I started a reinstall of Windows 7 almost 24 hrs ago after having problems with Windows not starting, and other issues. It's still "completing installation." If I try to close out the window, it says something about exiting setup could be a problem. The computer repair shop I took it to would probably fix it again for free. But first I'd like to know if by exiting setup if I'd be damaging the hardware. And just how long does a reinstall take?
I have an Alienware M15x and the CD drive will not read anything I put into it. It'll suck the disc in, make the noise like its reading it but nothing happens. I've tried a fixit tool from microsoft and when it queues me to put the disc in it says it can't detect anything. This is a problem because I want to completely wipe my computer and start fresh.I checked my device drivers and everything seems to be fine except for one yellow exclamation mark that says my bluetooth peripheral device is missing. Not really sure if that's the problem but I just thought I'd throw that in there
I got a new computer custom built a few months ago, but it came with Windows 7 32 bit, so I decided to wipe it clean and install 64 bit, for gaming purposes.It installed fine, games ran a lot smoother etc, sound was working at this point.The sound still worked up until a few days ago, when the headset I was using had broken. I ordered a new one from Amazon and while I waited for it to arrive I thought I'd just use my phone earphones in my computer.Considering the sound worked, the same day on my headset, but didn't work with my earphones, I'm sure you can imagine how confused I was. Because the headset was only physically broken, the sound was still working through it, and it sounded perfectly fine and clear, but when I used my earphones it didn't work at all.After some looking around, I discovered that the Realtek HD audio manager wasn't even installed on my computer, even though the previous headset had worked.. which confused me even more.So I installed it, plugged in my phone earphones, and it still didn't work.At this point I wasn't too bothered, because I thought that maybe it was because turtle beach headsets had their own sound-card inside the box that controls the volume, so I waited.
Only to have them have the exact same problem as my phone earphones, they didn't work on my computer, at all. I done all the usual stuff, checked that it was the default device on playback devices, which lead me to the other issue, my computer hasn't even picked them up as a device. I thought it was okay though, because the headset (Turtle beach x12's) are designed for xbox, but are compatible with PC (Which I have confirmed by using a laptop, they work on that). My old headset (Turtle Beach Foxtrot) actually appeared in the playback devices as "Turtle Beach Foxtrot" which I set as the default device, but with this new headset, nothing appears, just "Speakers".I've re-installed the realtek drivers and manager so many times, trying different versions, I've updated my chipset, checked nothing is conflicting in Device manager (There are no yellow symbols on anything), I've made sure audio is enabled in Services, I made sure audio is enabled in my BIOS, changing it to AC97 instead of HD, also changed the settings in Realtek HD audio manager to AC97. I've made sure the ports I'm plugging the headset into are working, by plugging my mouse into the same USB port. I've tried plugging them into the back panel, tried every possible combination.I've even made sure that the old headset I used didn't have its own sound card, because I thought maybe the sound card had been disabled inside my computer.The only thing it points to, is something being disabled inside my machine, which I haven't checked yet, because I wanted it to be a last resort.
After my desktop with XP crashed, I recovered along with a clean install of Windows 7. The processor is an Intel Core 2 Duo with the onboard audio device showing Microsoft as the manufacturer. The front headphone port worked for about a week after the recovery, then just stopped. Moving the headphone jack to the rear port continues to work fine. I plugged the speaker jack in the front port and there is no sound, same as the headphones.
To troubleshoot I've tried the "Update Driver" and MS says I'm using the most up-to-date driver. Where you view what devices are recognized by the sound system it displays a speaker icon, but there is no option to add headphones. The desktop is a custom-built one (not an HP, Dell or Lenovo, for example). I don't know if this audio problem is a hardware failure or related to the Windows 7 install.
I had Windows 7 Home Premium installed and I just wanted to reinstall everything but when I boot it up from CD it is not working for some reason. It just goes straight to Windows 7 log in. Seems like ppls been having problems but they do not seem to have exactly same setting as me. Since I am doing Windows 7 to Windows 7. I wanted to format it but instead of just formatting I tried installing it. But now it is not working.BIOS setting is CD/DVD and I also manually did it by pressing F12.. still not working.
I have a Sony Vaio VGN-AR51SU Laptop which was running Windows Vista 32 Bit. I purchased windows 7 and installed the 64 Bit version. Everything seems to work fine apart from my Matshita BD-MLT UJ-220S Bluray burining drive. The laptop only sees it as a CD Rom. the device appears with the correct name as above but only as a cd rom capability. It can read and write CD's and it can read normal Dvds. It no longer Burns Dvd or Bluray whatever I seem to do.The sony site does not provide drivers or anything that will sort this out as they don't officially support this machine being upgraded to windows 7. I cant find any vista 64 Bit drivers for it as I imagine they would work, I cant even find the 32bit drivers for this device - Although I dont imagine that would work even if I did.
I have an older HP Pavilion zt3349cl that just keeps going. I installed Windows 7 on it and now when I put a sd card in the reader(built in) it wants to try and format the card-the card has pics on it. Card will work fine in another computer.
I was thinking of doing a fresh install of Windows 7 64bit Ultimate. Currently I am running the same. but wanted to do a fresh install. The problem is that My DVD drive is not working.. and I took it out. Need steps in installing windows 7 64bit Ultimate using USB pen drive. I want to wipe out the entire hard disk before doing that and want to do the fresh install. One of my friends when tried to do like this, his bootable USB pen drive was not detecting via BIOS.
I have recently downloaded Windows 7 - 32 bit onto a new discrete (i.e. Physically separate) HDD. In the installation process it had severe problems with USB and PCIe drivers. That is they don't work and there were! marks in Device Manager. I was lucky in having access to an old PS2 kybd which allowed me some access to the new os. Luckily, since I was booting off of a Windows XP Home Edition on a separate HDD I managed to use its drivers which worked on the Windows 7 and allowed me to get my USB kyybd and mouse working again. It also automatically down loaded the other drivers for my devices like the USB dongle for wireless internet access.
This is a long preamble to my actual problem and the reason for this message. I have not had as much success when I tried the same exercise; this time with Windows 7 - 64 bit installation. The 64 bit was installed on a separate partition on the same physical drive as the 32 bit version. The 32 bit drivers from Win 7 - 32 bit and XP don't work. I thought the 32 bit drivers for such basic things as USB pointing devices would work in the 64 bit version; but clearly not. Also, clearly my installation disk is negligent in not loading the drivers in either installation. Where can I go to get these basic drivers.
I have tried Logitech with no luck as my kybd/mouse combo doesn't even show up on their site. I have tried going to Microsoft site to get generic 64 bit drivers but they are not being very kind in that regard. There is nothing to download. Clearly they don't want to give anything away free! My Logitech USB kybd/mouse combo is model Y-RK56A for the kybd and M-RR95 for the mouse. My mobo is a Gigabyte GA-880GA-UD3H and I have its CD but w/o mouse I can't get it to install on the Win 7-64 partition. I thought when it installed on my XP partition it would have installed both sets of drivers. Can I extract just the 64 bit USB drivers from there?
I just did a fresh install of windows on my laptop. Before the install when I used an fn key a fancy graphic came up displaying the action i just did. One of which included disabling the touchpad. I liked these graphics things. How can I get them back. And secondly, all the fn keys work but the disable touchpad one.
I have Dell Inspiron N5010. I was using windows 7 home basic 32 bit os. I wanted to change it to windows 7 ultimate. So I have inserted windows 7 Installation disk into CD drive. Then I went to through the installation and I chose the Custom as the installation type.When the partition page appeared, I have formatted all the disks including C which contains windows files. Then I got 298 GB unallocated space. Then I split them in to 4 partitions. Then I have selected one partition to install the windows. Then installation started .
Copying windows files succeeded. Expanding Windows files(0%) is still be like that for 20 minutes. Then I got the error message like: "Windows cannot install required files. Error code 0x80070017". And I thought it would be the installation disk problem. But it works fine in other systems. I tried several disks. No use. Also I got another problem. When system boots I tried to enter into BIOS using F2 and F12 which was mentioned in screen. But it did not enter into the BIOS, Instead it goes to the installation.
They worked fine the 1st day, then my computer went to sleep for the night and none of them worked on day 2. Took a snipet of the devices page. Any ideas?
Im trying to do a clean install of windows 7 for some reason it doesnt wanna work. I deleted every partition so its a clean install. When it first tries to boot it restarts and keeps doing that.
I recently upgraded from Windows 7 Starter to Ultimate. I backed up my music files onto an external hard drive, but after the clean install my computer will not let me access it. I've tried downloading all of the drives from the Dell website for my computer model (Dell Studio 1558) and even having Windows search for the software I need for the external hard drive, but it always fails to install.
How do i install an email program in my laptop? coz i needed to send my pictures from my folder to my email bt it tells me i need to install a program.
This is more about Dell 14R Inspiron. I wiped the hard drive completely. the only thing I have to work with for system is my own copy of Windows 7 Home Prem, the Dell Drivers DVD, and some linux distros.When I install my own copy of Windows 7 Home Prem. Things work okay but it doesn't activate and many drivers are missing.There does not seem to be a system install disk provided by dell Is that the situation??
I just installed my first pc game. It is Call of Duty Black Ops (no, I'm not 12, my nephew is )I changed install path to D:Games (have user folders relocated there, thats about it, no programs ever installed on d data partition.Installation froze and locked up first time. Had to power off to get out.Second time was logged off my admin account by nephew while installing, though the install ran for a long time - should have completed anyways, after installing, it's not showing anywhere: checked box for install desktop shortcut - not there, not showing up under win start> all programs or games.Tried to launch directly from install path folder... blackops.exe ERROR says: "Blinkw32.dll missing...
1) I never installed steam or anything, could that be the problem?(I'm on different pc now, game pc doesn't have internet right now
2) Can't uninstall! Not showing up as installed program. Uninstaller in game directory won't work.There are 2 uninstall.dll ( 1 for each failed install I guess)
2a) Windows didn't recognize as a program install cause no restore point created before (IS This because I changed install path away from C:programs???)In future how do I deal with installing games to d data partition and have system trat as program install? not listed as program, can't uninstall from control panel
2b) HOW DO I REMOVE FAILED INSTALLS (BOTH).Do I just delete or did the installer likely create all kinds of entries in various other locations that would possibly leave HUGE files elsewhere???
Basically my problem is I cant install anything. I have tried to install several different software in the .iso format and none of which are installing. On every installation I get a message saying 'Setup has stopped working, windows is checking for a solution' then it tells me 'Setup has stopped working' and gives me an option to close program.
Shortly after installing a theme (I can not remember as I can't get into the file system) which is as far as I can see a perfectly legitimate theme (recommended by a user from overclock.net) explorer.exe hasn't worked. I installed it, it asked me to restart explorer.exe by pressing the button. I got the error that it could not start. Itrecommended that I restart the computer before all changes take place. I assumed that I had to restart the computer for Explorer.EXE to work. It did not. At startup, the following happened and now does every time I start it up: (A note, sorry for the low quality photo's, I'm letting someone using my DSLR as they're on holidays.)Everything goes seemingly normal in the BIOS.FYI, the debug code on the motherboard is AA so all is fine according to the debug code.Just before Windows logs me in (just after the Windows logo at boot) there is a blacks screen displayed for a significant amount of time. As I have an SSD, it shouldn't be there and it shouldn't take that long.
Before I get to the desktop, the following errors come up:his is what the desktop looks at login. Firstly, there is not start menu - which means no explorer.exe. Secondly, why has this application started up? Nothing else seems to be able to but this application however manages to. Is it because it uses it's own UI? Nothing else seems to startup. Hmm.I press ctrl+alt+delete and the following comes up as usual: I click "start task manager" and the following error comes up then decided to start the computer up in safe mode.Same errors as before: This is what the desktop looks like, no start menu there:I press ctrl+alt+delete and the normal ctrl+alt+delete screen comes up. Same taskmanager error as earlier.I next boot into safe mode with command prompt. This time only this error comes up: (that is, unless I missed the explorer.exe error or I subconsciously clicked the ok button which is a possibility)
After working flawlessly for a couple of years my hibernation now doesn't work: when I choose it, the screen goes blank and there is some hard drive activity but then it stops and just returns me to the screen I was on. Sleep still works perfectly.Two things happened before this: I installed a backup program called ShadowProtect (since uninstalled) and I had a couple of PC freezes due to a bad piece of software, which meant I had to a hard reboot.I ran Chkdsk at bootup to make sure the drive was all OK, which it was. I've also disabled and then re-enabled hibernation. I've looked at Event Viewer but I can't find any actual errors, and am not familiar with the program.
My laptop is from Toshiba, model L650 PSK1JA OK3017. Here's Toshiba's driver page for my device: Support :: Toshiba ::Computers, Laptops/Notebooks, Tablets, Televisions, DVD and Blu-Ray Players, Camcorders, Storage, Accessories, and moreI recently purchased a blank hard drive along with a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit. I've installed all drivers listed on the page for a 64 bit system but when I try to install the "Intel Wireless LAN Driver (For Intel Model Only)" driver or Proset driver, the driver extraction begins, ends, but when the setup is meant to run, nothing happens. I've redownloaded it and attempted to install it twice to no avail.Basically, I cannot connect to the internet and Windows cannot detect my network adapterI can't call Toshiba support because their operating hours are when I'm at school.casionally, when I try running the driver I mentioned before and the extraction is complete, when I select "No" as to whether I want to run the file, Windows gives me the error: "Archive Extractor -- Error occured in system module [-135]".
The problem likely started when I cloned my drive to a new Seagate drive using a Seatools *Seagate** utility, which I believe is actually made by Acronis. The final fix was installing new drivers for the Hard drive from Intel "Intel Rapid Storage Technology"
Symptoms = Failure code when trying to start indexing = 0x8e5e0247 Search function would not work properly Indexing was not working Could not get Windows update to install
windows 7 indexing is not running acronis clone Intel Rapid Storage Technology 0x8e5e0247 windows update not working
I have a HP dv6910us Pavilion and the DVD is not listed in Device Manager. DVD Tray opens and light comes on but does not play DVD. 1st USB port on left side gets - USB Device Not Recognized.One under it works and one on the right side works.OS Windows7 Ultimate. It is running kind of screwy so I wanted to reinstall Windows7 but with the DVD not operating Can't do it. Seems like maybe something in the register got erased or corrupted. If I can get the DVD and USB port to work I won't have to reinstall Windows 7
i have a problem with my mouse cursor.... when it is performing something it become busy... right.. and sometimes the mouse cursor will rotate... or the working in background.... it doesnt rotate anymore.. i mean the windows aero scheme.. i am using a windows 7 os... i dnt know what is the problem,.. i alreay have the tuneup utilities 2010.. still no progree.. plls help me resolve my problem
I'm using Windows 7 Home Premium.My wireless connection has been working on and off for a while, but now it just refuses to work.The other computers in the wireless network are working just fine, so it must be definitely something in my laptop.I can detect the network just fine, with good signal.It says:
Media State: Enabled IPv4 Connectivity: No internet access IPv6 Connectivity: No internet access
Also, in the activity there are Bytes sent and received, but I cannot connect to any webpage either with Chrome of Firefox I'm using McAfee Security Center. I tried turning off the firewall, but it still doesn't work.
After I tried to make a dual boot with Ubuntu and Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit), Windows now does not boot. I have tried to reinstall and repair the HDD but the disc fails to recognize my HDD (Western Digital Scorpio Black 500 GB). My HDD is Basic, has 3 primary partitions and 1 extended (3 logical). Ubuntu 11.10 can boot fine.
