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Pc booting up problem. It has power and everything lights up just nothing shows on the display, I tried reseating the components I don't know what else to do, I'm still new to this at the moment. No OS currently installed. Nothing at all comes on the display doesn't even turn on. GTX 970 Asus...

I'd like to know what is required for the actual installation of windows 7 on ryzen. I have heard of two methods of installation and I'm wondering which one is still valid (if not both) and which one is preferable. Some people are using modified ISO's/patches in order to install Windows 7, where...

Hi all, I've been using my PC for about a year, no problems. Yesterday I was playing Terraria (having a great time) when my graphics card (Gigabyte 560 Ti) started playing up. I now have these weird green dots all over my screen whenever I use my computer. There are also grey lines during boot...

I want to connect my thunderbolt3 hdd to my PC. The PC doesn't have thunderbolt port, and the motherboard doesn't have thunderbolt header so no chance to install thunderbolt3 card. The best solution i'm thinking is to add 10gig ethernet on my pc . Then i need a TB3 to 10gbe adapter to connect...

So, i live in the middle of nowhere, and we pay for 1.5 mbps internet, but we only get a maximum of 150kbps (Crazy in this day and age, I know), that's 1/10 of what we are paying for, but that's not the problem. I play games a lot. But whenever someone else is on the internet, it could be them...

Hello I have an M5A78L-M USB3 motherboard but it doesn't work when I put in my GPU (AMD HD 7770) anymore. The problem started occuring when playing a demanding game and there were weird buzzlines all over the display. The GPU is fine though. It used to work fine for 2 years. I have already...

Hi everybody, I have a very specific hardware question I was hoping for the community's help on. I am a data scientist and, for my work, my company is paying for me to get a 10-core i9-7900x, which is Intel's newest and fastest chip. I currently have a i7-7700k on my desktop for computing. I...

CPU: Intel - Core i5-7400 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor ($249.75 @ Amazon Canada) CPU Cooler: Cooler Master - Hyper T2 54.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler ($22.99 @ Amazon Canada) Motherboard: ASRock - B250M-HDV Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($101.59 @ Amazon Canada) Memory: *G.Skill - Ripjaws...

I have a Dell Inspiron 7567 laptop with 512GB SSD. When I bought the laptop from a local merchant it came with a pirated Windows 10. I didn't like that, so I bought a Windows product key and did a clean install. However it was my first time installing Windows on an SSD and at that there already...

Hey Everyone, Have tried a bunch of searches, but cannot find a solution, this morning when rebooting my, after it gets past the BIOS Screen, a blinking icon (top left) just hangs there. The HDD is detected in the Bios, but it will not load the OS, there is no error message (Boot Device, No OS)...

I'll be living in the us for a year (from Australia) and would like to build a new PC that I can take home. Parts in the Aus are crazy compared to that in the US so I'm hoping to get hi slightly overkill build that will last very long so I won't have to upgrade. I was originally planning on...

Hello!Long story short my desktop PC lost sound.There's a red X on speaker icon in taskbar and whenever i click the icon it enables troubleshooter.Troublshooter says,that there are no devices connected,which obviously are and that ''Audio service is not responding''.What i've done so far...

I'm planning to build a gaming pc with a gtx 1070 and i5-7600k, which will come to a total of 1300$, the gtx 1070 can run 4k at about 24 fps, while the Xbox scoripo according to this article is can run 4k at 60 fps, should i just save 900$ and buy the scorpio instead? article...

Hi all, thanks in advance for your help. In my current home theater setup, I have a Marantz SR5011 surround sound receiver, which all my devices connect to via the hdmi cables. My front speakers are the Bose vintage 901 speakers with the equalizer that comes with the speakers, and I have a...

First time builder here. Will a motherboard like this https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131712 support an i5 6600 ??

I was originally going to use a 550W PSU but since adding the extra GTX 1070, I don't know if it will be enough. I plan to OC. Any advice appreciated. Thank you. Case: Corsair Carbide Clear 400C Compact Mid-Tower Case CPU: Intel Core i5-7600k GPU: DUAL GTX 1070 Founders Edition with SLI MOBO...

Have an Acer E5-575-33BM and it is a i3-7500U 7th gen Kaby Lake Laptop which comes with win 10 installed. I don't like 10 so I found all the drivers (well, most of the drivers) for 8.1 and am sucessfully using win 8.1 with one small glitch - the extended display monitors do not work when 8.1 is...

which key should be pressed to get dialog box as given in above picture. should we pres f8 frequently or any other ey should be pressed.

So my wife wants a new laptop, and she has some very set in stone ideas about what that should be. She is very against the idea of cloud storage (I know, I know), and she wants it to "just be faster." I have some specs I'm looking for, and a question about storage. I want an SSD for speed...

Hi all, I installed GTA V today on my pc and I got this lightning-ish bug which I cannot play with. https://youtu.be/XqEI70XT0xc I installed latest drivers. All other games like Witcher 3, Mad Max, Watch Dogs 2 etc. are working normally as you would expect. I tried putting everything to...

All the articles are about "the best" or the maximum performance but I don't want to play games. All I want to do is look at 3D and 360 Degree Movies (yes...... non immersive). that said, it seems to me I don't need a smart phone with an accelerometer or a gryroscope: ie....all I should need...

i own an AMD R9290, overclocked it and would get 70c or below 80c temps. one day i realized it spiked around 90c, so i stopped OC'ing my card. then my PC would boot but no visuals at all... i realized if i changed the DVi cable to the second port i could see, but this time i would get the BSOD...

Hello i have a asrock h61m-ge and i want to know if my mobo is compatible with gtx 1050 2 gb version

i have a computer with windows 10 and a few other things on it if i were to put its hard drive in a pc build i am working on would windows work on that , if so would i need to do anything else to make it work , if not what would i need to do to get windows 10 for free or very cheap. thank you

So.. I wanna know the differences between both and no, telling me connecting it to gpu is better for gaming is NOT enough of an answer. I want reasons on both sides to why one should connect them.

CPU-->http:// MAINBOARD--> http:// RAM--> http:// Hi My computer shuts down every after 30 mins. Not only that. The only time the computer stops shutting down after 30 mins is when during booting up, it says--> "Overclocking failed". When the computer shows that message, all I do is go to the...

Hi there, so I actually own a desktop in my house and I was thinking about upgrading it, so I got the specs that I am using now. Windows 7 professional 64-bit, Intel Core i3 processor 530, Intel GMA HD graphics, DVD-Super Multi drive, 320GB Hard Drive, 2GB DDR3 memory, Multi-in-One Media Card...

A java script thing popped up and then i clicked cancel and it started audio?

removed win 10 from Acer Aspire cloudbook 14 want Ubuntu only boots in legacy now Not uefi think boot sector missing ? nothing I try works , put in boot wipe only boots in legacy try booting in uefi and says no bootable device, try putting in a retail version of win 10 to repair and says...

Hello once again Last month I had a problem where my new HDD (whole new PC) started being very slow, to the point where it would max out at 10 KB/s. I figured it was the drive being d.o.a. so I sent it back. Now I have a new drive, 3TB WD Red, which after I installed it was showing the same...

Hi guys, I have an HP Pavillion DV6 Laptop. A couple of years ago the screen went black and i thought that perhaps screen or video card had failed, so put laptop into box and left it there for almost 2 years. A few weeks ago i got inspired whilst fixing another device (new screen install on a...

PC: HP Pavilion P6-2110eb So I've bought a new GPU since the old on in this system died. I bought the Sapphire Radeon RX460, which is a low power usage card (75TDP max)and doesn't require an extra PCIe Power connection. The problem: - My mother's PC seems to be booting but it doesn't...

Just bought a new pc build. -Asus maximus viii ranger -intel i5 6600k -gigabyte gtx1060 g1 -16gb ram balistix -cosair h100i v2 -evga 650w supernova -nzxt s340 I've plug everything to accordingly, when i turn on the power the fans are spinning the LED lighted up, BUT theres no display showing...

Acer revealed a handful of new thin and light laptops during IFA. Notably, it introduced a laptop thinner than 1 cm and a convertible touch screen Chromebook with support for Google's Play Store. Acer Updates Swift And Spin Notebook Lines, Reveals Convertible Chromebook With Google Play Support...

Hello, I've seen an I5 processor with TSX-NI technology that didn't have Hyper Threading Technology and an i7 that had the Hyper Threading but not the TSX-NI.. Why didn't the I7 had both and what exactly is the difference between those technologies? Thank you!

I'm looking at the Asus OC, Zotac AMP Extreme, and MSI Gaming Z. Gaming Z is the most expensive but seems to be the best all around. Zotac and Asus seem fairly even. What do you guys think?

I'm on my 3rd RMA with the same motherboard and same problem and this process is taking way too long. The first time I RMA'd my motherboard it was returned to me without being fixed. The second time I RMA'd my Motherboard it was returned to me with superficial damage so I installed it and it...

Well i have a toshiba L305D with a broken screen and the model number on the screen is LP154WX4 (TL)(CC) i was wondering if i could replace it with the screen from a thinkpad r61 which has a screen with a model number LP154WX4 (TL)(A6). It seems like it should work because the model numbers are...

I have overclocked my cpu (AMD 8320 Black Edition) at 4816MHz with cpu voltage at 1.410V. When I go to see my cpu's temperature at HWMonitor says 79C but in AMD Overdrive says that Thermal Margin is 13.5C . Which of these says the truth? My Specs are: Mobo: Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 Ram: 2x HyperX...

As the title says Info about my pc : Current CPU : intel i5-2400 3.10 Ghz,3301 MHz, 4 Cores Power supply : CORSAIR CX series CX500 500W My motherboard : Gigabyte H61M-S2P-B3 Graphics card : Gigabyte GTX 960 G1 Graphics Cards, Black GV-N960G1 GAMING-4GD