help

Hello. My pc froze yesterday and i had to unplug the psu, after the freeze my pc was power cycling. I found a red light on my motherboard for my cpu. I have had this computer bulit for 3+ months. No problems. I have windows 10. I updated the computer and this happened after updating on...

Hello everyone, To give some back story to this, I replaced my current AIO that was starting to go out with a Arctic Liquid Freezer Pro III. I had to do a bunch of moving around with the fans but I got everything to fit. During the installation I pulled my 10700K out of the socket to...

Recently i have been having mouse issues where it has started to skip frames/lag, im pretty certain its because of 2.4ghz interference between my router and mouse. I cant move my router because i use a short ethernet cable, i tried turning off the 2.4ghz internet connection completely but i...

I bought a new CPU (Ryzen 5700G), it arrived earlier than expected so I turned everything off and replaced my old one. The new one has a few bent pins already, so I fixed those the best I could and put it in. I pressed the power button and the light and fans and stuff came on for like half a...

The title says it all, unfortunately. I wanted to try updating my BIOS since I ran into some weird behavior rather suddenly, such as my crashing/display going black and my peripherals cutting out, and I have had luck doing that in the past. I was successfully able to update from F31 to F32...

Hello, I recently updated my old tired system to a new shiny one, specs below: CPU: Rosen 9800x3d Mobo: Aorus B850 Elite WiFi 7 Gpu: MSI GeForce RTX 5070ti Ram: Corsair 32gb DDR5 6000hz (2x16gb) Psu: Corsair 850w modular CPU cooler: NZXT kraken x53 (reused from old system) I'm having a few...

case name: Koling observatory HF mesh I have 6 case fans that flicker when connected to the mobo. If I don't plug it in there's the option to control the rgb fans with some kind of daughter board. all the cables in the back are connected in a daisy chain and powered by a sata like this...

Hey everyone, Pardon if this is the wrong place to put this but here it goes! I'm experiencing a weird and persistent issue with my desktop PC, it randomly shuts off as if someone pulled the plug, just instantly powers off. After that, I am unable to restart until I power cycle the PSU. Then it...

For the past month, I’ve had an issue where Chrome, Discord, and Rob locks (word is banned) all close themselves at random times — no warning or messages. Sometimes it happens after just a few minutes, other times after hours. I’ve reinstalled software and hardware drivers, monitored...

Current Setup: i5-6500 16GB 2133MHZ 2 Samsung 870 Evo 250GB GTX 1050TI Nvidia Gigabyte B150 HD3P SeaSonic Electronics S12II Series SS-520GB 520W 80 Plus Bronze Power Supply (taken from google but this is my psu) I want to upgrade to a RTX 2060, 1660TI or a RX 580, what is the smartest option...

For the past month, I’ve had an issue where Chrome, Discord, and Rob locks (word is banned) all close themselves at random times — no warning or messages. Sometimes it happens after just a few minutes, other times after hours. I’ve reinstalled software and hardware drivers, monitored...

Since February I've been experiencing random BSOD while gaming. Today it happened while I was just watching some Twitch streams and am officially worried. ntoskrnl.exe along with dxgkrnl.sys and nvlddmkm.sys is what BlueScreenView says caused it but I can't find any sort of fix for it at all...

This is quoted from my post on Windows 11 for contex "My Wife did a windows update on her PC, (Update and shut down) but after when she booted her pc the next time it wont boot into windows. On trying to repair the current instillation of windows it states it cannot detect windows, I tried a...

My wife did a Windows update on her PC, (Update and shut down) but after when she booted her PC the next time it won't boot into Windows. On trying to repair the current installation of Windows it states it cannot detect Windows, I tried a few more things like reverting updated in which I...

first time this happened was maybe a month and a half ago, playing minecraft and had lossless scaling enabled then black screen. i noticed that whenever using lossless this happened bnut was told it was my error and not the program's so i stopped using it for awhile. now it just happens randomly...

I have been having an issue where my computer turns off while in certain games with higher system demands. I initially thought it was a power supply issue, so I upgraded my power supply, however, the issue still persisted. I tried reseating the RAM as well as swapping which slots they were in as...

The game called rocket league randomly writes this error code in the event log: Faulting module name: rocketleague.exe. No dll. So far I have only experienced this error in this game. I know that this error is some kind of access violation to the RAM. What is important is that the game does not...

Hi everyone. My friend recently had to reinstall Windows 11 on a separate drive due to her boot drive dying. After getting it installed, she has had a noticeable performance drop when playing any game. Before this, everything ran perfectly fine. We have already made sure all drivers are...

I always had Hardware accelerated GPU scheduling setting off. But today I was playing Cyberpunk 2077 and wanted to try frame generation. I had to enable HAGS so I enabled it. After I restarted my PC it wasn't turning on and I couldn't see what it was saying because I have two monitors and the...

I upgraded my set up a few days ago to Asus tuf b650 ryzen 5 7600 fury ddr5 5600 but I kept my rtx 3070 because it was working fine, but now the 3rd fan only spins at either 0% or 100%, I used armoury to try and control the fan speeds individually but I don't get an option for the first so I...

Hi, I want to upgrade the GPU on an old HP H9-1301ER PC. Specifications: CPU - i7 3770 GPU - GTX 680 PSU - 600w Motherboard - Pegatron 2AD5 BIOS - AMI 8.10 09/25/2012 BIOS Type AMI UEFI I want to buy an AFOX GeForce RTX 2060 6GB GPU. Is it compatible with this motherboard ? If not...

Hey guys, In the past week or so, my laptop has started having this strange issue. When I turn the laptop on, it boots up with minimal fan noise. About 2 minutes into booting, the fans will suddenly start going super fast for about 30 seconds- 1min, then it will power off. I thought it was an...

My problem is that Rocket League changes almost every time I restart it. Namely, input lag changes and sometimes the gameplay is faster and sometimes slower, it's like the camera is moving more and sometimes not (I don't adjust the stiffness), graphics glitches. I'm wondering if anyone else has...

Hi everyone Before I start, I speak Spanish so communication may fail me, I will tell you my problem, since yesterday my laptop has started to have constant blue screens with the error CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT. The most relevant thing I have done these days on the laptop is to multiboot between...

So i left my PC on overnight, and when i returned to it today, my Ctrl + V is not working as it should. In effect, actually pressing it does not paste anything *Unless* i let go of Ctrl before i let go of V. I tried troubleshooting with ChatGPT before coming here hoping it was a quick fix.. but...

I have a PC that I am trying to help a friend diagnose. When he plays Star Citizen it randomly BSODs. He doesn't crash while play anything else - however, while playing Split Fiction it said his GPU VRAM was insufficient and he had to play it with DX11 instead of DX12 and any time he upped the...

Hello, i've already installed win 11 and deleted the ubuntu partition. Now i want to change the boot order to start win 11 without usb stick. but in the bios settings i cant directly select the windows boot manager. When i press enter on OS boot manager windows boot manager is on priority 2...

Hey guys. Thanks in advance for any help :) First of all my cpu is at 52c during CPU-Z benchmark. (during aida up to 63c) According to HWinfo my mobo and vrm are around 50c Windows power management profile is set to Ultimate Performance I was noticing a linear drop of fps in UE5 thought it was...

Does anyone have experience with the new Antec CSK DC 650W? According to SPL's new PSU tier list, it's rated C and similar to the MSI Mag A650bn; however, other CSK models are rated very poorly, so I'm cautious about a new budget PSU. I haven't heard anything about it online, so I assume it...

Hello, I’ve recently built my brother a system and I have been having problems with it not boosting Specs: R7 3700x Asrock Steel legends b450m 750w evga GQ Rtx 3080 16gb 3600 geil 2tb Samsung 970 evo The pc turns on; everything is on including the mouse and the keyboard leds but no display...

So, after years of saving for it itself and a good enough computer, i bought my first VR system, the full Valve Index kit. Initially, everything seemed to work perfectly: I powered it on, explored VR, and enjoyed the headset for about a month without issue. Then, one day, the headset refused to...

My case fans, mainly the rear one, started flickering a lot when the RGB light in them is on. I tried just RGB with no rotation and they stop flickering so I guess its wobble? I dont know how to fix it, it's driving me mad. Right outside my peripheral vision there's just this large, white...

Hello, Ive recently built a system that ive been having a lot of trouble with, specifically the storage and the led rgb I have 7 argb controlled things that are linked to the main argb header, the fans are working fine; they are spinning and I can control the speed. the only thing thats not...

Hello, Ive recently built my system and Ive been experiencing extreme slow speeds through my gen4 pcie slot. Im getting 800-1000 mb/s compared to when I plug it in gen3 slot I get 3500mb/s Please help, Ive been trying to fix this for the past 4hrs, I reinstalled windows, updated windows...

Hi, so I have an msi ventus 3x rtx 3060 12gb which worked only two days ago, I hardly play on my pc so when I booted up a game, it asked me to update my gpu driver which I did. I’m not sure whether it was downloaded properly or not, but the screen started flashing after the update was installed...

Was scanning the usual events on my Win 11 PC, because I have a life, just forgot where I filed it...and came across a new Event ID: 113 Called from Http Service, it reads Attempted to add URL (http://*:5357/acb8f24c-c46f-49e9-9d54-cc7aad10848d/) to URL group (0xFE00001020000001). Status: 0x0...

A Nessus scan said the below entry in the host file is suspicious: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts : 0.0.0.1 scinstallcheck.mcafee.com Does that look malicious to anyone? I'm not sure how to confirm or deny that 0.0.0.1 scinstallcheck.mcafee.com is malicious.

PC Specs Mobo: ASUS Z170-K CPU: i7-6700K GPU: GTX 1070 RAM: Corsair Vengeance (2 x 8GB) 2400mhz PSU: DeepCool PF550 (bought Oct 2023) For the past week my computer has been shutting down on its own and i was getting anti surge trigger warning in the BIOS when powering up again. This was...

My PC has BSOD last night and was not giving display after I restarted it. Then I started trouble shooting which I am outlining below: Removed GPU, All RAMs, All Storage devices. Result: no display Added one RAM stick and primary OS SSD, also removed CMOS cell and put it back again. Result...

I'm looking to buy either "ASUS ROG Strix XG27UCG" or "LG UltraGear 27GS85Q". Should they be avoided like the plague? I've tried my best to whittle it down to these two but there are so many stats to compare. Thank you for reading my post.