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L305D + Windows 7 64 bit - Anyone?

post #1 of 8
4/28/09 at 10:01am
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Is anyone running Windows 7 64 bit on a L305D? Mine ran Vista 64 bit flawlessly for 6 months prior to switching, but with W7, it won't even boot. When I first install it, Everything works fine. The very first time I reboot is when it stops working. (Even if I don't change anything else before rebooting).
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post #2 of 8
4/28/09 at 2:16pm
Did you update W7 after the 1st boot up? This is when W7 goes on line and kinda tweaking your environment.

cheers ...
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post #3 of 8
4/28/09 at 2:27pm
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Did you update W7 after the 1st boot up? This is when W7 goes on line and kinda tweaking your environment.

cheers ...

I have reinstalled a grand total of 9 times now. I have tried updating everything... Nothing... one at a time...

the boot log returned my usb audio as the last driver loaded before the crash, so I even tried disabling Legacy usb in BIOS, and it still didn't boot. It won't boot into safe mode, and recovery doesn't work.

I have an open thread on Windows 7 forums as well, but the guys over there are just as stumped as I am so far. Vista 64 ran flawlessly on my laptop, so theoretically, this shouldn't be happening at all. Thats why I am curious to know if anyone else is actually running W7 64 bit. I want to know if it is an isolated incident, or the fault of the OS.
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post #4 of 8
4/28/09 at 4:27pm
Many of us here at NBF are running W7 64bits, myself included. But yes, fact is W7 64bits is still behaving erratically. You might want to wait for the RC coming out next month to try again.

Put your posts here:
http://www.notebookforums.com/thread224307-3.html

Hopefully we can get more inputs

cheers ...
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post #5 of 8
4/28/09 at 5:53pm
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Many of us here at NBF are running W7 64bits, myself included. But yes, fact is W7 64bits is still behaving erratically. You might want to wait for the RC coming out next month to try again.

Put your posts here:
http://www.notebookforums.com/thread224307-3.html

Hopefully we can get more inputs

cheers ...

I am running the RC right now. Have been for a few days now. 2 of my Desktops have 64 bit RC, all of my other laptops are running 32 bit RC. one of the other desktops is running 64 bit build 7077, and one of my laptops is running build 7068 32bit. I had the 32 bit RC (build 7100) on my laptop until one of the guys on W7 forums convinced me to have another go at the 64 bit version and see if we could get it going.
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post #6 of 8
4/28/09 at 6:20pm
Let me dig into it a bit more.

We are saying that W7 64bits stumps at "usb audio driver", correct? Can you confirm that no external device is being connected as well?

cheers ...
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post #7 of 8
4/28/09 at 8:24pm
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Let me dig into it a bit more.

We are saying that W7 64bits stumps at "usb audio driver", correct? Can you confirm that no external device is being connected as well?

cheers ...

No external devices at all... just the laptop itself.
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post #8 of 8
5/21/09 at 7:01pm

re L305D BSOD

I am having the same problem. I have an L305D-S5940, with an AMD X2 processor. It came with 3 partitions, a system partition, a partition containing the main hard drive, and a hidden partition containing backup files. It came with Vista installed. I couldn't get Windows 7 start up disk to load, so I deleted all 3 partitions, created 2 partitions, one unallocated (***) and one of Fat32. Then I installed Windows 7 on the Fat32 partition. <p>

All went great. I installed some of the Vista drivers from Toshiba's web site, and installed Virtual XP. <p>

When I restarted the computer (not sure if it was the first restart or not), I got the BSOD, and none of the start up disks would load at all, except for Bart's PE. Acronis Disk Director CD will only start in safe mode, if you go to full mode, it won't see any disks. Weird. If I try to start up with Win7, I get BSOD. If I try to start with Mac OSX disk, I get a message that the boot plist is missing. It should just start up from CD.

I ended up deleting my Win7 partition (after all that work installing it) and reformatting it and then restarting, and still get the same result. It seems like there is a hardware issue with this model that interferes with start up. I am about to take it back and get another laptop that works, as this is becoming a huge waste of time. If anyone has any ideas, please share.
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