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Dear Tomshardware community, I am having trouble (and a real bad day because of it) with my laptop. I had windows 10 installed on it, but after a recent windows update it appeared to freeze on occasion, to which the only answer was to hold down the power button to turn it off. Today I had to...

Hey guys, so I have a Bluetooth Board from a PowerBook G4, part number 820-1471-A, and was wondering what I need to do to put it in an ASUS laptop X555LA that doesn't have Bluetooth. For example, do I have to also include the Airport Extreme card too? Can I just piggyback the B/T board's...

After months and months of frustration, I've finally decided to turn to this forum so that I can get some help. I have an Acer E5-575-33BM running Windows 10 on a 1TB hard drive, my problem is that I've trying to migrate my system on to my new 250GB SSD with no luck. I've tried cloning (and...

I've got an SSD recently and I was trying to install Windows in it, did everything right (Pendrive with the setup, only the SSD plugged on the motherboard, boot priority, etc.), but when it was time to the install window to pop-up, nothing happened, there was just a blank, bright-blue colored...

I made a win 10 bootable usb with windows media creation tools back in 2018 and was wondering if I could still use it. I'm wondering if it's outdated or not. I'm intending to install windows 10 on a new machine with the same usb.

**Update - looks like it might have been the USB stick the files were moved from that caused the issue. Hello everyone, I am having an interesting problem with a fresh install of Windows 7 pro 64 bit. Windows installs normally, I don't have any issues during this process. The install is going...

So I want to install Pop!_OS and I need to select either of these 2 drives. I'm sure the top is HDD and the lower is SSD so what do I choose to install the OS? Personally I thought I'd use the HDD for backups. So where does the OS go? Btw win10 is installed somewhere and I don't mind overwriting...

Ok so i added a new m.2 ssd in my pc (not nvme). I use a usb key to perform a new clean install on that drive. Everything is going well but when it restarts it’s putting me again at the beginning of the installation setup and if i unplug the usb key when it’s saying rebooting in 5...4..., etc...

Hey there, I’m having a bit of trouble installing Windows. I created the flash media on my USB, plugged it in to the back of my MB, turned the PC on and... nothing. I get the MB’s boot screen, and am able to access the BIOS, but whenever I try to boot off of the USB, I just get a black screen...

Hi, Sorry for the n-th post about this, I saw some others, but no one them helps. I have assembled a brand new pc: CPU : AMD Ryzen 3600xt GPU : AMD Radeon 5600XT MOBO : MSI 550M PRO-VDH-WIFI RAM : 2x8gb corsair vengeance lpx 3600mhz SSD : Samsung 860 Evo 500Gb HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB And...

I have and Aorus x570 Elite (layout). It has 4 fan headers: SYSFAN1, CPUOPT, CPUFAN, SYSFAN2 I have a front-mounted Arctic Liquid Freezer 2 rev.2 (2 FANS) plus 3 FANS that come on the front of case plus 4 FANS that I'm adding inside the case. (9 total fans) The three fans on the front (3 pin)...

Hi! I am planning on upgrading my SSD where is my Win10 installed from 128GB to 512GB, I used my old SSD for mostly Windows (and some drivers), My apps and games are stored on the D drive which I do not intend to take away. My questions is, after reinstalling my Windows, will all the apps that...

I can't seem to find NVIDIA control panel anywhere on the internet and a lot of my games use my integrated card instead of GeForce one. I am using Win-7 64 bit, and apparently the only NVIDIA support I could find online was for Win-10 users. I know that Win-7 is no longer supported, but I had it...

Help my HDD keeps disconnecting whenever i'm using it. Can you please help me how to fix this? or any suggestion how to fix this? BTW, my hdd doesn't have my OS on it. I have a separate storage (ssd) for my os. Processor: Ryzen 5 2400g Motherboard: MSI A320m Memory: Kingston 4x2 2666 mhz...

I want to get a Samsung Pro for GOG will it install faster or will it be useless and please if you guys kind enough show me some example of the difference

Hello everyone. I'm installing a program on a 1 month old Windows installation. The installer needs to install "an USB driver" because the program revolves around USB dongles. I open the installer, I enter a key, and it starts to "install the USB driver" but hangs and then, 20 seconds later, it...

I’m getting a new motherboard and know you’re meant to reinstall Windows, I’m wondering how to go about this. I have Windows currently on my SSD, will I need to delete the files from there so it can do a reinstall? I have a usb with Windows to boot from and I know to enter bios and make it the...

Hi! I've got a serious problem about a Windows Installer Disc... as you can see my problem is that my Install Disc won't Boot! it'll just display : "Press any key to boot from a CD and DVD medium..." So i pressed any key after that, it'll just hang up on the spinning loading wheel and after...

I recently purchased a Gigabyte B450m DS3H motherboard and AMD Ryzen 5 2600 to upgrade from my 2015 pre-built. Upon install, my computer turned on fine. I used the packaged BIOS driver disk to install the drivers, during which a computer restart was required. The computer shut down, but did not...

This is my current storage setup: I have a 500GB HDD for Ubuntu and 1 TB HDD for windows, and the system is configured so that one startup I can choose which OS I want to boot to. I just ordered a 250GB SSD for a boot drive, and I have a spare 1TB HDD; I would like to have the following storage...

Installing AMD Ryzen 2700x CPU into motherboard MSI AMD x470. When placing CPU into socket and placing latch down, the CPU seems to shift and doesn't hold it in. When I attempted to place the Heatsink on top thinking it was used to hold the CPU in place instead, I attached it wrong and went to...

Hello all, this is my first post. I hope you are all well. I just bought a 500GB SanDisk Extreme portable SSD. I want to transfer some programs from my Windows 8.1 laptop, which is very low on space, to my SSD. However, I don't want to uninstall from C:/ just yet; I want to be sure that the...

Hi all, I'm having a very weird issue with my PC. One of the games I about installing needs Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 redistributable x64 in order to run/install correctly. The problem I am having is that I cannot get it to install. I keep getting the same error message over and over and have...

It's my first time building my rig from scratch and I've come into some bother transitioning from my ancient hhd as my boot drive to my new m.2. I used Rufus to create an ISO on the usb I'm using to boot windows. Everything is pretty much running smoothly until I get to the windows install...

So i decided to built an affordable pc and i got alla the parts new but i used an old hard drive from an old laptop.the problem im having is that when i try to install windows everything is fine up until thenfirst restart where the bootable usb isnt needed anymore. What i get each time is a blue...

G'day all, The short is I can't install windows 10 onto my SSD because the installer constantly crashes at different points generally during the "installing features" phase. The long is I built a PC October last year, Components include: Ryzen 5 3600, MSI X570-A Pro Mobo, Corsair Vengeance LPX...

Hi, so i recently wanted to upgrade my stationary computer from 8 gb DDR4-2400 mhz corsair Vengeance LPX with an identical copy to a total of 16 gb of RAM. However whenever i install the new RAM my computer will recognize the two sticks and boot correctly, however after 5-10 minutes of running...

Dear users, I've found myself in quite a pickle and could do with some well placed advice. I've recently build a new system, mostly with new parts though some were salvaged from my previous workstation. After putting the pc together I continued installing windows after making sure everything...

Hello, So my case might seem dumb, forgive me. I tried to do a clean windows 10 install for my PC and I used my external hard drive as a flash drive to complete the install. The problem is that my hard drive had very important files in there which didn't exceed 10GB and my drive has 1TB of...

I am unable to install macos in imac 2012 model. when i install it using internet recovery it is showing me catalina version but during installation it show me error-->The operation could not be completed.(PKDownloadError error 8.) . My internet is working fine.

I want to to reinstall Windows 10. In installation window, I choose custom install. I saw that I have these partition: Partition 1 , 100mb, system Partition 2, 16mb, MSR reserved Partition 3, 259Gb, the C: partition on my old window Partition 4, 250Gb, my D: partition Partition 5, 1Gb...

So i just bought an ssd ofr Rs 4100 to give a new life to my old pc .But only saw slight improvement as oppose to the reviews online. I did some googling to speed up my ssd and downloaded samsung magician software in which trim is activated but AHCI is shown deactivated. Did some googling again...

Hi everyone So I can get a brand new OCZ Revodrive Hybrid brand new for pretty cheap. I know it's not the best solution but does anyone know if it will work with windows 10? It's purely for cool factor as I'm sure modern SSDs destroy it in performance. Thanks

Okay I've had a lot of trouble installing windows 10 on my new Samsung 860 PRO , originally I was stuck on not being able to identify or make a partition. I fixed this and am now stuck on the looping set up. I've tried Legacy+UEFI and UEFI alone although nothing was picked up with UEFI alone...

I have the original game on disks, but I can't use them, because my computer doesn't have CD drive. I already copied all the files to a pendrive, and the first part of the installation is completed, but I can't solve the problem of the the installer asking for the disc 2.

Unfortunately I don't have a thumb drive large enough to install Windows 10 on my new PC, so Iv'e been wondering if you can use an external HDD instead? Would be much better than buying a new thumb drive.

Hey guys, I'm having a bit of trouble with download speeds on my new PC. I use a powerline adapter and switch it from my PC to my Xbox depending on what I'm using at the time. But, when I download a game on my Xbox I get speeds of 20mbs+ and usually into the 30s and 40s. However, when I use the...

I'm searching detailed instructions on how to fix or install/reinstall LILO boot loader on an AntiX linux partition. I don't want to write on the MBR, I want the boot loader (LILO) to be installed on the partition with an already installed AntiX linux /. Thanks!

I'm wondering if you can install heat spreaders on every memory stick, do all of they support this feature or only some kinds? I am using 2 sticks of Corsair Value (CMV4GX4M1A2133C15). I can buy 2 heat spreaders online.

Hi. My Office won't install and instead gets stuck at "We're getting things ready" splash screen and I tried almost every solution I found on the internet. I have an Office 365 Subscription that came with my University account, which is the one I used to download the installer for Office. I...