hardware issues

Hi, A windows 7 machine does the following: There is 16 GB of physical memory in the computer. I put it in my self a few months ago. If you right click on the properties of "This Computer" you will actually see that there is 16 GB. But if you go through the task manager you will see that there...

So, I have an HP laptop, I'm not sure which kind, and it has Windows 8.1 Installed on it. When I start it up, it shows me the HP logo, and under that it says Preparing Automatic Repair. After about 30 seconds, it shows a blue screen saying Error Code: 0xc0000185 and says Recovery didn't work or...

Hello all, I have a Dell Inspiron 17 3721 which I recently purchased in an auction from Ebay. It came with Windows 8. The problem I'm facing with this laptop is that the computer works fine for the first 5minutes and then afterwards, the touchpad doesn't get clicked on any icon or a windows and...

Hello all ! I've exactly the same problems than : http://windowsforum.com/threads/need-help-bsod-caused-by-amd-radeon-r9-290-series.191692/page-1 , i tried the same test , i got the same results... My hardware : CPU : FX 8350 GPU : Sapphire R9 290X RAM : 2x4GB DDR3 MB: Asus M5A78L/USB3 PSU ...

This is a fresh install of Ultimate on a newly built Computer. Asus Z97, 16 Gig, Asus 240 Gig SSD, Seagate 2 TByte HD, Asus Ge Force GT-640 running 3 Samsung monitors. Win Experience Index of 7.1. 9 out of 10 times the system wakes up just fine. Every 10th time or so, the system seems to be...

I downloaded and used the Boot Repair Disc on source forge.net It installed and I was told to remove the disc and close the tray before running a restart. I clicked OK it shutdown fine. But on restart it was just like after quite a few Windows Updates after restarting a dark grey/black blank...

about half way through running windows experience index the screen gets a bunch of horizontal tears then blacks out and wakes up to a blue screen with a bunch of stuff on it about what happened but it rights it's self before any of it can be read. then when i get back to the desk top I get...

My bluetooth icon for my USB bluetooth is dissappeared from the taskbar and the driver is not reinstalling. There is a ! besides the driver name on Device Manager. A message coming out saying 'The device is not available' when i try to send a file. The same happens with all the USB bluetooth...

Hey Guys, I just bought a Haugpauge USB-Live2 Analog Video Digitizer, and use a Canon camera, using as web cam. I have tried ArcSoft,Debut Software, Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas Capture And Oovoo. When USB-Live2 is hooked up, it worked for a little while on ArchSoft and now it doesn't...

Does anyone know, or know where I can find, the load sequence for booting Win 7 in safe mode? I had a computer crash in an odd way. Even restoring a good system image didn't fix it. I was able to start a boot in safe mode, but it gets to a certain device driver and hangs. I'm trying to find...

Hi all, I've noticed that there are 3 unknown devices under Device Manager, however, all of components of laptop working perfectly. In example, there are 1 Bluetooth device which could not identified by windows, but I can use bluetooth with no bother. You can find unknown devices in below...

I've built this computer within the last month, though in the past couple weeks I've been getting weird BSoD errors that have recently been getting more frequent. Yesterday and today I've been getting BSoDs with error code 7a, and I'm thinking that it's a problem with the SSD's flash memory...

Greetings, Unfortunately BSOD is terrorizing my Girlfriend's PC and I'm running out of ideas on how to fix it. This is why I need your help. According to the sticky I'm attaching all the files needed. The restarts are happening randomly. At first I thought it was the power supply (600W...

Hi My liquid cooling system is leaking. I got the message when a blue screen opened up and said that there was a problems and my computer was shutting down. When I booted backup I was forced into setup where I got another message saying that my CPU had exceeded 90C and had shut down to...

So here's my problem. Sometimes when I'm using the computer the peripherals I have plugged into any USB 2.0 slots freeze up and the ports seem to not work with anything. The USB 3.0 slots work fine even when the USB 2.0 don't, and the mouse and keyboard work fine in the 3.0 slots, so it's not...

Hello, i have problems with random bluescreens. Prime95 and memtest86+ show no errors. I recently got a new videocard, ssd and an extern storage device. The recent bluescreens are caused by ntoskrnl.exe and i don't know why. I hope you can help. Infos about it are attached. Thanks.

Hi, I have replaced an IDE HDD with a cloned SDD on an XP SP3 (Asus motherboard) PC. The PC boots up off SDD ok after the error message "IDE HDD master not found press F1" and pressing F1. I'm trying to get rid of this error message. The Bios setup thinks the IDE is still in the PC even thought...

I was on my laptop the other day and everything was running fine, I was doing some work but got stressed so hit around the middle of my keyboard, not too hard. But it made it crash. It froze the screen but things were still happening on it, so I turned it off and went to turn it back on. I...

I've recently installed a second DVD drive, and it's not appearing when I open File Explorer. I see it listed in Device Manager, Disk Management, when I click on My Computer, and the drive works fine. Everything is fine except for its absence from File Explorer. Any ideas as to how to add it to...

The drive in my HTPC failed and I'm going to RMA it. Nothing unusual about that, but with this one I can't find a way to access it for data erasure prior to shipping, and that bothers me. The system partition doesn't contain anything too sensitive...that I remember, but it does have additional...