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Hi, We are having problems on a Dell Vostro 230 desktop with dual monitors with Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics card. Dual Boot (2 HDS) 32bit and 64bit Windows 7. 2 Monitors connected to the card: - Monitor 1 LCD 20" Monitor via DVI lead (set as Main in windows & ATI Catalyst Control...

Once I turn off my monitor and turn it on again my TFT monitor has problems to get input signals again from the (running) computer. It remains dark with an indicator "no input signal" and I have to reboot the whole computer to get everything working again. I think whenever a monitor is...

Computer restarts usually during game play. recently replaced video card, memory and cpu fan. cleaned well no dust bunnies inside.. here is error log and some details of my computer:. It has restarted playing Call of Duty, Magicka, League of Legends, or Watching a movie. When It did it more...

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Hi all! Im not really good at VC++ but does anyone have a sample code to get the rotation speed of disk in a computer. I have been working on detecting SSD drives and one solution from researching all day was to get the rotation speed and since SSD have 0 rpm this might be the only way to detect...

Hey guys! I've been looking all over the internet for some help on this problem of mine without any real luck, so I'm hoping someone here can help me out. My problem is that sometimes when I start up my computer (from both hibernation and shutdown), windows freezes(sort of) on startup. It will...

Hey all, I have recently installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my barebones system that I built. A physical descriptions is: Gigabyte GL-P945-PL-S3 Motherboard with an Intel Dual Core Processer running @ 2.3ghz Three (3) internal hdd. One (1) 1tb SATA, One (1) 250gb SATA, and...

Hi, i cant install any OS and i think the problem is the BIOS. I have tried many different hard drives and its doest work.. Also tried different installations.. My Windows was getting slow, so i tried to reinstall and now the OS i gone and cant install any OS. Ive tried Win 7 And XP. AMD...

Hello, everyone. I've been having a lot of trouble with my computer this past week because of blue screens during my gaming. I've been mostly playing SC2 and Heroes of Newerth, so crashing a bunch of times is not only annoying but it hurts my record as well. I just recently purchased an ATI...

I have a windows 7 machine that I use as a 'server' for SageTV (playing DVDs) I dont dirrectly connect to it and the software is stable as far as I did install much software at build and I have changed little recently as far as software.. I recently swapped the CPU out for a quad core and...

My USB ports on my computer are not reading anything plugged into them. This is a big hassle for a laptop user. More information: -I'm using Windows 7 -The ports ARE delivering power -The support site for my computer's drivers and BIOS is in Chinese and all the links and downloads don't work...

Do your case and/or PSU fans suddenly become noisy when you turn on your PC and do they eventually quiet down, in most cases, the fan is not going bad, just a little TLC is needed. This quick guide will show you how to quiet down those noisy fans. Tools needed; 1. Phillips head screwdriver 2...

The video below is A concept shown by Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer. It shows a new “bubble” interface that Microsoft has been working on that is interesting From DailyTech.com Bubbles are auto-generated in various categories (personal, entertainment, gaming...

I am using windows 7 and i am not getting any sound. Motherboard make is Asrock G31M-GS R2.0. Ram: 4GB. I am getting the red cross on the speaker icon in taskbar. When i right click this icon and go to playback devices, it says, "Speakers Realtek High Definition Audio Not plugged in". On...

Question: I have a computer with an Asus MZN68-LA mobo in it. My friend wanted to add a graph card to his computer. His factory PSU did not have PCI-E plugs to power the graph card so he bought a PSU as well to solve that problem. The new PSU in question is here...

HI! I have problems whit my OS. I made a new installation of win 7 64bit and again same problem. After 4-5 hours not working when i start comp i always get blue screen msg. HELPPP Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1...

Hello, I have a 150 GB SATA and a 70 GB IDE hard drive in my computer. When I ran XP, everything was fine, but since Windows 7 was installed on my computer a few days ago, it doesn't recognize my IDE hard drive. The XP had been on the SATA drive, and the Windows 7 is there now as well because...

Hi! A friend of mine has a desktop HP-Pavilion AY014AA-ABL a4310f, 2GB ram and she wants to change her RADEON X600 pci-e video card. What card should chose for substituting this one? Thanks in advance! sorriso

Hey everyone, So here is my problem. I was refastening my wireless card after taking the precautions of turning my system off and ground myself (literally a simple 1 minute project)..what happened next was that i must have touched something (I have no idea what, I thought i just tapped my mobo...

Hello, received this BSOD while changing settings in black ops. BCCode: 3b BCP1: 00000000C0000005 BCP2: FFFFF80002DCE80C BCP3: FFFFF880097C3F70 BCP4: 0000000000000000 OS Version: 6_1_7600 Service Pack: 0_0 Product: 256_1 Files that help describe the problem...