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I have MS Office Pro 2010 Plus and MS Home and Business 2010 installed but Office Pro is NOT ACTIVATED and want to know if having both of them are, or could cause conflict with Outlook 2010 causing it to (not responding) displayed when opening folders? If it isn’t activated, then by default...

Hi, I can't seem to find much information on this card. It says on most sites that it's core clock is 1000Mhz which is the same as the reference specs. What gives? I thought it was an OC edition card. EDIT: I've purchased it online which is stated as new just without the cables and accessories...

This is my current graphics card : AMD Radeon R9 390X but if you need more info here is my computer: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012OU73US/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I was just curious as I seem to run every game fine until recently I've noticed trying to play Shadow of...

So I cloned my Samsung Evo 850 using EaseUs Todo Backup to an ADATA m.2 NVME drive. I restarted my computer and set my bios to the new m.2 as the priority boot drive. My computer has been booting fine all week through this method until I decided to wipe my old EVO 850 drive (the source of the...

Hi! So I'm in the UK and I have a Virgin Media Superhub 3. Last night our internet became incredibly slow and this coincided with a neighbour moving in upstairs. I thought nothing of it initially and as it turns out there's a fault in the area but I decided to investigate earlier today and...

I just got a pc and i'm new to these things, but my monitor and motherboard have DVI dual link ports and i have a single link DVI cable. Do I need a dual link DVI cable to connect my monitor to my motherboard? I'm trying a single link cable and the monitor says check signal cable. I'm going to...

Hi folks, Trying to build a cheapish pc for simple gaming. Will G4600 do the job or should I go for coffee lake (or refresh) pentium/celeron chips? Not planning to install a graphics card thanks in advance

This is my first PC build and I need some advice on whether my components are suitable. I will over clock a little bit but I will be using the stock cooler. I plan on playing some lighter games, not COD, or battlefield or anything like that. The games I plan on playing are -Fortnite -Skyrim...

Hello, So my Windows computer has been periodically having moments where the screen goes black for a few seconds, then the screen returns. During this "blackout" time, I can still hear the volume and control with the keyboard/mouse - it is only the video that stops working temporarily. After...

I overclock did my Ryzen 2600x earlier, I added an extra 200mHz and it worked fine but when I restarted my computer a few hours later it didn’t turn back on. All the leds and fans turn on but there is no display. I just reset the CMOS battery and it worked fine.

Hi, I recently noticed that while I am playing demanding games such as Rise of the Tomb Raider and Assassin's Creed Unity on maxed settings my PC case is warming up quite significantly (on the sides and on the top) and I hear kind of a sound of fan working hard. However after I exit those games...

I can't launch any games on Windows 10. I can launch Adobe apps, web browsers, clients like Steam, but games will not open. I click "Play" on a game, and the game icon appears on the taskbar, and my cursor even changes to what the in-game cursor icon would look like, but I'm still on my desktop...

Alright, few months ago I upgraded my PC with ram, psu and gpu. The problem is, while I'm gaming my screen just become like some solid color, green, yellow, gray, brown, etc. It never happned before and when I upgraded it started happening. And than somehow I didn't touched anything it stoped...

I build a new computer every 5 to 10 years, but this time my brothers surprised me, building one for me as a gift. It has an SSD main disk with Windows 10, and I just put in a second disk (a HDD) for storage. - Samsung SSD 840 PRO Series 256GB - Main Drive with OS and all Programs. - Western...

Im looking for a laptop that can run the sims 3/4.Can this laptop do it? ://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B015PYYDMQ/ref=ox_sc_act_image_2?smid=A3GQ8W9AF8L0NJ&psc=1

I've been trying to burn downloaded audio files (from a legit source) to a cd to play on a new Onkyo player. The Onkyo can read/play other burned cds fine. No matter what I try, the player will not read the burned disk. I've done direct burn of downloaded VBR MP3 files, FLAC files converted to...

i have the MSI Z370-A PRO and i want to find the acceptable ram that this motherboard will take...i looked on the msi website but i not sure where to go to find this...if someone could help me on this i would appreciate it...thanks...

Recently my PC has been having issues such as randomly shutting off and It was having an issue updating windows. There is over 60 critical errors in Event Viewer with these specific error codes. "0x3D55: Package family Microsoft.OneConnect_8wekyb3d8bbwe runtime information is corrupted...

When looking into it I got told my hdd could be failing but when accessing it from my brother's computer I got no errors after scanning. The main problem is that I can't get into desktop or windows repair at all so I can't revert any changes. Using windows boot able USB and CD don't work...

Is I5 7600 and RX 580 good combo? Or processor is not strong enough for RX 580 maximum performances?

I have a motherboard asus rog strix b350-f with a processor ryzen 7 2700x 16gb ram memory 3200mhz and a gtx950 video card, the problem is that when turning on the computer turns everything on normally but nothing is seen on the monitor does not emit any sound, only a white led lights up next to...

The title says it all. I am trying to install Windows 10 on my PC and this is the error message I get, any help would be appreciated. Also I am not very good with technical thing. A step by step answer would be great.

I'm planning to buy a 144hz monitor but not sure whether my pc can handle it or not, I play mostly Fortnite, CSGO and Rocket League. These are my pc components Case | CORSAIR Carbide SPEC-03 CPU | AMD RYZEN 7 1700 @ 3.6 Ghz Motherboard | ASUS PRIME B350-Plus RAM | HYPER-X Fury 16GB DDR-4...

Hello, So I recently purchase an Open Box MSI Optix MAG27CQ from Amazon. I just receive it and installed it. First thing I notice when I power it ON, it shows the MSI logo and hundreds of pixels blinking red,green and blue colors. Then I connect to PC and still has the same issue. The problem...

Whats the difference? Should i pick the normal ones? Thanks

Hello, Having an inexpensive HP 15-bw011dx that I couldn't disassemble without without breaking anything. I decided to use an HDD/SSD caddy to install an "old" Samsung 840 Pro 256 Gb. The hardware installation went without a hitch, the SSD mounted perfectly into the caddy (Highfine Universal...

I play most of my games in this temperature, between 39c-48c since as far as I know Haswell CPUs can rise up and down pretty quickly in terms of temps, so I take this is normal temperature for gaming? I use a custom power plans in control panel to reduce the overheat. I play games like SWTOR...

i have 16gb of ddr4 2666mhz ram from corsair and im wondering, does it matter where i place the dual channel sticks? I know they shouldnt be placed next to each other but is there for example a benefit to placing them in slot 1 and 3 opposed to 2 and 4?

Here is my pcpartpicker list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/ZkLMCb Can somebody tell me how many watts I will need if I plan on overclocking my cpu and gpu a moderate amount?

So i downloaded Kali Linux 32bit version cause of my system requirements and i made image on Vbox and start it clicked install on boot menu and there was some message like {This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: pae Unable to boot – please use a kernel...

I recently bought a Dell Inspiron 15 5000 gaming laptop and so far have had almost no problems with it. The only problem is that sometimes everything on the screen will freeze for a few seconds and then return to normal. This will happen when browsing chrome, using discord, or even when just...

Hi, I'm from the UK and made the mistake by rushing and buying a PC instead of researching what it could do and it also came with marks on the window from the CPU screws so I'm returning it. I'm hoping for a refund in the next week or so and thought I'd ask on a online forum for advice on either...

I just wanted to get into overclocking because I got a corsair h100i v2. I have an ROG Z370-F motherboard. I just want to know the safest settings for my cpu to be at 4.7 ghz.

I have watched many videos on the build of a Pentium G4560 and GTX 1050 explaining how its an amazing budget build and should not have stuttering in games. When I play CSGO, I get about 200fps and when playing Fortnite, I get about 150. Yet at the worst possible times or at random times, frames...

I reset my laptop which had windows 10 and it took days before reporting it failed to reset and now it can not boot what should i do

Hello guys i hope you are doing fine. So my pc is almost ready and i need the final piece which is the OS, i can say that i almost fell for the trap of buying oem keys from sites that might scam me.The thing is that in my country there's a shop that builds pc's and they have their own W10 home...

When i try to play a video game my computer screen will turn black or pink then i have to restart my computer, so i can get my graphics card to work again. i can watch youtube or browse the internet with no problems graphics card will never go out but once i play a game less then 5 minutes in...

Hello, today in the morning I opepend my laptop which runs Windows 10 and noticed it is almost UNUSABLE, it is so laggy and can barely do anything. I hardly can open any file or program after a very long time of waiting. I also hardly opened task manager and saw that my disk usage is at 100%...

Hey there, having huge problem with my new adapter. I can't seem to make my laptop display on my monitor with a thunderbolt 3 to displayport adapter, here is the Info I can give: I have a gaming laptop and used a HDMI cable to plug it in to a monitor. The Monitor is 144hz and g-sync capable...

My PC has been randomly freezing and I cannot move mouse, audio stops, and caps lock is unresponsive. This has been happening for awhile now and I originally thought it was possibly due to high usage with multiple programs open but just now it happened when I only had ONE Chrome tab open. I have...