pc building

Hello all, hoping this is the correct forum for this. History: Back in February I bought a new custom build PC. First PC I've ever owned that didn't come off the shelf at Wal Mart. Had a friend help me spec it out. Asus M5A97 Motherboard AMD FX 4100 Quad-Core Processor 3.6 GHz 8 GB Ram Radeon...

Oki... Long story short, helping my friend installing windows on her computer. The problem is that installing from the CD works fine untill a certain point of the installation and then it it fails, done it several times and breaks at same place each time... Thats why I have to try and fix it...

I recently built i new pc for myself and after two or three weeks it started randomly shutting down while gaming. So i went into the event viewer and i got this error "6008 The system shutdown at *** on **** was unexpected. Link Removed Specs: Motherboard: Asrock z68 Extreme4 CPU- Intel i5 Sandy...

Hi, I posted a thread last week due to permanent BSoDs, but as a non-technican I decided to solve the problem with re-installing my whole system. This should clean all driver problems and so on. Well, it was done - but the BSoD came again today, but with another message. I've done the steps to...

I'm pretty much a total noob to how windows works, etc. I know my way around enough but some things I'm unsure of. Like when the pop up comes up and says there are updates available. One of them is IE9 and the other is a malicious software remover tool. I don't run IE9 but should I just update...

I built a system a year ago, & sleep has always worked fine until a few weeks ago when Windows 7 began to start waking instantly the moment I put it to sleep. Now I have to turn off the power management settings of the mouse & keyboard to stop it from waking. Sometimes it works in reverse...

If anyone is thinking about upgrading or building a system then for RAM at least the time is now.. I have been noticing more and more articles like this one: DRAM prices drop even further I've got my eye on some very cheap DDR2 which is now definitely playing second fiddle to DDR3. At one...

I built my computer last December. Lately, i keep having problem.(only happen when i play game) I try ram testing, and it said the ram is ok. I update all drivers also. The temperature of my graphic card and cpu is normal. Here is the minidump from a hour ago. Problem signature...

Hi! I have a trouble with self built PC. It just randomly reboots every few days with seemingly no visible clue to what causes it. All minidumps show the same error: BugCheckCode 0x3B, probably caused by win32k.sys and something to do with xxxWindowEvent+327. I have tried more conservative...

Hi guys, I recently upgraded my GPU to an ATI Radeon HD 5750 and have been having some issues with it, or perhaps the drivers. I have ensured that the latest drivers are installed and have tried a few solutions suggested on the web, such as cleaning my registry and reinstalling the graphics...

I bought while in Okinawa, Japan (Oct 2006) an ATX Sagitta case w/ 450W pwr. supply. This is currently for a back-up XP machine (back-up to a Win-7 machine) for which I've recently replaced the mother board (Gigabyte) due to a board failure. I don't know how to hook up the two sets of numerous...

What to do when your motherboard won't recognise Win7 QUESTION I recently built a PC around an Intel Core i7 950 processor, 3GB of RAM and an Asus Rampage II Extreme motherboard. But the motherboard refuses to recognise Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. Tony Hall Link Removed - Invalid URL

I am getting blue screens shortly after startup and sleep mode wakeup, It has been doing it since day one. I have replaced EVERY thing on the computer except the cpu and the motherboard and still the same problem. It is a new custom build, the specs are: I7 920 cpu ASUS P6T SE mb KINGSTON DDR3...

Let's say you've just fitted a new 120mm fan to the front of your pc. The wire isn't long enough to reach a motherboard fan header nor is there any way to modulate the fan speed. You've fitted it but it's going like the clappers and sounds way too loud... One answer would be to employ the fan...

I bought win7 for my laptop because the previus Winvista that brought the laptop came damage. right now im about to sell my laptop because im looking foward to build my own pc for video hd editing. So i bought again a winvista to installed becuase i whant my win7 for my new pc. How do i...

I finished building my new PC last week. Specs: Antec Nine Hundred Two case MSI P55-GD80 mobo 8 GB Corsair Dominator RAM Intel i5-750 CPU Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus Corsair HX750 PSU Windows 7 64-Bit Home Premium When I originally built this computer I re-used my GeForce 9600GT from my old...

So has anyone installed the final windows 7 release? can you explain the install process over XP? Is an old XP disk needed? Does win 7 ask for your old XP serial key? Cant wait for the release this coming month, But I cant find my old XP disk I do belive I have the serial key some where though...

So I built a new pc and just installed Windows 7. The installation appears to have gone well, but I'm encountering the following issue: when starting up, windows goes to a screen with a desktop backdrop (the minimalist one with the bird and leafs, if that is of any importance) and it says...

Well Kemical this new MoBo I ordered makes #5 :eek: I'm just not satisfied with the one I'm using so I bought a... DFI Lanparty UT P45-T2RS Link Removed due to 404 Error

Checkout the latest thing in coolers: Link Removed - Invalid URL I'm not sure this would even fit in my case!