Operating system

My custom built desktop PC of 9 years displayed a graphics card error popup window and then a minute later stopped displaying video completely and permanently, so I took it in to a tech repair shop. I just called the repair shop yesterday to see what progress they were making, and they said...

Hi to the forum moderators, I want to make it clear that I'm not discussing piracy. I have multiple legitimate copies of Windows 10 on different systems in the house but I had to replace my motherboard after some magic blue smoke escaped. I bought a cheap replacement board just to get me by for...

I am currently running Windows 10 but will remove it in the coming days. I intend on opening my banking application and other sensitive programs/sites on this notebook. Therefore, the operating system must be secure out of the box. I know the system is only as secure as the user, I get it...

I took the boot SSD and the secondary storage from my Alienware laptop and put it in my Desktop when I built it. I know its bad form and that I should have reinstalled the OS freshly on my Desktop but so far I haven't had any major issues with the operation of the Desktop. Is there anything I...

Hi guys, short question: My XPS15 9550 broke yesterday. If I bought a used one with the same specifications (CPU, GPU etc.) and replaced its main SSD by the SSD from the broken laptop, would I be able to continue working in my usual environment (same operating system, same software) without any...

What is your Favorite Operating System from Dos 1.0 and Windows 1.0 to Windows 11 and also what Operating System do you use today?

I have a very unique and bizarre issue that I can not find much help on. Computer: RTX 3080 10gb Ryzen 7600x DDR5 32gb SSD/M.2 NVME's Windows 10 Please Note: Neither the CPU nor the GPU are overclocked. When playing games, any game, and the FPS is either uncapped or does not...

Hello!I am trying to complile a .asm file to a .o file(binary) I have downloaded nasm: I open the NASM shell: ...\AppData\Local\bin\NASM>nasm -f elf32 kernel.asm -o kasm.o kernel.asm:5: error: parser: instruction expected ...\AppData\Local\bin\NASM>nasm -f elf32 kernel.asm kernel.asm:5...

I've been troubleshooting this for about a month now, and it's driving me insane. My computer rebooted out of nowhere, and when it came back up, as soon as the windows screen with spinning dots appears, the system reboots. Windows repair starts, and the system reboots. I figured I needed a...

I'm about to build a computer (no operating system yet), and I want to install Windows 10 with a DVD. QUESTION: Will this work using an external DVD drive connected via USB? I'm wondering if the DVD drive will work/recognize the DVD once turning on the computer but BEFORE having an operating...

Hello. I'm not a PC exptert but I've always understood how to build one and work my way around. Recently I built a new PC for myself and wanted to give my old PC to my parents who are using an even older PC I gave them years ago.I thought that I all I had to do was slap the boot drive from the...

Hello everyone, I am struggling please help me. I built a new pc. CPU: Ryzen 5 5600g. GPU: GTX 1070. RAM: 16 GB. PSU: 550 w. MBD: Asus TUF GAMING A520M-plus. Pc works perfectly fine, until I turn a game. I do not why, but when I turn on game my pc starts acting differently. I can hear things...

So i posted about something that lead to this the other day, i was having some random crashes on boot/shutdown however, since then my windows has completely bricked (i think?) i physically cannot get into windows, wether it’s through my m.2 or a bootable usb and i’ve looked and looked online on...

Hello Friends, I am poor and i have a disability, so i do not work a lot. how can i get the Playstation 5 operating system, to test it out ? Can i put the playstation 4 & 5 operating system on my MacOS? i also have a Xbox One console. What can i do? what if i like buy a broken playstation 5...

Here is my current parts selection for a PC that will be heavily used for Blender 3.1 and some video editing. AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor Asus PRIME B550-PLUS ATX AM4 Motherboard Corsair Vengeance LPX 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL18 Memory Corsair MP600 PRO XT 2...

Hiya, I'm building a new PC and trying to decide whether to install Windows 10 or Windows 11, I'm currently using Windows 10 on my laptop as I've been unsure about how stable Windows 11 is. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Ok so I was downloading kali linux from a usb I already had windows downloaded I just wanted a dual os setup. everything was going well until the installation process of kali linux when I went to partioned either the USB I downloaded on or my systems SSD I made a mistake and selected the system...

I almost always keep my laptop turned on 24/7, because i usually do important stuff, and i prefer to not turn off the laptop. However, recently, i lost some work, because the laptop got restarted, while i was sleeping. It got restarted after Windows 10 got its new update, despite the fact i had...

According to Microsoft's PC Health Check app, my low-end laptop supports every requirement, except the CPU. What will happen, if i install Windows 11 on my laptop? Also, i have one more question. The PC Health Check app says this: "The processor clock speed is 1Ghz or faster." At the same...

Several weeks ago, it was saying "Windows is activated with a digital license", now, it says "Windows is activated with a digital license linked to your Microsoft account". My question is, can i transfer the Windows 10 i have to another device, without having to buy another Windows 10? Someone...

Im going from the i5-8600k to the i5-12600k and obviously i need a new motherboard for that. Can i simply connect my drives and launch it like it was the old pc? Thank you in advance!

Have just built a new PC but can't seem to install an OS. I have tried Windows 10, Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora but all exhibit very similar behaviour. What happens is that at seemingly random times in the install (although for Windows it is actually quite consistent) the keyboard lights all blink...

I have two windows 10 installations, one on my hdd and one on my ssd. I want to delete the one on my hdd however I have other programs on there so I can’t just wipe the drive. I looked it up and saw that I can use msconfig ( I think it’s called ) to delete the old windows 10 on my hdd that I...

I have a Windows 10 on my HDD. I recently purchased an M2 SSD. I wish to boot my Windows from it and have all the apps on it. It is being shown as a drive. I wish to move my Windows to the SSD. A reinstallation is okay. My question is: If I try to install a Windows 10 copy from a live USB by...

I currently have a 1TB HDD that is near full, and I am looking to do a clean install of Windows 10 onto my 500GB SSD (WD Blue SATA SSD), and have no issue reinstalling any programs. I plan to use my 1TB HDD to store personal documents (Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Videos folders etc) along...

Suppose you have 2x 3200 & 2x 2400 Sticks. This is running quadchannel and in general @ 2400mhz since the 2 Sticks are the lowest freq. correct? If you want to run at 3200mhz you'd need to disable/remove the lower frequency sticks correct? If that is the case, is it possible to utilize all...

I'm having issues with my Windows 10 recently, whenever I'm casually using my pc and while I'm editing, the display flickers for half a second then everything becomes black, the taskbar disappears, the tabs that are open are partially black and the only way to revert this issue is to hover the...

Just today I have had the problem where my personally built computer goes into a consistent loop where it indicated that it is "Preparing Automatic Repair" only to just have my computer restart. I have looked up numerous amount of fixes and all of them revolve around needing to enter 'windows...

What will be the best Linux distro for best webgl performance? For a Dell precision m6400 core 2 duo p8400 @2.26Ghz and 10gb ram 1066Mhz with Nvidia quadro fx 2700m as it got only 340 driver on Linux which is kinda unsupported now a days. i use to play a webgl game, so i only need is good...

Hey All, I'm upgrading my computer with some new parts and I'm curious which drive others would use for the Windows 10 install. I do lots of video editing of 4K videos in Davinci Resolve, lots of photo organizing and editing in Lightroom (cloud and LR Classic, all RAW photos), and lots of...

Quick facts: As of april 2021, Android holds the top position as the most used operating system worldwide, with 40.63% market share. While Windows is #2 with 31.94% worldwide market share. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share Question: Knowing that Microsoft lost the race of the...

i have 4 hard drives (HDD) one of them has the operating system im not gonna lie its kinda full and makes it very very slow so im planing on doing some changes such as moving everything, apps, files, to other non-operating system hard drives ( please note i don't mean files like...

Hi, I noticed that the quick access folders for documents, pictures, downloads, videos etc are all located on my HDD drive (for storage) rather than my OS drive. Does this mean I still have old windows components (files and folders) on my HDD (I used this for my OS before I bought an SSD. I...

Hi everyone. I tried to update from Xubuntu 20.04.1 LTS to 20.04.2, but for some reason, I can't easily do so. I executed the "sudo apt update" command before using these three specific upgrade commands: "sudo apt dist-upgrade," "sudo apt full-upgrade," and "sudo apt upgrade." The upgrade...

Hello Toms Hardware! as the title suggests I am having difficulty booting into my new SSD. I recently purchased a new NVME SSD. I wanted to migrate my current OS and some storage to my new drive. Both drives are Samsung. I downloaded the Samsung data migration utility and proceeded to run it as...

Hello, I have recently bought an m.2 SSD (replacement for the old HDD) for my notebook to finally make it usable. I want to migrate the OS (W10 Home), but I cant find information about the transfer as a whole. Will the migration copy all SYSTEM RELATED FILES to the SSD or ALL FILES to the SSD...

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...

im gonna buy an ssd hard drive to speed up some games loading speed and fps in general, but i wonder does the ssd hard drive need to be the OP system to run games faster? or can i just put it as a secondary hard drive and put a game in there and it will run faster? the question is, will both...

As of yesturday my PC has been getting loads of random BSOD, and error codes indicating there are corrupt system files. So the 1st error code I got was 0xc0000221 which was saying my OS couldn't be loaded due to the kernel being missing or containing errors and the file it was showing was...

Hello all. I am currently doing a project that is trying to determine how useful a personal cloud storage device would be for a business compared to using options such as Onedrive (as well as how economically viable it would be). As part of this project, I need to determine which would be the...