Recent content by RaymondSWalters

Turns out the problem was with Windows Power Management (Power Settings) [ https://imgur.com/a/NWaH2AR ] Both minimum and maximum power states were set to 100% (which explains the high clock to the bitter end) Weirdly enough 100% Max state overclocks my CPU by about 600MHZ xD, no idea why...

Good day. Its been a while since I have been on these forums, but i'm currently having an issue with my Laptop's Thermal Throttling. I usually game on my Desktop at home, but since I went to college I found using my laptop a convenient option for casual gaming. I, however, am plagued by...

Found out what was the problem. Turns out that AHCI and UEFI do not want to boot with a NTFS USB flash drive. So it's basically a dead end. Only a external hard drive shall suffice.

WinToUSB mentioned in the article won't even boot after installation. Anything else I can try?

No. I'm looking at creating a portable windows drive.

Hi guys I installed windows 8.1 clean on a new external drive. I tried to boot up and selected the drive in the bios. The windows logo appeared with the spinner below it like usual, but it has been spinning for very long now and is not moving on to the initialization... Anybody know what I...

Found a program called Autoruns. Helped me track down the autorun that causes the installer to activate.

Hi guys I recently installed unhackme on my computer and ever since doing so at startup Unhackme-comss setup runs. I have tried to delete the installer many times and each time it keeps coming back. Since the program runs at startup is there maybe a way to stop it from running in the first...

My biggest cpu mistake? Buying AMD Never again Intel is so much better price is irrelevant.

Did a hard shut down Booted up And update was successful No files were lost (thank goodness) Maybe update was waiting for a reboot but didn't get it? Anyway it worked.

Hi guys... I decided to upgrade my windows 10 Pro installation by using a USB that had the new 1151 update of Windows 10 Pro. The installation went through its paces and finally reached 100%, but now it is just stuck there, for a very long time. Strangest thing is that the screen dims and goes...

Chose an existing theme:nothing downloaded a new theme: now it works

Hi tomshardware community Ever since installing windows 10, any selections that I make (like selecting text or files in explorer, etc..) can barely be seen. This is especially frustrating when making selections because the currently selected item(s) look like they are not selected just like all...

nevermind decided to stay with my monitor