computer troubleshooting

To do a total cleanup of my laptop and reinstall Win 7 32bit. It is a: Dell Precision Mobile WorkStation M6400. But a problem immediately with the error message: "A key driver needed for CD - DVD drive is missing" Then just my DVD / CD may malfunction (rails sometimes with CDs)...

I have a seagate 120GB IDE HDD. when I first boot up win7 recognizes it, it shows up in the Bios and every where else, but after it sleeps windows dose not recognize it. :confused:

Hi, I'm getting a recurring blue screen, rendering my computer basically unusable. Dump Files: My specs: OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Processor 3.40 GHz RAM: 4.00 GB Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB PCI Express Video Card Age: About 3...

I am going blue at infrequent times. This is a Dell WIN 7 32 bit machine. The bug check code is: 0x000000fc (0xa0c318d0, 0x4962c963, 0xa0c31824, 0x00000002) - it also has a large memory dump (260 MB) which I hesitate to attach because of size. It also says something about a report: Report...

I am Running a Win7x64 and until recently never encountered this error: Link Removed due to 404 Error A few days ago i recieved a stop 0x20 and the machine restarted randomly . Now with the 19 it dosent boot up at all. The system is a x64 on a K9Neo V2 with 2x1 gig Ram Sorry the user is a...

I have had this issue with two computer in the past. I had an HP Pavilion TX1000 for a while and had the issue on the Vista OS. Now I have an IBM Thinkpad T43 with Windows 7 32-bit installed and it has been fantastic up until just today. I've looked through a lot of documentation on this...

Hello everybody... I am new to the forum and new to Windows 7. I was hoping someone could help me out with this problem I've been having. I've searched all over the internet for an answer and tried various things but nothing seems to work... Anyway, the issue that I'm having is that when I am...

Guys, I've been having some extremely weird problems with my Windows 7 Home Premium PC. It's brand new, bought in the beginning of the year. There's 4 problems. Main one comes first: Today, while I was watching You Tube videos, got a blue screen twice. But not the 'blue screen of death'...

Often times, throughout the forum, in videos, and in documentation, we find ourselves discussing complex methods of solving seemingly irresolvable computer problems. Throughout these exchanges, much technical data and “geek-speak” is often used to solve an outlying technical problem that is...

I have installed Windows 7 on my D:\ drive. I have placed a NEW installation on my C:\ drive besides it. See the attached image. I ONLY use the W7 on the C:\ drive now, so I want to delete my D:\ partition completely (416GB). HOWEVER, I see that it is labeled: "System, Active, Primary...

i have a P4V800-x Asus motherboard and i added an external hd with 1.5 terabytes, which is plugged thru a normal 2.0 USB, and has also normal electrical feed thru a source, plugged to wall outlet when the computer is switched off and i boot it to begin normal operation, having this external hd...

I installed windows 7 onto my windows xp coputer. The installation went fine(I think) but when I rebooted my computer everything was gone. My documents, programs, music, photos were all missing. I dont know how to retrieve all of my lost file, in which some were very important. If i re-install...

Many apologies if, somewhere in here, this has already been addressed. I have no clue where I would begin searching. Anyway, if someone can help it would be greatly appreciated. What has happened is this ... we bought a used tower and kind of got hosed on it. For one thing, the ad said 1G ram...

The erorr i am getting is BOOTMGR is missing Press Ctrl+Alt+Del -- the funny thing is i can boot from the cd. What i have done to try fix this problem is: Go into the windows 7 installation and go to the repair option and did a start up repair( didn't work) Also did the BootBCD.exe cmd...

I hate these new operating systems. While trying to install xp, my computer said that i couldnt because i have a newer operating system. So i went to reformat my hardrive, only to have my computer tell me that i couldnt because that is the drive that has my operating system on it and the online...

Hey there. Today I was on my laptop (an acer) and out of nowhere I got the BSOD. It wasn’t around long enough for me to see it so once it went around its business and restarted the Laptop. It offerer to start up in safe or normal mode, so I chose normal for starters. I then decided...

Here goes.. if anyone can solve this for me, I will be so grateful I set a password and changed my username on my new Windows 7 - when I logged out - the password doesn't work and what comes up is "username or password is incorrect" - we tried everything, every variation of the password it...

I was running XP on C and Windows 7 RC(7100) on E drive in my computer.After formatting and reinstalling XP on C drive,the 0S choice menu during startup is not appearing and XP loads automatically.The name of E drive before Xp reinstallation was Windows 7,and now it is Local Disc(E:).Not a...

I just installed WIndows 7 Ultimate RTM on my machine. My hardisk has several partitions. The primary partiton is C. But it was of only 10GB, so I decided to install the Windows 7 on D drive. Everything is done smoothly except that, after the installation the i can't see my C drive. And all...

I left my computer (running 7 RC) on over night because it was downloading and installing SP2 for Office 2007. In the morning the computer was off. I imagine the power went out some time during the night because when I turned on the computer, I get a screen stating that there was an improper...