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Hello Guys long time no posting here, hope you are doing well 1- Random Crashes/Freezes and auto-hard-restart everyday 2- Blue Screens Of Death "with different details every time" also randomly 3- this begun when my old 9500 GT broke out 4- after i removed that card, i used the built-in gpu...

My roomate used her computer, then shut it off, came back, turned it back on and it wouldn't load past the welcome screen. we tried getting in on safe mode, that didn't work, she shut it off, waited, turned it back on, and it did the same thing, except finally after 15 minutes logged her into a...

After restoring my pc from a system image, when windows resarts, it won't boot, & I'm taken to the "startup repair" option screen. After Startup Repair is performed I get the message "Startup Repair Cannot Repair This Computer Automatically" with the following problem details: Problem Event...

Recently i booted my computer and my internet wasnt working, so i troubleshoot the problem and this message appears "problem with Local area connection adapter driver". I found one end of my ethernet cable had a broken clip, i replaced that and it didnt fix it so i figured my gf may have...

Hi My Windows7 PC (64bit) has become infected with trojans/viruses and I need to do a full re-install from scratch. But when I try to boot off the CD/DVD drive it keeps (eventually) going to my hard disk and booting from there. How do I FORCE it to boot from the DVD? I have tried hitting F10...

After about 2 or 3 time of going into sleep mode my pc some time won't wake up I would hve to reset and let it boot back up. I started shutting down every night instead of letting it go to sleep. Other than that I built this system and I am very pleased with win 7. Just a few little burps here...

Hi, all.. got a problem, i've got 2 user accounts on my Windows 7 x64, Today when i done a reboot i've suddenly got only one account showing at the welcome screen and a new item called "Other User" with no picture, when i click this i can enter the 2nd user account details and i logon ok, I just...

I'm running Win7 Pro x64, which is a fresh install upgrade from WinXP Pro x32, installed during the first weekend in November, just a few weeks ago. I've included more detailed specs in my user profile, though I don't think my questions are spec-dependent. I just had the strangest problem. I...

I upgraded to Windows 7 a few days ago and everything seemed to be fine. Earlier today i left my PC on and when i came back an hour later the computer i accessed the computer, the monitor came on fine, but all my icons were missing. i tried to reboot and from that point on the computer appears...

I have just installed W 7 home premium, I have a small anoying problem with the Power settings. I am using the ballanced setting, no screen saver, the monitor turns off after 15 minutes and the computer goes to sleep after 25. With vista all I had to do to wake it up was move the mouse, with...

When I was clean installing Windows 7 on my desktop, I shut off the computer right when the install was starting because I didn't give the maximum amount of space to the partition, and I didn't think it would cause any harm. So when I rebooted, I got to a screen with some line and the top left...

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...

Hello, After installation of Windows 7 with all correct drivers, when PC is starting it get hang on login screen. If in the BIOS I am setting the on board audio to disable then Windows 7 is working without any problems. If I set it back to enable then Windows 7 start to hang again on login...

Immediately after POST the screen goes black and flickers a little. It's an intermittent problem, once in a while I can get the computer to power on completely with no problems, but it's very rare. If it does power on completely, it has no problems after that, I've completely reinstalled windows...

Hey all, i've installed windows 7 on my laptop successfully with no problems. now, i'm trying to install it on a desktop, but windows 7 does not recognize the seagate hard drive in either DOS installation mode, or windows 7 installation mode while in windows xp pro. it recognizes my western...

I started installing windows 7 build 7057, (Orbit30) from my bootdisk but for some reason the computer wouldn't boot from the disk so i decided to install it from my HDD into a 2nd partition. It started installing fine, until i had to restart (currently i have windows 7 build 7000 and vista as...

I have XP on one drive and 7 on the other. To change the drive I boot to I go into the Bios/Setup and move the XP or 7 drive up to the top of the boot list. Is there anyway I can get it to stop on boot up so I can pick my drive? Something like when you have two OS’s on one drive, each on...

I recently built a new desktop (specs below), running Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit with SP1 installed. Everything was flawless for the first month or so. Now I have a problem. Randomly, my DVDRW drive (Lite-On SATA drive, about 9 months old) just disappears. I started noticing it last...

Here's my situation: I have a Gateway T-6836 running Windows Vista Home Premium. A couple days ago I installed PCLinuxOS on the primary drive, partitioning about 60 GB of the drive for the Linux file system, the rest reserved for Windows (250 GB total HDD capacity). After successfully...

I recently got a fatal error while listening to music and now when I boot up my computer it says that a form of BIOS is not installed and I am unable to use disks in the disk drive. My computer works just fine but now I cant install programs or listen to music. Please give me some tips that...