hardware setup

i can't figure this out it's driving me NUTS my pc keep turning itself on randomly from a complete turn off!! it also turns on whenever i press something on the keyboard setup: asrock h97m pro4 ddr3 12gb 2tb ssd gtx 1060 i5 4690 fast start up is off. there are no devices allowed...

My Audio Technica 2020 USB Mic is causing my video player to play videos in reverse, and in like hyper speed. It does it on every video player on my pc, vlc, movie player, it doesnt matter. It also causes me sometimes to not be able to highlight and copy text on applications such as discord...

I am new to the forum and to servers in general, so please excuse my ignorance. I have built a couple of home servers using WHS 2011 and Windows Server 2016 Essentials using the skip domain script, but none requiring CALs. I want to build a new home server using a quad socket xeon E-5 4600 10...

I've had this problem for years, and I can't seem to fix it myself, so i've decided to seek your expert help. I've attached the required files as per the sticky. I always get a BSOD with the ati graphics driver as the culprit, however I used to have a nvidia card in this same setup, and the...

Issue: Graphics card appears to be only outputting signal to DVI-D connection but not to DVI-I for dual DVI monitor setup. (see more info below) Setup hardware: Graphics card: EVGA GEFORCE GTX 950 SC 2GB - card has one DVI-I and one DVI-D connection KVM Switch: Tripp-Lite 2 DVI port dual...

HI Everyone, I saw the other threads on this, but they seem to be a bit different than my own issue as my PC isn't a laptop. It's a machine I put together a few years back. I installed Win 7 (64-bit) on it at the time and everything was fine for a long time. I upgraded to Win10 several month...

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As you know Intel core i* CPUs contains a full graphic GPU which allows driving a monitor without additional graphic card hardware. But what if I explicitely want to use an additional graphic card (e.g. because it is faster or can handle higher resolutions like 4K). Does core i* CPU resp. the...

Hello everyone, Let me start with the hardware: 1. my machine is a Getac B300 with a Windows XP Professional 32-bit/Windows 7 Professional 64-bit dual boot. 2. My wife's machine is a Toshiba U500 with Windows 7 Professioanl 64-bit. Normally, I use the U500 as a hub: I connect it to the...

Hey, New here, had this problem for quite a while (been using win7 for over a year with this hardware setup.) Well so basically, a few weeks after a fresh install (reformat every 3-4 months usually just a personal preference), it starts to hang after logging in. It happens anywhere from 10-45...

Hey I have a usb to serial adapter for use with Cisco routers and switches. Everytime I plug it in, it seems to choose a random COM port. Is there any way to make that device always use the same COM port. OS: Windows 7 Ultimate Thanks

I have just taken delivery of a new PC and instead of configuring it as I needed: Drive C: 500GB Windows 7 Drive D: 500GB Blank Drive E: 1TB Blank, The supplier has installed Windows as: Drive C: 1TB Windows 7 Drive D: 500GB blank Drive E: 500GB blank Is there a way to remove Windows 7 from...

Hi, I just bought a Dell Latitude E6510 laptop and now I wonder how to set it up for internet access. I have a desktop PC and so I know that my connection is good. I tried just connecting it via the RJ45 socket on the PC, thinking it would configure itself once it sensed a live connection...

My build: Intel core i5 2500k ASUS P67P8 Pro MOBO F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL G.Skill 2x4gb CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1 So I put the computer together and attempted to install Windows 7 home premium 64. I got the same error over and over again than fixed it by changing ram positions and was able to install...

A newby here. Just installed a SiliconDust HDHomeRun Digital Tuner a week ago (Single Network). Using a digital ant. The pgm. finds a doz. or so channels w/ terrific pictures but no sound (sound is working via misc. 'net connections). Signal strength & quality are above suggested minimums and...

I have now built 3 machines using Win7 and I noticed an interesting problem: When installing on a machine that has more than one blank hard drive Win 7 seems to write some critical boot files to the second hard drive. I noticed that later if there are any issues with the second hard drive or it...

Alright , I had this problem previously, and fixed it both times eveuntully. My problem is this , I can't install my Windows Ultimate 64 bit edition on my RAID 0 Western Digital 500GB hdd's because on the boot screen my computer keeps telling me to "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert...

Ok, So I put together a new HTPC and purchased 4 2TB drives which gave me a total of 6 TB after setting them up as RAID 5. I created two volumes from that RAID, one is 2 TB and the other is 4TB. Windows 7 is currently installed on the 2TB volume, though it only occupies about 17Gb. I...

hi guys... i have vista sp2 OS installed(this prob is same in win7 too),on my dell studio 1737 laptop...it has 2 hdd options,my primary hdd is 320GB n secondary one is 500GB (purely for data,movies,songs). when i install OS,n in my computer it takes 500GBs hdd 1st drive as D drive.n then 320GBs...

Hi! I've got a ASUS P6T Deluxe V2 card and a fresh install of Win 7. I've got four 1Tb disks, one with the OS-install and three disks set to RAID 5. I just set BIOS to "use SATA disks as RAID", installed Win 7 on the first disk and then used the software that comes with the motherboard (Ctrl+I...