pc performance

I'm not a intel fan so I know little about the Intel side of things but my son has a Q9300 system he simply uses to watch youtube video's & so forth. Anyways he's been having a few problems. At system start up to desktop everything appears normal visually until you try & do things. The mouse...

Hi! I have a Lenovo y560 with its main graphic card (ATI radeon 5730) broken. Right now it's using its integrated graphic card (an intel HD 3000). I have read that the integrated graphic card doesn't allow my computer to use most of its installed RAM. The installed RAM is 4Gb. I followed the...

I dont know how else to explain it.... other than I think my computer is in HEAT ! For the past two weeks, Ive been experiencing a problem with what sounds like the same sound you get from when you unplug a USB device- that sorta like a “ding dong” sound that happens in Windows 7. Sometimes...

I get a Driver_power_state_failure with a stop : 0x0000009F(0x00000004,0x00000258,0x8658F020,0x8397CB24) Yesterday i was working with my computer and i was running a game and fix my pc and it was very slow it got stuck and i forced it down and when i start the pc i get that error. I have...

Link RemovedEvent ID 100 and 200 are created at the same time when I boot my PC. Additionally boot time is also too high. From Event Viewer:Windows has started up: Boot Duration : 85054ms IsDegradation : false Incident Time (UTC) ...

First of all, sorry if my english is broken. Since arround a month ago, almost once a week my PC crashes and shows a Memory_Management BSOD error. Usually happens when web browsing or watching a youtube video or a stream. I thought it was some bad drivers or a problem with certain programs, but...

BSOD error message 0x0000007f (ox0000000000000008, 0x0000000080031, ox00000000000006f8, oxfffff800028dabd0) Just curious what the stuff in the parenthesis means? i believe ox7f is hardware/driver issue, but i'm not a doctor. i don't know. This has been happening it seems almost randomly. I...

I changed the windows theme by unpatching. And the laptop usually pops up the message that bitmap fails to load every time I start up windows. Ever since I let the laptop update on shutdown, window's been running really slowly. It takes a long time for the start menu, folders, and programs to...

I keep reading things like this all the time. But, one thing that keeps popping up every time; is Windows 8 lack of a start button (really) as there are plenty of choices, and the use of the so called two os's in one. You can use one or the other you know. So, what's the big deal? In none of...

I had this problem for few weeks now. I set windows to hibernate at night then next morning the power turned on my itself. I can't find out what waked it. I have turned off automatic windows update, maintenance, wake from network adapter. still the same. how to solve this problem?

Hey Guys, I have an issue with my rig completely powering off suddenly within the first 15secs of graphics/cpu/RAM intensive games. The 2 games tested is BF3 and L4D2. UT99 works without issue. This issue started a few days ago, here is my set up: 8 GB G-Skill 1600 RAM 256 GB Kingston SSD 1...

I have a question about a desktop workstation I purchased from Dell. The PC in question is a Dell OptiPlex 580 which came with an OEM installation of Windows 7 Pro x64. Please bear with the length of my post, and forgive me if I am not posting this in the correct forum. I’m not sure if there is...

Just like the title says...... I'm encountering this annoying buzzing while playing a movie or music file. I first took it to Compusa and they looked at it and updated anything that had to be updated. They then hooked it up with there speakers and weren't able to replicate the issue. They then...

Dell Inspiron 1545 W7 SP1 Intel T6600 Core2 duo 2.4Ghz 4GB PC2-6400 RAM I have included all the dumps, CPU-Z snips, RAMMon copy, a screen shot of my W7 updates, and a HTML log of my Dell PC scan. I have tried reading some of the other DRIVER_IRQL threads and tried some piece meal fixes and...

Im having a frequent BSOD everytime I play a game or even just surfing the web it says IRQ_NOT_EQUAL_OR_LESS. I run Mem test and Chkdsk and theres no errors or problems.. Theres no overheating issue coz my GPU is at 54 when gaming and 40 on CPU.. Please help.. I attached the zip file for info...

I am having a problem with splwow64.exe hanging up my PC, but only once per day. I routinely start a process in the morning, it can be Snagit, Notepad, Word, Textpad, Excel - really anything that might print. It doesn't matter. The application appears "hung". I then open the Resource Monitor...

Hi all, heres a quick run down of my problem. about a month ago my pc started having errors at bootup. it would get as far as the desktop, then freeze the desktop, allowing me to still use my mouse but i couldnt select anything and the system would hang. After restarting on average about...

Hi Guys, I really love my Lenovo T61p, specifically I love the 1920x1200 resolution that you don't get nowadays. Even though it's a well spec'd out laptop, the problem is that it is choking at times with the payload of software I want to run simultaneously - I'm a web developer that works from...

Hello, I've encountered numerous crashes while gaming, watching videos and just plain web-surfing. Tried updating all my hardware drivers, uninstalling Avast Internet Security and the problem still persists and I hope someone in this forum could help me with this problem. I have more than 30...

I am visiting my grand daughter at my other daughter's house. Of course my grand daughter says, "Grandpa, can you look at my PC. It keeps going to sleep when I'm working on it. It has been working fine until I arrived here" Some may recall this is a new PC (approx. 7 months ago) that I bought as...