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Hello, this has happened twice already. My laptop (A Sony VPCCW21FX) is around a year and a half old. I would be gaming normally when my screen freezes up, and I would be presented with a BSOD saying "Operating System not found". And I would be forced to force shut down my laptop to get rid of...

Hi, I am new to the forum and apologise if the information I am providing is insufficient - please let me know and I will gladly complete the same. I appreciate your help. I am getting random BSOD's with memory management being shown as the culprit (or atleast the malaise). I have a new M11X...

[SOLVED] explorer.exe high CPU usage - tried everything I can think of Hi, My explorer.exe is constantly using 30-45% of my 4-core CPU. I have determined after MUCH testing that the cause is likely not a virus / malware / rootkit. I have also: tested booting into safe mode (explorer.exe is...

Hi guys, hopefully someone can help me with this as it is starting to drive me crazy I have built a new system and components are as follows: Core i3 2120 Asus P8H67-m-pro B3 revision OCZ3G1333LV4GK ram (2 x 2gb sticks DDR3 dual channel) Samsung 1TB HDD CoolerMaster case with...

Just yesterday, as I was browsing the internet, my laptop randomly shut down. I restarted it and what I was faced with was the startup repair. It didn't work, a box showed up saying 'startup repair cannot repair this computer autmatically'. I sent the information. The problem details said...

I have this problem for a while now, I honestly do not know if this is a problem or not or a bug or god knows what. From time to time, the hard drive makes a weird noise, like its blocked and when I look at the event viewer looks like this: The device, \ Device \ Harddisk0 \ DR0, Has a bad...

Hi Windows 7 users. I have an urgent problem with my custom built desktop. My custom built has been acting up like mad only a month after creation. It worked perfectly at first, but then I suddenly found that half of my services were disabled randomly. As well, my computer kept...

Starting to occur more frequently then usual. Also the last one had something to do with NTFS.sys or something like that. Anyway to determine if it is a hardware problem. Cheers for the help.

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I recently purchased an Acer Aspire 7741Z-5731. It came with Windows 7 installed, which all was fine for the first few days, then Windows Update decided it was time for an update. Ever since then I have had issues with Windows. Immediately upon boot up it goes into Startup Repair, which of...

Hi All, I'm having problems with my computer I built some time ago now. From time to time it will completely stop responding and need to be reset using the power switch (sound also hangs if there is any at the time). This will happen very frequently when the RAM is in a dual channel...

While gaming today, I got a blue screen of death.(mass effect 2, by the way) Well, it actually crashed the game for a moment, and windows told me there was a problem with game. this isn't unheard of for a game to have a problem, so i checked temps on computer just verifying this new game wasn't...

Let me preface this by saying that I'm I'm not very computer literate so any help needs to be worded simply like for a child..I have installed WIN 7 64 and it has developed a problem..It wont boot to the desk top. It will post and go to the starting Windows screen sometimes and stops there..It...

Windows Search (and/or Outlook 2007 Instant Search) does not index emails from Outlook PST files Hi Gang....so I'm having a similar problem trying to get Windows Search to index my emails. I am currently running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit and Outlook 2007. Upgraded from Windows XP Pro (SP3) and...

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...

Hello all, Receiving very little help on this on other forums I frequent, I thought I'd try here. I hope all of this information does not overwhelm. Here it goes: Hello, The past couple days I've noticed SVCHOST.EXE start going +50 CPU. For the most part it is sustained. I have linked a...

I've done a fair amount of reading and searching on CPU Usage in Windows 7 (both Beta & RC 1) and haven't had any luck with this issue yet. The machine I'm using contains: Asus P4P800 motherboard Intel P4 2.8 GHz dual core 2.5 GB of ram GeForce 7800 GS 256MB Clean install of Windows 7...

I have been using Windows 7 build 7000 for a long while without any drive issues. Today i did a clean install of build 7127, and now i randomly get this message: "Windows detected a hard drive problem" It shows the details as H:/, witch is one partition, on one of my drives. If there is a...

$10 REWARD NOW: "Driver Power State Failure" BSOD -> Now hangs on startup Aargh? Halp? This is crap... Okay, so my laptop (Acer Extensa 4420, "designed for Vistaids") has been running Win7 x64 ever since the RC came out. It's all swell and all except for when it comes to drivers. Video driver...