power settings

I have a serious and very annoying problem.Ever, since I got Windows 7, whenever watching a movie it freezes (once every 10 minutes, for 3-4 seconds). Also, last night, I found freezess when I listen to music and I'm not a computer, so I guess this is due to some safety mode or something because...

I just recently received a new dell xps 9100 loaded with an intel I7 six core 930 processor, 16 gigs of ram, 2x1tb hardrives, soundblaster x-fi soundcard, ati radeon 5870 1gb video card and a few other goodies. when im listening to my music while running other applications it starts to crackle...

When I open the lid of my laptop I see there is no network connection and computer starts to search it. It happens a lot but not always. I tried to see how long it takes for the connection to be disconnected after I close it, and sometimes it happens almost immediately - I close the lid, open...

I leave my computer on at home so I can remote desktop into it when I'm out at work or in the library. Recently after upgading to Windows 7 Pro, I'm seeing this problem. The remote desktop works when I'm out, but when I get home, my computer's unaccessible. Both my monitors (i run a dual...

Hey there, After upgrading to a larger hard drive, I have been unable to use the sleep function without getting a BSOD after waking it up. My laptop goes to sleep fine, but when resuming, it shows the log-on screen for a moment before showing a BSOD, error code 0x0.....F4 . I never had a this...

My computer keeps crashing when it attempts to wake up from sleeping. It never crashes when it is running normally and I am working on it. It has a wireless card for my inet, and any time I wake it up the bars down in the lower right show no signal and it has the round wheel spinning like it is...

Hi everyone, I have an HP dv3510nr laptop running windows 7. Last night the wifi was working fine but I wasn't paying attention and the battery died. After plugging in and resuming from hibernate the wifi adapter was turned off and the icon was red. Even after pressing the button and the icon...

Hi all, I am experiencing a very strange problem and I have no idea how to fix it. After my laptop has been on for about an hour or so (the amount of time varies), everything stops working, in the sense that I lose my wireless internet connection, I cant do anything with the task manager, I...

I've just upgraded the OS on a workstation, from Vista ult 64 to win 7 pro 64. It has all the latest updates installed. I also used the opportunity to install Autodesk 3ds Max Design 2011. The latest hotfix is installed. My problem is that windows 7 goes to sleep after the specified period...

I started having a problem less than a week ago. When my Laptop is in idol for a period of time i will come back to a black screen with white text reading, I can then just power off the laptop and then power it up and it boots fine. I called Dell and they updated the bios, and the propblem...

Hi again , hope all is well .. I am having some weird thing happening to my computer, I never saw anything like this before in windows xp , so that's why I attempt to ask it here. While using Windows 7 for some time now , I am recently seeing very weird things happening. I am just starting...

When I unplug a device (mouse, cord to speakers, keyboard) this wakes my computer from sleep mode. The instructions I have found to edit this setting all pertain to Vista or earlier models, none to Windows 7. How can I change this setting so Windows 7 no longer wakes when devices are unplugged...

WIN 7 64 BIT core i7 930 no OC gigabyte x58a-ud7 nvidia 210 no OC corsiar dominator GT 6gb 1600mhz (x.m.p) huntkey 900w PSU - <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> - <System> <Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power"...

Before i describe my problem id like to say ive spent some time searching past threads and can only come up with variations of sleep problems occuring. My current settings have sleep turned off, monitor on always. So i doubt these apply to me. I have a new computer that was built for me by a...

Hi, Just recently I have been getting a black screen upon returning to my computer after sleep mode and more recently if I turn my monitor off for a longer period of time. The monitor signals that it is on (LG Flatron wide screen - light is blue = on) and shows the logo of the monitor turning...

OS- Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Having some problems, not sure if they are related. 1. I am getting blue screen crashes, here is a picture of the crash report: Link Removed due to 404 Error 2. My device manager is listing "Intel(R) ICH7 DH LPC Interface Controller - 27B0" as an...

W7HP edition. Sometimes my computer will go to sleep, but most of the time it won't. The only time it will guarantee to go to sleep, is if I am downloading a large file. If I am downloading, 100% of the time, it will go to sleep. Is there a setting somewhere, that will tell the computer to not...

I've got a Windows 7 Pro 64 bit system (6.1.7600.16385) with a bit of an issue. It's a high end, RAID 1 (hardware configured) system. Quad core Xeon and 8GB ram... I need this system to stay running until I tell it otherwise..... but it's not. I always disable Windows updates, just for this...

I own an HP HDX16 laptop running on Windows 7 Home Premium x64. I have the power setting set so that the laptop "does nothing" (doesn't hibernate/sleep) when the lid is closed. When I close the lid, the laptop constantly makes this "blip" sound which is quite annoying. I usually have to crawl...

I just purchased a new Windows 7 PC (HP Pavalion e9280t, Windows 7 64-bit operating system). I would like to put the PC into sleep mode after 1 hour of activity. However, after the PC goes to sleep, after I wake it up, whenever I attempt to open any program or application at that point, the PC...