Recent content by panicman

thanks again for the help i have ordered my discs and they should be here in a couple days...fyi i asked hp support about the hd..they said it has to be a drive of same size or larger so it seems they have changed things in win 8...luckily 1tb drives dont cost much these days.

i cant thank you enough for the hp link..i never considered i could just order the recovery discs..long story short i was able to hook it up to other pc..hd test came back bad..then tried built in utility on the original pc and it seems the hd is shot..i am shocked as it is less than 2 years old...

was hoping to find out if i choose to fully clean my drive does that mean win8 will also be gone completely..the reason i ask is the first option says "if you plan to keep the pc"..the full clean says "if you plan to recycle the pc"...i have tried the first option and it failed but am worried to...

thanks for reply unfortunately i am now kind of stuck...after my last post(before seeing this one)..i did try windows utility to check my devices(not the method you described just used device manager)..it said all were good (memory check hd check gpu check etc)..i then read that these utilities...

Well here is where i am at this point...extremely frustrated after spending a couple hours a night for 3 nights now.. i am sure i am not having a heat issue..have a program that monitors cpu and graphics Bios--i am unable to find out if my bios can be upgraded(see explanation below)..the only...

i am really hoping to get some help here it seems responders really know their stuff. My pc just started crashing a few days ago..i will try to be brief because i guess what you all really need to see is the zip file...i have tried a few things to help with this code 41 kernal and i am not sure...