system hang

Hello, Recently my Win7 Beta is behaving very weird: 1. The taskbar (explorer) is not freezing, yet the clock does not update; I had to kill explorer and run it again, then clock updates. It freezes again 2. Task manager shows no processes in the list as I launch it. Pressing F5 will refresh...

hi, just installed windows 7(64bit), clean installation i have this weird problem, the msi installer seems to hang every time i try installing, java runtime enviroment and office 2003. after a while i give up and close the proccess and end up restarting coz any other app gets stuck. another...

Hi. I tried to install windows 7 (latest) but when it reboots second time it hangs up on windows logo screen. I tried to wait about 5 - 10 minutes but there doesn't seem to be any harddrive activity. Does the it take longer time and did i give up too soon? I have tried allso installing vist 32...

Well, i don' t know how to call this problem. Yesterday i shutted down my PC, and now when i try to turn it on, it hangs up at BIOS post message :(. I unplugeed all my hardware, restarted cmos, did everything that i know, and nothing helps :(. What can i do?

ok so my problem is that windows 7 has recently started hanging each time i try to open a folder and it shows me the little wait circle, it only lasts for about a second or so but it is highly annoying because it only started to do it about a week ago if anyone else has run into this problem...

I have Win7 x64 installed, and it's been working fine for weeks. Starting today, however, after I log in it just hangs indefinitely. Well, to be more precise, It's perfectly fine until I click something. I'll open a folder, and the mouse will just change to the loading circle, and nothing...

Hi Everyone, Has anyone successfully installed Windows 7 on a Dell Lattitude D800 with a Nvidia Geforce4 4200 card? Install of Windows 7 works fine with the standard VGA drivers but whenever I try and install the XP 4200 drivers from the Dell website, it causes these two things: The windows...

Whenever I open an excel or word which was created by earlier versions, excel and word applications hang. Even if i close the application, it wont get closed. Shut down also doesnt work. I need to do a manual hardboot. Any idea how this can be resolved?

Hi, so this was working fine until a few days ago. I don't remember installing anything except for a bunch of gadgets. So when i goto the games folder in the start menu it starts hanging and all the icons for the games do not show up. I can windows+d it and get to my desktop which also closes...

Whenever I open anything that uses Explorer (a folder, My Computer, or a Save File Box) explorer will hang for 1-2 minutes. It happens every time and I just have to wait for it to unfreeze. Is this common?

I can't seem to make OpenGl work. I have an SiS M741 graphics controller on an laptop with 128M shared memory, 2GB total memory, AMD 2400 processor. A program with heavy OpenGl use and the GLVIEW program both hang the system when activated. Everything works fine with XP. So far it appears...

Hello, I have problems with FireFox on Win7 Build 7000. The problem is that I cannot open two or more windows in FF. And after I close FF, I cannot open FF anymore, because it stays in taskmanager. So I need to kill firefox.exe manualy. Maybe someone is experiencing the same problem? :) And...

I have an application that's hanging on the following: ArrayList InitOblects = new ArrayList(); InitObjects.Add( new Microsoft.ConsultingServices.HtmlEditor.HtmlEditorControl() ); //Hangs Here In task manager, the app is using 100% of the available core's processing power. I just thought I...

excuse me if there is a thread on this; I'm sure there is. after going about a day without using my laptop (inspiron 1525, vista home basic), I turned it on about an hour ago and it was unusually slow. it took about 2 minutes to get to "resuming windows..." just before the login screen. I had...

oem windows vista wont boot. I have tried on several other pc works fine, confirmed dvd is ok. PC starts and trys to boot from dvd then just hangs. pcm 9577 ebx board from advantech. i gig celeron, 512meg ram. Using Vista home basic oem install.

hi, Over the course of several weeks I've been having hangs when Vista starts up. On the BIOs screen, during the loading of the OS and on the desk top. It will hang in excess of 5 minutes at all three of these locations. The problem moves around. Also I've had problems installing a hard drive...

Hello, I'm having some difficult problems installing some programs on my Vista Ultimate PC. Typically, the installer will hang after a couple of steps, like approving an agreement and destination for install. Then, it hangs. If I cancel it, it still hangs. I then go to Taskmanager to...

Vista HP not shutting down. Thuis phenonemon has only just started occurring. The system hangs at the 'Shutting down' screen, sometimes followed by a BSOD with the following error message - Driver Power State failure. Any ideas what is causing this?

Hi there guys, I have just installed a copy of windows vista ultimate on my pc went though the installation process fine took about an hour or so. On the last stage of the install before it boots to the desktop I get a black screen and it hangs there for about 10-15mins then goes to the...

Hello im still having the black death screen after installing vista when its booting up for the first time its just black screen and a white pointer, hangs and rebooting... what is this problem??? i buyed a leagal version friday and im still not got it o work