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Hi! I'm about to complete my first custom pc and I'm down to the decision of OS. Now, I'm a college student so I was looking at the Windows 8 Pro Upgrade - Student offered by Microsoft and wondering if this would work. It seems like a dumb question, but the wording of upgrade has me think I...

Hi, I have a problem where my custom win 7 computer won't sleep. The PC will wake 5 seconds later after i push sleep.. No devices are showing up as armed in the CMD with powercfg. When i go to last wake it shows nothing. I have disabled all settings like media sharing and in device manger. If...

The problem I'm having is that, even though I have normal download speed, my upload speed is almost non-existent. I've been using this custom built PC for about 2 years now. I'm not sure exactly when the problem started either cause for the most part, websites and programs were working (except...

First of al, hello to everyone!! I jut finished building a custom pc and am having BSOD's happening. The main one I'm getting is the PFN_LIST_CORRUPT and the other is MEMORY_MANAGMENT. The PFN occurs more frequently then the other one does though. There's no one or two things that I'm doing at...

With the recent news and rumors about Valve's "Steam Box" and Windows 8 new metro design, I've started thinking about a game console/media player based on the Windows 8 platform. Although controller/remote support isn't supported for navigating the Metro UI, (it should be added in a future...

hello and thank you in advance i have a fresh out of the box custom pc im running i5 3770k processor, 16 gigs of ripjaw ram, amd radeon hd 7970 video card andwestern digital caviar black hard drive now that that is established my problem is frequent blue screen while downloading or playing...

I have been receiving several Blue screens with the ntoskrnl.exe as a common error, I have included zipped files and screen shot of CPU-id. This is a custom built pc and has been having this problem for a few months, I previously was having the same problem finally just re installed Windows 7...

I went to the toilet for 5 minutes and when I came back, my computer was off so I tried restarting it and this happened. Its my custom built PC. Its been fine for a few months but a few weeks ago, It said before start up: SATA3G_6 Hard Disk:S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, backup and replace. I dunno...

Hey guys, This has been happening since I purchased the computer back in March 2012 (it is a custom built PC). Random Blue screen errors (mostly BCcode 3d). Approx once or twice a month. Wrapped my brain, can NOT seem to figure this out. I have included a dump file. -- Additional Info --...

Computer randomly wigs out into BSOD and I cannot figure out why. Updated all drivers, as far as I know. Ran diagnostics, came up clear. Defrag didn't help. The BSOD happens when using my browser, or starting an application. Thinking it may be a RAM issue. Please help me out :) most of you guys...

I updated my windows and I have a custom built computer and my tech guy has the same computer like me and it does the same thing, on ocassion when I move my mouse arrows in certain areas (mostly over things that have typing as well as well as a web browser) my mouse turns into a group of...

Hello all, I have recently built a custom computer with these specs: CPU: AMD FX-8150 CPU Cooling: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus MB: GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD5 RAM: Corsair Vengeance 1600MHz 16GB (2 x 8GB) GPU: EVGA Nvidia 560 Ti 1280MB 448 Cores SSD: Corsair Force 3 6.0Gb/s 60GB (C: Drive) HDD...

I got a custom gaming rig from work with a test copy of Windows Vista on it. I'm having several extremely annoying problems that I was hoping someone could help me with. The test copy only allows me to access an Internet Explorer page but I need to install my wireless USB connection but it...

hi there, I'll describe my initial problem first: Packard bell PC imedia something, radeon sapphire 5670 HD GPU upgrade, recent (Jan 2012) windows 7 64 bit custom install upgrade from vista 32 bit, during which i backed up all files on a Samsung external hard drive, then did a complete hard...

I have been using sleep mode for a while. Until recently, I had to re-install my OS due to some troubleshooting and hardware issues. Now my PC won't wake up from sleep mode with the new install. She goes to sleep, and when I try to wake her up, she powers on, for like 2 seconds and then shuts...

Hi everyone! I've had an interesting week, but I'll try to give as much information here as I can. So I custom-built my PC last June (used the HDD from my old comp, which I made in 2006). I had one BSoD; however, since it just happened the once, I never worried about it again. A few days ago...

Hi, I have tried to find a solution to this problem for the past month on my own to no success. As the Title indicates my computer will randomly freeze. Sometimes there are days when it wont then some that will. I can also make the PC freeze at will by opening photoshop and messing around with...

I built a custom pc and have been getting BSOD randomly for the past two months now pretty much after a week or two after the build. I've done a windows 7 repair. I've ran memtest 86 for 5 or 6 hours with no errors, I found out that my motherboard didn't support my 8gb of g skill ram so now I...

i hope im in the right place i was a mac user until it crashed im having a pc custom built im not writing this to make anyone mad but im trying to get comparisons between windows 7 and linux i have allready sent them an e-mail but not recieved just wondered if anyone here can give me an honest...

Hey guys. I am new here. I have been searching for a solution to a problem that i have. None of my troubleshooters work. When i first installed Windows 7, they did work until i let it update. I have seen this problem posted all over with no solutions. I read somewhere that it was a microsoft...