I recently built a new system Gigabyte p67UD, 2600K, 8g ram intel X25M SSD and a few 1TB hd's. FRESH install if win7 Ultimate.
First, no SataII ports are in use, I have a SATA III card and my SSD and one HD are on the onboard SATA III ports. This is a fresh install, all win7 updates. I have moved my Program Files, and my documents folders to the D drive to save space on my SSD. I also manulay set my page file to 1 to 4 megs. I used this Zdavis story
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/windows-7-and-ssds-cutting-your-system-drive-down-to-size/2941?pg=3
I have since changed the pagefile back to windows managed.
ths issue is when I install stuff. Say game off STEAM, the game install fine, but when it comes to setting up direct X or C runtime libraries, or even say LIVE games for windows (no chuckles!). the install runs and just stalls out, stops. My machine becomes unresponsive for 1-3 minutes then if you did hit task manger it will pop up, you do a kill command and wiat 2-3 minutes and let it kill the install, wait 2-3 minutes and you ahve control again. If you then run the install it will finish no sweat.
Reboots dont change this. As far as I can tell install size does. winrar installed fine, winzip. but anything with some size will do this. hang, you kill it, (no reboot) needed)and reinstall and it works the second time every time.
As I have a fresh machine I moved my steam games drive over, whenver I run a game again it runs the C runtimes.. and this issue happens. And as I say, its not just STEAM, but any install
its not poping windows behind windows (i have checked), its almost like the Win7 "will you allow dalog" isnt poping up and its hanging at that? but when i reinstll the second time no windows pop up... so?
this one has me 100% stumped.. Everything works fine.. DVDfab, games, browsers, compiling, encodeing, ripping... its just installs.
First, no SataII ports are in use, I have a SATA III card and my SSD and one HD are on the onboard SATA III ports. This is a fresh install, all win7 updates. I have moved my Program Files, and my documents folders to the D drive to save space on my SSD. I also manulay set my page file to 1 to 4 megs. I used this Zdavis story
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/windows-7-and-ssds-cutting-your-system-drive-down-to-size/2941?pg=3
I have since changed the pagefile back to windows managed.
ths issue is when I install stuff. Say game off STEAM, the game install fine, but when it comes to setting up direct X or C runtime libraries, or even say LIVE games for windows (no chuckles!). the install runs and just stalls out, stops. My machine becomes unresponsive for 1-3 minutes then if you did hit task manger it will pop up, you do a kill command and wiat 2-3 minutes and let it kill the install, wait 2-3 minutes and you ahve control again. If you then run the install it will finish no sweat.
Reboots dont change this. As far as I can tell install size does. winrar installed fine, winzip. but anything with some size will do this. hang, you kill it, (no reboot) needed)and reinstall and it works the second time every time.
As I have a fresh machine I moved my steam games drive over, whenver I run a game again it runs the C runtimes.. and this issue happens. And as I say, its not just STEAM, but any install
its not poping windows behind windows (i have checked), its almost like the Win7 "will you allow dalog" isnt poping up and its hanging at that? but when i reinstll the second time no windows pop up... so?
this one has me 100% stumped.. Everything works fine.. DVDfab, games, browsers, compiling, encodeing, ripping... its just installs.