power issues

I recently upgraded to windows 8.1 from 7. Whenever I connect my D-Link dongle, windows thinks that it is a read only storage drive. I uninstalled and re-installed the D-Link software but it doesnt work. When I start the "D-Link Connection Manager" it shows the loading screen and then...

Guys, I own a Sont Vaio Fit 15 notebook. It's just 8 months old but all of a sudden, yesterday my laptop is not charging at all. It says plugged in and charging but even after 2 hours it remains at 0% and when I unplug the charger, it shuts off instantly. Is my battery gone?? Before this problem...

Hi I have installed a brand new Gigabyte GA-870A-USB3L motherboard for my dad and it has been working for the last few weeks until today, he tells me that a Bad CheckSum error appeared on the BIOS when he rebooted his computer. I have completely powered down the computer and powered it back up...

Ok so, yesterday I was playing some steam games. I just started up my computer. And when I joined a game the computer would shut off. It wouldn't even be a normal shutdown. It would just cut power, lights out... So I just said I don't have time for this and go to my baseball game... When I...

I'm new to Widows7 and now after 3 weeks the PC starts up in the middle of the night, the only way I can stop it is to turn off the power point. I've been looking at all sorts of things in the 3 weeks and I must have ticked the wrong box somewhere. Can anyone give me a clue where to look to fix...

i have a dell inspiron m5030 laptop. when i boot it up, there's a blank screen, and beeps. 7 beeps to be exact, indicating that there's motherboard failure. i read a fix on dell's website, quoted as follows: i did this fix, and it worked! but now everytime i shut down my laptop afterwards, i...

Greetings y'all. I just got a Windows 8 HP laptop and a strange thing happened. I was catching up on my shows on Hulu when a box popped up on my screen that said something like "Flashing Process. Keyboard and Trackpad will no [sic] respond. Process will be complete in 100 seconds." The show...

A few days ago I reinstalled my windows 7 because my pendrive was not detecting (not detecting = no power in usb!!!). When I reinstalled the windows 7 it did not work. So I thought that the drive is kinda dead. So I got myself my friend's pendrive to check but his pendrive also didn't work. But...

I've done a search and found plenty of posts where a harddrive is no longer shown under My Computer. My problem is that it is all of my hard drives won't show in My Computer. So this tells me it's probably not all of the power/sata cables all at once. When I restart my PC they reappear...

Hello there! I'm having a bit of an issue with my HP Pavilion dv6 lap top. The specs are AMD A8-3520M APU with Radeon HD Graphics 1.60 GHz. 6.00GB RAM. 64-bit OS. This started about 2 and a half weeks ago and i'm not entirely sure from what. I've updated graphic drivers and sound drivers but...

I recently upgraded from XP to Windows 8 in a desktop model about 5 yrs old. No problems and the upgrade worked better than expectations. I have had since a couple of crashes, a BSOD, and periodically the system will NOT shut down. Monitor closes but the power keeps chugging along until the...

New external HDD won't show in "Computer" l Have searched a lot, but only find comments directing me to Disk management and Device manager. The Ext. HD is not showing there either. Power light is on. This is a Lacie 2 TB Minimus USB 3.0 External Hard Drive...

Hi guys. I'm using quite of an old desktop rig. I recently replaced my 8500GT in favor of a GTS 450 ( both PALIT) which i bought last year... and my generic 550watts power supply with a newly bought FPS epsilon 700W. ISSUES: 1. Windows 7 freezes at the 'Starting Link Removed screen. all...

This is now my third time with this problem, the first required me to restore to factory settings. These last two seem to have been triggered by a power flicker at my residence. The power momentarily flickered long enough for my computer to shut down. After booting the computer seems fine until...

Hi there, It's all about my friend's PC and it has the following configuration: MB: Asus P5B-E CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 RAM: 2X Kingmax 512MB DDR2 667MHz => 1GB VGA: Nvidia GeForce 7300le OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x86 The first thing i want to do is to buy a new single RAM...

Bottom line up front - my PC is having repeated nvstor64 type 3 errors which cause it to hang and the only way to restart it is to hold the power button in until it shuts down. Help! Sorry if this is the wrong forum - I'm not sure where to post this since I really don't know what the problem...

Hello everyone, Today, my computer just finished installing updates, and was waiting for me at the user selection/log in screen when I checked on it. I powered it off by holding the power button down to change some BIOS settings. (In the end, I did not save any changes to the BIOS, so I can...

Hello guys. I'm kinda needing help with my issue. when i play certain games anywhere between 10 and 30 minutes my computer will just restart... no bosd (i took off the auto restart) and still restarts like if it lost power. I have replaced video card, ram, cpu fan, case, I have also tried...

Hi guys. I'd like to request your urgent help in helping me solve a blue screen uncorrectable hardware error on a laptop. I was playing Mass Effect 2 when the crash happened and then the blue screen error came up and it lingered for about 10 seconds before the entire screen went black but the...

Hello, In the past two days, my external HD becomes disconnected when the sytem sits idle, or after a restart. I can see the drive (D:), click it and it will open - but without folders. If I disconnect and reconnect both the USB and power cables, it will be restored. I have done nothing new...