malfunction

This morning when I turned on my computer it froze at the starting windows screen. I tried to reboot several times to no avail. I then tried to boot into safe mode, and it stops loading at the following file: Windows/system32/drivers/atipcie.sys I ran startup repair which was unable to fix...

I have a WD Ext Hardrive Drive. I backed up my files at the office (Windows 7 OP System) yesterday. I wanted to access a file at home (PC loaded with Windows XP), but when I plugged in the Ext HD , a message comes up "USB Device not recognised -one of the USB devices attached to this computer...

Hi, I hope I picked the right forum category. I'm not computer literate so when my 14 month old PC running Windows 7 Home Premium failed to restart I took it to Staples for a recovery installation. Since bringing it home I downloaded Microsoft Security Essentials, then downloaded PC...

TOKYO — Japan’s system for predicting the volume of radioactive materials to be released into the environment failed in the wake of the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant due to the power supply cut following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, sources close to the matter...

Yesterday, I made the mistake of letting my sister-in-law use my computer (the one I use for work) to burn a CD. I thought she said burn a DVD, which is something I do all the time. However, apparently she downloaded a CD ripping program called CDEX (very legitimate -- doubtful of any...

Hi! First of all, as I couldn't find a cause, I didn't know where to post this thread. If I posted somewhere wrong, please, move it to the correct place. Thank you :-) Today, I was using my laptop normally when, out of the blue, my touchpad started to behave strange. It would not move around...

London Olympic organisers were left red-faced on Tuesday when a huge clock in Trafalgar Square marking the countdown to the 2012 Games stopped just hours after being unveiled at a glitzy ceremony. The steel digital clock measuring 6.5 metres tall and five metres long froze with 500 days, 7...

As soon as i log in, after the password prompt, i get to the desktop, th usual programs start, but then the Desktop just Stops, not stops responding and quits, the whole thing just STOPS!!! and the fans in my computer all just go to minimum, the exact moment it freezes!!!! im running Win 7...

To do a total cleanup of my laptop and reinstall Win 7 32bit. It is a: Dell Precision Mobile WorkStation M6400. But a problem immediately with the error message: "A key driver needed for CD - DVD drive is missing" Then just my DVD / CD may malfunction (rails sometimes with CDs)...

Hey, lately i was getting BSOD's. I know reason is ram. Firs memtest86 (not +) showed me alot of errors. Now they are kinda gone, after i raised voltage (from 1.60 to 1.65, as my ram claims it needs). Now memtest86+ gives me few errors, wich are like, good xxxxxxxx - bad xxfxxxxx (err byte is...

Hello. I've been experiencing BSOD's within the past 3 months. Even while typing this post for the first time, my computer BSOD'd and I lost the post, so I'll try to make this fast. I've followed the steps on how to ask for help and my RAR file is attached below. While those DMP files will...

Well I reformatted and am back again, I figure there's a malfunctioning driver. Minidumps attached.

I have an asus G50V refurb that was working fine fine for about a month, then the dvd drive started to mess up on me. The dvd drive only works about 1/3 of the time after rebooting now. The green light on the cd tray blinks during startup, but doesn't always actually open or read cds/dvds for...

I am using a dual boot, Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Previously I had an accident where water spilled on my keyboard, thus shorting it out. Since then, I have not been able to access Windows, for my password box will fill with random signs. I was able to successfully disable the keyboard via ubuntu...

Really fun things happen if your laptop falls off the bed while you're asleep. In Windows, I can no longer log off/reboot/shut down normally (Linux, however, is fine). Also, if I put my laptop to sleep in Windows, it will inexplicably refuse to wake up (again, Linux can wake up just fine...

Hi i keep getting a notification saying "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned and windows does not recognize it" when i try to go to device manager and uninstall it it's telling me no USB device installed i also get this error code Port_#0002.Hub_#0001 Windows...

Hi folks, So, the problem: one of my HDDs suddenly disappeared, like it was turned off or something. I restarted the PC and the HDD reappeared and is fully functional since then. Right after the incident I checked some files on it. Well, most of the image files seemed to be damaged, that is...

Logitech Webcams Hey, so I have this Logitech Quickcam Pro 5000 webcam. And for the first time of almost 3 years it happend something. Well, I inplug it like usuall and open the.. I don't know what it's called, but when you want to take a picture or make a video it says that the webcam is not...

I'm using a Enermax micro keyboard and when I had W7 RC installed it work fine since loading W7 Pro genuine the board has a couple of keys that seemed to be crossed with other keys, I tied it on my XP machine and the board works fine so I know it's not the problem some kind of setting that...

i recently recieved a dell studio xps computer with windows 7 already installed, a few hours into the computers first use it crashed. then a couple of hours it crashed again! Each time took many attemps to get the pc up and running again, with safe mode not always working! somehow its up and...