system lockup

To anyone able to help, A month ago I bought a reasonably high-end gaming PC with the following setup: Gigabyte G1.Sniper 2 motherboard with integrated network card and Creative Labs X-Fi sound card SilverStone ST1500 (1500W) PSU 2 x EVGA (NVIDIA) GeForce GTX 580 set up in SLI 16 Gb DDR3 RAM...

As the title says, when I boot my machine, the LanmanServer service gets stuck during startup. While this is happening, the OS is basically dead, and any attempt to do anything that involves loading from the HDD will lock up until the service finally starts, which can take upwards of ten...

My Windows 7 system and/or Office 207 Professional occasionally 'lock up' and gives me the chance to report the error before closing the program involved. The PC Issues flag has two solutions, one for Skype and one for Microsoft Office. Which ever one I try to read the action centre screen...

Hi, I just installed winbubble 2.0.3.7 on my system with Win 7 Ult. 64 bit. The install went without a problem. I checked the box to force login name and password. On reboot all login names and passwords do not work. I do have a tri boot system with XP S3, and Win 7 32, which currently...

Hi there, I did a search on google and through these forums search function but all I can seem to find are topics about vista and backing up problems, and a few things about install problems. I did find a link to a microsoft hotfix for my problem, but it was only for specifically 4GB+ of Ram...

Hi All, I'm having problems with my computer I built some time ago now. From time to time it will completely stop responding and need to be reset using the power switch (sound also hangs if there is any at the time). This will happen very frequently when the RAM is in a dual channel...

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...

Hey guys and gals, I'm diagnosing a Latitude D620 running Windows 7 x64. Recently it's been crashing every couple of days - occasionally with a BSOD, but more typically just locking up or shutting down immediately. Most of the logged events are along the lines of: Error 4/8/2010 1:20:42 PM...

First off specs.. Windows Home Premium 64 bit Computer is an Asus G72-gx1 Intel Q9300 2.0Ghz quadcore 6GB of ram and the nvidia GTX 260m Now here is whats going on I can do anything with this computer I can run 5 games simultaneously and barely use 100% .... But ANYTIME i load a chatroom...

This is going to take a bit of explanation. So three days ago I installed crysis, i know its been 3 years. That is the last change I made to my system until today. Today, my modem started loosing and gaining connection every 5 min or so. I called up comcast and asked them what to do. The tech...

ננעל win7 שלום כולם. מצטער על האופן בו הועלתה ההודעה קודם. לא הייתי מודע לבעיה. התקנתי חלונות 7 והכל נראה בסדר מלבד בעיה מאד מציקה. כאשר אני משאיר את המחשב ללא פעילות, כעבור זמן מה אני מקבל מסך שחור וזה בסדר , אלא מה, כאשר אני מזיז את העכבר כדי להשתמש שוב במחשב אני מקבל מסך ועליו שם המשתמש...

Hi everyone! I installed windows 7 build 7600 on my computer and have this strange problem. First of all, I was using XP and it's still on my compuıter. I just created a new part on my harddisk and formatted it and installed 7 there. So here is what happened: I tried to install Windows 7 from...

Sorry if this has been covered before but this problem is diving me mad. Running 64 bit windows 7. using an external seagate freeagent desktop 750GB and a 250GB sata hard drive in a winstar hard drive dock. Boot up and everything works fine. After a period of time - usually about 30mins. both...

I upgraded from Vista to Windows 7 Premium and now when I try and open Word 2007 it just hangs there. An if I right click anything after that the system locks up and eventually comes back with Windows Explorer is not responding and asks to restart. Any ideas?

Hey guys! I just joined here and I'm having a major problem with my computer. Two days ago I upgraded my desktop computer from Windows XP Home to Windows 7 Pro. I'm studying at University and was granted access to the OS through a website called MSDN, a place that offers free software to...

Specs: ATX Aerocool VX-R case Gigabyte EP43-UD3L motherboard Gigabyte Radeon HD-4550 1TB Western Digital RE3 HDD 630W Rosewill Green series psu 2Gb (2x1gb) DDR2 Crucial Ballistix Tracer Ram @1066 2 HP 1260i dvd burners Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66Ghz Problems: im trying to install Windows 7...

(Windows 7 64 bit) ok ive been reading thru what alot of people have been doing for the blue screen and all and i havnt seen anything like what ive been having problems with. i have gotten a blue screen three seperate times while one just being on the internet, and the other two times while...

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone could point out something I am doing wrong, I would appreciate any help what so ever. I just made a new desktop here are the specs: E8400 stock Gigabyte GA-EP43-UD3L 775 P43 EVGA Nvidia 9800 GT 4 GB Corsair ddr2 ram used WD Raptor 150 GB 64 bit iso directly...

I'm using Windows 7 RC and having problems with the Remote Desktop feature. I can connect to a remote computer fine but when I logoff, the connection then seems to disconnect but then Window locksup! I cannot just close the window but have to go into Task Manager to end each window task! This is...

For the rest of the story (and the intro), see: Link Removed and its linked topic... I thought the title wasn't appropriate to the content so I'm starting yet another topic on the matter. So, today my laptop has entered a new realm of instability. The "infection" (NOT literal... figurative) is...