My computer is relatively new, I bought the parts, assembled it and upgraded over the past couple years. Specs now are: Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 (2.66GHz) NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Intel P5QL Pro mobo (64 bit) Antheros AR8121 Ethernet (Need anything else ask and Ill try to get it wrote down) I'm runing the latest 7600 64x build and I absolutely love windows 7, but every couple of days or so I have to "chkdsk /f". Some how theres a corruption almost without fail within a week of running chkdsk and fixing the problems. I have done everything I can possibly think of to remedy this but nothing. I have completely wiped my hd and did a fresh install (atleast 10+ times since windows 7 came out, but some where upgrades to newer builds) I've used several products to check and make sure my hd wasn't failing, everything seemed okay. Checked my RAM too. For a while I would reinstall all the programs I would use, but now I'm just installing the ones I need. I've also been making a system image on a spare hd incase a corruption makes it unable to be repaired or rebooted (had that happen a few times) Pretty much the only programs I'm installing are firefox, vlc, itunes, and system stuff like java, flash, ect. So unless its one of those, I don't think its program related. I don't often get blue or black screens of death, mainly its I go to run photoshop for my college summer course, and i get a WerFault error (i think thats correct) and it crashes. I know the simple thing would be to just go back to Vista or XP, but I REALLY like Windows 7, and would rather fix the issue or understand what it is for when retail comes out. I don't know if its a software problem on my part, a hardware problem, or something with Windows 7. So if anyone else is having these problems, or knows whats causing it/how to fix, please let me know.

You Might try disabling indexing. I've had currupt index files cause a chkdsk crash. WinXp Amd 64 3000 Msi Neo2 Platinuim 1 gig ddr 400. When we cast a pebble into a pond we should look past the first ripple.

Two ideas come to mind. One is you really do have errors that are being caused during operation and the other is during shutdown. The first, I'd check bios and see any settings to slow it down. Failsafe or default maybe. Check connections and maybe buy new or best quality cables to drives. Run HD diags and memtest. Other is shutdown issues. Maybe acpi issues. See also event logs. Last is your system was never factory tested for Windows 7. As each OS is made OEM's have to tweek some firmware or clock timings to get the boards to work. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

you might try booting to bios and setting the bios to default settings, just in case you have tweaked something accidently, i would be inclined to look at my HD cables/connectors, change them they are cheap enough, try the Hd on another power plug, maybe even try another hard drive if you have one handy. you can download hard drive diagnostics for free from most producers, it may give you an idea of something you missed. wish you luck with this one i hate computers! but cant help myself....

thanks for the suggestions, right now im gonna try to turn off write cache for the hds and indexing and see if thats it, i think my problems might be my RAM is too slow to keep up and the cache might be getting corrupted. (I think my ram is only 333MHz and 400Mhz, but for 3Gigs and $40, it was a good deal )

I would suspect hardware before the os. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10

you should aslo run twstdisk just in case WinXp Amd 64 3000 Msi Neo2 Platinuim 1 gig ddr 400. When we cast a pebble into a pond we should look past the first ripple.