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    Windows 7 Windows 7 Laptop Turns off after failed Microsoft Update

    Greetings, I have an old Asus K52J that overheated and shut down some weeks back. After replacing the worn out fan and eventually the heat sink unit and copper tubing, I finally had it back up and running perfectly for several hours after being down for a few weeks. It was running perfectly...
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    Windows 8 random bsod while playing attila totalwar

    so i was playing tw atilla when my pc freeze and a buzz noise started then it went over to a bluescreen. i checked temps,tried furmark,auda64 stresstest and prime95 with no crashes.
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    Windows 7 Computer crashes into blue screen after playing CS GO.. wtf?!

    It freezes and then crashes. First i thought it might been the temp on the GPU cuz it was up at 80 C but did a stress test with both aida64 extreme and FurMark and had it on for 20min. The temp went up to 90C but it didnt crash. I went into safe mode and uninstalled the drivers and then...
  4. Windows 8 New GPU Causing constant reboots

    First of all, Hi and secondly I have an issue, well. My PC has an issue... After getting my brand new shiny R9 290 from XFX my PC has decided it wont stay on for more than an hour (this is the longest time and I was just idling), this occurs sooner (anywhere from seconds to minutes) when I'm...
  5. Windows 8 My PC shuts down when I try and run H1Z1

    Hey guys, I've been pointed in this direction as you may be able to help me with a problem I am having When I start up H1Z1 I can usually get into a queue and even some times into the game itself but then my PC will shut down and I don't know why. My specs are: AMD FX 8150 eight core 2.81 16gb...
  6. Windows 7 BSOD 0x00000124

    My computer has bluescreened while playing games and once when I was loading videos into windows movie maker. I ran memtest86, let it pass the 4 times it required and it found no errors. I watched my cpu temps while playing bf4 and it was an average of about 80C before it bluescreened again. Can...
  7. Windows 7 Computer shuts down, won't turn back on for ~2days.

    Hey, I have a fairly old gaming computer, and it has been pretty good so far aside from a few minor hiccups. Recently, it crashed while I was playing a game of Dota 2, and it was unable to turn back on. I thought my power supply died, so I left it for a bit until I could repair it. A couple of...
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    Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Laptop randomly waking up

    I have recently (about 4 weeks ago) purchased an Asus R510J, a laptop with pre-installed Windows 8.1. It was running rather smoothly apart from some painful differences I notice coming from Windows 7. The one issue I started to notice however, was that when waking it up in the morning it would...
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    Windows 8 Blocking GPU fan intentionally

    I'm having issues with one of my GPU's fans (it features a dual-fan cooling) and will have to fix it soon. The problem is, it's making an annoying noise and I was thinking if I could just block it for the time being, however brutally that sounds. So, the question is - provided the GPU doesn't...
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    Windows 7 Computer turns itself off after about 15-20 minutes of usage

    OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Service Pack 1 "Whitebox" custom case Intel Quad Core Q8200 @ 2.33 Ghz 4 GB RAM @ 800 MHz Sapphire ATI Radeon 4850 320 GB WDC Harddrive Gigabyte G31M-ES2L Motherboard Initially I had problems with the video output not working. The computer would boot up before the...
  11. Windows 8 HP recalls 6 million computer cords for fire risk

    HP is warning customers: Check your laptop charging cord to see if it's at risk of overheating. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ, Tech30) and federal regulators on Tuesday recalled 6 million power cords sold between September 2010 and June 2012 with some HP and Compaq notebook computers, as well as certain...
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    Windows 7 critical administrative event 41 windows 7 computer random shutdown during gaming

    I have been having an issue with my system just simply shutting down without any warning almost as if a power outage occurred. No blue screen no notifications nothing. It has happened 4 times now while playing a game in particular. When the power goes out I cant turn the computer back on for...
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    Windows 8 Problems I think caused by updates, help needed!

    Hi all, I've been having some problems with my laptop recently. I have Windows 8 installed on an Acer V3-571g and about a week ago I started to get BSOD with two errors KERNEL_DATA_INPAGE_ERROR and CRITICAL_PROCESS DIED. After playing around with sfc/scannow etc, I decided to completed reset...
  14. Windows 7 Windows uses the fan so much.

    Windows almost abuses the fan on my laptop. Toshiba Satellite C875-S7303. Whenever I try to run Borderlands 2, while loading the game the laptop overheated. Windows 8 (which came with the laptop) did the same thing, then I wiped it and put Ubuntu 13.04 on it and it never overheated. Is there a...
  15. Windows 7 Gaming related BSODs, probably direct X

    Diagnostics are attached. The BSODs seem to be mainly when gaming although not only. The games in specific are smite, it also crashes when I play Civ V but, only when I'm streaming Netflix on my second monitor but, not if I'm watching something via VLC. I recently upgraded my GPU from a 7790...
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  17. Windows 8 My computers got a hole in it and I might drown!

    Hi My liquid cooling system is leaking. I got the message when a blue screen opened up and said that there was a problems and my computer was shutting down. When I booted backup I was forced into setup where I got another message saying that my CPU had exceeded 90C and had shut down to...
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    Windows 7 BSOD, usually when watching a video ??

    Greetings... I recently joined the forum to try and find the source of my issues. This started happening back in November shortly after a MS update. It usually happens when watching streaming video in Chrome or FFox and with many tabs open and both browsers running. After my PC goes belly-up...
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    Windows 7 Need help- Fan problem

    Hello, I would like some help with my Laptop. When I turn it on, it overheats and shuts down in about 5 minutes. Now I know, you might say It's the fan clogged with dust, But I tried booting it yesterday and the fan was actually working. I always keep my laptop on the desk so I don't...
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    Windows 7 Random BSODs when gaming

    Hi everybody In the last few months i've been experiencing some real issues with my computer (specs are below). It randomly freezes up when I'm playing games, or even when I've just closed the game and want to open a 2D application: every time I start an application just after I've played a...