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:mad: I've just completed my first new build using intel i5, P8Z68V-Pro M/board, 4 x 4Gb DDR3 1333Mhz corsair mem, Corsair Force 3 SSD, 2Tb SeagateHDD. Perfect at first power up. (HDD disconnected) Set date/time and Optical drive as 1st boot. installed Windows7 to SSD allowing W7 to partition and align, which appered to go well. At this point I noticed the pc was only registering 16Gb of memory and I wrongly thought I'd bought 32Mb. I turned off, removed 1 stick and discovered I'd actually bought 4 x 4Gb. I rebooted with no problem then realised I had not reinserted fourth stick - turned of - installed and rebooted. Once I had carried out the mem test with internal botton all was fine and booted into windows - I updated and rebooted - all good. I installed M/S office 2010 (all new versions) - all good. Then updated - all good including online access. Today I was going to connect the HDD and transfer all files but when I came to boot this morning I was confronted with the message 'Reboot & select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device & press key'. I have tried to run Repair disc which I ran off in the course of software install but it had no effect and I also tried running Windows 7 again selecting Repair W7 but had no joy there either. I looked in the Bios and the boot sequence remains as SSD 1st boot. Every time I reboot I receive the same message and I have checked all connections several times. Clearly the PC is not recognising the software because it appears to see the SSD. Any suggestions would be a Godsend - my hair is all over the floor - They say a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing but no knowledge is a lot worse........................... Help please.http://b.tsgstatic.com/smilies/eek.gif

Hi, if there is help I could use it. I've had problems with PC but managed to resolve the majority, but I'm left with a confusing situation. I was running Firefox Beta4 quite happily prior to the unrelated problems, and once those problems were fixed I find Firefox not working correctly. If I click a link in O/Express, Firefox opens and reveals the relevant page. However If I attempt a search on Firefox, the search results appear, but I am unable to access any of them - I have to use IE7 to achieve a successful search. If I remove Firefox, IE7 will not respond to links in O/Express, therefore I am currently forced to use both Firefox and IE7. I have removed the Beta version of Firefox and installed the latest full version, but with no improvement. I have carried out 'uninstall' several times in an attempt to rectify this anomoly and now find that, despite having uninstalled the programme from Control Panel, I have 5 versions of Firefox appearing in Windows Explorer. If I check their 'Preperties' value they seem to take up 0KB & 140KB - whilst the other 3 are around 8.5MB. Can I just right click these and 'Delete' them? They do not appear in 'Add or Remove' or in CCleaner. Any help would be welcome as a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.:mad: Thanking you muchly frank

I'm tearing my hair out!!! Athlon AMD 2600+ 2.10GHz - 2GB Ram (superseded steam drive) Windows XP SP2 2 x 80GB Hard Drives Problem sequence: 1. Lost second hard drive – the only way to recover it was to ‘Restore’. 2. If I disconnect power to PC, when I boot up again – back to 1. 3. Eventually ‘Restore’ failed and I had to boot in ‘Safe Mode’ to restore. 4. Ran scans from McAfee, CCleaner, Spyware Doctor, Registry Patrol, ID Patrol and Threatfire. 5. Firefox 4 Beta failed – It would make a search but could not select from results. It froze. 6. Tried to Update Firefox 4 Beta. No difference. 7. Uninstalled Firefox and reinstalled. Same result. 8. Uninstalled 4 Beta and Downloaded 3.6. Same result. Currently using IE 7. 9. Now all online activity is slow and ‘Task Manager’ displays heavy CPU usage with various files. Eg mcshield.exe – TFservice.exe – wuauclt.exe – svchost.exe (various) – pctsSvc.exe – sqlsevr.exe – Rapportservice.exe – jqs.exe Any one of these can take up to 90% CPU and it seems they take it in turns. 10. Suddenly I cannot open e-mail attachments which are in W. Media Player or in Power Point format. Where I used to be able to play them without a problem, I now get “x cannot play this file as it is corrupted” even though the file begins to play. Suggestions would be very welcome. Just to know there's someone trying to help would save me from drink.