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Hello, looking for some help with a couple of boot issues i'm having with my Windows 7 computer. I had better start from the beginning: This computer has 4 HDDs, 2x 1TB HDDs for storage, 2 for my seperate windows installations. Story: The first operating system was Windows XP and is...

My issue, no matter what source, or what ram I use, Windows 7 will freeze during install at random points (Mostly during expanding windows files, however, also occurred before even selecting a partition to install on). When I say freeze, i mean the mouse is not able to be moved, and waiting...

Apologies if this has been posted before - I have been a longtime Linux user (switching after running into many frustrating issues with Windows XP), but recently bought a decent PC with Windows 7 so I could get back into gaming. I've only had it for a little over a month and have already ran...

Hi, I have AMD Athlon 64 3200 socket 939 on ASUS A8N-VM board. I have tried installing the Win7 ultimate 64 bit on disk D. The installation have started, but after the first restart the comuter stuck and I can see only black window. I tried to switch to the DVI - no help. I tried to disconnect...

Problem description: I've just built myself a new computer. It was my first time ever building a computer from scratch, although I have played around with the innards of my old one and replaced most things aside from the motherboard and cpu so I had a pretty good idea of what I was doing. I got...

Hello, I've recently switched from Windows Vista to Windows 7 x64. I use the word switched instead of upgraded because I formatted my old drive instead of installing over Vista. I have been using two screens for forever now, both LG Flatron L1750HQ, both are digital and have served me well. My...

I bought my windows 7 on physical DVDs. The ultimate x64 OEM Dvds fresh out of the box. I deleted my hard drive partition and formatted my hard drive to wipe it clean. Now when I try to install Windows 7 onto my computer, the DVD boots and the installation begins. The installation will complete...

Hello again , I was just wondering about a drive not showing in Drive Manager. I have three HDD and they show up just fine in the BIOS . The drive that is not showing in my Device Manager are the 400 Gig and 1500 Gig. But I am running my OS on my 320 Gig , which in neither in Device...

Hey guys, first off here are my specs Motherboard - Gigabyte S-series GA-X48-DS4, Ultra Durable 2 RAM - 4 x Corsair 1024mb RAM Processor - Intel Core 2 Guad Processor Q9400 Video Card - Nvidia GeForce 9800 GTX HDD - Western Digital 500gig Power Supply - 700 watts ,Model 700SEL, Fan Controlled...

I have searched the web for more information on how to fix the above mentioned event ids however, noone seems to have the perfect solution. My problem is that I ONLY get these even its within the first 30 minutes of starting my computer - not the rest of the day no matter what I use it for. I...

Good day. The Acer monitor here on my home-built computer enters power save mode (the power light turns amber) exactly 20 minutes after I last touch the keyboard or mouse. When I am watching movies on my computer, it gets frustrating that I have to move the mouse every so often just so that I...

My personal Desktop computer [AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 5800+, 4G o RAM, Windows 7 build 7600? (I'm not sure)] is experienceing an odd problem I've never encountered before. At the logo screen on startup, about where the balls of light touch... ...it freezes for a second, then reverts back to...

Hi, I recently bought a new PC specs: Gigabyte 770T/USB3 ATI Radeon HD 5670 AMD Phenom II X4 ( Quad Core ) 3.2 Ghz ( Stock speed ) 2 Gig Generic Ram Gigabyte Superb PSU 550W 500G HDD ( Unsure of brand ) When I tried to install Windows from a CD it froze and different parts every time I made an...

I just got a new gaming PC and I installed ubuntu 9.01 first and ran that for a while until I got win 7. Now that I got windows 7, I get frequent crashes with errors like MEMORY_MANAGEMENT and PENN_LIST_CORRUPT. I have now idea what these mean but I figured I should go through and manually...

Recently a power surge did something funny to my computer. Everything pointed to drive corruption, so I bought a 1TB drive to replace my 2x160GB RAID 0 array. Now I can install the 32-bit version with seemingly no problems but not the 64-bit. I usually get a BSOD but sometimes I get an error...

I have Windows 7 on two computers. On one of the computers i want to downgrade from 7 to XP. I have the XP installation disk, but whenever I put the disk in to attempt to boot from it during startup, it bypasses it and boots normally. I checked the BIOS and disk is set to boot before the HD...

I'm having a problem with installing windows 7. I start the computer and boot from my dvd-rom and it gets past the "Windows is loading files..." screen occasionally i get to the "starting windows" screen with no logo over it. other times i get a random blue screen. I've read a bunch of different...

Just fitted a new hard drive for my systems "C" files and installed Windows7 Home edition (64bit). It was a clean install. The reason I fitted a new hard drive and Windows7 was because my previous set-up using XP Pro was getting difficult to start up each morning. Some times it booted first...

I have a Dell Latitude e5500 with a fresh install of Windows 7. (It was a vista laptop.) Everythings works except Bluetooth. I believe its the Dell 370 driver. Tried everything, but it simply doesn't show up. Bluetooth is enabled in the bios, but tried several drivers. In the device manager it...

I see numerous CD/DVD threads here and mine is similar but somewhat different from any of the others, so I will start an additional thread. I have a home built computer with a Biostar 945GZ Micro 775 Motherboard (Intel 945GZ an ICH7/R chipset), Pentium D 830 3GHz Processor, 2 GB ram, 250 GB...