custom build

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...

Hello, i'm building my own gaming PC. List of the parts: Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition VGA: AMD Radeon Sapphire HD 5850 1024MB RAM Memory: DDR3 16GB (2x 8GB) 1600MHz Motherboard: Gigabyte 970a-d3 AM3 Psu: PowerX3 Pro Edition 800W Psu Hard drive: WD HDD SATA 500GB 7200RPM...

Hi all, Trying to fix a win7 system that has recently stopped working as expected. The system is running win7 home, sp1. Running Avira a/v. Custom built core2duo, 4G, 500G, ati pci-x, etc, fios internet running through a linux router/fw, etc. Relatively new and fast. Works perfect aside from...

Just like the title says...... I'm encountering this annoying buzzing while playing a movie or music file. I first took it to Compusa and they looked at it and updated anything that had to be updated. They then hooked it up with there speakers and weren't able to replicate the issue. They then...

Hello guys My PC Specs are: Gigabyte GA-D3H-Z77 Motherboard Gigabyte 2GB GTX 670 Graphics Card Corsair 8GB (2x4GB) RAM Intel i7 3770k processor Noctua NH-D14 fan Corsair 650W PSU Lexa S Case It turns out, I have had 3 Blue Screen of Death error messages. I downloaded...

Hi I am getting a BSOD whenever I try to use my webcam. Motherboard is Asus Gene V CPU is i5 3570k Ram is Gskill 16gb Custom built machine Antivirus is windows defender I included all details from other parts I have read on the forum.

Hello, I have a used custom built system that was operating fine until recently. It has been getting a lot of memory management errors lately. I've been able to patch them for a few days sometimes by running various registry cleaners/optimizers and having no errors running MemTest86, but when...

Hello everyone, I just finished with a brand new custom built computer, and it's BSOD'd on me twice. The first time borked Windows so hard that it messed with the MBR and I had to use gparted to get it all ironed out so that I could reinstall. The second time wasn't so fatal so I have all the...

Hi I am having big issues with blue screens. The pc is pretty new, I build it myself, and I put windows 7 Pro. I am geting blue screens almost every day, I am getting crazy about this. I have installed windows debugger but it seems all crashes are comming from window 7 itself and I don't really...