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...

Link Removed Hello, I have been expierencing major problems with my pc, specifically when I play games. Anytime I play a game, and Leave it Idle, (For 5-10 mins), It restarts and gives me an error report. But even when I'm not playing games, It Blue Screens on me. When I was downloading a game...

Link Removed i have reset problem. I can not solve the problem. My computer sometimes get a blue screen error and reset itself.I update the bios.In my opinion it does not get error as much as it used to after bios update. I need help!!

Hello there here is some background of how all of this began.. I bought this pc a year ago in best buy until i decided to install a graphics card that fried my audio in my mother board took it to geek squad in best buy to see if they could fixed it. It wen out to service for 1-2 weeks came...

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, I am running Windows 7 64bit. I've some issue on my system which is driving me nuts. I can't view encryted films from Lovefilms. Internet purchases via credit card fails on the very last step .. the bit after the extra verification step for Visa Debit.. the page has reset... Well they...

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...

Hello! So I first started seeing BSOD only when gaming (World of Warcraft) but now it is appearing while browsing the web as well. I recently reformatted my PC, as I had planned to do in the near future to delete my other OS on the system I no longer used. I thought maybe if I just went ahead...

hello folks :) i get BSOD when i run 3d-games in crossfire mode. If i play with xfire disabled there is no problem but with it on i get BSOD at random times. also tried with each individual cards in the pc and that also works flawlessly. it started happening after i bios flashed both my 5850...

Hello all, before approx. 2 months I had a problem with a keyboard, but I have fixed that by unninstaling Windows Live (messenger etc.). Now, I wasn't home this whoole weekend, but when I got back, PC had same problem (my father and sister used this PC...dad is expert with PC so I don't think...

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...

My PC (ASUS N61JV) is misbehaving. It powered off unexpectedly. When I Switched it back on, only thing i could see was a Blue Screen. I ran all the required tests and am attaching the reports for your convenienceLink RemovedLink Removed. I am using x64 bit version of Windows 7. I am really...

Hello, I am in the process of ripping an audiobook to my hard drive, but one or two of the discs report read errors and stubbornly refuse to be ripped. I have been using AudioGrabber, NCH's Express Rip and Windows Media Player so far. They all stumble on discs 7 and 8 in a big way; they hang...