Hardware & Software

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...

Hi all, We are running with 100 PC's of gaming cafe. At present scenario, we are using Fortigate 100D router for 100 gaming PC's. We have two ISP connections 500 + 350 Mbs. Our clients are playing most of games are World of Warcraft (Wow), Counter Strike global offensive (CS:GO), League of...

So i've had my current setup for over a year and my RAM has been working fine, I don't usually look at it but I noticed that my Trident Z RGB lights have not been working for the past couple months when I turn on my PC. I can manually turn them on by launching the Trident Z RGB software and...

My computer does not start up from sleep or comes up when booting If I put my computer to sleep, my computer has a chance to either start back up properly or the RGB on my ram would turn on as well as the RGB on keyboard and mouse, however the fans in the computer will not start. However, once...

Hi, My FPS in games has dropped from around 250 to 40 fps after a power cut. My power supply has OVP so i dont think it is a power surge issue but everything seems fine except the 40 FPS. My Computer - MSI 1080ti Intel I7 8700K ASUS Z370 Prime G Skill 16Gb DDR4 3200Mhz 1tb Samsung SSD 4tb...

So I'm trying to stream/record video games and my computer is having trouble keeping up I run a game my recording software and twitch and I experience minor lag in game and even more lag on the stream just wondering if I should upgrade my hardware or my internet is the issue. -ASUS GeForce...

Every time when I play a game my fps suddenly drops to like 10 fps for some seconds and after that they start to rise again, I've tried a lot of things to fix this (lag spikes?). It's on most games except for really old or easy to run games. My specs are: GPU: msi GEFORCE RTX 2070 8GB CPU: AMD...

My nitro turned off randomly in the middle of the night and now when I got to turn it on all it does is make the keyboard flash repeatedly without anything else turning on. No fans, no screen, nothing. If I let it sit for awhile it eventually powers on, any known fix? This problem doesn’t happen...

I have here an Asus Vivobook K570U model which I purchased about 3 months ago. This is actually the second laptop of the same model that I purchased; I refunded the first because the network adapter was faulty and didn't work upon purchase. I was beginning to think that this second one was gonna...

Before anything here's a list of my parts, Ryzen 5 2400g MSI B450 A-PRO 16gb ddr4 Gskill 3000mhz cx 550m psu evga gtx 1050 ti I just recently bought the 1050ti, all my audio was fine when i was using the onboard graphics with the APU, but when i disabled the onboard graphics and installed the...

So, over the past couple of months I have had an issue with my PC. Games randomly freeze and hardware usage drops. Both CPU and GPU load drops, RAM load stays the same. The game freeze time can vary from 5-20 seconds, and it returns to running perfectly after the freeze until the next freeeze...

I've been getting really weird micro-stutters, or micro freezes whenever I play a game, or just try to browse the internet. It's not an FPS issue, as I've seen my FPS, although whenever the stutter or freeze happens, it tends to drop 2-3 FPS. Normally, when this happens I'd restart my computer...

I'm looking to change my Hardware ID, does anyone know how to do this?

Update: It's about the monitor. I unplugged the D-Sub cable from the monitor, plugged it back and then screen appeared. It didn't acted like this before BIOS update. What should I do? Thanks in advance.

Hi. I don't know what's happening with my pc but everytime I play a game its FPS are lower than my rig can handle (FX6300; 16 GB DDR3; GTX960 2GB) like, I load a game for example r6 siege and the first round is about 60 fps on low then the next round the frames drop drastically to 20 fps, I...

Hi all, I have paired a GTX 960 2gb with a samsung T22E310EX 1080p moniter via HDMI. but the image isnt crisp. logo's and text and everything are not crisp. need help to remedy this cheers. the HDMI is connected to the STD port on the moniter, not the DVI. samsung website says to change the...

I jumped on the Anthem hype train and I was denied. Sad I know! As soon as the game would start a cinematic, I would get destroyed by the BSOD!! I downloaded Whocrashed and It seemed like I was having a driver or memory issue (“IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL”). I ran a mem test and downloaded...