boot problem

Hi, I'm using HP DM1 machine which runs Win 7 Home Premium. Till today, standby was working perfectly. Today it installed updates from microsoft site. And then, when resuming from standby, the machine gets powered off by itself within 1-2 seconds. Then I need to turn the machine on and win7...

Hi everyone, This is my first post here so I'm hoping that I'll do everything right! I've checked the forum (and google...) and this question doesn't seem to have been asked/answered. If it has, sorry for this. So, basically, I would like to have my language bar showing 2 languages FR/EN US...

Here's the story. I had Windows XP on my original 500GB disk in my computer. We will call this DISK XP. I bought a new 1TB drive and bought Windows 7 64bit to put on it. Call this one DISK W7. I just recently moved all my old files from DISK XP to DISK W7 so I decided I wanted to format DISK...

Yesterday i installed an Windows update and i restarted the computer right before i left, cos i were going out with some friends. When i came back it was off, and when i tried to turn it on it says "No bootable device -- insert boot cd". And i dont have a boot cd cos this computer had...

brand new pc, nothing installed yet, but sometimes I get only desktop image, and nothing else. power down boot only thing that works to restore desktop.

Hi guys I am hoping I can get some assistance troubleshooting a new computer build and windows 7 install The system specs are as follows: P55 mobo Gigabyte P55A-UD3P i7 1156 2.8GHZ 8GB Kingston DDR3 10600 2 x 1TB WD Green Drives 7200rpm Heres my problem I go to install Windows which albeit...

Hi I have a problem with my windows 7 64 bit chkdsk utility at boot up when i go to my computer and to the local disc-properties-tools-error check then it says it wil be seduled at next system start up. at the start up it give you 10 sec to cancel after 10 sec it just freezes and nothing...

Hi. I Have a problem starting up the newest windows after instalation of older windows with dual boot mode. I installed XP 32bit from windows 7 onto another hard disk. Afterwards, It does't allow me to start Windows7. It freezes at "Verifying DMI pool data". After reading some forums, I...

Dear people, Ive bought a Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit OEM version. But i have an problem. Windows 7 says i need to update it. So okay. I update it. When i finished the update it says ; "Restart your computer to finish the updates". So i restart my computer. But when that 4 coloured little...

Hello everyone. I know there's a lot of threads about this, I had a look on them but I can't find a solution for my problem. So here it is: My pc had Vista installed on drive C. Then, I installed XP on drive D and used vistaboot pro to manage the boot problem. Everything worked fine. Now, I...

Hi, I upgraded my Vista to Windows 7. Turned off Bitlocker before upgrading. When I finally had Windows 7 on my computer I tried to turn on bitlocker again. It was not possible, so I decrypted the drive. Then I tried to encrypt the drive again but on reboot I got a message (bitlocker could not...

I installed Roxio 6 , now Window 7 is always going into repair mode, I tried to go in safe mode but still no hope. i need to save some data and do not want to clean install Window 7 again. Can you suggest an way i can do this. Thanks.

Ok so I was watching some videos, and someone walked in the front door, I tried to quickly close my internet browser firefox before they saw but it wasnt responding for some reason... so I quickly held my power button for 10 seconds to shut the PC down immediately. But when I booted it up, it...

Hi, i had installed windows 7 (RC candidate build 7100)on my Dell studio 1555 laptop which had windows sp1 32 bit home premium. I had opted for clean install. My problem is that it worked like a dream for almost 3 weeks . But after a normal shut down now comp won't boot,it just freezes when the...

Problem: The windows doesn't boot. It gives me the first screen and goes directly to a blank black screen with a cursor. There are no options at this point but to hit ctrl-alt-del and restart the computer. After restarting, on the first screen, there's an option to enter BIOS setting by pressing...

the problem is when i want to boot up the computer it goes and takes me to windows error recovery where it asks me 2 choices the startup repair and the the windows normally when i click on the first one it goes on and then a black screen and a arrow and then that's it i turn it off and boot up...

I've been running Win7 for a few weeks now on my Sony Vaio laptop. No problem. I went into the user account control area and reset the account control to the minimal setting. It asked for a reboot. Upon reboot the system is completely black screen with no HD activity. I can't boot from the CD...

I downloaded W7-64bit from microsoft. I burned to a disc and booted to it. It loads all the files fine, but when it goes to start windows it shows a red dot then gives a blue screen saying something I can't remember at the moment. (I'll find out later) I've tried the 32 bit version, it does the...

Hello, Today I was happily trying to solve a common graphical error with my PC. One day after a normal shut down and reboot all of my resolutions reset to 800 x600 and my native 1440x900 dissapeared off the face of my PC.. Browsing websites for answers i came across a way to correct it by using...

When starting my laptop (Dell Dimension 9100, 1GB RAM, 1.8GHZ Centrino, GeForce 6800 Go) I get the BIOS screen and the standard Vista loading screen. However when Vista finishes loading I am left with a totally black screen and a mouse cursor. No background pic, no explorer etc. I don't really...