hardware upgrade

Hi, this is regarding my son's pc. He has a problem with it sticking like the cpu is at 100% & everything sticks for a second n then continues for a few n sticks again. I originally thought it was the Q6600 CPU so i upgraded him with a Q9650 CPU but it still happens. When he is playing games in...

My boss does a lot of DJ work so he has a lot of music. He uses AudioComparer to find duplicates of his music and deletes them. He upgraded his HP Compaq DC7800p running XP Pro 32bit from a Core 2 Duo E8600 to a Core 2 Quad Q6600. He ran the AudioComparer program and it only uses one of the...

Preface: I'm building my own computer from scratch after having headaches with my current one (a Dell) for about 4 years. Seeing since it's come from Dell, they've saved me the pain of installing Windows 7 myself, and have also handily provided me with a sticker that displays Proof of License...

Hi, My old laptop (HP Pavilion dv9500) currently has Windows Vista 32-bit, and I have been using it for a couple of years. I recently upgraded the hardware to be ready for the Windows 7 installation, which I will do soon, and now it has 4gb, one 750gb 7200rpm HDD, one 250gb 5400 HDD, and an...

Hey guys, Having issues with my newly installed AMD A6-3670k apu. I randomly get the screen freezing and then goes black or sometimes goes to the blue screen... to which i get a error message: "display driver stopped responding and has recovered" What i have tried so far... - Updated the...

After I upgraded my graphics card driver, my PC got a blue screen with a sad face. It continually would load up, show a blue screen, shut down. This process continued (while I was attempting to troubleshoot) until it finally said, "Missing operating system" and it's been hanging there ever...

Hi, I swapped out the MB, CPU and memory in my rig. I did not reinstall windows 7. I was pretty impressed that this worked as well as it did but I have one nagging problem... The network upload speed has suffered a lot. It's not just throughput but the initial "connecting" handshake seems to...

Hey guys, I currently have Microsoft Windows 7 Professional 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601 installed and I have to reinstall Win7 due to a dying hard drive. Because of this I plan on buying some new RAM and a new hard drive (an SSD if it matters.) My only concern is that I would be forced...

Hello all This is my first post in here. Please bear over with my English – it is not my native language. My problem is on a Media Centre machine where I recently upgraded Motherboard and processor. I have the following setup on the machine: MB: Asus P8H77-MLE CPU: Intel i3 2120 2x2 GB...

I have recently upgraded my Aces Aspires RAM and then realized that the additional RAM will only work in Win7 64-Bit This I went out and bought Win7 64Bit and installed it, before the install my PC was working just fine, but after the install I have run into a whole host of issues. 1. My LAN...

I own a dell demension 4600 also i have upgraded the ram to 4 gigs, the cpu to 3.02, a nvidia geForce 6200 agp graphics card, i know i will be needing a sound card, what would you recommend. What i am looking to do is install windows 7 home premium. I seem to have all of the necessary...

windows 7 oem. new parts in old box, mb, hdd, power supply, ram, running windows dvd boot from dvd. install halts on expanding files at 1-2% and requests the dvd that is already in the drive and will not recognize it. further twisting gets me 0003 and 0022 error codes which suggest upgrade...

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Random BSOD + System Hangs Even After 3 reinstalls I should probably start off with the history of all this. I built the computer myself in February of this year. I accidentally installed x86 version and it ran perfectly fine. Since I didnt really care at the time, I just left it. Then in May...

So I bought win7 and got two links for 32-bit and 64-bit win7 installations. I downloaded the 32-bit version, installed it and activated, but now after two years I'm migrating to new hardware and I want to know proper procedure to successfully migrate windows activation key from one machine to...

This forty minute video demonstration examines the impact of solid state hard drives on various laptops, new and old. A Dell XPS 15z and Dell XPS M1330 are compared through boot tests, benchmarks, and actual gaming experiences. A solution to a problem with SSD installations and Sandy Bridge...

I have a Lenovo K320 desktop. Came out of the box with: Intel® Core™ i7-870 Processor ( 2.93GHz 1333MHz 8MB ) ATI Radeon HD5570 8 GB PC3-10600 DDR3 SDRAM 1333MHz 1TB 7200 280W Power Supply I wanted to beef up my gaming so I got a new GFX card which required a new power supply. I...

Hello, everyone. I've been having a lot of trouble with my computer this past week because of blue screens during my gaming. I've been mostly playing SC2 and Heroes of Newerth, so crashing a bunch of times is not only annoying but it hurts my record as well. I just recently purchased an ATI...

So, my desktop crashed and I had to reformat it. I decided that it was time to upgrade to 7 from XP. However, when I installed it I lost all my drivers (Network Driver included.) My question is; what driver do I need to install and where can I find it? I have tried a few and none seem to work...

I have recently upgraded my complete system hardware and cannot seem to load Windows 7. The setup begins and loads the windows files and then when it gets to the screen 'Starting Windows', the hard drive and the DVD ROM lights stop blinking and the installation just freezes. I tried to boot my...