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Hello, I'm trying to get audio from my monitor to my PC. My idea is to get my consoles audio from my monitor and send it to my PC. The way I do it is I plug 3,5mm cable in my monitor 3,5mm port for headphones, and I plug the other end in my pc microphone jack. This way I get audio from my...

I'm a newbie when it comes to pc parts and electricityt stuffs, and would like to ask (1) why do I sometimes get shocked when I touch my PC case, and sometimes not? I noticed that I often GET SHOCKED when I touch my PC case and/or other metal parts when IT IS NOT ON, BUT PLUGGED IN, and I DON'T...

Found out newly bought house has 3 pronged outlets that are not grounded. Apparently they were not grounded because to get to the wiring the electrician would have needed to dig through part of a wall which contains asbestos. I cannot afford to pay for a costly asbestos removal any time in the...

This did not happen to me but I am curios about it. When I checked the pins of the PSU I saw that it has 2 ground pins. What would happen if one of them displace while the PC is working? Can it cause any problem?

When I touch my cpu case I don't feel electric shock but the back metal panel has electric current when I test for current using a electricity tester. Like this one Is my PC grounded/earthed or not???

Hi! First of all my house isn't grounded. So my room is in the second floor where my PC is located and I get these electric shocks when I touch the metal part of the case. I came across this guy on Youtube who used a nail and stuck to a concrete wall and used a copper wire to connect it to the...

Hello error, i just joined the forum to ask this question. Hopefully I'm following the forum's rules properly. So I used to have a cheap HEC PSU that ran well for 5 years, but I always had the issue of getting shocked through any scratched/unpainted part of the case or through touching any USB...

My pc has worked fine past few year's but since yesterday it gives lots of electrical shock...when i put my Arduino board or usb it shocks me and turn of breaker . And also audio out connected to subwoofer that wire also shocks me..Why..

So i've made a lot of research and found out that i most likely have a grounding problem. Just bought a new mic (Tonic G33) and tested it on my Dell Laptop. For about 10 mins of quality testing, it suddenly started having buzzing. I noticed that when i touch any metal part of the microphone, the...

Hi guys! I just saw that the outlet in which i plug in my PC has no ground.In fact, just 4 outlets in my apartment are grounded. My question is: Can i run a wire from a grounded outlet to the one that has no ground so both outlets can share the same ground?

I OCed my FX-4300 got it to 4.2 GHz and 1.5 v due to it restarting I stress tested it for an hour in Prime95 and the highest temperature I got was 47 degrees, but I disabled Cool n Quiet via bios and my clocks as well as my voltages are fluctuating .

I am having Acer e5-571-563b laptop Can I upgrade it's GPU Or what sort of games it can run For eg gta4 fifa gta5 etc

My screen on my Lenova laptop went dim after pressing the F10 key by accident. This happened before and I read a post that said you just press a certain key upon startup and it worked. But nw I don't remember what key that was. Anyone know what key to press upon startup that will fix the problem?

Hi toms people. i have recently bought a second hand laptop pavilion 15 with A10 and the r7 m260. but im getting very bad fps. my old laptop with i5 and HD 4000 graphics ran these games no problem. i checked all the drivers installed the latest from the AMD website. turned up the battery usage...

Hi im building another pc for my friend its got a power supply, Motherboard, Ram and cpu we are still waiting on the gpu and hard drive. Its my old motherboard and cpu its a AMD FX 8320 using the stock cooler it gets very hot when I turn the pc on it gets warm by two minutes and by 5 its hot its...

I would like to know if there is an AMD MOBO with a PCIE-16 3.0? I want to get a liquid cooled graphics card, but as far as I can find they only come in 3.0. I know 3.0 is backward compatible, but who wants to hitch a street rod up to a trailer? If I have to upgrade both, I want to do it in...

The Problem I have a 5 year old desktop computer that has served me well up until last week. Things started becoming very slow. Going into a folder, opening programs, hovering over buttons, maximizing programs would all freeze the computer for a minute. However, the mouse was still movable...

My share drive is password protected and I entered the wrong password and clicked "Save my credentials" Now I cannot access the share drive. How do I undo this?