computer error

W7 starts to load, but before it is accessible it throws a BSOD. Repair attempts log says that a bugcheck 116 error code 490 has been detected. According to posts here, that means that the video driver is shot - or something like that. The suggested methods of correcting this error are...

I just posted a thread in Windows 7 Support about an error message saying "Desktop window manager has stopped working," so I'm not sure if there's any correlation between the two, but I am getting the BSoD quite frequently as of late and I have no idea why. Again, I have to warn you that I'm...

Hello, I have recently purchased a new pc. Specs: Gigabyte GA-A55M-S2H AMD A4 3400 4GB RAM Western Digital 500GB HDD Samsung DVDWBD SH-B083L ATA RADEON HD 4670 AWARD BIOS v6 I wanted to have a dual boot setup using Windows 7 Home Edition and Windows XP (neither are OEM) using 2...

Hi Guys/Girls I have never had problems with my graphics card in the 2 ish years i have been running it, with top games etc. However just recently i have been having issues. I am playing Starcraft 2 and the game area starts to do like a pinstripe colour which moves around the game area. Then...

System Info: OS - Windows 7 64bit Version 6.1 (Build 7600 CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ RAM - 8GB Dual Channel DDR2 @ 333MHz MB - ASUSTek M4N78 PRO AntiVirus - Microsoft Securities Essentials I just installed another 4 Gigs of RAM and now my Windows Update is not working. I don't know if they...

hi everybody im having trouble with these bsod Crash Dump Analysis On Mon 09/05/2011 13:50:33 GMT your computer crashed crash dump file: C:\Windows\Minidump\050911-17066-01.dmp This was probably caused by the following module: ntoskrnl.exe (nt+0x70740) Bugcheck code: 0x1A (0x5003...

Yesterday, I made the mistake of letting my sister-in-law use my computer (the one I use for work) to burn a CD. I thought she said burn a DVD, which is something I do all the time. However, apparently she downloaded a CD ripping program called CDEX (very legitimate -- doubtful of any...

im very upset.... ive just bought a new system . Samsung Cream 2333T 23" Wide 8ms PVA 1:50000 1920x1080. Gigabyte GA-PH67A-UD3 H67 CHIPSET. Intel Sandy Bridge Core i5 2300 Socket 1155 6MB 2.8Ghz Tray. Samsung 1TB=1000GB 7200RPM 32MB Sata F3 HD103SJ. Transcend 4GB Kit (2GBx2) DDR3 1333Mhz...

I've been haveing this BSOD problem for months on both of my HP Pavillion computers when using Aventail to log into my work through remote desktop. It doesn't happen all the time, but I have tried lots of stuff one the BSOD including fixes from Windows reffered to by norton AV and I have all...

Hello All, First time poster here, hopefully someone can help me out. I turned on my computer last night with the intention of using it and about 20 minutes after it was started we lost power. When power returned I restarted the computer, and immediately started getting error messages such as...

The PC randomly BSoD. Sometimes, it happens during mid night when the computer is idle. Sometimes, right when I edit a file. There are four instances in the attached file. Thank you very much! Windows 7 Enterprise Dell XPS 8100 Intel Core i7-870 processor(8MB Cache, 2.93GHz) 12GB...

I am receiving the message that my computer has recently recovered from an unexpected shutdown. Actually it is happening on two of my PCs that are both running Windows 7 and Office 2007. Both are aslo running Avast for virus protection. One PC was purchased about 3 months ago and the other is...

I set up a new computer with windows server 2008 and workstation windows 7 professional. The server been in place. There are other Windows 7 workstation allowing Remote Desktop. I have configure all the settings. I have allowed the computer to be accessed - allow access from computers...

If anybody can give me some advice on this, it would be greatly appreciated. I’m running Windows 7 on my laptop. For the last week, I have experienced the following problems: - Right-click on files, menus, etc is delayed about 15sec - Firefox will freeze any time I click on something (same...

Hello, I got a new computer last week and it was working fine up until now running windows 7 professional 64bit. I activated the guest account and logged on to it, and when I tried to log back to the administrator ("owner") account, I got the following message (on the windows logon screen)...

Hey all, I've been running win7 since the beta release, and i've been having this reoccurring problem where win7 will randomly not boot, necessitating a reinstall or an restore from image backup. What happens is that the bios will boot fine, I will see all the bios messages. Then when its...