PC works with XP not Windows 7

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Lord Anubis

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Hi All.

I have a (old) PC that works with XP not Windows 7. To better explain, its an old 2006 PC with an ASROCK mbo 77S561, 2gb Ram, 160GB hdd, GT6600 graphics card. Now it ran solid for 6 months then started restarting. With Stop Error x50. I decided to format, cleaned the PC, replaced the heatsink paste (thought the CPU was maybe getting hot, it ran around 65 on speedfan monitor, but so did the GPU). I had a spare FX5200 GPU, but still same symptoms

Even after the big clean and format it just wouldnt stop restarting. I then thought it was Ram, so I did a memtest, all was ok. I thought maybe PSU (got a 540W). I replaced it with a spare but the restarting continued. I even did I cmos battery pul and set bios defaults but no joy. Even swopped, LAN card, keyboard, mouse, reset jumpers and installed a spare fan I had)

I then installed XP. It runs solid, no restarting.

So what now?? Im thinking that XP is less resource hungry and the mothernoard is just unable to keep up with W7. Or is it ram? CPU? GPU?

All tests I have done come out clean.

Oh and the Stop error was always X50 (1033), nothing else.

Its fine now on XP but it really is confusing.

:confused: Any ideas for further testing?

Any ideas welcome.

(I posted this here as I think it must be Hardware as it ran solid on W7 for 6 months until the problem started)
 
Welcome to Windows. It's clearly not hardware as it works in XP. Maybe try a lesser version of 7, maybe home?
 
Lord Anubis said:
Hi All.

I have a (old) PC that works with XP not Windows 7. To better explain, its an old 2006 PC with an ASROCK mbo 77S561, 2gb Ram, 160GB hdd, GT6600 graphics card. Now it ran solid for 6 months then started restarting. With Stop Error x50. I decided to format, cleaned the PC, replaced the heatsink paste (thought the CPU was maybe getting hot, it ran around 65 on speedfan monitor, but so did the GPU). I had a spare FX5200 GPU, but still same symptoms

Even after the big clean and format it just wouldnt stop restarting. I then thought it was Ram, so I did a memtest, all was ok. I thought maybe PSU (got a 540W). I replaced it with a spare but the restarting continued. I even did I cmos battery pul and set bios defaults but no joy. Even swopped, LAN card, keyboard, mouse, reset jumpers and installed a spare fan I had)

I then installed XP. It runs solid, no restarting.

So what now?? Im thinking that XP is less resource hungry and the mothernoard is just unable to keep up with W7. Or is it ram? CPU? GPU?

All tests I have done come out clean.

Oh and the Stop error was always X50 (1033), nothing else.

Its fine now on XP but it really is confusing.

:confused: Any ideas for further testing?

Any ideas welcome.

(I posted this here as I think it must be Hardware as it ran solid on W7 for 6 months until the problem started)
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one of those crazy things with windows. Have a similar thing with a (not so old) 2.2Ghz 2Gig RAM C2D Dell laptop. Was working fine with XP.... for years. Thought we'd do well to upgrade OS to Win7. Formatted, installed Win7 got drivers from Dell.
It works... but not great as one would have expected, BSOD every now & then too.
If the laptop hasn't reached its end of finance/rental term and needed to go back to finansor, I really considered going back to Xp on it.
 
MicroScope Diagnostic Suite just to be 100% sure about the HW.
 
What version of Windows 7 are you running and where did you get it from? I have seen many people installing Windows 7 that is "pre-activated", meaning it's using a loader is not trustworthy. Also, remove all security related software, remove the pc from the internet and check if it still restarts. If not not, install Microsoft Security Essentials and check for restarts. MSE is are stable AV and could help eliminate if it is a security software issue.
 
Its a legit W7 Ultimate version. Even with it disconnected from the internet after validation it still rebooted. One thing I have found with W7 is it creates a second partition of around 100mb. Is that normal. Maybe that's causing thae "page fault". Its so frustrating. But yes I will try more diagnostics. Not many good freeware ones though.
 
Lord Anubis said:
Its a legit W7 Ultimate version. Even with it disconnected from the internet after validation it still rebooted. One thing I have found with W7 is it creates a second partition of around 100mb. Is that normal. Maybe that's causing thae "page fault". Its so frustrating. But yes I will try more diagnostics. Not many good freeware ones though.
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Had that 100 MB partition thing. You can delete it at the partitioning stage. It's not the cause of your crashes though.
 
The 100mb partition is automatically created when installing Windows 7. It's contains boot files and recovery tools. It's not needed if you use a Windows 7 install disk for recovery.
 
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