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Hi, I just built a new computer. I installed Windows 7 32bit this afternoon, it booted just fine. Plugged in my video card, a GeForce GT 9400 1Gig, Window 7 asked if I wanted to install the drivers for it and I said yes. The device shows up in Device Manager and says it has the latest drivers...

Hey guys, first off I want to say everyone here rocks. I just got done puting together a new computer and turned it on. It seems to post fine other then it saying no drives found. then the dvd kicks in and starts loading windows. it loads for about 20 seconds, then goes to starting windows it...

hi everyone, me and my boyfriend just built a new pc and everything went well except when we inserted the windows 7 dvd..the optical drive does not read it..it only gives us a readme file which says that i have the original copy. the new pc has: ASUS P5QL/EPU LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel...

Hi all, I believe this may be a hardware issue and not a software issue so im posting it here. I could be wrong though. I recently built a new computer and had loaded on Windows 7. Everything appeared to work fine until i had turned my system off for the night. Upon turning my system on the...

Just built a computer for the first time. here are a few specs: Intel i7 920 HD 5850 Graphics card WD 1 TB hard drive gigabyte motherboard but i just put in windows 7 to start installing and have been trying for a few hours now and i cannot get past the "Where do you want to install...

I'm trying to install a full genuine copy of Window 7 Pro on brand new hard drive. This rig was custom built for me 3 years ago and the hard drive just went out. So I replaced it with a 1TB hard drive. Now I'm trying to install this new copy of Windows 7 I just got from Newegg and it freezes on...

Trying to install windows 7 on a new system and I'm getting all kinds of errors. "The exception unknown software exeption loxooooo409 occurred in application at location 0xfc316d7a" "0x77e7c465 referenced memory at 0xffffff, The memory could not be read." Also got the blue screen of death...

Hey everyone I have fairly recently built myself a computer using the gigabyte GA EP43 DS3L motherboard. On the manufacturers website it says that this motherboard is Windows 7 ready and that it has an integrated realtek HD audio sound card. When I first set up the computer with windows 7...

Hi, I have a 2nd Windows 7 Ultimate computer I'm building for my daughter. Problem is a coloured menu bar in the Start Menu which I can't get rid of. The pic is attached. Any help gratefully appreciated. Thanks :)

I just created a new rig with a Athlon black 2.8 cpu, gigabyte MoBo 4gb of corsair ram. The hard disk I'm using is a Maxtor SATA. I believe it has the S.M.A.R.t tech built in. win7 keeps giving me a message that the Hard disk is going to fail. I ran a disk checked and it seemed fine. it did...

Ok so I plan on building my self a pretty decent computer and right now I'm planning it out, until I actually have the money to buy it. Here's what I already have and don't need to buy: ATI Radeon 4650 HD 512mb Samsung 16x Lightscribe DVD/CD Read/Write Drive 1 300gb HD 500W Power Supply And...

So i was all happy with the first beta of Windows 7 worked perfectly for months then i said what the heck lets try the RC candidate and check the improovements. Then all of the sudden in 1 week i lots 2 of my SAS drives, both times while i was away so i have no idea how they died on me. I was...

Hey guys, So I completly built a new system and am runing Windows 7 64-bit now. I am trying to setup a Raid1 setup so I have the two identical drives copy one another for back-up purposes. I am runing a ASUS P5Q motherboard, 1TB HDD, 500 GB HDD, and then the Identical 2 500GB HDD for the raid...

I just built a Core i7 computer and installed Windows 7 RC x64 on it, and I keep getting a blue screen of death while using media center. It doesn't happen every time and it doesn't always happen at the same point, but a lot of times it happens when I'm in the "Edit Channels" page in the...

The only OS I have ever used on the system is Windows 7 RC build 7100. I do not own any other 64-bit OS's. Here are my system specs: Motherboard: Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P Processor: AMD Phenom II x3 720 Black Edition Video Card: Sapphire HD 4850 512MB GDDR3 PCI-E HDMI/DVI-I/VGA RAM: 4 GB...

Motherboard: Asus M3A78-CM AM2+ Video card: N9500GT-1GDS Processor: AMD Athlon 64 x2 7750 Kuma 2.7 GHZ Dual Core Case/psu: Raidmax Dirk-Tooth Newegg.com - RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WBP Black 1.0mm SECC Steel ATX Mid Tower Foldout MB Computer Case With 500W Power Supply - Computer Cases Ram: 4GB...

Hi All, I wanted to install Windows 7 today, but I get stuck when it asks me for drivers for my SATA DVD Drive (Asus 2014L1T Drive). I have tried selecting the Drivers from the Motherboard CD, but nothing seems to work.. I am installing Windows 7 RC7100 64Bit, but it happens on 32Bit...

Hi, I just build own computer about nine months ago and have two hard drives. The first hard drive is a 1TB hard drive, which has Windiws Vista Ultimate 64-bit on it, and the second hard drive is a 250GB hard drive, which I am using as a back up drive, but wanted to know if I install Windows 7...

I'm trying to install Windows 7 32-bit build 7000 on a new computer I had just built. Now, this is not because I'm choosing to, but because I couldn't install Windows Vista Home Premium either. I had to settle for something. What happens is that my computer is booting regularly into the DVD...

Hello, So I now have windows 7 on three of my computers, And its my main os on my mew pc. Everything is super speedy, nice and fresh on my new pc, boots in ~30 sec, shuts down in like 5 seconds, runs everything I throw at it, Firefox is super speedy. Except Ie8, its just agonizingly...