pc troubleshooting

Hello. Today i am having issues with my pc's sound system. At random times, my microphone cuts out and picks up what i am hearing instead. People cant hear me over skype when this happens, but they can hear themselves. Anyone got any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks,

I have been trying to install a few things on my new computer. MS Office, Photoshop, etc. The things I had on my older computer. When I try to install them, I get a message that says, "This app can't run on your PC", "To find a version for your PC, Check with the software publisher" If Windows...

I have windows 10 technical preview on my PC. I recently bought a new laptop and tried to use the "Remove Everything and Reinstall Windows" setting. I am now looking at a blue screen that reads: "Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC Press 'Advanced options' to try other options to repair...

So around a week ago I started getting BSoDs every time I started-restarted my PC.After the blue screen windows would be restored in a previous state and boot normally. I have noticed that every time this would happen, windows updates would pop up (13 essential ones). For some reason I thought...

Hello, My PC connects successfully to the network, and shows that it accesses to the internet, It looks in the network menu like this: <CONNECTIONNAME> Internet Access But when I open any browser (Tryed Internet Explorer, Google Chrome and Firefox) or open any app/online game that must...

Hi Everyone I wonder if anyone can help - probably once a month when i switch on my computer it blue screens but once switched of an on again (maybe a couple of times) its works fine. It happened this morning and i had the following error message : Does anyone know what might be causing this...

the ram are good , i did memtest for 6 hours , 0 errors , all my drivers are up to date . No OC running

Hi, I'm a computer noob. I have a 12 year old retail-purchased PC that came with WinXP Home pre-installed on the 160GB hard drive. The original OEM hard drive squeals terribly loud and sounds like it's going to die. I'd like to replace it, but not sure how to get WinXP installed on a fresh hard...

Hey I'm having this error while playing Civilization: Beyond Earth where my computer will just get a black screen and the audio begins to loop. The only solution is to turn off power and restart. Here's my W7F zip along with some cpu-z imgs from my previous BSOD post (and some additional ones) &...

hello, I two days ago I was just editing a video and I didn't install any new software or change anything, all I did is save some pictures from google and opened some pictures that my boss sent me , I shut down my computer like normal and the next day, when i started my computer up I got the...

Hi, my name is Jhim. I am having a hard time in fixing this hard disk failure. I've done CHKDSK but the system is stock in 27% and doesn't go any further. And when I run my pc normally it hangs up. What should I do? :(

The Windows Club has released FixWin 2.0 for Windows 8, a Windows 8/ 8.1-specific edition of its portable PC troubleshooting tool. As before, the program lists 50+ common problems and symptoms across a range of categories: "File Explorer", "Internet & Connectivity", "Modern UI" and so on...

Hello. This is my first time on this forum so please let me know if i'm doing anything wrong. My screen normally flickers on and off on start up, but today its been going all day! I cant play minecraft with out my monitor spazing out. but if I go away for a few minutes, it stops. Its like my pc...

i have windows 8, (haven't updated to 8.1/8.2) and one day, i turn my computer on, and it says failed to login, so i tried again, and logged in. Everything looked fine, then the screen turned black and text appeared saying: Hi, getting your PC ready, this will take only a few minutes. It then...

For years I have been the "go-to" guy for fixing friends and family's computers, which usually were desktops (which i could rip open and replace the hardware in). lately a majority of the issues that i have had to address were laptop issues. while a lot of issues can be fixed with some sort of a...

Each time I boot my pc I get a logon process initialization failure dialog box which says "Interactive logon process initialization has failed. Please consult the event log for more details."

fsutil dirty query returned both C: and D: drive as Dirty. Desc of the problem and other information: First started off about 6 months ago, my pc has 2 drives, C: and D: with D: being empty, nothing stored, not used for anything. started storing files and within some time there was about a...

I bought a new PC and i had installed Windows 7 Ultimate but there's not any no internet connection and there's not any identity for it and video card and sound card not like my old PC , it installed drivers automatically and i had installed Professional and home premium and the problem still...

Today i have installed windows 7 on 64 bits and i just cannot get past this problem with the sound. I have a 5.1 surround audio system and have installed the latest Realtek HD audio driver on my pc to get all the speakers going. After the installation of the driver every sound came with...

Hi all, I am having problems with my PC at the moment. I cannot install drivers on my computer, when I try it says "Access Denied". I have Admin rights on my account. Any help is very much appreciated as it is a very annoying problem.