and that document comes up on the screen instead of the one I was using. At first I was losing whole documents. But then I got smart enough to realize that they had been closed, or stuck somewhere, and I eventually could find them instead of losing all of the work I had done.
I've been composing emails and suddenly the email disappears. It was sent before I finished composing it. This happens about one every minute or so, and sometimes even more often. I can see the hourglass pop up on the screne as I move the mouse. When it pops up either the screen zoom changes, screen size changes, or jumps off to one of the other icons as I mentioned above. It looks to me as if the operating system is doing something else at those times, and if I'm going very fast (I type at about 100 wpm and up) that keystrokes get stuck somewhere I didn't intend for them to be.
I make that assumption because when I move the mouse fast and see the hourglass pop up that's when it happens with the mouse, so I'm assuming that it happens with keystrokes as well. But that's a guess. I also notice that if my finger drags across the mousepad on the laptop that sometimes that can cause this erratic behavior. Or if as I move the mouse instead of being in the center of the sensor pad I'm at the edge, that can create some real weird results.
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Jan 6, 2012
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After I logon to my Windows 7 machine, the computer seems to freeze. Every once in ahwile I'll be able to do a little but it is painfully slow(3-5 mintues for one action). Everything runs normally in safe mode.Originally I thought my virus software of kaspersky 2012 was causing problems at startup, so unwisely I removed it. I can't get the machine to run long enough to get it reinstalled.The computer will start and run in safe mode. I have downloaded combofix. It runs and creates the log. It runs at an acceptable speed in normal mode after the combofix reboot where it is creating the log. However I can't launch any program because it says that a registry is marked for deletion. When I restart it goes back the computer being unusable.
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Jul 12, 2012
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Sep 10, 2012
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Here's what I've checked / done (not necessarily in this order).My BIOS is the most recent (A11), and BIOS diagnostics come up clean. Several safe mode virus & malware scans have come up clean. Windows Start-up Repair found no problem. I've run a clean boot to no avail -- Advanced Search The power plan seems normal, and I've (temporarily) uninsalled all anti-virus & malware programs. I've run disk clean-up and defragged the hard disk System properties, Advanced, Performance, Settings is set to 'Adjust for best performance' My Windows Experience Index scores range from 6.9 (processor) to 4.1 (graphics). Running a Windows System Health Report doesn't return anything. CHKDSK (right-click c:, properties, tools, error-checking) did find and repair some HDD errors. I'd attach the CHKDSK and WININIT logs, but neither is to be found in either my or the Admininstrator event logs. I've run SFC.EXE three times, and each time the verification only gets to 10% then fails, stating the following: "Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation."
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Mar 27, 2012
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Jun 13, 2012
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Jan 25, 2012
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Jul 30, 2012
A few months ago I built my first PC. All parts were brand new, except the graphics card. I couldn't afford the one I wanted so I used an old Radeon HD 4670 - a card that doesn't match the rest of the system in power.Maybe a week ago, I started getting blue screens. At first I'd be able to use the computer for hours before the BSOD. It would generally go by too fast for me to read what it said, though I caught a few error messages, which I will post below. I'd say about 5 days ago is when it became unusable. Sometimes I get a few minutes before it crashed, sometimes only 40 seconds or so. I have been using a family member's (extremely slow) Mac laptop for internet use, and also an iPod touch on the side. Needless to say, I'm beyond frustrated that I can't access any of my music or use a speedy computer to do what I want. I'm worried that I did something wrong while building - but why would it take months to become apparent?
- I ran memtest on the advice of a forum member. Two passes is what they recommended, and no errors popped up.
- I scheduled a check disk, although when I rebooted my computer to let it run, it only took 5-10 minutes - shouldn't it take WAY longer than that?
- System Restore. I tried yesterday and got a BSOD during. Today I was able to restore to the 24th (that was my earliest restore point), however about 2 minutes afterward I got the usual BSOD.
BSOD Errors:It has shown so many errors - it seems to literally be a new one each time. I don't know if I've even seen the same one twice. Sometimes it's on the top, in capital letters, and sometimes on the bottom, with an extension (a file). These are the ones I spotted (especially after I told it not to restart on error so I could read them):
- SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION
- IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
- CACHE_MANAGER
- atikmdag
- cng.sys
- ntfs.sys
- fltmgr.sys
- TDY.sys
Here is my dxdiag, from the 25th.
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System Information
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Time of this report: 7/25/2012, 14:38:50
Machine name: JAMES-PC
[code]....
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Sep 6, 2012
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1. After that I tried to use the drive on several computers to check, if only my girlfriends MacBook was the Problem:
My notebook: Sony Vaio VPC CB3S1E with Windows 7
Her Macbook: MacBook Pro 13" Max OS X Lion
My notebook using Ubuntu 12.04 disc version
PC's in university which use Windows XP.
2. After we saw that the flash drive wasnt working on either of the systems, I looked on the internet for a solution. I did the same things which are described in THIS thread under Step 1 to 4.
3. Then I used HP Format Utility like Step 4 said. I used the software and now her MacBook doesnt recognize the flash drive at all and Windows 7 does recognize it, but when i click on it, Windows says that I have to insert a removable media in E:
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Apr 4, 2010
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My build is:
i5 661 3.33GHz cpu
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Jul 9, 2011
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Oct 10, 2011
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Oct 13, 2011
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Dec 18, 2012
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