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Hello all, I am attempting to format my hard drive using a bootable version of Windows 7 with a USB. When I get to the part where I need to select the drive there are no drives shown. I am able to find the drive in BIOS and in disk management when I start my current version of Windows. When I...

Selling an Intel Pentium G4560 chip. It is 3.5GHz locked, with a 3MB L3 cache. 2 core, 4 thread CPU, it's the same as the more expensive i3 but not quite as fast. Chip was de-lidded and the internal TIM was replaced with Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut liquid metal TIM. Dropped temps by 5-20C...

Hey guys I'm planning on buying a PC from digitalstorm. Can you give me your thoughts on it and if I should change something? System Configuration: Chassis Model: Special Deal Hot Seller - Digital Storm Apollo (Black) Exterior Finish: - Standard Factory Finish Trim Accents: - Standard Factory...

Specs Mobo: GA-Z87X-UD3H Ram: 32gbs of corsair vengeance gaming ram ddr3 GPU: Nvidia FTW GeForce GTX 750 ti (Only a 500 GB HDD, and I'm using some cheap wifi card until I can get a long enough ethernet cord) When ever I update (windows update or driver updates) they fail.... And I can't...

Specs: Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6402P CPU @ 2.80GHz Ram: 8 GB System: 64 bit Graphics: NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1050 Ti I bought a gaming pc at the end of December, and all was fine for the first month, but then something bad started happening. I noticed that after varying amounts of time...

I could use some help. I just bought an Asus GTX 1060 3GB which has a 6-pin PCI-E slot for connecting to the PSU. My PSU is a Corsair CXM 650W 80+Bronze semi modular. My problem s that the cable that came with my PSU has a 6+2 PCI-E prong on one end (which I connected to my GPU) and the other...

So when i'm on like google slides. if i try to go right, it keeps it at the left. and you know when your buying something and it asks what state your in? it scrolls to the bottom. those are just a few examples but please fix asap

I just built a new computer and it won't start up. I cant find a solution. I think it may be the power supply but I need to make sure. Specs: i5-2400s Nvidia GTX 750ti 1gb EVGA 450w Bronze 8gb RAM

Hey guys, I need some serious help with my laptop. It's a HP Beats Special Edition 15-p010nm. Specifications are as follows: ---------------------------------------------- CPU: AMD® Richland APU Quad Core Processor A8-5545M clocked at 1.7GHz, Turbo up to 2.7GHz I believe GPU: AMD Radeon HD8510G...

Looking to upgrade my processor from an i5-4460 and a pre-built motherboard to something better. Any suggestions within a 400 price range combined for both items?

My specs are. Mobo. Biostar tpower I45 Cpu. Core2quad q8400 oc @2.88 via automated o.n.e v12 (mobo feature) Ram. 4x 2gb = 8gb Storage. 1 80gb sata wd, 1 80gb ide samsung Psu. Outervision 600watts Gpu. Palit gt 610 2gb I only use cpu 4 pin instead of 4+4. Seems to work though So I added 1 screw...

Hello people ! I'm still new to that amazing place :) So glad to talk to such professionals , enthusiasts and experts ! I come from Egypt :) I've bought an overall new PC with the following specs. H170-D3H. Intel Core i5-6400. Team Eltie 8gb RAM. Zotac GTX 1060 6gb. Cooler Master B600 Power...

So I just bought a new graphics card (AMD radeon r7 240) and installed on my computer,but when I played a game it suddenly lags and after a few seconds a blue screen appears and it automatically restarts. This only happen when I play a game that requires a mouse,because it doesn't happen when I...

I have a Toshiba satellite c55-a5281 and I was wondering if it's possible to upgrade my CPU from a duo core to a quad core and if the processor is soldered to the MB or if it's removable.

so i installed a program named ppssxx2 so whenever i start it it says dll's and dlc's missing and it's a ps2 emulator so we can play ps2 games on pc so i nearly used 6 gb of ps2 games and it took a long time for them to be installed so i don't want to waste my time and i really want to play the...

Hello, I'm having an issue with a build. I installed a new motherboard, CPU, and RAM into a build (the previous motherboard failed) and I'm having issues booting. Upon boot I get one of two bluescreens: "VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE" or "VIDEO_SCHEDULER_INTERNAL_ERROR". Here's the build for reference...

i get 90 fps on csgo with my 6402p on very low settings.My processor is slow i know but should i switch to a i7 2600k if so what cooler/heat sink do i use or do i choose another processor.I have a gtx 960 for a graphics card(i want to run gta 5 and csgo with more than 90 or 100 with maybe...

Just a quick question, has anyone managed to fit cooler master 212 evo cpu cooler to a HP Custom motherboard code named Joshua. Why is it always the same when it comes to pre built systems from HP and alike where they do something completely non standard. To cut a long story short I bought a...

Hey. I've been having issues with my CPU load during games lately. Take Dota 2 for instance: I've been playing it a lot with quite stable framerate, but lately it's unplayable. My PC is quite dated, but it shouldn't really matter in a game like Dota 2. I have a i5-750 and a GeForce 560. I know...

One of the computers in my household (call it computer A) randomly stopped outputting a signal to its monitor (monitor A) this morning, even though it was working last night before it was shut down. Monitor A's dispay is still working because it shows a "no signal" message. Monitor A is VGA and...

Hello everyone, I have been wanted to find an answer and solution from Google about my External Hard-drive issue. It has been happening the past few year and so and I had found no answers to help me. Let me explain what is happening to my hard-drive. Every time I play a game in my computer...

Hello, I'm building a computer for the purposes of video editing, encoding, etc. Here is my planned build. I was hoping for some feedback on the build. How does this look? Thanks in advance. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/KvzJNN Best, CMBPORT

Sometimes I have had to "bend" the top of a PCI card (where the screw hole is at the 90 degree angle thingy at the top) because the "top" of that "screw hole/thingy" is LOWER than the height of the matching screw hole for the slot that is part of the computer case. I would have to bend the PCI...

So I am 15 years old and I'm currently running an AMD fx 6350 and I ran into some trouble today with my fan being ridiculously loud. And I have for a long time been thinking about upgrading but due to my lack of money I haven't been able to go through with it. But now that my cpu fan is causing...

So I have a current setup of a computer which has a pretty bad gpu and I wanted to upgrade, but i'm not certain if I can. This is my current setup: Mother board: GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3P Processor : AMD FX-Series FX-8320E Ram : KINGSTON HyperX Fury 8GB (2x 4GB) DDR3 1600 CL10...

I'm getting blue screens at very random intervals, sometimes several in the span of a few days sometimes several in a single day, I don't know the cause. Happens in many different games, but I remember Hearthstone, Rainbow Six: Siege and Battlefield 1, I think it has happened while browsing in...

Hello Im experiencing some stuttering in games ex. in CSGO my fps is at a stable 300 but every 30 seconds or so it goes down to 50-60fps for 5 seconds then goes back up to 300. I've tried pretty much everything including cleaning my previous GPU drivers and reinstalling them, tried many...

Decided to build a new computer after 5 years. Installed everything and when I go to turn on the computer I get no video feed. I have seen the troubleshooting checklist and evrrything looks good. All fans work, CPU heatsink, GPU fans are working. I don't hear any posting beeps, but I don't think...

CRYORIG H7 Tower Cooler For AMD/Intel CPU Intel Core i7-6700K Skylake Quad-Core 4.0 GHz LGA 1151 91W BX80662I76700K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 530 MSI MSI Gaming Z170A GAMING M5 LGA 1151 Intel Z170 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX Intel Motherboard Acer GN246HL Black 24" Gaming Monitors, 144...

I built a PC a few years back with everything new except the hard drive. I threw in an OLD one I found laying around. I want to get an SSD finally so I've been doing a little reading. 250 GB should be fine for me. I don't really have any specific uses just general storage for now and I'll be...

Hello! The cpu fan on my computer is not spinning. I have bought a new heatsink and also tried plugging it into the system fan header but it still doesn't work. Wondering if anyone knows what it could be! Thank you very much

I've had it explained to me that CAS latency and frequency of RAM units are fairly useless numbers on their own. The frequency dictates how many ticks per second the chip can pump out, while the CL dictates the number of ticks the chip requires to read/write/whatever data. What I was told to do...

I'm addicted to League of Legends, and I absolutely hate when even the slightest bit of lag comes up. Used to play on Ethernet enjoying a flawless 12 ms to the server all the time. Due to some unfortunate events I'm stuck on using a wifi adapter for the time being and would love to continue...

Networking isn't my strong suite but I was hoping to get some help on these questions. I think question 1 is dealing with a router issue since those devices cant reach out to the internet. Question 2 looks like it is dealing devices are on the wrong VLAN. The only thing I can come up with for...

Hello Tomshardware, I have had an issue with my desktop computer for several months now, I got a pretty decent computer with new specs yet it completely freezes 2-3 times an hour when I play games. I can not do anything other than rebooting the computer, sometimes it freezes the sound...

just got the new mobo and ready to swap out the old. the overclocking.guide is showing 2 bios not sure which one and further searches showing different versions. anyone who has this motherboard and overclocking non-k cpu please let me know which bios you are using. thx!

Hi Everybody, A few days ago I noticed that I have many notifications on Skype and when I checked them I saw that I "sent" to pretty much all of my contact list a link to some page on Buidu.com. This is the link (Please, only press if you know how to handle this kind of suspicious links)...

Hello, my names Ethan and I'm looking to get some new parts for Christmas. I currently have this build: (http://pcpartpicker.com/user/Arcadure/saved/8rKQzy) and was looking around hoping to upgrade my processor and noticed that I would need a new motherboard as well. I'd prefer AMD, but have...

I'm building my first PC and need to know what parts I need, what parts aren't compatible and if I could get a part instead. I don't know much about building a PC so keep it simple pls. The parts are: Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 480 8GB GDDR5 RAM PCI Expess 256 bit Graphics Card - £229.99 Corsair...

I have a Vizio smart TV I always hooked as a second monitor to my computer. For some random reason, it has decided to stop working. It's done this in the past and switching inputs always worked. This time, it will not My monitor is hooked through DVI2. my TV is hooked through HDMI. Both are...