pc troubleshooting

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...

Hello this is CrazyKilla About 1 day ago i wanted to install windows 8 beta, after a couple restarts, everything working fine, windows 8 begins installing, i wait a while and it finally reaches 100%, and then the computer restarts, this time its different, it first starts at: PNY Geforce GTS 450...

I have 2 PCs connected to my router. One has no issues whatsoever. The other, carrying windows 7 shows "limited or no connectivity" every 1 or 2 hours. This is resolved by rebooting. I think this only happens when using bit-torrent. Not 100% sure though. I read some posts saying that disabling...

My mom has a pc that is not starting up. It has windows vista and is freezing at the loading bar. I went into safe mode but the mouse wasn't working. Shut it down from there and it said shutting down so it wasn't frozen, it took a long time to load at (i think) CRCdrive.sys. I would like to run...

Hi all I really need your help last night turned pc off alls well this morning turnned it on all I get is blank screen and 3 posts two short one long what does that mean how do I get my pc back!!!

Hello. This wierd problem accured to me today. Yesterday I was playing, surfin on my PC. Now when i tried to start windows it would not come pass the loading screen to my desktop. It will just restart the PC over and over again. I have tried to repair windows with my install CD but it cannot...

Hello, I'm having an issue using two monitors on my PC. A bit of background info: Ive been using dual monitors for about a year by plugging one into my on-board GPU (VGA-VGA) and one into my external GPU (VGA-VGA-DVI-I using an adapter). For reasons which I can't be...

Attached; 1 CPUID Screen Shots 2 SF Diagnostics Tool Files .ZIP 3 RAMMon - SPD Info .ZIP and .TXT My History Pre Yesterday many BSOD could not narrow it down. PC guy told me it was my web cam they up dated my drivers. No Luck.. BSOD Was trying to convert DVD files using DVDfab to a format for...

I have recently moved to Windows 7 (upon getting a new motherboard installed) and 2 eweks later I cannot start up as I get a 'Restart from Hibernate' message on screen but nothing further happens. I have tried a 'hard restart' from power off several times, allowing plenty of time for capacitor...

Uploaded some photos to a dedicated file on my pc from my camera. I used to be able sort them into their dedicated files, but today I tried and I couldn't do it. The same happens with my emails if I want to save them to their dedicated folder, ie:friends info etc. Read on another forum that...

My hubby's PC is running Win7 32 bit. Typically he "hibernates" his PC rather than shutting it down. Yesterday he hibernated the PC as usual and then proceeded to remove the power cable while he was re-routing various cables. He has his hard drives mounted in front loading bays (no need to open...

I cant get into my desktop on windows 7, after I login It hangs at welcome and loads for a while, then a green screen appears. after I reboot I get the error has occured screen and get the safe mode and start windows as normal etc....options. I can get into desktop in safe mode. My pc is only...

Problem Description After booting, the computer freezes at the welcome screen after logging in as any of the users. Sometimes it will restart automatically, other times it has to be "hard shut down". It freezes at the same time, consistently. Occasionally, through an unknown set of steps, I...

Hey Just wondering if anyone would be able to help me I've been having some random shut downs with the following build which is only about a month and a half old the gtx 570 is only a few days old and since then the problems have gotten worse. Code: Intel Core i7 930 at stock with stock...

Hey guys the fact ive had to sign up and post here is disturbing enough, usually i can find the solution myself or a quick google reveals the fix but sadly no... I'll apologise now for any swearing that may be included.. extremely stressed atm. Before anyone jumps in and says just use the...

My Hitherto well behaved Win 7 PC keeps coming up with: A fatal hardware error has occurred. Reported by component: Processor Core Error Source: Machine Check Exception Error Type: Unknown Error Processor ID: 1 The details view of this entry contains further information. (below) + System...

The title explains most of it. My hard drive crashed on my one pc so I changed to windows 7. In windows XP 1080p to my samsung HDTV via HDMI looked terrible for text but great for video so I stayed with VGA. I had no problems with my radeon 4550 running 1920x1080 60Hz through XP and used that...

Apologies if this has been posted before - I have been a longtime Linux user (switching after running into many frustrating issues with Windows XP), but recently bought a decent PC with Windows 7 so I could get back into gaming. I've only had it for a little over a month and have already ran...

OK, this has been going on as long as I've had Seven, but it's getting irritating. When my PC hasn't been playing any sound for about 30 secs, the on board audio switches itself off. If I then play some sound, it switches back on and works fine. The trouble is, switching on and off both yield a...

Hi All... Hoping that someone can help with this problem that started for me yesterday..!! All AM time I was logged in and surfing the internet going to all the usual pages Etc.. Lunch time comes, so I decide to go downstairs and eat and so, while making lunch I decided that my laptop needeed...