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Hi all, I have a Kingston Data Traveler Vault Privacy USB 3.0 flash drive stick, which has 256-bit AES encryption, so the only way to access the data stored in the flash drive is to enter the password when plugging the USB stick into a computer. I was wondering, does anyone know if there are...

I have yet to see what BIOS my RX 470 has because it might be one of these: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/187196/xfx-rx470-4096-160913 https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/185588/xfx-rx470-4096-160730 And planning to flash it to this...

I cant boot my PC at all. Yesterday it worked fine, i dont know what happened. You can see in the video what happens. I turn it on, white light blinks, Gigabyte logo flashed for a second and thats it. Even the fans stop. Theres no signal to the monitor. The monitor works, i checked on the other...

View: https://i.imgur.com/RE2T15D.gifv Manual upload because a screen rip wasn't picking up the flash. Loading thumbnail jpegs should not require a delay like this and also flash delay when closing the browser to show its not rooted in Chrome. Here are some other example and specs View...

I recently built a pc Here are specs: Motherboard gigabyte h370 hd3 Cpu intel i5 8400 Graphic aorus gtx 1060 6G Ram corsair vengeance LTX 16G×1 Power cooler master mpx 7001 700w It was working fine but after moving it upon starting it beeps 5 times (short) and the vga light is on There is no...

Hi all ! i am starting my first system build : pls give me your opinion about it . Budjet : around 2100$ cdn; motherboard ; Asus prime Z390A cpu; intel I5 9600k 6 core coffee lake(3.7) memory; G SKILL trident(3200) 2x8g Samsung evo m.2 (500g) graphic: asus dual geforce gtx...

So my pc had an audio problem(not lag or anything severe), and people told me to uninstall the audio driver, then reinstall it. I did it, and it fixed the audio problem. But there was another problem, my PC became insanely laggy, and doing anything on my PC would completely crash/freeze the...

Current system I built this back in 2014 got the 970 a few years later, and replaced the mobo about a year and a half ago when lightning struck my house fried the mobo. I got lucky though all the parts were still good so i just swapped out boards and was good to go. I7 4790k Asrock z97x killer...

Hi folks, long time lurker, first time poster. I'm selling an editing/gaming rig with the following parts: https://ca.pcpartpicker.com/list/x9ws7W Now, I know the listed price there is over $2900 - I know it's not really worth that much considering I'm on a 4th Gen CPU and I realize the cost...

Hello! Community of Tom's Hardware ! So I recently thought to assemble my first Gaming PC with a budget of 1000 Euro, which the monitor takes me 25% because I would like a setup that allows me to take full advantage of 144 hz, of course with some compromise, reducing at low all the graphic...

Lock PCIE a2G4HC, and then it says input password on boot

Hey guys, First of all, thanks in advance for reading this. I have purchased this mobo 1 month ago, and since then I have been dealing with sounds issues. The current realtek driver is horrible.. I even had to remove it. The most annoying part is that I use my microphone a lot, and all my...

Hi all! I was wondering if anyone could point me to a few tips on doing some overclocking on the Mobo and cpu in the subject line: ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 4 LGA 1151 (300 Series) I have the i5-9600K 6-core and 16GB Corsair DDR4 3000 I REALLY don't NEED to overclock this, it's a beast as is...

Yesterday i got a static shock from my microusb cable i have plugged into my pc, can this damage components?

I have a Ryzen 2200G chip (long story). I need to build a productivity PC around it. It will be used almost entirely productivity, no expected gaming. No video or photo editing likely. I need to figure out a good: 1) microATX mobo 2) Ram 3) SSD (120-240g should be more than enough) I'm...

Hey, I want to ask for some help. When I download windows 10 on USB flash drive via windows 10 setup from microsoft site. Sometimes, the installer says that windows 10 installation is complete, and I just put it to download windows on my pc. In middle of downloading it says that some files are...

Hey guys! So a friend of mine has a laptop which's screen is broken and removed from it. Tha laptop is HP Pavilion g6 with intel core I7 with gpu AMD Radeon 7600. When we turn on the laptop on after a reinstall it doesen't display anything on a external monitor.(before the reinstall it worked...

Hey, i have a asus x556uf laptop, its charger is currently not working properly, its pin size seems to be 4.0mm but its really hard to find a charger for it. but i found this charger which seems to be exactly as mine but dont know about pin size...

The Problem A month ago I switched out my motherboard, cpu, and ram with Gigabyte x470 Gaming 5, Ryzen 7 2700x and Trident 3200 rgb ram. Everything worked fine until yesterday. When I turn off the power supply switch and switch it back on and try to turn on the computer my monitor would not...

I currently have this wifi adapter: https://www.amazon.com/Alfa-Long-Range-Dual-Band-Wireless-External/dp/B00MX57AO4 I only get around 100MBps for my 300MBps internet. If I swap out the factory antennas and add new bigger antennas like this one...

Hey people I`m lost on what to buy i dont really follow the latest hardware and i have a general idea on what to upgrade maybe you can could help me out, budget is around 1000. (I know i can still play games around high settings but my cpu bottlenecks some games like the new BF5 and i got a...

Recently I bought some HPB Cougar RGB fans for my computer because I saw they were compatible with my motherboard on the website but I have to connect the hub to an RGB header which I can’t find. I can only find a RGB light strip header. Is there any kind of adapter that will go from the 3 pin...

So I recently bought a new case off of newegg the Rosewill Thor V2 and thought why not upgrade some parts as well so i buy a new Motherboard ASUS PRIME Z370-A II LGA 1151 (300 Series) Intel Z370 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.1 ATX Intel Motherboard and a new Liquid cool problem is when i plug the cpu...

So tonight I overclocked my GTX 1060 3GB to try and get a little more out of it, and I was using msi afterburner to overclock it and heaven benchmark to test it. I did what it said from multiple sources online, which was to move the clock speed up ~20-30 MHz, test, make sure there aren't any...

Will my 9900K still turbo to 5ghz if I've set it to 4.8 on all cores?

I have a ryzen 5 2600 and want to overclock my cpu, however I am using the stock cooler. I am on the x470 platform (aorus x470 ultra gaming), I know that I can oc but how much can I OC my cpu without getting bad temperatures?

I'm using 4770k during last 5 years overall I believe, but I sold my first chip 2 years ago, only couple months ago I bought new. This time it's with some worse cooler, I believe it's T4 Cooler Master (only one cooler). I disabled c6 and other states in BIOS, I also use Power Option for High...

My wife can’t hear well and uses headphones while I listen to TV. She can’t hear some channels. Can I amplify either optical or Bluetooth, and have amped sound sent to her headphones?

Is there such a thing as a box with a 3.5mm input and 3.5mm output with IR volume control? I have a really great HDMI switch with 3.5mm Audio out to speakers (2.1) that have no IR remote to control the sound level. I could run the 3.5mm out from the TV into the speakers and control the volume...

I've had my current setup for years and suddenly my GPU has stopped being detected, instead my computer shifted to using the integrated graphics of my Intel CPU. My GPU's fans still spin once my computers turned on, so it's still connected. I've tried downloading the latest drivers, but they...

Hi everyone, noob here. So I couldn't install Win10 yesterday, and I read that something MAY be wrong with my ram. So I tested with taking 3 out and install on only one ram, didn't work. So here my problem begins.. I tried putting them all back while in a hurry, and I haven't done this before...

my hp motherboard doesnt turn on the lights and fan works but still it wont turn on neither does the mouse or keyboard ive checked all the cables too or even the cd room wont open so basically the lights are on but nothing else works

Hi. My son has a full size tower with a Radeon RX 470gb gaming x graphics card. For Christmas i've got him an Intel i7 8086k limited edition CPU and a MSI Intel Z270 GAMING PLUS Kaby Lake ATX Motherboard. He only plays games like World or Warcraft, The Isle etc. My Christmas budget is running...

hi I really wanna find a 1440p monitor but I can't afford one that costs like 300+ dollars I am looking for one that has above 60 hz refresh rate doesn't have to have g sync or freesync I will be using it for gaming I am currently using an hp 22cwa I oc it to 70 hz when gaming fun fact the...

My computer won’t let me type anything and all I see is wallpaper and sign in notice?

Is there a problem if i connect my 40Watt speaker with my cell phone ?? Via aux

Hello all, Im looking to upgrade my pc but as i struggle with the budget i'm planning to upgrade one thing per month or something like that. I have a Intel i7-4770s @3.10 GHz up to @3.90 GHz; 1151 socket H87; 8gb ram; Nvidia GTX 760. For now I'm looking to upgrade my ram to 16gb and to do so...

Hello everyone So i want to get myself a server build and like to use one of 2 platforms i currently already have. gigabyte x58a-ud3r paired with I7 960 or asus z68 v pro gen3 (currently paired with an I3 3rd gen) I'd like to use hyper V. 1 server and 1 or 2 clients. I have enough 4GB...

Hi my name is Joao I have a asus striz gtx 1060 6g. My problem is that when I try to play my screen starts blinking green and if I close it’s all good... tried to change cables and screens but keeps happening Thx

Hi, I am rebuilding my pc in which I've only replaced my HDD with a new empty one. Now my computer won't boot anymore, it worked before I swapped out my HDD. I've been browsing this forum for a while looking for a solution to my issue but I just got extra confused. Whenever I boot my pc I have...