>I would like to share the road to Windows 7 which applied to me during the last week and some interesting points to it.
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>I had Windows XP Pro before. The goal was to move to Windows 7. Based on the setup I had, a fresh install was required. So, basically, it means that everything had to be installed after.
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>1. Memory issue
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>On the day I brought the PC at the shop, they suggested to me to move to 8 GB of RAM. I had 4 GB of RAM before. So, we did. When I got the PC after, it was nice to see more memory. But, after a while, I started to experience a lot of issues, 3 BOD, some programs that cannot start but on the second click only, and so on. Before, I was running without one BOD in 18 months. I had three in the same day yesterday. I also had about 40 fails when starting an icon and I had to click again a second time so it would run. Provided by the Universal Thread and some great helps from several members, several issues have been resolved. This one was resolved when I ran MemTest86, which was suggested by a member, so to find I had 38600 errors on the memory sims. When we changed that today, with the replacement of 4 new sims, the test went ok and I have been running on it as is for the entire day.


This is my experience with Windows 7 and memory

I bought a new computer for my wife, so I seized the opportunity of buying a discounted copy of Windows 7 64 Ultimate (upgrade) for a second computer. After ordering I wanted to buy some upgrades for my computer so I bought 4gb the RAM, a new video card, new monitors, new HD... almost a new computer.

With the computer built, I intalled Windows XP (as I had an upgrade to 7 I could not install it without a valid licence) and then Windows 7, installed most of my programs and everything worked fine for MONTHS, not a glitch, not a hang up and definitely not a BSOD... Until I decided to install an old copy of FarCry I have just to see how it looked in the new video card. Big problems after that... First, the installation did not finish for it created a BSOD midway on the setup, I rebooted, Windows resisted, rebooted again, Windows resisted again until after several tries, it came back to life, removed everything I could find about FarCry (I downloaded some registry cleaner too) and after a couple of hours of successfully using the computer... reboot by itself. Once I rebooted the hard drive needed checkdsk, which in turn showed like it was fixing some files in the System folder, so I thought I was toasted, but to my surprise, Windows started OK. After a couple of hours of use it will crash again, if I left it on at night it would be dead by morning, if the screen server would come up, it would most likely freeze the computer... complete disaster. Then I run memtest and I found it reporting thousands of errors, like yours, so I thought aha! memory problems! But lo and behold, after I turned off the computer I could run memtest for DAYS without reporting a single error (I ran it once for 5 uninterrupted days) but the windows crashes continued, and if I ran a memtest immediately after a crash, without powering off the computer, it would report again thousand of errors. Anyways, lack of time, stubbornness and laziness made me keep the same operating system without touching it, and the problems slowly fade away, first a day without problems, then 2, then a week and now it does not crash any longer (touching wood)

Anyways, I do not have any answer, just my weird experience with Windows 7...