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I bought a used Win 7 PC off Ebay, but it turned out not to be useful, so I need some tips or shopping guidelines on what to look for. Mostly I need this PC to play online movies/TV shows, Youtube videos, etc., without buffering, freezing, or similar nonsense. Other than this, it will mostly be...

After have installed the latest Windows 10 pro update the system takes very long to shut down. It is a Dell Vostro 5470 Intell Core I5 The screen goes off but HD spins (I can hear it) only power led is on... It goes Off after 4-5 minutes. Thanks all

Hello, I have a few times a random error and resulted in a blue screen with the error 0x000001d8. Could somebody help me to solve this problem. I'm using an lenovo u31-70, intel core i5, 4gb ram, ssd. Thanks, Rico

Hi For the last couple of weeks my computer has been crashing giving me a "Bad_Pool_Header" error message. I have looked on line and tried updating drivers, ran sfc/scannow. but the problem is still present. I'm hoping that you can guide through solving this very annoying issue. Because I'm a...

Last week my computer shutdown from going to hot. I replaced the thermal paste and that helped some. Tonight I performed a stress test on my cpu from intel extreme tuning utulity for 2 min The temps were 91, 99, 88, 99 When not under stress the cores temps fluctuate but are around 61, 67...

Hello, I bought a restored hp elitebook 8460p with a core i5 processor and 16gb of ram, Recently the hard drive failed so i put a new one in, re installed windows 7 home premium 64 bit and downloaded all the drivers I could find and installed my programs, but now when my computer is just on the...

hi, I have HP Pavilion dv6 notebook, Core i5 processor, 4 Gb ram, ATI mobility Radeon Premium graphic card with Windows 7 Home installed. I wish to upgrade to Windows 7 Ultimate while preserving the HP utilities like "Configure switchable graphics" with which I can select either the Intel...

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Hi all I've had the message in the get Windows 10 app saying download in progress for 6 days now. I'm assuming that it isn't downloading as I can't imagine it taking that long, I have fast Internet connection. Also if I click on "view download progress" it just closes the app. Any help or advice...

Once in a while, when the moon is high and the stars are aligned i guess Windows 10 full stop freezes with no reason nor any cause during shutdown. It also happens during normal operations once in a while. Its not a memory issue, I mean 12 gigs of ram memory should not be a problem. Its not my...

After a time in Hibernate mode, my computer "wake up" automatically. Someone know what are causing this? Microsoft said it would be outdated drivers. But it is not. My drivers are all installed and updated. I've been in the "Device Manager" to see which devices could be making the computer to...

For a new mainboard based on Z87 chipset I have to buy an Intel CPU. So my considerations so far are: I want to use later a full 4K monitor with 60Hz and with integrated iGPU Graphic. On the other side I want to use a CPU with minimum Thermal DP Watt. As far as I can see a core i5 4th...

Hi, All, I have an all in one Samsung Intel Core i5-3470T 2.9GHz with 6GB Ram. The computer boots up fast (about 20 seconds) but very slow waking up from sleep. Also slow switching users. After slow waking up and log in usually it's quite slow for a minute or two after which it returns to...

I have some Ion speakers that don't need separate drivers. Since the update to 8.1, the only sound I can get is from the computer itself, which I have to say, is rather disappointing in comparison to the speakers that I have even with the Beats Audio. My computer is an HP Envy running a Core...

Yesterday, when I got on my computer ( ASUS WINDOWS 8 - CORE: I5) java wanted an update. I usually update EVRYTHING so I decided "why not?" I clicked on the pop up from java and continued. You know the part where you have to put in an administrator password? Well, instead of that, there's a...

I am thinking about buying a high resolution TFT monitor with either 2560x1440 or even 2560x1600 pixels. Does my core i5 CPU with H67 chipset support these high resolutions or doe I have to buy an extra video card? Does Win 7 support out-of-the box such resolutions? Peter

My friends were playing around with my old laptop which was an Acer aspire v5 with a core i3 by trying to guess my pin. No matter how many times they tried, it wouldn't lock or anything. I got that laptop replaced because it was malfunctioning. The replacement was practically the same model but...

Computer: Acer Aspire Ultrabook M5 - 581T(G) model No. Q5LJ1 ; i-5 Core processor 1.8ghz ; 6 gb of Ram ; 500 gb hdd ; OS Windows 8.1 (Feel free to request any info in the comment box cause I'm not too sure what else to post) Occurrence: Monday 11/12/13 in the evening after an installation of a...

Motherboard - GIGABYTE GA-Z68MA-D2H-B3 LGA 1155 Intel Z68 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Micro ATX Intel Motherboard RAM - CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9B CPU - Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (3.7GHz Turbo Boost)...

Hi, Recently I have been having some strange problems with my PC. I first noticed that I was unable to wake it properly from sleep mode. When I click the mouse the tower powers on, though it doesn't seem to send any output to the monitor and anything plugged into the USB sockets does not power...