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2010-09-10

Windows 7 freezes on MacBook Pro

Issue

Windows freezes on different occasions. Sometimes immediately after startup and sometimes during work.

Solution

First solution was to not use Google Chrome which do have several reports on hanging Windows 7 on MBP. Even though this seems like a long shot solution it really did help me out during several weeks. IE8 does not hang my system and Firefox also seemed to carry the same issue with freezes.

Final (hopefully) solution is to download the latest driver from NVidia. Currently the latest driver is released in july 2010. This driver solved an  issue having trouble booting Windows. My system booted logon screen perfectly, but after logon it turned black and mouse pointer frooze…

This applies to

O/S: Windows 7 [x64]
Computer: MacBook Pro Unibody 17” (late 2008)

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