grounding

Recently I've purchased a treadmill, for a few weeks I had no problems and seemingly out of nowhere the monitor started flickering consistently - turning black for a couple of seconds, sometimes going black completely and staying that way. I've experimented a lot to confirm that it indeed...

So I just built my gaming PC. Not that fancy after all. I put it on my wooden desk. And i plugged it into my stavol for 220V. My monitor also plugged into the stavol for the same volt. On my desk there's 1m mouspad with metal build mechanical gaming keyboard and the mouse and also there's my...

This is an old house and there's not even a wiring for ground in the outlets , my case gives me continuous electricity and im looking for an easier way to ground one outlet rather than rewire entire house. Also i have yard so lots if dirt there. Is there any psu that can handle this situation...

Hey guys! My first question here. I bought a new graphic card, and come to find out it requires an 8 pin input from the power source, and my last graphics card was 6 pin. So, I did a little research, and found out I can use an adapter with 2 x 6 pin heads (input), that comes to an 8...

Screeching sound on my speaker when I plug the power to PC, but works fine on my Phone Charger. Clearly something wrong with my PC grounding. My External HDD doesn't even work on the USB 3.0 port (Case and Mobo), only in USB 2.0

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...

So I have a basic understanding on how grounding works... You install PSU in the case, plug it to the outlet with the PSU switch turned OFF... except in my scenario, I'll be plugging the PSU in a surge protector board with a switch on it... and then to the wall outlet... which ALSO has a switch...

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.

I´ve been lately playing heavier games on my laptop. At the start everything worked fine, but after some time I´ve been getting some FPS drops. I usually play Rainbow Six Siege, and I was wondering what the best in-game settings and the best NVidia settings I could select. I'd usually prefer...

Everytime I launch ARMA2 or O.A. my display goes black for a few seconds, then back to desktop and says display driver failed.(NOT the failed and recovered issue) ARMA will stay minimized but only thing I can do is close it with task manager. GPU is also undetectable until restart. Updated all...

Just wondering if something needs to be fixed. There is this computery smell coming from my pc. It smells strong coming from the heatsink. I can smell it from the gpu fan slot too but unsure. It seems to be worsened when under load such as gaming or software. Is this normal? I mean the pc is...

Hi all! I am a gamer for years but a noobie here. My old build was Haswell i5-4690 MSI H97 Gaming 3 ATI Radeon HD7890 2GB OC But unfortunately my mobo has died. Now i need to upgrade the whole thing as my country is running almost no stock of H97, Z97 series mobo, so my processor and RAM are...

i buy sd card from online shop and i test it in my phone Xiaomi Redmi 3X, the result test of sd card is Read 35 MB/S & Write 9 MB/S sd card i use SanDisk Ultra 16GB class 10 i dont know this real or fake sd card can someone explain to me?

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xZH7jc I have enough to get the last parts for this pc but I won't have enough money left over to buy a 4K monitor or vr (whole point of building this pc) but I will finally have a pc that can run any game that I couldn't run before. Is it worth it? Thanks in...

Hello, so I just got a new network that's 100/100 instead of 10/10 mbit/s. In the beginning it was really good but no its so bad. My download speed was at like 10 mb/s but no it has dropped to 1 mb/s? Some1 pls help me

I would like to connect my Plantronics M155 to my Dell Laptop (Latitude E6440) running Win7 for use with Google Hangouts, Skype, etc. When I try to discover it as a Device, it never shows up. I know that I'm missing a specific driver but I can't figure out what. What I do have is the...

is the corsair af140 led fan the same as the regualr af140? I want to know if they have the same preformance

Hello guys, I'm using a PC with following specifications: - Chip: Core i5 6500 - VGA: MSI GTX1070 GAMING X 8G - RAM: 8GB DDR4 2133MHZ - PSU: 500W - MAIN: MSI B150M NIGHT ELF - SSD: SAMSUNG EVO 750 120GB - HDD: SEAGATE 1TB - WINDOWS 10 PRO 64 I'm playing 02 games: CS GO and L.O.L. But the FPS...

Hello everyone. I recently got a new laptop with the following specs: -Intel Core i7 @ 2.8 GHz -Intel HD graphics 4400 (shared memory) -8 GB DDR3 RAM -500 GB SSD (I don't care about space games take though) -Full HD screen (that's not needed too :D) I was wondering, will this PC actually play...

swtich from I7 3770k to I5 6600k and to do that i also had to switch MB.(my asus z77 died) after switching my cpu has been running at 100%. It'll settle down to normal then have spikes here and there task manager example: http://imgur.com/IPsYMRf some other programs like autoKMS is also up...

i know it's has been questioned - ALOT- i have 1 ssd that i want to use as boot device for win 10 i have 2 1tb hdd that i want to RAID (0). i had all of them connected set SATA mode to RAID windows 10 error in setup "windows cannot be installed on that drive select other boot drive" (the 2 hdd...

Hello everyone, I don't know where to start but here we go. To start off, I have the M.S.I Z170A Gaming M7 MB with Windows 10 64bit. The problem I am having is this; my computer won't see they 7.1 but will do 5.1 BUT the sound with 5.1 and standard sound like [censored]. 5.1 sounds tinny and...

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...

Do I need the backplate for mounting the NZXT Kraken X61 with the LGA 2011-3 platform? the "manual" and all its helpful knowledge doesn't say anything about LGA 2011.

I have macbook..i can connect to wifi in mac but i cant connect to wifi in windows..the wireless adapter is not showing

I have a pair of HD558s and I recently built a pc. I am not quite satisfied with my mobo audio and looking to upgrade a buy a sound card. Any recommendations under 50 bucks. I was THINKING Creative Xi-Fi Titanium or Xonar DGX. It has to be under 60 on eBay (I have a coupon)

So, For about 4 months I have been working and researching and I have come to this build. Is it good or not? And is their some revisions to make it cheaper but still same quality? Thanks [PCPartPicker part list](http://pcpartpicker.com/p/zbZqt6) / [Price breakdown by...

Hey guys,I have an Acer Aspire P3 and i want to restore it but i don't have external dvd.It has 2 pair of recovery disc i tried to copy disc to usb drive but it didn't work it just read the disc 1 and ask me to insert disc 2

my son wants to play CSGo. I have been searching and trying to educate myself. I found two laptops I am considering. Will they be suitable?? I am a bit concerned that they are refurbished and that I may not be able to buy a warranty. I would love help ty :)...

i just received a new pc as a gift from a friend its a tower and i looked in side and it only has one ram card that's 4 gb is that normal and can i put in 2 more 4 gb cards and h<ow upgradeable is a store bought tower pc? and is it safe / worth while to overclock this pc?

Question about which 1000$ laptop New Or Used is best for gaming

I have been trying to install new nvidia drivers and no matter what i've tried it won't work. thanks nvidia. now i run on vga standard graphics adaptor. I found one solution that required me to go into safe mode and of course now safe mode refuse to work. loading freezes when it reach...

so, I've been browsing for computer casses and I can't seem to find one. Anyone recommendations? I atleat want a case with a window, and it needs to support ATX motherboards. I'd prefer the PSU to be on the bottom, and it needs to fix atleast a 260mm GPU. I don't know much about stuff...

Hi, whenever i connect my internet certain applications take 10-15 seconds to load on screen keyboard- located on my ssd nvidia experience- located on my hard drive i recently (a week ago) installed windows 7 as i recently built a new system but i reused my storage drives i ran a plethora of...

There are probably a million of these threads and i am sorry but i was really lazy and did not want to sort through them. A lot of them were pretty old anyways. BUT TO THE POINT. I'm asking you what is the BEST PROCESSOR FOR GAMING (almost exclusively) It is going to use a GTX 770 for a...

On the last 6 months I have changed 3 mice on my pc due to a small spike they do after 2-3 weeks from the purchase. Its like my mouse stops for a half second and it starts again. Its frustrating when you play fps games and you face a thing like this. The 3 mice I have bought so far: - Razer...