computer hardware

I've been in the market for a new hard drive to replace my humble set of Seagate class 10, 7200rpm Sata300 drives, so recently after a look around I decided to put my money on the recent Cavier Black 1TB with it's huge 64mb cache and twin 500gig platters. I did consider the far cheaper similar...

Hello again , I was just wondering about a drive not showing in Drive Manager. I have three HDD and they show up just fine in the BIOS . The drive that is not showing in my Device Manager are the 400 Gig and 1500 Gig. But I am running my OS on my 320 Gig , which in neither in Device...

first, i'm apologizing for being a computer idiot. okay, i just did a clean install of Windows 7. a few months ago, i had a new graphics card installed to allow me to play The Sims 3. everything worked fine, until I installed Windows 7. Now, in my device manager, I show two graphics cards: -...

Hello,I have an HP Pavilion Desktop computer & Iam running Windows 7 Home Premium my DVD Drive doesn't want to read some discs,they have little minor scratches & others don't,but the strange thing is,I put in a disc of one my TV shows on DVD & it doesn't read it at all.My whole collection of...

Hey guys- My sister just got a Acer Aspire One 5032H, which came with the crappy windows 7 starter on it, and all WAS working. I installed windows 7 ultimate, which I got through my company and have installed on over 6 computers before with no problems. THE Problem After installing the new...

I'm very glad to have stumbled across this forum! I've recently purchased a new ASUS computer (N61V I think), it came with Windows 7 Home, however for school the techies will only work with Windows 7 Professional, so thus, I cannot use it at the moment. I went through start, and went to...

Hi Guys. I hope this is in the right Forum. Briefly. I tried to reformat my dads hard drive to reinstall windows 7. It was in 2 partitions, so i ran the windows 7 disc and it ran through the motions, i formatted the c to re-install windows and it wouldn't let me. I went into dos under...

I wonder if someone can tell me what's going on here. I installed Windows 7 Pro (64 bit Upgrade edition) tonight. I have two hard drives in this system, one of which is old and has a Windows XP install on it. I was planning on retiring that drive, but I'd heard that if I kept in the computer...

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Its a bit complicated to state my situation, anyways, I have 2 HDD, and the PC won't boot if I removed the old HDD even though I've formatted the old HDD and win7 is on the new HDD. I have 2 physical HDD in PC (1) 80GB old hdd and noisy. (not SATA) (2) 500GB SATA hdd and sexy. My...

I upgraded to windows 7 a while back and have several issues. One is if my computer is on and I plug in my memory stick Windows does not read it. Only when I reboot will I be able to read the memory stick which is very annoying. Thoughts?

Getting many different STOP errors, and some other issues. Here we go: I run a custom built computer, housed inside of a RAVEN 2 case; EVGA p55 LE motherboard, windows i5 (2.66 when not OC) processor, 8g ddr3 Corsair RAM, 2 10000 RPM Raptor Drives in RAID0, a third 600 gig drive, with...

Hi everybody. I recently install Windows7 and everything works fine but when i pluged the speakers at the back of the computer, it says there is no speaker or headphone is connected. If i pluge the same speaker to the front jack it will recognize it as a headphone. It was working with visat...

I had ignored it for the first few days here on Win7, but now it is being real annoying. First off hardware list. Win7-64-enterprise PhenomII 940 4Gb 1066 Muskin MSI K9A2 Platinum His 4890 1g Audigy 1 pci No raid in use No Overclocking Windows is installed on a 120 ide WD on a separate 14gb...

I have been having some problems with a windows 7 setup. I was reading through some forums and I found a post where you helped someone fix their problem formatting a bootable raid. I'm sort of having an issue like this, so I was wondering if maybe you could help me out a bit. I'm pretty...

I don't want 64bit, and I don't want Home Prem. That is what is on the computer I purchased. It is the extremely tiny Acer 3610, I need help from those who know what that is (please, take just a second to eyeball it). It runs Atom 330 +Nvidia ION, and comes with 2GB ram. I think it is ridiculous...

At least it is better than Vista Users of Microsoft's Windows 7 are generally "very satisfied" with the new operating system. A report from Forrester Research said that most of the great unwashed know the product is there if they want it. Writing in its blog Forrester said a "strong majority"...

Hello, my boyfriend and I both have windows 7, he has home premium and I have professional and we are trying to upgrade our ram from 4 gigs's to 6 (and beyond), but windows wont start up if we try to put in more than 4 gigs of ram. Onder bios both our motherboards can see the ram just fine but...

Hi guys, firstly, sorry if there are millions of threads on this already. I know 7 can be a pain for random sleep issues. I had a quick search and didn't find anything quite like what I'm experiencing though. Sometimes, when my PC wakes up from sleep, the keyboard and mouse don't work. It...

I just rebuilt my desktop and installed Windows 7. I had thought to put My Pictures and My Music on separate Hard Drives from the Operating System and everything else; OR would performance be better with all on one hard drive and backing up the My Music and My Pictures to separate Hard Drives...