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    I bought my laptop (a Sony Vaio) last summer and I had MSN already installed on it. MSN proposed to download a newer version and it blew everything up.

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    Usually when you install software, the computer will make a restore point. Depending upon which version of Windows you are running, there are different methods of rolling back to that point.

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    I'm using Windows 7.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dling View Post
    Download HWmonitor and post some temperatures up after running a game for a little while, or skip that all together by opening up the case. Lots of dust/stationary fans could do it. I find with gpu overheating though it usually results in screen tears and such too. The computer doesn't restart does it? What's your pc specs?

    http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html


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    right so to make matters simple what i did was open her up. there was a LOT of dust....

    sprayed it out with an air can, tapped it on the ground so as to get the dust INSIDE the graphics fans loose or out and then made sure eveything flush/tight...

    so far, all ok.

    his gta is running fine...no stops/freezes or drop outs.

    although.

    every now and a again it goes **** up on BF3...some of it p put down to being kicked.

    but would that make it look like im playing when i cant get to the actual game screen? if not why? has anyone else seen this?
    and

    once, maybe twice the pc has taken itself to power saving mode during BF3 but the PC(fans run until hard shut down)

    is the graphic card upto it
    here is the spec again:
    spec:

    intel core2 quad cpu q6700 @ 2.66ghz
    4 gb mem
    64 bit
    nvidia geforce gtx280

    windows experience index (?) 5.6
    the reason i list this is because i know the BF3 recommended GC is AT LEAST twice what i have.

    Q? answers? queries please

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    Last edited by greendzflash; 02-01-2012 at 06:52 PM. Reason: extra info

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    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick974 View Post
    I'm using Windows 7.
    Go into the control panel and into Backup and Restore. There should be an option for Recover System Settings that will let you roll back to a date before the "upgrade" too place. It should only roll back programs, not data.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheKiwi View Post
    Go into the control panel and into Backup and Restore. There should be an option for Recover System Settings that will let you roll back to a date before the "upgrade" too place. It should only roll back programs, not data.
    It works now. Thanks a lot man !

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    Quote Originally Posted by greendzflash View Post
    right so to make matters simple what i did was open her up. there was a LOT of dust....

    sprayed it out with an air can, tapped it on the ground so as to get the dust INSIDE the graphics fans loose or out and then made sure eveything flush/tight...

    so far, all ok.

    his gta is running fine...no stops/freezes or drop outs.

    although.

    every now and a again it goes **** up on BF3...some of it p put down to being kicked.

    but would that make it look like im playing when i cant get to the actual game screen? if not why? has anyone else seen this?
    and

    once, maybe twice the pc has taken itself to power saving mode during BF3 but the PC(fans run until hard shut down)

    is the graphic card upto it
    here is the spec again:
    spec:

    intel core2 quad cpu q6700 @ 2.66ghz
    4 gb mem
    64 bit
    nvidia geforce gtx280

    windows experience index (?) 5.6
    the reason i list this is because i know the BF3 recommended GC is AT LEAST twice what i have.

    Q? answers? queries please

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    Well that's certainly progress to say the least. The recommended isn't really what matters. It's the minumum specs, which you meet. As for "every now and a again it goes **** up on BF3...some of it p put down to being kicked.
    but would that make it look like im playing when i cant get to the actual game screen? if not why? has anyone else seen this?" I don't quite understand what you're saying. Just remember there's a plethora of glitches with bf3. The most recent reformat, install and patch have
    fixed a lot for me, but they're still evidently there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Patrick974 View Post
    I bought my laptop (a Sony Vaio) last summer and I had MSN already installed on it. MSN proposed to download a newer version and it blew everything up.
    Or you could try this:
    http://messengergeek.wordpress.com/2...essenger-2009/

    Basically you download a tool called Link Reviver

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    Thanks, it's fixed already.

    By the way it's Windows Live Messenger, MSN is a bit 2003.

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    Ive got a new computer & need to transfer my files from my Ipod, this im not to worried about it can be done but im wondering does anybody know if there is an easy way to dump more songs onto my Ipod. I have another 2500 songs to add. or is there a way to resyncing both or resetting. any help be appreciated.

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    Turned my PC on today and Avast gave me error saying that the program needed to be restarted but when I click the button that it prompts me to, it goes into a not responding state for about 5 seconds and then nothing happens.

    I restarted my PC about 5 times to no avail. So I tried a system restore but that failed as well.

    Here's a pic of both issues:


    I haven't downloaded any EXEs recently or browsed any shady sites. I'm not sure if this is a virus or just my system acting up but I have no idea what the hell to do next.

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    Quote Originally Posted by J-B View Post
    Turned my PC on today and Avast gave me error saying that the program needed to be restarted but when I click the button that it prompts me to, it goes into a not responding state for about 5 seconds and then nothing happens.

    I restarted my PC about 5 times to no avail. So I tried a system restore but that failed as well.

    Here's a pic of both issues:


    I haven't downloaded any EXEs recently or browsed any shady sites. I'm not sure if this is a virus or just my system acting up but I have no idea what the hell to do next.
    Are you using Avast's free version? If so, uninstall it and switch to Avira or Windows Security Essentials. Or you could try and install Avast again, to see if ti might have been some corrupted files.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Left Hand of God View Post
    Are you using Avast's free version? If so, uninstall it and switch to Avira or Windows Security Essentials. Or you could try and install Avast again, to see if ti might have been some corrupted files.
    I'm not so sure this on Avast's end. The system restore failing makes think it's more serious.

    Edit:

    Seems to be working now. Hopefully this doesn't happen again.
    Last edited by J-B; 02-06-2012 at 03:05 PM.

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    Do a backup just to be sure.

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    Computer fails to load. Upon start-up, the screen has white dots sporadically displayed on the screen, then, several lines comprising of blue dots during the Windows loading process. However, it doesn't get far as moments later the "blue screen" pops up and it crashes, restarting the process. Can anyone provide some insight?

    To me it seems like a motherboard issue, as several connectors failed in recent months, prohibiting the use of my secondary hard drive as well as one USB connection which I use for my external.

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