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I’ve been recently informed that in order to play the newest call of duty that you have to have tpm 2.0 enabled and secure boot enabled as well (tpm being the most recent version of tpm). problem is i’m on an old gigabyte aorus x470 ultragaming rev 1.0 and it doesn’t support the newest versions...

Recently upgraded my GPU from a 1080ti to a 9070XT. Did all the appropriate steps, ddu, installed new drives. Everything runs great when PC is booted up. I have two screens, one run through my GPU the other run through onboard Motherboard. When attempting to access BIOS i get a black screen...

Hello, I tried to be specific as many xmp issue out there but this put me facing the wall to understand. I have cpu : 265k intel ultra MB : z890 asus gaming wifi Ram : Dominator ddr5 7000mhz dual 2x16go Some nvme and gpu rtx 5070ti with psu 850w. My issue is pc wont start (fully load, still...

Hello I’m trying to repair a friend’s laptop and could use some help. The issue started when the laptop suddenly crashed one day. After that, it would only POST intermittently — sometimes it would reach the BIOS, but then crash shortly afterward. My friend tried running a BIOS recovery, but...

ok soooo to start first i bought a new 3600mhz and had a b450 when i turned on xmp it completely broke my pc and the 2nd ram stick died... returned the ram got new same sticks got new motherboard tuf b550m plus wifi, finally turned on. ram was running at 2666 i was confused then my friend told...

Hey everyone, I’m running into a frustrating issue with my Dell OptiPlex 7040 MT: whenever I install a discrete GPU, the system shuts down under load — even at very light GPU usage (~20–30%). Without the GPU, everything runs completely fine. It also used to work with this same GPU, but one day...

Hi, I'm trying to update the BIOS on my computer, but I can't find the option in my BIOS menu. I've looked up tutorials online, but none of them look exactly like my BIOS menu and I can't find a similar option for updating my BIOS. I have the update loaded onto a flash drive that I was going to...

Greetings, I have an HP Laptop, 14-fq0110wm (5Z7Y9UA), and I noticed in the BIOS a 'Recovery' option. Does this pull the original Image as shipped from the Recovery Partition or is Windows media (DVD) necessary in whole or in part? I have no media and I've got to flatten the SSD and start from...

Have an Aspire TC-220 that I am trying to update the bios for. Under cmd I get the following error message: C:\BIOS_Acer_P11-A4_A_A\WIN\afuwinx64.exe is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Does anyone have an idea how I can fix this so that I can...

Hello, On my secondary computer I had to enable secure boot in BIOS, after which the computer would not boot at all, the screen stays black and does not seem to find any signal at all. In the initial investigation I tried everything I could find, tested switching rams, another monitor, tested...

So I recently got a rx6600m from a friend i have, it is a soyo one and i know these things can be not that great, but still, i want to give it a go and try to... fix it?, anyways, as i said, i get those horrible beeps, but then windows start... normally, well, almost all the time the pc likes to...

Hi, What seemed like a cheap decent upgrade to my PC turned into a very frustrating situation for me. My setup is: Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty AB350 Gaming K4 CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 (swapped from 1600 two days ago) GPU: Radeon RX 6700 XT After the upgrade, things were not quite working...

I have a bricked Fujitsu U939X Laptop, mostly because BIOS file is corrupted. It was hard bricked, LED flicker with 0.1s and plugging power will automatically cut off everything (and BIOS idle with 3.3V). Fujitsu website have BIOS file in exe, when extracting the format is just .bup file with...

Hello, i have Fujitsu U939X with intel i5 8365U and soldered 8gb RAM. I'm using this laptop for enough of time with Windows 11 debloat and zero update. Last week i sold that laptop to friend and re-install windows 10. I didn't install driver because i thought it'll be automatically installed...

Hey everyone I’m having a weird issue with my ASUS X571GT laptop and I’m hoping someone here might have seen this before. The problem: I recently upgraded my SSD from the original 250GB to a SanDisk WD Black SN7100 2TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 (M.2 2280). After installing it, the laptop won’t POST or...

Hi! New user to the Tom's Hardware here. I just got an old Acer Aspire E5-573G Laptop from a bargain bin. Currently it has Windows 11 on it and I wanna install Ubuntu on it either by dual booting or outright wiping my Windows install out for good. However, I'm running into a problem regarding...

I've always been a "if it ain't broke, don't touch it" kind of guy. I've built two prior PCs and never touched the BIOS. I am however getting mixed opinions this time, one friend who is a software engineer said not to touch it unless I need to, but many others suggest to update it. I'm running...

Hi! Recently landed a nice deal on a 4090 so I thought it was high time I swapped my other components as well I'm swapping my RX6950XT for a TUF 4090 I'm swapping my 2x Kingston Fury 16GB 5600mhz stick for 2x 32GB 6000mhz I'm swapping my Ryzen 9 7900x for the new 7 9800x3d (realized I'm mostly...

Hi there. For the past few months, my PC's clock gets out of sync whenever I turn off my PC. My initial thoughts were that maybe my CMOS battery had died even though I never recieved a warning regarding it. I changed CMOS Battery anyway and I noticed that all my BIOS settings were reset...

Hello, for the last few days, I've been having issues with the new SSD I've purchased to upgrade my 10 year old PC so I've taken to the internet to see if I can put this to rest. Neither BIOS nor Windows (disk management, device manager, creating a new pool) detect my brand new Samsung 990 Pro...

My SK Hynix Platinum P41 2TB ssd will randomly disappear from the BIOS drive list during a warm reboot. This normally happens overnight where I wake up and the machine is sitting in the BIOS, SSD isn't visible. If I cold start (a warm reboot does not work), then the machine boots normally. I'm...

Hey everyone ! I've bought a computer not too long ago and I've been wanting to play games from Riot such as Valorant and League of legends. But to do this I need to enable secure boot and TPM 2.0. I'm pretty sure I've figured out how to enable TPM but secure boot is a whole other issue. Every...

Hi all, and thanks in advance for any help provided. I recently bought a 4TB Samsung 990 Pro NVMe SSD, and I have extreme issues with it since the beginning. Until now, I was using older Crucial P3 Plus 4TB (also NVMe) without any issues. My motherboard is Gigabyte Z790 Gaming X AX rev.1, CPU...

Hello everyone, I have turned on Secure Boot mode on my PC via BIOS to "prepare" my pc for Windows 11, however when I realized my parts aren't compatible, I turned Secure Boot off using BIOS and as soon as I hit Save & Exit, my PC stopped working. 1. I tried removing the CMOS (for over an hour...

Hello, I am completely new to PCs and especially PC builds, so I will try my best to explain the situation. I have received a PC from my friend, however I need to replace the SSD card as he wants to keep his. I bought the V-NAND SSD 990 pro (PCIE 4.0 NVME M.2 SSD 1TB) and the PC has B550...

Dell Optiplex 7050 micro BIOS version 1.270.0 I have a M.2 SSd that is good (works in another computer), but does not show up in the Drive section of my BIOS. M.2 PCIe SSD-0 Type =(none) Devce ID =(none) But is see it in the General - System Information section: PCI Information...

Just finished the build, got it booted and windows 11 installed, and just want to make sure im 100% correct here - Here is the page for the specific gigabyte board (rev 1.3) https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/X670-AORUS-ELITE-AX-rev-13/support#dl Im assuming I just do the most current...

What is the chance I can bypass a POST Video error with the built-in VGA port by installing a Universal graphics CCA and re-loading bios? My board is PRIME B650. I get a POST Video ROM failure. VGA on board does not work.

Information about the problem is past these images. Sorry if this thread is incorrectly formatted. Here's the rundown. Randomly, even after days of it working. - I turn on the computer after it has been off for at least a day. - It boots into Windows with seemingly no issues. - A minute...

I have an ASUS Rog Strix G513RM-“screen doesn’t work so have the use monitor!” I’m trying to enable secure boot on my laptop but can’t do it for the life of me. TRIED: Opening BIOS: Boots straight to windows Advanced Restart: Monitor No signal found, tried HDMI, DP, DP-type c Adapter, tried...

Hello guys ,I recently bougth a used Afox RX 580 2048SP (8GB GDDR5) but it seems to be very limited, and I don't really know why. Here’s what’s happening: GPU-Z of my GC Symptoms GPU-Z/HWInfo Data: Core voltage (VDDC) drops to 0.794V idle, max 1.081V under load, should be around 1.15V I...

Hi, im bulding this system in a few days (case is in shipping) Ryzen 9800X3D Asus X870E-E Gaming WiFi RTX 5080 Astral Asus Corsair Vengeance 2x32gb DDR5 6000mhz Expo CMK64GX5M2B6000Z30 Ive read older bios on this board had a ram and cpu voltage with 1.4v rams like mine problem that got...

Hi all, My specs: Gigabyte Z790 aorus elite x ax Intel i7 14700KF 4x16 corsair vengeance 6000 DDR5 Gigabyte RTX 4070 Super Current version of bios is f6, was initially running f6, before i went up to f7 and then down to f6. I was trying to enable secure boot so i could play beta battlefield...

It's an Asrock B650I Lightning Wifi Mainboard (AM5). Here's an excerpt from the mainboard manual: 1. As you can see, the board has a PWRBTN# pin (2 below empty pin/6th pin). The question is, where do I short this pin to? GND? Most guides mention shorting both power pins, mine has only 1. 2...

In order for me to play a game I need to enable secure boot. When I turn off CSM in BIOS to enable secure boot my NVME is no longer in my disk manager when I boot windows. I have looked high and low for answers and cannot find anything concrete. My BIOS( B450 AORUS PRO WIFI) is in UEFI, not...

I recently upgraded from an Athlon 200GE to a Ryzen 5 5500GT on my Gigabyte A320M-S2H V2 motherboard. I also swapped out my computer case during the upgrade. Before installing the new CPU, I updated the BIOS from F55b to F56, then reset the BIOS by loading Optimized Defaults. After booting up...

I am just trying to use Oracle Virtual Box. But only the VBox-Mnager can be started. And after that, I cannot add any of my Virtual Machines to it. When I try, VBox-Manager will freeze. I have had this effect already on another computer and there the virtualization in BIOS was not set active...

Hello. Which of these do you recommend? https://rog.asus.com/motherboards/rog-strix/rog-strix-x870e-e-gaming-wifi/helpdesk_bios/ I've seen reddit posts saying the safe one is 1401 since those before have ram voltage issues and those after have problems being reported, now the latest one seems...

Hello. so i recently got an issue with valorant on a computer where it told me to do those things. i did them and since then the computer gets stuck in a bootloop. so basically, the fans and lights turn on for a few seconds, shut down and restart. I've tried taking out the cmos battery, tried...

Good day, I'm trying to meet the requirements for upgrading to windows 11 and found I need to enable safe boot. This has led me down a rabbit hole of finding what needs to change in order to make that happen. My bios is still legacy and it needs to be UEFI. I can do so using MBR2GPT, only thing...