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- Sep 29, 2009
Hi there. Earlier today my computer 'froze' (cursor was still active but firefox and then explorer got the shady, frozen screen, screen) and I had to manually power it down. Upon restarting, I hit 'start windows normally' and it then loaded through to the windows 7 logo screen and froze.
Anyways, this is the third time this has happened on this computer. The first time was on the 7th of this month, then I reformatted/installed and had no problems. Happened again a week later and I reinstalled and dual-booted with ubuntu. No problems with that up until today when it happens yet again.
Amongst these downtimes I've tried the startup repair options available on the recovery partition and startup disc except system restore, which every time has said that there were no restore points available (which, stupidly, I never checked or made a manual restore point but I know there should've been points from the months prior to the first incident and from before windows updates). I've also ran windows memory and hard drive tests, memtest86 on each individual stick, and many passes with all installed, as well as western digitals hard drive diagnostic.
So at this point, I'm thoroughly stumped. Does anybody here have any ideas or ways to narrow it down to software or hardware? Thanks in advance.
Specifications:
Windows 7 RC Build 7100 x64
- Ubuntu 9.04 x64 dual boot
EVGA X58 SLI MB
Intel i7 920 CPU
6 GB OCZ 1866 DDR3 RAM
1 TB Western Digital HDD
TX750W Corsair PSU
Anyways, this is the third time this has happened on this computer. The first time was on the 7th of this month, then I reformatted/installed and had no problems. Happened again a week later and I reinstalled and dual-booted with ubuntu. No problems with that up until today when it happens yet again.
Amongst these downtimes I've tried the startup repair options available on the recovery partition and startup disc except system restore, which every time has said that there were no restore points available (which, stupidly, I never checked or made a manual restore point but I know there should've been points from the months prior to the first incident and from before windows updates). I've also ran windows memory and hard drive tests, memtest86 on each individual stick, and many passes with all installed, as well as western digitals hard drive diagnostic.
So at this point, I'm thoroughly stumped. Does anybody here have any ideas or ways to narrow it down to software or hardware? Thanks in advance.
Specifications:
Windows 7 RC Build 7100 x64
- Ubuntu 9.04 x64 dual boot
EVGA X58 SLI MB
Intel i7 920 CPU
6 GB OCZ 1866 DDR3 RAM
1 TB Western Digital HDD
TX750W Corsair PSU