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Built a new machine. ASRock N7AD-SLI e7400 powercooler 4770 video care 4g super talent ram 1 tb WD green dvd burner This was a brand new build with win7 64bit build 7100 installed from the beginning. Win7 runs perfectly except from time to time while playing atlantica online (a...

When I "sleep" my machine in S-3 mode; upon waking, WDM quits and reverts to Basic mode, losing my prefered window color setting. Only a full re-start wil fix it! When I set the BIOS to use S-1 suspend type, sleep/wake-up does not cause the problem - my window color setting is retained - however...

Hi, I am new to this forum, and am an ageing, enthusiastic IT amateur but a long, long way from being a professional, so please be gentle.:) I have two desk tops and an old Dell notebook that run fine on XP I recently bought a new Acer Aspire 4736 Notebook to replace the old Dell, and was...

connection xp to windows 7 times out ??? ----------------------------------------- I've multiple xp machines trying to connect to windows 7 from windows 7 i can connect to vita and xp no problems so far from the XP machines I can now see vista and XP machine I can access vista...

I have run multiple bandwidth tests after going to Windows 7 on two machines, one is 7100, the other is 7000. I get about 1.5Mb down and 500Kb up now, with nothing else using any resources on the network. With vista and xp I get 6Mbit down and 770ish Kbit up. My downloads in both IE and...

Hey guys, Trying to install W7 7000 (Beta) x64 on my older machine : AMD 64x2 4400+ (socket 939), Asus A8R32-MVP Deluxe, ATI X1900 XT 512 MB, 2 GB RAM, HD 250GB SATA2. Starting the installation, I see the two phases of 'Windows is loading files' (grey bars at the bottom of the screen). Then...

Hi! The install stops making progress at 85% expanding files. I left it for 45 minutes and it still made no progress although it is clearly not frozen as it responds to cancel commands etc. Tried formatting and making partitions again with no luck. Any suggestions would be appreciated! It is...

I've seen a few mentions here regarding Adobe AIR, so I thought I'd share my experience. In an attempt to install TweetDeck (a Twitter app), I ended up crashing my machine. Luckily, the startup repair corrected the issue. But after poking around a bit, I've found a solution. The issue seems to...

Just wondering what other machines are like for hard drive performance. I have two machines, one running a Seagate 320 GB 7200 RPM drive, the other with a Seagate 500, 7200 RPM drive. The performance index shows them as 2.9 and 3.0, respectively. In Vista, they were both 5.7 and 5.9...

Hello All, My first post here. My problem is I have a retail Vista Ultimate I wish to reinstall on a new box I built (64bit). However, I cannot activate it over the internet because it was installed on an old 32bit machine I no longer use. How do I activate this darn OS. Do I have to purchase...

Machine is set to sleep mode, goes to sleep at the set time of 30 minutes, case power light is off, fans off. At about 5 minutes re-start and then turn off right away, power light stays on, fans stays off. Inboard IR doesn't turn machine on by remote, can turn on and off before case power...

Hi every one just got in and already I have a question ......I`m running a HP dual core a1740n one of their desktops with a lot of bells and whistles Premium edition .......It has been running well since Febrary last year with the odd error here and there ( nice machine ......I`m 67 yrs old ) 2...