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The systems boots up and passes the BIOS splash screen, but hangs for about 6 minutes on the Windows boot splash screen with the spinning dots while the loading symbol spins. The peripherals don't receive power until the moment before the system finally goes to the Windows login screen. Here is...

My budget for a monitor is around £400 (give or take £30 or so, depends on the worth). I’ve narrowed the criteria down to what I want on... https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/products/monitor/#sort=name&r=192001080&A=1&H=100,240 (all 24” options here...

So for my first water cooling build, I tried using some pass through valves and ended up drilling about an inch diameter hole on the hard drive rack in my case. Anyway, due to inexperience, I realized my initial layout was not ideal and I have devised a much better and easier water cooling...

So I just wanted to play Woflenstain 2 the new order but I cant , I also want to play COD WW2 when it comes out but my pc is to slow for any of those games . When I bought it it played every game no probelm this was back in 2012 . It consists of Athlon X4 750K 4.5GHZ 16GB RAM Radeon 7950 SSD...

I'm about to upgrade my PC once for all. I've decided to throw a budget of max $700 (approx). Atm: I5 3570K 3.4 Ghz // 8GB 1066Mhz // GTX 1070 (recently upgraded, reason to upgrade other stuff). Upgrade: i7 7700K Kaby Lake 4.2 GHz // 16GB 3000 MHz memory // Some motherboard So. What...

I've got an older, but still-humming Dell L702X. Recently, the DVD drive stopped working. It's still recognized in the BIOS, in the Device Manager, Disk Management, and even in Explorer. However, if I insert a disc and try to browse it in Explorer, it ejects the drive. I can't get any media...

Before it was slow I was playing games on steam then I turned off my computer the correct way. Then the next day I turn on my computer and the boot takes longer than usually by about 3-5min more, and everything loads up slow and my games I usually get like 180-200fps on I get 40-50fps, and it...

As i have seen in some videos this motherboard has the ability to switch the cpu_fan voltage. I just got a Kraken x61 and i must put the cpu_fan at 100%. But cpu_fan settings doesnt appear on my BIOS. Does anyone know why?

I just put together a PC today, but it won't turn on. I turned it on it on and actually installed windows with everything out of the case. Now, I've installed everything and it doesn't respond to the power switch or manually shorting the power pins. I took out my gpu and my memory and tried to...

Hi there, I've been looking to buy my first PC for a while now, and I would like some help choosing the components. Since I'm on a budget I want to skip the graphics card for now, and buy it later when I have some money again. For the processor I was going for the i3 6100, but since kaby lake...

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) i3-2120 came with my pc i didn't buy it.

I have an Alienware PC with dual graphic cards and 4 monitors attached to them. I have had this setup for several years. The monitors started flickering occasionally over the last few days, then the screen went blank and they would not come back on. The monitors work fine and show power/standby...

When i play some big games like BF1, GTA V and RUST i get those flickerings it seems like its when its a large map or many objects. When i play CSGO and other games that dont have the same scale or objects everything is working perfectly! Look at the video :) What i have tested: Lower...

The program MSI Afterburner is showing temperatures like 70 - 90 °C while gaming and i am not sure if this is right? While idle / Interneting the program CPUID HWMonitor shows 38 - 41 °C Processor: i7 4790K Watercooler: Corsair Hydro Series H60 What should i do?

Will Sound Blaster ZXR work on PCI-E 16, or X4 slots? Should i choose a motherboard with x1 pci-e slot? Going to buy x99 mainboard for broadwell-e, thanks.

My motherboard is the Gigabyte Z97X-Gaming 7 and the SDD i want is the Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe High Performance SSD .

I have a ASUS Z170-A, Socket-1151 motherboard and was just wondering if i can use the Samsung 950 PRO 512GB M.2 PCIe SSD. thanks for any help :)

So when i received my new GPU from amazon, the package was sitting outside for like a couple of hours in 42 degree weather (5.5 degrees celsius). Now i dont know if my actual GPU got to 42 degrees fahrenheit but could that coldness have potentially damaged the card? Also, in this picture...

My cousin just gave me his laptop (Packard Bell EasyNote TE) because he doesn't know how to fix it and though I could (sigh...). Anyway, I get this message when booting: "Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart, we're just collecting some error info, and then we'll restart for you." This...

Hi, I'm going to buy a new ASUS laptop which I'll be using mostly for game developing in general, programming, 3D modelling and occasionaly gaming. I have 2 very similar models (both 8GB RAM, GTX 960M, 1TB HDD etc.) The only diffrence is CPU - Quad Core i7 4gen for 50$ more or Dual Core i7 5gen...

I understand that a bigger SSD is faster. I have a 250 GB SSD I would like to have a 100 GB second partition on the SSD, for my virtual machines. This is because I make a daily, incremental system image of the main partition. And every time the VMs change, it makes a major difference in the...

Hi, I was wondering if my motherboard will support this kingston hyper x beast ram which is clocked at 2400mhz and this mobo supports up to 1866mhz. The thing is that this ram is quite cheap and good looking because all the 1866mhz are out of stock and I don't really want a 1600mhz ram, but If...

Hello, please forgive me if it's not the right sub forum to ask this. For the arrival of a new CPU, I wanted to updated my Phoenix bios from 6.00 PG to 9.00. I flashed it by USB and everything seemed fine, did get no error messages and it showed the update bar as should. But when I checked the...

Hi, i recently purchased a MSI R9 390 GPU , however when i set it all up and turn on the computer, no image is shown, only screen distortions,there are no problems with my Monitor/ TV, and my previous Graphics card (GTX 760) Worked just fine, so i don't understand what the problem is? could it...

Gateway decktop PC, would not power up at all. After some troubleshooting I cut the green wire to the 24 pin power supply connector and added a switch to ground, and between using that and the power switch I am able to start up/shut down the PC, and everything works fine. But, if I unplug the...

samgung smart tv keeps having a box open saying not available And then disappears but keeps coming back

I keep getting asked by my modem support to attach the ethernet cable however there is no port that fits the yellow cable I ha

Hey guys, So I'm asking this question for a friend. So he needs a new gaming rig. He wants to get a laptop so that he can use a cat6e cable since the only place he router can be is in his living room. His mom will not let him put a big desktop in his living room so my question is, do you think...

My old Thomson SpeedTouch 510 DSL Modem will only work with my new Asus RT-AC66u router when the SpeedTouch is plugged into one of the LAN ports on the router. All the instructions that come with the Asus say the cable from the modem must be plugged into the WAN port on the router, but I can't...

I'm looking for a laptop to play the sims, do my uni work and run the Internet. Doesn't need any other spec except it needs to be cheap as pos

i dont know why but my gup is at 99% at idle i tried deleting all new programs.i notice when i diconnect from the internet is goes down so i though it was a bitcoin miner virus but i have done multiple scans with eset NOD32 and SUPERAntiSpyware and found notting. plz help me

I have a packard bell easy note tj65 it is showing I am connected to my router but there is normally a little symbol of the world that shows aswell but it's not there and when I try to go onto the Internet what ever page I try and load it jst says waiting for Google (for example), my dad showed...

So im trying to acess a hardrive that somehow got bad sectors a few months ago. Perfectly working yesterday and if the hard drive froze from bad sectors i would always system restore and it would work fine. Im getting a 500 gb drive for 60$ soon. But im wondering why it does not work anymore...

About 3 months ago, I bought a Toshiba Satellite L50D-B laptop. I use the disk drive in this laptop all the time, but when I went to put the disk in this morning, it didn't work. The disk starts spinning for about half a second then just stops. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Hi there, Have a 2.80GHZ AMD Senmpron and a Asus GeForce GT 610 Silent Nvidia Graphics Card, will it be able to run the game? Also does my graphics card include DirextX 11? Thanks, AKNerd

should I upgrade my 2700k to i7 4790k ..is it worth it..thanks

Hi, i am looking for a liquid cooler for my cpu but i dont know the good ones from the bad ones. Could someone point me in the right direction ? I would prefer a closed loop cooler as i dont really want to have to maintain a custom one. I was looking for a corsair cooler but there are lots of...

Hello, This is a very strange issue and I have never come across anything like it before. I have installed Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition from a disk onto my PC (less than a month old) and when I launch the game, it will detect my hardware settings as usual and set them to Ultra High. Then...

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/LRQkmG this build feels right but it feels like i am spending way to much money for this build.i do want a high end pc. i do plan on sli in the next 2 years or when my fps is lacking. i do plan on ocing my cpu only to 4.6 maybe alot more.but i do think 4.6 would be the...