DVD Drives

I have an old Dell Optiplex 9020 desktop which works perfectly except for the dvd drive. I have purchased two different external DVD drives and neither one was recognized by my PC. The USB port works because I use it for other devices. The DVD drives I bought were on the cheaper side so I don't...

This dvd drive is Panasonic UJ-862 dvd drive, according to my research it uses PATA/IDE interface, but looking at google for these port, it doesnt look the same with my dvd drive. iwas planning to use it as my portable dvd drive for my laptop... View: https://i.imgur.com/PtGUyO6.jpg

Hi all, this is a little poll about dear old shiny discs. I'm a bit old style and still use them, after all I have a TON of music, movies, games and software on those things and I certainly won't throw them away any time soon! What do you say?

Hi, my colleague needs an in ear headset for her deskphone, but I cant find any relevant products. Does anyone know if these are available? Is there anyway to convert an RJ11 connection in the phone to a USB or something similar that would allow other peripherals to be used with a deskphone...

So the control is to sync to mother board RGB, my question is: can I just go back to thermal takes RGB software simply by downloading the program? Or would I have to use the origninal control to use the thermal take software? Sorry if my question is confusing as I really don’t know what I’m...

Hi, my monitor suddenly turned black. I check my system and I noticed the power seems not routed to the gpu (gpufans didnt spin). And the case fans (4 fans) that was connected via mobo's 3pin fan connector didnt move as well. When this happened, I noticed my psu's fan suddenly spins like fast...

I have Ryzen 2600X, B450 Tomahawk, 16GB RAM (2x8 Corsair Vengeance 3200@CL16), RTX2080. Games such as Battlefield 5 or The Division 2 work fine and I get >100 fps but from time to time entire system starts to stutter. Game, sound, even my keyboard backlight. I have checked and processor is NOT...

Good Morning Yesterday I installed a Samsung SSD 970 PRO 512GB and moved my Windows OS on to that one from my older Samsung SSD 850 EVO. However, during the process I forgot to backup another user profile which had important files. I'm sure I deleted the partitions for the older one so are my...

Hey guys , I'm not sure where to ask this but I'll give it a try. I recently got a new rig with the i7-9700k and on it i've installed the h115i RGB platinum. Now just to test it i've ran p95 on stock speeds with the settings on icue at balanced and some of cthe cores hot up to around 100 while...

I am new at pc building did a lot of research, I got all the parts except for the power supply which is hard for me to choose which one will work best with this build. Case: Phanteks ps400 tempered glass Motherboard:MSI ProSeries b450-a pro Processor: ryzen 5 2600 with wraith stealth...

Hey guys! Does your internal GPU (GPU in CPU) total aviable graphic memory depend on total system memory (RAM). I'm talking about Intel HD Graphics 4000. If you have more RAM, do you have more VRAM? Thank you for reading my thread, also any advice is welcome, I'm curious about it. It's better to...

I just bought my first GSYNC monitor ( DELL S2716DGR) is 27" @ 1440p @ 144hz. I used to use an ASUS VG248QE, which was a SUPER fast panel, with no ghosting( just bad screen tearing). I have a i7 9700k and evga 1080. So I plugged in my new dell s2716dgr - installed the display driver and the...

Hi, so im getting BSODs while im gaming (mostly), this has been happening since a long time, i have tried checking my RAM with memtest it was ok, i've reverted the GPU drivers (because i updated them recently) And nothing happened. Im very confused and i dont know what to do. If someone help me...

Okay, don't know where to post this. I don't really see a category for this. So call me stupid, I couldn't hear footsteps in a game and it's been happening for months now. Anger finally got to me and I smacked my right head-piece really hard twice and now it's faint and dense. It's got bass...

There is currently only a 2T HDD in my computer. Since boot times are sluggish i bought a 256GB Intel 760p NVMe SSD. I have more than a terabyte of data on the HDD so cloning it whole is out of the question. I'd like to only move the operating system (win 10) to the SSD but the os itself is not...

My first year of college I bought a couple of speakers and subwoofer off of craigslist for like $100. The speakers are the Infinity IL10 model. The subwoofer appears to have its own amp built in and each speaker is rated at an impedance of 8 ohms and 50-150 Watts. The preamp I'm currently using...

I own a Sony VAIO VPCEH3QFX laptop its a 2012 year, recent install of windows 10 on an SSD. Everythign is workign correctly but the brightness hotkey. It has a default maximum brightness of 24 percent. For some reason the brightness will go up and down but the max brightness is 24 percent using...

I already have a white HyperX Fury 8GB 2666Mhz (HX426C16FW2/8) memory stick, and now I'm interested in buying another one, the red HyperX Fury 8GB 2666Mhz (HX426C16FR2/8). Both share the same specifications on HyperX's website, except the heatsink color. I'm almost sure, but would like to know...

I have msi trio x gaming 2080 and a riser cabel from the cooler Master kit and the Monitor screen went black randomly 3 to 5 times of days on 3 days. so what did you guys think is the problem ?. I Think problem is the riser cabel

everything works fine it turns on plays games great and everything nothing appears to be wrong but I have this red led light right next to my ddr4 that wont go away and from what I can gather it is some sort of error message. I've double checked everything and everything is plugged in fine and...

Hi, I am planning to build a storage server and have decided to get a used Xeon E3-1220L v3 due to its low TDP of 13W. My question is can i just put a large heatsink on this and due to its low tdp can it work with just the case fans ?

I have looked alot around and having a hard time finding the best setup for my streaming pc. (Gonna stream duel pc) Right now i have a gaming pc with : Intel Core i7-7700 3.60GHz And 32gb Ram and gtx 1080. So if anyone can help me out with a good build for the streaming pc.

So I currently have an xfx Radeon 580 8gb sapphire, but due to faulty parts the card is getting returned. I am considering going to a PNY GTX 1080 xlr8 oc gaming edition. See below...

Hi guys, Looking some recommendations for a small business server plus firewall with VPN. Have around 3 desktops and two laptops connected to server. Laptops are occasionally used off site and need connectivity to network (VPN mapped network drives and RDP for network apps). Had been looking...

My hard disk have three Partition, two is working but one needs format to show. What could I do.

A while back, I was looking to replace Windows Movie Maker following a Windows reinstallation—I did not realize the software was no longer available for download from Microsoft. A third party seemed to have repackaged Movie Maker, but it required the use of a proprietary downloder, which scared...

So just recently whenever I am using a game/program that uses the GTX 1060 in my laptop (automatically uses the intel integrated graphics for desktop and other basic programs), there is a weird box patterned flickering/static overlay. This is what it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/SQPbFi8 I...

I have a Dell Alienware AW3418DW ultrawide, I use it for gaming but I also use it to play my Nintendo switch on. Is there anyway get the image on my Nintendo switch to occupy the entire screen rather than just the middle and have black bars on both sides? thanks in advanced

How do I sign on to my Dell Inspiron 15 3000, if I forgot my password? It will not allow me to create a reset password disk. It keeps showing the screensaver with sign in to password box. I do not remember my password even with the hint, unfortunately I did not write down password. I'm a...

Hello, So I recently decided to overclock my system, starting from gradually increasing the cpu. Clock, voltage then stress testing for about 2 hours with prime95,temps did not exceed 78, got it to 3.6Ghz. Didn't touch the ram as it is a pretty cheap ram stick at only 2133Mhz, I was afraid of...

I recently flashed my bios and now I can't run more than 1 stick of ram or the system becomes unstable and gives me all sorts of BSOD errors. The system runs just fine with any 1 ram stick in any 1 slot, dosn't matter which. I know the ram isn't bad because I have 4 sticks of ddr2 2gb ram and...

Forgive me for the long text but I want to make sure I don’t miss anything. I recently upgraded to a brand new 1080ti about two weeks ago. Everything was running without a hitch until just yesterday. I noticed some artifacting in the menu screen for Black Ops 4, there were blinking pixels in the...

Hey Everyone, I am currently using my Desktop gaming PC as my Plex media server. I have several storage drives on this machine, where I keep all my media I stream through the house. I watch Plex throughout my home with an Nvidia Shield for my main 4K TV and Roku 3 boxes for 2 other 1080p TVs...

If I'm going to water cool the GPU, would the 2080 Ti perform identically to partner cards? The FE cards seem to have unlimited stock on NVIDIA's site right now, so I'm considering buying. Will the FE card be able to reach the same overclocked speeds as any other cards with water cooling and are...

Hi guys, I recently just got a brand new Gtx 1070ti Armor and I still have around 1200 AUD for the rest of the build. Do you have any reccomendation for this build as I am gonna mostly use this for gaming and some editing in the future. Also this 1200 budget needs to include a monitor that fits...

I got an Acer Aspire 3 laptop for my parents for $300 and decided to replace the 1tb drive in it with an SSD. That was a task on its own--I used a USB-to-SATA adapter and EaseUS to clone the system drive to the SSD. The new drive wouldn't be recognized as a bootable device until I cloned all...

I was just made aware that my work laptop is collecting device information (via a Tanium agent) on my home network when its connected. I would like to create a segregated wireless zone with internet access for my work appliances that follow me home (laptop and phone). Security for the work...

I have a older Gigabyte Z97M D3H. I want to install a NVME drive.. but not sure if anyone has done this before and how do I do this Step by Step. Any help or suggestions for tutorials? My PC has this old stuff. where to put the NVME to? (which slot?) 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16...

My pc started booting to Recovery mode after I disabled testing mode, and I tried to recover my files and got this error : 0x80070003

Can 2600x run well on a320m mobo cuz i didnt want to oc it. And there is other mobo that suitable for 2600x that not so expensive