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Windows 7 endless reboot answer evades Microsoft | |
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| Time: 10:29 EST/15:29 GMT | News Source: ComputerWorld | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Users remained stymied today by endless reboots after trying to upgrade their PCs to Windows 7, according to messages posted on Microsoft's support forum. |
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| #1 By 26684 (12.10.219.161) at Thursday, October 29, 2009 01:01:00 PM |
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Could be a problem in the BIOS. Had some problems loading Vista on a Dell... that had the SATA HDD set to AHIC vs the Standard Mode. Once I changed it to Standard Mode, this corrected the problem and allowed me to install Vista.
Could be the same thing in Windows 7??? |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, October 29, 2009 02:31:00 PM |
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I upgraded to 7 this past weekend. As much as I criticized Vista, one thing it never did for me was crash or hang. After I installed 7, using Acronis TrueImage to restore my data via external USB drive completely froze my PC dead on several occasions. I backed-up and restored data may times with Vista without ever having a problem. With 7, lockups galore when pushing the USB bus. I fixed my problem by getting an eSATA connector and jacking into that instead of USB. I don't see the perceived speedup of 7 as some users claim, but I do notice that Explorer isn't quite as twitchy, and the object tree doesn't snap around so much when I'm dragging stuff over. Other than that, it looks & works exactly like Vista. ANother side effect I'm not pleased with is the nVidia drivers that ship with 7 make my monitor randomly blank out for 1-2 seconds every couple of minutes. Very annoying but I can live with it. Didn't do it under Vista.
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| #3 By 23275 (68.117.163.128) at Thursday, October 29, 2009 09:39:02 PM |
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I'm not pleased with is the nVidia drivers that ship with 7 make my monitor randomly blank out for 1-2 seconds every couple of minutes. Very annoying but I can live with it. Didn't do it under Vista.
Latch, uninstall the driver you are running and install the latest from Nvidia's site. Have you done that? |
| #4 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Friday, October 30, 2009 08:09:07 AM |
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#3: Not yet. I'm still in the slog of reinstalling everything. Once I have all my apps installed & configured, I'll start with the tweaking.
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| #5 By 29967 (72.221.79.220) at Saturday, October 31, 2009 09:00:51 AM |
| How much you wanna bet they'll find a way to blame the hard working beta testers for this? :-p |
| #6 By 15406 (99.240.77.173) at Sunday, November 01, 2009 01:51:34 PM |
| #3: Latest nVidia drivers (7600GT card) do not change the problem. I still get intermittent screen blanking every 2-3 minutes. |
| #7 By 23275 (68.117.163.128) at Monday, November 02, 2009 10:32:01 AM |
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#6, Change the video card out and seek an RMA for it (provided the manufacturer supports lifetime replacements (e.g., BFG)).
Curious, what display and connector type are you using? |
