system upgrade

Trying to get this working.... new to forum, so please point me to the right place if I am not asking in the correct forum. I have a Dell XPS 410 system with a NVIDIA GeForce 7950 GX2. (Dual Port DVI Card) Dual Dell 30" Monitors 3007WFP. System worked great on XP. No issues at all...

I am trying to upgrade from Vista Home Premium to Win 7 Ultimate using a DVD bought at retail. The upgrade process hangs while Gathering programs and settings, always at the 86% mark. Yesterday it hung at 6:00 PM and I let it run overnight -- at 9:00 AM next day it was still hung. No error...

I've searched high and low and although I can find similar problems and tried everything I can, I still have the following problem. After letting windows sit and I return to my computer, I move the mouse and the computer wakes up...sometimes. Other times the mouse pointer moves, and my monitor...

i have a video card NVIDIA MX440 with 64 Mb, installed in my mother board, and recently i changed my OS, upgrading it with a windows 7 enterprise version, [formerly i had a xp pro OS] it happens that i cant have the aerials and transparencies, which is an extraordinary new feature of the 7 i'm...

Yes, it's that dreaded error message...and I am receiving it anytime I try to install any program/game. It's getting beyond ridiculous and I cannot find the exact problem. Before it told me I had to upgrade C# and C+, so I did, and nothing happened. I still got the message even afterwards. I...

Hi, since I upgraded to windows 7 a while ago I could never get aero working. When I install my graphics card drivers aero turns on. The problem is when I enter into an application, for example a game, aero switches off. Also upon restarting my computer after installling the graphics card...

I recently went from vista to win 7 and have now found I can't backup my files. I'm not sure how to go about fixing the problem, as I'm not fully competent with computers so any help would be grateful. When I try to backup files i get a message saying I can't with the code 0x80040154. I also...

I just upgraded from vista 32bit ultimate to my new windows 7 32bit ultimate. It was all well and good up untill i tried to connect my itouch to it. Itunes didn't open at all. I just thaught it was itunes being set up wrong for windows 7 so i went and reinstalled. It still didn't work, ive tried...

Hey all. I just put together a new system and installed an AMD Phenom II x4 995 (3.2Ghz). This is my first AMD chip and a significant upgrade from my old Pentium D but how hot should the chip run? I've got an ASUS motherboard for it and I'm running PC Probe II and the CPU temp seems to jump...

Jeg har da Millard Problemer med min computer efter at være skiftet fra windows xp til windows 7. * Manglede skriveadgang til config.msi * postgres og pctools der ikke længere kan sammen * iTunes der ikke virker og ikke kan geninstalleres * Dele af tekst der lige pludselig forsvinder -...

hey guys, i installed a valid copy of windows 7 on my PC.. but in a different partition. before i isntalled, i shrunk the volume of Vista C:\ and it only allowed me to have 54 GB unallocated space- there was at least 190GB of space that was unused in the hard drive, buit when i pressed hrink, it...

I was using vista x86 up untill windows 7 came out, it was then I decided to go for my first x64 operating system, win7 x64 I have an i7, 3gb ram, 2 x 4870 etc. so I thought it would be fine. Ever since I've moved over, games take up a stupid amount of memory, they'll go to 80 - 90%. I recently...

I've searched the forums but not finding my problem dealt with. I'm getting almost daily BSOD and trying to decide whether to take the time to do a complete reinstall or send the computer back. Here's the history: I recently upgraded from a Dell INspiron notebook running 32-bit Vista to an HP...

I just upgraded my home office computer to Windows 7 (from XP) All went reasonable well, given the age of my system. I had some difficulty getting it to play well with my graphics card but other than that I was happy...until I started setting up the home network. I got it to work, but...

Hi all, New to the forums but not to Windows. I just recently built a new system as an upgrade from HP Elite m9340f Media Center PC. I bought a new Mobo, Video Card and PSU. I used the HDD, RAM, CPU, DVD, and TV Tuner card from the HP in the new build. My current specs: Gigabyte...

I upgraded my Lenovo laptop from Vista Ultimate 32-bit to W7 Pro 64-bit. I used a retail upgrade as Lenovo won't supply a 64-bit upgrade for a 32-bit preloaded system. I should have known that when I ordered the laptop, but I didn't. The upgrade (clean install) on a new 'cloned' HDD worked just...

Hey all, thanks in advance for any advice you guys have. Ok, so I had an old system with a 2.6 pentium D processor, 4 gigs of memory, running windows 7 pro 64 bit, and it was running fantastic. Well I decided to build a new system anyway and push the performance of windows 7 and the games I'd...

Hi there, I have recently purchased a few computer parts and upgraded my computer. After putting it together, I switched it on and went to install windows 7 (hardware changes stop me booting my previous installation). (Note: I was previously using this windows 7 on my old mobo etc.) However...

Hi again, I have a question how to update BIOS on Win7 x64 ultimate. I downloaded newest version of BIOS for my laptop (Toshiba Tecra A8-185 PTA83E). After unzipping there is only .exe file. When I try to run that file it says, that my OS is unsupported. When I run it in compability mode (with...

Hello all, I am new to the forum and searched for an answer to this question but couldn't find a definitive answer so here it is: I have Vista32 on my C: drive and Win764 on my K: drive which was partitioned for Win7. When booted to Win7, I believe Win7 is on C: and Vista is on D...