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I am hoping someone can shed some light on this problem with video playback. Video playback freezes after anywhere from 30 seconds to 15 minutes into a movie. This happens with AVI's as well as DVD's on hard drive. Never happens with streaming video such as Netflix. And, I haven't really...

I have an Abit QuadGT IX38 mobo, latest BIOS, but they are out of the mobo business and I don't expect any new BIOS revisions. Can't even find their US support site any longer. Anyway, the trouble is, I can put the pc to sleep apparently fine the first time, but after waking it up, it will not...

Forgive for the double post--- my aggrivation must be shared. ive been googling my ass off for 4 hours with no helpful information. I have removed all periphs and unneeded hardware -- ram -- disabled floppy -- everything but video card. Drives have been formatted and partitioned a few times...

Hey guys, Ok, I need some help before I explode. I have tried almost everything and nothing seems to work. My system goes as follows: -An EVGA 01G-P3-1180-AR GeForce GTX 285 1GB 512-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card -A EVGA 141-BL-E757-TR LGA 1366 Intel X58...

I am currently running Windows XP 32-bit. I am attempting to install Windows 7 64 (yes, my processor is a 64). When I boot from the disk, I get the initial black screen and the loading files bar, the moving dots and windows logo. Then an artsy blue screen and nothing else. I can move my mouse...

Hi! I have a soundblaster sound card - it is a Live! 5.1 surround sound card and I cannot find the right driver for it anywhere for use within windows 7 64bit. The vendor id : 1102 device id: 0002 I have tried the driver I thought I had used with my old 32bit windows but it doesnt work. Can...

I have a few issues with sleep on my desktop machine that is running Windows 7 RTM. My machine consists of the following: [DFI JR X58-T3H6] [i7 920 D0] [12GB OCZ OCZ3B2000C9LV6GK] [Corsair CMPSU-750TX] [Windows 7 (64bit)] [EVGA 280 GTX][OCZ Vertex 30GB x 3 in RAID0] I'll start with the most...

is it CableLabs? the ones who claim that only certain PC's can be "Certified" Digital Cable ready? Digital cable ready doesn't mean anything other than a small flag has been added to a BIOS that enables OCUR. from everything I've read, it can be added to any BIOS. Is it ATI the one and...

So I'm looking to get a 5870 when the prices go down, but I have a very unknown brand power supply thats only 550W. PowerUp GEN-2004 - power supply - 550 Watt Power Supplies reviews - CNET Reviews That's the one. I was wondering if it could handle a 5870 and the rest of my comp, or if I...

I recently installed Window 7 professional and had issues with an Atheros AR5008 WLAN Mini PCI card i purchased for my computer (yes my main PC motherboard has a mini PCI connection, identical to most older laptops). The AR5008 was purchased from ebay and the AR5008 model number quoted on the...

Hi, I have 2 sticks of RAM both are 2GB in size, however Windows 7 is only picking up 2GB total RAM. I ran crucial's examine my computer tool which informed me that instead of not picking up an entire stick of RAM, it was instead saying that both sticks were only 1GB in size. I had windows XP...

Hello! My win7 was working perfectly for about a month. About 2 days ago i started getting blue screens on my W7RC 64-bit. And that was traced down to one of my DDR3 sticks, which still had warranty and I got a new set yesterday. Right after the new RAM arrived and i inserted it, I started...

Here are my system specs: Intel Core 2 Quad 8200 Gigabyte EP43-UD3L mobo 2GB DDR2 Corsair memory sticks WD 160 GB SATA HD EVGA GeForce GTX 285 1GB with GPU Apevia 680w PSU and P4 12v ATX adaptor for CPU Sony DVD Drive and CD ROM that are on the same IDE cable but jumpers might be wrong...

Immediately after POST the screen goes black and flickers a little. It's an intermittent problem, once in a while I can get the computer to power on completely with no problems, but it's very rare. If it does power on completely, it has no problems after that, I've completely reinstalled windows...

Hi guys, as i didnt find any real answers about this, i will ask in my own post. From my experience with win7 x64, for me the best version was 7000, no doubt about it. Since i installed RC1 x64, on the same system, i get unstable system. Sometimes windows explorer stop responding, for...

So my USB ports just stopped working recently and I have tried everything to get them working I have uninstalled the drivers and reinstalled them but It says "USB device is not recognized" From researching I have heard you can update something in the BIOS for the USB ports but when I go into the...

Hi, I've downloaded Windows 7 a while ago (the rc1) and tried to install it on my pc. Its een HP d230m CPU= 2.8ghz P4 mainboard = intel based HP mainboard (nr128) Ram= 768mb ddr First issue i had was booting from the dvd. no mather what i tried, it wouldn't boot and gave me a...

I have HDMI on my motherboard (along w/ DVI-D and VGA) I installed the disk that came w/ my motherboard (I had to run it in Vista SP1 compatibility mode for it to install). I have my Catalyst Control Center and the correct video drivers installed but my HDMI still doesnt work. I havnt been able...

Hey y'all, been a while since I've been online. I'm looking for a good sub $150 (US) Low Profile ATI Graphics Card (nVida has too much of a premium for me) for my MicroATX PC. Got any Ideas?

ASROCK AM2NF3 motherboard and ati x800xt, recognises the x800, install required drivers, on reboot the pc continuosly reboots :( anyone have similar probs and if so how did ya manage to get around this ????? thanks in advance. hmm, am thinking with the lack of response maybe i didnt...