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Hello everyone! I just helped my partner build their very first computer over a video call (we live an ocean apart), and I watched him build the computer rather well for his very first time. He was anxious about how much pressure to use when seating the ram, and the 24pin connector, but that...

Hello. 2 weeks ago i bought this Dell monitor model DELL G2524H 240 hz. In games, everything go normal, i play Fornite and refresh rate is very good for example. Also, i can notice that in CS2 very rare when i move mouse fast i see a bit of "laggy". But this isn't my problem. I want to know...

Hi folks, I need some advice. I'm currently using my Sony WH-1000XM5 headphones attached via Bluetooth to my PC but I know I'm not getting the best sound quality from them as it states I'm only getting DVD-quality audio in Windows. I recently purchased some SteelSeries Arctic Nova Pro Wireless...

Hello,I work with tech repairs as a hobby, and I plan for it to become a more serious endeavor in the future , like a real work. However, for that to happen, I need more people to reach out to me to solve their issues. Today, I discovered that I gave a wrong diagnosis to a colleague of mine at...

hello, my little brother plugged a battery via usb cable in usb port within 2 seconds pc went off and now it's not turning on. anyone can help me? or what's the problem with my pc

I'm having the issue mention in this thread i created earlier https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/pc-wont-turn-on-after-a-lighting-strike-psu-able-to-jumpstart.3835290/ i try to remove the CMOS battery, since that the only thing i haven't try to unplug, after i plug it back in, my pc able...

my pc ryzen 5 3400g ram 16 gb 3000 mhz rx 580 8 gb sapphire nitro ssd 128 gb hdd 1tb stock cooler 2 air casing fan 120mm can corsair 550m run it ?

Hello everyone I have a pc Specs : i5 3470 - gtx 1050 ti - 8 GB ram - h61 mx2 motherboard I was watching some youtube videos a week ago and suddenly my pc froze, green and white squares appeared on my screen then it went black, i forced my pc to shutdown and rebooted, everytime it goes to...

So, I am having an issue with my computer. This happend all after I updated my BIOS and suddenly my computer stopped working. At first, I tought that my motherboard was bricked but then I did some troubleshooting and found out that when I hold the reset and power button at the same time, it...

Hello guys, I need your help. Yesterday I was messing with my bios and I wanted to disable the onboard graphics without thinking that I don't have a dedicated gpu so my pc wouldn't POST. After that I tried resetting my cmos and everything went perfectly fine as my computer POSTed and i was in my...

https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/104359165 My specs should be in there but if anything else is needed please ask. Also the average score with the same specs is a little above 12000

I'm looking for an external SSD backup drive for my OS drive (2 TB SSD nvme) and my 4TB WD black HDD. My motherboard is capable of USB 3.2 gen 1 but the external drive I need, the Samsung T7 Shield 4TB, Portable SSD, is USB 3.2 gen 2. Data caps at up to 1,050 mb/s. Will the transfer speeds be...

My Pc turned off by itself and now won’t turn on I have tried almost every possible solution but still not turning on. When just the mother board is plugged in to the PSU and all the other components are out, the motherboard seems to get power but none of the RGB lights turn on only the debug...

Noticed sparks coming out of the wall socket where my PC was plugged into so I had someone else help me swap it to another wall. However, I didn't think about the PSU switch still being on and this person jerked the cord in and out as electricity was visible each time. Right away I realized I...

Hello I'm trying to fix/ put togeather my computer but nothing appears on the monitor that I have hooked up when I power it on. I've tried resetting the bios and what i imagine to be the simple things, but i would really like to get it working. Ive got a MSI Z690 motherboard with updated bios...

So I tried to push my power cord into the wall outlet and saw electrical sparks. Then the cord came out and I put it back in but sparks came out again so I quickly took it out, but the power switch wasn't turned off. After switching to another wall outlet, this time with my switch off, I turned...

My PC (with an RTX 3080 OC card) and four other cords drawing power to different things are plugged into a decent sized surge protector. The cord from the surge protector was plugged into an outlet on the opposite side of my room and when I tried to make sure it was plugged in all the way...

I was using my computer and it suddenly shut off and died. I tried to restart it but it won't restart. When i unplug the power and plug it back in and try to turn on the fan starts for a split second and the rgb lights on the fans flash and then its dead again. The power light on the mother...

Computer boots up fine. Everything turns on, but it crashes sometimes when running games and apps. I know its not the GPU, or the PSU. I have, A320M-DGS ASROCK motherboard Ryzen 5 5600D 6 core 32GB Ram an m.2 1TB Asus GeForce RTX 3060 12GB. Please help!!!

Hello, So I was wondering how often you clean out pc. Is it every 6 months? and can I use Compu cleaner and just blow all the dust-out and finish? Thanks Gerjaffers

Hello, I have GTX 1660 SUPER And AMD RYZEN 7 5800X and was wondering if this is mid-end? Thanks Gerjaffers

So, about a week ago, I unhooked everything from my PC (Besides CPU/Heatsink and RAM) and aired out the GPU, Radiator, Fans, PSU, and Case with the compressed air tank we got in our garage. (Was just doing some cleaning because it was very dusty in the places I can't normally reach) Plugged...

Hi, i have a this old computer system for over a decade now though it was just sitting there collecting dust in my store room for like past 5-6 years. Today i finally decided to take it apart to see what's inside it (it doesn't turn on). i have removed everything very carefully except I can't...

Hey guys, me and my partner have gaming setups in one room, and wanting to move the setups around a bit, we moved mine and everything was okay, we both have the computers on the tables, but unfortunately, when we moved her table about 1-2 metres, not even touching the pc, when plugged in, it...

I've recently upgraded my CPU from a i7-10700 to a i9-12900k and i am getting really bad screen tearing I have tried everything like turning v-sync, g-sync and free sync all on/off. I'm wondering if anyone could maybe suggest a new monitor or another solution. my specs: (cpu) i9-12900k (gpu)...

I've recently upgraded my CPU from a i7-10700 to a i9-12900k and i am getting really bad screen tearing I have tried everything like turning v-sync, g-sync and free sync all on/off. I'm wondering if anyone could maybe suggest a new monitor or another solution. my specs: (cpu) i9-12900k (gpu)...

Hello I have a little question about my pc when there is a power outage. How can i know and prove that my pc might be dammaged after a power outage because i have many of them at the moment? Thanks in advance for the help

Whenever I boot or restart my PC, it gets stuck on ASRock screen with: " Press F2 or DEL for UEFI Setup, press F11 for Boot Menu ". Half of the time, my keyboard is not even connected, and I need to reboot the PC in order to get into BIOS or boot menu. Whenever I save changes and exit bios, it...

Does anyone know a good WIN 11 PC model that is cheap, can be refurbished to play cod modern warfare 2? Thanks!

Hi, I want to buy a computer and wanted to ask whether these components fit or should something be changed here? And will this machine run quietly and cool? I will play games on ultra and 2k monitor!

Hello, I went to turn on my monitor and out of nowhere this appeared: a black spot at the bottom, vertically colored stripes and also a bright spot with strong brightness at the bottom right. The monitor did not suffer any damage. I just turned it off one day and when I turned it on again it was...

So, yesterday i stopped working and closed my pc properly via windows. Now my pc is getting powered but none of my devices are responding. Strangely, they get powered for example my usb fan and rgb lights got powered but the keyboard and monitors aren't showing any signs of life. The devices...

I've been using an older/budget PC for quite some time but now it is behaving in a weird way. It's freezing every day a few times per session and mostly when just browsing the web or switching windows, but never when gaming. The way it freezes is that at first I'm free to move around the mouse...

I bought myself a cyberpower pc about 7 months ago and it was fine for a while , but now when I boot up my computer my top front fan makes a grinding sound and it very slowly spins (Sometimes It won't even spin it will just sway left to right) , I don't want to hurt the fans or my computer, what...

Hey, I had this problem a few weeks ago, GPU, PSU & monitor is only about 2 months old so relatively new. It happens on both monitors of mine. My specs: GPU: PowerColor Radeon RX 6950 XT Red Devil CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x MAINBOARD: Asus ROG STRIX X-370 F Gaming PSU: Corsair RM850e RAM: Corsair...

So yesterday I upgraded a number of items in my pc as I have done before multiple times. The pc on first start up, with my m.2 nvme ssd with Windows OS, reboots 5 or 6 times before the start screen finally comes up. I updated drivers and everything on the pc and cannot seem to find the issue...

Hello all, randomly when playing games, browsing the web, even just using discord my computer seems to freeze for about 1-10s, it disconnects everything currently connected to my pc via usb and then reconnects them and I un-freeze. If I am playing a game the game doesn't even crash, and after...

Me and my brother did build a new computer for him. I was really happy he finally got a good computer for himself. Sadly the new build is having issues and bluescreens once every 3 days. I am trying to locate the issue, but didn't have any succes soo far. BUILD: MSI Pro B650-P WIFI AMD Ryzen 6...

So just about 2 days ago my computer just randomly decided that audio would only come out of the left ear. I've spent a few hours trying countless different fixes and even resorted to reinstalling windows. Despite all the effort nothing has changed and the audio still only comes out of my left...

Hello, I'm looking for someone to quickly double check if everything in my new build is compatible / fits before I buy it. I really need a second set of eyes to make sure. This is the 3rd time I've ever built a computer. Please can you let me know? Thanks! Here is the link to pc part picker...