pc performance

When I put my pc into sleep mode its just wakes up after a short while by itself. Is this a bug or some setting I need to change

and i cant wake it up! Ever since I upgraded from vista to 7 if I leave my pc unnatended for say maybe 10 minutes the monitor goes into sleep mode and it doesnt turn back on, I am forced to do a hrad reset by plugging out the power for the monitor to work again. In the power settings I have it...

Link Removed hi i just upgrade to windows 7 32 bit i know it come with directx 11 but it got no use with out directdraw and direct3d and direct texture acceleration so can i get any help so i can play on my pc?

Hi, After the "Starting Windows" screen, the darkness comes. The screen just goes to black and never comes back until I do a hard restart. After the restart, it loads totally normally. The same happens when I put the computer to sleep. After the resuming windows logo, it goes black until I...

hello there, first of all, sorry for my bad english but i'm dutch :s sorry if you don't understand something so my problem: i get a BSOD randomly with no possible reason, for example, i'm surfing and all off a sudden i get BSOD, i close windows media center- i get BSOD, i'm away for some...

I would like to avoid reverting back to XP but this system originally had XP when i installed. Worked for a while then for some reason after installing and using DAEMON TOOLS, MAGIC DISK, and ALCOHOL 120% i have had some explorer.exe errors. Their is also CD/DVD drive that should not exist on my...

I am using Windows 7 RC x64 on a nForce 420 based motherboard. The suspend to ram function is not working properly sometimes. I have Windows configured to automatically suspend to PC after 30 min of being idle. This automatic suspend works well, suspending the PC completely, shouting down the...

Hey guys, after getting through that CD boot issue on my buddy's PC as we first boot windows 7 and everyones happy...its in basic mode :S Now at least I got 7 on his PC but windows seven basic is just ugly. I don't know what the problem could be, after all his vista is running aero perfectly...

Have tried installing windows 7 Boot from dvd ok, Unpacks files and starts windows. brings up the windows 7 light blue screen and freezes I was expecting questions about language and time zone but nothing It would seem patience was the solution. on a earlier PC it took just a few seconds...

Heloo friends new to this forum and this is my first post....... I am facing a strange problem and have been looking for a solution but cant find one........ My problem is..... whenever i boot my PC or restart it......it reaches the desktop and everything seems fine.......but the moment i try...

hey guys i have tried W7 when it was at 7000 and i still have the same issue with 7068. well hear whats going on i use to have that coprocessor issue that is fixed now but i still am getting crashing, i think it might be my video card because when i start to use a few programs at once like WMP...

ok i'm gonna try this again.... my last novel timed out and is floating around in space somewhere now. that smiley doesn't even begin to express my emotions about that..... You might want to Tarentino this one, my question is at the end and you could read backwards as information is needed...

Hi all...first post here...great site BTW. ok...My problem is this: When I go to watch tv using Media center...all goes well...but after a bit...the sound will go crazy..meaining it will get all garbled, and then eventually stop working.I am using a creative Audigy 2z 5.1 the sound works fine...

Ok, so i'll write the whole message again.... got a message saying the message was too short although i doubt it was... Well here it goes. Whenever i install some games like Mirror's Edge and Saints Row 2 my whole computer freezes. Everything except the music,progessbar and the mouse pointer...

I have win 7 Beta installed on my PC. The problem I am having with it is when I press the power button on my PC about 10 seconds into it, I see a blank screen with the cursor blinking for about 3 minutes before I see starting windows screen and then it will take less than another minute until I...

Will there soon be a Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor or will there be one at all? I'd really like to know how Windows 7 would run on all my PC's.

Hello everyone, This is my first post so please excuse any 'noob' questions. I recently downloaded Windows 7 Build 7000 and installed it to a partition on my laptop's hdd (dual booting WinXP SP3). Everything was going fine (for about 3 days) - and so i decided to setup Windows Media Centre with...

I just installed Windows Vista Business on a new PC and I can't get Aero. Under "Windows Colors and Appearance" from the Personalization Menu all it shows me is Windows Vista Basic, Windows Standard, and Windows Classic color schemes. I'm running a 2.2 ghz PC with 2 gigs of RAM, with a genuine...

Hi, From time to time while using Windows Media Player, and I click on another programme/option/icon, the machine freezes, the sound sticks as if it is a very fast CD stuck on a track creating a fast warbling noise. This last for about 3 to 5 seconds then there is a loud click in the PC case and...

Recently, and I am not sure if it has anything to do with windows updates taken to the system in similar time, my CPU Usage fan has been going crazy - and quite frequently. CPU memory usuage, 100% or thereabouts is the norm now. Anybody else experience this? Thanks in advance.