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    windows 7 crashes once a day

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Sir Punk, May 27, 2009.

  1. Sir Punk

    Sir Punk Notebook Deity

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    is anybody else getting this problem? everything just freezes and there's not much I can do besides powering the laptop down.

    I installed the latest chipset drivers.

    what could it be? video drivers are up to date, they are what W 7 installed, because the ones I get from Dell are older. I am installing only one driver at a time so I can troubleshoot better, but I can't imagine anything else to be installed.

    Once it crashed when I was in firefox, another time when i was in skype.

    I see no pattern at all.
     
    Sir Punk, May 27, 2009
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    kegobeer 1 hr late but moving fast

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    Instead of using the Windows drivers, install all of the Dell Vista drivers - including the system software and chipset.
     
    kegobeer, May 28, 2009
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  3. Sir Punk

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    it just happened again. I installed chipset, video and audio drivers. what else?
     
    Sir Punk, May 28, 2009
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  4. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    Could it be a hardware problem?
     
    HTWingNut, May 28, 2009
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  5. McGrady

    McGrady Notebook Virtuoso

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    You might want to check the Event Log or the Problems Reports and Solutions. They will tell you something.
     
    McGrady, May 28, 2009
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  6. OTACORB

    OTACORB Notebook Consultant

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    I've never had a window 7 crash as of yet and I am running it on 3 different computers. Netbook, Notebook and Desktop!
     
    OTACORB, May 29, 2009
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    IE randomly crashes here although all hardware drivers are properly installed + updates done :(
     
    MaXimus, May 29, 2009
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  8. Sir Punk

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    that's a good idea, I did check but the only critical report is due to the fact that I had to shut down the machine improperly.

    Also in the problem reports there's nothing related to that.

    For example it happened twice that when I start watching a video on firefox on youtube as soon as the audio starts it goes into a loop and like half second of sound keep looping, imagine that, the only way to stop it is to force shut down.

    this never happened under vista.

    what should I be looking for in the event log?
     
    Sir Punk, May 30, 2009
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  9. newsposter

    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    what video player are you running? Chances are that particular player isn't fully workable with Win7. Lots of things aren't. Win7 is months away from release, lots of proggys and drivers will need a rewrite to run properly.
     
    newsposter, May 30, 2009
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  10. idq000

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    Hmm...do you have a breadcrumb stuck in your mouse? Just kidding. :p
     
    idq000, May 30, 2009
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  11. Sir Punk

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    just youtube, so flash, i don't think it's incompatible.

    LMAO. let me double check. :D

    on a serious note. I can't install the intel drivers for the video card, the ones from the intel website. I tried to run them in Vista mode but nothing.
     
    Sir Punk, May 31, 2009
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  12. newsposter

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    Adobe hasn't released a win7 update for flash, have they? And I can well imagine common website code that was written pre-msie8 along with an older version of flash could multiply problems.

    Where did you find the pre-WDM Win7 Intel video drivers? I thought that they were only being distro'd via MS Update for now.
     
    newsposter, May 31, 2009
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  13. Sir Punk

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    just on intel's website.
     
    Sir Punk, May 31, 2009
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  14. newsposter

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    linkage please
     
    newsposter, Jun 1, 2009
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  15. tassss

    tassss Newbie

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    This can possibly solve your problem

    reg delete HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SQMClient\Windows\DisabledSessions /va /f
    copy all run command promt and paste it in, this works on all computers so far
     
    tassss, Jun 1, 2009
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  16. newsposter

    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    feh

    No sense advising users to delete an unidentified reg key with no explanation. And from a user with One Post too.

    Deleting that reg key hasn't been useful since the very early beta releases, say around January of this year.

    It's a hellovalot safer to just opt out of the customer experience improvement program. Deleting that reg key will cause all kinds of problems deinstalling software that was installed from an msi.
     
    newsposter, Jun 2, 2009
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  17. Jedi007

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    Could it be hardware issue too? Maybe you should run a memtest.
     
    Jedi007, Jun 2, 2009
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