hardware

I have a cheap laptop from 6 years ago. As far as I can remember, the motherboard was replaced once. I wanted to maybe upgrade it and use it as a home server to stream. Can you please help me identify where the RAM is located? I am new to this kind of stuff. Thanks in advance.

Hi guys, this is more of a general help post but i wasn't sure where to put it. I have a PC that someone built for me last year. I know hardly anything about tech. I was excited but i was soon to find out that it does not smoothly run ANY games or software. It isn't strong enough to run Windows...

This started happening about a year ago but it was only when I would play Baldur's Gate 3, only that game, I could play other games on max settings and would have no issues with shutdowns or anything. For context, my PC was prebuilt by HP but a family friend upgraded it after I started having...

Hello, I have a feeling that my internal desktop storage HDD is agonizing. Would you mind giving your thoughts about the CrystalDiskInfo report I've attached? DEC Raw Values, btw. FYI: I already have 3 x backups, so chill :) Thank you!

So I used to DJ quite a bit back in the day….I have two Seagate Wall Powered External Harddrives and Two LaCie Wall Powered External Harddrives These drives haven’t been on for at least 8 years. I try to plug them in and nothing. They don’t power on or anything. Tried different cables...

I am having a strange situation. I deleted all of my partitions and formatted my hard drives for a fresh install. Some of these saying I had important device manufacture installs. I wasn’t 100% sure what that actually meant when I did this but.. I hope I didn’t brick my video card because I went...

Hi all. I've been having a heating problem with my custom PC for a while. The gist of the problem is that the heat of my CPU gets incredibly high (like, between 85-100°C high) for no apparent reason. I'll have Discord and a couple of Chrome tabs open, or just one app, and my fans start blowing...

Laptop model: Asus Swift 1 SF114-32 The device previously had a cup of coffee spilled on it. Since this accident, it refuses to stay on without the charger plugged into the laptop. I have replaced the battery with a verified and worked batter from iFixit's website. Even with the new battery, I...

System specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6-Core(brand new) CPU cooler: stock cooler Motherboard: ASUS Prime A320M-K Ram: Corsair CMK16GX4M2Z2933C16 Vengeance LPX 16GB 2933MHZ 2x8(brand new) SSD/HDD: Intenso SSD Sata 3 Top 512GB(system drive+brand new) + Crucial BX500 480GB CT480BX500SSD1 GPU: GTX...

Hello! I have a maximus board that has no signal at all. Codes go from B0 to B1 after a few mins then restarts. This goes on for a long time as it is a loop. There is no leds on when it goes thru this cycle, I bought this motherboard thinking i can fix it.. Things Ive tried: -Clearing CMOS...

Hello, Starting with a timeline of what I've been dealing with and what I've done so far (system specs are at the bottom of the post): Prior to this week, everything had been generally working fine since I built this box almost 2 years ago. For the past month, I have been doing a lot of...

Working with a brand new Samsung Evo 870, and this pc has had this issue across multiple storage devices. When downloading a game through steam, and ONLY through steam, it will go well for about 15% of the download. After about that much, (It's never a consistent amount) the disk usage steadily...

I am not able to remove the motherboard of my Asus Vivobook N752VX laptop. I have unscrewed every visible screw and I'm able to sort of lift it but it still won't budge.I was able to remove a good chunck of components (HDD, SSD, RAM, battery, cd drive, etc). My goal was to detatch the keyboard...

Hi, I'm encountering pretty annoying problem that I can't seem to resolve. I'm literally hopeless, so I hope you guys can do a miracle. Reboots sometimes are 5 seconds after logging to Windows, sometimes after 20-30 minutes. Background: I recently upgraded my system: - swapping out Gigabyte...

This only happens during gaming however after i force reboot from the power button my pc starts up as normal and is fine processing anything else however only gaming causes it Specs are relatively new: Ryzen 7 5700x RTX 3060 ti ASUS x570 MB 32gb RAM 3200 mhz thermaltake 650w gold standard psu...

Hi all! I'm at a complete loss for what to do. Here's the situation: I wanted to build myself a little NAS from a spare PC I had lying around. This PC's motherboard was a HP Odense2-K and the CPU was an Intel i5-7400. I ordered an MSI Z370-A Pro so that I can have more expansion slots available...

Hi, i buyed a new laptop cause the previus laptop i buyed was having problems (so i have 2 new laptops) ..and this one as well...i dont know what could be...maybe the electricity conections in my house are faulty? can be that? my led lamps last like 8 months...

So I´ve recently bought an i5 14600k and an RTX 4070 super to replace my aging i7 7700k with GTX 1070. I need recommendations for MOBO, RAMs. I live in Brazil, where prices are about 50% higher than US so I managed to get myself those more expensive parts in the US and now have to get the rest...

Hello everyone. I have a DrayTek Vigor 2760n router. I wanted to update it's firmware and when I looked at the official website, I saw that I can update from 3.8.9.4_STD to 3.8.9.6_BT. After the update, the device stays in TFTP mode and does not turn on. So I switched to 3.8.9.4_BT using TFTP...

My ASUS TUF Nvidia 3080 Ti keeps crashing my computer. I'll be playing Baldur's Gate 3 or rendering an image with Easy Diffusion and suddenly the screen will go black because the card itself has crashed and stopped outputting video completely. I then have no choice but to reboot as a computer...

**Computer Type:** Desktop **GPU:** RTX 4070 **CPU:** RYZEN 9 5900x **Motherboard:** MSI MEG X570 UNIFY **BIOS Version:** Latest version **RAM:** 64GB GSkill TridentZ Nero **PSU:** Corsair RM1000x 80+ Gold (I think this is the PSU but I threw the box out) **Case:** Unknown **Operating...

I just built a new PC with the following specs. https://pcpartpicker.com/list/mPjyZJ At first everything seemed fine, but for the past two or three days I've noticed when I'm playing a game (anything from Bloons TD6 to Baldur's Gate 3) and I have a browser video playing, or I'm in a discord...

Hi everyone, first post here. So I decided to upgrade 90% of my pc (everything but the case) and have taken it all apart to finally assemble the new parts. Spec : ryzen 7 5800x rx 6700XT 32gb ram netac ddr4 3200 corsair 80 plus bronze 750w msi b550 tomahawk atx (apparently 5000 series ready…)...

Ryzen 7 5800x 3D RTX 3060 Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB DDR4 3000mhz Asus Tuf Gaming A520M Plus Motherboard Corsair CX650M Bronze 650w Hi if anyone is interested in helping me ive been having this freeze/stutter issue on my pc for the past few months. This basically started after i upgraded my pc...

Which one is the best out of these 3? MSI PRO B760M-A WIFI DDR5 View: https://imgur.com/a/YTtuTuh Asus TUF Gaming B760M-Plus DDR5 View: https://imgur.com/a/4Gllr0f Gigabyte B760M AORUS ELITE AX DDR5 View: https://imgur.com/a/9El2jWs Specs: i5 14600k 6000Mhz 2x16 1660 Super gonna upgrade...

Hello everybody! Yesterday I took my cpu out to clean it and apply new paste. However, after I turned the PC on, and plugged my HDMI to the GPU, my monitor was showing “No Signal Source”. Plugging the HDMI to the iGPU worked perfectly, but my GPU shows no signal. I made sure that I plugged in...

Hello guys, I need your help. Yesterday I was messing with my bios and I wanted to disable the onboard graphics without thinking that I don't have a dedicated gpu so my pc wouldn't POST. After that I tried resetting my cmos and everything went perfectly fine as my computer POSTed and i was in my...

Case: Metallicgear Neo V2 Processor: Intel Core i9-11900k (8 core) Cooling: Asetek 670LS High Performance liquid cooling (240mm Radiator) Motherboard: Z590 Chipset WiFi GPU: GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8GB PSU:EVGA 750 Watt 80 Plus Bronze Condition: 1 1/2 years old new I can’t seem to figure out what’s...

the aux connector got bitten by my cat. I haven't been able to find a replacement cable for the headphone online but i have found an aux splitter i think it's called. The cable is long enough to be used as replacement, but then i have to cut the female aux connector. One odd thing about the...

At first i couldn't access to one of my 2 sdd's (the one i installed for games not the system one), i restarted my pc and then blue screen of death BSOD showed, even worse problem its crash when trying to access recovery mode so im stuck in this loop of BSOD, im amateur in bios setting and...

Processor: Intel® Core™ i9 24-Core Processor i9-13900KS (Up to 6.0 GHz) 36MB Motherboard: GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS MASTER (LGA1700, DDR5, PCle 5.0, Wi-Fi 6E) Ram: 96GB Corsair VENGEANCE RGB DDR5 5600MHz (2 x 48GB) Gpu: 24GB ASUS TUF GEFORCE RTX 4090 OC EDITION OG - 2x HDMI, 3x DP SSD: 2TB SAMSUNG...

I switched from a nvidia gpu (1070) to an amd gpu (rx 6650 xt) and when powering on I get to the asus splash screen, with the text at the bottom saying press f2 or del to open the bios, but then it does not get any further than this. My keyboard is functional but when I press F2 or Del nothing...

Hi Gays! I have Z400 Workstation Pc and i was try to solved this problem and using branding cable for display but problem not solved and my pc is only 1 month old. First i found the problem display Screen vibrate and then screen goes to blank but screen vibrating problem solved but Screen Black...

Hi! I bought a new used pc a week ago. The same day that I bought him, while I was installing Gta V at night it made 4 beeping sounds and it turned off. I did my research and found out it could be a ram problem. So I took the rams off the other day and It worked. A week as passed by, and today...

Please excuse my ignorance, I am not the most "tech savvy" human I just recently bought a prebuilt IBUYPOWER PC on Black Friday. I have had dozens of freezes since then. I installed two M.2's in it one being brand new and one being from my old laptop. The freezing feels kind of random, the only...

Here is the issue: I have a PC that is maxed out on internal drives and as games get bigger and better, I need more space to store the game files. I researched and purchased an ADATA SE900G 1TB External SSD. Great now I have space, to play my games, the problem is, after maybe 15 minutes...

I bought this : OLOy DDR4 RAM 16GB (2x8GB) Warhawk Aura Sync RGB 3000 MHz CL16 1.35V https://www.amazon.com/OLOy-Warhawk-288-Pin-Desktop-MD4U0830160BE0DA/dp/B08922VXHN?th=1 and my motherboard (H410M Pro) is limiting it to 2666mhz, but thats okay for me, anyways i opened speccy to check my ram...

Hi! I had a company install a media cabinet for me but there were no hooks/straps that came with the cabinet. There is also no identifiable brand name on the cabinet. Does anyone know what type of screw or hook I can get to strap each piece of equipment in? I tried using zip ties but they...

So a relative of mine gave his used HDD to me for data transfer, I have connected it to my PC through sata port. When I powered up my pc the motherboard leds were on (I guess it was the cpu and dram) and computer didn't boot up so I quickly turned off the pc and removed that HDD. PC is working...

Hello Tom’s Hardware, This is possibly my first ever internet post for computer trouble. I apologize if I’m not following proper standards or rules. I’m also on mobile right now, so sorry for the lack of formatting. Background: Just to establish some background, I’m a long time tech person...