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I bought this Acer Aspire laptop new in 2009. It came with Windows 7 Home Premium. I have exhausted all possibilities of installing Service Pack 1. I've tried directly downloading it through Windows Update several times and I just finished unsuccessfully installing it by downloading, burning a...

This PC started having erratic behavior, then everything went downhill. Sometimes it will boot up into Windows, but quickly freeze up, with no response at all, no choice but to force reboot. Most of the time it will not reboot at all, giving me a message to select a boot drive. The BIOS...

Hello forum members. I've been having intermittent BSOD problems with my PC. It sometimes happens after some use and sometimes on startup. Been having trouble isolating the specific incident/action that is causing it. I've tried to extract as much info as possible using the suggested tools and...

I've been going crazy the past week about this error. I've searched every post out there for a solution to this problem but every step I take to solve it seems to fail at one point also most of the other posts seem to have slightly different problems. It all started about a week ago when I was...

I watch videos on a site and when I finish watching the bandwidth in DU Meter keeps running at 400-500 KB's/s. It would appear that it's like the videos are still running but they are not because the site and anything to do with it is shutdown. Not even a browser is running. Task manager tells...

Okay, small situation sketch. Ist I had a win 7 x64 which ran smooth for over a year (had x32 before that, and some linux variants)..Then I decided to upgrade my pc to win 8 (i had heard from fellow it'ers that the upgrade was much better than previous versions so i thought why not give it a...

I'm sorry, I can't find a better place to post this topic (if you find one, please relocate it so I'll know next time :) ). In the downloads tab, under "Utilites", there are a few things (in my opinion) that would be helpful to people if they were there: Prime 95 Free Software - GIMPS for...

Hi Ran the W7F diagnostic tool as admin and it wouldn't create anything on my desktop so have attached dump files/cpu-z/RAMMON Has always BSOD occasionally but has become much more frequent, every 15mins when playing X-COM. Appears to be mostly 101 clock error The processor was...

Boot Up Any Computer, Rescue Windows and Data in 5 mins!, well maybe not 5 minutes, but fairly close. Many of you already know and have probably used this CD before as it has been around for ages. This is for those who do not know about it and that you may find it extremely useful. The CD...

I am visiting my grand daughter at my other daughter's house. Of course my grand daughter says, "Grandpa, can you look at my PC. It keeps going to sleep when I'm working on it. It has been working fine until I arrived here" Some may recall this is a new PC (approx. 7 months ago) that I bought as...

I have 4 PCs running Windows. I make image files of the system partition of each one and store the image files on a USB hard drive. I would like to create a flash drive that can be used on any of the PCs and which boots to a menu. From the menu I would like to select the appropriate image...

Hello my name is Nick and I have had my computer for about 7 months now. I have had many issues with it including bad RAM and what not. My latest issue is BOSD let me try to describe how it happens. I will be watching a youtube video and my computer will completely lock up. And the last sound...

I am able to get to the screen with the Windows logo and the screen "Starting Windows" Then all of a sudden, the computer restarts itself and Windows doesn't load. The recovery CD does not boot either. The recovery CD requires a windows interface, which is not loading, failing at the same spot...

I've had about 40 or so BSOD over the last few days and i havnt been able to keep my computer on long enough to do anything. i managed to get a list of a few of the blue screens. Can anybody help or at least get me on the right path?

Hi, My windows keeps getting stuck regardless of whatever software I am using. Every few minutes it says (NOT RESPONDING) at the top of whatever window that I have open. I checked task manager and there it says CPU Usage and Memory Usage is relatively low so that does not seem to be a problem...

Hi everyone! I logged into my laptop today and discovered this: Windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.768.3 Locale ID: 1033 Additional information about the problem: BCCode: 1000009f...

Hello I i m new on this forum, thanks in advance to anyone who is reading this ... as the title say my problem is with pfn_list_corrupt and memory_management have already reinstalled windows thinking that was something bad with filesystem , but I still have this problem! Then i thought...

Need help in one help. i received one error msg in my windows 7 hdd. "your HDD is about to crash, pls starts a backup process". i ran the tool of error checking & bad sector repairing from HDD properties, did AV checking. but no result. any one have any solution pls help. Regards SuvankarLink...

Hi there, I have a couple of errors listed here since I don't know if they are connected or not. System: Windows 7 Home Premium Intel Core i7 2600k @ 3.4GHz ASUS Sabertooth P67 EVGA nVIDIA GTX560Ti All these problems have happened since I builded the computer a week ago: 1) When my pc...

One of our kids' laptops stopped booting a couple of days ago. I have confirmed there is nothing wrong with the laptop itself; it's a hard drive issue. To narrow this down I have: Placed the offending hard drive in an external drive enclosure attached to another computer. The other computer...