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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...

I bought a Windows 7 Professional key (retail) for my laptop last year. This year I am building my first custom configured computer with a small budget, and I don't really want to spend $40-100 over my budget for a new license. I heard it is possible to reuse a Windows 7 Professional key on a...

BSODs Increasing in Frequency Hello, First, I'd like to outline the nature of the BSODs experienced. My machine is just under a year old, custom built; and has experienced BSODs since early on in it's operation. It has been built for gaming. Many high-end games (Total War: Rome II, ArmA III)...

Just wanted to bounce some idea off of the resident experts on building a nice, mildly high powered system intended to last for a few years (I do business stuff on it with graphics design, web design, office apps, lots of stuff running when I get busy during the day) Asus Rampage IV Black...

I used CPU-Z to check my CPU's stats and it says that its clock was 2500Mhz [200x12.5] Why is this weird? Because according to its BIOS it should have a base clock of 200Mhz and a mulitplier of 17 what equals 3.4Ghz. This is what the control panel of Windows 7 says as well. So, how do I...

Has anyone ever heard of a carrying case for a custom build PC? I'm not talking about the PC case itself but like a bag with wheels or something for a PC, for means of transportation. I Googled 'Mid-Tower PC Carrying Cases' but just found a lot of PC cases themselves. Does anyone know if...

So for the past month or so my computer has been periodically freezing, sometimes half an hour after start up and other times it can be fine for a full day of use. The freezing leaves my computer in a fully unresponsive state (pressing caps locks on my keyboard does not light up the LED...

Hi Guys, Im having some BSOD issues with a custom build I did for my grandmother recently. BSOD seems to mainly happen on start up/wake up and sometimes while shes in the middle of writing an email in thunderbird. I currently only have remote access to the PC. I ran a 12hr/stick memtest and...

Core i7 3820 ASUS Sabertooth X79 Motherboard 16gb Samsung 30nm RAM 2x Diamond AMD HD 7970s in XF 2x Samsung 830 256gb SSDs Seasonic X 1050 PSU Custom Liquid Cooling loop Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Lately I have been crashing every time I start up a steam game, specifically Metro: LL, Borderlands...

Hi there, I've been all over trying to solve this issue and nobody seems to have any answers. Hopefully you all will be able to help =P My System: EVGA SR-2 2x Xeon E5620 2x Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO (both in Push-Pull) 24GB Corsair XMS3 1333mhz RAM Zotac GTX 670 4GB OS HDD: Western Digital...

SHORT VERSION: I made the mistake of installing an OS on my desktop from a Reinstallation disk that came with my Dell laptop. It actually worked okay until I installed a Wireless PCI express adapter. Things became unresponsive within a few hours of that and now it will not boot, even in safe...

Hello, I am requesting assistance with a an occasional hung computer and BSOD. I am unable to obtain "run as administrator" when right click on W7F Diagnostic Tool. W7F Diagnostic Tool error message: "Unhandled exception has occured in your application." Error message details are included in...

Been getting BSOD the past few week's and i haven't currently found the fix to my problem. running on a custom build pc, did some of the hotfixes found on the web (update drivers, disk check, ect) but BSOD is still quite frequent. here's in my system info and dumps: Link Removed Here the...