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Quirky Windows 7 Behaviour

  • 07-01-2011 07:10PM
    #1
    Kevinf63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭


    Okay, some may recognise me from the Antec 300 Airflow and BSOD problem Thread (just to give you an idea of what happened previous to this behaviour). I just did a fresh install of Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit on my self-built PC and now after all that trouble I'm having this....:(

    • Firstly, my recycle bin randomly keeps saying its corrupt and that everything should be deleted out of it.
    • Bad Company 2 still has BSOD's with the dxgmms1.sys error mentioned and I'm certain thats a driver problem with the sound. I think thats just an DICE and EA hiccup as others have this.
    • While playing Football Manager 2011 it froze with a sound loop and after closing the program through ctrl-alt-del, it continued to loop even when playing youtube videos and even after starting football manager up again. Can only be stopped by restarting the PC.
    • I have both Crysis and Crysis Warhead and both crash randomly with no set period of time. After checking their logs they make reference to memory leaks.
    • One time when I turned the PC on and logged in Asus Xonar DX Audio Center had stopped responding and refused to restart. I had to do a reinstall to get it working.
    • After transferring my backup files over to the new fresh install, my hard drive was quite fragmented if that's any help. I recently got UPC Broadband and the wireless phone, and broadband router are sitting beside the PC although I don't think that would make any difference.
    • Lastly trying to close some applications like Metaboli Downloader (GAME.co.uk video game downloader) I occasionally get this "unhandled exception" error I haven't got a prime example, but next time it happens I'll post it up.
    • I have done CHKDSK, sfc /SCANNOW and ran memtest86+ for 6 passes, all with no errors. So...(sigh)... What could be the problem now?
    Any help would be once again greatly appreciated...:rolleyes: EDIT: I'm aware this isn't really in the right category but I built this PC myself and got the suggestion of parts of this site months ago. Once built I started having problems and came back to this forum for help... You can still move the topic though if you want to a more appropriate spot.
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Comments

  • #2
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    looks to me like u have bad chipset drivers. if your getting lots of corrupt files a crappy chipset driver will cause u no end of problems.

    for me its the intel ich7 chipset driver that causes similar issues on my win 7 x64 machine. try force your sata drive speed in your bios to sata 1 to reduce the rate of errors.

    oddly enuff when i downgraded that pc to win vista x64 the problems went away for the most part.


  • #3
    Kevinf63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 169 ✭✭Kevinf63


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    looks to me like u have bad chipset drivers. if your getting lots of corrupt files a crappy chipset driver will cause u no end of problems.

    By chipset drivers, do you mean southbridge drivers? Or all AMD64 chipset drivers on the mobo? Cause I recently installed a "south bridge" driver for AMD mobo's that I probably shouldn't have.

    I might give the SATA 1 thing a try. Thanks for the info and reply. :)


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