After completing the sixth round of ms v win7 last evening at nine pm it turns out it was my graphics card, we installed a new driver and it's been running fine up until around mid day today, I left it running whilst outside working and when I returned it had a message on the screen saying "windows has recovered from a unexpected shut down check for a solution when next on line" the ruddy thing was still on line and working perfectly, however I opened windows live mail and it too reported not being closed properly so this confirmed it had in fact shut down badly at some stage.
I would glad entertain the prospect of a power cut but if this had been what caused it the PC wouldn't have re-started with out me switching it back on, thinking it may be a setting in the power saving section I disabled sleep, hibernate and everything that would switch something off (even the monitor).
It had a fit and immediately went to 100% and after a couple of black screens and re-starts it's now running fine again, I'm praying that is the end of it.
One other thing, I use Iolo system mechanic and that won't install I just get a message saying installer has stopped working, the details report a event name as "APPCRASH", I contacted Iolo ad they sent a link to re-download in case I have a corrupt copy and it still does the same with that (hair is getting thin).
Hello again everyone
I am a member of several forums and find this to be by far the hardest to navigate.
Anyway! since we found that the problem was with my on board graphic adaptor not being happy with 64bit version and i had to uninstall and run the 32bit version and finding that 32bit would only see 2gb of my 4gb of memory I've bought a new card.
ASUS 1GB - HD - 4350 Silent - PCI-E 2.0 (x16) - 800MHz GDDR2 - GPU 600MHz - 80 Cores - D-Sub/ DVI-I/ HDMI
I bought Asus as my board is ans asus (once again I can't remember model), I've just been into the PC and it says M2N - CM DV on the board under ASUS
PROBLEM
I know I need to disable the on board adaptor but can find (after quite a lot of searching) nothing in the bios to allow this, I thought I'll just try it but after the boot up reached the "starting windows" stage it went to a black screen and had a three inch long progression bar running at the bottom.
It would sit like this for as long as i cared to leave it, I then plugged the monitor plug back into the onboard poert (after switching off of course) but all that happened is that it went straight to that black screen with the progression bar.
I've now obviously removed the card and at a stalemate with the PC, I want to get onto 64bit as I remember how quick it was when it was running on it before when it was locking.
Any advice would be appreciated.
From system info
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name RICHARD-PC
System Manufacturer System manufacturer
System Model System Product Name
System Type X86-based PC
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4600+, 2400 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 0111, 28/01/2008
SMBIOS Version 2.5
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United Kingdom
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
User Name Richard-PC\Richard
Time Zone GMT Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 4.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 2.87 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.61 GB
Total Virtual Memory 5.75 GB
Available Virtual Memory 4.27 GB
Page File Space 2.87 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
Richard