I am a new Technet member and the first thing I did when I joined was to download the Windows 7 with SP1 ISO. I wanted to update my gaming machine with SP1 and since then I have had nothing but trouble. Before I tried moving to SP1 my system was totally stable. After doing a clean install from the new ISO it's been extremely problematic and I would like to try and understand why. For starters, here is what is in my system: Intel Core i7 965 Extreme Edition - Zalman CNPS10X Flex - Corsair Dominator GT 3x2GBs 1600 7-7-7-20 - Asus Rampage III Extreme - 2x EVGA GeForce GTX 480 Superclocked+ - Auzentech X-Fi Forte 7.1 + OPA637SM - Audioengine 5 - Intel CT Desktop Adapter - 3x Western Digital Raptor X's in RAID 0 - 3x Crucial RealSSD C300 64GBs in RAID 0 - Seagate ST3500630NS - LG GGC-H20L - Enermax Galaxy EVO 1250w - Cooler Master Cosmos S - Acer GD235HZ - Logitech G19, G9x & G13 - SteelSeries QcK Mass - Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (as pasted from my signature from another forum.) I downloaded all the latest drivers for all hardware. BIOS's and firmwares are the newest for applicable devices. I installed Windows 7 on the RAID array consisting of 3 Raptor X's. The 3x SSDs is where I install games. The first problem was that the Windows interface would, seemingly totally at random, move in super slow motion. The mouse cursor would respond only intermittently. It took minutes to close a windows or get the start menu to pop up. I finally gained access to the restart option and when I would click that or other times shut down the UI would freeze entirely except that I could still move the cursor and I would have no choice but to hold the power button down for 7 seconds to shut it down. This happened 4 times. I saw no event viewer logs that seemed to pertain to this except that the machine had been shut down unexpectedly. The only other message I would see was this: "Event filter with query "SELECT * FROM __InstanceModificationEvent WITHIN 60 WHERE TargetInstance ISA "Win32_Processor" AND TargetInstance.LoadPercentage > 99" could not be reactivated in namespace "//./root/CIMV2" because of error 0x80041003. Events cannot be delivered through this filter until the problem is corrected." That seems to appear in the events upon every reboot. After the forth UI slowdown/freeze I decided to write off the the whole thing as a bad Windows install. I formatted the drives and tried again. I then had a new problem. I got as far as installing the latest nVidia drivers (266.58 WHQL) and enabled SLi. I then rebooted. When I tried to open the nVidia control panel after that the screen would go black and reboot, partially. I would start to reboot and seem to fail and sit there. I cycled power and started up again to have the same thing happen. I tried running Furmark (just to see what would happen) and I experienced the same behavior. The following Bugcheck error was reported after both reboots: 0x00000116. It reported that a bluescreen error had occurred (the first BSOD I have ever seen under 7) but all I saw was a black, empty screen. I am now formatting and going back to non-SP1 Windows 7. Something is very wrong either with the SP1 and my video cards or nVidias drivers or maybe even something else entirely. Has anyone else had any related issues? Thanks. Excuse the length of my post. This experiment has ruined my whole weekend.

Bug Check 0x116: VIDEO_TDR_ERROR This indicates that an attempt to reset the display driver and recover from a timeout failed. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff557263%28VS.85%29.aspx try different drivers. Do you ran the RAM with command rate 1 or 2?"A programmer is just a tool which converts caffeine into code" CLIP- Stellvertreter http://www.winvistaside.de/

I am running the RAM at 1t but it is rated at 1t and always worked before under non-SP1 Windows 7. I ran memtest and no errors were found. However the crashing isn't the main problem. I might have fixed the crashing. (i reseated the video card and that seems solved) The problem now is the UI slow down. Randomly the UI starts moving in super slow motion. The mouse jumps across the screen with large pauses between jumps. If I can get the mouse over a window I click close and nothing happens. Also, watching my G13, I see a constant 12-13% CPU usage while the slow down is going on. I have tried to open up Task Manager while this is going on but I cannot bring it up. The only way to get the PC back to normal is to reset and wait until it does this again.