Recent content by darkstrike

Hi all - a friend gave me their laptop to take a look at. It's a Lenovo with Win 8.1 On boot, the boot takes a long time and finally BSODs with 0xc000021a. I can restart it into the Advanced Options boot menu. I had tried a System Restore Point from a few weeks ago (August 31st - it was the...

Hey all, Have the laptop of a friend's gf with me and boy is it giving me grief. Long story short, it is a refurbished HP that had Win7 Pro factory installed as a factory-refurbed computer...her mother gave it to her and then Win8 was installed via upgrade path, and then Win 8.1 installed via...

Ended up having to do a factory refresh, so crisis averted.

Is this only regarding Windows 8? I've used either on Win7 and WinXP for years with no problems whatsoever! As for an update on the situation, no response from her about trying what I suggested yet....will again post when I found out if it worked or not...

Thank GOD I'm not the first....I'm a tech. myself (although probably not as advanced as you...:o), but this is the first time I'd ever dealt with this and checked everything I would usually check that SHOULD fix the issue and nothing worked! I felt VERY embarrassed and frustrated with myself as...

Hi all, I'm at a loss....trying to fix a almost brand-new Acer laptop for friends of mine. They were having issues with music files not playing at all in Windows Media Player or other audio programs, so I told them I would help them. First I thought it may be the sound drivers, so I uninstalled...