computer repair

A few weeks ago I tried out an Ubuntu installation, just to see if it met my requirements. I have all I need on Win7 but being the adventurous type and already having tried and dismissed Win8 I thought I'd try Ubuntu. My machine has 4 hard drives and one of them had shown up as not available and...

OK I have been having problems trying to get a client's computer fixed. It is an HP TouchSmart 300-1223 which is an all-in-one. First it was viruses. I got rid of 54 of them. Then the hard drive was bad. Just swapped it out and put a brand new install of Windows7 64-bit Home Premium...

When my computer starts up i get this message: "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device". How do I stop getting this startup message? USING WINDOWS 7 OR SYSTEM BACKUP/STARTUP DISK INEFFECTIVE. REINSTALLING WINDOWS 7 INEFFECTIVE. GOING TO A COMPUTER...

When my computer starts up i get this message: "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device". How do I stop getting this startup message? USING WINDOWS 7 OR SYSTEM BACKUP/STARTUP DISK INEFFECTIVE. REINSTALLING WINDOWS 7 INEFFECTIVE. GOING TO A COMPUTER...

Hello, For a while now, i've been getting these bluescreens, I've reinstalled windows, reseated everything in the PC, done everything in my power to try and fix them, and usually I can do it myself with WinDbg, but I'm stumped now. I really have no idea what they are saying at all. In the...

How can I convert the batch below for Windows 7 Pro 64 bit. When I ran this batch in Windows XP; it worked! but not on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. What this does? For example: I go to John Smith PC and you noticed that his username is smithj and domain: @@@@ was the last person that logon to that...

Ok so, i know the trick behind being able to enable services under safe mode which is to add a registry key under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\SafeBoot\Network, e.g if you wanted to enable driver.sys you'd make a key with name driver.sys and then you'd set the default...

Hi, I've a friend with a dead win7 system. She was working fine until the disk drive started spinning for a long period while system was idle. So she turned it off and now can't boot, no fan activity, etc. I've two similar machines, one intel-based and one with an amd processor. I plan to go...

Ok i have had this problem since last November when i was still on Windows 7 i would randomly get BSODS at first it was large downloads and torrenting got corrupted but than it was just BSODs here and there. There doesn't seem to be a common theme in it sometimes i'm watching youtube others just...

I apoligize in advance as I am new to this forum if this is not the correct location to post my issue. I am currently working on my fathers desktop which is a Dell XPS 400. He had a recent power surge which killed his power supply. We ordered a new power supply installed it and now once we boot...

I've had a couple of problems within the last few days, but even though they have similarities, they also had quite different aspects also, so I'm not certain whether they are related or not. The first time I got a blue screen when I had Disk Management format a hard drive that had disappeared...

OK, so I get the Start Windows normally or Repair screen, then I get the insert disk and restart, then choose your language settings. Then it tries to repair my computer, then it says no problem found or something like that. Then I get the details Problem Event Name : StartupRepairOffline...

My computer has started to make a lot of noise on start up and I think that it is the fan. I have been looking at fans, but I really do not know where to begin! My cpu is AMD FX-4170 Quad Core Processor, I think that info is needed, but I do not know which sort of fan or cooling system to...

Hello all! I have been trying to fix a 64-bit Windows 7 Professional workstation in a domain environment. Basic system info listed below: Operating System: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120830-0333) System Manufacturer: Dell Inc. System...

I am having a a nasty WLAN/network issue which is like a sharp stone in the shoe. This issue is only on one computer and happens with any browser. When I start the computer the WLAN connection though slow and clumsy does come up and shows in the taskbar. But when I connect to any site (whether...

Hi, I have 2 computers Dell w XP and HP w Vista I installed a new hard drive in both systems When I attempt to install on the HP the error message I receice is Critical Process Died, and when I attempt to Recover the next two error messages are 0x0000001 and 0x80070570 The only...

my friend's laptop did not successfully boot and it just keep on restarting after the loading screen appears. The safe mode didn't work either. As well as the installation disk, it get stucked when I press "Repair my computer". And also, when I press F8 and disable "Automatic restart ...... " I...

Hi. I have had several problems with BSOD recently, mostly MEMORY, but lately this "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". When I try to restart the computer I get the same "DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL". This has happened about ten times now. I cannot start W7, and I'm not sure how to start it...

I fix computers on the side and I have a client that brought me a laptop that they forgot the password to. I tried my boot-disks (ubcd, hirens, nt offline password reset) but the computer's cd-rom won't boot from any cd. option 1 - bootable cd not gonna work. the computer does not support...

I have an Acer AX3400G-U4802 that froze during the Windows Update. It wouldn't boot after that. It kept showing a screen telling me to boot again (or something like that, I can't really remember, I'm sorry if this causes trouble with identifying the problem). I purchased a Windows 7 disc to...