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  1. DeathSentenceQ

    [SOLVED] SSD Not Recognized on laptop please help

    So i have the laptop Lenovo V310-15ISK and i recently bought a SSD ( Kingston A200 M.2 (2280) PCIe NVMe ) i installed it and nothing. The bios doesnt recognize it the windows as well nothing. Things i tried and didnt work: -Updated bios to get some new features like some sata management dunno...
  2. N

    [SOLVED] Booting problem of slightly older pc, BOOT_DEVICE_LED solid red

    Hey guys! I build my pc some years ago and i have resently been necleting using it, but then i tried turning it on, and it beeped the nice sound i love and like when it booted. But then a black screen apeared and said No drive were found and booted to bios, where i could navigate in about 5...
  3. A

    [SOLVED] How do I know what my problem is?

    My friend usually handles this stuff for me, but he told me he doesn't even know. I hope this is the right section to ask this. He built my pc for me, this is my first pc and I have had some upgrades for gaming but now I am getting random lag spikes that should not be happening. Here is what I...
  4. ExTRA1697

    Question Can’t install windows 10

    So trying to install and boot windows on this just doesn’t work, won’t let me do anything unless I override boot from the bios. First issue I ran into is pushing the power button no display no keyboard no mouse. Pc, fans, water cooling mobo lights turn on, no post beep just sits there...
  5. T

    Question XFX RX 580 fans stuck at 100% ALL the time and cannot change it with Afterburner/AMD wattman

    I have bought a used XFX RX 580 GTS 8GB from a seller, since I put it on the PC and start it, the fans work 100% making a lot of noise. Even after installing the latest recommended AMD Adrenalin drivers (20.2.2), fans are still at 100%. Nor have I been able to change anything with the MSI...
  6. A

    [SOLVED] PC keeps booting then shutting down. Need Help!

    I hadn't used my pc in maybe 3 months, then when I tried to start it up today the pc would turn on (fans and lights running) but within around 10 seconds it would shut down and restart. This process continues infinitely. My tv wont pick up a signal in time to see the bios or startup. I have...
  7. A

    Question PC keeps booting then shutting down. Need Help!

    I hadn't used my pc in maybe 3 months, then when I tried to start it up today the pc would turn on (fans and lights running) but within around 10 seconds it would shut down and restart. This process continues infinitely. My tv won't pick up a signal in time to see the bios or startup. I have...
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    Question After restarting my pc games crash

    When i start up my pc for the first time every game runs perfectly. but when i close a game (talking about rust now) it has this issue that when i try to start the game again steam says the game is already running. normally this wouldnt be a problem as i would just restart my pc. but lately and...
  9. Neumann656

    Question PC Laggy and Stuttering. Only restarting Solves

    Hello everyone! First of all, thanks in advance. I have a strange issue with my newly acquired PC. After a couple of hours operating, it gets laggy and seems to stutter on almost every action i take. On task manager everything seems OK (network performance its ofter at 100% though.) I have...
  10. A

    [SOLVED] Laptop battery remaining time indicator issue, help ASAP.

    I recently bought an Acer Aspire 5 series laptop but have been encountering some strange battery issue. Although the battery is reducing at a fine speed, but the battery remaining time indicator is kind of a joke. It goes from 5 hrs to 1 hr 40 min and back to 3h 35 min in a second when i change...
  11. C

    [SOLVED] What in a monitor decides it's refresh rate?

    I've googled several times and phrased myself differently each time but all that is showed is page after page about gaming, what refresh rate is and it's correlation to fps. I'm curious about which part in/of a monitor controls what refresh rate it can output on screen. I'm thinking it is the...
  12. Deaglely

    Question My PC's Boot time has increased from under 10 seconds to over 1 minute.

    So I was playing CSGO and there was a powercut in my area and when the power came back and I booted my PC and my monitor showed a black screen for about a minute and then it booted up. I even tried to reboot my PC and everytime this only seems to happen. I have a pretty decent build . My build...
  13. M

    [SOLVED] Multiple bsod errors on new pc

    I just finished this build last week. My specs are an AMD Ryzen 7 2700x, G.Skill Ripjaw DDR4 RAM 16 GB, seagate 2TB HDD, Asrock b450 mobo, GeForce 1060 3b and an EVGA 750w bronze PSU. I've gotten multiple different errors including memory management, kernal security and 2 others. I've ran...
  14. fillipo

    [SOLVED] my pc slow

    AMD A8 7600 Radeon 7 RAM 10 GB (1,43 usable) 64 BIT OPERATING SYSTEM why my pc still slow? please tell me how to fix this thank you
  15. DePosse

    Question FPS drops while streaming/gaming

    Dear community, First of all, thanks for reading this thread. I'm a belgium (starting) streamer. Since two weeks i have a little problem with streaming while using Streamlabs OBS. When i play games on 144Hz off-stream, there is no issue. When i try to do that while streaming, the most games...
  16. R

    [SOLVED] System Service Exception bsod on fresh windows install

    i have recently upgraded to a ryzen 2700x from an intel board my current specs are as follows an ADATA 128gb SATA3 SSD ryzen 7 2700x Radeon r9 390 MSI B-350 tomahawk WD blue 1tb and a 500gb SSHD that i dont know the manufacturer as it was a gift, and GSKILL ripjaws 5 2x8gb 3600mhz when i took...
  17. A

    Question Bios help

    I have a Asus TUF B360m plus motherboard and a i5 9400f. I need to update the bios so the pc can recognise the cpu but how do I do that if I can't boot. The motherboard doesn't have a bios flash button.
  18. H

    [SOLVED] Nvidia Drivers not installing correctly, windows 7

    So, I recently got a new Nvidia Generic GTX 1050 Ti (No PSU Connector) I broke windows and had to reinstall during the installation of the GPU. I downloaded the Nvidia Display driver 441.66 on windows 7, boot is fine, I can see the screen with the card installed and the VGA cable plugged into...
  19. K

    Question Pc freezing in games AND off game

    My pc is normally running fine, but lately I can see some weird things in it: most games will freeze after 1 hour or so of playing them and they will completely stop working. The only way to close them is to go to the task manager and killing the process there. Sometimes, way less often, my...
  20. J

    [SOLVED] How to stop Antimalware service executable taking over 35% constantly of my RAM

    No matter what I am doing my task manager is saying Antimalware service executable is taking a ton of my memory. I have tried online solutions and none of them worked. Like trying a new virus protecter and add exclusions. Is their anything else I can do? My games like apex, even at the lowest...
  21. J

    [SOLVED] NVMe SSD not detected

    I just got my Samsung 970 Evo Plus in the mail, and decided to install it. It clicked in, I gave it a little wiggle, but its nowhere to be found. I checked disk mgmt and plugged it into a different slot in my motherboard, and nothing works. The SSD does heat up to about 90F, and my other drives...
  22. A

    Question Recommendation for New Powerful Gaming Desktop

    Hello My Dear Friends. I am looking to configure a new powerful gaming and multi purpose Desktop for my gaming needs and work. I would request if you could please advice me for the configuration I should go for. My budget is around INR 1,00,000. I am open slightly more budget if required. My...
  23. B

    Question Help! My SSD is insain!!!

    ok so the actual issue is this... i bought an external SSD to use as my games drive for my pc (the SSD is compatible) as my old HDD blew... Basically the crazy thing is when i try to install files/games (only noticed it with Rockstar Launcher today - to scared to try Steam etc until i get an...
  24. M

    Question Need help for the new project.

    Hello Guys i am small it solution provider here in india . I got a project for hardware and software as well . There will be staff of 10 with two head and one owner. First they want thier data to be not in reach of anyone so they want cloud . So when they shutoff pc .and server nobody can...
  25. T

    Question Why do I get low frame rates AND screen tearing?

    Hi! So I have recently upgraded my computer with a AMD Ryzen 5 1600, and a AMD radeon RX 5700. However with most games I get very low frame rates, and also a lot of screen tearing. The games where I notice it the most is: - The evil within 2 (It runs at like 45 fps at the most, and changing...
  26. Bahazbz

    [SOLVED] [Weird Issue] Computer is Recording Sound WITHOUT a Microphone attached

    Hi all, I have a kind of weird issue I seriously can't figure out. Today I was playing a game with friends online. I currently do not own a microphone so I wasn't expecting to be able to chat. To my surprise, when I launched Left4dead2, my friends in discord were not able to hear me, but I...
  27. P

    [SOLVED] Dual boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu?

    Hii legends.. i already Installed windows 7 Home Premium with 2 partition.. ( local disk C & local disk D ).. now my task is install dual boot option with ubuntu.. Clarification please Anybody clearly explain me... where i shrink the partition local disk C or local...
  28. VRStillStrong

    Question Acer aspire E15 e5-575g

    Hi so i recently found that my graphics card is not working i got to the device manager and the card was hidden. When i opened the properties of the display adapter for the card it said error code 45 tried many options to nake her work but no success. Then uninstalled the device from the...
  29. C

    Question Headphones suddenly stopped working (tried almost everything)

    About 2 weeks ago my Hyper X Cloud Alpha headset stopped working completely after a windows update. Im not sure if it was the windows update that caused it but thats when it stopped working. These headphones are plugged in through audio jack in the front panel, and can be plugged in through the...
  30. W

    [SOLVED] My computer only has an Ethernet driver installed, Does that mean I can only use Ethernet to use internet?

    Here is the PC. I found a 10 year old PC in storage and I'm trying to get it to work again. In Device Manager under Network adapters the only thing it shows is NIVIDIA nForce 10/100 Mbps Ethernet. I don't want to use an ethernet for internet. So how do I go about getting WiFi on this computer...
  31. Tallion

    [SOLVED] Clock watchdog timeout

    hello I would like to ask what could be caused by a PC with a new new motherboard with a new processor, RAM and GPU ran all well till yesterday and today when I played it fell twice and I threw it ==> Clock watchdog timeout New OS: since September 13, 2019 the problem occurred only today around...
  32. Question Windows defender has slowed down my computer even after disabling?

    So, I've had windows defender disabled for a while now, because I never used it and I've always used other antiviruses , but I recently enabled Windows Defender so I could do a full scan and see if there was anything that would show. (I primarily use MalwareBytes but I wanted to test windows...
  33. 3ggy

    Question How to diagnose possible hardware issue/software issue?

    Looking to gain some insight as to how one might go about narrowing down an issue that may be hardware related, software related or a mix of both. I play Rainbow Six: Siege on a weekly basis, and I have been consistently crashing to desktop while ingame, browsing menus, during mvp screen in...
  34. S

    Question Intense and frequent Power Limit Throttling

    Hello, (sorry if im in incorrect thread) My laptop always frame dropping in all games, even after i undervolted it. I think it was caused by Power Limit Throttling. The frame drops esulting in very unpleasant gaming experience especially in competitive games like R6 or CSGO. Im not quite sure...
  35. P

    [SOLVED] Computer been Freezing and stuttering

    Hello, I've been having this problem with my pc that basically freezes for like half a second and like stutters everything rather frequently like Discord, the game Im playing, Youtube or Spotify if i'm listening to music on both my monitors usually when Im playing games or when I’ve been using...
  36. U

    [SOLVED] Computer stuttering following PSU failure

    Okay, so a little while my PSU blew a capacitor. Loud pop, melting plastic smell, immediate shutdown. I ordered a replacement, swapped it out. It booted fine. For some reason the GPU drivers no longer worked. Reinstalled them, no problem. All drives fine, RAM is fine. Everything seems okay so...
  37. K

    [SOLVED] BSOD's and games crashing after new hardware

    Recently i got myself new hardware. After installing the hardware and having alot of trouble installing windows. I got my PC up and running. Everything seems fine, but when i play games they crash or my PC will blue screen. The games go from running perfectly fine to suddenly crashing. I have...
  38. H

    [SOLVED] used RX 570 code 43

    I recently bought a used rx 570 off of eBay. However the card shows a code 43 error. I am worried it might have to do with a previous issue in the past when my old GPU began acting up. Here is what happened BEFORE I got the rx 570: I was playing a game when my pc crashed and showed an...
  39. M

    Question New PC keeps Blue Screening on resource intensive games only

    Hello, so for the last couple of weeks my pc has been giving me some major headaches. The computer remains normal while in the desktop and while playing games like CSGO and Apex Legends. However, as soon as i try to run a more resource intensive game like wolfenstein youngblood the pc blue...
  40. N

    [SOLVED] Why does my computer keeps restarting every couple of seconds

    So whenever I turn it on it runs for a few seconds before turning off then doing the process again. It shows no error on my PC monitor so possibly a hardware problem