hardware problem

Hi there guys. Can someone please try and get me out of this pickle. My windows 7 (32 bit) laptop won't start normally (only in safe mode). Repair can't fix it and I have no other recovery options. I've tried using the install disk but it only can repair/upgrade in normal boot up. The blue...

Since building my PC 2 days ago the clock has always been running way too fast, a minute on the clock passes in a couple of seconds. This affects all Windows uses, double clicking is impossible and animated images cycle way too fast. I have searched online and this seems to be a common problem...

My laptop will go to sleep BUT when I wake it up I get a backlight and fan, and that is it. To recover, I must disconnect power, pull the battery, replug all that and cold boot. It just started this about a week ago. Before that it worked just fine. A windows update may be responsible as I have...

Hello everyone, I have an Acer Aspire 3810 Timeline. Since the purchase, I have had no problems with the sound - however, Acer announced a recall on this and other machines to fix a malfunctioning microphone jack. I sent it to Acer, and received it back. Everything seemed fine, until I noticed...

I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit) on my workstation, previously running Windows XP professional. My problem is that it is extremely unstable; It randomly restarts - my screen goes black and then it restarts. I have installed Windows 7 twice - on the first install. I had gotten...

On three computers in the house out of 6, we have image trembling on the display. The problem is minor at times and horrendous at others. I have had this problem for a fair few months now on my desktop. I have also noticed the problem now on my laptop, and my brother's PC is showing the same...

When I plug a USB device in my computer shut down as though something is shorting out. Also got another problem when starting some software up the screen flickers for a while. Could anyone suggest what the prblem might be. Thanks Chris

I am running windows 7 pro 64bit My hardware is the following... Asus P5Q Motherboard Intel Core2Duo @3.0Ghz GeForce 9500GT graphics card So yesterday, I decided that I wanted to upgrade my ram, so I got 2 sets of 2x2GB ram from the local shop. I put both sets to use up all of the 4 DIMM...

Hi all, I believe this may be a hardware issue and not a software issue so im posting it here. I could be wrong though. I recently built a new computer and had loaded on Windows 7. Everything appeared to work fine until i had turned my system off for the night. Upon turning my system on the...

Hi, I have a Toshiba p205 s-6287 laptop. My OS is windows 7 home premium 64-bit. My card reader isn't working either with a direct plug-in to the reader or through the USB port with the adapter. I have a Sony Cyber Shot DSC 7 digital camera. I can attach the camera through the USB port and...

I have Windows 7 Ultimate. I at first had issues of my USB ports stopping to work. The mouse and keyboard all of a sudden would not work. I did some googling and found a post about how in Windows 7 is shuts the USB ports down or something to save battery (initially something laptops to save...

Hi there, I've just installed Windows7 and can't connect to the internet. the issues found are: "The Realtek RTL8168/8111 Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0) adaptor is experiencing driver or hardware related problems" "The "Local Area Connection" adaptor is experiencing...

I have an unusual situation. On a clean boot my ATI Remote Wonder works just fine, BUT alfter about 10 minutes, it stops working for some reason and without notice. It is like the transmitter just got pulled out of the USB. A reboot fixes the problem and again 10 minutes later, same thing. Any...

My screen goes black for a few seconds occasionally and returns to normal. Is this a monitor problem or a problem with windows 7 ? Garry

I installed Windows 7 on my PC and now my DVD-ROM drive doesnt work. It shows up in My Computer, device manager says it's working properly, everything seems normal until I put in a disk, then it locks up My Computer and it's impossible to access any files from it. Every time you try to open...

Hi, all. I have a peculiar problem here. I am using Windows 7 64-bit build 7100 and a Orange Micro 1394 Firewire + USB 2.0 card. This has an NEC 1394 chipset and an NEC USB 2.0 chipset. The card is found by the OS and shows up in the Device Manager. :cool: However, the very first time I...

Hello, I have a Gateway computer with an Optiarc DVD RW drive that works well most of the time BUT if i let my computer go to sleep an odd thing happens. When I power the computer back up from sleep, the drive starts revving up like its reading a disc, even when there is no disc inside, and it...

Hi all, hope you can help me out with this one: installed the 32bit version of Windows 7 RC (build 7100) since I did that my FN key functions are no longer working I downloaded the initial drivers again but that didn't help some of the drivers like SPIC wouldn't install ... Anybody of you...

hi, i just installed win7, and everything went allright, except my mouse doesnt work, it didnt work at any point of the installation neither now in my Win7 desktop. Looking in Hardware Administrator, i see theres a problem with it, i check it it says error Code 10. and something like the...

Okay so obviously I have a Toshiba X205-S7483 laptop, year and a half old. The problem I am having is that from time to time, sometimes much more frequent than others Windows 7 will temporarily freeze. The freezes vary from single programs to the entire computer hard locking. I have tried and...