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All posts tagged "crashing"


Friday, November 6, 2009

The Night I Crashed Windows 7 Nine Times in a Row

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home Talk" @ 01:00 PM

On the whole, I'm really enjoying Windows 7 - I've migrated eight of my computers over to Microsoft's latest operating system, and it's working great on all of them. As you can tell from the above screen shot, however, I hit a snag with one of the systems. You'll never believe what caused the problem though: a font. I'd installed Windows 7 on a brand new Intel Core i7-based media machine (yes, an article is forthcoming) and it was running smoothly. I had a bunch of fonts I wanted to install, so I grabbed them all and dragged them into the font folder. They were installing, when all of a sudden bam, my system blue-screened (BSOD). I was shocked, and initially thought it was a problem with my aggressive overclock (I pushed the Core i7 920 CPU from 2.66 Ghz up to 4.2 Ghz) even though I'd torture tested the system for days without a problem. I clocked my system back to normal, and tried to install the fonts again - and bam, it crashed again! Read more...


Monday, October 26, 2009

HP's Core i7-based Desktops Plagued by Problems?

Posted by Jason Dunn in "Digital Home News" @ 03:00 PM

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/20...core_i7_glitch/

"Hewlett-Packard customers are up in arms about a major glitch affecting the company's Core i7-based PCs. A HP forum containing a shedload of gripes about the technical cockup - that some suggest may have been caused by a defective motherboard - runs to over 100 pages. A Reg reader told us that HP's line of Intel Core i7 CPU-loaded computers were locking up, freezing and regurgitating blue screens of death. He added that the vendor's Elite Pavillion Series appear to be particularly hampered by the nasty glitch."

It's sometimes hard to tell when a technology problem is wide-spread, because people with the problem tend to complain loudly while people without the problem quietly go about their business...but this seems like a legitimate issue with HP's Core i7 systems. Any Digital Home Thoughts readers bitten by this problem?


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