Windows 7 ultimate may contain "sector allocation bug".

Lately Windows 7 on my computer is misbehaving.

Windows 7 is under a lot of stress from Firefox and it's many tabs that are open.

Firefox may also cause some kind of corruption in the audio driver of creative labs.

Somehow this affects the sleep mode of windows 7.

Windows 7 was configured to disable all kinds of caches.

Under these circumstances somehow the "freeing" of an allocated block in the NTFS file system fails.

And the block remains allocated.

Somehow this is causing a boot and NTFS file system failure.

The computer refuses to boot on first turn on... the harddisk is just rattling a little bit and nothing further happens. (Possibly no boot at all... could also indicate bios corruption)

On reset... the same kinda happens... windows resumes.. then nothing... black screen and harddisk rattling.

Finally machine is restarted again, and restore point is deleted and windows starts normally... then it automatically runs checkdisk and finds this "allocation block" which is suppose to be free.

Then windows works as normal.

So what could be causing this weird behaviour:

1. Perhaps bios corruption/wear and tear.
2. Windows 7 bug in relation to Firefox stress and creative labs audio driver and youtube stress.
3. Some bug in the suspend mode of Windows 7.
4. Finally hardware wear and tear... perhaps static discharge corrupted/damage some small little component. No CRC errors detected so far.

So far to me it seems Windows 7 was not stress tested enough in combination with Firefox and audio drivers and youtube...

Bye,
Skybuck.