Windows 7 freezing on both desktop machines

[scott123]

Here is my main set up:

ASUS M4A87TD EVO AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard

AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor HDZ965FBGMBOX

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL7D-4GBRM

G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBRL

LITE-ON DVD Writer - Bulk - Black SATA Model iHAS224-06 LightScribe Support - OEM

Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W Continuous Power ATX12V Ver.2.2 / EPS12V version 2.91 SLI Certified CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC "compatible with Core i7/Core i5" Power Supply
Antec Six Hundred Black Computer Case

GIGABYTE GV-N285UD-1GH GeForce GTX 285 1GB 512-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

3 – WD green drives: c/: 500gb, e/:1.5 tb, f/: 500 gb


This is my older setup:

antec case

Antec earthwatts EA430 430W Continuous Power ATX12V v2.0 80 PLUS Certified Active PFC Power Supply

ASUS P5K SE LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 Conroe 2.66GHz LGA 775 65W Dual-Core Processor BX80557E6750

CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400C4

CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model TWIN2X2048-6400C5DHX

Lite-on IDE dvd/rw

WD blue or green hdds (3)

Pny geforce video card




phew, long list but i wanted to be thorough (especially on the ram) So from here on out im mainly going to be talking about my first set up as this is the most important. For the ram, my mobo reads left to right: A1, A2, B1, B2. I have the ram installed in this order: 4gb, 2gb, 4gb, 2gb.


so what literally happens is while multitasking (like listening to itunes and playing starcraft ii, or just using adobe premiere) the computer will just lock up, and loop the last sound it made like a skipping cd until I do a hard restart. it would do that every once and a while after i installed windows 7. as first it would be infrequent, but once it freezes once and you restart, you may only get a minute or two before it locks up again. its stopped locking up all together and just going to the blue screen where it says its dumping my ram, and then unsuccessfully restart. I googled this problem and there are SO many people that have the same exactly problem and no idea how to fix it! its gotta be windows 7. my older set up was running xp forever and once i upgraded to 7, it started freezing right away. I tried running memtest86+. It ran for about 4 hours and didn't seem to have any errors, but there seemed to be a lot of options and parameters....not really sure what im supposed to do with this thing. My graphics card and bios drivers have been updated but no change in the problem. I was going to update the drivers on my mobo chipset too but i wasn't sure how to do that either. Help stop with madness!! I've built a pretty killer pc to edit video on, and now it just sitting in my room turned off 24/7. I go outside a lot more but i got crap to do!

[scott123]

oh, its also 64 bit, both machines.

[MikeMoss]

Hi

Did you go from 32 bit XP to 64 bit Windows 7?

I'd make sure that your video and audio drivers were the latest 64 bit drivers for Windows 7 if you haven't already done that.

I've run into the audio looping and freeze on my on my old computer when I upgraded to Windows 7 from XP while working in Premiere myself and updating my sound-card drivers fixed it.

Mike

[scott123]

Video card drivers are up to date. Updated sound drivers and rectified any (!) issues under device manager. Ran starcraft
2 with itunes open fine. Ran for a couple days and then went to the blue screen and backed up my my ram before freezing. When restarted i got a scrambled looking bios screen. Did a hard restart and im pretty much back to where I started

[glc]

When restarted i got a scrambled looking bios screen.

You have a hardware issue. Bad video card, bad ram, bad motherboard, or bad power supply.

[scott123]

On both machines? The older one ran xp for 2 years fine. Is there some way to disable my machine from rebooting after it goes to the blue screen so i can write the error code down?

[Nuclear Krusader]

You can try hitting the Pause key.

If you can go into safe mode, then go to System Properties > Advanced > Startup and Recovery and uncheck the box next to Automatically Restart.