old hardware

Just a question as I am not 100% sure myself so I thought I would ask to save myself time trying to figure it out as I'm a little pushed for time to sit & have a look. Got a system was a 500w value PSU, Dual Core AMD cpu, 4gig ddr2, 2 hdd's & a 3780 GPU. Recently I added the second HDD which is...

I have an issue with getting a completely black screen. I never see a desktop. I never even see the login screen. If I press the sleep button on the case, then start it back up, I see a mouse pointer too. But on first boot, there is no mouse pointer. Booting in safe mode has the exact same...

hi. i did a recent reformat/reinstall of windows 7 x64 and i have a weird problem... i use alot of audio editing and recording software, (like fl, audacity, audition, etc) and i managed to set all the sound up fine but when try to save something to an uncompressed .wav it just jumps instantly...

I am running Windows 8 pro on an older tablet and I mainly use a digitizer pen (it does not recognize fingers). I am very surprised by the lack of features using a pen versus using a mouse as I do on my Windows 8 non-touch screen laptop. I also don't typically use a keyboard with my...

I am using an old Dell computer and wanted to run Win7 (P4 3.0 / 3Gb Ram) and no Video card from all the ones I had laying around seem to worked... I checked online to watch a compatible one and the 9600xt seemed like a nice candidate and I bought one. When I plugged it in it will only display...

Hello sorry I know most veterans here don't know me but I selected to put ads on this site when I registered. I found an old Game-Elements PC Gamepad with no CD and it has a usb stub so I plugged it in and Windows 7 didn't recognize the device! I couldn't do 'search for automatic updates'...

Hi,I have an old cumputer: P4 3,4 ghz(northwood) in a asus p4c800-e deluxe. 4gb ram,and skystar 2 satellite card,pctv 310i tdt tv card.A his 4670 agp.2 ide hdd one sata hdd and a dvd rewriter and other dvd reader. Windows xp works perfect,ram is cheked:perfect.I take outside all...

General Question - I think I've tweaked the system about as far as I can know how to do right now - disabled Aero - done other things using Black Vipers tweaks and configurations and still at startup Win7 is running 350 megs. I like Win7 and memory is sort of a problem as I only have 1gig - but...

Just attempted to install Windows 8 Release Preview on my old beater laptop and got a surprise. This is the same laptop that is already running the Windows 8 Consumer Preview and had ran the Windows 8 Developers Preview. "This PC can't run Windows 8" "See below if you're inerested in finding out...

Hello everyone, I have a problem that is driving me crazy. My computer is as follows: Motherboard Asus P4S8X-x CPU Intel 2800 Ghz 2 Gb Ram Video Card Sapphire Radeon X1550 512 MB AGP It 'a bit' old-fashioned but so far it has always done his duty. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate 32 for about 2...

My old computer's motherboard died on me and so I replaced the whole computer with a new Dell 620. It comes with an Intel i3 processor, 4 gigs of memory, a 500 gig hard drive and Windows 7-64 bit. Not a bad computer for $399. I was able to plug in my old hard drive and retrive most of my old...

Hey there Getting random BSOD with win7 that i've nv gotten with my old XP SP3. The only new hardware i added was a very old DDR2 1gb Ram and a samsung hdd which probably isn't the issue. i've used the SF diag tool v4 to gather all that u guys need to help me :) as well as the rammon html...

i think my pc is old for win 7 i recently getting this BSOD.... i've enclosed zip file of the minidump can any1 suggest a solution? thanks Link Removed

Greetings. This screen appeared : Link Removed Before windows loaded. Precursors to this included : All freezes for seconds\minute the unfreezes, sometimes while cpu 100% sometimes not. It also could freeze and show BSOD and start scandisk or something. It occured more often in-game (wic)...

hey guys, so i own an old pc, and i have an SB Audigy LS. now there is a new driver on the manufacturer's website but it doesnt work. the only driver that works is the one that comes from Sony's website. its an older driver but it works because the newest driver freezes the computer...

I have installed windows 7 on a very old HP compaq Evo and it works perfectly but only if I switch OFF and ON, if I have to restart it just don't switch back ON it gives me a black screen. Can someone help me please on this.

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Source: Neowin.net - Windows 8 'Aero Lite' button elements revealed Personally, I don't like them, too plain, too IE9. I'm sure the Windows 8 developers could have come up with something a little more exciting.

Just bought W7 OEM pro for an old 1990 XP Pro MSI/Barton computer(bad idea), as soon as I install W7 the system goes haywire(clean install), totally unstable unpredictable, no one issue to put a finger on, hangs, blue screens, usb-irq conflicts, corrupt drivers & installations, ive seen blue...

the other day me and my friend want to see if a Mac OS would working on a pc and it did after a lot of playing around with the settings. has anyone else tryed this befor and if so do you like it? and would it run good on a Dell LapTop very old Laptop (sorry if Thread is in the wrong fourm)