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Asus K42Dr AMD Athlon II ATI Radeon HD 5470 WIndows 7 Home Premium x64 OEM 2 GB Ram Im having this random BSODs even when doing nothing. Also most of my apps encounters the "has stopped working" error. I tested my memory using Memtest+ with atleast 5 passes and has no errors. I also used the...

I've got this new laptop last month and after two weeks got my first BSOD. I've done chkdsk, sfc, and last know good config only to have it back again every 3 days or so. I don't have restore point far back enough and don't think I've installed anything that could cause this. The driv'ers are...

I am back home for the holidays and brought my desktop back with me that runs Windows 7. After I got it all set up I realized I could not access the internet, and that I was connected to an "Unidentified Network". After looking into it more I found that I was getting a 169.XXX.XX.XX IP, and I...

I have an Acer Aspire. I am wanting to restore it to factory defaults. I have been told to press alt f10 at the Acer start screen to load up the restore wizard. These keys do not work however. I have used MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition to see if the restore partition is there, and it...

Ok, this may be difficult to troubleshoot because I have very few details about the computer in question. A friend called me because I am fairly good with basic computer problems. I'm not sure of the hardware specs, but it's a 2010 or 2011 model PC with Windows 7 installed. They did a Windows...

Dear all, on my new Lenovo T410s Laptop I am facing multiple BSOD (i.e. > 1 per hour) and on top additional freezes/crashes of firefox or the entire system. System is up to date with Bios-updates / windows updates. Things I have tried are (no improvement): - Multiple Resets to factory...

I'm new to here, but for any of you who are about to read all of this, i applaud you! :thumbs_up: I recieved my new Lenovo Z570 IdeaPad yesterday...I'll just put some of the spec down incase you want to know. Proccessor: Intel i5 (second gen) Graphics: NVIDIA GEFORCE OS: Windows 7 64bit...

I'm really hoping someone can help because I am totally stumped. Last night I was on the internet at home absolutely fine and my laptop automatically downloaded an update, since then I have been unable to connect to my wi-fi. I deleted the updates and was still unable to connect, so I tried to...

Hp came with two drives. vista 64 set it back to factory specs and installed win7 64. seem okay. just noticed that the other drive is empty - correct. but properties says there is 43GB there! it is set up to show hidden files. how do i tell win7 64 that hey! the drive is empty. thanks

Started my computer this morning and nothing but symbols and special characters are displayed through-out the OS of Win 7. Can only remember making an adjustment to "Twain_86" for my Photo Shop 8, as the "Editor" in the program crashed. Worked my way around and deleted PSE-8, and eventually...

I've been to tons of other sites for my problem and I can't find a solution. The kernel Power errors happen when ever I play a rather large game, such as Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Dead Rising 2, Assassins Creed Series, and Battlefield Bad Company 2. I've tried unplugging all my external...

Hello :smile: I have a Intel Quad Core HP elite Desktop M8190a everything is as manufactured except i upgraded the ram to 4GB. Originally running Vista .. Last week while playing a mp3 file from an external HDD a loud "ticking" occured then the computer crashed. Restarted automatically then...

Hi, I'm not computer savvy and I have joined this group out of shear frustration. I don't even know if I'm in the right group, but here goes. I've had my HP desktop for 2 years without a problem, now I'm getting this message (see title) in the bottom right corner. I've contacted HP and...

Hi, I am getting BSOD and cannot solve them. Here's my hardware: -MOBO: Foxconn 2AB1 -Cpu: AMD Phenom 2 x4 925 -RAM: 8 GB Micron TechnologyLink Removed I uninstalled my GPU because I thought its driver may be the problem, but I restored my computer to its factory image and started over and am...

- Running windows 7 home premium - latest windows 7 updates This problem has persisted for a week or two now, not sure why but my laptop started to have many problems. some extra information; - when my wireless signal for the wireless keyboard goes out (randomly), the usb port (usb...

Compaq Presario CQ62-215DX Notebook Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Warranty ended last month. This has happened many times, but has easily been resolved after changing the boot order in the BIOS. Each time, my computer crashes and I have to manually turn it off with the power button. After...

i have have ran the system readiness tool and even scannow .the scan showed no integrity violations but the checksure log showed 16 corruptions.i have my updates set to automatic .ive tried almost everything i believe even disabling my antivirus and downloading the sp1 for windows 7 manually...

This mess started after I had been playing Sims 2. The computer froze and BSOD popped up, in disbelief I didn't get any of the info from BSOD. I do remember it dumping memory or something. After the shutdown/restart Windows failed to load/start. After some investigation and a similar issue...

For about a month or so I've been getting various BSOD messages. I have ran "chkdsk" and it came back with everything being okay. I've ran "SFC \SCANNOW" everything came back fine. I waned to run a few more tests (like the ones testing RAM, but with my computer not really turning on for that...

So recently, out of spite, I turned off my laptop as it was about to reboot due to a system update. (was in the middle of something) Seeing as safe mode and repair/restore to previous states wouldn't work, I attempted to restore it to factory settings (I think that's what it was called) with...