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    Windows 7 crashing my G1Sn-X1

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by sharke, Jun 26, 2009.

  1. sharke

    sharke Newbie

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    What a bummer. I installed Windows 7 on my Asus lappy and everything is absolutely fantastically perfect - except for the fact that it crashes once or twice a night. It locks up, I get the "busy" mouse icon, the hard disk light stays solid and nothing is responsive. No alt-ctrl-del, nothing. After about a minute or so, both laptop screen and my external monitor go black and I can't do anything. Then after another minute or so I get a dialog box titled "Failure to display security and shut down options" with a message telling me that the logon process was unable to display security and logon options when ctrl-alt-del was pressed. When I click OK I get my desktop back and everything's back to normal.

    At first I thought it was happening because of Firefox but now I've had it happen in Visual C++ Express too. Those are the two programs I almost always have open so I'm not certain at all if either is to blame.

    Does anyone have any ideas of what might be causing it, maybe in terms of drivers etc? Windows 7 pretty much downloaded everything automatically when I installed it and apart from the crash, everything works perfectly. I know this is just a pre-release and you're not supposed to rely on it but damn, I don't want to have to go back to Vista now.
     
    sharke, Jun 26, 2009
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    This could be due to bad drivers or applications, as the system does not become completely unresponsive.

    Instead of relying on the drivers downloaded automatically by Windows, I would recommend that you use:
    - recent drivers posted by the individual component's manufacturer (e.g., Realtek for audio card, nVidia for GPU etc.)
    - where possible, the Vista drivers on your drivers CD (most of them should work in W7)

    Also have a look in the Event Viewer, perhaps you can immediately identify the faulty driver or application that causes the problems.
     
    E.B.E., Jun 27, 2009
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  3. hidavi

    hidavi Notebook Evangelist

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    I ran Windows 7 for 3 months on my G1S with no issues. Been running it for 2 weeks on my new G50VT no probs.
     
    hidavi, Jun 27, 2009
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  4. Felzio

    Felzio Notebook Enthusiast

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    hi buddy,
    i noticed that you said you ran win 7 on G1S with no issues.
    i need a driver called ATK0100 ACPI. i can't get it installed in my Win 7 ultimate 64bit RTM.
    can you help me?
     
    Felzio, Aug 23, 2009
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    Felzio Notebook Enthusiast

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    nvm buddy i got it working :)
     
    Felzio, Aug 23, 2009
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    Reaper05 Notebook Evangelist

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    i had a g1sn-x1 and ran win 7 beta on it. 32bit version. 64 bit for some reason crashed and had issues.
     
    Reaper05, Aug 23, 2009
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    hi, i just got windows7 and i can't get the ATK0100 ACPI to install, thanks for your help
     
    The13thGOD, Oct 24, 2009
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