Codec

I can see that there are several threads on the same topic but every time I visit one the problem ends up being different for every person in any slight way so I am making this thread due to problems like this being more nuanced. This seems to have happened after the recent Windows update...

ALC255 integrated on Acer ph315-51-78np is it upgradable? i mean iif we remove it from motherboard and soldered another realtek like alc1220 or alc5xxx does it work?

I am recording some home videos from VHS tapes to a digital copy for a friend. She wants to be able to play them on the tv with flash drive. I am having trouble figuring out why I cannot play these videos on the TV from the Flash Drive and needs some help. I can play the video on the computer...

So I updated and installed all of the latest packages from the update manager. However, I still can't play any videos in FireFox. In YouTube, I get a playback ID: LIRJWJYYP-HGZnGI and for any jwplayer, I get an error code 102630. I installed the codec FFmpeg but that did not change enything. I...

Hello, topkek. So, Im finally making my PC in a month, but Im pretty confused about a thing. And said thing is the Audio Codec. (Here is an important thing, I have been using the audio codec from my crappy laptop all my life, so every good change matters.) I am planning to get one of these...

Lately I've been running into an issue to where my computer hard freezes and hard locks under rare events. These events include rendering in sony vegas, playing specific games (apex legends, Farcry 5). I did notice it was occurring more when i had chrome in the back ground. Soon after i started...

My router is a few years old. Wifi is meh, especially now that we added Alexa to our home over the holidays. I purchased a few hundred dollars worth of inline wall units, and they don't work in our house. Apparently our house is large and has too many circuits (phases?) so they are pretty...

Hi. I don't know what's happening with my pc but everytime I play a game its FPS are lower than my rig can handle (FX6300; 16 GB DDR3; GTX960 2GB) like, I load a game for example r6 siege and the first round is about 60 fps on low then the next round the frames drop drastically to 20 fps, I...

So I am looking forward to building an RGB computer (this is the pcpartpicker list https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Qicboy47/saved/nmQQZL) So I have counted all the RGB connectors I need 7 1 from the Airgoo RGB strips 3 from the RGB fans on the front of the case 2 from the water cooler fans The...

I live a long way from my mother-in-law and we use Skype a lot to communicate. She is not tech-savvy AT ALL. When I heard about "Windows to Go" I wondered if there was a way that I could mail her a USB key every few months with an updated version (i.e. updated anti-virus, updated Skype, etc)...

Hi everyone. How much does having Bluetooth turned on affect a laptop's battery life? I'm considering getting a Bluetooth mouse, however that would mean having my laptop's Bluetooth turned on at all times and currently I have Bluetooth turned off. I heard that turning off a laptop's Bluetooth...

I'm not really an expert when it comes to building a PC, deciding what's the best option so I need the community's help. I had finally saved some money for an upgrade but I don't know whether I should upgrade my CPU or graphics card. Here are my specs: CPU: Intel Core i5 4590 @ 3.30GHz RAM...

Hello: im looking to use my aorus 1080ti with waterblock in SLI mode (reference photo: https://static.gigabyte.com/Product/3/6341/2017061620261798_big.png ) the problem is i dont know what HB Bridge i should buy, im using in this way the VGA (my mobo is gigabyte gaming g1 x99 wifi)...

I'm about to buy a new 200mm fan for my Corsair 600T case , most fans that's compatibile with the case are 3pin ones. Motherboard is Asus Maximus Hero VI. Now AFAIK this motherboard can control the 3pin fans, but I don't know the range. What would be the possible min fan speed for eg. Cooler...

I went SLI with my 1080ti video cards. (PC configuration listed at the bottom). This is not my first SLI rodeo, I also used to have 2x GTX 770's (4GB) on the same AX860i power supply. The worst power draw I measured, using the 1080ti's in SLI, was 800w at the input of the supply. (from the...

I'm buying a gtx 1050 , and for the same price there is a dual fan one and a factory occurs one with one fan , which one should I get ?

Greetings! Looking forward for an upgrade for my old system. Playing only MMORPG (Black Desert Online) atm. Not planning to play anything else. Options are: 1)...

So I'm working on a new build when I got everything together I get no display no beeps and just a solid yellow light from my understanding that is a issue with ram I tried moving I tried hooking up only stick no luck.... My rig is a Nzxt elite case Asus rog strix z270 G.SKILL TridentZ RGB...

Hey guys, I've seen some similar questions but nothing has solved this issue yet. I decided to upgrade my ~4 year old prebuilt so I ordered a new MOBO, RAM, CPU, and GPU. Now, I currently only have the MOBO, CPU, and RAM installed and everything works just fine and it boots to the new mobo...

I hv Gigabyte Z170M-D3H currently in my system i7 6700k processor Gt 730 gpu (but soon i will upgrade my gpu to gtx 1060 this the reason i m asking this question) 450watts psu ( i dont think 450 is sufficient for 1060 nd i7 so i was thinking to buy 650 or 750 watts psu i think 650 is...

Dropped hp15 won’t power up

I have laptop which had preinstalled windows10. Previously exel, word, onenote and power point, these were preinstalled and i was unable to activate that but i could use them. But after replaceing hdd at service center, they have installed windows 10, becouse my backup of preinstalled os has...

I rebuild an old AMD pc with some semi old intel and nvidia components. The fans in the graphics card is running, but when i use an HDMI cable i get no boot. (not at all) If i put the HDMI in the motherboard i get no boot at all. If however, i remove the GPU and use a HDMI in the motherbord i...

SOLVED. The error has been detected and corrected on the below thread :D Solved @ http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3496126/bad-fps-1080.html Firstly I have another active thread helping me with a bottleneck GPU. In response to this I purchased a new Motherboard, CPU, and RAM. My PC...

Hello, so I'm building a new PC which includes the following parts: Intel Pentium G4560 Asus H110M-K Corsair Vengeance LPX 8GB 2133 2 Module. Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB Later I maybe add an SSD, a GPU and a liquid cooling kit. I need a good PSU for this build. PSU calculator services...

Hello. I have an Asus z170a motherboard and an Intel Skylake i5 6600k CPU. I never updated my BIOS when i built my PC so it has the FIRST bios ever made for the z170a. There are a few small strange glitched happening, for instance, in HWMonitor My cores read - Core2, Core4, Core6. It use to...

Came across a brand new Asrock z77 Extreme 4 at a yard sale . Still in original sealed box and picked it up for a song and a dance . Its my understanding that the z series boards are used for over clocking . I have a stock i7 3770 from a previous build that I would like to use with this board...

Hello! I have recently (last 6 months) built my fist PC. I wont go into specs but i had installed a MSI Z170A GAMING M3 and a 400 GB san disk. There is another slot for an addition san disk, so if i were to buy a 1 TB disk, would it just add 1 TB to my storage or would it be compleatly separate?

I was wondering how these mail in rebates work. I saw it say "Limit 1 rebate(s) per customer". Does it mean I can only use the rebate if I buy 2 of the same items? Or is it only 1 rebate for your account you made? Cause me and my friend are building our first custom pc's and I wanted to know if...

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So I installed this cooler on my brand new build and connected as follows. I plugged the pump into the CPU Fan header and the fans from the pump into the pump. Now when I open up corsair link I am getting 0 rpm on the fan under the cooler tab. Any idea why or how to fix? Thank you in advance.

I have a new computer with its own version of windows 7. I also have another computer i no longer use that has not one, but TWO hard drives, with one of them having their own operating system, another version of windows 7. I'm wondering if I can install both hard drives into my new computer...

Hello everyone! I am having stuttering problems in games after the last Windows 10 Update. kb4022725 [1607]. I don't have any heat or performance problem (at least not that I know after checking with MSI Afterburner and other tools). In some games the stuttering is really annoying...

I have a 2015 Dell XPS 8700 and am trying to upgrade to this, http://www.ebay.com/itm/352027664118 . I currently have a GTX 770 Founders Edition, so I know for a fact power usage isn't a problem.

Hi I am installing a fresh copy of Windows 2012 Server R2 to my Server. The Server turns on then reaches the BIOS screen then boots of the USB I installed the .iso to. Then I have the screen "Loading Files" with the white bar at the bottom loading the data of the USB until I reach the issue of...

Hey everyone. So basically I'm trying to install Windows 7, more specifically Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit, but this little issue is halting everything. It won't let me progress unless I insert a driver disk or something of that sort for a CD/DVD driver, which I don't have. I've tried the USB port...

Hi There! I've recently started to game a lot more and my computer is not doing so well with games. Choppy game play and mid - low settings on most games. I've about €500 to spend on a few upgrades. My Spec is below. Processor - Intel® Core™ 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz Memory – 4GB RAM Video...

Looking for a bit of advice as have not found any other similar question anywhere. Obviously, one of the selling points of the Asus Maximus IX Formula is the waterblock. I like this board, however do not plan on watercooling. Anyone know if the block thats on there will negatively affect...

Ok the computer works fine, weeks without problems... Sometimes when power up it blinks and fans start for a second then it shuts off same result if i try after this If i wait an hour it will power up normaly and work for weeks without problems

This is related to my most recent asked question. So I just finished replacing my old mobo with a brand new ASRock Z97 Fatal1ty and I was told that I wouldn't have to reinstall windows just that it might go into recovery mode on its own to reinstall missing drivers. When turning on the PC, which...