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    Windows 7 BSOD on Startup, even in Safe Mode

    Title says it all: Today my computer BSOD'd as I loaded up a couple websites on Chrome (I opened Chrome immediately on startup). Thinking that it could be due to the latest ATI Beta drivers I just installed, I restarted into Safe Mode, and did a System Restore to a point before the Beta driver...
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    Windows 7 Compound BSOD issue after coolant leak

    I had an all-in-one liquid cpu cooler leak coolant all over my PC last week, luckily it shut down from overheating when there was no coolant left in the loop. I disassembled my PC, cleaned everything with alcohol and let it dry. Then i bought an air cooler and installed it. After installing the...
  3. Windows 7 PC Won't boot - Laptop OS onto a Desktop?

    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...
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    Windows 7 Hard drive failure - Win 7 Backup

    Hi Everyone, Lately, whenever I shutdown Win 7 and then restart my laptop (Toshiba A665) it fails to boot. HDD light stays on and sometimes fail to recognize HDD in BIOS. It eventually WILL boot. Now Win7 is say that the HDD has reported a failure, and tell me to avoid using the computer until...
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    Windows 7 BSOD all the time

    Hello i need some help im getting random bsod all the time and i dont know what to do i tried with backups and ram testing but it looks okay so i would like to ask what could be wrong
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    Windows 7 Computer will be running, but no accessibility via monitor.

    My computer functions like any other computer would, one key factor is I get no signal from my monitor. I just recently bought a new graphics card. And the monitor is fairly new, about a month or two old. I'm curious if my computer turns on but I get no signal from the monitor. If the power...
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    Windows 7 PC turns off without warning

    Hi, since about 1 month my PC turns randomly off. Sometimes after 10 hours, sometimes after 2. Mostly when in Idle or when i'm watching movies on a second Monitor (TV but it also crashes if it is unplugged so thats not the reason). Sometimes when i try to boot again it wont start except if i...
  8. Windows 7 Premonition of failing hdd

    I have 4 SATA hdd drives. One is a Seagate 1TB. Recently I have had a curious (to me at least) recurring symptom. My drives are split into partitions. Just one of the drives partitioned into three "drives" upon cold boot triggers the pop-up panels that appear when a removable drive has been...
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    Windows 7 0xa0000001 and Display driver AMD has stopped responding and has recovered

    Hi! I have two problems. The first is when I try to play games (for example Far Cry 3), the screen goes black, and when it come back, i get this error: But, sometimes randomly i get BSOD (stop:0xa0000001). It's so annoying, becase i got this problem when i have 8800GT GPU, and I changed this...
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    Windows 7 BSod, Now I have Boot Issues

    Hello, I will try to be as detailed about my problem as possible. While browsing using Chrome I received frequent recurring unresponsive warnings, followed by screen corruption/artifacting, followed by my first BSod (In 7). Attached to this post is a screenshot of the DMB File as detected by...
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    Windows 7 Couldn't boot up PC, replaced HD and now I could and now getting another error: 0x000000124 error

    My PC recently would not boot up. Even in repair it would freeze, reinstalling windows did not help and eventually anything I loaded whether repair, setup of windows or straight boot into the OS would result in a BSOD error. I replaced HD and was able to boot in finally and reinstall windows...
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    Windows 7 Standard VGA Adapter Driver issues

    My laptop (dell latitude e6520) just came back from having windows 7 reinstalled after the hard drive failed and all sorts of stuff is screwed up. My primary frustration is coming from the fact that my computer is not detecting anything that I plug into my HDMI port (I'm trying to hook it up to...
  13. Windows 7 Computer Freezes with Solid Red Screen. Error 124

    Computer Freezes with Solid Red Screen. Error 124 is what windows tells me. I had posted this on another forum, but nobody there has responded for several days now. So i'm gonna quote what i told them. Since this post, have replaced the Power Supply. I ordered a Corsair TX 850w V2. So a...
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    Windows 7 No Operating System Found message - SONY Vaio laptop - Windows 7

    Hello, I have a SONY Vaio laptop with Windows 7 OS. Last night while watching a [streaming] movie, something happened and the movie vanished and then I powered down the laptop. When I power-up, after a while I only get the message "No operating system found." Is there a virus which does this...
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    Windows 7 Crash dump every 12 hr

    for last 3 days, about every 12 to 15 hours my computer has a BSoD with a Crash Dump as the problem, once and a while i have had the Drive or RAM "failure and then recover", iv had these forever, which disrupts everything im doing for a few seconds and nothing else, but i dont care about that...
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    Windows 7 P.E. install ?

    Hi all, I own a copy of W7U, and when i boot get offered the option of; 1 : Earlier version of Windows 2 : Windows 7 3 : Recovery Console I would be very grateful if someone could tell me if i need to install a P.E. as it seems to me that i have this option in the recovery console? If i ever...
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    Windows 7 Random BSODs

    Hi all, I'm getting BSODs mostly caused by ntoskrnl.exe, for details see attached minidumps. First I was thinking it is caused by a new installed grapic card. But the BSOD once also occoured in Safe Mode when I was trying to remove the old graphic card driver. I tried Memcheck for 2-3 hours...
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    Windows 7 Comes up at randrom. I have dump file and stop codes

    Link Removed POWER_DRIVER_STATE_FAILURE STOP: 0X0000000000000003 0XFFFFFA80114F6060 0XFFFFF800046F53D8 0XFFFFFA8018D0E010 I have already ran the test from the start menu (that requires a restart) and it said hardware malfuntion detected, contact computer manufacturer. HP isn't really seeming...
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    Windows 7 BSOD when using Movie Maker or Cyberlink Power Director Dump file included

    ================================================== Dump File : 010912-21652-01.dmp Crash Time : 1/9/2012 8:11:33 PM Bug Check String : PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA Bug Check Code : 0x00000050 Parameter 1 : fffff880`0b1e196c Parameter 2 : 00000000`00000000 Parameter...
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    Windows 7 system image restore error 0x80042407

    I am trying to restore a bran new install of win 7 with a sytem image created previously before a hardware failure. The machine is a lenov think center Clean install installed and the image is about 70 gig It is house on a 1tb external drive The internal drive on the machine is 160gb I get to...