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• Need help to build my new computer

  Well, I'm building a new computer, and I currently have Vista from a computer emachines OEM. I'll transfer my HD on the new computer, and if I order the recovery of their own disc, it'll work reinstall Vista on the new motherboard?

  N ° a license of Windows OEM eMachine is only valid for the original eMachine computer, with which he came.  You would be much better with Windows 7.  Example: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit - OEM. Carey Frisch

• So im basically building a new computer from hole from zero cd witch I would put first?

  IM building a new computer from hole from scratch the mother aboard for the dvd player and so I was woundering instalation cd witch should I put first the mother boards or the DVD isalation cd iv also got a cd of video card, but I thought it would be com after those...

  because I'm not sure who would first come the first time a fabricated construction...

  First, install Windows...

  Put in the CD of the motherboard and load all the drivers for the card...

  Then do ALL the updates of Windows with the exception of HARDWARE drivers...  Do NOT install hardware through Windows Update drivers...

  Then install your antivirus protection...

  Then go to the video card manufacturer's website and pick up the latest video drivers

• I'm building a new computer from scratch. Is it possible to transfer my windows xp OS from my old computer to the new?

  I'm putting together a new mini computer from scratch. Is it possible to recover my Windows XP and install it in my new computer?

  This license/copy of Windows XP OEM is * linked * to this Dell system.  It is * not * transferable to any other system.  This is part of the OEM license agreement.  In other words - you did not have licensed copy for Windows XP - the Dell system has.  You may not have known/done this so far - and it can't make you very happy with the situation.
   
  A decent (albeit simplified) explanation of the difference between a detail a Windows XP license and OEM Windows XP license:
  http://www.ehow.com/about_6625859_oem-vs_-retail-XP.html
   
  As you can see - there's a reason that the OEM license was cheaper and cheaper aspect was why Dell it came with the PC.
  
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• I come from components to build a new computer. Try to use the Windows XP Pro computer old version but after BIOS and XP installation I get the error "file not found \i386\ntkrnlmp.exe. The error code is 7. "What should I do?

  New components is a new computer.
  Inserted the XP Pro CD in the drive but get the error "file not found \i386\ntkrnlmp.exe. The error code is 7. »
  Rebooted comp 5 times with the same problem after BIOS.

  Hi Milkshake83,

  Thanks for posting. Proceed as follows for this error.

  Method 1: Restore the default settings of the BIOS WARNING: this procedure may involve changing the semiconductor (CMOS) settings of the computer's complementary metal oxide and by changing the BIOS of the computer. Incorrect changes to the BIOS of your computer can result in serious problems. Change the CMOS settings of the computer at your own risk.

  To resolve this issue, restore the BIOS of the computer to its default settings. For more information about the correct settings of the BIOS of the computer and how to check and change these settings, see the computer documentation or contact the manufacturer of the computer.

  In addition, to confirm that the computer's BIOS is current, contact the computer manufacturer to inquire about the last update of the BIOS available for the computer.

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  Method 2: Remove the faulty RAM to resolve this issue, remove the memory modules installed in the computer.

  NOTE: you must leave enough RAM for the computer to start and run Windows.

  For more information on the amount of RAM that is required to run Windows, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  304297 configuration (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/304297/) System requirements for Microsoft Windows 2000 operating systems

  If the error message described in the "Symptoms" section of this article appears again after removing the memory module, remove a different memory module. This procedure may ask you to restart your computer several times to identify the specific memory module that is not working properly.

  For more information about how to add and remove RAM to the computer, contact the manufacturer of your computer or see the documentation that came with your computer.

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/318729

  I hope this helps!
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  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• Vista won't work if I replace my motherboard and cpu, basically building a new computer

  I want to replace my 1.6 ghz intel cpu with a faster, but does the vista version came it with computer work or will it ask me for the password for the disk check.

  marvin211 wrote:

  I want to replace my 1.6 ghz intel cpu with a faster, but does the vista version came it with computer work or will it ask me for the password for the disk check.

  N ° it will not.

  The Vista OEM supplied with your PC on your hard drive and on the recovery disk is related to the motherboard. Then... New card mother = new disk under license for Installation of Vista (not free).

  If you replace your processor by a more rapid which is compatible with your motherboard there should be no problem at all.

  Best regards

  ERICO

• Building a new computer video editing, need Suggestions!

  Hello

  I use after effects for awhile, and I was wondering if you could help me with the choice of parts to finally make a custom PC.

  It's my first time doing so, and I completely didn't reconcile with all the technical words out there, so I was wondering if someone could advise me on the correct parts to make a GOOD PC video editing.

  For the moment, I have a laptop with:

  GeForce GT 640M

  Intel Core i7-3635QM - CPU @2. 40 GHz

  8 GB RAM

  This laptop translates previews with slow, RAM (I'm aware of the ways to speed up) and General accidents with several other adobe programs.

  What I want is a high-end PC, which can easily whizz through previews RAM and not there miss you on speeds.

  I join with my laptop to play games such as DayZ, field, etc. (with high refresh rates!)

  Any advice would be, thanks,

  techyguy01

  AE will never be whizz through all RAM previews. It is an illusion does not hang to the. Check the various discussions on performance optimizations and rendered MP. There will be conditions that prevent the maxing out resources such as the specific CoDecs and effects only work in a single thread and so on. the rest is too vague. Speed and performance are influenced by factors 1 million. You can follow the recommendations of Adobe and buy the best and fast SSD for storage and caches, but no results because you do not have the kind of work that this recommendation is based on (workflow combined with the first and massive footage I/O). In the end, we can spend the next three days to discuss, but the simple truth is that you have to know what you need and a balanced system is much more important than having a high performance component standout as a super expensive graphics card, but it be hampered by less effective and efficient components. Get some current core7i is in your price range, 32 GB of RAM, 2 SSD drives to the system and cache and tray 2 or 3 disks for storage. In addition there is really not much to say.

  Mylenium

• Building a new computer

  Hi all

  I have been putting together research on a new system for running LR2.  My old system is just too slow... 2.4 Ghz Pent IV.  I was going to place a graphic map of the largest part of the budget, but from what I've been reading LR2 does not seem to support the use of the GPU.  No one knows for sure if this is the case? Looks a bit against intuitive, but perhaps the dollars are spent more to the CPU?  Thanks for your help!

  Johny jolly wrote:

  Looks a bit against intuitive, but perhaps the dollars are spent more to the CPU?

  As Hal says the graphics card must be at the bottom of the list.

  Lightroom SERIOUSLY wants more cores, the better. It's your best shot for your money.

  Next would be the speed of the CPU (having more cores to a slightly slower processor, it's better than having less than a faster processor cores).

  The next thing that impacts of Lightroom is the speed of the hard drive and the ability to keep your catalog on your fastest drive NOT on your main boot drive.

  RAM would come then, but at this time, unless you have a 64 bit OS (and Lightroom like 64-bit) RAM is slightly less important than the carrots, the speed of the drive and 32/64 bit OS. Of course, more ram is better than less, but if you have a 64 bit OS and you are not running Photoshop in 64-bit at the same time, will not totally nutz with ram.

  Lightroom in the current and beta version does not use just Open GL and the GPU acceleration... no matter what current modern map that has at least 256 MB of vram would be fine.

• I recently built a new computer, and I can't load all affiliated with this subject google sites.

  OK, this is really weird, I'm building a new computer and everything it works, BUT I can not load most of the site of google and a bunch of other sites at random.
  I can load this website, twitter, my hotmail, just about everything else.
  I can load some google searches, but not sites which is redirects to.
  not youtube.
  I already have turned off of proxies, cleared the cache, cookies, clear history, rebooted several times, tried in IE, tried in Safe Mode.
  It is not my internet because I can load on my phone and fine sites old computer.
  It gives me the error message "connection to the server was reset while the page is loading.
  What is going on?!

  I thought about it.
  something was wrong with my Hamachi client and caused all sorts of weird things.

  I uninstalled it and everything works fine now

• New computer - OS Win7 will recognize plu not HARD drive

  Hi all:

  Recently helped a friend build a new computer. We organize a new 1 TB WD HDD with Win7, it also has a former player who was under XP and he's still using it for storage. Everything went well on the initial Setup, we partitioned the loaded Win7 disc of the operating system, no problem at all. We can see the XP disk in the boot menu, but when it is connected on Win7, it cannot see the other drive to transfer files.

  It is a situation where we have to dual-boot, or do we just boot from the XP disc and set permissions for sharing? I tried to read a bunch of different articles but could not come through all that corresponded to my need. I can't just understand why he would see the drive in the boot menu, but we cannot see at all by Win7 disk.

  Thanks for your time,

  Dylan

  * edit: check spelling

  Verify that the disk is present in Device Manager, then go to disk management and assign a drive letter to the drive.

  You will probably have to take possession of the car. In Explorer Windows, right click on the drive, select Properties, then security and give the username corresponding total control of the order.

• Move a version upgrade to a new computer

  I am running Windows 8 Pro on my desktop I built from scratch in 2008. My path to the current operating system went Vista Ultimate Edition (full version) > Windows 7 Professional (updated) > Windows 8 Professional (upgrade). All the steps have been performed with the new software of the retail (not OEM versions) and I got all the records & codes activation. I'll add that I bought and installed upgrading Win8 less than a month ago.

  Since then, I decided to build a new computer using the Haswell i7 architecture and an SSD for the boot drive, and I want to start with a clean OS install. The old system will be eliminated parted and the boot drive is destroyed.
  Is there a way to install my license Pro Win8 existing on the new system? If so, is it possible to do without the installation of Vista and upgrade to Win7 and then Win8? I guess I should buy a new Pro Win8 license, but it will cost nearly $300 if I merge the $90 I just spent from Win7 to Win8.
  Any advice will be appreciated. -Pete-

  See the following topics:

  http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/13375-clean-install-Windows-8-upgrade.html

  Note: Make sure that the Windows 8 Pro upgrade is no longer in use on the old computer.

  You may need to reactivate by phone:

  1. press the Windows key + X , and then clickrun, and then type: slui.exe 4

  2. then press the ENTER"" key.

  3. Select your "country" in the list.

  4. choose the option "activate phone".

  5. stay on the phone (do not select/press all options) and wait for a person to help you with the activation.

  6. explain your problem clearly to the support person.

• Can I transfer to the new computer hard drive with the operating system

  I am building a new computer and want the best way to transfer my data.  I can transfer the data to a new SATA drive and then install the new drive in the new computer without having to do anything else.   Or I can install XP on the new computer first then do the transfer queue using the old IDE drive in a portable USB enclosure?  or?

  TKS

  John

  Sort that works is great.

  If you use the USB case, make sure that it can provide enough power to the drive.  Usually this isn't a problem if the old drive was a laptop computer but can be a problem if it was a desktop drive.

  Assuming that your old computer still works, the easiest is to put all the files you want to transfer to a folder, and then share this folder on the network.  Connect both computers to your home network, then simply attach to the shared folder on the network from the other computer and drag and drop your files to your new computer.

  HTH,
  JW

• How to put windows 7 pro on the new computer using the same key on the side of the other computer

  I have a computer comes with windows 7 pro. I am now building a new computer. How to put windows 7 pro on the new computer using the same key on the side of the computer. I don't have a Windows 7 disc.

  Original title: Windows 7 pro

  Tuesday, October 14, 2014 20:31:20 + 0000, 4hammond wrote:

  I have a computer comes with windows 7 pro. I am now building a new computer. How to put windows 7 pro on the new computer using the same key on the side of the computer. I don't have a Windows 7 disc.

  You can not, for at least one (and two possible) reasons.

  1. it isn't clean if you want to have two computers, or you
  you want to remove from the old computer and put it on the new. If
  you want once, you can't do that - the rule is very clear: there
  a copy (or a license) for each computer.

  There is nothing new here. This is exactly the same rule that has been in
  effect on all versions of Windows from at least with Windows 3.1.

  2. but even if you want it on a single and from uninstall
  the old computer, you can't do it. It is because if it came with the
  computer, it is an OEM version and the biggest drawback to he a
  OEM version, is that its license it permanently binds to the first
  It is installed on the computer. He can never legally be moved to another
  computer, sold or assigned (except with the original computer).

• New computer freeze at startup

  I just got to build my new computer about a week ago and it was a lot of work. This morning it was freezing at startup. When I click on anything whether it's Windows, it freezes. When I hover over anything, it freezes, etc. I'm sure it's a software problem, because when I start in safe mode, it works fine.

  I read that Avast! has given people of the problems with the gel, so I tried to uninstall, and it does not solve my problem. I also installed Malwarebytes and ran a scan in safemode, it detected only a very small PUPPY, nothing serious.

  Since it works fine in safe mode, I hope that the problem can be easily solved, but I don't know how to fix. It's really frustrating because it worked fine before, but now all of a sudden, it isn't.

  Any help is appreciated.

  Hello

  Think that material.

  Remove all power and then reinstall all the memory cards and cables (at both ends where possible).

  Check the memory.

  Update BIOS, drivers from the chipset of low level and all main dashboard and separate device drivers.
  Check with Support from the manufacturer of the motherboard, their online documentation and drivers, and
  Ask problems known in their forums. Do the same thing to individual device manufacturers.

  Tests of memory intercept all errors such as memory do not match (possible even for sticks
  seemingly identical) and when the faster memory is placed in system behind the slower memory.
  So it is best to Exchange also sticks in and out to check for those, even if all the tests of memory do not
  show a problem.

  To test the RAM here control - run 4 + hours or so.<-- best="">
  www.memtest.org

  For the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool.

  WinKEY + W - type in the search-> memory box - find the top Memory Diagnostics tool
  list - and follow the prompts.

  Windows Vista: How to scan / test your memory with Windows Vista memory or RAM
  Diagnostic tool
  http://www.shivaranjan.com/2007/11/01/Windows-Vista-how-to-scan-test-your-RAM-or-memory-with-Windows-Vista-memory-diagnostic-tool/

  How to run the diagnostic tool for memory Windows 7 (and 8) - in Windows 8 the
  the name is "Windows Memory Diagnostic".
  http://www.SevenForums.com/tutorials/715-memory-diagnostics-tool.html

  I hope this helps.

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• Windows 7 Pro Full Retail Edition - building a new 64-bit machine.

  I installed and registered Win 7 Pro on a 32-bit computer. I have the full retail version, which includes a 32 and 64-bit installation cd

  Now, I want to build a machine separate 64 bit of all new components. I would like to install the 64 bit, Win 7 Pro just to the point where I can check that the construction of material and install Win 7 Pro worked.  I should be able to do it from the 64-bit installation CD.

  When a system of work is done, I can remove my 32-bit computer, install the software on my 64-bit computer and switch the recording of my 32-bit to my new install Win 7 64-bit.

  When I did my 32-bit installation on my current machine, I think I got a 30-day grace period to register for my 32-bit installation of Windows 7.

  This strategy works? Is there a grace period of 30 days? Who should I contact at Microsoft to move to the record?

  Ed Perry

  It would be helpful to know what version of W7's retail, you have (?)

  For example, I have W7 Pro retail.

  The COA license key is good for installation on my computer or any other 'one' computer.

  With retail W7 pro, I can use it to upgrade to a new computer, if my old one died or I just want a new computer (the old OS is more usable however).

  If the HARD disk drive dies I can replace the HARD drive and reinstall without worries.

  I can install 32-bit and in a year I can change to 64-bit (and vice versa if I want). There is no time limit on this for 30 days.

  There is a period of 30 days at the entrance of the key to the COA on the 32 bit or 64 bit OS, and not on the ability to switch.  32-bit is certainly 'old technology' now and also really limits your choice of 3 GB usable RAM Max!

  If your building a new computer, see my article "pinned" Tech PC first about 'breadboarding' a new build :)

  New generation of computer? Test the material first.