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    Windows 7 BSOD - System Service Exception tdx.sys - please advise

    Hello, First, my config: Processor: AMD Phenom II x4 945 AM3 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5 AM3, BIOS F2 RAM: DDR3 Mushkin 996776 4x4 GB (16GB) graphics: Gigabyte Radeon HD 7950 GV-R795WF3-3GD Disks: - SSD Crucial m4 128GB - WD Caviar Black 1TB WD1002FAEX - Samsung F3 HD103SJ 1TB -...
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    Windows 7 Laptop restarting while playing a game

    Hello everyone. I have a Dell laptop, XPS 15, my specs are on the attached file, like requested. I hope i did everything right, if not, please let me know. I used to play Diablo 3 on this laptop, highest settings possible, and it never gave me any problem. Now i quit Diablo and moved to an...
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    Windows 7 Lost my HP Touchsmart LOGO since I lost resetted my BIOS (I guess)

    Hi All I have a HP Touchsmart 300-1060a (Home Premium Windows 7 64 BIT) which I bought few years back. Now for the last 6 months or so I started getting issues with my machine was not displaying anything at all after turning it on. So I had to hard reset my power from the machine and then was...
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    Windows 7 Hard Reset, Not BSOD

    For the past few days my Windows 7 computer would reset to BIOS. No warnings, just BAM! hard reboot of the computer. I've unchecked the box under computer/properties that would Automatically Restart the system on crash. So that's just one thing I've tried in order to try to find the issue...
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    Windows 7 A distinctive system crash problem, has me stumped.

    This one's really got me baffled. In any given session on my laptop, I can load pretty much any installed program, no problem. BUT, if I exit a system intensive program and load another one, either the same program a second time or a different one, the computer crashes on load. Always...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 freezing

    This problem has been happening for quite a few months now. I boot up Windows 7, everything's fine, run some programs for a while (usually Google Chrome) and the taskbar freezes. I click on it and choose to close the program. It restarts and everything's fine for 5 minutes or so. Then, if I try...
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    Windows 7 Windows consistently freezing after power outage

    I have been having a serious issue with my PC. The PC will boot up without incident, but if I try to access explorer or the OS, it will slow to a crawl and eventually freeze. I have encountered this with firefox, the start menu, and when trying to access the task manager. The problem is...
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 will not start up

    Help! My Windows 7 computer will not start up. I have an HP HDX 18T laptop with Windows 7 Ultimate. It was working fine until this morning when the log in screen froze after the computer woke up from standby. I held the power button down until the computer restarted. The startup process was...
  9. Windows 7 Lockup after video off...

    New here... Got a problem that just plain doesn't want to go away. I have Win7 Pro X86 on an ASUS M2N series motherboard, AMD X2 4200 processor, plus the usual SATA drives, usb keyboard + mouse, nvidia 8400 graphics and Acer x193w monitor. When this setup works it works perfectly... It worked...
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    Windows 7 -> Annoying recurrent graphical crash

    Here is what happens every 10, 5, 30, 90 or 2 minutes: Link Removed due to 404 Error I then need to send the comp into stand-by by closing the lid and revive it. This usually works, but sometimes (1 case in 7) not just screen crashes but entire comp and I have to hard-reset it. Compaq...
  11. Windows 7 Emergency reinstall problem - possibly GPU related

    Hello all, I upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit two weeks ago, and yesterday I started having some trouble: When playing cod4 the computer froze. A couple of hard resets, a driver and bios update later, the computer still froze when entering a game. The screen would start blinking, the...
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    Windows 7 I think I discovered why I'm freezing all the time...

    I'm not very computer savvy, but from what I've read online, I decided to take a gander at the Events log on my windows 7 HP computer. I saw the little red warnings and the red ! marks for everytime I had to do a hard reset with my 3 day old PC. Before every shut down I got this warning...
  13. Windows 7 Monitor randomly goes into sleep mode...

    and i cant wake it up! Ever since I upgraded from vista to 7 if I leave my pc unnatended for say maybe 10 minutes the monitor goes into sleep mode and it doesnt turn back on, I am forced to do a hrad reset by plugging out the power for the monitor to work again. In the power settings I have it...
  14. Windows Vista Windows 7 Install Restart

    So i have been using Windows 7 RC. The driver messed up so i reformated my partition and reinstalled. First time it was all ok. But then I was on it and the graphics messed up. So around windows at the edge and near the window control buttons it was all bits and all that. So i re-formatted...
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    Windows Vista Vista does not like iTunes : (

    At least for me. It'll open and play just fine but when I buy something, once the file finishes downloading, my computer crashes and have to hard reset : (.