computer hardware

Okay, so this is a fairly long story as it starts all the way back when I was using Vista (I am now using a 7 installation). For the last few months, I have been getting hard lockups, freezes, where my mouse doesnt move and I cant do or press anything. These often happened during the night, or...

Hi, I have run into a problem when upgrading my current machine to use an SSD as the main boot device. I restored a backup of my original Sata drive on to the SSD and I am able to boot from it ok. My problem is that when I connect the original Sata HD to the machine it appears in the BIOS...

Hello, I installed windows 7 a few days ago, and deleted windows xp. When I open the task manager it says that my physical memory is 30%, when I just opened the computer and didn't open any program. Also, When I open Internet Explorer, I have a message from the antivirus that the internet is...

Custom built computer, Week old, dying on BSOD Hello, I am new to these forums. I have been experiencing BSOD from between 7sec to 6hour of computer running on, and it is both random and somewhat predictable (quite usual to BSOD when restarting through windows or using anything on the...

Hello all. I suppose I'd best start from the beginning, when I moved installed Windows 8 Release Preview onto the second hard drive on my build, duplicated files onto it, and left 7 on my WD drive(in case 8 didn't work out) About a week later, trouble struck. The WD drive started to make...

Almost an year ago, I bought a WD 500gb external HDD to use it for backing up of my personal photos and videos. Howere, last week when I tried to move data from the hdd, it reported I/O error and refused to copy the data on my laptop. So I decided to format the HDD, with almost 300gb of data in...

I had a BSOD pop up, the first on this machine, which indicated this error. I rebooted, and everything runs fine, until I tried to run Skyrim. The game froze during the loading screen, and after a hard re-start, I checked the Event Viewer. There were 1500+ items describing that same error, and...

I attempt to migrate a local Windows 7 fresh installation instance to FreeNAS iscsi target. I use dd to copy the windows 7 disk image and make it available as iscsi target disk. I then use sanboot to start the iscsi target, the windows OS boot till the windows logo screen and finally blue screen...

Consider the following scenario: You have Windows 7 installed on your computer. The computer has either an internal or external memory card reader that supports SDHC media. You insert an SDHC memory card into the reader. You perform a full format of the... Link Removed

Hello. My main HD won't work on my main computer, it has "error 15 file not found". It works in my old computer and boots fine. It appears the problem is caused by an old install of linux onto that drive. The accepted solution is to use the repair on the install disk and type into console...

A few months ago, I found out my processor was failing thanks to a computer store downtown. So we got a new one, and reformatted my hard drive in case. Then, I returned to the store again a few weeks later because I was beginning to get random BSODs. They said it was cause of a corrupt install...

The blue screen A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer I also get this messege when I try other options: Problem signature: Problem Event name : StartupRepairOffline Problem Signature 01: 6.1.7600.16385 Problem Signature 02...

Hi guys, I come back to you after some time away in a happy place where tech support is never needed, once again humbly requesting your expertise. When my laptop hinge busted, I salvaged the HDD and decided to mount it in my next desktop build and use it until I bought another HDD to sell it...

I have had BSOD problems for almost a year now. Their occurrence has ranged from frequent (a few within 10 min) to whole weeks without seeing one. I've read alot of other people's posts and tried alot of those suggestions so I will list what I have tried. First of all, the error happens either...

hello all. question for you. my computer has Windows XP 32-bit, and i'm trying to do a clean install to Windows 7 64-bit. this is my processor. i'm assuming it can take the 64-bit version. i boot from the disc, press any key, and all the files load and whatnot. i see a screen that says...

hi fellas,, First i dont know much about computers and i m complete idiot about tech stuff.. i bought HP Pavilion dv6t-3100 CTO core i 5 6 Gb ram and when i see system properties there are two graphics adapters listed 1: Intel HD graphics 2: Ati mobility radeon HD 5470Link Removed can anybody...

Hello everyone, This is my first post here, and I'm hoping that I can find the answers I need with what I'm sure is a vastly knowledgeable and extremely cool crowd. So, here's what I'm trying to achieve. I have a Getac B300 laptop running W7Pro on a single partition. Through a rather bizarre...

My new computer came with Win 7 (upgraded to Pro) installed on C:, which is a 60 g/b ssd, with the 3 g/b sata. After installing a few programs that will only let you install on C:, this drive is now full. I want to install a new 250 g/b ssd, with 6 b/g sata bus to replace the original 60. I'm...

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...

Hi, I posted a thread last week due to permanent BSoDs, but as a non-technican I decided to solve the problem with re-installing my whole system. This should clean all driver problems and so on. Well, it was done - but the BSoD came again today, but with another message. I've done the steps to...