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Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
edited January 2010 in All Encompassing Trip
So I recently built my own PC about a week ago, just a few glitches, don't know if it's Windows 7 issue or what....

Reoccurring issues:

Sometimes I get no sound after sleep mode or when I restart
Computer freezes
When playing music through media player computer freezes
Sometimes when it goes to screensaver it freezes there and cannot get to the normal screen so I got to restart


Does anyone have any idea why?
Is it driver issues (re-installed my sound card driver) btw.

Would like to resolve these issues soon it's driving me mad.
Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
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  • Stone Is GodStone Is God Posts: 1,331
    Were you having issues before the sound card driver was reinstalled? If you weren't make sure that you have the most up to date driver to see if that gets rid of the problem. If not you may have to roll the driver back to the original version you had. I've put Windows 7 on my wife's and a buddies computers and they've had zero issues.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me.
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    I installed all the drivers that came with the hardware in one hit.
    So it's hard to tell.
    I've read it could be a BIOS issue, file dumping issue, registry issue.

    Arrrrrrrghhh!
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Heatherj43Heatherj43 Posts: 1,254
    Go to the Technical section of this forum. Maybe someone there can help.
    Save room for dessert!
  • Brisk.Brisk. Posts: 11,567
    If you have a soundcard, make sure you have installed it properly.

    When you mean 'freeze' does everything just freeze and you have to restart?
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    re-seat the soundcard

    re-seat and/or rearrange the ram
  • Heatherj43Heatherj43 Posts: 1,254
    norm wrote:
    re-seat the soundcard

    re-seat and/or rearrange the ram
    If you reseat it make sure YOU are grounded, so no static ruins it.
    Save room for dessert!
  • PatrickBatemanPatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    If possible, try another slot for the soundcard. Is it a Creative labs card? which model? You said you installed the drivers all in one shit...do you mean you have a builtin soundcard and you just ran the disk that came with the motherboard? DOwnload the latest drivers from the website for the manufacturer and also chipset drivers.
    If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,522
    This is why most people don't "build their own PC's" :shock: ;) :wtf:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • PearlOfAGirlPearlOfAGirl Posts: 15,993
    I've been deleting things left and right on my computer... it won't even let me run the defragementer, because I have 13% of space on it, and I'm suppose to have at least 15%...
    :wtf: :crazy: :roll: :wtf: :crazy: :roll: :wtf:

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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Brisk. wrote:
    If you have a soundcard, make sure you have installed it properly.

    When you mean 'freeze' does everything just freeze and you have to restart?

    Everything, can't move the mouse or type. So I restart.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    PatrickBateman wrote:
    If possible, try another slot for the soundcard. Is it a Creative labs card? which model? You said you installed the drivers all in one shit...do you mean you have a builtin soundcard and you just ran the disk that came with the motherboard? DOwnload the latest drivers from the website for the manufacturer and also chipset drivers.

    Soundcard is Creative Soundblaster X-Fi.
    I installed each CD for each piece of hardware.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Thanks to all that replied.
    I updated the video driver online.
    Lets see what that does.
    I called the store I purchased the parts and they say it could be RAM, Motherboard, or PSU.
    Told me to try take out the RAM and re-seat it.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    So a friend of mine suggested I try running Memtest86 with one RAM stick in the primary slot.
    I did this for both of my RAM sticks and they passed the test.
    When I put both in the test won't run, looks like the 2nd RAM slot on the motherboard is faulty.
    Atm I am running on only 1 RAM stick (2gig on Windows 7).
    I shall see if I get any more freeze if not then I will need to get the motherboard replaced.
    Sigh, that means building the PC again and reinstalling everything. :(
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • dcfaithfuldcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    I have to say I am very surprised you haven't received a useless post that says:

    "Buy a Mac" :roll:

    I realize my post is equally useless, but I had to come into this thread jsut to see if the Apple biast had been thrown out yet. :P
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  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,522
    dcfaithful wrote:
    I have to say I am very surprised you haven't received a useless post that says:

    "Buy a Mac" :roll:

    I realize my post is equally useless, but I had to come into this thread jsut to see if the Apple biast had been thrown out yet. :P

    I must admit..... I was thinking about it! :lol::lol:

    But, then again, I'm a guy who just likes things that work. ;)
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
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