system lockup

Hi, It's my understanding that starting March 11th, those who are running W7 RC1 will experience an auto shutdown every 2 hours. Then, in June, the RC1 will lock you out of your system. Even if you buy the retail copy of W7 before June, there is no way to do an in place upgrade, rather, you...

Am running build 7077 and when I plug in a removable drive it gets recognised fine. Problem is when one tries to "eject" the drive it will claim that it can't because "some program" is still using it. When MS checks for whether the EJECT can happen it obviously must know "what program" is...

Hello everyone, I'm running Windows 7 64 bit, build 7048, and I'm having random freezes. The system just locks up randomly. It could be after 5 minutes, but it could also be after 5 hours. I have no idea what's causing it. Specs are: AMD Phenom 9650 x4 2x2GB GEIL DDR2 800 Mhz ATI Radeon...

G'day all, I have Windows 7 installed on a Dell M60 laptop, however when fist ran the Windows Experience Index I did not have the correct driver for my video card and I got a score of 1.0 I have now installed the correct video driver however when I try to use, windows experience Index to have is...

I built this system a year ago specifically for Windows Vista. I installed Windows 7 32 bit a couple days ago. There were no issues during the install. Everything was detected and I had absolutely no conflicts after installation. Smooth, fast and wonderful. Now for the issue... I was...

This is driving me nuts, as i don't see many others with same issue. All steam games crash within 3-6 minutes. Locks up so bad, it takes a power down/reboot. 7 sits on its own partition, fresh install, newest ATI drivers for 7 were installed, yet to no avail. Not seeing it here yet, but ive read...

My whole system crashes and the screen goes a random color when I let Windows 7 try and detect my hardware etc. on my network in the Pearl -> Devices and Printers. Complete system lock up, no mouse or keyboard input. I have a Dell Inspiron 1501 w/ AMD Mobile Sempron 3500+ 1.8Ghz Processor...

Using an older Dell Latitude D600. 1.6ghz / 1.25 gb ram / Radeon Mobilty 9000 - Installation was a breeze (including the formating of the HD to install over XP) - Driver support SEEMED spot on (more on that in a bit) - It is at least as responsive & robust as XP (takes some getting used to tho)...

about a week ago i changed my performance settings to "adjust for best performance" i changed my settings so i can get the best performance while gaming. after the change and reboot i started to play solitaire in full screen the sound was very choppy and the cards would lag. i then went back to...

I installed Skype the other day for a class I'm taking, and now my laptop isnt running right. While I work, I like to open new internet explorer windows instead of using tabs... and sometimes if I'm busy, I can get as many as 18-20 different instances of the browser running. This has never been...

Hi, I am facing a wierd issue on my just installed Vista RC1. At times the system just locks up and all i can do is restart the computer. The curor does not move and the hard drive stops responding. I have tried installing Vista RC1 onto two diff hard drives but with same results. My...