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Windows Vista Home Premium: 1. How do you keep the bluescreen error frozen in order to record the information? 2. Is there a way to capture info regarding a bluescreen after-the-fact that is different from the dump file? 3. Where are the dump files saved and how do I read them? 4. Is...

System restore points on a Windows Vista machine are getting up to 20GB on a 900GB disk. Is there a way to limit how many restore points are available at a time or am I left to deleting them manually? I have a list of scheduled checkpoint restores for each day my system runs, is there a way...

The screen on a laptop I have not used in several weeks is behaving very oddly. The image is washed out and faded, the laptop is unresponsive for a period, and as a new window pops up a portion of the previous image remains. When at the safe boot selection screen moving the highlighted...

After watching some multiplayer videos (mainly here: Assassin's Creed Revelations: Multiplayer Gameplay EscoBlades: http://www.youtube.com/show/assassinscreedrevelationsmultiplayergameplay?s=1 ) I am considering picking up Assassin's Creed Revelations, I am not interested in the single player...

I lost connection to the Internet on my desktop yesterday, upon trying to reconnect I received a page asking me for the PIN to my router, at first I entered what I believed to be the correct PIN after which I realized it accepts any 4 digit PIN I enter. It then asks me to assign a name and...

I'm about to run a Diskeeper 2010 Pro Premier defrag but wanted to check around first as I have heard of 3rd party defraggers upsetting the Windows directory and preventing the PC from properly booting leading to an OS reinstall. 1.) Is this an inherent risk with defraggers? 2.) Is it something...

I haven't run checkdisk / scandisk on either of my Vista machines before, wondering how to go about it and what switches to include. I want to run Diskeeper 2010 Pro Premier defragger shortly after, should that matter. The desktop is Vista Home Premium and the laptop is Vista Home Basic...

In the past few months my laptop has slowed down drasticly and I'm not sure why. Some examples: -alt-tabbing between programs is slow -changing directories in Windows Explorer is slow -opening new tabs/closing tabs in both Firefox and Chrome is slow/mouse becomes unresponsive -programs become...

A PS/2 port mouse suddenly stopped working on a family member's WinXP machine, tried using a new USB mouse that I know works on other machines but it won't work on this machine, any ideas?

Looking for programs that work with iPODs besides iTunes, either the program works with iPODs vanilla or requires a plug-in. Any recommendations?

Hey guys, Just had a family member's hard drive die. It's an older machine, running WinXP and doesn't get used too often - just here and there for email and the occasional game of solitaire. Instead of wasting money on a new drive I figured I would do my part for the environment, my wallet...

Hey guys, Looking to get an external hard drive for music and photo storage, have some questions: 1. Is it true that so long as the storage format is Fat32 both Macs and PCs can read and write to it? 2. Can all drives to formatted to either Fat32 or NTFS? 3. Can all drives be used as plug...

Brand new Vista 64 bit system that I put to sleep instead of shutting down when done. When I come out from sleep or hibernate mode I don't have any sound output and need to reboot the system to regain sound. Just started happening, can't think of any changes to link it too. Any help would...

A family member's Windows XP machine is having some trouble. The system boots to the Windows loading screen, then runs through scandisk after some time it flashes a moment of a different blue screen with white text filling out maybe a fifth the screen then reboots displaying a start mode...

Got a new computer and the keyboard it shipped with won't work on it, tried the keyboard on a different computer and it works fine. I tried a PS2 to USB adapter to no avail, although another keyboard I have, a USB keyboard (laptop style), does work. Any ideas?

I have a bit of music, not much and mainly mp3, on my Acer Aspire 3690, using foobar to play my albums, just recently there has been a significant hit to the music quality, any track, any album, now sounds like they were ripped bad; pops, scratches, I'm unable to listen to it. I'm not sure...

I'm getting a BSOD while trying to run a few small indie games (reflexive arcade), Diablo II as well. The title will begin to load then I'll be taken to a BSOD shortly thereafter, the screen goes pretty quick and I'm unable to read it. A handful of other, similar games run fine, not sure what...

Not sure if I should keep an Acer Aspire 3690-2900 I managed to pick up for $500, have a couple more days to demo while the return is still good, thought I would ask around if it's a worthwhile laptop at its price. Keeping this would let me skip all the research for a new one, but I don't...

Hey guys, Just bought and received a SAMSUNG 941BW [LINK] from NewEgg and upon booting, during an all black screen, I was greeted to a bright red pixel a few inches off center. Watched a bit of film, typed away and been on the net, it's most noticeable on darker images where it shows up...

*EDIT: Solved Hey guys, Bought a new Seagate 320GB SATA drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS (Perpendicular Recording Technology) 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148140 NOTE: Quick summary for the reading impaired...

Hey guys, *EDIT: Well that was an interesting experiement in how stupid I can be. Looking to buy a 2.0 (left/right) speaker set (might consider one w/subwoofer), new or used, something with an audio jack preferably on the center speaker or on a controller seperate of all speakers (*audio...

Just bought a new drive: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1030181775#post1030181775 Apparently SATA HDD's require something called SATA power, that's news to me. So how do I get my Allied's AL-B400ATX 400W power connectors to work on this drive? Simple little cheap power adapter...

*EDIT: Read through the '[H]ard|Forum [H]ard|Drive buying guide' sticky awhile back when first considering it, back when the Hitachi Deskstar was still recommended, it's been replaced by the Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 Perpendicular Recording <400gb & Maxtor Diamondmax 10/Maxline III. Anyway...

I need to replace the stock fan for a Socket 462/A, a 60x60x10mm fan. Don't need a new heatsink just the fan itself and trying to save a few bucks (can't find anything better then $15 at electronics stores for HSU kits, no single fans for like $3). Looking for any kind souls.. /Thanks...

My video card just died on me, not sure why as it hadn't been running anything but desktop and office type software, and an occasional movie, but its definately toasted. I'm looking for a very basic (cheap) card (mobo has no on-board) for Internet, office productivity, movie playing software and...

Alright, so I do up THIS THREAD on how to setup a partition, now I've gone off to read some other stuff and wholly confused myself. I've ended up with some miscellaneous questions about setting WinXP to its own partition: 1. 'My Documents' folder, separate of the OS partition: I don't...

Okay, just got over a HDD failure on a RIAD0 setup, one drive dead, other fine. Now I figure, since I learned long after I got my machine about them, I may as well setup a partition on the single drive for the OS alone. As I understand it giving WinXP its own partition on the drive will allow...

Alright, I recently had a HDD failure, but I'm on a RAID 0 and am therefore not sure which disk is producing the errors (is there a way to know while still on the RAID 0 config?). I'm now trying to reconfigure the setup for a single disk, thereby needing to bypass the RAID card (right, I can't...

Maybe a little off topic, I don't know, maybe you guys encounter this often, maybe not as your installing the disks yourselves, I didn't in this case I ordered my rig three years ago. Anyway, three of the four HDD carriage screws came out fine, but one is stripping to my Philips, it has a...

*EDIT: Resolved, all too easily. I'm trying to remove the front panel to an Antec PlusView 100AMG: http://www.antec.com/us/support_productInfo_details.php?ProdID=90510 , anyway there's three release tabs on each side of the panel and the middle one on the back (mobo) side is obscured by the...

NOTE #1: $$$ - Going for the minimalistic approach, but not shoddy products that are only temp solutions, just aiming for a circa $15 range for a complete solution, don't need to be concerned with overclocking or dropping the temperature considerably (SEE: OFFTOPIC: Heat Generation -as it might...