Hardware & Software

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Hello, I have an issue with an msi laptop friend asked me to look at because he doesn't know much about computers. Well I am uncertain what the problem is and am not finding much help on wonderful google. Well i boot his laptop it takes a while to boot then error prompt shows The instructions at...

Hello to everyone. This crashing thing is driving me crazy if someone have some ideas it would be great! My pc was crashing when playing some games for some minutes so then i thought that its a PSU problem because the pc was liquid-cooled so high temps werent an option and i bought a new psu...

Recently, I got an AMD RX 570 and while the performance and graphics are better, I’m experiencing more FPS drops than I expected. I’ve tried changing many settings in games and with windows 10 but it doesn’t help. Could it be hardware? Here are my specs AMD FX 8350 eight core processor (with a...

Hi, I really would appreciate some help. I have a two year old custom gaming pc from Cyberpower that I use for heavy motion graphics Here are the specs- 4.2 GHz Intel Core i7-7700K Quad-Core 32GB DDR4 RAM 240GB SSD + 3TB HDD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (11GB GDDR5X) In the past 3 months I’ve...

I want some opinions on this build and how I did for a first try, what are some suggestions from professionals or opinions on these components? Hi everybody! I have a desktop from 2012 that is still kicking but to me it is showing its age. With Amazon Prime days, I decided it was time for a...

So my PC is crashing randomly during games it has run well for years, and most dependably when I even try to load the campaign map in Total War: Warhammer 2. I have also had crashes in games like Fallout 4, and even rarely in older games like EVE Online, and SW:KOTOR. The crash is strange as...

So... the last couple of days a got occasional BSOD during the day. Maybe two per day. At first, I ignored it, but the next day it happened also. I figured that it could be the latest windows update. I tried recovering an old image but it failed. I was able to boot into windows and uninstall...

Hello, No matter how cold the temperature is and no matter how is the condition in-game the fps always drops on all games i've played. My CPU clock speed will always clocks down from 3907 mhz to 800-900mhz its happening in random intervals too. It happening within 1 minutes of gameplay and from...

Specs: Ryzen 5 1600 Nvidia geforce gtx 1070 ti Seasonic 660 w power supply G skills 16gb ddr4 ram So I built this computer last year. Now suddenly I had problems with it being stuck at boot and giving me dr debug codes. So I reset cmos, and now its freezing on desktops after a few minutes. I'm...

Hello. Because of budget limitation I am buying a Dell xps series 13 9360 R3905S laptop from a second hand app in China. But according to seller the laptop was bought on November 2018 and hasn't been unsealed yet . I checked the service tag on official website and everything was fine . I am...

So for the past month or more, my newly scrapped together pc has been an interesting challenge. I made a horrible mistake by cheeping out and buying an old motherboard and cpu from an ancient already used computer. After months and months of fixing problems and finding new ones, im done with...

When i play a high spec game like PUBG, my computer crashes, monitor no signals and i still hear it running ingame and my pc running. This is NOT a PSU error, it has something to do with temperature because whenever i play as soon as i play when PC is cold, it's fine, when it heats up, it...

Everytime I try to update Windows 10 from version 1511 to a newer version, I get BSOD. Using Unreal Engine 4, sometimes I also get BSOD. Running chkdsk /offlinescanandfix causes BSOD. Is my hardware the problem? If so, what is the most likely cause? Thanks for the help guys.

hi . lately my pc is making a ringing noise like a high pitched hissing could dust buildup cause this? its bad cuz ive got tinnitus. my pc specs: asrock 870 extreme3 mb nvidia 1050ti gpu wdgreen ssd with w10 on it 16gb ddr3 ram 500watt thermaltake psu phenom ii x4 cpu soundblaster audigy fx...

My PC shuts off I mean it suddenly goes to "off" state it doesnt even show the shutting down screen. It turns off like power is cut even though there is no prblm with power. Idk if it is a software or hardware problem.It crashes after 2min in the first startup and then the time goes on...

Hello tomshardware, Over the last few weeks I've been getting occasional BSOD crashes whilst using my PC. This has happened during games and simply using the web browser. Since I don't know how to troubleshoot these things myself I'm looking for some advice on the steps I should take. I have...

I know this might be a hardware issue, but it started happening out of nowhere. The first time it happened, I fixed it by factory resetting my PC, but I must have done something because now it's back again and this time worse. Before it only happened in games but now it happens in chrome, games...