reboot problems

Greetings! I recently purchased Bulletstorm, and received it last night, installed it, played it, no problem. Untill I was playing for about 2 hours. The graphics got stuck, but the sound kept going. I did Ctrl-Alt-Del and click run taskmanager, it went to the desktop, and said Bulletstorm was...

I have a windows 7 machine that I use as a 'server' for SageTV (playing DVDs) I dont dirrectly connect to it and the software is stable as far as I did install much software at build and I have changed little recently as far as software.. I recently swapped the CPU out for a quad core and...

Ok, everything was running perfectly fine till a few days ago when i had windows updates to install & after the reboot it said updates had failed & it continued to fail & revert the changes made which took forever to do & i managed to get the updates to install 1 by 1 in the end. But ever since...

Have been using W7 for a couple of months - last night it decided to reboot and will not complete the reboot. Tried to repair using the W7 tools without success. I ran Sea tools and it found 4 bad sectors and fixed them. No change so far. It still will not start and go to the desktop. The...

Hi, I have just replaced XP with Windows 7. I unplugged the old system disk and put in a new one in the same place, and then removed all its partitions with the Windows 7 installer and set up from scratch. The system disk is always a primary master on the motherboard ATA controller. I have...

Hey guys i really need some help on this error im getting...few days ago i baught new parts for my pc Asus p5n-d 4 gigs of patriot ram....And as i installed it i guess it deleted my windows so what i did is i installed my windows xp home and it installed fine then The same day i installed...

Really fun things happen if your laptop falls off the bed while you're asleep. In Windows, I can no longer log off/reboot/shut down normally (Linux, however, is fine). Also, if I put my laptop to sleep in Windows, it will inexplicably refuse to wake up (again, Linux can wake up just fine...

Any Virtual XP experts here? I found this system to be very fragile. The problem is that I cannot update the XP. On rebooting after the first update, the whole thing goes pear-shaped and eventually locks up and requires re-installation. My solution to now is to switch off updates. Hardly an...

Guys, I've been having some extremely weird problems with my Windows 7 Home Premium PC. It's brand new, bought in the beginning of the year. There's 4 problems. Main one comes first: Today, while I was watching You Tube videos, got a blue screen twice. But not the 'blue screen of death'...

I wonder if someone can tell me what's going on here. I installed Windows 7 Pro (64 bit Upgrade edition) tonight. I have two hard drives in this system, one of which is old and has a Windows XP install on it. I was planning on retiring that drive, but I'd heard that if I kept in the computer...

My laptop came with windows 7, I never had to install it. I have had the same problem with this twice, and I want to stop this from happening again. You see, both times, the computer would run unnaturally slow, then when I am in the middle of something (First time was browsing the internet...

I had just done a critical update a few nights ago, and after rebooting my pc to finish installing, my reboot now takes 10-15 minutes. When the pc comes on and says ACER is where it sits the longest, and i dont think i can enter bios or change boot devices either, ive pressed and pressed the...

hi all, i recently installed windows 7 pro and have been getting incessant problems over the sound. i'm using an (old) sound blaster audigy. here's the problem - after installing windows 7 and installing a bunch of software and updates, my sound was still working fine. then after a reboot the...

Ok. I changed my SID number last night and after I rebooted most of my stuff was gone. Well, I dont know if its gone or it is just not available to me because Im not able to log in to my my administrator account. I am not able to perform most functions because I dont have the rights to do...

Hi, My volume control is missing from the system tray. It was there earlier and when i rebooted it never came up. Also, in the "show or hide volume icon on the taskbar" the volume control os blaked out and off. I could not activate it from there. Any suggestions? Thanks, Adam

This morning I decided to use the System Restore to revert back to a previous state, but after the computer rebooted and everything, I get an error message saying that it couldn't revert because there was a file that could not be accessed(doesn't say which file it is) and I got the error message...

I bought a new gaming rig two weeks ago, and it came in the mail today. I had to install the Winodws 7 OS, and that went rough but it was successful. I'm instaling a ZONET USB card, and this is where the problem comes in: When I restarted my desktop to finalize the installation, the icons and...

I hope this is in the correct section. As the title says, my Compro Videomate e300 works when i install the drivers. As soon as i reboot, both Compro DTV and Media Centre cannot find channels. I am using the latest 6.01.080 driver and DTV 4.53.600 and Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit (i just installed...

Hello. Im experiencing random reebots with my computer. The computer just reeboots without any bluescreen, any errormessages or anything. Very annoying when I'm playing online and stuff. How can I find out what the problem is? had the same problem with XP, but there I atleast got bluescreen so I...

When i want to install windows 7 64 bit version it has to reboot after Expanding files When it reboots it automaticly starts windows 7 while the installation wasn't complete yet (it still missed Installing Features, Installing Updates and the Completing Installation). It is a clean install and...