- Jul 13, 2012
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Hello,
Today i finished building a new system, for a friend of mine, and everything was going smoothly. Got it all put together, installed Windows 7 Ultimate, booted up, uninstalled many programs that I didn't want, installed Mozilla Firefox, and was in the middle of doing two things when it first froze. I was 1. checking for windows updates, and i was 2. downloading the Nvidia 301.42 graphics update. The "freeze" was interesting though because a few things on the screen still functioned such as the sliding green bar on "checking for windows updates". I restarted the system, and once it rebooted I began downloading the Nvidia graphics drivers again. Within 30 seconds it had frozen. Restarted again and tried to check for windows updates, froze within 2 minutes, again though the green swiping bar was still functional. I then restarted and attempted to run an "Sfc/scannow" in command prompt, but the computer then froze (again, a minimal function such as the blinking dash in command prompt WAS still blinking).
I have just completed an sfc/scannow by running the computer in safe mode. No problems were found.
Update(2:47PM): I allowed the computer to sit for about 10 minutes, and it didn't freeze. I then clicked on the start menu bubble and the computer froze. Once again, i can still see a small activity. This time, the vertical line in the start menu search box is blinking.
Any ideas?
System build :
ASRock 970DE3 motherboard
AMD FX4100 am3+ 3.6ghz quad core
Nvidia GTX 460SE (not new, but was taken right out of a perfectly running computer)
8GB of PNY DDR3 1333 Ram
WDC 1TB HDD
630w Rosewill PSU
Today i finished building a new system, for a friend of mine, and everything was going smoothly. Got it all put together, installed Windows 7 Ultimate, booted up, uninstalled many programs that I didn't want, installed Mozilla Firefox, and was in the middle of doing two things when it first froze. I was 1. checking for windows updates, and i was 2. downloading the Nvidia 301.42 graphics update. The "freeze" was interesting though because a few things on the screen still functioned such as the sliding green bar on "checking for windows updates". I restarted the system, and once it rebooted I began downloading the Nvidia graphics drivers again. Within 30 seconds it had frozen. Restarted again and tried to check for windows updates, froze within 2 minutes, again though the green swiping bar was still functional. I then restarted and attempted to run an "Sfc/scannow" in command prompt, but the computer then froze (again, a minimal function such as the blinking dash in command prompt WAS still blinking).
I have just completed an sfc/scannow by running the computer in safe mode. No problems were found.
Update(2:47PM): I allowed the computer to sit for about 10 minutes, and it didn't freeze. I then clicked on the start menu bubble and the computer froze. Once again, i can still see a small activity. This time, the vertical line in the start menu search box is blinking.
Any ideas?
System build :
ASRock 970DE3 motherboard
AMD FX4100 am3+ 3.6ghz quad core
Nvidia GTX 460SE (not new, but was taken right out of a perfectly running computer)
8GB of PNY DDR3 1333 Ram
WDC 1TB HDD
630w Rosewill PSU
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