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I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I've done a torture test on my Windows 7 32-bit machine. it consists of a Nvidia Geforce 6100 nForce video, Nvidia nForce Networking Controller, Hitachi 200GB drive TSST Corp CD\DVDRW drive, , AMD Athalon 64 Processor 3800+. I have installed 106...

Hi everyone, I wasn't sure where else to put this, if it's in the wrong section please if there's any mod out there you can change it to where it might belong to. Anyway, the issue I'm having is one of the strangest I've seen on an OS. I all of a sudden had a problem with a certain game and a...

I was running the Windows 7 beta, and I just finished installing the RC. Everytime I've booted up it's stayed on the Starting Windows screen for over a minute each time. I have a two 7200 RPM 32MB cache hard drives in RAID 0 and an e6750 running at 3.3ghz so the boot up time is ridiculous. The...

I have three HDDs, C: 500GBs D: 80GBs E: 250GBs. I previously had Vista running in the drive with 250Gbs. At that point it was labeled my C drive. So I went through numerous formattings to get my largest HDD to be the C drive. Now that I have the letters in order, I would like to remove the...

Help, I installed Windows 7 By Mounting the ISO Using Daemon Tools and Upgrading from the Windows Vista to Windows 7. Something has gone wrong, whenever I put in a pendrive, sd card or anything it wont show up! I need to go back and system restore doesn't work. Please help me this very URGENT...

Alright so prior to a few days ago, I was able to burn CDs with no problems using Nero 8. Suddenly though, Windows refuses to open ANY program that has the ability to burn a CD. I've tried Nero 8, 7, 6, Windows Media Player, CDBurnerXP, Roxio, etc. What's particularly weird about this too is...

I have HDD installed on slot SATA_0, and stat disk drive installed on SATA_1. Bios doesn't recognize HDD, but it will allow me to install an OS. I'd like to see the HDD in BIOS....any thoughts. i've alreay moved them to SATA_1 & SATA_2 with same result

I wanted to try the windows 7 beta build 7000, so I installed on my Dell Precision and all went well, I worked with it for a while, but I had to use the Dell machine for another task for which I have to install windows server 2003, I started by inserting the server CD, and it went through all...

I'm planning to install the win7 beta on a secondary disk drive creating a dual boot option between win7 and XP. If and when Microsoft releases the full version of win7 for retail public sale, what do I do with the win7 beta on the disk? Will installing the full version overwrite or upgrade...

downloaded the win7 beta from the microsoft site and burned the ISO file to a DVD disc using ImgBurn. My next plan is to do the install (which I haven't done yet). I have XP on 1 physical disk drive C: What I want to do is install the win7 beta on another disk drive. Larry at the computer shop...

I downloaded the win7 beta from the microsoft site and burned the ISO file to a DVD disc using ImgBurn. My next plan is to do the install (which I haven't done yet). I have XP on 1 physical disk drive C: What I want to do is install the win7 beta on another disk drive. Larry at the computer...

I am have problems starting up windows 7. It gets to the point where it says starting windows, and has a red dot. (Looks like it's starting a loading bar maybe) Then it gives a MACHINE_CHECK_EXCEPTION error. I started with 64bit, then tried 32bit. I even tried installing it within XP (which...

I downloaded W7-64bit from microsoft. I burned to a disc and booted to it. It loads all the files fine, but when it goes to start windows it shows a red dot then gives a blue screen saying something I can't remember at the moment. (I'll find out later) I've tried the 32 bit version, it does the...

i just installed the Windows 7 beta and my cd drives are not showing up. I can not also open my disk drive at all when i am using Windows 7. I dool boot with Vista 64bit and it seems to be working fine there. please help, i think it is really useless if my laptop can't use a disk drive when im...

I recently got a fatal error while listening to music and now when I boot up my computer it says that a form of BIOS is not installed and I am unable to use disks in the disk drive. My computer works just fine but now I cant install programs or listen to music. Please give me some tips that...

I had Vista RC1 on my pc for a little more than a day and Sat. night my disk drive disapeared. It was working fine up until than. It would'nt read the disks or anything, no error,s either. I look in My Computer and notice that the drive is no longer there. That was the major problem. I had some...