hardware issue

I have a 5 day old HP computer. E9220Y. I hooked up my 6mo old LG USB DVD Multi drive up to it and it workds fine. The only problem is, when I restart Windows, it hands right after the BIOS screen. It will not start. I worked for a while trying to figure out why. At first I thought a program I...

So I've been running Vista Business until today. My dvd drive has worked fine until I finished the Win7 Pro (32 bit) installation, and now my dvd drive is not listed in "my computer" or "device manager" at all. I installed windows 7, so of course it works outside of windows...and I can still...

:confused: Just bought a brand new Lenovo ThinkPad W500 with Windows 7 64 bit, found I couldn't adjust the screen brightness. When press the Fn key for adjustment, the sun logo for brightness will display on the screen, and the bars which show the brightness extent will increase or decrease...

So here's yet another addition to what seems to be an ever-growing list of drives behaving badly. I've got two DVD drives, neither of which are working properly in 7, the main one being a Lite On (Atapi DVD A DH16A3L) SATA drive. It's a DVD +/- RW Dual Layer that was working perfectly 2 hours...

Hello I formatted and installed Windows 7 home premium on my Samsung r 700 laptop (specification- Intel dual core t5550, 3 GB of RAM, 250 gig hard drive and the nvidia geforce 8400m gs graphics chipset) two weeks ago. The installation went without a problem and I managed to get all...

Hello, have been running windows 7 for awhile now, as of yesterday my dvd drive completely dissapeared. I followed a couple of suggestions online to do with deleting upper and lower key entries in the registry and it came back. It has now dissapeared again, I have repeated the steps from...

Additional information about the problem: BCCode: c4 BCP1: 00000033 BCP2: 00000002 BCP3: 84BEE090 BCP4: 00000000 OS Version: 6_0_6002 Service Pack: 2_0 Product: 768_1 SPECS: Vista 32 bit 4GB RAM, NVIDIA GeFORCE 9600M GT is up to date, 2 hd's both 100GB...

Hi Guys, Hopefully you can help me out with this, ive searched on Google and struggled to find anything that helps. I have a Sony Vaio VGN-Z31MN with Windows 7, it has a built in SD Card Reader but it doesnt seem to be working. This worked fine on Vista and XP but not on Windows 7. It...

I'm not sure if this is an OS problem or not - but 7 just suddenly stopped recognizing my external NIC card on my laptop. I was on a bus, and was perfectly able to use it to connect to a friend's laptop. I got off of the bus and walked 20 feet to my house. When I opened it up again, it would not...

After imaging my C drive running Windows XP, I did a clean install of Windows 7 to replace it. I have a Pioneer DVD writer and an HP CD writer, both connected to the motherboard (Asus P5B) through a JMicron JMB36X controller. When I boot Windows 7, only the hard drives (C and D) and the...

:( My Monitor Screen goes black for just a few seconds now and again and then retuns to normal. It does not do so on XP installed on the same computer different hard drive, What should I look for? I am afraid tha it may not return to normal one day. I have not seen this problem postet anywhere...

Hi All, I have a new system i have built but it keeps freezing into a black blue screen, i cannot call the task manager or see the cursor at all. It is not long after boot up, but doesn't seem to be at a certain time (ie its always very soon after start up but rather random, could be a...

Solved: Hibernation problem - cannot use computer Hello, for the first time I shut down my computer using hibernation and now the computer doesn't start anymore. When I press the power button, a password prompt comes up. (That's the password prompt I've set up in BIOS, not Windows) Keyboard and...

Mobo: Asus m4a78t-e (latest bios rev) Chipset: amd 790gx / sb750 cpu: AMD Phenom II x4 955 ram: OCZ Reaper 2gb x4 Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Video card(s) - BFG Tech nVidia GTX 280 pci-e --also tried two different 8800s. This mobo comes with onboard video ati 3300. Current win7 catalyst...

I have been running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit RTM happily for a few weeks now. All of a sudden my mmachine freaked out. I have an older USB flash memory card reader mounted in a 3.5" bay in the front of my computer. I have had no problems with it conected previously. The other day I needed to...

I'm having a weird issue that I hope someone can help me with. I am running build 7100 of Windows 7 64 Bit. Yesterday I upgraded my ram from 4gb to 6gb. Now Windows will just lock up solid. (No mouse, can't ALT-Tab-Delete) It just freezes. Everything was working with no issues at all until...

Good Evening! Have successfully tested the beta version of Windows 7 on a VM (VMware ESXi 4.0), I went ahead and installed the a new VM instance of the Windows 7 Enterprise Version RC. The VM has an 80 GB > 4GB of RAM and > Dual-Processors. The installation was successfully; however, I am now...

Every time my windows 7 awakens from sleep mode it's graphics change. I do not understand the reason for this. Here is a picture showing this problem. Any help would be appreciated... System Information Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate RTM Windows 7 Ultimate AMD Phenom 9650 Quuad-Core Processor...

Hi, My new laptop PC is a Dell Latitude E5400 and Windows 7 RC1 is detecting a "Ricoh R/RL/5C476(II) or Compatible CardBus Controller" under the PCMCIA Adapters heading in Device Manager however when I plug in my ExpressCard 34 sound card it does not seem to get any power (there are lights on...

hi i have installed windows 7 on my acer 4520 but problem is my dvd drive works for less than 12 hrs after installation i tried to reinstall many times but it is not working pc shows dvd drive mark but keeps on spinning dvd with out reading i tried to solve this problem through net but failed...