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    Windows 7 pausing!

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by chidesd, May 23, 2009.

  1. chidesd

    chidesd Notebook Evangelist

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    I need help Everytime i boot windows 7 it pauses. sometime after i open IE and sometime right after it boots. I have a Sager 8660 with 4 gigs of ram idk whats going on.
     
    chidesd, May 23, 2009
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    McGrady Notebook Virtuoso

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    What do you mean "pause." As in, you click IE, lags a bit(or hard drive whirring) then it finally opens?
     
    McGrady, May 23, 2009
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  3. chidesd

    chidesd Notebook Evangelist

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    my whole system pauses all I can do is move the mouse. and it doesnt unpause I have to restart it and the process repeats.
     
    chidesd, May 23, 2009
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    I used to get that on Vista just before my laptop hard drive died
     
    BenUK, May 23, 2009
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  5. goofball

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    do you have an SSD?
     
    goofball, May 23, 2009
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    No standard HDD
     
    BenUK, May 23, 2009
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  7. BinkNR

    BinkNR Knock off all that evil

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    Did this start happening after you installed some software?
     
    BinkNR, May 23, 2009
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  8. chidesd

    chidesd Notebook Evangelist

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    instead of installing 7 on a clean hdd i just upgraded my current vista hdd so all my files were still on there. the pausing has been going on since i first installed it. and i have a regular laptop hdd.
     
    chidesd, May 23, 2009
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    StormEffect Lazer. *pew pew*

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    I had an issue where my Windows 7 RC1 computer would hard freeze for up to a minute at random points during the day. It turned out to be badly installed videocard drivers. I ended up uninstalling them and running driver cleaner (and then continually uninstalling them until no more video drivers were installed) and then went to Nvidia's website and reinstalled their Windows 7 drivers.

    After that, all of my pausing issues disappeared.
     
    StormEffect, May 24, 2009
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    This is a perfect example of why you never should do an upgrade of a new OS, but only do a clean install! It could be a few things as mentioned already in this thread. I'd certainly try uninstalling the video driver and then downloading the proper one for your setup.
     
    OTACORB, May 25, 2009
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  11. chidesd

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    its not the Video or audio drivers i already tried differnt video drivers
     
    chidesd, May 25, 2009
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    My suggestion would to just start over and actually do a clean install this time. You could be toying with this for awhile trying to figure out which driver is screwed up. Clean install will likely solve the problem, so most of us that have done so have not had such issues.
     
    OTACORB, May 25, 2009
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  13. chidesd

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    guess that means I have to go get a external hdd for backup purposes.
     
    chidesd, May 26, 2009
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    Unless you have a huge amount of data to backup, I'd opt to go with a CD/DVD R-RW myself. This way you'll have an optical device to do installations as well as backup.
     
    OTACORB, May 26, 2009
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    The exact same thing is happening to me on a Acer Aspire 9410Z on a brand new HDD. I'm glad I'm not the only one, I was afraid there was a problem with my new drive. I'll try new video drivers and see what happens.
     
    Diesel63, Jun 4, 2009
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