Win 7 Ultimate 32bit Freezing - Help!

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I have just installed win 7 ultimate 32bit on a brand new PC i just purchased yeaterday. Once logged in, before attempting to do anything the PC locked up / froze. I restarted and began installing drivers. I now keeps freezing every 5min to half hour. Every item in the PC is new. Except a sata 320gb hdd from my old PC ( no os on this hdd - storage only ) and my TV card. I have installed all required drivers. It was locking up prior to driver installation during installation and continues to do so. Please help me fix this as soon as possible. Thanks

Specs as per below :

MSI N9800GT
SAMSUNG 22X DVD-RW SATA
Huntkey Titan 650W PSU
Transcend 8gb DDR3 RAM ( 4 x 2gb )
Core I5 750 CPU
Kworld TV card ( From previous PC )
MSI P55 GD65 Mainboard
2 x 1TB Seagate hdd's
1 x 500gb Seagate hdd
1 x 320gb Seagate hdd ( From previous PC with data )

All devices are SATA

What can I do to fix ? Should I switch to 64bit ?
 
Only way to do fault finding, is to unplug hardware and keep testing if the pc is running stable.

Unplug your tv card, see if the pc still locks up.

Most of the time, its faulty RAM that causes system lock-ups, but it could be anything, e.g. faulty motherboard, CPU, PCI card, etc.
 
gasboi said:
I have just installed win 7 ultimate 32bit on a brand new PC i just purchased yeaterday. Once logged in, before attempting to do anything the PC locked up / froze. I restarted and began installing drivers. I now keeps freezing every 5min to half hour. Every item in the PC is new. Except a sata 320gb hdd from my old PC ( no os on this hdd - storage only ) and my TV card. I have installed all required drivers. It was locking up prior to driver installation during installation and continues to do so. Please help me fix this as soon as possible. Thanks

Specs as per below :

MSI N9800GT
SAMSUNG 22X DVD-RW SATA
Huntkey Titan 650W PSU
Transcend 8gb DDR3 RAM ( 4 x 2gb )
Core I5 750 CPU
Kworld TV card ( From previous PC )
MSI P55 GD65 Mainboard
2 x 1TB Seagate hdd's
1 x 500gb Seagate hdd
1 x 320gb Seagate hdd ( From previous PC with data )

All devices are SATA

What can I do to fix ? Should I switch to 64bit ?
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I've got an extremely similar system to you, I'm also having freezing issues in Windows 7. They swapped out the motherboard and the freezing has reduced.

In your even log, what are the critical events?
 
Freeze

I have similar problems, but I've isolated it down to Google Talk. If I shut it down, my PC keeps going, if I keep it running, it freezes every couple of hours.

I've also had an interesting scenario where I plugged a Thecus NAS into my home LAN, and my Windows 7 PC froze immediately on boot-up, without failure until I unplugged the NAS from the LAN again.

Some weird stuff!
 
My guess is that the mobo and chipset is too new, you'll need to wait for a Bios update or better drivers, I had the same issue when I installed Vista on a new P45 chipset and so I switched to linux.
 
Aqua_lung said:
My guess is that the mobo and chipset is too new, you'll need to wait for a Bios update or better drivers, I had the same issue when I installed Vista on a new P45 chipset and so I switched to linux.
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So this is about win7 and not Linux nor Vista. :rolleyes:

No problems here! AS SOMEONE SUGGESTED, fAULT FINDING IS REQUIRED! (dAMN cAPS!)
 
Aqua_lung said:
My guess is that the mobo and chipset is too new, you'll need to wait for a Bios update or better drivers, I had the same issue when I installed Vista on a new P45 chipset and so I switched to linux.
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Wouldn't be a bad idea to try Linux just to see if the freezing stops. I'll give that a bash tonight.
 
Well all my components are from a different suppliers, however majority from pinnacle and it was assembled by Pinnacle. Maybe I ought to take it back to them.
 
Aqua_lung said:
Yeah a live linux CD is very handy, ubuntu live CD comes with a memory test too.
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So does Windows 7.

Something to consider would be further driver incompatibility, majority of hardware manufacturers develop for the MS platform first with often none or very little official support for linux distros.
 
How would linux help you determine what the cause is if it is a driver/software problem?

Reload windows 7 fresh with no drivers if possible and see if it is freezes, then load your stuff and every time you load a driver/program ensure windows 7 is not freezing. If it freezes straight off a fresh reload with no outside influence then start checking hardware.
 
ponder said:
It won't, trying to establish if it's possibly the hardware I suspect.
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It might be but even with linux a hardware fault that affects windows may not affect linux right?

So i dunno i always reload fresh with no drivers or software installed and see first before blaming hardware.
 
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I tried re installing, it now freezes during install also, temperatures are fine.
 
If you bought the pc yesterday take it back and let them test everything.

Could be mobo, ram, cpu, hdd etc so unless you have parts you can play around with you will need to take it back.
 
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