Recent content by gulliwog

I myself know very little directly about intel HD graphics, but I think you need to find out exactly which generation of HD graphics you have. According to the below wiki article there are 6th and 7th gen HD graphics and the 6th are dx10.1 and 7th 11&11.1. Hopefully if you find out exactly which...

Sandy Bridge definitely supports dx11. Have you read/tried this already, Preet? A DirectX 11 device is displayed incorrectly as a DirectX 10.1 device in Performance Information and Tools in Windows 7 It seems its possible that it may already be using dx11, just displaying incorrectly in dxdiag.

Thank you for the advice. I do actually have CCleaner, I'm just not in the habit of using it, I always forget its there. I will probably use the disk cleanup in sys tools first, I seem to remember always running into the issue that certain files in "temp" dont like being deleted manually for...

Does it happen EVERY time? Sometimes during start-up (after the disk/memory checks when your waiting for the windows7 colors to appear, but before getting to logon screen I will get a vry long pause)... however its occasional and I am pretty sure it coinsides with windows updates, so its just...

What information is given in Device Manager under sound? Are there any error messages or similar? You said the speakers werent working, did you try with headphones as a previous person suggested? Given the timing it seems by far the most likely that HP messed something up whilst reparing your...

Hi All, I just wanted to confirm something for peace of mind before proceeding... Basically I want to make 100% sure that its okay to permantly delete EVERYTHING that can be found at this address: Local Disk(C:)/Users/<Username>/Appdata/Local/Temp/ Obviously I will leave the folder "temp"...

Update: Today I ran Memtest86+ v4.20 for seven and a half hours. In that time it completed 4 full passes of the 16Gb of ram installed and found no errors. I also (on the advice of the store that built the PC) tired removing 2 memory cards at a time and seeing if the problem persisted. So i...

I just found this thread, where the person (as best as I can make out) says that the problem could be caused by the battery. http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f10/stop-0x000000f4-181457.html Could the battery dying really cause a crash after 30 mins or an hour after the PC has been...

Hi All, Since about 10am this morning my PC has suddenly started suffering regular BSODs. Attached are the things requested in sticky, plus some extra info. The computer will start normally run normally for an hour or more then crash. The crash happens like this: First whatever I am doing...