hardware compatibility

After a Windows 7 Update of an optional hardware driver earlier this week I've been having Windows Genuine Validation problems. I did a System Restore to prior to the update installation and now I keep getting Windows Validation errors. When I run the WindowsActivationUpdate.exe I get the...

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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...

Hi, 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...

Hi, 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...

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...

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. Link Removed Cheers, Drew Link Removed 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...

SHORT VERSION: 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...

Hello, 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...

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...

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...

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...

Hi there, 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...

Hello this is CrazyKilla 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...