hardware issues

Does anybody think that the life of Windows 7 will be extended like XP was? I had blood work yesterday and the hospital is just now switching from XP to Windows 7. Given the cool reception and now hardware problems with Windows 8.1 does anybody see major pressure from businesses about changing...

Good afternoon, I have a real delimna. I am running windows 7 on a new cpu. I also have loaded microsofts flight simulator x gold edition 2008, I also have a Samsung mega phone and have added a Radeon x1300 256mb vid card and I have moviemaker on the cpu also for my canon xl1s camera which uses...

I have been monitoring the temperatures using Speccy, all very reasonable (CPU 30-35C, Mobo 28-35C) How can I check what is causing this problem? Does it report the error codes somewhere that caused the shut down? The CPU fan has been having a problem where every 10 minutes it spins up to...

Hi, I thought this will be the best place to get working solutions I tried 2 different Copies of Win 7 ultimate 64 bit on my system (view my profile for system hardware) and both take about 10 seconds in black screen the it shows my user account I write my password then enter It takes about 3...

i have a dell inspiron m5030 laptop. when i boot it up, there's a blank screen, and beeps. 7 beeps to be exact, indicating that there's motherboard failure. i read a fix on dell's website, quoted as follows: i did this fix, and it worked! but now everytime i shut down my laptop afterwards, i...

I ran a test on the PSU on my Lenovo Think Centre M52 8215 which won't power up any longer. It seems that while the ATX plug tests good, none of the others do. I would just assume that means that the PSU is bad, but what throws me is that I would have thought that at least the case fans would...

Getting a number of blue screens on new build including SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION and PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA and DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL and SPECIAL_POOL_DETECTED_MEMORY_CORRUPTION. PLEASE HELP!! System Specs I7 cpu GTX Geforce 770 gpu 16 gigs of ram gigabyte Z87X-UD3H...

When attempting to burn ISO files from Windows Explorer, Windows Disc Image Burner takes an extremely long time to do anything then errors out saying: The disc image didn't burn successfully because an error occurred. (Error code: 0x8007045D) I have attempted to use Imgburn but it will not...

When I got to the Device Manager>Processors in my old Windows 7 installation, all 6 cores of my CPU have ! Marks on them, and the Properties of each has this statement listed: "A driver (service) for this device has been disabled. An alternate driver may be providing this functionality. (Code...

I've recently had to restore my PC (W7) to "factory settings" (i.e. wipe the hard drive reload W7 and reinstall everything). It seems that there was some update of a driver or maybe windows update that is causing the system to malfunction. I run 6 screens and I have read that the NVIDIA card...

OK I have been having problems trying to get a client's computer fixed. It is an HP TouchSmart 300-1223 which is an all-in-one. First it was viruses. I got rid of 54 of them. Then the hard drive was bad. Just swapped it out and put a brand new install of Windows7 64-bit Home Premium...

One of my optical drives began having problems seeing discs, either for reading or writing. I figured that it was due to the fact that it had been quite a while since I cleaned it. Therefore I dug out my Philips Cleaner disc, which is actually no more than a disc with a couple of very small...

Hey guys Ive been experiencing for about a month now computer slow downs and random blue screens whether im browsing the internet, listening to music, playing a game anything really i open an app or a webpage and my audio goes all glitchy as well really confused as I haven't come across this...

Hi, Recently I have been having some strange problems with my PC. I first noticed that I was unable to wake it properly from sleep mode. When I click the mouse the tower powers on, though it doesn't seem to send any output to the monitor and anything plugged into the USB sockets does not power...

Hi, I recently had a new computer built (completely new to the process) and started it up. It was running just fine, for 15-20 minutes, but then I started getting repeated BSOD error messages with minimal activity. Seeing as how the computer is brand new I've only installed a video card driver...

Hold onto your butts. Yesterday my old computer's hard disk died. Finally fed up with dell, figured I'd worked with computers long enough to just build my own. Went to Fry's, got these for a new computer- 8gb DDR3 1600 DUAL ANTEC EA 650 Green 650w ATX PSU ASUS PCE-N15 PCI-E wireless...

I get Windows 7 rebooting on its own under the following condition: I power off the monitor and sometime later when I power it back on, I see that I am at the logon screen. If I never power off the monitor, Windows does not reboot on its own. I did change the power supply. sfc finds nothing...

I'm trying to create a system image on an external hard drive using the Win7 software (i.e. STart>Control Panel>System and Security> Backup and Restore). I understand that the external HD must be connected directly to the computer so I disconnect the internet and connect the HD (using a...

comp has been running flawlessly for over a year. last night around 12am i started it up from sleep and it started crashing with BSODs, same one every time. when rummaging through the MEMORY.DMP file and it pointed to CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT_8_PROC: FAULTING_MODULE: fffff8000325d000 nt...

Hi, I had some hardware issues before and it turns out to be a hard drive problem. So I replaced the broken hard drive with a new one, and reinstalled windows 7. But I have had repeated BSOD problems after that. attached all the information here. Your help will greatly be appreciated. Thank...