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Random BSOD and program crashes have been a way of life for me for approximately three months now. My original set-up had been flawless since conception nearly two years prior. I have my opinions of what needs to be done but would really like a second opinion before i sink more money into this...

Ever since I recovered from the virus/trojan attack in December, my PC hasn't been the same. I keep getting a pop-up from malware-bytes and spy-bot about a smitfraud c.generic and svchost.exe problems. Needless to say, there is something happening that I can not put my finger on and realize...

I've started to get a BSOD more regularly on my Acer Aspire One and I am not aware of having installed any new hardware or changing the figuration much. I recently reinstalled Windows 7 and reformatted in the hopes it would solve the problem, but I got a BSOD after booting up for the first time...

Hi everyone! I've had an interesting week, but I'll try to give as much information here as I can. So I custom-built my PC last June (used the HDD from my old comp, which I made in 2006). I had one BSoD; however, since it just happened the once, I never worried about it again. A few days ago...

I made a thread on another forum about this, so I'm just copy and pasting what I wrote so I don't have to write another essay. Hi, So last night I went to reformat my laptop, halfway through I thought nah I don't wanna do this anymore so I clicked cancel. Now whenever I try to turn on my...

Hey guys I'm a first time poster to these forums. I'm currently experiencing an issue with my computer. About 2 months ago I started getting random freezes and would have to do a hard restart on my computer to restart. To see if it was a virus or any kind of malware, I did a clean reformat of my...

I am working on a Dell Inspiron 2205 all in one touch screen running Win 7 home premium 64 bit with 4 gb ram and 500 gb hd. The original problem was lock ups on an irregular basis. Of course I eliminated virus and malware infection. I ran several diagnostic programs including memtest and PCcheck...

I am working on a Dell Inspiron 2205 all in one touch screen running Win 7 home premium 64 bit with 4 gb ram and 500 gb hd. The original problem was lock ups on an irregular basis. Of course I eliminated virus and malware infection. I ran several diagnostic programs including memtest and...

So I've been running Windows 7 and I have a Toshiba Qosmio X505-Q888. I recently started having random Blue Screens of Death. I was told it might be a RAM problem and I wanted to upgrade my RAM so I changed my RAM to Kingston 4 Gb x 2, and that didn't solve the problem. So I reformatted my...

My Asus G73-JH laptop is currently freezing at the Windows Starting screen. I've read a lot of other forum posts that feature the same problem, BUT there is artifacting (bunch of colored dots) on the top of this screen that goes across the "Starting Windows" screen in a sort of horizontal...

BOOTMGR is missing but it's not the same as the other threads My computer is now useless. I had windows XP, and recently decided to upgrade to 7, skipping Vista. I have all my important files backed up, and I intend to reformat the hard drive and start fresh. I put in the Windows 7 disk...

have a doubt... i have got a new laptop... config i5-second generation.. 6 gb ram 1 gb graphics card the vendor game me orginal win7 oem win home basic 7 sp1 32 bit os... he gave me only win7 32 bit oem DVD along with it.... he installed the same in my laptop... but i need win7 64 bit for...

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...

Ever since I've reformatted my laptop, it's not able to detect or connect my printer. And I really need to use my printer now. These are the errors I get: I went to the HP site to download the latest driver for my printer model, but on this page it says: Link Removed - Invalid URL "The...

I just reformatted my computer and installed Windows 7 64bit. I can access the internet just fine on Google Chrome. I can download at the fastest speed my connection will allow. Some programs, 2 in particular, won't allow connections but others will. Examples are: Ventrilo, and PlayOnline will...

I had to reformat my Win 8 DP partition and then restore from an Image I had created. When I did this I lost the fancy new Win 8 DP Boot Screen (boot loader). I did have to go into Win 7 and use EasyBCD to add my Win 8 DP OS to the MBR, but the boring old Win 7 boot screen comes up, even when I...

I get BSODs before Windows7 even starts to load. I can't get in through Safe Mode, I still get BSODs. I've tried System Restore, it won't restore, probably because of the BSOD, 0x8000ffff. I've tried everything in the Advance Recovery Method and Startup Repair. It said something about my hard...

Hello All, As a matter of habit, I tend to reformat my machine on a fairly regular basis (every 6 months or so). The last time I did a clean out, I had the problem below. I am about to clean out again, and would like to know if there is any way to avoid the problems I had last time. My...

Hi I'm new here and I do have a tiny background in installing Windows 7. As of my experience goes, all i have done are clean installs and for once in my life I have never done a not clean/unclean install before. Here's the thing, a friend of mine asks me to reformat his old acer notebook from...

So I've finally snapped. For over a year now I've been enduring this god forsaken problem, dismissing and ignoring it as much as I could whenever it reared its ugly head. I can take it NO MORE. My patience has run out! Now, as much as I like to think I'm good with computers, there's quite a...