So I recently installed Windows 7, and I was playing with some energy saving tweaks my motherboard came with. Apparently my system didn't like one of the changes, and it locked up. I hard powered the system and after having to reconfigure some overclocking settings and energy saving settings, everything seemed to be stable again.
Then I started noticing some weird issues. First, my taskbar would lose it's transparency, as well as IE. So the Aero theme, or whatever it's called now, seemed to be turning off. But it would come back on again after some time. Any idea what could be causing this?
After that, I started getting some other serious errors that haven't happened to me for the week I've had the machine running. I tried to download new video card drivers and I had multiple errors while trying to install. Something about an integrity check. Then one of my applications would randomly quit on me.
So I attempted to do a system restore, and I was getting all kinds of errors there as well. One of the errors mentioned corruption, another said "catastrophic failure". It seemed like a joke. I couldn't restore.
So I thought there was something seriously wrong, but how? And why wouldn't even a restore work? I ran a virus scan to be sure nothing got on, which came back clean.
I ended up doing a few things and restarting a few times, and everything seems to be stable again, but I haven't tried System Restore as I figure that might still have the same problem. I did however still notice the first issue I posted above was still happening, with the task bar losing the transparency.
I'm not sure what I should do at this point. I wanted to take each issue one at a time. So if anyone knows how I could troubleshoot the taskbar it would be great to hear some suggestions. I just wanted to get all my thoughts down here for myself as well. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
Then I started noticing some weird issues. First, my taskbar would lose it's transparency, as well as IE. So the Aero theme, or whatever it's called now, seemed to be turning off. But it would come back on again after some time. Any idea what could be causing this?
After that, I started getting some other serious errors that haven't happened to me for the week I've had the machine running. I tried to download new video card drivers and I had multiple errors while trying to install. Something about an integrity check. Then one of my applications would randomly quit on me.
So I attempted to do a system restore, and I was getting all kinds of errors there as well. One of the errors mentioned corruption, another said "catastrophic failure". It seemed like a joke. I couldn't restore.
So I thought there was something seriously wrong, but how? And why wouldn't even a restore work? I ran a virus scan to be sure nothing got on, which came back clean.
I ended up doing a few things and restarting a few times, and everything seems to be stable again, but I haven't tried System Restore as I figure that might still have the same problem. I did however still notice the first issue I posted above was still happening, with the task bar losing the transparency.
I'm not sure what I should do at this point. I wanted to take each issue one at a time. So if anyone knows how I could troubleshoot the taskbar it would be great to hear some suggestions. I just wanted to get all my thoughts down here for myself as well. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
