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My pc spec I7 13700k Msi z690 edge wifi ddr4 Asus rog 4070ti So after I copied this guy's guide of undervolting, my system shutdown and won't turn back on anymore. I bridged the jbat1 trying to reset the cmos but it didn't work

Hey guys, What is the best way to mirror PC screen to another display wirelessly? Chromecast, or similar ? Thanks Tom

I just built my first pc and after starting one time it stopped turning on. I have already checked the power and reset cables, ram and gpu. Please help🙏

I just breadboarded my new pc build because there wasent a POST when i put it together. Still no post i tryed turning on the motherboard without the cpu and the mouse lit up and no fans. But with the cpu the mouse did not light up. I tryed using the motherboard speaker and it did not sound, even...

I have a prebuilt cyberpowerpc with the b360m xtreme motherboard. It didnt come with any rgb control. i believe the b360m xtreme is cyberpowerpcs special version of the asrock b360m pro4 motherboard. I checked the website and it the b360m doesn’t support polychrome sync which means i cant change...

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...

Hello technical wizards of Tom's Hardware Forums... Long time, first time, etc. I have a pretty old built PC whose storage I recently tried to increase, and I've been running into some issues. I acquired a Leven JMS600-2TB drive and after doing some internal cleaning sat the drive in the...

Hi all, Pc is rebooting itself after playing a game for a while and then when it reboots just keeps turning itself off on the login screen I’ve tried everything and know it’s not my PSU or motherboard and it’s being cooled perfectly fine I've literally tried everything Unplugging all USB's...

Hello guys, For about 3 or 4 months now I've been getting an issue with my PC. The problem is, when I'm gaming, usually with 140+fps at least the games I play, out of nowhere I get a sudden FPS drop and the game stops for about half a second. I have a log file done with HWinfo where the issue...

Hey people, I bought this SSD online worth half the price (it was a discounted offer, so I thought it was maybe legit, foolish of me of course) It has 1 TB capacity, but it doesn't let me download or copy data onto it if it's filled up more than 120 GB and causes my PC to freeze if I further try...

Hi everyone, first post here at Tom's Hardware. So, I built my first PC even though I still need some hardware. This is what I got so far: Kolink PSU 600W; ZSUS (not asus) H81 LGA 1150 Motherboard from Aliexpress; I3-4330 3.5Ghz; iGPU (HD 4600) 4GB RAM DDR3 from Kingston running at 1066 Mhz...

Ok first one is bootscreen: Tried replacing files from ntkrl exe files, if i change the 640x320 black screen its gonna show it distorted color like blue and the loading bar and nothing else, but when changing back, only keeping the modified win XP logo it shows the default like i haven't...

Alright ill start off with what i have, 2080 super i7-10700f 16gb ram 1tb ssd 850w psu. Ive had this pc for a while and i just thought my graphics card was going out. i would get 20fps on games , put all settings to the lowest just to play. which i shouldnt have to do. Anyways, i cleaned...

Hello, i've been struggling with issues for a month already. I've built this PC last September and i can't say it has been a smooth ride. First, i had random crashes when playing intensive games. Fortunately, this was my CPU overheating and it was easily fixable by changing to a new cooler (i...

I wanna buy this GPU (https://pt.aliexpress.com/item/1005005966879593.html?algo_exp_id=f1b52fc0-686b-4297-beea-7cf2593d3106-0&utparam-url=scene%3Asearch%7Cquery_from%3A), but im not sure if the brand is good. Anyone know if its trustworthy enough to buy it? Specs: i5-3570 CPU 16GB RAM No GPU...

So my PC will not spin to life at all. I took it apart to clean it and put it all together but won't turn on. I tried the screwdriver method and everything. But I treated the PSU and it spins to life and when I click the flash bios button on the motherboard the red light turns on to indicate...

My MSI Gtx-1070TI's video output dies when I try to play games, however I can still hear the game and it doesn't actually crash. When I screenshare I can still see the screen perfectly fine in the stream when the signal dies. It passes all the benchmarks I throw at it with no problems, no video...

I have been looking EVERYWHERE on the internet to identify and remove this random button that appears on my monitor with NO LUCK. Here are some details: Occurs on external monitor (Acer) connected to laptop (Asus). This button doesn't allow me to click what's behind it. Nothing happens with a...

Hopefully this is the right category. I'm to the point of troubleshooting where I stop reading the threads and start writing them. So you know I'm desperate. When I turn on my PC the internet runs at about 980 down and 965 up with 1 ping as per Ookla. Within about 5 ish minutes it drops to 450...

I have been trying to clear some space on both my HDD and M.2 SSD and I have noticed that my HDD is very full! I have attached some screen shots of both my HDD storage and when I have run WinDirStat. I don't under stand why WinDirStat is saying I have used so little yet windows is saying I...

Hello! Been looking at some headsets lately, I'm on a budget and really anything is better than my 15euro 3yr old headphones... Which headset is the best out of these? 1. HyperX Cloud Stinger 2 Core 2. Redragon Zeus X 3. Redragon Zeus 2 These are the ones I saw during my search on olx.ba...

Hello guys. So basically i have an issue with my PC. Last year i bought a prebuilt and since then I realised that there were performance issues and fps stutters/drops in multiple games. I tried overclocking and undervolting my gpu firstly in AMD panel then in MSI Afterburner,i watched a lot of...

System: Asus z690 Maximus Formula (VRM cooling uninstalled) DDR5 Corsair Platinum Dominator 16gb 5.6mhz x2 EVGA GeForce Rtx 3080Ti 12gb Samsung Pro 980 and 990 2TB SSDs i9 13k900 CPU I had a full Windows system installed on this before. Before I got stuck on the freeze boot loop situation, I...

I’m not sure how to describe what’s happening in words. Best way I can describe this is that the page that I would be viewing would leave a watermark of some sort whenever I switch to another page. Can’t seem to replicate this one as well. Not sure what’s causing this, if it’s my monitor or...

Hi! So basically I built my pc about two weeks ago and about four days ago I added an older generation GPU in my PC as well as some fan splitters and then not turned on my pc for a day and when I came back and when I turned it on the RGB on one RAM stick wasn’t lighting so I decided to restart...

i just bought scythe fuma 2 air cooler and it looks that it wont fit or it going to be very close to the back of case fan . my motherboard is maximus viii hero and my case is deepcool matrexx 50 . will it fit or im just thinking wrong ?

4 months later still am having the same issues as before can update valorant but get stuck on main loading screen (before the wait/main server whatever you wanna call it), Riot support and my isp (brightspeed) still just say its the other parties issue, looking for some other options or ideas to...

When I play any game like Rainbow Six Siege I frequently get fps drops to around 30 fps whenever I have spotify or youtube opened up playing music or just having a video in the background even if the video is in 144p. Any ideas on what to try would be much appreciated 🙏 User Benchmark...

Specs: Windows 10 Ryzen 5 5600 MSI B550M Pro-VDH G.Skill Ripjaws 32gb @ 3600mhz cl16 ASUS RTX 2070/MSI GTX 1080 840 EVO 120gb 860 EVO 1tb Crucial P5 Plus 2tb WD Blue 1tb Corsair CX500 Been running into issues with intermittent crashes to desktop in multiple games over the past few months. When...

Been having temps problems lately and asked the MS community support as well. Told me the temps are normal so I leave it at that. Lately, my PC has been having small stutters often, even doing mundane things so I went back there to try out some troubleshooting (driver, repair Win, etc.) But I...

Hi, this is my first time posting here as I am getting desperate: I built this PC 6 months ago and so far had no issues, today I was cleaning it, and after I tried booting it again, I was getting motherboard beeps: 1 long, 3 short, and then 1 short after a brief pause. I tried reconnecting a...

when im playing games i get about 75-85c is it safe to play like that or no .my cpu is intel i7-6700k

Specs - Mobo: asrock b550m pro4 CPU: ryzen 5 5600x Gpu: rtx 4070 Ram: G.SKILL ripjaws v 16gb 3600mhz My pc has been working completely fine for months, recently my wifi adapter wasn’t working so I restarted the pc and it got stuck on a never ending “restarting” screen so I manually turned the...

Im currently only using roughly 50-60% of my gpu and around 30% for my cpu on max settings at 1440p and only seeing 150-175FPS in Destiny 2. Is there a reason im getting such low frames while my GPU and CPU are hardly being utilized? If i change the resolution to 4k I do see an increase to...

Hello everyone. I've been playing Dragon's Dogma 2 for last few days and had no problem untill around 25.03. Now, when I launch the game the whole computer freezes after 30 seconds to 2 minutes of play-time. The sound is stuck and I can't do anything. What's worse, after few crashes yesterday...

Hi there, I recently purchased a Ryzen 7 5800x to pair up with my RX 6750XT, previously I had a 5600x but decided to gift this to a family member. After installing my new cpu into the system, I ran into multiple errors. The system first off booted fine, but the errors seemed to happen as I...

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...

This past week has been hell for me in trying to fix my pc. But I've learned soooooo much more about PC's. I'll give you the full rundown- Last week I bought a new Ryzen 5 5500 and stupidly, I didn't know that would mean I have to buy a new motherboard since they use different slots than Intel...

so, maybe 3 years ago i bought my first gaming rig from those sites that let you pick the parts and then build it for you(even though i chose one of their builds). because i didn't know much about computers at that time i used it for 3 years before trying one day to find my fans in the Bios but...

As title says. Yesterday I got my new pieces, motherboard, ssd m.2, cpu and a new case. I put it all together and gave it a test and it all worked. Got windows 11 running, did a lot of checks and nothing failed. Tested a few games, did benchmark through cpu-z and no problem whatsoever. All temps...