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Laptop Hard Drive Data Recovery from Broken Hard Drive (already formatted but inaccessible when plugged in. probable physical damage). Any good recovery programs / suggested repair options? Story time: four years ago my parents bought a laptop to use as a home computer to store photos/ videos...

When I shut my PC the LEDs on my mother board remain lit even if i pull the power plug. Power appears to be coming from my monitor. When I pull the HDMI cable the PC LED go out. Is this normal? The reason I care is recently the computer will not boot when monitor is plugged in but I can plug in...

Hey guys, the new x470 mobo releases are here and I'm looking to get one for my Ryzer 2700x. Now, I'm not extreme overclocker or anything, I would just want the mobo to work fine and have no issues, so out of those x470 mobos that are out right now, which one would you recommend me to get? I...

Hi I have an 8320e overclocked to 3.7 and undervolted to 1.16. Turbo mode and all power savings are turned off in BIOS and I have 16gb ram 1866. Ive had these settings for a year now and is stable. My thermal margin in AMD Overdrive when gaming is 40C. When i play games my CPU usage never goes...

I plan on getting the gtx 1070ti for MSRP from a computer shop near me that stocked up on cards and isn’t very popular therefore they have an abundance. I have an i5 4460, will that bottleneck? Should I choose a lesser card like the 1060 6gb and use the rest on a new mobo? Should I get a new CPU...

I recently saw this article: https://segmentnext.com/2018/02/06/pc-hardware-prices-silicon-wafer/ Granted its a couple months old it is worrisome. I am on the verge of buying several new parts in the next couple months out of concern upgrading will get even more expensive over the next couple...

Win 10 caused me to lose all my Toshiba software.. Everything was going well then poof, my win8- 10 crossbreed tangled itself up and crashed. So I went with "refresh".. sounded sweet but what a non-real adjective it was.. because when it got done refreshing itself, I was left with an empty box...

Hi I am build a pc with a i5 8600k and a gtx 1060. I have a psu in mind it is a ev3a 500w bronze but u don’t know if that is enough watts because I also want to overclock

Hi, I tried building my own custom computer (for the first time) but when I tried to turn it on there was no signal on my monitor, but all the fans where turning. I tried taking out the Ram and that did nothing. I then tried to take out and put back the cpu. When I turned it back on there was...

Im new to overclock, so just did probably random stuff in bios. Should I keep this settings for x39? Or should change something...? Im worry about vddcr voltage it sometimes spikes to 1.4 v ( I have already x38 profile with 1.243v in bios (offset -0.13125v) almost stable. Vddcr under 1.26v...

http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/7994180 This is my benchmark I'm obviously not unhappy with my PC, I'm just curious why it says what it says. I just refreshed my PC so there shouldn't be anything in the background. It feels like my PC has been slower since I upgraded my CPU, Motherboard...

My build is : https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/Y8YJV6 My mobo: Asus - ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard Now I can access my CPU temp, fan speeds, OC options in BIOS when i boot my pc up. But shouldn't there be also an option to use that control panel when im logged in on windows...

Intel or Amd? I mean..is it even a question? why should you compare them two..I just wanna know if it is worth it to go cheaper with the cpu (amd) and actually get more cores and threades for less price than intel

I have an acer laptop. No power getting to pc, either woth adapter or in battery. Worked fine yesterday. Tried ESD, no luck. AC/DC adapter light comes on. When I plug the adapter into the laptop, the adapter indicator light immediately goes out. Any ideas? Please help :)

Chtome cast jnstalled but says waiting for connections

Hi guys, i'm having some weird issues with two 7200rpm hdd... I had to remove the ssd from my own pc (that was working like a charm, and has been like that for 1 year and a half by now), so i have installed windows 10 on one of the 2 tb hdds i had in my pc.. Here the issue started, with the...

can acer tc 705 mobo support 16 gb ram?

Hello. I was playing a game when suddenly my computer turned off. After I pressed the power button to turn it back on. When I pressed the button nothing happened. Then I decided to unplug the power cable and reconnect it again. When I connect the plug the green light in the back turns on. But...

In a front mounted AIO radiator configuration, I was wondering what ppl's thoughts are on how much difference a severe bend angle of the hoses makes on the performance and longevity of the radiator. I have read that the less bend there is the better in terms of coolant flow but when I look at...

I bought a Radeon R9 290 (Sapphire) from Newegg in late 2013. I never OC'd, because I just don't care that much about the extra performance and I've always been of the opinion (maybe mistakenly) that doing so just shortens the life of your video card. Well, this past weekend my computer...

ok, this is what i have done and lost gigas on the ssd evo samsung, i was sleepy and messed the partitions , and at the end from 256 g it ended up with 238 g, what steps to do to get to full size again?

At all times, my computer makes this tapping or farting noise, for lack of a better term, from my speakers. When I unplug the speakers from my computer, the noise stops, yet when I plug my speaker to my phone the noise stops. So I'd figure it must be the front panel only, for the most part it...

My laptop screen keeps showing these bubbles in a straight line causing other icons to open at the same time. Is this a virus or touch screen ISSUE?

HI my name is Matt that and every time my computer turns on it crashes after a trying to download or play a game on it. I believe it is the cpu because I put the error into a debugging website and the problem came out as (GENUINE INTEL) what that means I have no idea can someone please help me...

Hello, I was wondering about buying a GTX 1060, but on the title it says Samsung memory. Is there a difference in what the manufacturer is? Thank you!

http://prntscr.com/hysdt9 Laptop: HP Pavilion 15 p004la CPU: AMD A10 5745m APU My cpu runs on a lower clock that it should, as you can see on the image, the 4 cores are working on unstable and different clocks, sometimes (like 1% of the times) it boots up with the correct clock speeds, but as...

(Not sure what forum to post this in, sorry.) This is the build. I've built computers before, I know what I'm doing in general. I'm completely out of ideas here though. These symptoms are happening on BOTH of the computers I built with these exact components. Everything I write below is...

HI, can ASRock A320M Pro4 run with a gtx01050ti, i have to buy a new monitor and wish to use the Display Port (on the new card) for the connection. I am running ryzan 1600*6 and have already installed the drivers for the new card but am still running on the old NVidia. I would like to know if...

I have a gtx 1060 6gb graphics card and at the moment have a 1080p monitor but i was wondering if i replace my monitor with a 4k monitor will make any difference or make the quality worst, being that the graphics card is 1080p

Building a PC out of my old used parts. It booted up successfully with these same parts no problem yesterday but when removing it from the case to clean the dust it just black screens with no beeps, all the fans are on, all LEDs are on. Mobo: Asus p8p67 Gpu: nvidia gtx 660 Cpu: don't remember...

I quit using my gaming laptop for gaming for a while and only used it to watch youtube, movies e.t.c. I recently decided to start gaming again however I have seen a huge drop in performance from my PC in all games. For example I used to be able to run rust on pretty high settings but now even on...

So ive been looking at the astro a50 wireless headset https://www.astrogaming.com/headsets/A50-GEN3-XB1.html# and the Siberia 840 https://steelseries.com/gaming-headsets/siberia-840 which would be the best to get also which would probably last the longest or what would be the best solution

Buying a new machine for audio and video editing (and some gaming) and I'm thinking of just just ordering a machine from Dell with the following specs instead of building my own: i7-8700 1060 6gb 32gb DDR4 2666mhz ram I hate to buy a pre-built, but it's for work mainly and having a warranty is...

Its a new laptop and wont load

Greetings, I know this question has been asked for over a thousand times, yet I would like to know if the problem is my hardware or software. I play games like GTAV, SW Battlefront, where I have 70-80 FPS on low graphics. But sometimes i get sudden FPS drops to 1-2 FPS for 2-3 seconds, then...

a thunderstorm hit my land pretty hard yall me being from the rural area this cause my hardware to blow up. my cable modem fried and wont turn on at all, i tell u what. and so i went out to walmart and bought a brand spanking new cable modem. a wifi and cable model. top of the line said the...

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2GHz 6-Core Processor ($189.98 @ SuperBiiz) CPU Cooler: CRYORIG - H7 Quad Lumi 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler ($54.85 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: ASRock - AB350M Pro4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($74.33 @ OutletPC) Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory...

I recently bought a dell latitude e6430 laptop from my university. They formatted the drive and instructed me to install a fresh OS. I've tried three times now, twice with win 7 and once with Vista. Each time I receive the error "windows setup could not configure windows to run on this...

So I'm looking for suggestions for a gaming laptop, since I need something portable. I already have a desktop PC, so this would be more oriented for gaming on the go. Budget is around $1200, with a screen size of around 15". Mostly looking to play games such as League of Legends, Depth, Age of...

i recenly bought this pc: ►Case: DEEPCOOL KENDOMEN RD ►GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 192b. ►CPU: AMD RYZEN 7 1700 4GHz. ►Rami: HYPERX 8 GB DDR4 3000mhZ. ►HDD: WD BLUE 1TB SATA-III. ►SSD: WD GREEN 240GB SATA-III ►Motherboard: MSI B350 PC MATE. ►Power suppply: NJOY STORM 550W I have with...