Here is the setup... Sorry for the wall of text!
I have a rig that I put together in April 2008. It's been running fine but has become a bit sluggish usually meaning it's time for a format. This is nothing new since I install and uninstall lots of stuff. You can see my system specs in my signature. Everything has the most current drivers minus the video card which is running 177.41. I'm running Kaspersky 7.0. World of Warcraft is my primarily played game. This runs just fine on this setup. Everything I have installed is on the 500 GB and 320 GB hard drives. The 1.5 TB drive was sitting there empty for me to install the clean OS on.
I finally get over my lazy streak and decide to do the install. I got a copy of Windows 7 x64 so I figure I'll try that out. I install the OS, patch it up, install Kaspersky 2009, and then make sure my drivers are all at current date. I got everything where I liked it and fired up WoW. The game plays pretty good but all of a sudden it freezes. This goes on and requires a manual reboot. It happens a few times so I finally give up the ghost figuring that 7 doesn't like my hardware yet. I did have to install a couple of drivers with Vista compatibility on.
This wasn't a big deal and I have to fill my addiction without problems so I decided to go back to Vista x64. I did the format again, patched it up, installed Kaspersky 2009, and make sure all my drivers were up to date. Fire up WoW and it does the same thing as my Window 7 attempt. Now I'm confused, maybe it's a driver issue? My buddy tells me that I should try Windows 7 with just the Windows Update video drivers and that maybe it was the issue. Now I'm back on Windows 7 with the WU drivers and it still has the problem. I even went so far as to try the old 177.41 drivers with Vista Compatibility on to see if that was the case. I get in the game, at some random time the game will freeze. I can alt+tab out and see the desktop and other windows but nothing responds. I then have to manual reboot to get the system back.
What gets me is that I'm using the same hardware on my old working Vista install. I can't see anything that should affect this. So I figure I'd ask a few experts to see if there are any ideas.
I have ran memory tests and hard drive tests and both seem to come back fine. As long as I don't start WoW the computer will run all day and night. I've tried this recent Windows 7 install with Kaspersky 2009 turned off as well to see if that might be the issue. The game still freezes though. Not sure how accurate it is but the performance monitor on my G15 keyboard shows my ram to be operating around 68% and my CPU is about 20%.
If I've left something out, please ask. I'm at a loss and really want to try Window 7 or a clean format of Vista. Thanks in advance.
I have a rig that I put together in April 2008. It's been running fine but has become a bit sluggish usually meaning it's time for a format. This is nothing new since I install and uninstall lots of stuff. You can see my system specs in my signature. Everything has the most current drivers minus the video card which is running 177.41. I'm running Kaspersky 7.0. World of Warcraft is my primarily played game. This runs just fine on this setup. Everything I have installed is on the 500 GB and 320 GB hard drives. The 1.5 TB drive was sitting there empty for me to install the clean OS on.
I finally get over my lazy streak and decide to do the install. I got a copy of Windows 7 x64 so I figure I'll try that out. I install the OS, patch it up, install Kaspersky 2009, and then make sure my drivers are all at current date. I got everything where I liked it and fired up WoW. The game plays pretty good but all of a sudden it freezes. This goes on and requires a manual reboot. It happens a few times so I finally give up the ghost figuring that 7 doesn't like my hardware yet. I did have to install a couple of drivers with Vista compatibility on.
This wasn't a big deal and I have to fill my addiction without problems so I decided to go back to Vista x64. I did the format again, patched it up, installed Kaspersky 2009, and make sure all my drivers were up to date. Fire up WoW and it does the same thing as my Window 7 attempt. Now I'm confused, maybe it's a driver issue? My buddy tells me that I should try Windows 7 with just the Windows Update video drivers and that maybe it was the issue. Now I'm back on Windows 7 with the WU drivers and it still has the problem. I even went so far as to try the old 177.41 drivers with Vista Compatibility on to see if that was the case. I get in the game, at some random time the game will freeze. I can alt+tab out and see the desktop and other windows but nothing responds. I then have to manual reboot to get the system back.
What gets me is that I'm using the same hardware on my old working Vista install. I can't see anything that should affect this. So I figure I'd ask a few experts to see if there are any ideas.
I have ran memory tests and hard drive tests and both seem to come back fine. As long as I don't start WoW the computer will run all day and night. I've tried this recent Windows 7 install with Kaspersky 2009 turned off as well to see if that might be the issue. The game still freezes though. Not sure how accurate it is but the performance monitor on my G15 keyboard shows my ram to be operating around 68% and my CPU is about 20%.
If I've left something out, please ask. I'm at a loss and really want to try Window 7 or a clean format of Vista. Thanks in advance.
