help with windows 7 freezing

Dark_Angel · 21 Nov 2009 at 12:28

Make sure that you disable the onboard GPU in bios, as well as uninstall the drivers.

Alexrose1uk · 21 Nov 2009 at 16:42

As some people have said, it might be better you use a bootable liveCD before you do anything drastic, theres one with a miniXP copy on but I cant really name it for obvious reasons (not entirely legal because of the programmes on it), many linux discs should be fine but wont be as easy for you to use.
Boot from the live CD, and copy your files onto a USB drive before you do anything else.

That way at least your work is saved, so if you have to reformat it wont affect you, and you wont risk doing any damage to the partition/mbr/accidentally formatting during fiddling (sounds silly but I've seen people do it...quite funny from an onlookers perspective though!).

west-wot · 21 Nov 2009 at 20:55

ill check the bios and alerose1uk could you maybe send me the name through an email or something email is mad_raptor AT hotmail.com

west-wot · 22 Nov 2009 at 00:51

how do you use the live cd

west-wot · 22 Nov 2009 at 14:30

would a overheating north bridge be the cause as i recently installed a new heatsink on it and its only been doing it since that come to think of it

Alexrose1uk · 22 Nov 2009 at 14:49

west-wot said:
how do you use the live cd

Check your email mate.

west-wot · 22 Nov 2009 at 15:42

alexrose1uk you are a legend thanks so much currently downloading it now and will give it a try

d.chatten · 22 Nov 2009 at 16:18

It's more than likely bios related, i had the same problem with Windows 7 and a ASUS P5WDH Deluxe running 4x1GB of ram, i fully tested the ram, even left memtest running for four days with no errors at all, but it still locked up in Win 7, i tested everything again and again, in the end i give up and purchased a new motherboard, problem solved.