Good point. I hadn't thought of that. As it turns out, the CD/DVD player is bad (intermittently) and so I ended up using an external CD/DVD player to wipe the drive with DBAN and reinstalled Windows...

Hi Slee,

You might want to try downloading "Driver Booster 3" and let it update all of your drivers. It may not fix it but updated drivers are always good to have. I know I've certainly had my...

Good morning. Here are a couple of things to try:


1. Download and install Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable Package:



Visual C++ Redistributable Packages for Visual Studio 2013 ...

Do you have a different keyboard and mouse to try out? Sounds like you might have a sticky key.

Good morning,

I have a laptop that has a habit of shutting down unexpectedly. The looked through thousands of lines in the Event Viewer logs and I see that just prior to the shutdowns I see this...