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I installed the Pre-release Driver for my NVIDIA 7600 GT video card, and restarted my computer. It said it had successfully installed, but i cannot seem to be able to display the native resolution of 1440 x 990 for my 19 inch widescreen monitor and on Device manager I get the following message -...

I'm having trouble installing Windows 7. Problem: During the installation process, it stays at 0% for over five minutes, and then jumps to 4%. The longest it's stayed there is about twenty minues - that's the longest I've let it sit. The computer's specs I'm trying to install it on: AMD...

So this happened yesterday. I was playing GoW for around 20 minutes, and then the game just froze. No sound, and a frozen picture. So I decide to open up task manager and end the process. Following this, I re-open the game, play another ~20 minutes, and then the same nonresponsive screen shows...

here are my specs; C2Duo 3.0Ghz Wolfdale, EVGA 750i SLI FTW, 4GB DDR2 Crucial Balistix, 1x 1TB WD Caviar Black FALS HDD, 2x 500GB Seagate SATA2 HDD, 1x LG DVD SATA Drive, Corsair HX1000 PSU, 2x EVGA GTX275 in SLI., Case HAF932. Keyboard (G15) and mouse (G9) are USB from Logitech I installed...

Computer Specs: Alienware Area-51m 7700 / Clevo D900T Processor Intel Pentium 4 3.8GHz (2MB L2 Cache) Memory 3.0GB Ram Hard Drive IDE:(1) 60GB Drive IDE: (0)N/A Optical Drive Slot Load DVD-RW Floppy Drive (1):Dell Floppy Drive Module Display 17.4" WXGA (1366 x 768) Network Interface 10/100/1000...

I got Windows 7 build 7100 and everything works flawlessly except the sound. When I installed windows 7 everything worked fine I only installed video card drivers but sometimes when I play music it sounds a bit distorted and fuzzy at times. I tried this with multiple speakers and It never...

I did a clean install of windows 7 rc on a hard drive I had windows 7 beta on. The nvidia geoforce fx5200 video card worked great on the beta but it will not work on the rc. I did the windows update thing and it loads it than restarts and stays on the black screen. I have tried the vista driver...

this isn't too critical a problem as a re-boot easily fixes it but... after a few hours of being on, if i leave my computer and it goes into screen saver/auto-sleep mode, upon waking it again, the start bar and task bar disappears. however, the start button is still there. i can click on it...

Before I begin, here are my computer's specs: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 Motherboard: P35-DS3L Lite-On 20X DVDR w/ LiteScribe, SATA connection GTX 280 Corsair XMS2 DDR2 1600 8GB RAM Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM hdd, SATA connection Seagate 300GB 7200RPM hdd, SATA connection (unsure of model) I...

There was another thread on this subject but it wasn't answered successfully and the last reply was 2 months ago so I thought I'd start a new one. I have 3 HDD's in my desktop computer but only one is used for an OS (the other 2 are just storage) and only ever 1 OS at a time, no multibooting for...

(Long post, but need your help! I'm giving as much info as possible) Hi, I've been waiting to upgraded to Windows 7 for a long time, and yesterday decided to bite the dust, and upgrade. I was using Windows Vista 64-Bit Home Premium, and was told that I can get to Windows 7 using the upgrade...

Been reading a lot about windows 7 and the new hardware. Wondering how windows 7 runs on slow machines like pentium 1,2,3,4, ect.

Hello all. After installing Windows 7 (first the Beta 1 build, and now the 7057 build), I've had a lot of trouble installing my card reader. Windows 7 will install a default driver, listing it as a "RealTek USB 2.0 Card Reader". It will not, however, take any of my SD cards. Have tried several...

I've checked the specs for the OQO and everything seems to be above the minimum requirements to run windows 7: 1.86GHz Intel Atom Z540 processor, Intel SCH500 dynamically allocated shared video card(dont know exactly what that means but the intel website says it gets between 400 and 550MB of...

Introduction I recently installed Windows 7 and have encountered some significant installation problems that I can't seem to resolve. Installation Issues The first sign of trouble was how long the installation took. Most people report that the process takes roughly 20 minutes, but for me, it...

Machine is set to sleep mode, goes to sleep at the set time of 30 minutes, case power light is off, fans off. At about 5 minutes re-start and then turn off right away, power light stays on, fans stays off. Inboard IR doesn't turn machine on by remote, can turn on and off before case power...

Hi im using vista ultimate with a new computer that has 1g 9800GTX 4g RAM and 2.5H/z with an nvidia 750i and I just started it up and in the beginning it would only process 2% cpu max when idle but now since I started playing some games after 3rd day of use the computer when idle reaches 27%...

I just did a fresh re-install of windows vista on my computer and reinstalled the usual programs I use. Now, every 30 seconds or so, even if all programs are closed and computer is not doing anything, the hourglass symbol pops up next to the mouse and stays there for a few seconds. It's getting...