Constant Crashing!

[Spearball]

It's been a very long while I've been experiencing explorer.exe crashes now. So i finally decided to reinstall from vista to the new windows 7 i got. Install went fine, everything clean, a few click here and there and what do you know... About 3 hours later Explorer.exe CRASH! To say i even got this to resolve the issue. Now whats causing this i have no clue. I had not install ANY software except these... Everything else was DEFAULT windows 7 instalation.

Firefox
Live Messenger
Adobe Flash Player
WinRar

Modules that faulted were ntdll.dll and once in a while i would get stackhash crashes.

Someone told me it can be the DEP causing the issue. Although i have it on default, apparently some AMD processors can cause this. I have no option to disable DEP in my motherboard bios. And, cannot put explorer.exe in exceptions list as it cannot be disabled on 64 bit apps.

Specs

Windows 7 64 bit
Motherboard: Asus a8n32 sli deluxe (STILL IN BETA, the day the final bios is out.....)
Cpu: AMD athlon fx 60
4GB Ram
2 geforce 8800gts 512mb
Asus xonar and creative x-fi (yes i need two )

Thanks!

[Spearball]

Am now getting told that MANY people have been experiencing this with vista sp2 and later (windows 7). Something when wrong? Hopefully MS is taking a look at this.

[jlreich]

Originally Posted by Spearball

Something when wrong? Hopefully MS is taking a look at this.

That's my guess. MS screw something up? Never... Let us know if you find out anything else on this issue. A lot of people are, or are going to be, taking the plunge, so it will be helpful.

[Spearball]

I will keep everyone posted. For now, i found this patch.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/974431

It's a stability patch that updates the explorer.exe executable and many other core windows applications. One things funny, you can never actually know if it fixes your problem. Windows update runs, and bam, who knows what else just caused it. And don't update at all, you'll never find out. Thought id post it just in case it solves it for some. Until i find out more, lets leave it at this.