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I have changed my HTPC from a tower to the HTPC case. New everything except the Ceton InfiniTV 4 PCI card/cable card.
Have identical Windows 7/64 Pro systems. Tried to copy all the power / sleep settings.
New HTPC system will not sleep when it should. It is set to sleep after 10 minutes...
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My company has about 10 new HP 2570p laptops. These have 128GB SSD.
I have set up two of these laptops in audit mode with all drivers, updates and software configured. I then went to sysprep, selected OOBE - generalise and shutdown.
The first laptop gave me a BSOD preventing Windows...
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I've a friend with a dead win7 system. She was working fine until the disk drive started spinning for a long period while system was idle. So she turned it off and now can't boot, no fan activity, etc. I've two similar machines, one intel-based and one with an amd processor. I plan to go...
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I have a brand new HP Envy dv6 with windows 8 on it from the factor. I have some software that is only available in Windows 7 with upgrade to windows 8 versions 6 to 12 months off. I figured no big deal, I've done dual boots before.
Well it's different now. I made a partition, formatted it...
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Secure Boot in Windows 8 prevents malware on systems. But, you are require to use UEFI machines to have Secure Boot.
Microsoft made improvements in Windows 8 with UEFI based machines.
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PS: This is one big reason why I was happy to go to a UEFI M/B &...
I was running Windows 7 for a long time with no problem. It would sleep and wake up just fine. One day, it would not go to sleep any more. I never got to fix it before upgrading to Windows 8.
After upgrading, the system still would not go to sleep. I did some research and basically found...
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I made the mistake of installing an OS on my desktop from a
Reinstallation disk that came with my Dell laptop. It actually
worked okay until I installed a Wireless PCI express adapter.
Things became unresponsive within a few hours of that and now
it will not boot, even in safe...
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BSOD or black screen when it left sleep mode.
My investigations :
-The system resumes from sleep mode perfectly if I remove the MSI GTX660 twin frozr 3 and use the integrated Intel HD2500.
-memory pass the memtest86 (several passes) with XMP profile 1 settings
-with the GTX660...
I have been trying to connect my new Dell XPS 8500 desktop to the Verizon Mifi 4Glte, but with no results. I installed the Mifi software disc program on the new Dell but with no results. So I uninstalled it, since my HP Elitebook 8460p doesn't use the Verizon software. But the Dell still won't...
I have a Dell Latitude D630 and Windows 8. The generic Windows sound driver made the sound for the laptop run, but not with the docking station. I installed the Sigmatel drivers for Windows Vista 32bit. They also worked for me on Windows 7. First, they didn't wanna install, but then I made a...
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I have a laptop (Asus K55D) with two OS, Windows 8 and 7, operating through a KVM switch (trendnet tk-409). It is also connected to a Linux machine. Linux machine works fine. When booting the laptop, the Bios and the boot selection work fine too, and so does Windows 8 when booted. But when...
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I recently installed windows 7 onto my computer. My computer's Mobo was built for windows xp but i had added onto it with a new gpu and 2 gigs of ram. I bought windows 7 home premium 32bit and installed it perfectly. But whenever i try to play a game or watch videos i get the following error/s...
I have been getting a BSOD every couple days. The error is a system_service_exception with stop code 3b. (STOP: 0x0000003b (0x00000000C0000005, 0xFFFFF9600010D010, 0XFFFFF88E011B40, 0x000000000000)
To explain further, I have had this exact same error on TWO different computers, one of them...
I try to add a second internal SATA 6 hard drive to my computer. On restart, Windows 8 gives a message "Preparing for Repair" and after few seconds it restarts computer and again the same message and continues to restart.
This SATA was already working smoothly with Windows 7 and Windows 8 RP...
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Hello! Just joined the community and I thank everyone in advance for any help with this matter.
First let me give a little background of where I am today that might help diagnose this issue.
Brand new computer, upon installing Windows 7 could not boot into windows due to missing file errors...
So, I have an issue I'm trying to figure right now. I just recently bought a USB Headset for clearer recording of my voice when talking to others. However, I'm often using two computers: my main Desktop with Windows 7, and my Laptop with Windows Vista. Often, I'll play a game on my Windows 7...
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It's all about my friend's PC and it has the following configuration:
MB: Asus P5B-E
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6420
RAM: 2X Kingmax 512MB DDR2 667MHz => 1GB
VGA: Nvidia GeForce 7300le
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x86
The first thing i want to do is to buy a new single RAM...
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About 1 day ago i wanted to install windows 8 beta, after a couple restarts, everything working fine, windows 8 begins installing, i wait a while and it finally reaches 100%, and then the computer restarts, this time its different, it first starts at:
PNY Geforce GTS 450...
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I have a gigabyte p4m900-m4 motherboard in my custom built computer. I have recently been trying to use the output on the built in sound card to supply my subwoofer. I used to be able to do this a few years ago without a problem. But now that I am running windows 7 I do not seem to be able to...