computer repair

  1. Windows 7 Black Screen at startup

    Hello, I recently was away for about a month and I did not use my desktop for that period of time. I tried turning it on yesterday and it would show the BIOS screen and then a black screen. It doesn't display anything else. I tried searching this problem and have tried various suggestions. I...
  2. K

    Windows 7 Standard VGA Adapter Driver issues

    My laptop (dell latitude e6520) just came back from having windows 7 reinstalled after the hard drive failed and all sorts of stuff is screwed up. My primary frustration is coming from the fact that my computer is not detecting anything that I plug into my HDMI port (I'm trying to hook it up to...
  3. K

    Windows 7 New Sony Vaio E series multiple BSOD's of varying kinds

    Hey Forum! Okay so I recently bought a Sony Vaio E series but im experiencing lots of BSOD's and ive had 4 different kinds so far. They appear to be completely random and even occur during the laptop's sleep! Some possibilities perhaps? In the store from which i bought it I upgraded the ram...
  4. B

    Windows Vista HP G60 Laptop Screen Goes Blank

    I have a three year old HP laptop running Windows 7 (64 bit) that is misbehaving. It would not boot up recently, and I believe the root was heat related issues. My son likes to use it while setting on his bed - fan gets covered up and the laptop overheats. I added some large rubber feet to...
  5. D

    Windows 7 Windows 7 Ultimate will not fully load.

    I'm working on a neighbor's computer that had a number of viruses on it. I ran four different virus scanners that I placed on a boot DVD to get rid of them but it appears that the viruses may have roughened up the registry. The computer is an IBM Lenovo model A55 ThinkCentre with Windows 7...
  6. J

    Windows 7 SSD Install Problem

    My HP laptop HD crashed, am trying to replace it with a Kingston HyperX 120GB SSD. I do not have Windows installation disks, only have Windows Recovery Disks. All installation instructions I have found for SSD's is for cloning, which I cannot do since the HD is dead. I have installed the SSD...
  7. Z

    Windows 7 Windows will not boot even with clean install, Windows repairs fail, Repair disc wont work. HELP!!!

    I have a Sony Vaio VGN-NW270F 15" laptop with Windows 7 (64 bit) Home Premium. 320 gb. Oh i'm also out of warranty. Problem: Computer always freezes at the point where it says "starting windows" and stays frozen. I even left it for alone for 24 hrs and it stayed on that screen. Things I've...
  8. G

    Windows 7 windows 7 wont load

    windows 7 wont boot from cd, my operating system wont load, computer wont load windows 7, computer doesnt start the operating system, computer wont boot any other os,it show launch repair,if we started the repair and after the completion same problem again..i am bored please any one tell me...
  9. C

    Windows XP Nasty virus makes Windows xp not boot anymore....

    Hi! I am working on a customers computer, Windows XP home. It was hit with a nasty virus. I have removed the virus with AV software booted from a CD. It removed many many viruses. Now, when I try to boot, it doesn't even make it to the Windows XP screen. It just keeps rebooting, and asking...
  10. S

    Windows 7 Resore system image from network storage drive

    Hello - I have a HP Pavilion with Windows 7 Premium 64, and have my computer back up daily, with weekly system image back ups using the Windows back up utility. This backs up to a DLink DNS 323 network storage device. Last Friday my hard drive failed, and I didn't feel too bad becuase of my back...
  11. T

    Windows 7 Windows 7 Home will not Startup

    After dealing with a severe re-occuring malware problem which needed Microsoft's offline scan to eliminate, I started having trouble getting my Dell laptop to boot up. First I get a Windows Error Recovery screen with a message telling me that Windows failed to start and that I should Launch...
  12. Z

    Windows 7 Need help repairing Windows 7 partition

    Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone can give me some help on this problem I'm having. I'm doing a favor for a friend and fixing her computer. The problem is that as soon as windows boots up it starts up in Startup Repair. Startup repair does not fix the computer, it gives an error that...
  13. T

    VIDEO Windows 7 Slow Start-up

    Okay so, this started today. My laptop takes forever to load login screen and it shows the Welcome screen for so long. The worse is, when it finally logs in, it takes forever to load the network icon (that lags the whole system). I have no idea what it is, but it never used to do this. And i...
  14. R

    Windows 7 Changing the default selection on the "Windows failed to start" screen

    We have 32-bit Windows 7 Enterprise deployed in our environment. We also utilize a full disk encryption solution whose kernel disables USB input during the boot process. When an end user experiences a startup issue (for example, we repair a boot\bcd issue), their PC will boot as far as the...
  15. M

    Windows 7 Win 7 64 will not load, and cannot install again.

    Hi all. I see there are a whole lot of BSOD posts, but I didn't see one like mine, so here goes... I was Facebooking last night, and the monitor went black and the computer started a reset. When resetting, as Windows starting screen begins, the computer freezes and I get the BSOD. The BSOD...
  16. C

    Windows 7 Troubleshooting Persistent BSODs: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, PFN_LIST_CORRUPT, and SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION

    Link Removed Getting MEMORY_MANAGEMENT, PFN_LIST_CORRUPT, and more recently SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION. Attached my dump files. Basically, been having issues with this for the past year. Sometimes it runs fine for weeks, or even a month or two, sometimes.. not so much. Gave it to a local computer...
  17. M

    Windows 7 Wierd link between an old HDD with Win 7 on it and the actual HDD with active win 7 on it

    Weird link between an old HDD with Win 7 on it and the actual HDD with active win 7 on it Hello, I've experienced today a weird "error", that I even do not know how to search for it. Let me explain: I had win 7 (32bit) installed at job, and worked on it for more than a year. Two weeks ago I...
  18. A

    Windows 7 Unable to install USB controller driver or any USB device after BSOD

    I had one of my regular BSOD (I'm quite sure its a RAM issue) and nothing unusual ever really comes from it, however today it screwed up my USB controller driver and now I'm perplexed as to how to get a fix for it. (Windows 7 64-bit) Windows recognises all of my 8 Universal Serial Bus (USB)...
  19. J

    Windows 7 Multiple crashes related to Windows7 shut down and sleep.. URGENT

    The story goes like this: My laptop lost power and died - but I had not shut it down properly for 2 or more weeks. This has happened before so I thought it would be OK. I restarted the computer, everything worked fine EXCEPT when I put it to sleep again it crashed/hung with the screen all...
  20. D

    Windows 7 Need semi-urgent help: Upgrading my 32 bit OS to 64 bit

    Last Thursday I tried removing my Ubuntu partition on my hard drive (I gave the partition 200 out of 500gb rather foolishly and I wanted the space back instead of buying a new hard drive), but failed to reconfigure the boot loader correctly. I ended up with a 500gb drive with about 200gb of...