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Rab1d-BDGR   11-12-2009 at 02:29:23 AM

Hi,

I'm in the process of upgrading my GF's Vaio VGN-AW31M from Vista to 7. I'm using the 32-bit disk supplied by Sony. I did a clean install rather than upgrade and am in the desktop. Anything that requires HDD access takes *FOREVER* and there is constant HDD access (and has been for > 1h). I have a feeling it may be a mobo driver issue, but I'm not sure. I've never had problems with win 7 on my own sysbuilds...

Any suggestions?


P.S. The laptop had 4Gig of ram so why the hell hasn't Sony sent a 64-bit version? I hate Sony.

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Silver Win 7 badge The_Prophecy   11-12-2009 at 04:19:05 AM
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You could always call them back and demand a 64 bit disk. The license key will be exactly the same anyway, so it shouldn't be a problem for them to send you one.

 

Go look for updated chipset drivers for 7 and see what happens...


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aford10   11-12-2009 at 05:53:20 AM
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Check the task manager to see what CPU process has the hard drive running so hard.

------------------------------ CM HAF 932 - 300GB Velociraptor
GIGABYTE GA-EP45T-DS3R
E8500 - Sapphire 1Gb 4850
4G DDR3 OCZ Reaper 1333
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Rab1d-BDGR   11-12-2009 at 06:05:32 AM
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Processes aren't up to much CPU-wise. This has been constant since first boot up, I haven't installed anything except drivers so far.


Drivers might not be the issues actually - Even in safe mode the hard disk is constantly being accessed and it is slow as hell!

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aford10   11-12-2009 at 07:11:34 AM
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If there's hard drive activity, something is running. Meaning there has to be a process running. Sort the task manager by cpu usage and see what process is running.

------------------------------ CM HAF 932 - 300GB Velociraptor
GIGABYTE GA-EP45T-DS3R
E8500 - Sapphire 1Gb 4850
4G DDR3 OCZ Reaper 1333
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Rab1d-BDGR   11-12-2009 at 01:31:38 PM
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I say this again more clearly, none of the processes are using CPU. System Idle is at 99%. Same problems in safe mode. Nothing has been installed other than official driver updates from hardware manufacturers including the intel chipset.

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lesterf1020   11-12-2009 at 02:34:25 PM
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Have you checked your event logs and Device Manager? There is also a bunch of performance monitors in control panel you might want to check out.

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Rab1d-BDGR   11-12-2009 at 03:04:33 PM
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lesterf1020 wrote :

Have you checked your event logs and Device Manager? There is also a bunch of performance monitors in control panel you might want to check out.



Device manager isn't vreporting any problems since I installed drivers - though the GF9600M is only registereing as a defalt VGA adapter, the nV driverpack won't install the correct drivers, but the default drivers work fine (no Areo though).

Event viewer is showing a large number of 7036 events, some related to error reporting.

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lesterf1020   11-12-2009 at 10:11:08 PM
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well 7036 events have to do with services not starting or failing for some reason. Take a look and try to get more details on which services are failing and why and work from there

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Rab1d-BDGR   11-13-2009 at 02:25:36 PM
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Just rolled back to vista with the recovery disks, then started over. Clean format and install of win7, same problem as before. I'm rolling back to vista once more, I'm going to do an in-place upgrade next. I know that's seldom a good idea, but it is the option officially supported by Sony. If that doesn't work I'm going to get my GF to RMA the laptop. It's only a month old and was advertised with the win7 upgrade, so if it doesn't work that's Sony's problem not mine...

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