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jacaru

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May 9, 2009
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Hello,

I have an iMac 7, the previous model. I have been trying the Windows 7 betas and finally installed the RC. With the betas I had no problems.

With the RC I get 1 to 3 minutes long freezes randomly, at startup, during use, even in the final step of installation. They are not too frequent but enough to annoy, maybe a couple per hour. I have tried 32bit and 64bit, with and without bootcamp and happens the same.

I can hear some kind of mechanical power off and on inside (1 sec) the imac when this happens but I dont know if it is cause or effect, it looks like it is the hardisk.

I would think something hardware wise is wrong, but macos still runs perfectly. Has anybody experienced something similar?

Thanks.
 
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