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Hi, I have an Acer Aspire 6930Z which is still under warranty. Recently the Vista installation became corrupted and wouldn't boot. Recovery didn't work and rather than ship back to Acer for them to somehow find a way to charge me I decided to buy a copy of Windows 7 instead. Putting the disc...

I have another issue. Before I got windows 7, I was this current setup: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 4 x 1GB Kingston Value ram DDR2800 running in dual channel (While the model number is the same, 2 sticks are low profile the other are normal height) Biostar TA690G-AM2 motherboard ATI-Radeon HD4830...

Hi I've assigned 2.25 GB of ram on the XP mode but it is not using it. When I am on XP mode and open the Task Manager I can see the allocated RAM of 2.25 but the PF Usage gauge never exceeds 250 MB even when running demanding applications. But in Device Manager in XP mode there is a ? sign on a...

Hi i have been attempting a clean install of win 7 since yesterday i do not want to upgrade i want a new start, but i keep running into the same problem over and over again. I set my bios to boot from cd-rom first and after i press any key to boot from cd/dvd it says loading files etc. Then...

I have installed Win7 RTM on a second disk. I use a bootloader to boot to the second disk. The install goes really well. After the install is finished and I am presented with the desktop for the first time. The Sleep (Hybrid Sleep) mode that is the default works fine. Windows goes to sleep...

The topic should pretty much explain the problem I'm having. When I turn on/restart the computer, the desktop itself has two hard drives in it (250GB and 1TB, 1TB is not the one the OS is on) When I put the computer to sleep, and then wake it up, the 1TB is not active, and to access it I have...

Good time of the day for everybody!:-) Here is my problem: I've got PIO mode for my DVD-drive. Even when I try to change it by checking "Enable DMA" in Device Manager - nothing happens, still in the PIO 4 mode. OS: Windows 7 x64 7100 Motherboard: ASUS M2R32-MVP CD\DVD-drive: ASUS...

I have an older machine, that I have Windows 7 RC Built 7100 installed. I would like to remove Widows 7 and reinstall XP. There is only one hard disk. When I run setup on the XP disk, it says that it is an older OS then the current and won't do it. Booting from the CD with the XP disk on it...

* Download UNetbootin tool (free) from here: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/unetbootin/UNetbootin/356/unetbootin-windows-357.exe * Run the tool, and browse to your Windows 7 ISO image file and click OK and select the drive letter of your USB. That’s all! It takes about 15...

HI, A friend of mine recently moved to Windows 7 pro 64 bit (rtm). He's has it on an acer 7535g; AMD Turion Ultra 2.2Ghz, 4GB ddr2 800mhz and it has an Integrated HD3200 graphics chip and a discrete HD 4570 card. The laptop is meant to be able to switch between the two gpu's. the hd3200 to...

Suddenly one of my hard drives (E: so not the boot drive) started behaving oddly and suddenly becam inaccessible. So I tried to format it. Rebooted and the computer would not start. So I took the drive out and put it in an external enclosure and connected via USB and it works a treat. Put a new...

I got nasty problem with USB Flash Drives (mass storage). The stick works perfectly with other computers. Other USB 1.X devices works perfectly(mouse and keyboard). USB WLAN stick also have issues, so that it breaks up the connection from time to time. I have tried several different drivers with...

Enabling the 4th core does not work in all 100% cases, but sometimes it is as simple as just going to bios and setting Advance Clock Calibration to Auto and restarting the machine. On the next boot, it will enable the 4th core. Phenom II X3 becomes a quad core processor. Link Removed due to...

Hello all, I have searched quite a bit for this problem, and usually it leads no where or people just didn't respond to others with my same problem. First here are my system specs Core i7 3.9 Ghz Foxconn Bloodrage X58 6GB OCZ 1600 triple channel PC Power and Cooling 750watt Water cooled system...

I've spent quite a few days trying to install Win 7 in a dual boot enviroment with an existing Vista operating system. Vista came pre-installed on a large SATA HD that I reconfigured into 2 partitions (Vista on the 1st). Unfortunately, the OEM cabled the drive to one of the middle sequenced of 6...

Hows it going guys? I recently just had windows xp service pack 3 32bit on my PC but then I chose to upgrade last second, literally, to Windows 7 64 bit build 7100.0.090421. I downloaded it straight from Microsoft using their downloader, burnt it using a dvd-r writer and imgburn @ 4x speed. And...

Hi I have installed CpuZ and SIW on my PC running Win7 RC Bld 7100 and both programmes when run show my CPU Speed as 1349.5Ghz at 6.75 multiplier. My PC is as per my signature. I also have Win XP Pro installed on a separate HDD and both these programs installed and they show the correct speed...

I just installed a Linux distro based on Ubuntu 9.04. It is very user friendly. I don't like the Start Menu, but that's easily changed by choosing the Gnome Desktop. I used a program called [URL=http://unetbootin.sourceforge.netUnbooten[/URL] to install on my flash drive. You need to check...

Hi everyone, I've recently built my first system and installed Windows 7. I wonder if any of you experts could kindly assist? I'm having frequent 0x00000124 BSODs and I'm trying to go through all the possibilities. The system usually crashes under load (GTA4) but sometimes just for no...

for all thoes people who are experiencing this problem, i have a few tips that worked for me. Solving Windows freeze on startup....(this can happen when even booting from the startup disk, it has nothing to do with any drivers or software related issues) If you have sprung upon this problem...