Thewordsmith
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Ever since I installed Winows 7, 32 bit upgrade over my Vista Gateway machine I have encountered a number of problems. Most frequent is its failure to wake up properly from Sleep mode - the fans start up OK, but not the actual OS. Blue light on power switch fails to come on.
Also I frequently get sudden Outlook crashes (with automatic reboots), and occasional display failure following wake up from sleep (could be video card error?).
I am really fed up with the whole thing and ready to buy a new box - I can get a HP Athlon Quad 830 with 8 gig of ram and a Terrabyte HDD, running 64 bit Win7, for CAN$ 469, but I am scared of losing access to my main apps (TMPEG DVD Author v2, and Photoshop CS2 being the most important to me).
Any advice on either issue would be most welcome.
Also I frequently get sudden Outlook crashes (with automatic reboots), and occasional display failure following wake up from sleep (could be video card error?).
I am really fed up with the whole thing and ready to buy a new box - I can get a HP Athlon Quad 830 with 8 gig of ram and a Terrabyte HDD, running 64 bit Win7, for CAN$ 469, but I am scared of losing access to my main apps (TMPEG DVD Author v2, and Photoshop CS2 being the most important to me).
Any advice on either issue would be most welcome.