Recent content by FalconFour

For the rest of the story (and the intro), see: http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-support/5901-now-10-reward-help-fix-my-boot-hang-issue-sorry-newtopic.html and its linked topic... I thought the title wasn't appropriate to the content so I'm starting yet another topic on the matter. So...

So... reliable solution to the unreliable problem with a reliable sequence. Blue screen (0x0000009F, DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE) at random. I mean random - not doing anything, just with the computer sitting idle. Reboot. Computer locks up at "Starting Windows". Take stick of RAM out, reboot...

Nah, nothing HD. Just Radeon X1200 (edit: "Radeon Xpress 1200", that is). It's a very, very tiny chip on the motherboard (about 1/4 the die size of the CPU). It appears to be the northbridge and GPU in one chip (judging by the fact that it shares a heatpipe with the CPU), so my guess is it's a...

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Eh, it is a clean install (only as old as the RC is - I installed it the day it was available). I even completely wiped my hard drive before installing it. And yeah, it's an integrated GPU so it shares system memory, but the fact that the issues only happen when coming out of standby (and how...

Yeah, I thought it would be bad RAM too, so I Memtest'd it while I was futzing around. It was OK. I'll check it again later though... but the fact that it was consistently jamming at the same place makes me think it's more of a bug than bad RAM. Even with that stick removed, the computer still...

http://windows7forums.com/windows-7-support/5894-driver-power-state-failure-bsod-now-hangs-startup.html Since there's no way to bump a topic with new information, and I can't edit the topic title, the only way I can relay this additional information is to make a new topic. Sorry for the...

$10 REWARD NOW: "Driver Power State Failure" BSOD -> Now hangs on startup Aargh? Halp? This is crap... Okay, so my laptop (Acer Extensa 4420, "designed for Vistaids") has been running Win7 x64 ever since the RC came out. It's all swell and all except for when it comes to drivers. Video driver...

Well, I was thinking that as well. After I close out of VMware, many problems are resolved. But I'd never had any issues like this in the past with VMware on this same computer with XP... (edit: VMware Workstation 6.0.4) I think it might be related to AVG Free (running 8.5), as AVG isn't...

Okay, I'm getting fed up with my Win7 RC installation already. I just clicked a program off the start menu, and after nearly an entire MINUTE of waiting for the app to launch, I found it had opened 3 times - Windows was responding so slowly that it kept the Start menu open after I had clicked it...

Well... I found that the reason it wasn't working is, in fact, because I removed Windows Search. Sad that it's such a prominent and important feature, but curious that MS still allows it to be removed. I think that error message needs a little wording revision none the less. Or a functionality...

This is driving me nuts as well. I got one network location added to my fresh installation of Windows 7 RC1, but subsequent attempts to do the same with identical locations (set up for offline access as per Help file as I'd also done with WinXP) gave me that hair-tearing error. It's very much...