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I just now installed Windows 7 on my laptop. I now want to boot from an Ubuntu live CD so I can create a bootable thumbdrive. I need functionality I can only get if I boot directly from the CD (rather than from an ISO on my hard drive, say). But it won't let me boot from the DVD. When I try...

What can I do to lower the Physical Memory Usage in my Laptop? For information, I am using Windows Seven Ultimate (build 7600) with RAM 1 GB, Intel Core i3 M350 @ 2.27 GHz. When I hit task manager, the Physical Memory: Total : 941 Cached : 85 Available : 81...

hello to everyone i have a well known problem with my desktop pc but i can't find a well known solution so you are my last hope. every time it hibernates i see a blue screen and i have to restart. the pc is CPU INTEL CORE I5 25000 3.3GHZ 6MB MB GIGABYTE PH67A-UD3-B3 PSU CM SILENT PRO 700W...

Hi, I use my laptop every day, to do school work, so I was appalled to see that it would not start up this morning. I use Windows 7, and I have a single hard drive that I had just partitioned last night, to separate my general files from my Steam games. All went well, but now I can't seem to...

So I've been googling for solutions in the past 4 days and found nothing. I have an SB Audigy LS, and it produces crackling/static noises whenever I play a video. Also, that video would end up freezing and I will have to close it using the task manager. I have an onboard audio but its Sony MPEG...

Hi all, copied a hard drive using parted magic. I believe i need to edit a boot.ini file? Or was that something for XP? been a while since i upgraded a hard drive so i dont remember exactly what i did last time. Only thing i seem to remember clearly was to NOT plug both drives in once i...

Hi All, New member here. I believe these issues have been discussed before, but it appears my problem is different (slightly...). I've read most, if not all, the previous threads as well as some others, but I'm still at a loss. Here's what happened: Installed new wired Gigabit adapter D-Link...

Hi :), I have a older hard drive that has win xp pro on it and I want to install it as a slave drive in my Win 7 ultimate computer. I was going to install it as a slave and make sure that none of the boot devices point to it in my bios. I will then reformat it. Will this cause any issues with...

My Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit OS got messed up so I restored the original image I made from DriveImage XML successfully. Now when my PC boots, I get the mobo splash screen and then just a cursor. When I put my Win 7 install disk in I can "press any key" to boot from it and the DVD goes right to...

hi everyone, first of all i would like to say i am sorry about my english language, because i write from hungary. i have a brand new laptop (Samsung NP-RV508-A01HU) and i installed a win7 ultimate. the installation was succesfull but after that when it did the first restart the system give...

I have Windows 7 installed on my laptop.I want to use some games for Windows xp.But i tried windows xp mode and it want work becouse i have low memory just 1gb in my windows 7 then in windows xp mode i have just 256 mb. And i want to install windows xp in dual boot with windows 7 but when i...

I'm trying to do a startup repair of Windows 7 x64 on an SSD but can't boot from the CD-ROM while in AHCI mode. I have set CD-ROM at the top of the boot order in BIOS but this is just ignored and the computer boots from the SSD with the knackered version of W7x64. I read somewhere that when...

Hey everyone so i was initially having a problem with my computer booting, it was a "missing operating system" issue...i trouble shot this in every way i could think of but nothing worked, i assumed i fried my drives, so i decided to do a clean install because all of my important files are on...

Hey all, I have a PC I built running windows 7 using an ASUS P5GC-MX/1333 motherboard. This mobo has onboard VGA, I wanted dual video so I added an ATI Radeon PCI card, didnt work. So I added a NVIDIA 8400 GS PCI-X card, still can't get dual. In my BIOS I have options for 'graphics boot...

So I've recently built a new custom computer from scratch here are the specs I7 CPU 860 @ 2.80GHz Gigabyte P55-USB3 motherboard 2x ATI Radeon HD 5770 graphics cards Windows 7 ultimate OS I have reloaded windows multiple times due to blue screens and I am most certain that it is a driver...

Problem Description After booting, the computer freezes at the welcome screen after logging in as any of the users. Sometimes it will restart automatically, other times it has to be "hard shut down". It freezes at the same time, consistently. Occasionally, through an unknown set of steps, I...

I have little knowledge when it comes to changing hardware, just putting that out there. Back when 7 was released as an RC, I had it installed on my secondary office computer on it's original 40 GB sata drive. When I got the full version when it was released, I decided to add another drive...

I recently aquired a computer and ordered acer backup recovery cds to reinstall windows 7 home premium 64 bit the included options all very staright forward.none have worked ! these are the included directions below however when i try either of these options it seems the cd just spins and...

hey, im having a problem with system crashing and then the inability to reboot with a manual reset. if i hold the power key to power off the system then i can boot back into windows. here is some info. on the symptoms of the crash. i have set my computer to never sleep before the crashes...

I just put together a new PC and it's very slow to resume from sleep. I set the BIOS to use S3 sleep. I put the computer into sleep manually and all of the fans/lights go off in a 5 seconds or so. When I resume from sleep it takes about 20 seconds before Windows comes back on. By...