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WD Elements 1TB drive suddenly stopped working. I had my games in it because computers own hdd is very small. I play games a lot so it was very actively used. I bought it not more than 2 years ago. At first suddenly some files became corrupted i think because Steam couldnt opened DOTA because...

I bought a Ryzen 5 3600 with a MSI B450 Tomahawk Max. However, I feel I botched the install. However, I dont feel too mad, as I realized mistakes like these are part of the game. My EVGA PSU is a bit of older model that only uses 4 pin connector but it is 750 watts so in theory it should run...

Hey all, New user here. During a time machine backup from an 8TB Seagate HD to my 2017 imac it stalled. The Mac is now at the shop getting worked on and although that is an issue it isn’t the point of this post. I also had 2 external 8TB Seagate drives plugged into the computer as well. One...

Well the thing is... I bought a new gpu "Asrock panthom gaming RX 570 8GB" new and after install it i do a clean windows 10 installation so after installed the Radeon software all was good but when i try to play BF V the game close randomly and sometimes gives the blue screen randomly error...

System - Win 10 64 bit on SSD Secondary 6TB WD Black SATA drive was working well for a month in this system, connected internally. On one computer restart I noticed a checking of the secondary drive on 75% , went till 76% and was hanging on. Waited for 10 min without any movement. I shut...

I have a now almost 4 year old system. I7 4790k Gtx 980ti Msi z97 gaming 5 Corsair vengeance ddr3 1600 16gb Corsair rm850 Samsung 850 evo 1tb Lately during gaming my screen suddenly goes black. The PC is then non responsive. A mouse click returns the windows error sound. Pushing the power...

Hello! I have quite the issue that i just cant lay my fingers on what the issue is. My girlfriends PC worked perfectly fine until one day when she turned it on and it didn't start up. It just started up for 1-2 seconds, then turned off. And continued like this in a consistent loop, until the...

well i buyed my new pc and i dont have video signal :c directly from hdmi mobo port, all is turned on normally but no video signal..... what is happening? the seller say they updated correctly the mobo for support my cpu but nothing happens PC: MOBO: Gigabyte B450M DS3H updated CPU: Ryzen 5...

So I have a WD RE3 HDD and it was at 100% health about an hour ago... I was playing CS GO and noticed it was freezing after every 5 minutes into the game play for a few seconds. I exited the game only to find that the health of my HDD was at 10% with 5 Relocated sectors. Now what to do?

Hello, so I had my old machine I3 2120 Hd 6670 ddr3 2x4gb 1366hz 300w PSU (god knows who made it since its all Chinese except for numbers) SSD 128gb HDD 500gb w10 64bit. And decided to Upgrade my graphics since it was dragging me down a lot, i got a great deal on RX 570 4gb ITX and bought it...

For the past year or so I've been having an intermittent issue of my computer shutting down with no warning mid game. Normally it will happen for just intensive games graphically, but now I am experiencing it in games like CSGO which obviously shouldn't cause issue for my system. The computer...

Hello guys, built my PC 3 days ago. Yesterday installed windows, apps, etc. started playing games and firstly I got blue screen with “page fault in nonpaged area”. Then after reboot, i tried to play one more time, and after like 20 mins got “driver IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL”. PC SPECS: Mobo - Msi...

Hello, I am trying to get data off of a Western Digital WD1200B015 (120GB) (2005) external drive. Not trying to fix drive for continued use, only to save data (most likely many jpg photos). The drive does not mount (windows 10), but does spin up and sounds normal. Drive does show up in disk...

Hey guys. I'm in a bit of a bad situation right now. I think my PC just died and that too all of a sudden and pretty strangely. So here's what happened. I built this PC back in December of 2017. Everything was smooth except for when the RGB LEDs on the motherboard died around 6 months later...

So my computer has been having some serious issues lately. I've done some research and tried diagnosing myself, but can't say for sure what's wrong. All of these issues are somewhat intermittent. I built the rig and use it primarily for gaming and video editing. The most common one by far is...

Hello, I need help to detect if a CPU or motherboard is dead. I have tested the PSU on other system and works fin. The system with the problem sometimes boots for a minute or less and then it turn off (With the RAM). Some more times it just try to get on, no post picture or anything, it just...

Hello everyone... I have a little problem, everytime I start up my computer, it gets the "cpu fan error" as soon as it appears a simple reboot makes it disappear, but when I turn off the computer the cycle repeats itself and I dont understand why... *Its a new problem. My motherboard and cpu...

Hello, i noticed that i need to update my mobo BIOS to fix a grand hang issue that was on this system forever. But when i enter DOS mode and execute the afudos file to open the .rom file for my bios update, says it can't open it. I'm making a MS-DOS FAT32 USB flash drive. Can someone tell me how...

So a couple of weeks ago i installed windows on my girlfriends computer (on a new SSD that i had also installed) however i found out today that when she tried to use a usb drive windows said that there are no drivers for this device, when trying to install the drivers it failed. when i had a...

Hello! I have been having various problems with my PC recently such as random error messages, a few failed boots, and most annoyingly, stutters in Rocket League. I Googled and tried a fix to Rocket League, didn't work so I wiped my drives and reinstalled Windows and the error messages went away...

I have a lot of fps drops and 55-80 unestable framerate. I play in 2k. I dont know whats happening but bottleneck is probably the problem? Specs: i7 8700 RTX 2080 16GB DDR4 Ram 650w psu

Hello everyone, I'm Michiel. As the title says: I need a bios update. I need this update because I have a keyboard (Steelseries apex 350) and everytime at the startup of my desktop it gives a keyboard error. which results in slower startup. I've contacted steelseries already and they were...

Dell 27" GSYNC S2716DG ~2 years old Just noticed this distortion the other day, occurred within the last week: https://ibb.co/f3cW3d https://ibb.co/esPYGy https://ibb.co/fwgr3d It basically disappears when I view from above angle. Not sure, but it seems to be getting worse. Any ideas what...

Hi I cant boot on DVDRAM in UEFI Mode I want to convert my partion style from MBR to GPT but to install windows on GPT partition you need to boot on DVDRAM in UEFI mod (what i got from Google so far ) In bios boot option select uefi dvdram screen blinks but nothing happens What do i do

I've been using integrated graphics for a while and finally got down to buying a gpu it's a 1060 3gb once I put it in I got a huge drop in fps.

Whenever i am inserting any usb device such as pendrive, cardreader , mouse receiver etc. It is showing unknown device . I tried uninstalling it but nothing happened . When i am starting my pc without inserting any device unknown device is getting automatically installed

I have a Toshiba e-Studio 250 Scanner/Fax/Copier (it is probably about 12 years old). I am trying to use it as a printer from Windows 10 (X64). I go to "Add A Printer", it doesn't detect the printer, but if I give it the network IP address, it finds a printer. It asks me what driver to install...

Hey guys, I've been getting a lot of BSOD recently (five this month already), they are either memory management BSOD or IRQL not less or equal BSOD. The past two have occured while I was playing online games, however others have occured while browsing or watching films. I've gone through and...

To start I built my pc last year with these specs.1 Intel i3 4160 (might be slightly off, don't have original box) 2 Gigabyte h81m-s2ph 3 hyper x 8gb (1 stick) 4 Diablo tec 700w psu 5 pny 750ti. Later the GPU was changed to a 970, eventualy I wanted to upgrade my cpu. So i got a fx 6300 and...

First time build I know you probably get 100 of these a day. But I can't find any useful information for my problem. Parts: Motherboard: Gigabyte B150M DS3H CPU : Intel i5 6500 PSU: Seagate 450G I'm currently breadboarding with just CPU , stock HSF and PSU . My Phanteks eclipse 400s doesn't...

Hello , Yesterday I was booting my PC with Windows 10... the process was all good. I felt asleep during the process. When I woke up the PC was off , so I turn on the PC , I found it saying no disk found or similar to that .. so I was going to boot it again as the hardware was detected in BIOS...

Hello I'd like to upgrade RAM in my laptop to 32gb however it's pretty hard to find DDR3 (not DDR3L) 16gb modules. My laptop (Clevo W110ER) has only 2 slots but I see that CPU i7-3632qm should support up to 32gb. I'm a bit confused - is it possible to have those 32gb with only 2 modules? Or is...

Hey guys, I am building a house and I want to have video/phone at the gate to see who is there. Its long way from the house so wireless isn't an option. So I need some solution with cable. Do you know some good brands and can you help me?

Hello everyone I have a question. I'm buying a laptop to play games like nomans sky,rust,and mine craft super nodded. I absolutely love the look of this alienware. But is it enough to make a crazy nodded mine craft? And play these games? I almost never get full Answers on here. So if you could...

Hey guys, I just cleared out one of my external HDDs down to nothing, and just did a standard format (Windows 10) to NTFS and default allocation size. I was wondering if there is anything else I should do to the HDD before I start using it again?

So to start from the beginning my friend dropped my computer and after that the screen stopped working correctly so I( foolishly without much experience) opened it up and tried to fix the problem however I had to remove three strips that where connected to ribbons one of them which was the power...

Hello guys,recently I bought a laptop,it's an ASUS ROG G551-JW with i7 4750hq processor 3.2 ghz,GTX 960M 4GB GDDR5 and 8gb RAM.I downloaded some games like Far Cry 4,Fallout 4 and GTA V and all of them are running with low fps (25-30) at the minimum graphics settings.My friend has an ASUS laptop...

I just installed a new motherboard, and now my PC wont boot beyond the BIOS screen at startup. It's a MSI Z87-G45 board. It came with new RAM and an i5 CPU. I've tried using both the RAM chips individually, I've tried to reset BIOS by taking out the battery for 2 minutes. Nothing has worked...

Hey all, I have three monitors, each with HDMI and DVI connections. I also have a 980 Ti that has 3 DP, 1 HDMI, and 1 DVI ports. I used to have a 7950 and to get all three working on the 7950 I needed to use active adapters. Currently I have 1 HDMI and 1 DVI plugged into my 980Ti. Would...

Well i have had this headset (non usb version) for some time and now all of a sudden it is only letting me plug the headphone part in and when i plug the mic part in windows keeps asking if i plugged it in over and over and over. I tried contacting steelseries about it but they refused my...