system hang

Installed windows 7 fresh couple months back and installing everything for the first time was a real drag. Installing anything from winrar to steam would cause most running windows to "not respond" until the install finished and would more often then not drop active skype calls. I figured it was...

Can someone advise please/ I have 5 hard drives in my system and I have installed windows 7 x64 on 2 separate drives and done this within windows. However a few times it booted okay but then started hanging on the post where it states verifying DMI pool data. Subsequently I tried everything to...

This issue has been driving me insane. For 3 months, Windows 7 was running very well. No real problems to speak of, for the most part. Then last month, it started randomly freezing up on me every 20 to 40 minutes not long after I installed some updates. I've gone through and uninstalled all...

Hello everyone, I just purchased a HP HPE 180t computer (specs below). I have reformatted and reinstalled the operating system three times now, twice using HP's stuff and once using a clean install from a Windows 7 professional CD. After about a week of using the computer sometimes 3 or 4 days...

Windows 7 ver 6.1 build 7600 shows windows updates available in the system tray but does not download/install any. It just hangs. Services.msc- Windows Update is set to Automatic. It was working but something obviously changed. Last successful UPDATE Was Optional on May 1, 2010. Important...

I am trying to upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Win 7 Ultimate using a DVD bought at retail. The upgrade process hangs while Gathering programs and settings, always at the 86% mark. Yesterday it hung at 6:00 PM and I let it run overnight -- at 9:00 AM next day it was still hung. No error...

I'm having troubles with my system and can't figure out the cause. After a several trials with this system I started up completely from scratch. I'm having an Asus Motherboard M2A VM HDMI, running well and installed the latest BIOS to be sure that this couldn't give me any troubles. 4 Gb...

I had ignored it for the first few days here on Win7, but now it is being real annoying. First off hardware list. Win7-64-enterprise PhenomII 940 4Gb 1066 Muskin MSI K9A2 Platinum His 4890 1g Audigy 1 pci No raid in use No Overclocking Windows is installed on a 120 ide WD on a separate 14gb...

Hi everyone.This is a long post so bear with me please. Thanks. My problem is somewhat weird. I've searched and searched for a solution but none was like mine. So sometimes (actually most times) after i do the smallest change like stop/start a service , or set the number of drives in daemon...

Hi all My system: Windows 7 ultimate 64BIT Intel Q6600 2.4GHz Asus P5KR (Intel P35) Two HD in RAID mirror 8GB RAM Nvidia 8800GT I'm experiencing very poor performance, tons of hangs lags and system Busy. Applications gets into "Not Responding" for a few seconds all the time. System...

I'm getting frequent reboots on my machine and after reading a few threads about Kernel-Power 41 i've already done the following to see if i can fix the problem. System Setup AMD Phenom II X4 Black Edition 965 Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P Kingston Hyperx 2x2GB DDR3 1600mhz 9-9-9-27 1.7v -...

I have installed windows 7 ultimate and after the installation is over i could not restart or shutdown the pc. The system screen hangs in Windows is shutting down screen itself. i am really worried because of this problem.so kindly help me on this.. Thanks, Prabhu

I have 64 bit Windows Pro with Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 When I go to my corporate site Link Removed - Invalid URL it installs and starts F5 Network stuff But then it hangs up forever. Previously I have used this with XP Pro and Vista Business, with no problems. Has anyone heard of...

I just purchased a new Windows 7 PC (HP Pavalion e9280t, Windows 7 64-bit operating system). I would like to put the PC into sleep mode after 1 hour of activity. However, after the PC goes to sleep, after I wake it up, whenever I attempt to open any program or application at that point, the PC...

I recently upgraded my fully functional XP Pro OS for Win7 Home, but I am having major problems with the pc hanging or crashing whenever I insert a blank or written CD 7 DVD. At first I thought it was my optical drive so I replaced that with a compatible LG drive, but the same thing happens...

I just upgraded from Windows Vista to Windows 7 Ultimate (Clean install) and have started having a problem with Wireless.Currently my router is a Belkin F5D8236-4 N Wireless N Router 802.11N - using WPA2-PSKThen my PC has a Belkin F5D8053 Wireless N USB Adapter plugged in.The issue is the...

Hope this hasn't been covered to death. I searched extensively and couldn't find quite the same problem. I installed Win7 x64 Ultimate over the weekend. I previously had Beta & RC as a dual boot in addition to XPx64. I'm now running Win7 alone, though I have the HDD with XPx64 set aside...

Hello all, this is my first post, hence apologies for whatever rules I may have violated because of my lack of familiarity. Now, to get to the point: I have been using W7 quite nicely until I realised my Windows Explorer hangs occasionally when I am running Chrome, IE or Safari (I first...

I installed Windows 7 on my laptop and came across the "Shutting Down" hanging when attempting to shut down or restart. Reading around the internet, it seems this is a very common problem and everyone seems to have a different cause or solution. I could find nothing in the logs and it appears...

Help I just bought a new computer with windows 7 , but when i start it up i get an error message "the computer restarted unexpectedly or encounted an unexpected error. Windows installation cannot proceed. to install windows clickOK to restartr the computer and restart the installation" I have...