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    Question Taskbar keeps popping up for a spit second when clicking in full-screen games ?

    Possibly a evolution of this post's issue It's gotten to the point that a couple games have crashed. also noticed it's possibly happening even when not in full screen and it's going almost unnoticed other than a click going seemingly unregistered. I noticed while recording this that it only...
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    Question Computer freezes when steam launches

    So I found the 1030 in the hand me down PC that gets the old parts when we upgrade this one and now I vaguely remember getting that 970 so I could get H3VR. so put that in here and steam seems to work now but another problem has arisen that is now fullscreen games in general. I'll make a new...
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    Question Computer freezes when steam launches

    update: So I was wrong with Boot drive sorry didn't realize they made drives that weren't 2 to the power of X GBs also kind of hard to figure out what you have when you first have to figure out where you got it from as for the ram memtest is finding errors but not all the time me and dad believe...
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    Question Computer freezes when steam launches

    Around 40GB free space we always try to keep it a bit of free space on C: PSU is a Corsair HX 1000W don't know how old it is as we got it used can't check the BIOS version right now due to my dad running a memtest to see if it's the RAM that's the issue just finished its first of 4 passes as I'm...
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    Question Computer freezes when steam launches

    for the past week or two my PC has been freezing shortly after startup. after finally figuring how to boot in safe mode(why did they have to change it from just pressing f8 or whatever key to that convoluted way) and disabling all the startup programs I seemed to have fixed it. skip foward to 2...
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    [SOLVED] Need opinons with upgrade

    I'll Just say the GPU is perfectly fine as is don't have much time right now to look into anything else
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    [SOLVED] GTA V: Unable to Detect Windows Media Player

    Game won't launch, it keeps telling me the above mentioned error message. I know It's installed because I tried reinstalling it to see if that would fix it. I've also tried everything I found on Steam discussions. Anyone know how to fix this? I'm fairly sure it worked before this new update that...
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    Question Looking for a cable mouse similar to a Logitech M325c

    I'm looking to get a new mouse for my gaming rig and I love the M325c mouse that I've been using for my laptop. I've been looking with no luck for a wired equivalent.(Tilting the scroll wheel sends you back a page on browsers) Does such a mouse exist?(3-Button cable mouse with prior mentioned...
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    [SOLVED] Does the HP Probook 4540s have a GPU slot

    I have a HP Probook 4540s that has been somewhat upgraded (SSD RAM) and i'm wondering how much further it can be upgraded. I've seen in a video that its CPU isn't socketed and there also looks like a empty spot a GPU could go. My question is A: can it have a separate GPU. and B: if it can what...
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    [SOLVED] Asus 970 Pro Gaming Aura pcie3 compatible?

    It was a old gtx 550TI my father mentioned something about it fitting differently also it did not have a power plug he just assumed it got power from the pcie port also now looking at your reply again I meant asking on the forums not anything the card has to do another thing is we are using a...
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    [SOLVED] Asus 970 Pro Gaming Aura pcie3 compatible?

    we just tried upgrading/reviving our main PC and when we plugged This Graphics card there was no video. my dad refunded it and now i'm trying to figure out what went wrong. is it possible that the motherboard isn't compatible. (PS honestly just doing this because dad doesn't believe that we...
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    [SOLVED] SSD compatible with old laptop

    and just now found out it uses SATA 2
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    [SOLVED] SSD compatible with old laptop

    the laptop is from 2012 so its possible that the bios may not support the other one
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    [SOLVED] SSD compatible with old laptop

    I have a Compaq Probook 4540s that needs its drive upgraded. I have a SSD that I know is compatible. but my father not wanting to spend that much found this SSD and I can't find if it's compatible with my laptop or not. anyone know if it is? specs of current HD: approx 750GB
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    Question Pc signal to monitor keeps cutting out randomly

    tried replacing the video cord? also try a different monitor to see if its the monitor that's the prob