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Hi all and thanks for your great supporting forum. I'm experiencing since this morning systematic BSOD at windows login, probably in relation with my video card. The first crash occured while googling (not gaming, no CPU activity), the screen blanked and then BSOD followed by reboot. At reboot...

BSOD error message 0x0000007f (ox0000000000000008, 0x0000000080031, ox00000000000006f8, oxfffff800028dabd0) Just curious what the stuff in the parenthesis means? i believe ox7f is hardware/driver issue, but i'm not a doctor. i don't know. This has been happening it seems almost randomly. I...

On my desktop computer I did a clean install of Windows 7 off the official MS Win 7 upgrade disc that I used to upgrade from XP. I did the many rounds of Windows Upgrades, etc. Then started to install only the programs I use and only from trusted sources. Everything was going smooth and just...

Windows 7 Pro and Windows XP PRO “Semi Dual boot” My question is labeled “”Semi Dual Boot” because I have a situation involving WIN 7 Pro and WIN XP Pro on the same computer. Background --How I got to where I need to make this post I had a WIN XP PRO, SP3 system installed,(100% genuine...

Hi all, My fiance has a Dell Inspiron 15" laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium currently on it. She got a trojan (heur.html.maliframe) and instead of trying to go through the hassle of removing it, I thought it'd be a good time to wipe the HDD and go to Windows 7. My questions are: 1. I...

Yesterday my 500w powersupply started smoking up so I went out and bought a Thermaltake Lightpower 700w powersupply. After I finished rewiring my computer I noticed my graphics card wasn't working on my computer so I changed my input from HDMI to VGA to use the integrated graphics card. I'm...

Hello Folks, I recently upgraded my system from Win7 Pro to Win8 and somehow my internet broadband connection stopped working after the upgrade. I have checked my internet connection (works), Ethernet cable (works - tested using laptop). Am not sure if it is of any help but the lights where...

Hello. I'm new here, I hope is okay to post on this folder. Anyway, I've used Photoshop CS (8) for years now and always with Win XP. About a month ago I formatted my HD and installed Windows 7. Then I installed a few programs that I usually use, including Photoshop CS. Now, my problem is this...

Hey everyone, just downloaded and installed 8 Pro. I love it, but my internet is extremely slow now. My wife and I were streaming netflix last night and it kept buffering. It never did this on W7. I just did a speed test on my phone and got 4.9 Mbps. I did the test on my laptop and I got .89...

Hi Guys Looking to try and improve my home computer station / internet speed I have added as much info as my ability allows (and Speccy's help) to my profile hope this helps Any help advice etc greatly appreciated

Hi i have a Hp Pavilion Dv6-1128TX Running Windows 7 Home Premium 32 Bit and the following specs 2 GB Ram ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4530 512Mb Graphics Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T640 2.00GHz I am having issues with BSOD Errors and i was hoping someone has the answers for me i get a few...

I have been experiencing issues for a while now, since I upgraded CPU, motherboard and memory in one go. My system worked fine prior to the changes, and after a full reinstall, I've been having frequent issues with BSOD. My system is currently; Intel i5-3570K Ivybridge Asus P8Z77-V LX...

I created an Up To Date Image of her Win 7 HP OS for restoration if necessary. I would not think about this installation, or any major changes, without first creating an Image of the OS. I installed the 90 day Evaluation Copy of Win 8 Enterprise on my wife's PC last night, including all her...

Hi I am having big issues with blue screens. The pc is pretty new, I build it myself, and I put windows 7 Pro. I am geting blue screens almost every day, I am getting crazy about this. I have installed windows debugger but it seems all crashes are comming from window 7 itself and I don't really...

Hi, I have run into a problem when upgrading my current machine to use an SSD as the main boot device. I restored a backup of my original Sata drive on to the SSD and I am able to boot from it ok. My problem is that when I connect the original Sata HD to the machine it appears in the BIOS...

So I've been using ReadyBoost for a few years now (4GB stick formatted in exFAT file system seems to work nicely). And now I'm upgrading my system to a hybrid hard drive (was going to do SSD but 750GB with 8BG flash cache was cheap as heck compared to SDD). I'm looking for someone with real...

I have a computer that I bought refurbished and they loaded the 32 bit version of Windows Home Premium. I need to run the current version of Photoshop and it only runs on 64 bit. Need to do a clean install and I have no problem with that since their are very few programs on the computer. My...

Hey everyone. I am once again running into a BSOD within minutes of booting into Windows 7 Pro. I don't know where this came from but two days ago my system was running just fine and now, I am getting nothing but a big pain in my butt. My two dump files and the info about my system are...

Built new puter and installed Windows 7 Pro.....backed up old system before system went south (had Vista on it)...had been using Mozilla Thunderbird........backed up profiles (including old mails, as far as I know) specifically.......both system back and profile backup on external drive on new...

No Beta OS should ever be installed, except as, follows: 1. On a spare machine 2. Virtually 3. As a dual-boot. 4. Run from a USB stick Never as an Upgrade or replacement to an existing, current, non-beta OS. Never on a production machine. Nor, BTW, can one move from 1 Beta of an OS to the...