Laptop Freezing/Stuttering Randomly During Use
Hi, I'll try to keep this brief. I purchased my HP Probook 4530s off my friend last week. Naturally, I formatted it to give a fresh install of Windows. Since then I have been having this issue: Laptop...
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Note the speed of the RAM in each of these pictures. While the AMD is at 3.14 GHz and the Intel is 2.2GHz, the RAM speed is much higher with Intel. Yes, I know the AMD has 1600 and the Intel is 2133,...
View ArticleShould I Add Memory
Hello, I have a laptop running Windows 7 64bit with an Intel Core i7 CPU Q740 @ 1.73Ghz processor, I have recently created several virtual machines and created a Windows Server network for a college...
View ArticleComputer Running, But Screen Does Not
Hi everyone. I got this issue about a month or two ago, when my HP Pavilion 2000 suddenly started working. I can see the lights on, but the screen is just blank. I know there are battery issues, but...
View ArticleLaptop Keyboard just stopped working
Last night my HP laptop was working just fine with zero issues. Today I turned it on and my keyboard didn't work and also saying that no battery was detected. Now if I turn it on with a power cord...
View ArticleHard Disk Check Fails In Normal Mode
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View ArticleCan my data be saved before a format on a hard drive?
Hi Guys I am no expert, so I really need your expertise on this one. After purchasing a hard drive (internal) for my external media player from Western Digital, I was unable to find my drive on My...
View ArticleFresh install of Win7, won't recognize wired router.
That's it really. I get the red x ion the toolbar. When I cmd ipconfig /all I get is: Host Name.................... : MFisher Primary DNS suffix.......... : Node Type ....................: Hybrid IP...
View ArticleNeed some helps
Hi, Today i spilt a huge amounts of water on my Pavilion dv6 laptop. I immediately dried off the water on the keyboard and shut down my laptop. I let it dried for couple of hours then I tried to start...
View ArticleWhy WD 3TB USB MyBook works, 3TB via USB-SATA adapter doesn't
I'm looking for help in understanding why my external 3TB WD My Book is working just fine with Win7 Pro 64bit. My PC is a Dell Precision 690, and only supports USB 2.0. I have a new 3TB WD Green...
View ArticleGraphics Card the issue?
Okay so i left my memtest86+ running for the whole weekend, hit 30 passes without throwing a single error. The issue is that i get a windows explorer error as soon as my PC loads, my next port of call...
View ArticleSearch through USB storage device without knowing the partition letter
The title might be a bit weird, but i wasn't sure how to phrase it. I'll try and describe our problem: Basically what we want to do is to use the windows 7 search function, without knowing what letter...
View ArticleIs all RAM the same size? (As in, length and width, etc.)
Hey guys, I am new to the forums. I was just wanting to ask a question that I have been wanting to ask for a little while now. I was going to upgrade the RAM on my old netbook. It is a Samsung N130....
View ArticleMy new ssd not recognised in setup of w7 but IS seen in bioS
It's a hp pavilion elite m9652uk. Getting really frustrated. I'm installing from USB with Sata drivers on them but they don't help!
View ArticleCPU Upgrade Thoughts
Not sure if im posting in the correct place here, correct if im wrong. But as the tittle suggest, im thinking about upgrading my CPU, hopefully to a quad core and was looking at the: AMD Phenom x4 965...
View ArticleReplace (disable) BIOS HDA to use PCIe HBA w/out reinstall?
Hi, I'm using a Dell Precision 690 (Intel 5000X chipset) which does not support SATA 3 or greater than 2TB drives. I plan on buying a PCIe HBA to solve this problem, either the High Point RocketRaid...
View ArticleCreative T12 Wireless auto-connect after reboot
Hello, on one of notebooks I have Windows 7 Professional SP1 x64. This laptop uses external speakers by bluetooth - Creative T12 wireless. Notebook has Intel N2230 wifi/bt card. I could pair devices,...
View ArticleWD USB hard drive showing as local disk
I plugged my WD "my passport" 5oogb hard drive into USB yesterday and it showed up as local disk on my computer with 0Gb used and 0Gb available. In disk manager it shows up as 500GB WD harddrive but in...
View ArticleComputer performance suddenly dropped (Believed to be CPU)
Hello 7 forums, About 5 days ago almost overnight my computer went from extremely sufficient processing and gaming speeds and power to terrible for the components I have purchased. I do not know what...
View ArticleDesktop "Repaired" with New Hardware. How Bad is the News?
Almost three years ago, I bought a new desktop from HP, with a "3 day, 9 X 5 Onsite Support, 3 yr" Carepack. See specs here: http://www.sevenforums.com/profile.php?do=extra Lately it began having...
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