my processor is a Pentium D 2.3ghz but it can not handle much I remember awhile ago I had customized it so it would not be really loud because once my processor takes too much the fan boosts up making my computer really loud is there any advice or anything to keep processes down as much as possible and make my fan and processor quieter at all?
View 9 RepliesSorry if this is the wrong section but, sometimes when im just on the computer my computer will make a noise. I really dont know how to describe the noise but its like when the fan in your room is turned to like extra fast. Whenever the noise comes my computer just starts to lag.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI've had some trouble with my system - Dell XPS 630I - hibernation problems, not being able to set or go back to a Restore Point, etc. So I've had a Microsoft tech help me solve my problems in the last few weeks, and after finally coming to the 'Reinstall Vista' as the only solution, I reinstalled yesterday. I have not yet installed any drivers or Dell software, but, obviously, did get my internet capability back.
I'm not worried about getting my system back to normal working order eventually, but one thing has me concerned: My system is running so loud and fast constantly. Previously, when I turned my computer on, during the startup phase, it ran like this (loud and fast, noisy) until it reached the black screen with the colorful, Vista circle in the middle, at which point it quieted down completely and continued with the Windows startup. Does anyone know what it is that has my computer sound like its running so fast, and sounding so loud constantly. Is it going to be one of the system drivers that I will eventually load that will 'calm' my system down??
3 days ago my computer started making very quiet beeping sounds, it happens mostly when I use Mozilla Firefox and Windows Explorer. My impression is that the sound is coming from the motherboard. When I restarted in safe mode the sound disappeared,
so after a very long elimination process I discovered that when I change control panel-power options-processor power management settings the frequency of beeping changes as well. Until now I was using balanced settings (min processor state 5% and max processor state 100%), if I choose high performance (min and max processor state are both 100%) the beeping becomes very frequent almost continuous, and if I choose power saver settings (min processor state 5% and max processor state 50%) I don't notice the beeping anymore but of course I don't want to keep using only 50% of my processor. I am using a desktop computer, not a laptop. Except for the annoying sound the computer works normally. I have Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit SP1.
the windows sounds like the startup sound and the asterisks etc are not loud enough even at the max volume. The music and video etc. are loud and fine.but the general windows sounds are too low in volume even at max volume.and it recognizes it too because when i set the volume to max in the corner to next to the clock,the green bar fills only 20% or so when it beeps.
View 6 Replies View RelatedSometimes there are loud clicking noises and the computer is generally loud when it starts up or whilst it's on. The computer will crash on occasions and won't start back up. I am thinking it is a problem with the hard disk as when it doesn't switch on, it is as if the computer cannot locate it. It is persistently crashing and not starting up and the noises are constant. What should I do?
View 5 Replies View Relatedive noticed that my hard drives are loud at weird times? when im not doing anyting? its very annoying? is this vista or my hard drives?
View 6 Replies View RelatedRecently I had a crash while I was playing a game, so I rebooted manually because I had too. From that time, when Vista boots, my harddisk makes a weird loud noice everytime before entering loginscreen and my boottime is extended with +-20sec. I've figured out myself that since the crash ,I watched a startup log and saw that Vista does a quick chkdisk, which would explain the extra noise my HD does just before booting. I've tried everything , from checking for a dirty-bit , disabling autochkddk to even formating my system. But every time my system crashes, the next time it boots , my HD makes a weird noise.
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vista sp2. tsst corp cddvdw t6-l632h ata device. neither live nor mastered format nothing works, vista can't format at all, thus making the cd useless. i tried to update my driver which is of 2006 but windows says it is updated. i uninstalled it and let it reinstall itself -nothing happeen- i did the same thing and added a winaspi32.dll in system 32- nothing, checked for interference from other programs by disabling them - nothing, tried other programs like img burn,infrarecorder still -nothing. by the way is it needed to format dvd-r before burning and does that formatting needs to be done by windows,
View 8 Replies View RelatedI followed VistaRookie's 10 step procedure for making a signature with a logo. It worked. Then I added more information and now it doesn't work. My email shows the code stuff instead of just the info and logo. I don't know what I did wrong. I deleted the first try and made the new HTM file using the same steps.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI need to go to a branch office and make several Vista machines members of our corporate domain (they were set up as stand alone machines because we did not a a VPN at the branch office, but now we do). When I make the machines members of the domain, what issues will I run into copying profile settings (documents, printers, etc) into their domain account from their non-domain account.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'm working with a Windows Vista HP Pavillion PC. No hardware has been modified. I'm not sure which version I have, I think I have all but the most recent update. ~I'm not sure if this is a hardware problem or not, but here goes. Anyway, about 4 months ago, my computer started acting odd. It would make an odd ticking, or clicking noise and start running slow. It sounds like an odd tick-tock noise. It seems to originate in the front of the computer, lower left side. Theres about a .5 second delay between the tick and tock noise. It keeps making that noise about every 3 seconds. It will seemingly stop and start doing this at random.
The slow downs are always associated with the tick-tock noise. I found out that when it's doing that, the computer starts functioning worse in general. Instead of running at normal CPU capacity, it limits itself to about 15% of it's power. Nothing huge is running in the background to suck up it's power. It just goes into "dumb mode". When this happened 4 months ago, I did a full system restore and that fixed it. Now it's happening again. I've already done a system restore. However, it doesn't want to boot up now. It's stuck on a please wait screen. So, has anyone suffered through this problem
I am trying to attach pictures to an outgoing email and they are inserting into the email way too large. Is there a solution to this? I have tried using Microsoft Picture Gallery and creating an email that way, but it won't let me. Outlook had a "wizard" for pictures so it was really easy.
View 5 Replies View RelatedHave a Vista 32 Premium Home Edition and on the advice of "Goddess", I need to make a password recovery disk, as I just changed the Administrators Password. I see some sites online, but they say something about a USB Flashdrive, and I don't think I have this?!? Also, I trust more the people on this site who give advice, info and instructions.I do have a DVD/CD burner.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'd like to back up a couple machines with full drive copies for use in case of a drive crash & replacement. I need a program to do the backup and that will allow me to do the restore without building a new system first (i.e. boot from a CD and restore to a bare drive).
View 4 Replies View RelatedThe wife has a box with 64bit Vista and someone ran a registery cleaner on it and cleaned the registery so clean that the system would not start windows. It went through the screen that gave the choices for set-up, recovery, etc then the safe, normal, etc start screen and regardless of what chose it would go dark and windows would never start but the activity light would keep flickering showing it was trying to do something. I took it in and repair used the recovery disk to set it back to factory setup!! :-(Is it possible to make a to make a recovery disk (as the factory labeled it) of the way I get it set that would be like the factory recovery disk which has a rcd.dat file and an image directory on disk 1 and a rcd2.dat file and an image directory on disk 2 so if the thing crashed again at the startup options screen that has the recovery option I could just use my home made recovery disk instead of the factory ones??
I know I can make a backup but if the system will not get past the screen with the recovery option what good are they. Will accept any comments on backups as long as I can also get an answer to the original recovery disk question also. Would be nice if I could do this on wife Vista box AND my XP box.
Under XP I could copy application shortcuts to a menu that you would see above programs when you first click start. I would put it under all users > start menu folder. is there anything similar in vista (and windows 7) when I am using the vista / windows 7 start menu instead of the XP style Start menu?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have XP Pro on my desktop PC & I know that I can stop & disable services. I also know that some services depend on other services to run. So, I have some questions about Home Premium versus Ultimate. First question is: Will Home Premium allow one to stop & disable any services - any services at all?
I want to build a PC & I think that I'd be perfectly happy with Home Premium. But, I might want to try Virtual PC & I know that I need Ultimate for that. I assume that Ultimate is like XP Pro & will allow me to stop & disable services. Am I correct?
For example, I will be the only person using the PC so I don't need Group Policy. Can that service be stopped & disabled? My PC will never be joined to a domain. Can that service be stopped & disabled? I might use the file encryption service. So, in other words, I'd like to make Ultimate more like Home Premium. Can I do that by turning off certain Ultimate features? What are Ultimate Extras?
How can I setup my mail so that when I click on "email...xxxxx..." on web pages, Windows Mail opens and not Outlook Express.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have Acronis True Image and before I went the dual boot system route (XP + Vista x64), I made an image of my XP system but now that I am comfortable with both OS's, I would like to know if Acronis can make an image of my drive including both systems?
Before attempting to do this on my own and botching the already good image I have, I would like to hear it from the Gurus so... what say you? Oh, also, I have heard that Acronis can do this but nobody specified if I should start Acronis in Vista or in XP and that is another thing that baffles me. It shouldn't matter where I start the image process but making sure is my first priority since I tend to screw up things fairly quick when I go out guns blazing (so to speak!)
I have a laptop that was running Vista 64bit Enterprise fine. It's disk is also protected by bitlocker. It is now in a state where none of the recovery console options seems able to recognize the drive. From a command line bootrec.exe I can see the disk and it's original partitions of proper sizes. However they are 'hidden' and there are no visible volumes. Is there any good way to restore the information that would make the disk recoverable?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI recently tried to restore windows vista to original factory settings from the Recovery partition that came with my computer. However, I mistakenly made the recovery partition active because I thought that was part of the process. Now the computer is trying to boot from the wrong partition and thus saying things like "BOOTMGR missing press alt ctr del to restart" I do not have a recovery disk or the original installation. I have a recovery disk from another computer that I thought was going to work but when it showed me the recovery options it said it was incompatible with this machine. Is there some way I can access a command prompt so I can reset the correct partition through diskpart or something similar?
View 8 Replies View RelatedI'm not happy with my processor. It may be an AMD but it's just a Turion with 2x512 KB Cache and 1.6 GHz speed. I've thought about upgrading it, however I've contacted Acer and they've said that I cannot upgrade it due to overheating issues. What else can I do to speed up my processor?:sarc: Trying is the first step towards failure Acer 9303 AWSMi AMD Turion *retch* 64x2 TL-52 Nvidia GeForce Go 7300 128 MB Wish I had a better PC...mainly the processor
View 9 Replies View Relatedi installed new Intel E6750 processor and now i'm getting bluescreen.. sometimes at startup and sometimes after using computer for few minutes and it's never the same reason.. memorycheck says that i have some kinda hardware problem but my motherboard should support new processor. i have Vista 32-bit, Asus Commando motherboard, 4 x Kingston KHX6400D2LLK2/2GN ddr2 (total 4 GB), XFX GeForce 7800 GTX. with my previous processor Pentium D 3.00 GHz everything is fine, Vista runs bit slow sometimes but that's normal.
View 9 Replies View RelatedJust updated my processor from this:-
Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 2.40GHz
To This....
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 LGA775 'Yorkfield' 2.83GHz 12MB-cache
managed to OC to 3.6 on air.
Also got a new case...Lian Li Armorsuit PC-P80B Aluminium Super Tower
I will post pics
What does 32 bit Vista do on a 64 bit processor? Does is use both cores in 32 bit mode or does it only use half the processor? If it uses both core, at the same time? or one then the other.
View 7 Replies View RelatedThere are many programs, which get our processor name (e.g. "QuadCore Intel Core 2 Q9550, 2833 MHz (8.5 x 333)" in Everest). I wonder if I could deceive these programs by changing some variable (in register?), so programs couldn't get my real processor name.
View 5 Replies View RelatedIs it better to set the processor to Programs or Background services. I've also customized the pagefile to be from 500mb to 1000mb.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI really don't have much idea about the inside workings of a computer but I gather I may be able to replace the Zif Processor with a faster one to improve speed. I have plenty of memory so I just wonder if it is worth the trouble,if it can be done. I am just a light user.
View 4 Replies View RelatedWhenever I restart my Vista 64 Dell XPS435 I get a process called MYSQDL.EXE in the task manager list that continuously uses 10-15% of the processor time. Not sure when it started but I think it began in the last 2 weeks. I can go in and manually end the process with seemingly no affect on any programs but this is a lot of processor time and I notice my cooling fan kicking on a lot more often. Questions
1. What is this file for and do I need it?
2. If I don't need it how do I stop it from loading? It's not in my start-up folder or on my StartUp list using msconfig.