Anyone have Windows 7 on their MBP getting random freezes?

Is anyone getting the same freezing issues as i am under windows 7 on their MBP? I have a late 2008 unibody 2.53 MBP and i installed windows 7 RC on my machine with laptopvideo2go drivers and i'm geting random freezing when i am just browsing the web in firefox. I can't tell if it's a driver that's causing the issue. I notice in the action center that it's recommending me install new chipset drivers from nvidia but i haven't installed it. Anyone having this issue?

 

Why oh why would you install WindoZZZe on that beautiful machine?

 

to play games.

 

Install those chipset drivers. They are important, and will resolve the unrecognized "Coprocessor" driver in Device Manager.

Curious, if Windows is TELLING you that the lack of this driver is causing the problem, why haven't you just installed it?

 

yes, i did have them and they were due to the trackpad drivers, since then i've uninstalled it and have been using XP with a quirky trackpad

 

How about your MBP's temp ?

 

For games, I recommend XP SP3 or even Vista SP2.

 

LOL.. Windows is pretty as well. Pretty machine goes with pretty OS.

Anyways.. try uninstalling the laptop video to go driver and see if that solves the problem. A lot of the times, 3rd party driver have flaws and holes in the, especially in early stages where both the OS and the driver is in beta stage.

 

if you are literally just playing games, might as well be using xp or maybe vista.

 

Random freezes on Windows..

 

I assume that the bootcamp drivers should be sufficient and i did already install the chipset drivers already but it's still telling me to install it. I checked the device manager and everything shows up.

I'll try re-installing the video drivers again. See if that helps. Otherwise, i'm going to try and install a fresh version of Windows 7 RC again, this time with 64bit, if it still freezes i'll revert back to vista.

 

Very HOT, although i don't have any temp monitor software in window so i can't say for sure.

 

The Boot Camp drivers assume XP or Vista. They don't know Windows 7. In fact, attempting to install them via the direct autoplay method won't even work, the installer doesn't recognize the OS and won't run.

Note that the chipset drivers are not video drivers. They are specific to the internal components of the notebook, like the onboard ethernet, and some of the related parts that the base logic board has on it. The video drivers are a separate thing.

 

I believe onboard ethernet has its on driver, at least in windows. Chipset driver is the driver for the northbridge and south bridge.

 

I have Windows 7 RC on my 2008 MBP and I do not get any random freezes, but I do know that the stock battery on my MBP does not last that long using Windows. I hope this helps. God Bless

 

Yeah i was running windows 7 rc on my old 2.2 MBP also and it ran awesome. Now on my new one, i'm having alot more problems. I have a feeling it's a driver issue.

 

why do so many people on here actually install a beta OS to play games on a non-windows computer? Having stable versions of windows working on apple hardware is already trouble enough. I tried bootcamp a while back, but it kept crashing Vista. It was too much trouble, so I now run a stripped down version of XP with no problem whatsoever. If you're going to try out beta OSes, seriously consider virtualizing them. Otherwise, XP still plays games better

 

I guess quite a number of apple user are *trends* who wants/need the latest stuff even if it's pre-production.

 

hm.... I thought the whole point of getting Macs is that they don't require your constant devotion.

 

Well i assume that when you're trying out a beta OS you would actually use it and install your day to day applications and actually use it. I mean that's what its for to test, otherwise what's the point? If people don't test then they wouldn't know how good or how bad something is.

 

Also to anyone having this issue, i found this blog that may have a fix.

http://blog.animosity.co.za/?p=27

I'm going to try this later at home and see if it works.

 

Same here, it ran flawlessly. I have read that there are a lot of issues related to bootcamp drivers on the unibodies, which I'm sure Apple will fix once 7 is released.

On a side note, I have 7 RC running on three machines, one is a six year old dell desktop, and they've all been super stable. Not a single BSOD, not a single power-management-related freeze etc... (Things that I did experience with Vista and XP). I'm really liking 7.

 

It works fine, the bootcamp drivers are TERRIBLE. I have always pulled drivers right from the component manufacturer and NOT the so called manufacturer. get your drivers right from nvidia or from windows update as theirs are current and working well, etc. but you will need to exteract the touchpad driver

ATC I concur, have win 7 running on everything from a P4MULV 1.2ghz with 512 Ram to an i7 with 8 GB and oddly enough its stable and only gives me a hard lock when I do something REALLY stupid ( yes I have it on UBMBP's and an imac as well )

 

Yup enjoying the hell out of Windows 7. Still using my Mac for my personal stuff. But for work related things Windows is still king. (For my engineering software).

Although Running 10.6 with Win 7 and both are extremely stable. I was very surprised with Snow Leopard and how well it runs. And everything worked great out of the gate.

So I strongly feel there will 2 great OS's in the near future. Man May have one the last round(Vista) but Win 7 will be a real competitor.

 

Does anyone have a direct download for teh BT drivers. I am having issues with BT in 7229 build. Any help would be greatly aprreciated.

 

The driver kit covers a few different components. On mine it added the Coprocessor driver (SMU I think it's called) and it also upgraded the ethernet driver, since the MBP uses an nVidia ethernet chip.

 

Well i did another fresh install, this time with Windows 7 x64 and manually installing some of the apple drivers and separately installing laptopvideo2go and so far the machine has been very stable. I haven't had any freezes or lockups. Hopefully it works out well!

 

I had this problem too, frustrated me for ages!

It seems to be the video card changing clocks dynamically, you need to force the clocks to be constant in a program called rivatuner. Thorough google searches for days finally brought me to the apparent solution.

Although I cant find the link now...

This appears to have fixed it for me, but I don't use windows much on mine - I have a desktop for that.

 

i posted the link up above which has instructions on keeping the clocks constant.

 

Awesome. Thanks for the link Jessica. Although i have resolved the issue, I'm sure i will probably need it later or know people that may need it.

 

to the one who said install vista: hahahaha! vista uses much more resources than xp or 7. to the op:try installing the latest wireless drivers,gpu n audio. the drivers that apple has written purely s*ck. we'll have to wait for the next revisîon of bootcamp to solve this problem.

 

I just found this thread via Google because I've been having the same problems running RC 7 on my unibody MBP. For some reason I installed the 32-bit rather than the 64 and the coprocessor is indeed showing up in the device manager flagged. Should I try and use that video clocking application mentioned above or just reinstall x64?

 

the coprocessor driver is also missing on mine but that doesnt affect performance. my w7 freezes less often than my vista did. update your wireless card, gpu and sound drivers to the latest available ones.

 

I've also read that there are issues with powermizer on nvidia drivers which causes some freezing. Another options is to disable powermizer via your bios. There are a few threads on this forum discussing it.

 

Also you could use dox's drivers and also nvidia system tools (Previously ntune) and then underclock your card.