W7 Feezing on desktop

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KingEojj

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just built my brother a pc, got w7 loaded up and everything fine but im freezing at the desktop and i cant for the life of me figure out how to fix it.

at first i thought it was a RAM issue but now im not so sure, using RAM from my PC that I know works and putting it in his doesnt fix it.

the CPU isnt overheating so i know thats not the problem

im not sure if it would be the GPU?

using this board http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138185 with a Q6600 4gb of ocz platnium, 500gb wd green caviar hdd and a ati 4650 gpu

any help/ideas/suggestions would be most helpful
 
Did it freeze after loading some drivers? Or did it freeze right after the install on first boot? Have you tried to see if it will boot in safe mode?
 
it froze the first time after installing some drivers

i was able to boot into safemode without it freezing, just now i tried to install some drivers from the motherboard cd during safemode and it froze up...

i believe it froze up the first time after installing some GPU drivers. and doing some windows updates.


also i just tested out one of my gpus from my system in his and it still froze...
 
KingEojj said:
it froze the first time after installing some drivers

i was able to boot into safemode without it freezing, just now i tried to install some drivers from the motherboard cd during safemode and it froze up...

i believe it froze up the first time after installing some GPU drivers. and doing some windows updates.


also i just tested out one of my gpus from my system in his and it still froze...
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Boot into safe mode and uninstall the drivers and windows updates you have instaled, then see if it will boot up again.

If so start updating the drivers one at a time, then move on to the windows updates, till you hit the one that is causing it to freeze.

What make and model power supply are you using?
 
ok so this is what just happened.

i uninstalled the VGA controller, it reinstalled the GPU drivers once i booted back up into 7, it worked for a bit, then froze again.

i just restarted again with new RAM (double checking) got into the desktop worked for a sec, the screen artifact like crazy and froze

GPU drivers = bad?
 
So it installed 7 just fine and didnt start this till you were updating ? What kind of power supply are you using?
 
Well the power supply should not be a problem. Maybe try starting over. (bummer) Reset the bios. Do a clean install. Then start updating the drivers one at a time. Starting with the Chipset/LAN/Sound then the video card. Then start with windows update
 
StrangleHold said:
Well the power supply should not be a problem. Maybe try starting over. (bummer) Reset the bios. Do a clean install. Then start updating the drivers one at a time. Starting with the Chipset/LAN/Sound then the video card. Then start with windows update
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thats exactly what im doing, its not a big deal, no games/programs really got installed anyway.
 
After you get it installed and before you start updating the driver and so on, install CPUz and make sure the board has you CPU voltage right and Memory speed/voltage and timing right.
 
couldnt get 7 to reinstall, froze up once, wouldnt get past a setup screen after that.
gg

gonna RMA the board and get something a little more quality i think.
 
Try this:

-be sure that your computer is NOT connected to the internet on any way!!!
-turn on the computer,go to BIOS and LOAD THE OPTIMAL DEFAULTS and then save the changes to CMOS and restart...
-after the restart,go to BIOS again and put the CD/DVD-ROM drive to be the first device to boot from,hard disk drive as the second device to boot from and everything else as the third device.Save your changes to CMOS again and restart...
-try booting Linux Ubuntu from the CD...
-if it works then everything is ok with your hardware...
-now format your entire hard disk drive with the DOS tool called Kill Disk (be sure to select the HARD DISK DRIVE which you want to format,NOT the partition)!!!
-after the format is complete,exit the kill disk and shut down the computer and leave it off for 2 minutes at least...
-turn on the computer,put the Windows 7 DVD disk in the CD/DVD-ROM drive and then boot from it.(NOTE: Be sure that Windows 7 DVD disk is NOT damaged)!!!
-when you get to the section with the partitions,DO NOT do anything.You should have ONLY ONE unpartitioned space called UNPARTITIONED SPACE or something similar.So just select that UNPARTITIONED SPACE and click NEXT to install Windows 7 on it...
-after the installation of Windows 7 is complete,remove the Windows 7 DVD disk from the CD/DVD-ROM drive...
-install the drivers in the following order:

--->chipset driver (if you are asked to restart the computer after this driver is installed,DO IT)
--->graphic driver (if you are asked to restart the computer after this driver is installed,DO IT)
--->sound driver (if you are asked to restart the computer after this driver is installed,DO IT)
--->LAN driver (if you are asked to restart the computer after this driver is installed,DO IT)
--->wireless LAN driver (if of course you have that hardware.If you are asked to restart the computer after this driver is installed,DO IT)

-After all drivers are installed,restart your computer again...
-Turn off AUTOMATIC UPDATES COMPLETELY!!!
-Do NOT,I repeat do NOT install ANY Windows updates at ALL!Not a single one!
-Now try to use your computer for a while and see if it works.If it does work properly,do NOT install any Windows updates anyway!

Question: "When should I install updates then?"

Answer: "Never.Unless if you REALLY need a specific update for something.In that case install ONLY THAT SPECIFIC update,but not ALL OF THEM!!!"



Try this and report back with the results.



Cheers!
 
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am i booting into linux then using killdisk? or can i boot the computer from the killdisk CD that i burned and do it like that?

going over it on the website it seems i have to be on the desktop in order to use it, and as it stand atm i cant even install windows 7 on the damn pc.

i appreciate the help but it seems like just RMA the board at this point would be much easier than doing all that. however im going to try it.
 
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while trying to install linux i got
"[hardware error] no human readable MCE decoding support on this CPU type"

"[hardware error] Run the msg through 'mcelog--ascii' to decode


wtf?
 
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