Random freezes with windows 7 - 64 bit

Allright - i got same problems as you guys with the windows 7 freeze, randomly, and it also did it doing the installation of windows 7, which makes me think it could be some hardware issue or whatever, it froze randomly on the installation at 64%, 77% even on 97%.... etc.

I do have almost same specific as dragon_nexus and smoothf1

Asus p6t se

intel i7 - 920

4 x 2gb ram

SSD extreme 64 corsair primary disk

with a 500gb wd sata disk.

9600 GT geforce

onboard soundcard and networkcard

no antivirus atm.

I will try to configure the setting smoothf1 is talking about, but need to call a friend on that one though, seems pretty dangours and risky if you are a noob like me :-)

i will keep watching this forum for more info.

Dragon,

You can adjust the memory setting in the BIOS, on the AI tweaker page.  We have slightly different boards, but I can't imagine your BIOS being much different than mine.

You can adjust the DRAM bus voltage on the same page as you adjusted the freqency, you just have to scroll down.

The other settings are located under "DRAM Timing Control", also on the AI tweaker page.

My settings were 7-7-7-16:

They correspond to:

-CAS Latency

-RAS to CAS Delay

-RAS PRE time

-RAS ACT time

The other 6 settings can be left in "AUTO". 

Nick

P.S. Every since I made these changes...zero lockups.  I played a video game for 4 hours and watched a blu-ray quality movie with no problems for 2 days running now.  It used to lock up multiple times a day.  It's so weird shutting the computer down without the reset switch...  :)

I'm suffering from random and irretrievable freezes as well.

They tend to happen right after boot, I get to the desktop and find the taskbar in inaccessible, shortly followed by the mouse pointer freezing and no activity follows. Ctrl Alt Del does nothing. Ctrl Shift Esc does nothing. I can only press my reset button or power off by holding the power button.

I'd been theorising it was a network related issue. I didn't seem to get a boot time freeze if I left my USB dongle unplugged (A D-link DWA 140). I thought maybe the dongle itself was at fault, so I pulled the WMP54GS from my old computer (this is a whole new build, btw) and put it in hoping for a better result. Thought it had, until I got the freezing again. This time it was harder to disable the network card, since the freezes would happen before I could reach any part of the control panel to turn it off. I eventually did and went back to the dongle, leaving it out for boot and putting it in after a minute or so.

I'll still get freezes randomly during my browse time. It seems to be when I click a link, usually. I think.

I am, however, interested in the above idea of checking out the QVL list for my motherboard. I too have an Asus P6T, though it's the SE version (P6T SE). I'm using Corsair Dominator RAM, 3x 2GB sticks placed in the orange slots (TR3X6G1600C8D). I've run two seperate Memtests over this week, leaving one overnight for 7 hours. 7 passes, no errors. Did another one today for 5 hours. 5 passes, no errors.

I downloaded the latest QVL, and I understand the information in it...but I don't understand how to apply it in the BIOS. I found the area to specify the frequency of 1600, but I do not understand where I am meant to enter the timing value recommended, nor where to specify the voltage.

Mobo: Asus P6T SE

CPU: intel Core i7 920

RAM: Corsair TR3X6G1600C8D (3x 2GB sticks)

HDD: WD Cavier Black 1TB, WD Cavier Green 1TB, SG 500GB.

PSU: Corsair HX850W

GPU: ATi 5850 single

Sound: Creative Soundblaster Audigy SE 7.1 (Link: http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Creative-Sound-Blaster-Audigy-SE-71-OEM-PCI-Sound-card)

Network: Linksys WMP54GS (now disabled), D-link DWA 140

When trying to post this message...it froze again.

Rebooted and got a blank blue screen. Rebooted again and got an error message.

Problem signature:

  Problem Event Name:    BlueScreen

  OS Version:    6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3

  Locale ID:    2057

Additional information about the problem:

  BCCode:    124

  BCP1:    0000000000000000

  BCP2:    FFFFFA80064E98F8

  BCP3:    0000000000000000

  BCP4:    0000000000000000

  OS Version:    6_1_7600

  Service Pack:    0_0

  Product:    768_1

Files that help describe the problem:

  C:\Windows\Minidump\111409-16988-01.dmp

  C:\Users\Dragon Nexus\AppData\Local\Temp\WER-21746-0.sysdata.xml

Read our privacy statement online:

  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=104288&clcid=0x0409

If the online privacy statement is not available, please read our privacy statement offline:

  C:\Windows\system32\en-US\erofflps.txt

OK,

 When the PC locks up while in safe mode am I to understand that it is definitely a hardware problem and NOT a software problem??

Was serching for different driver versions, started to get cursor lag and looked at reliability and performance and this time I was getting hit with about a hundred MMC.EXE then PC froze. Cursor would move and thats all. circle next to cursor is still turning.

 Also, (and I don't know what this means) but I was at 100% CPU freq. and 100% HDD peak....

Q: If I went out today and bought a new HDD, would I be able to use the recovery/reinstall disk that came from the mfg to install this os ???

Is it that easy to just unplug and plug in a new one?