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Been away for the weekend (PC's were working prior to leaving) and after coming back on Monday night her PC is getting Q Code 55 on the board (ASUS Maximus VIII Hero). I did a lot of googling which suggested RAM problems, so I tried all 4 slots in every way possible which didn't work, and...

So i have preordered the new Z590 Rog Maximus 13 Extreme Glacial and I'm looking at its 5 M.2 ports. Now for context, I'm upgrading from Z97 so I predate m.2s. I know some use the CPU PCI lanes and some use the PCH/Chipset. Now I've looked at the digital manual and can't understand it, Please...

Hello guys! My Corsair iCUE software, as what in the title states, is having an issue with my Corsair Vengeance RGB 32Gb DDR4 3200mhz RAM. There is a red exclamation mark inside a triangle indicating that there is a problem. The software is detecting the hardware but just not able to control...

Hello everyone. How's everyone doing? System: Intel i7 6700k Asus Maximus VIII Hero (mobo) Corsair LPX Vengeance 3200 mhz DDR-4 (8x4) 32Gb (Ram) Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 Gaming Samsung 860 Evo 512x2 (SSD) I use my system...

Hello everyone. I recently built my first computer but I am having trouble getting the LAN port to work. Main Components: Motherboard - ROG Maximus XI Formula CPU - i7 8700 Graphic Card - GTX 1070 I am not getting any lights on the back of my computer. I have swapped the cable. I have...

Hi, i have a Maximus Hero XI WiFi. When i have the PC unplugged and then i plug it and, obviouly, i do a cold boot it powers up, then shuts down and then powers up again. I read in some forums with no luck till today. Setting the XMP profile do that, but if i change the CPU VCCIO voltage and the...

Hi guys. This post has two parts, first issue is ram oc and second is a question about cpu temps and pbo on/off. system : 2700x + CHVII (latest bios : 1201) + krakenx62 ram : i run F4-3466C16D-32GTZR, i usually run them 3400 with slightly tighter timings or 3200 with even tighter , for some...

Hi, I have made put together a part list on here: Part List My budget is £900 and this build is already up to £1105.95. I'm not sure what else I can do to get the price down. Can anyone help? It would be much appreciated. Nick

We are having a problem with an unidentified device on our network consuming bandwidth. We've not been able to track it down because the problem is sporadic and it would require plugging/unplugging dozens of devices. I need to know if there are any routers (wireless, but wired is ok) that...

I used older version of bittorrent and I could play the movies but then later I reset my phone so my older version was gone and I had to download the new version and after that whenever i download the movie it isn't playing in my player and I have tried vlc and mx player still it isnt playing...

Ok so this has been a long standing issue and it all started after i had to pretty much buy whole new internals after forgetting to put risers on my new case. long story short i fried my MOBO and such and bought new RAM, CPU and MOBO, as well as a new power supply and heatsink as i thought that...

I am planning on building a new rig later this year possibly, and I am considering using RGB ram. However, I am aware that there are more kits than those from G.Skill, Corsair, and GeIL. However, I don't know of any other specific kits or manufacturers that produce RGB ram, so thinking, "Hey...

Good evening, guys. So, I got the following rig (in the end of the post), but I don't seem to b able to run heavy games at max settings at 1080p. I've always heard the 1070 is a card for 2.5k resolution and that it's overkill for 1080p, thus able to run every single game at max settings, but...

Hi everyone, I wanna start off with my rig specs: Operating System: Windows 10 Home 64-bit (10.0, Build 16299) System Model: GA-A55M-DS2 BIOS: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG Processor: AMD A6-3500 APU with Radeon(tm) HD Graphics (3 CPUs), ~2.1GHz Memory: 8192MB RAM DDR3 1600MHz DirectX Version...

I recently brought a new computer to play some games, the audio works fine but when i plug in my turtle beach earforce px22 headphones into the microphone jack to talk it makes a loud buzzing sound. when i plug the headphones into something like my phone the microphone works fine. could it be a...

Hello, I have recently been looking into to live streaming and decided i would need a face cam. i figured that the best quality would probably come from using my canon power shot sx 60 hs but when i plug it in it is not recognised by any of the programs that you can do this with and the HDMI on...

Im trying to put a 1050 ti into the above mentioned pc which previously had an AMD Radeon HD 7570 GPU installed. The 1050 ti is a zotac mini single fan that I got today and installed. On the first startup with it, it booted, but took maybe 7 mins to do and kept hanging up and did one single...

Just found a used gaming rig on a craigslist-type app. The guy's selling it for $500, but it's a tad outdated. It's running a GTX 770 SC and an i7 4770k, 16gb ram (That would cost a fortune now!), and a 2tb hdd. Is $500 reasonable or would I easily be able to get this lower. Already checked...

Hello Everyone ! So, after following this guide :http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/faq/id-3567655/clean-installation-windows.html when I was in BIOS Settings and started to install win10 on my pc I accidentally destroyed the drive I used for the installation (It decreased from 150gb to 30 of...

Hi, i am saving money because i need to pay a bit for my moped when i turn 15 so im not using the money i have in my bank right now. but i want to upgrade something in my pc! I can probably expect about 750 dollars for my birthday and i dont know what to upgrade. Please help me with what i...

I was going to buy the ryzen 5 1600 but today i got an offer of an i5 7600k , 2 months old for a considerably low price , the processor has never been Oc'ed and in top noch condition. But will it be able to pull off games from 3-4 years from now as it has got only 4C/4T which might be a limiting...

This issue has persisted for quite a while, and has become exceedingly frustrating. When I'm playing online games my ping spikes every few seconds, and I rubber-band like crazy. I'm connected via ethernet, but tried a wireless adapter. I've started in safe mode with networking. Someone else...

I just purchased 2x4GB DDR2 to upgrade an old system of mine from 2x2GB. As soon as I installed the new RAM I experienced BSODs. On further investigation I found that one of the sticks resulted in many memtest errors (>3000). Additionally, both POST and memtest detect 2GB of RAM. The stick was...

I'm proboly going to get an RX 480/500 series in the future with an Intel core i5-7600k. I was wondering is there any point getting a 144hz monitor if I'm not going to be constantly hitting 144 FPS on 1080p ultra?. Could someone please explain this situation to me as I'm a bit of a noob thanks :)

I just bought new gtx 1060 as an upgrade to my pc because my old gtx 750ti was starting to get some problems with running games. After some testing with the new card i realised that it performs almost as bad as my old 750ti. This felt really wierd so I started to look how the card performs with...

Model: LITEON Technology Corp. L300NM-00 (Stock from Dell Inspiron i660-3043BK) PC Specs: Intel Core i3-3220 @ 3.30 GHz 6GB DDR3 @ 1600 MHz Intel HD Graphics 2500 300w Stock DELL PSU Will I be safe just using GTX 1050, because I'm really paranoid that if I just stick my GTX 1050, it'll...

So I built my new PC and might have accidentally pushed the plug for the PSU to hard, and now if you position it the wrong way or basically even touch the plug (the part going in the PC, not the wall) the PC shuts off. But, if you plug it in right and turn the PC on, it lights up and the fans...

Hey, is this build good for the price? I know the storage size is small but probably wont fill it up for a while and when that happens you can always just buy a harddrive or something. https://au.pcpartpicker.com/list/tLyqPs Thanks !

Hello! I have a problem with my monitor constant flashing. It started yestarday, then stopped and now it flashes even harder and its constant. Also, my comp seems to produce more noise then usual. Help!

I have an HP laptop that when plugged in and powered on, will instantly restart on itself, and the CPU fan will run at max speed. The screen will remain black, there is no beep sequence; only, the fan running at max speed. Very rarely (like 1-out-of-10 tries) will I be able to connect to the...

I tried to install windows 10 from windows 8.1 (my pc meets all the requirements) and now the computer wont boot up it just stays at the acer logo, i can access menus with f2 and alt + f10 but none help, i tried to reinstall windows 8.1 but im pretty sure its not working can somebody help...

I was given a NVidea Tesla M2070 for my birthday,a nd am looking to build a PC for the first time. I was wondering if it needed fans as it didn't have it.

When I start my laptop it goes on but after 2 3 minutes it shuts down, it repeated 2 or 3 time after that it works well ...... M confused what I do suggest. And one more thing if i always put laptop at hibernate than it can harm any part or not ...

Hello, When you watch a physical DVD or blu ray disc on a blu ray player, is there an internal hardrive on the device which keeps a record of the film you have watched? Basically, what I am wondering is this: Is there ANY WAY to watch a movie in complete privacy, without a record of having...

I have a 980ti and I want to water cool it I'll list my 3 options and problems with them, tell me which you think is best 1.Corsair hg10 n989 + h75 , I heard the bracket is better than the kraken g10 but I heard this bracket had many problems also quick question with this one, can it fit NEW...

I have recently set up my home network by this way :Cable Modem--- Unmanaged Switch ----AP(home router AP mode). Only AP Works,nothing plug into switch worked. How do I get things on switch work? Help

Laptop had broken hinge. LCD cable was left exposed. LCD Cable bent unnaturally, causing sparks and dodgy connection to lcd. Replaced LCD Cable & hinges. Black Screen. This chip is broken. At first, I was dealing with only black screen (still booted up on external HDMI Monitor), now it won't...

Hello. I've tried searching the threads but nothing really seems to correspond to my situation ( or if it did, it was terms i could not understand clearly ) I live in a condo complex. In my condo, I have 50mb high speed internet. I have a normal ISP router for 2.4ghz and i got my own router (WD...

I haven't made any changes to VLC player, and today somehow video displayed very small, thought it was just that particular file, but apparently it goes the same with other videos. i tried to change aspect ratio, crop, etc, did nothing but distorting the image. video image is fine with windows...

Hey there everybody, it's me again looking for the go ahead to do stupid <mod edit> from an online community. So my monitor died not too long ago so I'm using my spare 38' 1080p TV. I recently found out there's a thing called OCing your monitor and how have I not heard this in 4 years. Now how...