hardware problems

I'm sorry, I don't know whether this is a software problem, hardware problem, or a combination of problems. At least once every couple hours my computer will freeze for 60 seconds. The program I am using will be frozen, and I can switch to something else I'm running and it will work for a short...

Well, first off, I've been getting some Blue Screen about once a week now. I would try and fix it myself if I could even read what the file was. I took a picture the other day. Link Removed due to 404 Error My hand was not shaky or anything, this is how it appears to me. So I know its a...

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...

(Windows 7 64 bit) ok ive been reading thru what alot of people have been doing for the blue screen and all and i havnt seen anything like what ive been having problems with. i have gotten a blue screen three seperate times while one just being on the internet, and the other two times while...

My PC's been giving me a blue screen saying one of the below: MEMORY_MANAGEMENT IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL PFN_LIST_CORRUPT I originally had 2 1gig DDR2 sticks and replaced them when my computer kept freezing. When I replaced them with 2 2gig DDR2 sticks I would get one of the above 2 blue screens...

I recently purchased an External Hard Drive: The External HDD consists of: Western Digital 3.5" SATA II Caviar Green 1TB 7200RPM 32MB Link Removed - Invalid URL Welland 3.5" SATA To USB2.0/eSATA External Hard Drive Enclosure Link Removed - Invalid URL When I plugged into my laptop I...

i have read numerous posts on this forum regarding the problem with the failing display drivers. has anyone actually gotten past it? i'm seriously confused with this only being a aspiring computer dude, i love the look and feel of 7 but i just hate this unreliable display drivers. any...

I have 2 unknown drivers in my Device Manager.... and there are no Video drivers...so i am guessing its my video card thats missing drivers I have two pictures attached about the information I have a HP Pavilion Entertainment PC dv6-1030us 2.0 Ghz Core 2 Duo 64 bit...4 Gb Ram ask me...

ok here's my problem first i had a msi 8500gt nvidia grafic card, i had no s-video signal any more so i bought a new XFX gts 250 nvidia and it worked fine like it should. But the card was to loud for me and switched to asus 9800gt nividia grafic card and ..... no S-video or spdif! with the...

I've been having some problems lately. My computer has been randomly freezing sometimes when I play a game. It all started after I installed a second monitor so I think that has something to do with it. I have a GeForce 9600GT, 700 watt PSU, and I'm running Windows 7. My GPU runs at about 40...

I have two disk drives. One that uses SATA and an old IDE drive. I was only able to install Windows 7 via the SATA drive and had to disconect the IDE drive to even install. After installing; I hook my IDE drive back up. Windows will detect it, but the drive is unusable right now. Does anyone...

My XP installation went bad on my laptop, so I though if I was going to reinstall windows, I might as well use Windows 7 (i'm using it on my desktop already). My laptop would no longer boot due to a corrupted Windows file. I installed Windows 7 today. The install went fine, booted from CD...

Hi Everyone, System is completely up to date. I formated the HD and it will not read the recovery CD. I copied the recovery CD to a DVD and tried to boot from it. No good. Now what?

I've already read like 15 different threads around Google about this problem but none of them really sounded like my problem. What happens is that sometimes when I'm just using my computer, whether it be gaming or browsing the internet, it will restart randomly. Sometimes it will shut down...

I'm running Vista Home Basic 32 on a computer not even a year old. When I log in (Safe mode w/|w/o networking, and regular) it works for about 5-20 minutes then freezes. Windows installer doesn't work as I tried to install Kaspersky to check for viruses, it got to the install point and crashed...

I'm running Win 7, RC1 and it's great. However, my portable drives don't show up when I plug them in. I have an external Maxtor 250 that connects to the same computer via USB and it works fine. But the portables do not. One is a SimpleTech 120GB and the other is an Iomega 250GB. Both work fine...

Hello My laptop has 4GB RAM but HP ship it with Vista 32bit (Lame uh) so I installed Windows 7, everything seems to work except the LEDs at the touch bar aint change color. when you press the "mute sound" button it should turn red, but it stays at the same color, the sound get's muted. Anybody...

Hello all. After installing Windows 7 (first the Beta 1 build, and now the 7057 build), I've had a lot of trouble installing my card reader. Windows 7 will install a default driver, listing it as a "RealTek USB 2.0 Card Reader". It will not, however, take any of my SD cards. Have tried several...

rebuilt my pc about 4 months ago been running xp went ahead and installed windows u7 had its small problems but otherwise ok. Noticed recently it keeps going into sleep mofde where as it never did b4 and couldn't bring it out by just moving the mouse or hitting enter on the keyboard have to hit...

I have a philips spd 2413 DVD/CD drive burner This device shows in windows explorer and shows no problem in the device manager Unfortunatly the drive does not respond to auto play disks I also cannot explore the drive in windows explorer When trying to access the drive it tells me to insert a...