Hardware trouble shooting help
The other day out of no where my computer froze. Tried to reboot and would not load windows. Ran start up repair and after 60 hours windows could not repair it. Tried to reinstall windows the hard...
View Articleipod 6th gen not working in windows 7
I recently installed Windows 7 on my HP x32 laptop and now my daughters ipod will not work. Under devices it shows a triangle with an exclamation point and says that it is not working properly and that...
View ArticleLooking for a Sound Card Replacement in USB
Hi, so I had another topic trying to fix a stuttering issue with my laptop's sound ( http://www.sevenforums.com/sound-audio/284749-system-wide-audio-stuttering.html#post2348135 ) the stuttering problem...
View ArticleReboot stall
Just recently my system is acting up. When I do any sort of a reboot, for any reason it won't boot up. Black screen, and I can hear the HD cycling inside followed by a beep after 9 sec, and repeats and...
View ArticleCan't format hard drive. Tried diskpart/disk management.
Hi guys, I recently bought an SSD and decided to install it on my machine, I've set it as the #1 boot option, and then I tried to format my previous hard drive so I can use it for data. Whenever I...
View Article[QUESTION] Installing W7 on new SSD
I currently bought a new SSD (Plextor M5S 256 GB) to replace my HDD. Hence, I have few little questions FREQUENTLY asked by other forumers as I search but slightly different from mine. 1. I just wanted...
View ArticlePhenom product retail or OEM?
I have been given suggestion as an upgrade being this (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103727) in a previous thread of mine but I am not sure if it is a retail with a heatsink...
View ArticleSSD, Readyboost and upgrading my RAM
Hi all, I just purchased a new SSD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227954) and I am in love beyond all reason. It's not normal to love an inanimate object as much as I do this...
View ArticleBSOD unplugging USB mouse
Hi, I have been using my laptop with windows 7 installed for a while. Whenever I unplug my USB mouse, I receive a blue screen and windows says that it will restart. I have the dump file, and I can...
View ArticleStarcraft II bottleneck?
So I play a lot of StarCraft II (pretty much the only game I play) and I have some fps "issues" for the most part the game runs fine on any settings. It's when I get into big battles (200 vs 200) that...
View ArticleNotebook upgrade advice please
G'day, I've been thinking about upgrading my ASUS X54C notebook by adding a SSD, and possibly more RAM. Before I open this thing up to take a closer look, is anyone familiar with this notebook to be...
View ArticleE: DVD drive won't write
I've opened ImgBurn and I try to write a file to E:// (DVD Drive) and it picked up the disk inside the machine before, but then it crashed and it won't detect it again. It was doing this with SONY...
View ArticleSwiftech H220 incompatible for some ASUS dual mobos
_PLEASE USE CAUTION_ - Certain ASUS dual-CPU motherboards are not be compatible with the Swiftech H220 CPU cooling Kit; the pump/waterblock dimensions may be too large. With regard to the ASUS Z9PE-D8...
View ArticleScanner cannot be found? - Solved
I have a Kodak All-In-One printer/scanner that I have been using with my 64-bit Win 7 Ultimate machine since I built it. About a month ago, I went to use the scanner portion of it by way of the Kodak...
View ArticleExtended partition showing incorrect free space
Hello to all members of this comunity, i hate to use my first post to request help but i need your help, sorry for bad english and i dont know where to put my post so i choose this section...sorry if...
View ArticleHDD problem error
I have a problem with one of my HD as you will see the windows error in the image. Did a chkdsk command nothing found. The problem only happend when i tried to copy 190GB over to it. My Tower only has...
View ArticleNew Win 7 install with existing merged HDDs
Hey all, I currently have (2) 3TB HDDs merged using windows disk manager into a 6GB dynamic disk. They are for data storage. I just bought a new MOBO, CPU, RAM & Video Card. I'm going to do a clean...
View ArticleConnects with DSL Modem - Not with Cable Modem
My uncle has an HP all in one unit Omni running Home Edition SP1 64 bit that connects using a cable modem. The other day it stopped connecting and Ipconfig displayed an invalid IP address - 169...
View ArticleCannot access old HDD in usb case, "Invalid"
Somehow (It might have been me), system files used for windows were unaccessible or corrupted so I would get a BSOD on boot and a screen telling me that my laptop couldn't boot. I had no backups of any...
View ArticleHP Laserjet 1100 drivers & Windows 7 update not compatible!?
After initially working fine on Windows 7 64-bit for several months my old HP Laserjet 1100 stopped working all of a sudden 3 months ago for good. Since then I have been trying various methods to get...
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