Recent content by Balderdash999

As farcas I can tell, thr problem is solved! Thank you for your help, though.

Bios time under Task manager/perf/startup was 7.7 seconds (I'm not sure what that means). I didn't trying clearing CMOS yet, but I think I might have fixed it this morning: I noticed my C drive had become full of about 1.3 million tiny 2 kb files that had titles consisting of "fba_ads," then a...

I just noticed that when I first turn it on, the lights for "DRAM, CPU, VGA," and "Boot"light up briefly in that order on the motherboard. Is this normal?

I was wrong - I thought I had installed a Samsung, but it was a WD Black SN850X, so I've updated that info in the post above. I've updated the BIOS to the most recent version (3611) for my Mobo, and I installed the latest chipset drivers, but the issue still persists. I don't have an account...

Ah, sorry, I've edited my original post to contain the missing info.

I'm posting here because my desktop, which used to finish booting in under a minute, has suddenly started hanging during the boot process. It will display the ASUS logo with the prompt to press a button to enter BIOS, then the screen will go black and the power button on the case will blink for...

I recently bought a new laptop: ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 (2021) Gaming Laptop, 15.6" 300Hz IPS Type FHD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080, AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX, 16GB DDR4, 1TB NVMe SSD, Opti-Mechanical Per-Key RGB Keyboard, Windows 10 Home, G533QS-DS96 And I noticed that when I play videos (windows media...

Im trying to repair a Dell Latitude e6540. It has Windows 10, 16gb RAM, Intel i7 (2.7ghz base) with a 1tb ssd. When I try to boot it, the keyboard lights up and the fan turns on, but the screen is blank and it will not proceed to the dell logo However, if I remove a RAM stick, then try to...

Thank you! I was able to get it sorted

Hi there! My dad just bought an Asus vivobook (s15 s533) about a week ago. He hasn't updated windows or downloaded any driver updates, so it's still fresh put of the box with windows 10. When he tries to boot the pc, he sees the welcome screen, but then it goes to a black screen displaying the...

Ah, ok. I was able to do it and reboot, but the problem still persists :(

I tried everything in the linked article and nothing changed. When I type "SFC/scannow" into powershell, I get the following message: "SFC/scannow : The term 'SFC/scannow' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or...

I recently built a Windows 10 PC, and I've noticed that it never seems to retain short term data. Specifically, no programs that use an "open recent files" feature can detect said files, and all games revert to default settings on launch (even including unskippable tutorial prompts). I'm not...