Win7 is a POS. When's SP1 going to be released?

[KeypoX]

I think i had a couple BSODs. Dunno why, never during a game though. Could have been oc settings, I had to knock off 200mhz for some reason, might have to bump it back up and find out why i went down.

W7>vista

 

[GaryJohnson]

I remember how we all thought Win XP was bloated and compared to Win2000 it was but with the context of Vista WinXP has a halo above it.

I really liked Win2000 and since I waited for post SP2 I do like Win XP. Plus by SP2 I had hardware fast enough for Win XP.

Server 2008 Server Core ftw.

 

[GrumpyMan]

I've never had a BSOD, what is that? Can I get one at the store?

 

[JackMDS]

I've never had a BSOD, what is that? Can I get one at the store?

LOL, here is one for free.

 

[GrumpyMan]

Wow that looks pretty boring, I don't like that game. But I guess if everyone has it then I want one too and I'll have to go to Steam and buy one. Thanks!

 

[mxnerd]

It does seem that Win7 has some compatibility problem with my MSI AMD RS690 (HD2600) chipset laptop machine.

For the past few weeks, I ran Win7 and my laptop suffers sudden shutdown every day randomly multiple times, it's not blue screen, but sudden shutdown, no warnings.

When I moved back to Vista for 2 days, the problem seems gone.

I don't know if it's shared memory problem since there is no new divers from AMD yet.

The O.S. comes with Vista is 32bit. The Win7 is 64bit though.

 

[Rubycon]

LOL, here is one for free.

I liked the ones in NT4.0 - much more details!

 

[Nothinman]

Server 2008 Server Core ftw.

Except that a core installation is so limited it's practically worthless for anything but a DC.

 

[stash]

Except that a core installation is so limited it's practically worthless for anything but a DC.

The R2 version is much better.

 

[zoiks]

The fucked up thing about Windows is the lack of logging. It would be awesome if there was a way to figure out what the fuck is going haywire. The system logging in Event viewer pretty much sucks ass and donkey nuts.

 

[Arglebargle]

My two BSODs both happened with Steam games. A pattern?

 

[vshah]

might be a long shot, but it could be an old/failing power supply. especially if games etc. cause crashes (video card not getting clean/enough power)

 

[Nothinman]

The R2 version is much better.

But I'm going to guess that you're still limited to the roles that MS specifically made work in Core and that you can't go from Core->Full without doing a full reinstall, right?

 

[nemesismk2]

Yeah, RAM checks out. Right now I'm downloading new drivers for my Vid card & motherboard (MB drivers may or may not be new, need to compare version numbers).

Good luck getting Windows 7 working okay.

 

[Friendo]

I used Vista for 2.5+ years and had one BSoD and that was because of some PS3Server software I was trying to install.

Since clean installing Win7 x64 Pro less than 2 months ago, I've had three BSoD. No reason that I could find, just BSoD. And three system lockups while playing Steam based games. The last lockup, just a few minutes ago, required using a System Restore point.

Who would have guessed the Vista > Win7.

Alright, sorry for the rant, but does anyone know when SP1 will be released?

Too bad, mine runs flawlessly.

 

[QueBert]

I hate Microsoft, I have either flat out hated, or mostly disliked every OS since Win 3.1. Windows 7 is the first since Dos 6.22 I can honestly say I like. Vista wouldn't work on my system. I installed it at least 6 different times and it fucked up to the point of being unusable in the first 10 minutes every time. I installed the Win 7 Beta figuring "hay it's just Vista with a SP added" and to my shock it worked, and pretty well.

With that said, I do understand your frustration, my loosing bout with Vista made me understand nothing will work 100% for every single person. Sorry you're having issues, I've been there with every version of Windows prior to 8 so I know what it's like.

 

[Griswold]

Silly thread. Both vista and 7 do a great job for me without crashing. The usability of 7 is just better than that of vista, thats all. That means, one person cant possibly declare failure of a product like this.

/end thread

 

[nemesismk2]

My two BSODs both happened with Steam games. A pattern?

Yeah Steam is well known for causing problems, when half Life 2 was released I had all sorts of problems and the cause was Steam

 

[Nocturnal]

Interestingly enough I ran Vista for a few days and it was complete shit. I have been running 7 for a month or two now. No problems to report. I love it. It's what Vista should've been.

 

[RebateMonger]

Except that a core installation is so limited it's practically worthless for anything but a DC.

The other place where a core installation has theoretical advantages is as a virtualization host. It limits the attack surface area and, maybe more importantly, should require a LOT fewer Windows Updates, especially I.E., which aften require reboots. Hyper-V hosts aren't supposed to be running applications anyway, so core isn't as limiting as it usually is.

 

[Nothinman]

The other place where a core installation has theoretical advantages is as a virtualization host. It limits the attack surface area and, maybe more importantly, should require a LOT fewer Windows Updates, especially I.E., which aften require reboots. Hyper-V hosts aren't supposed to be running applications anyway, so core isn't as limiting as it usually is.

I realize that, but I'm going to be biased in favor of VMware for a VM host. I like the idea of a Core installation that I can pick and choose what I want piece meal, but right now it's useless for 99% of Windows Server installations because of the lack of good package management and 3rd party software's assumption that a GUI will be available.

 

[badnewcastle]

What error code are you getting on the BSOD? Is it happening at any certain time??? ie: wake from sleep... playing a game etc...

 

[misle]

Wow, this thread is still kicking? That works out. I stopped gaming on the system until I can figure it out.

Then, this morning, another BSOD while surfing the web.
PFN_LIST_CORRUPT was the only thing I wrote down before it rebooted.

I then went to look at the logs:
The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x0000004e (0x000000000000008d, 0x00000000000054c8, 0x000000000051ad00, 0xfffff6fc8061a543). A dump was saved in: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP. Report Id: 121209-26722-01.

So, I look for Memory.dmp, but I find this:
The dump file at location: C:\Windows\MEMORY.DMP was deleted because the disk volume had less than 25 GB free space.

This deletion occurred 64 seconds after the first message.

From what I've read, it does sound like a driver issue.

 

[synn_]

Yet to install Win 7, i guess i'll have my hands on it when SP1 releases.

 

[yinan]

Win7 is great. If you are having driver issues you cant really blame MS for either a vendors bad driver or crappy hardware.