Windows 7 Beta: Encountered an Assertion Failure
In on day one for using Windows 7 (Build 7000) on my Optiplex GX620. I’ve been getting a lot of “Encountered an assertion failure” all over the place. Since it’s just now in public beta, I was not expecting to find anything on a Google search, which I did not.
I’m not sure if this is a driver issue, yet.
I tracked down one of the biggest issues that would make this happen. On Internet Explorer 8 I had switched my search provider to Google. The errors would popup whenever I would start typing and I tracked it down to Suggestions being enabled. If you click on Manage Search Providers (which would give me an assertion failure), then right click on Google and click Disabled Suggestions, it works pretty well.
I am running almost everything in firefox now though, as Internet Explorer has crashed on me quite a number of times.
I also get assertion errors in other locations, such as changing the location to My Music.
I would give screenshots of the assertion error, but it’s not letting me browse my computer when attempting to upload an image.
January 10th, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Reproducible for me, too. Sucks.
January 18th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I’ve got the same issue. I just installed build 7000 and I’m getting these errors all over the place: avg.com, Microsoft Management Console, Add Gadgets window, etc.
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:25 am
Let us know what type of machine you have. Perhaps we can narrow it down to a specific driver.
January 22nd, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Looks like others have seen a corrupted build be the problem. I also got mine from technet.
http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/1498-problems-installing-64-bit-version.html#post14127