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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...

As you may know, you cannot make a clean install of Windows 7 upgrade on a formatted disc. You can only install this OS on a hard disc that has a previous version installed (XP, Vista, whatever). So, if you bought a Windows 7 UPGRADE (not the full version), you will have no luck just popping the...

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...

Long-time reader; first-time poster. I just purchased a Link Removed to replace my older Pinnacle remote. I use it primarily in Windows Media Center (with PowerDVD 9 added on) and I really liked the fact that this remote is so versatile. It also appears to be just about the only PC remote...

I want to go back to Vista Home Premium x64! Windows 7 disappointed me and actually gave me a harder time than Vista did when I moved from XP to Vista. \ I checked an instructions document out about how to rollback to Vista from an upgrade to Windows 7. By using the windows.old folder located...

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...

I recently installed a problem called EnhanceMySe7en and tried a few tweaks however things didn't really turn out as I had planned. I made a system restore point before I made the changes, but then when I tried to restore it back, it says there were no points available ... Thats wierd coz...