hardware compatibility

Hi there, New to Windows 7 and these fora, just hoping someone could help me out with my annoying crash problem. I recently installed Windows 7 RC (clean install, empty partition), but whenever I shutdown or restart, after installing updates and the "Shutting down..." screen it crashes to a...

Hey Guys, I installed Windows 7 x64 today and when i opened the system information tool, it shows 3.25GB usable. So, i checked with task manager and it shows the same 3326(3.25) to my surprise. How is this possible on a x64 OS? Memory mapping is on 32 bit if i am not wrong... Have been...

I recently bought a maxtor 500 gb external hdd and i just cant get it to work with windows 7, i got a computer at home where i want to keep it that has windows 7 rc , I have tryed everything i can think of to make it work but nothing does, I cant see it in my computer or with the explorer, but I...

So here's the problem. W7 recognizes my KWorld Connext PCI Capture card and even installs a driver for it. The problem is that anything that goes to use the capture cards says it isn't working, so I can't use it to record or stream, etc. Anybody know if its possible to use a virtual xp...

I'm using Windows 7 build 7077 and suffer from BSODs when connected to my home network. I connect using a Belkin USB Wireless G Adaptor and aslong as I'm not connected to the network, it's fine but once I connect I get Blue Screens. The driver is installed all the time so I'm not sure if it is...

Using Build 7068 of 64-bit Windows 7, I cannot get a GeForce 9500 GT card to show anything but 640X480 and Code 43. I started w/the GeForce driver for 64-bit Win. 7, fiddled with the video settings in Bios, reflashed the Bios to the latest, etc. Video card worked fine in the last Win. 7...

I'm having a lot of Blue screen of deaths and i's really pissing me off because every time I shutdown my computer after a BSOD I'm having a BIOS error that tells me "You have a disk error press control alt delete to reboot. and I must unplug the PC to get in in W7 seven back again. Anyone knows...

Hello I'm enjoying the beta version of win 7 (build 7000) , but since the beginning I've had a problem when I try to browse one of my drives. In explorer, a progression bar appears on top when I click on the drive letter. This bar never fills up, even after several minutes. In other programs...

W7 64 Gigabyte P35-DS3R v1.0 with beta F13 BIOS 6GB RAM 8600GTS video I have a Canon 8600 scanner. The question is, is this error a Windoz problem or a Canon driver problem??????? Upon first instance of error, I uninstalled the Canon software and drivers and purge anything left in the...

Hi! Testing windows 7 build 7048 x86 on Lenovo R500 laptop. After installation on clean windows after setup soundcard E-MU 1616m CardBus(PCMCIA) drivers there are BSOD. after many tests it won't work (i am try to reinstall it, update chipset drivers, ....) On build 7022 everything ok. Drivers...

Alright so I get sound and drivers for the card installs just fine. I install the software the CD has on it like graphics equalizers,EAX settings and all kinds of other sound adjustment stuff. Everything seems to be fine for a few days but after awhile I get error pop ups that say (The audio...

Hi guys After testing different Windows OS'es -- I still have to say that Windows XP PRO 64 Bit edition with SP2 stiill rules the roost in speed etc by quite a large margin. Using asus P5QL -CM Mobo with 8GB RAM and Intel Quad Q9400 2.66 GHZ. Using built in video driver (Intel G45 / G43...

Hi All, Here's the issue: after upgrading from 2.5gb of RAM to 4GB, Windows 7 (x86) bombs: BSOD style. I make it to the "starting Windows" screen, minus the cool animation. DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_NOT_EQUAL STOP 0X000000D1 (0XFFFFFFFE, 0X000000FF, 0X00000001) The hardware: DDR2 PC2-5300 2gb...

Further to my ongoing problems, windows 7 is proving to be a complete and utter waste of time. first probelm, is the mouse/cursor responds incredibly erraticly and stutters all over the screen, despite downloading windows 7 beta drivers from microsoft, likewise for the keyboard, hich is...

I recently installed Windows 7 onto my PC at home.. It seemed to install ok but shortly after startup it blue screens, dumping the memory and restarting the computer. Originally I thought this could be a problem with my HD, I had to use Partition Magic in order to dual boot XP and 7 and I...

Hi Everyone, Has anyone successfully installed Windows 7 on a Dell Lattitude D800 with a Nvidia Geforce4 4200 card? Install of Windows 7 works fine with the standard VGA drivers but whenever I try and install the XP 4200 drivers from the Dell website, it causes these two things: The windows...

Specs: ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe Crossfire Ready AMD Athlon 64 X2 Duel Core 4200+ ATI Radeon X850 Crossfire Edition X2 2gb RAM 75gb Western Digital HDD Latest version of BIOS Only USB devices plugged is my mouse and keyboard I currently have Windows XP Pro, and I've been trying to do a clean...

I have two optical drives, a Sony CD-RW CRX320EE ATA CD-RW drive, and a Samsung (TSST) CDDVDW SH-223F DVD-RW drive. The Sony is a bit old, but the Samsung is brand-new. Both worked fine under Vista. Neither manufacturer supplies downloadable drivers for these, since they're plug and play, and...

1.) I have the Superdisk LS/120/240 (made by Matshita) external floppy drive that worked flawlessly with Windows Vista but is now not working with Windows 7. When I click on the yellow exclamation point to troubleshoot I am offered the button to apply the fix of reinstalling the device driver...

Hello, I'm running an Optiplex GX260 with Windows 7. The motherboard boots from the onboard gfx card and if set to auto choose won't boot. When I was running Windows 2000 this wasn't a big deal. The PCI gfx card still loaded with windows and I would just miss the boot screens. In Windows...