custom build

Hello. I bought a new custom computer almost two years ago (custom desktop windows 10 professional, AMD Radeon Vega 8 Graphics). At first it worked perfectly, except one or two games would crash it. This problem has gotten progressively worse, and now any game will crash it. I have spent hundred...

Hi guys, new member here so apologies if I'm posting in the wrong place (I also know absolutely nothing about Windows so might have to put things quite simply for me!!) Long story short, I've been having some issues with a game crashing so I posted my dxDiag on a forum for that game and someone...

Hello All, My system is a customer build running Windows 7 Ultimate - 64 bit. I recently picked up a new SSD since my older HDD was near full of memory. I installed the SSD and things were fie for the first few hours, I was able to relocate my Dropbox local file drive to the new drive, which...

Hi, I'm Dan. This is my first post on the forum. I'm hoping other members may be able to assist me with a frustrating issue I'm facing on my home network. On my network, I have: HP Laptop with Windows 8.1 Pro using Wifi Custom build Desktop PC being used as a file server with Windows 8.1 Pro...

Hi all, I've just built a new computer and I've been getting BSOD's few times a day consistently every day. Things I've done to try and fix it: - Reinstalled windows - Tested RAM using MemTest86 8 passes (4 passes when overclocked to 3200mhz and 4 passes when not overclocked at 2133) with 0...

Its really ridiculous I'm not sure what to do. I can't update my drivers because when I try it crashes I can't even reset it because it crashes at about 30% every time. What should I do its a custom built computer

Hey guys, Yesterday when I switched on my PC,it said "checking file system on :C" and it checked it and my PC worked fine for about 2 minutes. then I got a message saying "windows explorer is not responding" and my computer shut down and it said "A Disk Read Error Occurred. Press Ctr+alt+Del to...

I purchased a custom built desktop on ebay that included Windows 7. The package did not include the the Windows 7 software disc as it was already installed. I upgraded to Windows 10 and then decided to go back to Windows 7. After I went back to 7, my pc indicates that Windows 7 is not genuine...

Issue: Graphics card appears to be only outputting signal to DVI-D connection but not to DVI-I for dual DVI monitor setup. (see more info below) Setup hardware: Graphics card: EVGA GEFORCE GTX 950 SC 2GB - card has one DVI-I and one DVI-D connection KVM Switch: Tripp-Lite 2 DVI port dual...

I have a custom build desktop and on and off for over a year this has been happening: Computer will completely randomly freeze, normally when playing a video (youtube right monitor) before i start yelling, you can slightly here just hissing and ****ed up noises. Sometimes louder or different...

Hello everyone, I am currently looking for computer parts for a custom built computer that I will make over the summer. I was wondering if I take the hard drive (1TB) from my current computer and put it into my new computer could I still use the free windows 10 upgrade? WIll I have to reset the...

I am in dire need of some help. I have tried the Microsoft Answer Desk, both in chat and on the phone, and have had no luck. I recently purchased all the hardware to build myself a custom build computer, along with a Windows 7 Pro OEM disk. I am not new to building computers (although it has...

The newest updates for today has tossed my less then three month old computer to go into a blue screen of death loop. I cant get into safe mode to restore half the time the mouse and keyboard wont work for me to pick options. the support desk wont help me My computer is desk top running windows...

I have the standard 4gb of ram in my Win 7 pro media center 64 bit edition. Custom build. Crucial 64mb ssd updated with a 1.5 TB, and a 1 TB HDDs. My system is continuously using 93-97% ram memory according to Windows. I have tried turning off everything I can to lower the usage, stopping...

Hello all, Last week I built a new system for my father and it has been giving seemingly random Blue Screen of Death errors since day one. We have tried testing the RAM with memtest86+ for 9 consecutive passes without errors (screenshot included in .zip) and completely re-installing Windows 7...

Hi guys, I recently purchased a new custom built computer from a local computer store. Everything was already set up, but I wish to do a system recovery. There is no system recovery option. I can't access the recover folder in my C: drive. I've asked windows support for help. It turns out my...

Symptom: I cannot toggle the sleep mode from either my keyboard shortcut or in the menu of windows 8. Both options, shutdown and restart, work perfectly fine but sleep won't work. Here is what happens when I toggle sleep: My screen shuts down but the fans still are blowing. Whenever I move my...

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Service Pack 1 "Whitebox" custom case Intel Quad Core Q8200 @ 2.33 Ghz 4 GB RAM @ 800 MHz Sapphire ATI Radeon 4850 320 GB WDC Harddrive Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Motherboard Initially I had problems with the video output not working. The computer would boot up before the...

I had my computer custom built for me about 2 years ago from Micro-Center, a computer store near me that sells every PC component you can think of, and they'll put it all together for you too. My PC is still running fast and does everything I need it to do, but I'm ready for a refresh! Overall...

The computer is a custom build. Details below my sig. The OS is a standard install on C:\. Applications/utilities are installed on E:\ Built in October 2013, put in service February 2014. (For some reason never had much confidence in it!) I use it mainly to finish photos in Photoshop I have...