-
F
Windows 8 Major Windows 8 issues. Crashing, blue screen, can't update to 8.1. Help Please!
So I have a Lenova Ideapad z710. It's a powerful gaming laptop, and came with Windows 8. There was tons of blue screens due to Nvidia crashing, and that seems to be sorted out.. But regardless, there's tons of freezing and crashing for no reason. And I tried updating to 8.1 not to long ago...- Frankieanime158
- Thread
- blue screen compatibility crash freezing gaming hardware lenovo nvidia performance update issues windows 8
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
-
W
Windows 7 Random BSOD after start-up
Hello, I am writing with the problem of recurring BSOD, which happens randomly, almost always after the computer's start-up (ca. 2-5 mins). Important is the fact, that very often is not BSOD - computer also tends to freeze or it restarts without any BSOD (and this is worse case, because no dump...- WojtekK1902
- Thread
- bsod computer diagnostics dump files error formatting freezing hardware issues logs performance psu ram random recovery restart startup tech support troubleshooting windows 7
- Replies: 45
- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
-
F
Windows 8 WINDOWS 8 - NVIDIA GPU is Unknown in device manager (all of sudden)
Message from device manager: Windows encountered a problem installing the driver software for your device Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M Message from NVIDIA Installer: NVIDIA Installer failed...- finalmakerr
- Thread
- asus backup device manager driver issues emulator freezing gpu detection graphics driver gt 750m nvidia pc format performance issues software installation system restore tech support troubleshooting update issues windows 8 windows update
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
-
A
Windows 7 OS Lag/Freezing/Blue Screen/Failed Startups
hello, all I received a custom built computer for Christmas almost a year ago, in that I won't be able to name my system specs or hardware, and it was working perfectly fine up until a few weeks. I don't recall installing or uninstalling any important programs but here is an outline of the...- Ace Lee
- Thread
- antivirus application blue screen custom pc disk issues freezing lag maintenance os issues performance restart restore point startup issues system tray troubleshooting unresponsive update windows 7
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
-
VIDEO Computer Freezing for first time but fine after disk check (interpretation of disk chk results)...
Was having problems for the first time with my desktop over the weekend - Windows 7, Quad Core, 16GB memory, GTX 550Ti graphics card, enhanced power supply. I think it may have been a result of some trouble I've been having with an external hard drive. It completely froze up computer every few...- Paolo78
- Thread
- 16gb ram anticipation computer disk check external drive feedback freezing gtx 550 ti issues logs maintenance performance power supply quad core recommendations support system stability troubleshooting video windows 7
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
-
G
Windows Vista help with getting my pc to factroy restore or getting sound in safe mode
so i some how messed up my computer its a dell laptop running windows vista home premium and later this morning i restated my computer and now it freezes when i start it normally but it works in safe mode with networking and normal safe mode and i try to factory restore from the f8 menu but...- GeeZillion
- Thread
- audio issues daemon error dell factory restore freezing network repair mode safe mode trojan windows vista
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
-
Windows 7 Windows Explorer crashes when right-clicking image files
OK, here's my problem: Whenever I right-click on a picture file, Windows Explorer will freeze, saying Not Responding in the window title bar and in Task Manager. After ending the process and restarting Windows Explorer, I get an error that says "The remote procedure call failed and did not...- yoshirocks
- Thread
- bmp crash error file explorer file explorer fixes file format freezing image files jpg not responding png remote procedure call right click shellexview task manager troubleshooting user experience windows 10 windows 11
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
-
S
Windows 7 Cannot boot into Win7
Hi all: I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 as a second OS on my Toshiba Satellite laptop. Long story short, I can no longer boot into Windows 7. I turn on my computer, select Win7 from GRUB, but the screen freezes at the Starting Windows screen. Similarly, when I try and boot into safe mode, it...- soccerplayer198
- Thread
- boot issues factory reset freezing grub recovery safe mode toshiba troubleshooting ubuntu windows 7
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
-
Windows 7 Networking freezes and only restart helps (which gives BSOD DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE tcpip.sys)
Yesterday at night and now at evening network froze - couldn't connect anything (cumpuer is turned on 24\7 without any sleep modes or anything power-saving), I could turn off connection in netowrking pane but couldn't turn it back on - little window "turning on connection" stayed forever, device...- Owyn
- Thread
- atheros bsod connection device manager drivers ethernet failure freezing hardware minidump network power state system crash tcpip.sys troubleshooting update windows 7
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows Networking
-
P
Windows 7 My computer gets extremely slow when using any browser
I can do anything on my computer and everything runs very smooth as long as I don't open a browser. I can open very large images, open any program like Photoshop or any other program that normally needs some time to load and it loads very fast, but as soon as I start any browser it doesn't...- Ptolemy
- Thread
- browser computer issues disk cloning freezing hard drive internet explorer loading issues performance issues reboot safe mode software conflict system restore task manager temporary fix troubleshooting visual studio windows 7
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
-
V
Windows 8 Windows 8.1 suddenly shut down and drive can't accessible
I'm using windows 8.1 suddenly my laptop shut down... When I restart my laptop it didn't switch on. I used windows 8.1 boot cd and checked c drive is not responding. I'm also tried in cmd c: it just not responding it just freezing the command prompt whereas i can get into d: & e:. I just had...- Venkataraghavan
- Thread
- boot issues c drive cd boot command prompt data loss data recovery diskpart drive access file system freezing laptop issues project files shutdown system repair system restore tech support troubleshooting windows 8.1
- Replies: 4
- Forum: Windows Hardware
-
Computer that is running Windows freezes after stress testing in iSCSI initiator for many hours
Continue reading...- News
- Thread
- freezing initiator iscsi issues microsoft performance stress test support troubleshooting windows
- Replies: 0
- Forum: Knowledge Base (KB)
-
Windows 7 Having a lot of issues with Explorer.exe
Hello, so I came back from studying 5 months in another state, and since I came to turn my PC on for the first time since October I found out that the Windows explorer was brainfarting a lot, affecting other functions like the Windows Update, Desintallation/Installation, and other Windows...- RhinoBlindado
- Thread
- error explorer file management freezing installation remote procedure call uninstall windows issues windows update
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
-
R
Windows 7 Random Freezing, Have to Force Shutdown
So for the past month or so my computer has been periodically freezing, sometimes half an hour after start up and other times it can be fine for a full day of use. The freezing leaves my computer in a fully unresponsive state (pressing caps locks on my keyboard does not light up the LED...- Ryphier
- Thread
- antivirus assignment chrome cpu usage custom build freezing gaming graphics hearthstone malware nvidia pc specs performance ram registry shutdown temperature monitoring troubleshooting user experience windows 7
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
-
Windows 8 Having problems updating Windows/ Control panel crashes
I had a program called StartIsBack installed on my computer, and after deciding that it was not needed, I removed it. Recently, when I log in, I can see that there are updates available to Windows. However, when I try to enter Windows Update in Control Panel it either does not load and crashes...- RainbowNipTips
- Thread
- ccleaner control panel crash error freezing important updates installation issues malwarebytes missing files oem disk safe mode software conflict startisback system restore troubleshooting unimportant updates user issues windows issues windows refresh windows update
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
-
K
Windows 7 Computer Constantly Freezing
My computer constantly freezes when i open too many programs and specifically i try playing games like Starcraft and it keeps freezing, but it doesn't freeze when i have League of Legends open or Dolby Axon. I tried using sfc /scannow in CMD but it didn't work in normal mode neither in safe mode...- Kevin De Santiago
- Thread
- 64-bit clean boot cmd computer dolby freezing games help intel league of legends memory performance processor ram sfc starcraft 2 system specs tech support troubleshooting
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
-
J
Windows 7 Freezing and monitor going into power save
Hello, I currently have a windows 7 Dell OptiPlex 780 that occasionally and randomly freezes and the monitor goes into power save like when I shut down the computer. I know there is power to it because the lights on the keyboard are on num lock but you can't turn them off. It froze. I have...- John Paschall
- Thread
- dell freezing hardware maintenance monitor optiplex power saving random issues troubleshooting windows 7
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
-
J
Windows 7 Computer freezing issues.
I've had my computer since last march and I've had it formatted multiple times due to BSODs and freezes, after it has been formatted it works for while then the problem comes back. I've had it sent off to the manufacturer and they said it's not hardware but the upgraded my power supply from a...- Jared44
- Thread
- bsod computer formatting freezing graphics card gtx 650 hardware issues installation power supply
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
-
B
Windows Vista Troubleshooting Hardware Issues: Frequent Freezes and Playback Problems on My Desktop PC
Hello, I have been working on my own computers for 15 years, have built 6 over the years, and always fix mine and my parents computers whenever theres a problem. Occasionally I get stumped and need help, so thats why I am here. My desktop home office computer is doing several things over the...- bks81
- Thread
- asus computer corruption diagnostics dvr freezing hardware media center office pentium performance problem registry sata security support troubleshooting video playback windows windows vista
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
-
Windows 7 Suddenlty started with BSOD's. Twice in one day.
The day before yesterday it started. I was watching youtube and was going to open spotify to pause the music in the background. Then everything froze for maybe 5second. Then some black paths started showing on the screen, untill it turned all black for maybe 10 seconds. And then the BSOD showed...- TobNor
- Thread
- bsod crash dump files error freezing performance spotify troubleshooting windows youtube video
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)