custom pc

I recently finished building my custom pc, and tried installing Windows 7 Home Premium on it. I got to where it says "Windos is loading files", the white bar filled up, then it would repeat but slower. So far so good, but then it took me to the screen with the background, where one would...

I have win 7 pro OEM installed on my custom computer. I am trying to change my ASUS P6T Sata setting in BIOS to AHCI. I Get a blue screen when I do this. According to ASUS I must reinstall Windows which is not an option since I have tons of applications installed or they said I can do a repair...

Spent over an hour reading the stickys and similar threads - hope you guys can help me with this problem. Short Story: Sys was running Win 7 Ultimate (x64) - BSOD like crazy after three months. Bad memory stick, HD, and MB replaced - no go. Installed Windows XP Pro (x86) works fine. Install...

Getting many different STOP errors, and some other issues. Here we go: I run a custom built computer, housed inside of a RAVEN 2 case; EVGA p55 LE motherboard, windows i5 (2.66 when not OC) processor, 8g ddr3 Corsair RAM, 2 10000 RPM Raptor Drives in RAID0, a third 600 gig drive, with...

Hello there, I just built myself a brand new computer and I haven't been able to use on any regular basis without Win7 crashing with a BSOD. I decided to start over and had a friend re-install it again a few days ago but I am still crashing. Since the re-install I disabled the auto-restart so I...

I recently purchased the parts for a new custom machine and put it together and installed Windows 7 x84. Initially there were no problems and the machine would happily boot into windows and allow me to use the system with no hiccups. However, after I began downloading and installing updates for...

Hi guys/gals, So my christmas pressie this year to myself is a brand spankin new rig. Its a custom built jobby but I need help in selecting which version of W7 to have put on it as Im unsure of what the difference between each is. ANy help is greatly appreciated and could potentially...

Im new here,so hello everyone. Ive just built a new PC and come back to Windows *im using W7 Home Premium* from using Ubuntu Linux and Nvidia. So quite a switch. Ive got an Asus 22" VW246.I just had my computer built *specs down below* by a custom PC company,ive contacted them and am awaiting a...

I am having problems Setting up Password Protected Folders on a Home network.. Hoping someone here might be able to Answer a Few Q's. Info: I have 4 Pc's Acer Aspire Laptop (win7)/ Custom made XFX game Boxes(Win7) / x2 Old Dell Boxes (XP pro) All 4 are connected by cat5 to a Linksys 5-port...

I am experiencing this annoying problem and I can't figure out why. My computer will randomly get the Blue screen of death and the blue screen says it's due to MEMORY_MANAGEMENT. I am using a custom built PC: Pentium i7 @ 3.33ghz, ASUS Rampage II extreme motherboard, ATI Raedon video card, 6gb...

Problem: My computer fails to go into Sleep mode, and it also will automatically restart about 1-2 seconds after shutting down. This issue initially arose when I had the RC installed. During that time, I had been able to Sleep the computer just fine, but one time it seemed to randomly fail...

Alright, so I pre-ordered the Professional Upgrade (he he, got it from Newegg.com and got it for $99 a few months back! ) Anyways, I have a pretty awesome custom built PC and I'm thinking that I should install 64 bit to use all 8 GB of RAM. I'm wondering if during the upgrade, it will like let...

ive had the RC for awhile now (so far so good on that part) and i decided to re-install one of my favorite games star wars: knights of the old republic, i fully patched it and everything but when i tried to play it would go to a black screen then it would say "this programme is not responding"...

Speckles, Crashes, etc. in Windows 7 Media Center OK, so I need a hero right now. I’m having graphics issues with my custom media center (no gaming whatsoever) running Windows 7 Ultimate RTM. I’ve tried everything I can think of over the last few weeks, all to no avail. No...

I've got build 7100, I installed it last week on a custom made PC (I made it then aswel, this is its first OS) and it has all been fine until today. Some programs (firefox for example) are unaffected but others will just refuse to run. Some programs just stop part way through installing and...

Well I've successfully installed 32Bit Windows 7 on my Compaq computer. Now when i go to install it on my custom computer that already has windows XP home on it i get the following error: Windows has encountered problem communicating with device connecting to your computer. Status: 0xc00000e9...

Hello guy's and Gal's i am Having Trouble with my Sound Card i have Recently went from XP to Windows 7 RC Build 7100 And have found that the Windows 7 Drivers from RealTek Dont work my Sound Card is: AC'97 - CM 18738. I am Using Windows 7 please Help me the Onboard Sound has never worked but the...

Hello, I have a dual boot windows 7 and XP PC (both 32 bit). I formatted the hard drive 3 weeks ago and installed fresh copies of Windows 7 (RC1 or 7100) and XP. Everything was working fine until today, upon reboot, my windows seven stopped connecting to internet. I tried several methods in...

I've done a lot of googling and I have been unable to find a solution to my problem. At 8:00 AM yesterday, I had a power failure. My desktop was suspended in sleep mode while the outage occurred and successfully booted up once after the power failure. I noticed there was no sound so I tried...

I think it's caused by Norton anti-virus 2008. Please do not suggest that I use another AV like AVG or somethiing. I don't mean to be anal or anything, but I have asked the question on other forums and the thread turned into a "Norton Sucks" thread. I would really just like the problem...