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Help! My father's home built computer (ASUS M4A78Plus Athlon IIx4 620) recently started BSODing and it is driving him nuts. I need help getting it stable again. Thaqnks

I have a home built tower running windows 7. I seem to always get a BSOD when trying to start the system. I tried to check to make sure all drivers were up to date and I think they are. I thought perhaps it was caused by a buildup of dust because I have so much air going through this think...

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

Is my CPU going bad? Startup error: "Warning! CPU has been changed. Please re-enter CPU settings." It is HomeBuilt, 6years old. ABIT AN8 mobo; Phoenix-Award Bios v6.00PG; Athlon 64 3500+; 4 Gig. Corsair XMS, 400 speed; CoolerMaster 650W PSU; Windows 7 home prem. on 200 Gig Sata HD. I like to...

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...

This is my 3rd Home built, 1st time with BSOD issues. On my 4th reinstall of Win 7. All new hardware. Minidump analysis and Performance Report attached. To isolate the problem, I have only loaded the video driver,(no apps, no data) and still get BSOD's indicating a ntkrnlmp.exe cause. (Not...

I will first say I read the similar threads and none of them applied. Secondly, this is a home build that is nearly a year old with no issues to this point so it's not connected to so-and-so who released a driver update that I know of. I want to say 2 days ago, my computer has decided to fail...

Computer will BSOD while gaming for a couple hours. Have to hold the power button to shut off. After reboot computer will not immediately recognize the Hard Drive. This is a brand new home built compter worked spot on for the 1st 6 hours then would happen roughly every 2 hours. Thanks...

Hi pepz Hope you can help me. I just very recently installed windows 7 on a freshly homebuilt machine. everything was runing fine until a few days ago, when the computer wouldn shut down properly, due to some stupid spyware called win32.spynet.a, i got it after tinkering alittle with the reg...

I have a home built computer intell core 2 duo 2.93 ghz, 2gig ram with windows 7 ultimate. My nework card is a Netgear WG311T. I have been having a lilttle of a connection issue. I use my wireless card and my internet just cuts out. It is only this computer and when it happens, i look down...

I started getting BSOD a couple of weeks ago while my kids were playing jumpstart.com. It now comes randomly and always after the computer has been running for a while. I have Avast antivirus, AMD Athlon 64 processor 3500+ 2.21 GHZ and 3.0 ram but I don't know the make. The computer is home...

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...

So I built a new computer and am running Windows 7 Ultimate (32bit) and have been plagued by problems since day 1. First, I have updated all drivers for all hardware (motherboard, video card, etc.), and have run memtest on both sticks of memory both together and separately (no errors after 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...

Hello Windows 7 Forum, I have just installed Windows 7 64 Bit on a home build system, everything went ok apart from (and after more than a week of trying) wirelessly connecting to the internet. I have tried a: Belkin 7050uk usb adapter Linksys WUSB600N usb adapter Netgear WN111 usb...

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...