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    Sony Vaio AW11Z and Windows 7 64bit clean install gone horrible

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by jolino, Nov 18, 2009.

  1. jolino

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    Hi all,

    Last week I installed on my AW11Z's 2nd disk Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit.
    I installed it on the 2nd disk as a way of preventing any problems that might occur, and having the possibility of roll back to Vista. That proved to be a wise decision.

    Windows 7 has, until now, experienced more crashes that all that Vista had in 3 years in all my machines.

    I installed all the drives that sony indicated as suitable for windows 7 64 bits. I really can't get a hold on what is causing the installation to go nuts, but I guess it might be something related to the Nvidia card/driver.

    Yesterday, for three consecutive times, while connected to a video projector, the entire system has frozen. At the time, I had no software running.

    At times, if I stay AFK, I'll come back to only find it frozen. The same happened while watching a video on Media Player. Also happened while listening music on Firebird.

    This may be important: the mouse pointer is still responsive. Everything else doesn't.

    Last, but not the least, the laptp won't wake from hybernation.

    Does anyone else experienced similar problems?

    I really need some advice... :confused:

    Thanks in advance,
    Jorge Olino


    Sony Vaio AW11Z
    Intel Core 2 Duo T9400
    NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
    4GB RAM
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
     
    jolino, Nov 18, 2009
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