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Ok, so about 2 hours ago I was playing M&B Warband, and listening to some music. My computer then randomly shut down as I tabbed out, black screen, just figured my windows crapped out or whatever. Power still running, fans still going, just black screen. So I shut it down by holding down power...

Hello I'm building a new pc, which currently have no operating system. I need an install for windows 8.1, which will allow me to install and try out windows 8.1 without having a operating system previusly installed. I can transfer it between computers without problems, with both dvd's, usb's...

This is a fresh install of Ultimate on a newly built Computer. Asus Z97, 16 Gig, Asus 240 Gig SSD, Seagate 2 TByte HD, Asus Ge Force GT-640 running 3 Samsung monitors. Win Experience Index of 7.1. 9 out of 10 times the system wakes up just fine. Every 10th time or so, the system seems to be...

Been banging my head on this for a few days until I found this forum. I sure could use some help with an intermittent BSOD that I am getting. This is a new computer build with very little installed so far. McAfee, Office, HP OJ6600 printer, NCP Secure Client and Win7 SDK. The BSOD has been...

Last Christmas my dad had the idea of custom making me a PC and ever since the first day I turned it on its had the BSOD. The main error that pops up is "Page Fault In NonPaged Area" but I also get "Memory Management" a fair amount too. We took the PC into a computer shop to get it checked out...

I've built this computer within the last month, though in the past couple weeks I've been getting weird BSoD errors that have recently been getting more frequent. Yesterday and today I've been getting BSoDs with error code 7a, and I'm thinking that it's a problem with the SSD's flash memory...

Hey guys. I have recently been having some MAJOR issues with a certain program called Avid Pro Tools 10.3.8. I'm posting this both in the Avid forum (which is down right now) and the Windows forum, because I'm still unsure as to which one is actually causing the problem. Whenever certain Pro...

Hi everyone, I have a few questions concerning the above listed case that we are using for our build. It is the CoolerMaster Cosmos II Full Tower First of all... Cable management (scoffs). Cable management for this particular case is very difficult because there are so many cables integrated...

https://www.facebook.com/#!/PCDesignerRyan ^ Hey everybody, this is my official post for my official PC designing page. We are getting ready to spend $1500+ on building a custom monster PC, and after that, we are aiming to build a custom PC desk which will a project closer to $6K. If you are...

Hi I have just downloaded the windows 8.1 preview version and burned to DVD to install on a newly built PC. The PC specs are: Intel I5 3570k ivy bridge Gigabyte h61m-s2pv rev 2.0 Gskill ripjaw 8gb 1333mhz I am using the integrated hd4000 graphics. Since I completed the build I have been running...

Hey everyone! Some background info: I built my computer ~2 years ago and it worked fine for about half a year, until it crashed. Since then I've been unable to reinstall Windows and I kinda forgot about it... which sucks! So please help me get it up and running again :) Motherboard: GigaByte...

Ok, so I thought about it for awhile and decided I would build my own PC. I researched for a week and figured out which parts I wanted and got everything ordered. It all got here friday and I installed windows, updated drivers, and anit-virus. Everything was working fine until today.I just...

We recently built my friends computer. We started with Windows 8.1 and that was fine until the keyboard and mouse stopped working. We tried other USB ports, disabling the XHCI in BIOS, and other things but nothing worked. We decided to clean format and switch back to Windows 7. We're now using...

I am building a new PC, using an AMD FX8350 on a MSI 970A-G46 mobo. I have G.Skill F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL (2 X 4MB). I also have one stick of G.Skill F3-14900CL10S-8GBXL. Which would be better for this build?

Every time I want to upload videos from phone to computer or from computer to phone, this is the message that I get: "Device has stopped responding". How can I solve this?? I have tried using different usb ports on the computer, including the one on the back of the case. It's not my phone or...

I built a pc last friday, and i have only one issue. I have Windows 8.1 64-bit, and when im trying to type something my keyboard starts to open programs. I think they are windows key shortcuts. But anyway my windows key isnt stuck because it works no problem with other computer. Please help with...

Hello. I built this PC a few months ago and it's been, for the most part, running pretty flawlessly. However, when running one game in particular, FFXIV (being an MMO on max settings, probably one of the most intensive things to run on my system), I have occasionally gotten BSODs. I've had...

In dire need of help. I purchased my pc in parts, Windows7 and gave it to a pc repair guy to build and looked like everything was working fine. Minutes after I got it back i started to download my usual software and it began to get BSOD. I checked for window updates and downloaded them all...

Hi, A year ago I purchased an SSD and Windows 8 for my old pc and it's been running fine. Now however, I'm going to build a new PC, and I want to move Windows 8 back to my old HDD (it was an upgrade on Windows 7 OEM, so I can't move it across to my new PC). How do I go about this? Thanks in...

Flashed the bios to something relevant. I have two ssds to test, a vertex plus r2 and agility 3, both in ICY DOCK mounts. The front panel HDD lights flash a bit (though that probably doesn't mean much). http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994083 Getting in the BIOS is a...