malfunction

i have a hp pavalion 500 pc series. Model No H6U60AA#ABL So i left my computer on and i went somewere but when i came back there was programs open and a lot of error messages but there was no one in the house.I had norton on. I could not ctrl alt delete or shutdown or do anything. So i holded...

Hi, so a couple of days ago, my pc just stopped working. I re-booted to find that there was an error booting to windows. Can't remeber the exact error but it couldn't find a specific file(s). I went onto my windows 8 laptop, downloaded a windows 7 iso and the usb burning tool from the microsoft...

I had used windows blinds to put a theme on my computer. it was a safe program and I never heard anything about it. when I uninstalled it, it removed my current theme and the default one. Now, the images of programs have no icons and I can't open anything. Only spotify is working, and I tried...

My friends were playing around with my old laptop which was an Acer aspire v5 with a core i3 by trying to guess my pin. No matter how many times they tried, it wouldn't lock or anything. I got that laptop replaced because it was malfunctioning. The replacement was practically the same model but...

When it happens: I first came across it 2 days ago while viewing a 1080p youtube video. The blue screen which I am prompted with gives me no information other than: Hardware malfunction, the system has halted. Things you need to know: - I've tried turning off hardware acceleration in flash and...

I've got a home build PC with a FoxConn MB and 4 MB RAM using onboard sound & graphics but I've sadly got a brain block on the full spec & now can't access the machine to check it so apologies for that, as I know it makes the job harder Link Removed Basically I booted up this morning and...

Hello, Today I was running a fresh OSX86 installation inside of VMWare Player, and using an actual installation disk in my CD drive, which was then tunneled to the VM. Since the installation froze up halfway through, I shut off the VM, and attempted to eject the installation disk, but the drive...

Hey all, I not too long ago bought a Dell Inspiron 14z with windows 7 home premium. The computer has been working wonderfully until this morning - I was still logged in from yesterday when I found that it was frozen after a few clicks; mouse stopped responding, so, unable to turn my computer...

Hi, a few days ago I was playing a game online with friends (Minecraft if needed) and my keyboard stopped working. It is a logitech wireless keyboard, so at first I assumed it was out of batteries. I got completely new batteries, but it didn't work even then. I then unplugged it and my PC...

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Twice in the last week I've gone to use my pc and the system date had changed at some point during downtime. First time about 40 years into the future causing several problems. Second time(today) causing some different problems. Each time it took me awhile to realize what had happened. No...

I installed Oracle a few months ago. (I have since uninstalled it.) Ever since, my sidebar gadget "all cpu meter" has been broken. I'm not 100% sure that Oracle installation is directly responsible, but it's the best thing I can come up with. Link Removed Additionally, my 'core temp'...

I just got done rebuilding my computer a few days ago, ensuring all of the devices in it are compatible, and getting the proper drivers for them. Though obviously I've done something wrong along the way, or some part of my computer is malfunctioning because I'm getting 3-10 BSOD's a day. I'm...

For some reason my dvd drive is not reading discs. It has been working before, and now it doesnt seem to read any discs i put in the drive. It also doesnt make any noise or any sign that it is in. My problem is is that the dvd drive isnt recognizing the dvd's i put. Even if if put a disc in the...

Hi everyone, I've been using Windows 7 Professional on a precarious condition lately. I can't pinpoint why or what's causing it, but I know Explorer.exe is malfunctioning: I don't get a BSOD (fortunately, perhaps) but the system hangs. As whenever that happens, Windows 7 itself suggests...

Hi..firstly many apologies if this has been aired before..but Im really concerned..got a tosh c650 laptop and just tried putting a cruser blade 16gb stick into one of its 2 usb ports.Now both ports dont do anything .Tried deleting all drivere and re installing (inc safe mode) but no joy...Have I...

Plugging a USB storage device would cause burning device malfunction Link Removed

My Asus G73-JH laptop is currently freezing at the Windows Starting screen. I've read a lot of other forum posts that feature the same problem, BUT there is artifacting (bunch of colored dots) on the top of this screen that goes across the "Starting Windows" screen in a sort of horizontal...

Hello guys/gals, for all techies here, my "c" key stopped working last night after one of my kids was playing with the pc, today i loaded Ubuntu and it worked just fine. tried loading the sticky keys but i cannot find anything. and "c" won't work neither using caps or shift. any help would be...

All my adapters in my Dell Inspiron 1440 (Win 7 HP x64) in the Device Manager are seemingly not connected or malfunctioning...It happened right after I restarted my computer and all of them quit out at once... PLEASE HELP!!!