Just installed Windows 7, now constant freezing?

I went from RC to this, finally, and now my computer is freezing all the time. I used the cd that with with the upgrade from the company (ASUS). I thought that maybe it's a driver issue, but I'm not sure what to do from here.

Any help is appreciated.

 

If there's enough time between the freezes, download and install the Windows updates. When I first installed Win7, I had BIG problems with my internet cutting out every 15-20 minutes. I did the Windows updates a few at a time due to the time limits on my internet connection, and one of 'em solved the problem.... you may have the same type of problem here, or it may be a driver issue. If you could provide the exact Asus model number, we can try to locate current drivers for you, or you can simply check the Asus web site yourself. Good luck! Let us know how it goes!

 

I just did the Windows update. How do I find out the exact model that I have?

 

If this is a laptop or netbook then there should be a sticker on the underside with the information on it.

 

It is a PC

 

if you can download it and get it to run you could try Speccy from Piriform. it tells me more than i'll ever know how to use.

 

Go to the ASUS website, click on the new user and it should show you what you need. Link;
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us:wave:wave

 

Got that, what should I post?

 

never mind, open the program and hit ctrl+printscreen and post the image. the boards here don't like the speccy file extension for some reason

 

Here is the report from Everest. Also, I do not have an original version of Windows, it came pre-installed on the PC.

 

This is killing me, I have to use my laptop now to get to this site to post.

 

This is weird, because the computer doesn't completely freeze, it's just the monitor basically, because if I'm playing music, it continues to play. HMMM

 

o.k. You mean you don't have the disc for Windows 7 RTM? I thought in your OP you said you installed over RC?

 

I did..I bought the PC with Vista, installed RC and then put the upgrade over it. There was no disc for Vista.

 

That's a great suggestion!

I would also like to point out what has already been said. That is, at this point, save your data and format your HD using Killdisk as a suggestion and reinstall the RTM Windows 7 and see how things are.

 

I have noticed this a couple of the times that it's happened. Which intel chipset driver do I need to download?

Also, if I need to format to Factory, how do I go about doing this, and finding it there is a factory image to restore to?

 

So, I found the recovery disc that came with my PC. Went all the way back to factory, and then used the W7 disc with a custom, fresh install, and used the drives disc that they sent me with the W7 upgrade, and I'm still having the same problem.

 

So it just happened again, and I get the blue screen where Windows went to this to prevent damage. It's doing the memory dump, and then it reboots.

 

That's not completely true. When you run Kill Disk, you can select which partition you want to run it on.

 

I had this option when I system restored. I did it all to a single partition.

 

Yes, PC was working perfect with the RC version.

No, I did not run that, as I didn't think that I had to.

No yellow !'s anywhere in device manager.

Chipset and graphics cards are updated with the disc that I got with my upgrade.

Just a minute ago it happened, and all I was doing was browsing the internet, I clicked minimize to go back to my desktop, and it froze. It is completely random when this happens.

 

I've been trying to research this to no avail.

 

On this note, I just found a random post on the nets on some forum about people having this issue while they run the newest version of AVG. Something that W7 does not like. I'm going to try Avast and see what that does.

 

And this didn't work either. All was well for most of the night, as I browsed the internet and listening to music. And then BAM, frozen.

 

At this point, considering all the troubleshooting you've done, have you considered my suggestion to backup all your stuff and then do a clean install of the Win 7 RTM?

 

I have tried that already as well. I wonder if it's because I am running Home Premium? The RC I was running was Ultimate.

 

OK wait, I didn't see that. You have formatted your HD? I'm not talking about using the factory restore thing either, I'm talking pull out Kill Disk, kill the whole thing then reinstall Windows and all drivers?

 

I haven't done that, no. I haven't used KillDisk yet, because other people in this thread said that I shouldn't. I would be willing to try this though. Would you mind walking me through it? For a noob please, and obviously don't want to F anything up with my computer.

 

Their concerns are about the recovery partition and deleting it. Kill Disk however lets you choose which partition you want to wipe. You can even just wipe that portion of the HD and go from there.

There is one thing though I would like you to try beforehand.

I would pop open the case, and see how many sticks of RAM you have installed. Remove all except one and then boot the computer and use it and see if the problem returns. If not, then start adding back a stick a RAM at a time. If the problem returns right after you installed the last stick, then likely that is your problem. Bad RAM stick, or it could be that RAM slot. In such a case, take one of the known good sticks of RAM, plug it into that slot and see if the problem occurs. If not, its just the RAM.


Get back to me here and let me know what happened.