overheating

My Toshiba laptop is running really hot. Running Windows 7. I have gone into the settings and it is on active cooling in processor power management. It goes up to 190 degrees. I have blown out the vents with an air can, it’s all clean. I look at task manager and there is little CPU usage, so...

Hi guys and girls.. I am a brand new windows 7 user.. I brought and installed this OS after a Black Screen of Death on my machine which was running windows Vista Business prooved to be incurable without booting from the Windows CD, which I of course didnt have as it came preloaded. The problem...

I have just built a new computer. And am getting BSODs. Here's my notes on them: Errors Codes are as follows: (I didn't write the codes down the first 2 times) 3rd BSOD (3/22/11): *** STOP: 0x0000007F (0x0000000000000008, 0x0000000080050031, 0x00000000000006F8, 0xFFFFF80003888F72) 4th BSOD...

I have been having Bsod's and major headaches with my Nvidia geoforce 8600m gs graffic card and have reached the end of my rope , I have read on the internet that these chips are faulty, and that Nvidia admit that they are! I wonderd if anybody has had similar problems,or are having similar...

After four days of frustration, a very sore forehead and much more gray hair but probably overall less from pulling it out in angry disappointment, I've managed to resolve a very agravating intermittent and quite random Blue Screen issue on my computer. First, my system, or at least the...

so i recently upgraded to windows 7 64 bit from windows Vista on my laptop. This laptop is mainly used for gaming so i was a bit surprised when i was playing a game and my computer overheated and turned off for the first time in a year of having the laptop. I checked and even games like "lord of...

Hello, everyone. I've been having a lot of trouble with my computer this past week because of blue screens during my gaming. I've been mostly playing SC2 and Heroes of Newerth, so crashing a bunch of times is not only annoying but it hurts my record as well. I just recently purchased an ATI...

I have a windows 7 machine that I use as a 'server' for SageTV (playing DVDs) I dont dirrectly connect to it and the software is stable as far as I did install much software at build and I have changed little recently as far as software.. I recently swapped the CPU out for a quad core and...

Was running on Windows vista Home Premium 64 bit, but recently have made the switch to Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. Running a Nvidia GTX 260, Drivers are up to date. Never Been Overclocked. But recently have been getting A Fatal Pink Screen of Death Error that crashes the video of my computer...

This part is never easy... I write this post in a saddened tone, if a tone could be added to words typed in a word processor. My main system, housing most of my support utilities, files, information, music, games, pictures, and all sorts of fantastic things is on its death bed. Prognosis: Hard...

Hi, i have gotten blue screen of death twice already. Both happened when i was playing mabinogi(a MMORPG which eats a lot of cpu) and watching youtube. I was just wondering if the cause of BSOD is because of computer overheating? Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BlueScreen OS...

Hi, i recently build a computer using these parts: ASUS M4A88T-V EVO/USB3 AM3 AMD 880G USB 3.0 HDMI Motherboard Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W Continuous Power AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Deneb 3.4GHz G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1333 (and the rest are...

Hello I built a computer back in January of 2010. Ever since I would get a blue screen on the computer after it had been turned off for awhile. Like I'll turn it off for the night (using shutdown in the start menu), go to bed, then come back from my college classes the next day, then I turn it...

Hello every peeps I have major problems I keep getting screen freezing rebooting and bsod BC code 117 BCP1 A1572008 BCP2 8E2EF176 BCP3 00000000 BCP4 00000000 'I have searched after all the information I can but BC code 117 seems to be very common , I have read that the gpu I have (nvidia...

Hey Just wondering if anyone would be able to help me I've been having some random shut downs with the following build which is only about a month and a half old the gtx 570 is only a few days old and since then the problems have gotten worse. Code: Intel Core i7 930 at stock with stock...

Hi guys, this is my first time posting in this thread. Recently friend of mine asked me to check his laptop for random shutdown cause. His laptop model is Dell Studio 1555 and the specs are Dell Studio 15 (1555) Review Ok, so this is his problem. He told me sometime when he using his...

Hello. I built my first computer 2 months ago. From the start I had problems with BSOD but got around them by my own ways. Every time I open my comp first time in a day I get constant BSOD, but if I close it and take the plug out of the wall for like 10mins it runs smoothly throught the rest of...

Hi all, I use 4 x 1gb memory sticks (A Data 800 mhz, 4 4 4 12). When all 4 sticks are installed, windows (64bit) randomly freezes and pc must be restarted. A few weeks ago I tested each memory alone on pc, 1 of them seemed to be faulty and I got it replaced. During the replacement process I...

Hi, I'm getting a recurring blue screen, rendering my computer basically unusable. Dump Files: My specs: OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit Processor: AMD Phenom II X4 965 Processor 3.40 GHz RAM: 4.00 GB Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB PCI Express Video Card Age: About 3...

well,just built my computer a few months ago. i7 860 cpu msi p55 gd80 motherboard g.skill eco series ram 2x2gb sticks corsair 850hx power supply thermalright silver arrow heatsink asus 4850 graphics card well, ive tried formatting multiple times, different driver versions...