CRT Monitors

I am currently struggling with trying to get something which is probably stupid to work, it usable at the moment but it has some horrible black bars on the ends of the screen. I am currently trying to get a CRT to work, its a 4:3 14" ALBA CRT however Windows is detecting it as a 16:9 1280p...

I have no idea if this even possible, I may completely wasting my time but I am trying to connect a CRT Monitor to my modern PC for some retro emulation. This is my current build: Asrock B450m pro4 AM4 Motherboard Ryzen 5 3600x CPU RTX 3060 12gb GPU Corsair CX-M 650W 16GB RAM The CRT monitor I...

Hello, I have a fully working old TV (https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/kauno_silelis_shilialis_405_d_4.html) and I wanted to make it useful again, so I looked up ways to make it accept HDMI. Found a bunch of videos of people connecting antenna RF Coax to RCA converter, then to RCA to HDMI...

Hi there! Any help or assistance with soldering or finding a correct plug to fit an IBM Lenovo motherboard would be great. I do have photos. I don't know how to find out what type of connector the All-in-One CRT monitor power cable is called, it was manufactured in 1994. My plan is to reuse...

I am building my new gaming PC. I have assembled it with the following components: - Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Ultra Gaming 2.0 - CPU: Intel i9-9900K - CPU cooler: NOCTUA NH-D15 - GPU: PNY GeForce RTX 2080 Ti - Samsung 970 PRO 1TB NVMe M.2 As soon as I try to boot up, the VGA light on...

MOBO: ASRock X370 Gaming K4 FATAL1TY GPU: MSI Gaming GeForce GTX 1070 8GB CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB 2x8GB (16GB) DDR4 2933mhz (CMR16GX4M2Z2933C16) One of my friends just bought a new Ryzen rig and ran into a problem. It seems after he installs everything and boots it up...

So I just built a new pc and when I booted it up I got the EZ debug led for my cpu not being detected. I tried both sticks of ram by themselves and one worked. I went into the bios and changed the xmp setting up to 3200 mhz since I have 16 gbs of ddr4 ram. I put the other stick of ram back in...

Hello almighty and powerful Gurus, I have a HP Pavilion 17z-e000 CTO Notebook PC with a AMD Radeon HD 8330 (512 mb). I have upgraded the ram to 2x8gb SoDimm.( max ) ( it runs fine this way) I want to play No mans sky but the graphics are all choppy. can I allocate more ram from the 16 gb it...

I have tested all my games and it really is unplayable for me when vsync is off, i get frame lags despite the stable 60fps im getting. I have capped my fps to 60 using rivatuner and when the frame lag happens i am still sitting at 60fps. My only workaround for this is to enable vsync which i...

Hi guys, I've recently bought the Lenovo IdeaCentre AIO 720 as a day use machine and it has a m.2 PCIe expansion slot. After 2 weeks using the machine, I had to buy a Samsung 960 Evo 250gb to clone the traditional hard disk as the bootup speed was simply criminal. But the primary storage is...

Hi everyone, I hope one of you can help me out. You see at my shop I have this really old epos system and the barcode scanner it uses is really old and breaks down at times. So I thought I would buy a new scanner but turns out the system I am using is really old like from 3 decades old and it...

Hello I've bought a new PC (LENOVO PC Gamer Legion Y520-15IKBM) few months ago and i'm really disapointed by it's performance results. (i'm playing at PUBG, in ultra low graphism and i can't get more than 60 during whole game) I've tried to check if my pc was ok (using crystalDiskInfo etc.)...

Hello there everyone, This is a first time post for me and I have to admit, I am a complete noob when it comes to pc hardware and software. I will definitely appreciate your help on this. Since I am a noob, I brought a prebuilt PC for gaming. Now, I am looking at making an upgrade to this PC...

So the last few days I am getting constant Kernel-Power error 41. I have tried everything I found online. I have updated all drivers, updated bios and put turn off hard disk after to never and the problem persists.

Hello, So I deleted a partition on my new Micro SD card and from what I've seen in a few posts from this website that was a huge mistake. It is 100% unrecognizable. I just bought it and it was very expensive. I've read in some other posts about ways to make it recognizable again by creating a...

so my problem is that i formatted my computer today and i havn't had any issues with this wireless adapter in the past but the network adapter doesn't show up in my device manager at all im on windows 7 and my motherboard is MSI H97M-G43 i assume its something to do with the BIOS but i cant...

I bought a pc yesterday with: 8 gb ram Core i7 2600 4 cores 3.40ghz Motherboard: OPTIPLEX 390 Power supply 260 watts from intel Intel hd graphics 2000 And I want a good graphics card that can fit in the computer and run high end games using these watts And thanks

Hi there, I've been having this problem for a while now and I can't seem to figure out what the issue is. My computer is more than equipped to run any game smoothly (specs below), and I have always updated to the new graphics drivers. For some reason, I get VERY low frames on certain games...

I'm getting a new motherboard ASUS B85M Gamer because my old MSI Z87 G45 GAMING broke back in November. Is it still a great upgrade? I don't want to upgrade to a new build right now and I'll probably wait until next year for Ice Lake. I'm not planning to overclock so I'm choosing B85 but if I'm...

corei5 6600k G.skill Ripjaws V 16GB 2x8gb MSI Z170A gaming m5 only boot when slots 3 and 4 are populated, so I cant make dual channel config, any help would be apreciated. Thanks in advance. DIMM 1 populated wont boot DIMM 2 populated wont boot DIMM 3 works DIMM 4 works if I set 1,3 it...

Hi, I am looking to build a pc and a little confused on whether these components will work, I am looking at the A68HM-E33 V2 and I have a core i5 processor. will these two go together. Also Im looking at the Premium Quality upHere Quiet CPU Cooler. Please let me know if there are any problems

so i am running 4gb ram with an i5 3470 and a 750 ti sc i want to upgrade my ram to improve my pubg experience but i am nervous that my power supply may give out soon i have had the pc almost a month and its just my anxiety should i get another 4gb stick or should i get another powers supply...

i keep getting checking media failed

My PC, hp envy 15 touchsmart, cpu performance get spykes to 100%, all attempts to restore failing, malwarebytes won't run, and when I leave the machine on, after a while I get some screen saver with the time and a woman with a red Hat and blue Blazer. I can't open screen saver setting, it I...

Is this card: ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 560 better than Sapphire Radeon RX 560 PULSE? Considering it's price it should be better, but im confused... i dont know which one should i buy..

Hey guys, So basically windows was updating yesterday on my laptop and don't know what i did, laptop turned off. Then i tried booting it up and now takes much longer to start up and I have black screen for some minutes that i didn't have before and sometimes it doesn't boot up so I have to...

So I just build a pc for the first time but I had loads of knowledge about it but its been running very slowly.What is really wierd is that on 3d max fire stricke nenchmark i got 11000 which is really good.On the other hand on this benchmark http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/6155913 i got...

Hello. Can someone help me out with finding the right cable to connect the side fans on this case? Bought this pc for a bargain price and everything is working but not the controlled LED side fans and it drives me mad. I can seem to find the right cable + it doesn't look like I have any free...

So i am in a very tight spot at the moment and i need to know how much power a Bluray disc drive uses in a pc at idle, full load, playing a disc (such as a movie) playing a game disc. the specs are: HP blu-ray disc rewriter model number: BH38L (A2HH I wasnt sure what category to put this in so...

I play games like team fortress 2 and csgo.i usally have my res set low to 1152x864 at stretched 4.3 just because it makes me aim better however id also appreciate if it wasn't so dam blurry. so I was wondering is it possible for low resolution to look sharper?is there any possible way to make...

I built my first PC a few months ago (parts list here https://pcpartpicker.com/list/R68ynn ), and it was working fine up until last week. I got my first blue screen while playing PUBG, it was a SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION which said nvlddmkm.sys was the problem, so I did a clean uninstall of the...

https://pcpartpicker.com/user/phop1/saved/6Hk4D3 Here is my current build. I have built this but haven't bought a graphics card. My MoBo only has 1 HDMI out. I understand that graphics cards have more HDMI out, but I don't know it they operate the same way as the mobo one. As of now I have...

Hey, I was curious, do the new GTX 1000 mobile series use the same drivers as the ones for their desktop equivalents? What I mean is, can you install drivers for the mobile versions from the Nvidia website or do you have to use your laptop's manufacturer's special drivers?

So im planning on buying some new parts and my budget is around 1200$. I am looking for a 1070 with a 1440p monitor with at least 60hrz(obviously) So im making this thread to see if anyone could find a good monitor for me and if there is maybe some room for a new processor(I have i5 4460) but...

I have a good PC, i7 cpu, mobo z170x, gtx 970, and 2 memory cards of 4gb hyperx making 8 gb of ram, if i buy two card of 8gb making 16 gb plus my original 8 gb is a good combination or its better to buy another pair of 4gb?

So i wanna get an m.2 ssd for my laptop, but i'm kinda confused after now that m.2 ssd available in nvme and sata, mainly because both have different gold contact, can they actually pretty much go to m.2 slot in any laptop/motherboard that have m.2 or what?

I have two computers connected on a network, one with Windows 7 Pro 64-bit and the other with Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. On both computers, they see each other under Networking, but they also see my LinkSys WRT3200ACM router listed as a Computer. Is this normal? If not, how do I get rid of it?

Hello I am a first time builder and I just got done putting all the parts together in my pc then went to go test it and the motherboard showed AE which is the legacy boot for it but the monitor kept saying no connection or no cable connected I have tried two hdmi's, two monitors, took out one of...

SO I just bought a new router, I was getting 130mbps before on ethernet, now i'm getting 94mbps MAX on ethernet, any ideas? Router: Asus RT-AC1200 -latest firmware- re installed firmware, restored the router to factory as well, reset modem. tried a different cable, tried it with a different PC...

Hello everyone! I am a neophyte and I'm not exactly a computer guru. I have a problem, when I start windows 7 OS after some time appears a blue screen that it avoid me access and a restart takes place. Here a snapshot of the blue screen...