hardware issues

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...

Hey guys, I've been having some issues with BSoD's recently, and Microsoft Support told me it was hardware when it definately was not. I have the .dmp analyzed by WinDBG, so here it is: Microsoft (R) Windows Debugger Version 6.12.0002.633 AMD64 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights...

I get random BSOD`s when my Games and My internet is running. Here are the BCCodes i recieve: BCCode: 109 - (I have a suspicion my C: may be causing this) - happens 85% of the time BCCode: 24 - (This could be my network Card) - happens 10% of the time BCCode: 3b - (This could be caused by RAM)...

Have just installed Windows 7. The sound very bad, with clicks and lots of distortion. Moving volume up/down causes crackles. Soundblaster X-Fi on Gigabyte GA-M56s-S3 motherboard with the correct drivers, Windows updates and latest BIOS. I have kept XP on another drive and swap the boot drive...

I was minding my own business yesterday, playing a bit of WoW and suddenly my laptop gets a blue screen of death, first time ever. It's a relatively new laptop so i was a bit shocked. I tried to reboot but kept getting the 0xc00000e9 error, i looked up how to fix this and most sites said to let...

I'm thinking about getting some new RAM, not because I usually don't have enough, but occasionally for reasons unknown to me, RAM usage will spike and cause the system to freeze. It doesn't even have to hit 100%, because when it exceeds 80% it may freeze or at least cause things to become...

Hello This is my second post regarding this problem(first one: Link Removed) I have done everything mentioned in the first post and I keep receiving bsods, not as often anymore around 1 per every 2-3 weeks, when watching youtube videos on opera, the last bsod popped up the instance the video...

Hello! since i got windows 8 on my machine whenever i have connected another harddrive in the system the short freezes and hangups starts and is distorting sound and visuals of the operative system. My computer specs are: PSU 600 W 8 GB DDR3 RAM 1600 Mhz Intel Core i5 2500 (non K) 3.30 Ghz AMD...

Microsoft phone help and geek squad both didnt know what was wrong... computer goes through the initial 5 phases of installing windows and then states it will restart in 10 seconds and counts down and restarts... from here it restarts and I get a black screen with blinking cursor and once I...