Our friend Rabik is having trouble playing the game Oblivion. Here’s the scoop: he runs the game and it starts up fine then as soon as he presses enter it crashes. He’s been looking forward to this game for a long time and he just received a new computer to play it on. Find out what he (and you if your experiencing the same problem) can do to get the game working.

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Ever had your speakers start hissing at you when you’ve installed a new sound card? Find out what steps to take in order to trouble shoot this annoyance after the break.

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My IBM “Stinkpad” R60 constantly has a BSOD saying:
*** Hardware Malfucntion
Call your hardware vendor for support
NMI: Parity Check / Memory Parity Error
*** The System has halted ***
I have ran MemTest and Hard disk diagnostics and they come out clean. What’s going on? I have Vista, but the problem is there on XP as well.

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Breaking news! There is an epidemic afoot! Well not really, but it’s a problem that can still be very annoying or, if you don’t know how to fix it, expensive. It would appear that there are some computers that lock up from downloading a windows update. It goes a little something like this: The computer will download critical updates and will ask to be restarted so that those updates can be installed. The user will say “go ahead!” The computer will restart and you will get a screen telling you “Configuring updates 3 of 3. 0% complete.” Then it’ll be stuck on this. See how to fix it after the break.

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