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Hi folks, I'm having real trouble diagnosing a persistent blue screen problem. It started about a year ago after upgrading from windows 7 to windows 10. I initially did an upgrade install but have since performed numerous clean installs of win 10. It is a home built system. One of many I have...

Sorry that the subject line is very descriptive. But I will try to explain everything. I have a home built system with a genuine intell cpu and a biostar P4m900-m4 motherboard. I have 2 gigs of ram in there but not sure what brand or anything right now. I can find out if the info is needed...

man i have been having all sorts of BSOD lately i have never had this before can someone help me please im about to shot my computer its a home built it was worked fine for years up until about a month or so ago i have rum memtest and mem checks out fine i reinstalled windows still hasnt...

I have a 2 year-old home-built computer with OEM Windows 7 Pro installed. A few days ago, Windows 7 randomly decided that I "do not have access rights to Logical Disk Manager," even though I had used it just a few minutes earlier. I've tried to restore access rights to Disk Manager, but my...

I have a home built system Windows 7 64 bit. When the system is booted I get a little pop up box saying Reminder App has stopped working. After a second it goes away. It also pops up when Scrap Book Factory is opened. I have tried to find a way to stop it. Help please.

I have a home-built system with a Gigabyte MA74GM-S2 M/B & 2gb memory. My C: drive or drive #1is connected with an ATA and I have a second SATA drive # 0 H/D . My questionis since my Win 7 O/S is installed on the ATA drive can I designate the SATAdrive for the O/S? Thanks, Bob

Hello, I have a home built system, my second in a few years. I'm running windows 7 prof. 64bit. I will include CPU-Z info below to help identifiy my system specs. It first happened a few days ago while watching a video from e-mail attachment. It seem to happen while watching youtube videos and...

Tale of 2 Computers Dell Dimension 4700 Pentium 4 4gb Ram Windows 7 Home Premium 32-Bit. Boot Time: Power on to Starting Windows Screen 8 seconds Power on to up and running 38 seconds Home Built System ASUS P7H55D-M EVO Motherboard Intel i5-750 CPU 4gb G-SKILL Ram...

On some newer systems (even home built), the function key message for entering Setup (or any other message) disappears before you get a chance to read it and some monitors are slow to display text when powering up the system, so you may have to reboot to read it again. So, during the boot...

I started a new thread as requested. Since my original post below I updated my NIC driver but when I booted the system for the first time this morning it crashed again; next boot was fine. This makes the last 3 days where the PC only crashes on the 1st boot of the day... yesterday it ran for 10...

I see numerous CD/DVD threads here and mine is similar but somewhat different from any of the others, so I will start an additional thread. I have a home built computer with a Biostar 945GZ Micro 775 Motherboard (Intel 945GZ an ICH7/R chipset), Pentium D 830 3GHz Processor, 2 GB ram, 250 GB...

I like win7's power management compare to Windows Vista. When I left the computer idle for a while the system gone to sleep. My question is I have 2 External Hard Drive one USB and the other SATA the USB does not have power switch but the SATA has power switch. The USB brand is SEAGATE but...

I have 32 bit Vista on my home built computer but I think it can handle a 64 bit Windows 7. Yet when I tried to install 64 bit Windows 7 it would not allow me to (at first, anyway, unless there is a trick). The installation program checks what OS you currently have rather than the hardware...

The desktop window manager won't load at startup, or by manual initialization. This problem started on the first system restart after I installed Asus Smartdoctor and AMD Overdrive. I installed a new asus ATI Radeon HD4890 (and a new power supply) last week, as well as new drivers, but there had...

Windows 7 does not recognize drives on install Hi, I am trying to do a clean install from XP to Windows 7 on a home built system with a ASROCK AliveNF6P-VSTA Mother board, Athlon 64 6000 X2 AM2 CPU, 2 Mg Ram and a SATA hard drive. When I try to install Windows 7, it get to the install start up...

I have attempted to install Windows Home Pro 64 bit many times with the hangs and other problems mentioned in other threads. Now I have finally succeeded but on rebooting after install there is no taskbar or mouse pointer and I can do nothing. However, I can start in safe mode with networking...