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    Windows 7 Troubleshooting Windows Installation Freezing Issues on Home Built System

    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...
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    • bartpe bios boot issues compatibility diagnostics driver support freezing hard drive hardware home built ide cable installation motherboard performance ram troubleshooting windows 7 windows vista windows xp
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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    Windows 7 Windows 7 wont detect external dvd rom

    Hey guys...newbie posting out of total desperation and needing help! I have posted in other forums with no luck... I bought a Samsung SH-D162D DVD Drive in a USB enclosure to connect to my Toshiba laptop via USB. I cannot get windows 7 to find it! When I plug in the USB cable the balloon...
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    • cable device manager disk management driver issues dvd drive energy settings external drive hardware issues ide cable installation issues laptop support local disk power cable registry samsung tech support toshiba troubleshooting usb windows 7
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows 7 Can I downgrade from 64-Bit to 32-Bit?

    Here are my system specs: Intel Core 2 Quad 8200 Gigabyte EP43-UD3L mobo 2GB DDR2 Corsair memory sticks WD 160 GB SATA HD EVGA GeForce GTX 285 1GB with GPU Apevia 680w PSU and P4 12v ATX adaptor for CPU Sony DVD Drive and CD ROM that are on the same IDE cable but jumpers might be wrong So...
    • Wyatt_Earp_Fan
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    • 32-bit 64-bit downgrade drivers evga firefox gigabyte graphics card hdd light ide cable installation intel internet explorer memory performance sata sluggish system specs web browsing
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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    Windows 7 Hard Drive light stays on as if still running something

    Here are my system specs: Intel Core 2 Quad 8200 Gigabyte EP43-UD3L mobo 2GB DDR2 Corsair memory sticks WD 160 GB SATA HD EVGA GeForce GTX 285 1GB with GPU Apevia 680w PSU and P4 12v ATX adaptor for CPU Sony DVD Drive and CD ROM that are on the same IDE cable but jumpers might be wrong...
    • Wyatt_Earp_Fan
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    • browser corsair cpu drivers evga gigabyte graphics card graphics driver hard drive hardware ide cable installation memory performance sata sluggish system specs troubleshooting update windows 7
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows 7 Promise Tech Ultra33 PCI RAID Controller

    I have a Promise Technoligy INC. Ultra 33 PCI card on my system. It holds 2 80gb WD HDDs. I have a 20gb and a 160gb hdd on one IDE Cable and a DVD Drive and a CD/DVD Burner on the other. So I need the card for the extra 160gb of space. My problem is, no drivers are available for it so I'm out a...
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    • access bios compatibility controller drivers files hardware hdd ide cable intel memory pci pentium promise raid storage system specs ultimate virtual memory windows 7
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Hardware

  6. Windows 7 LG DVD Drive not reading disks

    ok heres the thing, I recently ungraded my version of Windows 7, everything installed fine, and working great. I just recently wanted to install some drivers for my printer, so I put my disk in and my DVD drive does not recongnise it I checked my computer and I do not see a dvd, cd drive, so I...
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    • cd boot disk recognition driver issues dvd drive ide cable lg drive pc restart software installation troubleshooting windows 7
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Windows Hardware
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    Windows 7 Struggling to Install Windows 7 on Older Laptop: Boot Issues and Workarounds Needed

    I am trying to install Windows 7 on an older laptop, which does meet the minimum requirements. The problem is that the laptop cannot boot from DVD. I have tried a few things thus far, like: 1. Connected an external DVD drive via USB only to find that the laptop is not able to boot from USB...
    • chrisWC
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    • beta testing boot issues bootable usb disk image external drive fog server ide cable image deployment installation laptop old hardware operating system pxe boot recovery requirements testing environment troubleshooting ubuntu windows 7
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation