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    Question Hp omen takes very long time to shut down

    Intel® Core™ i7-9750H 16 GB DDR4-2666 SDRAM (1 x 16 GB) NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1660 Ti Graphics (6 GB GDDR6 dedicated) 1 TB 7200 rpm SATA - 82% full - just games. 128 GB PCIe® NVMe™ M.2 SSD - boot drive - 73% full
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    Question Hp omen takes very long time to shut down

    So once again I'm on here about my hp omen 17 laptop, this time its about the shut down, which normally takes up to 5 mins after hitting "shutdown" and after shutting down I'm sure something is still running inside as the system, whilst unplugged and in my bag will stay warm and after 4 hours in...
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    Question MIn power state at 100%

    by clean boot you mean "safe mode" right or win reset?
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    Question MIn power state at 100%

    So I've had a few issues with my HP omen, and the newest is the min power state wont stay at 5%, it keeps jumping up to 100% and my pc stays at turbo boost speed of 4.1ghz constantly no matter what power mode I'm in (power saver included). I have to go into power settings and change it back to...
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    [SOLVED] Unwanted 2nd windows account

    So recently, I don't know how, my windows account has created a 2nd account, which can , by no conventional means, be removed. My pc no longer goes from power on to active window, it stops by account password saying "password is incorrect", I then have to click on my actual windows account and...
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    [SOLVED] Cant open pics, just goes into perpetual looping.

    Thanks for advice, we backed up everything onto onedrive and did a win 10 refresh, Works like a brand new system.
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    [SOLVED] Cant open pics, just goes into perpetual looping.

    My partners surface pro, which she needs for uni, has stopped opening her photos and uni work, it just goes into a loop and nothing happens. Everything else seems to work fine, Internet, Netflix. it just seems to be "File Explorer" not working at all. I've run "Win Mem Diag", "ChkDsk", AVG Deep...
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    [SOLVED] USB port on my OMEN By HP 17-Cb0056tx is loose or broken!

    So the Left USB ports on my PC seem really loose, as the connector for the mouse has to be slightly of centre (pulled towards me) to actually work or the mouse loses all power, also the Ext HDD makes the connected noise but fails to read on the 2 ports. Everything I plug into the ports seems the...
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    Question Upgrading the ram on my HP Omen 17-cb0056tx

    Hey guys, so I was looking into upgrading the ram on my laptop but cant find any info on the board speeds for it. Currently it has (1x16) 16 GB DDR4-2666 SDRAM was looking to get 2x8 GB at a higher speed. the HP customer support site has info on all the other components, just not the mobo or its...
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    HDD going nuts, 100% constantly

    Hey guys, so my 2 year old seagate 3 TB HDD has gone out of control, its been running at 100% non stop (performance & resource monitor) I cannot do any thing on it. tried virus scan, 30 mins and still at 1%, its slowing down my pc and causing crashes in games. Thing is its been working fine till...
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    Which is the better choice?

    thanks guys for the responses, yeah i realise its 2 overkill systems but i was thinking about future proofing it, however the 3570k and GTX 970 i'm running now is still a great system handles BF 4 on ultra its just got a few hardware issues (its slowly dying) so maybe ill just go with the...
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    Which is the better choice?

    Ok so i'm planning on building new PC in the next few weeks and have so far used pcpartpicker.com to create 2 builds i'm interested in. However I have hit a problem with the choice, which one? I mostly do gaming (BF4, FO4, ESO) and movies bit of youtubing not much else. runs on a 1080p 42" TV...
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    Looking for a good liquid cooler for my new system

    So I've put together a list of parts for a whole new system, yet I cant seem to choose the CPU cooler. I was looking at air cooling, but think now liquid may be the answer as it gets real hot in the summers here and I was also planning on a little OCing in the future. So far I've got the...
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    building a new pc

    So I'm building a new pc and using pcpartpicker I've decided on all the components but one, the cpu, so far I've got the I5 6600, 6600k, 7600 and the 7600k. I dont plan on overclocking, however I have chosen a Z-series mother board so will prob experiment. The K series chips I chose only because...