Windows 7 or vista..?

omahanime said:
That sounds like a power supply to me.
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psu can cause many issues tho, not just powering/freezing.

perhaps if its freezing/restarting, it could possibly be the common oc'd cpu/ram/ incorrect timing on the ram.

or maybe the video card is overheating.
 
When you say that it's freezing up and shutting down, when it's shutting down does it show the typical Windows 7 shutdown screen or does the computer just turn off abruptly? If it's turning off abruptly, could be a case of bad RAM. Run Memtest for about 10 minutes and if you get any errors, that'd be my guess.
 
what it does is the screen goes black and then a blue screen comes up saying an unown error accured and windows shut down
 
INFERNAPE112892 said:
what it does is the screen goes black and then a blue screen comes up saying an unown error accured and windows shut down
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so BSOD. ok, so its either your psu, ram timing, or driver issue.

go into your bios and have it reset to default.

how much ram do you have/how many DIMM?
 
uhm...when your computer turns on, like right when you push the power button, go ahead and start pushing F2.

it'll then come to a blue screen that looks like super old style pc.

thats your bios.

on the right hand side, find where it says "load defaults" or something similar. activate it by pushing enter.

then go ahead and exit/save.



how many sticks of ram do you have? if you have more than one, go ahead and do what i said up above, then if it still doesnt start up, take out one stick. if it starts up, the one you took out is bad. if it doesnt, switch the sticks around (replace one with the other), and restart.


if that still doesnt work, try checking the fan on your video card. is it running/starting up just fine? it may be that as well.

if not, then it is either your psu (power supply) or you installed some funky drivers.

if the latter, go ahead and start into safe mode by pushing F10 when you start up the PC.

it'll then ask start safe mode, blah blah.

go ahead and start safe, then open up system restore. revert back to a previous point a week before it started actin up.

if that still doesnt work, then it could possibly be the motherboard itself.
 
My brother just made the best computer in the world by hand... o_O He used everything from the best motherboard to the best graphics card, it's a giant and he used windows 7. Pretty cool, so I guess I'd choose Windows 7.
 
kawaii_Mew said:
My brother just made the best computer in the world by hand... o_O He used everything from the best motherboard to the best graphics card, it's a giant and he used windows 7. Pretty cool, so I guess I'd choose Windows 7.
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building a custom pc =/= building one by hand.
 
LoneTyranitar said:
Pretty much true. It took me 2+ years to finally get my nintendo wi-fi usb to work on vista.. Actually after two years on trying to get vista to work I went back to my old XP and just used that till it basically died.
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Are you sure a Vista compatible version was out at the time? It did take awhile, you know.

A lot of the "VISTA IS TERRIBLE" hype came from nerds mad about driver issues, or people trying to use software not compatible with Vista yet. (Which is ironic that so many people are upgrading from Vista to 7, because it's just going to make them more likely to encounter problems in incompatible software.) SP1 did fix all that, and as long as you have enough ram and take all the precautions you need to for XP, like making sure you don't do everything you can to slow it down, or reformatting once in awhile, Vista is fine.

If you're getting a new computer and can choose, go with 7 just because you're likely to get a computer with better specs to support what 7 needs anyway. But if you're spending your own money or thinking about upgrading I really don't see the point in trying to get 7 over Vista unless you're really never going to upgrade anything ever, or care about DX11.
 
Porygon said:
Are you sure a Vista compatible version was out at the time? It did take awhile, you know.

A lot of the "VISTA IS TERRIBLE" hype came from nerds mad about driver issues, or people trying to use software not compatible with Vista yet. (Which is ironic that so many people are upgrading from Vista to 7, because it's just going to make them more likely to encounter problems in incompatible software.) SP1 did fix all that, and as long as you have enough ram and take all the precautions you need to for XP, like making sure you don't do everything you can to slow it down, or reformatting once in awhile, Vista is fine.

If you're getting a new computer and can choose, go with 7 just because you're likely to get a computer with better specs to support what 7 needs anyway. But if you're spending your own money or thinking about upgrading I really don't see the point in trying to get 7 over Vista unless you're really never going to upgrade anything ever, or care about DX11.
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to your first paragraph, do not speak unless you know what youre talking about.

upgrading from vista to 7 will not be the same as upgrading from xp to vista. so any incompatibility issues will NOT exist. this is because the architecture of windows 7 is more closely related to windows xp than it is to vista. the ONLY thing that it really took from vista was its crappy UAC and its themes and whatnot, but those were actually stolen from linux distros.

for confirmation of this, look up "compiz fusion" on youtube. we have had this for a LONG time.

ram really had nothing to do with vista, it was having a really nicely built pc to handle vista as it was really demanding for some stupid reason. (i know the reason, btw so dont comment on that)


to your 2nd paragraph, if he is getting a new pc, it'll have win7 regardless, unless he is building custom, even then he should be able to obtain an oem with the purchase of a HDD/SSD

im running win7 on an OLD inspiron 2250 and it runs smooth and perfect. you dont need the newest vid card with 6GB+ ram with an i7 cpu to run win7.

win7 >>> vista in so many ways and to even suggest to stay with vista rather than 7 is completely idiotic.
 
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