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hard drive speed/windows shutdown

I am just wondering what the deal is here because about a week ago I did a fresh windows 7 ultimate install on a brand new western digital 2tb hard drive and at first it was booting up and shutting...

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USB not showing on boot menu

Hello, I decide to install windows xp into my PC via USB device just install WinXP ISO image to USB with the help of refus software but I can't find USB device in boot menu how can I fix this issue...

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P3 Award BIOS Has No Usb Boot Option

first of all , please forgive me if this is a re - post . before this thread gets modified, please point me to a helpful post instead . so , I ' m trying to install windows xp on a very old p3 with no...

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Incorrectly displayed CPU speed in System

I've come across something really bizarre with my copy of windows. Just done a clean install of Windows 7 Pro x64 and I've noticed an incorrectly displayed CPU speed in System under the basic info...

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Does cpu does a big change in gaming (FPS)

im just curious, does cpu really matter when it comes to gaming? for example i have dual core processors a pentium D 3.0ghz and pentium E5200, both have same ram, mobo, gpu card. does fps changes much...

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My External Hard Drive is now classified as RAW - can you format it

Dear Forum, I have a Generic Flash External Disk Drive that I am having trouble formatting. It has data that used to be on it before I changed the Storage Policies on the Control Set in the Registry...

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Window not filling the entire space on my screen: What do I need to do

Hello I did some modification on Windows to regain space on my SSD. Since, one of my 4 monitor does not behave properly. A window enlarge to it's full size, does not use the entire space of the screen....

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SSD/HD vs SSD/SSHD vs SSHD combinations

I just purchased a 128GB SSD to install in my PC and then someone gave me for my birthday a 1TB SSHD. I was originally planning to pair the SSD with a 1TB data drive. I now have several possibilities:...

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USB 3.0 intermittently fails during backup to external drive.

My USB to external hard drive link fails intermittently during Backup when using my USB 3.0 port. The USB 2.0 port works fine when used to backup. I have tried updating the USB Drivers and even removed...

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Solved Wireless Printing

Hi, Just set up my new wireless printer to XP PC which works without any problem via the home wireless broadband hub. I now want it to work with my Windows 7 laptop, so that I can also print wirelessly...

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Re-connect a previously removed Wireless Sound Platform

I accidentally removed my Soundfreaq Platform from the "Devices and Printers". When I try to "Add device" it won't find it b/c it is not a "new" device. So basically I can no longer access the device...

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windows detected a hard disk problem

the warning is obvious, drive nearing it's end. this pc is just one we do random things on, kiddos with games, youtube, non important things. there's really nothing I need backed up, I have the...

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My problem with mi Micro SD card

Hi guys, I have a micros SD card. When I put it into my windows 7 machine using USB adapter, windows explorer shows that and I also can open it and see the files and folders. But I can't run the files...

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Pc locks up and only responds from a hard reset

The issue started a few weeks ago when it seemed my HDD failed, sent it to a shop to be tested and repaired. Went through 2 HDDs before the 3rd 1 actually worked, that's the HDD i'm currently using (...

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Desktop upgrading

So, I'm using my desktop, "Rex", right now in place of my laptop while I wait for parts to come in to fix it. I'm thinking I want to also look into updating my desktop to be able to keep using it as a...

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Storage Device Connected - constant pop up in taskbar notification

Hello everyone. I was starting up my PC today and it took an abnormal amount of time to boot, it was stuck on the windows logo for a long time, at 1st i thought it was stuck and did several reboots...

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Solved AMD Athlon AD750KWOHJBOX FM2 type Socket compatability

I've been looking at getting an AMD Athlon AD750KWOHJBOX to start upgrading my Compaq Pressario PC to a gaming PC. I dont know if the Pegatron Corperation NARRA5 motherboard from mid 2010 is compatable...

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Windows 7 x64 instalation does not allow the raid drivers

Hello Windows 7 x64 installation does not allow the raid drivers on AMD Chipset/ ASUS M5A97 EVO to be detected. This is Fresh install, raid 1, i can't get x64 Raid driver From AMD to install....

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SD Card Reader Becoming Undetectable After Dragging Files Into PS CS5

Hi all, Just recently I've started to notice a very irritating bug. I take a lot of photos for my work and my usual process of editing them goes like this; I'll open an Explorer window and navigate to...

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Solved Fan on all the time in desktop

Normally when i boot my medion md8341 desktop the fan will start and then go off. Today it is staying on all the time I do noy see any issue in device manager and i restored to last restore point as it...

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