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    Windows 7 Problems installing due to no hard drive!

    Hi, I have a badly infected XP machine and its in dire need of a clear out so I figured I would either try and do a format and install Windows 7 or will have to stick with XP. My problem is that when I attempted the XP install it says it cant find my hard drive and I have tried the...
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    Windows 7 windows 7 upgrade

    OK so i have an acer apire 5050 amd athalon64x2 256 ati radeon 1100 4gig ran vista 32bit and i am lookin to upgrade to 7 and im not to sure i my computer can run it stable microsofts advisor says i can but acer says i shoulnt. any help would be appreciated. Oh and one more thing if i load it...
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    Windows 7 LOGITECH QUICKCAM PRO 9000 - Sometimes you see, sometimes you don't!

    Although I installed the proper Win 7 - 64bit driver for my Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000, and the camera was recognized ok by the OS, etc., sometimes it just disappears or is "lost" or gone from the devices list, while being used or just by pointing it somewhere! I actually confronted this...
  4. Windows 7 Windows 7 not finding drives on istall, can not get past install screen

    Windows 7 does not recognize drives on install Hi, I am trying to do a clean install from XP to Windows 7 on a home built system with a ASROCK AliveNF6P-VSTA Mother board, Athlon 64 6000 X2 AM2 CPU, 2 Mg Ram and a SATA hard drive. When I try to install Windows 7, it get to the install start up...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Warp?

    I just attempted to install win7 x64 on one of my other systems, an AMD Athlon II X2 240 Regor 2.8GHz, with 2 sata hds both at 500g and server 2003 on the primary drive working fine (so far) ... unless I use Paragon to make a partition on the main drive .. then I see performance hits in server...
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    Windows 7 thinking about downgrading to x86

    everyone says how fast windows 7 is but it seems just as fast if not slower than xp (my previous version). Its alright here and there but theres just so many small things that seem to take so long to do. I brought up my task manager to see my cpu usage and it jumps from around 10% (what it is...
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    Windows 7 after installing windows 7 computer freezs !!

    i have a desktop , AMD Athlon x64 ( 2.4GHz) , 4G memroy .. i am trying to install windows 7 professional , every thing goes fine with installation until the last step when the computer restarts, i got a screen saying windows start up , then the screen goes blank, i wait for more than 10 mins...
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    Windows 7 Will my machine run 7 smoothly?

    Here is my specs. What I want to know is will I be able to run Win 7 ultimate smootly(32bit)? I am planning to upgrade my RAM to 3 Gigs next month, can't afford to buy an external gfx right now.:( Operating System : Windows XP sp3 Processor : AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Motherboard : ASUSTeK...
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    Windows 7 Audio Card incompatible?

    Well after I installed Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit I noticed whenever I run any kind of media it starts to skip and freeze, it happens a lot when playing music. This also happens when no other programs are running so i know it can't be from that. I have installed all of the latest drivers for...
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    Windows 7 Hard Drive Failing?

    Yesterday I installed my new Samsung HD502HJ drive. I cloned my old drive onto this one using dd on an Ubuntu Live CD. So after returning into Windows 7 RC, it starts popping up messages telling me that the drive is going to fail soon. I thought this might have been due to using dd to clone the...
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    Windows 7 "setup files are corrupted, please obtain....."

    get this message when trying to install an application (CMSF: shock force from battlefront). downloaded the files several time, trying different compatiblity modes, nothing. the error appears when installing the app and when installing the app patch. OS: windows build 7100, 32bit. Athlon...
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    Windows 7 AMD athlon 64 X2 only 1 core seen

    I am running the 64 Bit RC of Windows 7, and am having an issue... My Athlon 64 X2 is seen by the system as a dual core CPU, but the system only seems to use 1 core... CPUz shows it also as a dual core, and at the bottom for Processor 1 it shows 1 core and 1 processor... Task Manager and...
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    Windows 7 RC installation freezes with stop error

    I tried to install Windows 7 RC x86 several times. Every time I tried to do it, my computer froze at the very beginning of the process, still running from the DVD like here: Link Removed The moment of freezing is the same, however the stop errors (BSODs) are not. I get IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL...
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    Windows 7 what do I do about failing hard disk?

    I just created a new rig with a Athlon black 2.8 cpu, gigabyte MoBo 4gb of corsair ram. The hard disk I'm using is a Maxtor SATA. I believe it has the S.M.A.R.t tech built in. win7 keeps giving me a message that the Hard disk is going to fail. I ran a disk checked and it seemed fine. it did...
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    Windows 7 Video card issue (not enough resorces)

    Hi All Haveing problems with geting my second vc working.device manager says not enough resorses for the second card but xp has no problem Running every thing and in sli.HELP!! Athlon 64x2 3800+ two nvidia 7600gs's 3g ddr2 800 gigabyte m59-sli s4 wd 320g hdd windows 7 build 7100 latest...
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    Windows 7 Should I install Windows 7?

    So I'm currently running 32 bit XP right now, and was wondering if my computer would be able to handle the new Windows 7 64 bit. Here are my known specs... Link Removed AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+ Dual Core Processor 3GB P2-6400 DDR2 Memory 500GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive 16x DVD+/-RW Dual Layer...
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    Windows 7 Nvidia Drivers Causing Startup Lockup

    Hello everyone, I've been running windows XP 32bit for a long time now, but I've recently upgraded the RAM to 6gigs and it only reads 3.25, so I decided to dual boot Windows 7 RC1 64bit instead of buying Windows XP / Vista 64 bit. After successfully completing the installation and the...
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    Windows 7 Nvidia 7300Gt no tv out

    I am running an hp pavilion a1430n with an athlon x2 3800+ and an Nvidia 7300GT graphics card and Win 7 build 7100 installed. I have a tv connected as a secondary display. when i try to adjust the display settings for the tv, it will not apply the new settings. It attempts to apply but does not...
  19. Windows 7 can't get crysis to work

    for some reason crysis comes up with an emulation error or something similar and don't know how to fix it i have tried different drivers for my graphics card and have the latest BIOS update for my CPU which i had problems with Virtual XP. graphics card: nVidia 8800GTS CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2...
  20. Windows 7 Asus A7N8X Motherboard

    Are there any Windows 7 drivers for this Mobo? Everything's working fine, but i don't hink i've actually installed any drivers for the mobo. I've got the disc that came with the mobo, but it doesn't seem to want to install anything from the CD so i assume those drivers are out of date? Thanks...