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In case someone has similar issues, hope this helps. I had 3 sound related issues on my laptop after the upgrade to win 10 from 7. - The volume was so low I could hardly hear anything. - The mute light was always on, f11 worked to mute and unmute. - Beats audio disappeared. My HP DV7-4065dx...

Lately my elderly dad's machine has been taking a really, really long time to get started, and everything runs slow for a good while after startup. This is on an HP Pavilion HPE, model h8-1114, which originally had Win7 on it but that he let update itself to Win10. What should I be looking...

Hello, I'm having a bsod issue with my PC that has been bugging me for a long while now. Apparently Ntoskrnl.exe continues to appear in all of my Bsod mini-dumps and is almost always paired with another exe or system file. This particular pair has shown up several times, And seems to happen...

Well the clock is ticking XP folks, less then a month for now XP will be unsupported and you will have to choose what to do. If you want to keep your old hardware thats fine, as these alternatives are good if you dont like the fancy new Windows 8 or 8.1. Just keep in mind no OS will ever fully...

i have an old pci graphics card and i don't know much about it. i tried to get it working a while back but could never find drivers. all i know is that it is an ati radeon card. stickers on the back : ATI radeon 7500 64m(pci) sn:wya2009090455 and v7500-p64 843636001634 i dont know...

I have motherboard ASUSTek P5G-MX Intel 945 chipset (Socket775), Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2180 2.00 GHz with 2GB RAM, 1 TB HDD. will w8 install and run on it? W8 is not even installing, preview didn't install, and now Windows 8 Enterprise Final Retail 32bit is not installing. I have tried...

Please help! When playing Java games, (or I assume it's Java because Minecraft is the only Java game I play and the only new process is java.exe,) the mouse and keyboard will turn off with no warning but a "bee-doo". This is very annoying, because this means I need to manually restart my...

Since I'm one of those guys who is obsessed with having all the latest and greatest drivers for my hardware devices, I had to share this recent experience I had while testing the Windows 8 Developers Preview. After getting the Dev Preview up and running in both Virtual Box and VMware Workstation...

I've searched various driver databases and of course Canon, for a driver for the SCANNER of my Canon ImageCLASS MP360. W7 had no problem in installing a driver for the printer but nothing seems to be available for the scanner (used quite a lot). So far I've had to keep and old XP machine just...

So here's the issue: Radeon X1550 256 MB PCI installs fine and shows up in the Device Manager, but when I right-Click on the desktop and click on "Screen Resolution", under the "Display" drop down menu, I ONLY get the "1. Generic PNP Monitor on Standard VGA Graphics Adapter" that is listed. The...

whats happening forum? i have a few questions first my system info: TOSHIBA SATELLITE 2405 BIOS: V1.20 PROCESSOR: INTEL(R) PENTIUM(R) 4 MOBILE CPU 1.60GHZ-1.6GHZ MEMORY: 512MB RAM it came with windows xp and over the years ive been using it with sp2 but then i started using windows 7 in my...

Hi all! I am looking for a Windows 7 64 bit, WMC compatible capture card that has S-video/Composite and Stereo Audio inputs. I am looking to set up an IPTV receiver in Windows Media Center. PCI-E is not an option as I am out of those slots. TV is not necessary - just a simple capture...

I'm sorry if this is a duplicate post, but honestly, I did Search for "Code 5" and found nothing. I have a HD on an eight year old desktop PC that had an early beta version of Win-7 on it. That old version has already expired. I wanted to boot up with my Windows 7 Ultimate DVD and just do an...

Hi, guys. I am trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit on a computer with an Intel Bad Axe 2 motherboard and brand new, never used Western Digital 2TB (WD20EARS) hard drive. Problem is, I am getting a ton of errors; when I set the hard drive up with RAID I get array errors (and I will be...

Hey so I have Windows 7 64bit and I'm trying to install a Driver that came with a product I bought and when I right click and click install it gives me an error that says it can't install the .inf file by this method... So I'm wondering if their is another way to install this driver without the...

...I have an AOC V19 monitor connected to a Dell Optiplex GX270 with Windows 7 installed. I tried to update the video card driver with the latest driver download but always get the message: "The best driver for your device is already installed. Windows has determined that the driver software...

Hey Guys )) A friend of mine is looking for a driver for his newly installed Win7 system (x32) The drivers we have work in XP SP3, but dont seem to want to work in Win7. The board is an MSI Neo2 875P LSR-FIS2R the drivers needed are for a "ADI SoundMax Drivers for ICH5" I was hoping one...

I have installed windows 7 from bootable USB on an old HDD(80 GB) segate and now tryin to install the same on new 500GB western digital and cannot complete sometimes it cannot configure the components and sometimes it cannot detect the ACPI.sys file after reboot... Please someone help..Is it the...

I have an Acer Veriton 7600G workstation which I am trying to upgrade with Win 7 In the main it is successful. but I have the known problems of the Ps2 mouse (trackball) and the integrated sound not working. The chipset is an Intel 865G (which they don't provide Win 7 support) and this I...

Hi all, Old laptop had XP. Died. (no, the issue is not the hard drive). Got a new laptop with Windows 7. Took out hard drive from old computer (Samsung model MP0804H, IDE PATA 80 Gigs), bought a generic enclosure (that operates of two USB ports for power and data). Upon plugging it in I get the...