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I have 2 old hard drives which i think are about 10 yrs old, haven't been used for at least 5, was gonna try to repurpose them but my computer doesn't recognize them. I have verified the SATA/IDE to USB 3.0 is functional. Pic of one of the HDD: https://imgur.com/om1FdOf

My Acer Aspire ES1-432 is charging but won't turn on. I already take out the battery and press power button for 30sec an isn't work. Need help please

I was installing my Arctic Alpine 64 Plus onto my AM4 board. However, the instructions neglected to tell me to loosen the screws on the cooler before locking the hatches into place on the motherboard. Before I realised this, I ended using a lot of force/pressure trying to fit my cooler. I...

so basicly should i upgrade from a gtx 980 SC to a 2070 or 2080ti, im planning on getting a new gpu but im not sure whats better without spending too much and/or whats the performance diff. thanks!

Recently i bought new Mobo: Gigabyte Z370-p. After the first boot there was a static noise. When i move my mouse then i makes strange noise. Tried booting to BIOS, no static in there. There is static in my mic also. I tried all the tips, but nothing helped. Grounded pc, soundcard, new Psu...

Hi. Im using AMD A6-5200 but it doesnt have virtualisation. What do i need to do? Do i have to change the processor? Please provide me a better solution. Thanks

Hi. I have a ga-ab350n motherboard, which has one CPU fan slot and one system fan slot. The problem is I have 5 fans and an aio water cooler. The way I currently have it setup is I have a powered fan hub going to the CPU fan slot, and all five fans and the water pump connected to that. Is there...

Hello everyone, I currently have an fx-6300 with an r9 380 2gb and 8gb of ddr3 ram. I have problems running my favourite games at 1080p at decent settings. So i would like to upgrade to perhaps a gtx 1060 3g or rx 580 4g. The problem is, that to run games like bf1 and bfv(in the future) i will...

Motherboard is not using all my RAM properly. I have two sticks, one eight GB and one four GB, the MB detects both, but only shows that 8192GB is available, however, when booting into Windows, it only uses 4096GB. They're run in single channel, and have the same clocks (halved though, out of my...

my laptop is acer e1-572g with amd radeon hd 8750m and intel core i5, when i played games, it only shows i have intel hd graphics (in the game settings).i have tried the common solution "got o gpu settings, set to high performance" it just wont work. help please!

Before traveling to my vacation, i was using the dvi port on my 1070 founders edition then i started using hdmi. then i came back from my vacation i tried using my dvi port on 2 different screens it didnt even detect them, so i said why not try it using hdmi port, and it totally worked both of...

So... noe day i tried to turn on my computer, then the power went out. After blowing 5 fuses I figured that it was my power supply. So since I wanted a new psu fast. I bought one from a friend, but when I tried plugging it in to my pc I noticed that it didn’t have enough cables. The psu is a...

I would like to build a new gaming pc for last longer . My build is okay or not for gaming ? Sory im newbie Cpu - I5 8400 Gpu - Gigabyte gtx 1060 6gb wf oc Mobo - Gigabyte b360m aorus gaming 3 Ram - 8gb ddr4 2666mhz hyperX fury Hdd - 1tb seagate barracude 3.5" 7200 rpm 64 mb Psu - Evga...

[PCPartPicker part list](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pMWZXP) / [Price breakdown by merchant](https://pcpartpicker.com/list/pMWZXP/by_merchant/) Type|Item|Price :----|:----|:---- **CPU** | [AMD - Ryzen 3 2200G 3.5GHz Quad-Core...

I have an I5 7500, 16bg ram at 3400mhz, gtx 1070 on a gigabyte ga-z270m-d3h mobo. My storage is a 1tb hdd and two 500gb ssd's. I have everything in the phantek enthoo case cooled with be quiet fans/cpu cooler. This is all powered by a be quiet 600w 80+ silver psu. I can run all my games at...

Hello. About 7 or 8 days ago, I was playing Rainbow Six Siege. During the match the game froze. I went into Task Manager to end it which removed it from my screen but the process did not end. Other processes could be ended. Then I noticed any program I run wouldn't open. Even a mp3 file...

I already have a nvidia gtx 1050 and at the time wasn't aware that my CPU wouldn't be able to fully utilize the new GPU. I asked a friend what cpu could my computer handle and he recommended I get a new motherboard and CPU and even found what he thinks would work for me. CPU...

So, recently i started to have a problem with pretty much installing anything on my pc. It always gives me an error message with SPFILEQ.dll is unable to run or it contains error. Ill appreciate any help and i am sorry about my english ;)

Same as the title asks, I'm building a new computer and with the soon release of the 2080 I was thinking if its going to be better or not then the 1080ti, I have a 27", 165hz monitor and I'm not sure which one would be better to give me maximum frames. If you have any info regarding which would...

[Moderator note: Edited post to break up "wall of text". Moved post from Memory to Systems.] Hello. a little back story. the ssd is already 1 year old and was used in an another intel based PC. My hdd is form and old lenovo laptop which i didnt use anymore. Now i have upgraded my build to...

GPU=GTX1060 6GB RAM =CORSAIR 2400 DDR4 12GB I3-6100 is b250 provide in more fps ?

So I have an Old Tower, I want to slap all of my ISOs on it. And be able to boot from it over the network and choose which one I want, is it possible?

E.g. https://www.ebuyer.com/769693-msi-geforce-gtx-1060-6gb-gddr5-oc-v1-graphics-card-gtx-1060-6gt-ocv1 Does this have a reduced lifespan compared to an untouched 1060?

Just did a hard drive write/read test and it gives me these results... In games such as fortnite when i put my settings on max i get lag spikes but no FPS drops.

Hey everyone so having an issue with my pc restarting on me whenever i try to play a game. Never had this issue up untill i moved about a week ago and now kust non stop restarts, my motherboards has tried to do auto repair but to no avail it couldn't even find an issue. I'm wondering if this...

My friend has been having a quite annoying issue with his system for a long time, it started happening a couple months after he built his computer, when his mother board died for no apparent reason and he got it repaired by some repair shop, his old power supply apparently broke too and got...

Hey guys, Am currently in Canada where the standard voltage is 120 and I live in Australia where it's double that at 240. I've seen some wired PC headsets recently that are substantially cheaper than back home and was looking at getting one and bringing it back. I know that if I plugged a...

monitor :asus vg248qe Gpu: gtx 980 so whenever i try to change my refresh rate to 144hz i get green lines/pixels, i figure this is because im using a dvi d cable and the 980 uses dvi i. So my question is if an adapter from dvi i-dvi d will work with this situation?

A few days ago I got a blue screen. It sayed something along the lines of unexpected kernel mode trap. I ignored it and kept doing my daily stuff. Today I was simply browsing the internet, no games open, no other applications that take power open. I clicked to open s new tab and bang, blue...

Once the bigger update came in May ( can't remember date ), i have experienced fps drops in every single game and i have spent so many hours trying to fix them. Ill list things i have tried below. For example in CS:GO i have usually around 250 FPS then it drops to 10-40 FPS. These happen 1-3...

A lot of people seem to have different opinions on "how to overclock". The most popular is: "increase it little by little until it crashes or artifacts, then decrease" Isn't overclocking until a crash or artifact terrible for the card? I'm not gonna lie, I increased by card's clock a little to...

hi so I feel like I've picked the right CPU, mobo, and RAM for my PC and wanted to see if they would work together. AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Processor with Wraith Spire Cooler (YD1600BBAEBOX) MSI Gaming AMD Ryzen X370 DDR4 VR Ready HDMI USB 3 SLI CFX ATX Motherboard (X370 GAMING PLUS) In Stock...

My sister has an old Dell Inspiron 660s from 2009. I am trying to help her upgrade it. I was looking at just upgrading the GPU to a low profile GT 710 but I realized that i'd probably be better off upgrading the PSU first (as it is a crappy 220w PSU). I found this PSU on amazon and wanted to...

tldr: I've been using an old HDD that I ripped from an old pre-built. I don't have a copy of an operating system, but I have the key to this one. How do I transfer to a new HDD? My current hard drive is failing, and I'm going to buy a caviar blue. I don't have a CD for the windows 7 on this...

I'm currently with Sky and pay for Broadband speeds of up to 52mbps. Unfortunately I am only getting speeds of 0.10mbps though for some reason. Even Google is taking up to 10 minutes to load, which is just ridiculous. It seems even slower than dialup. I'm using a wireless usb connector to my...

Good morning, I'd like to know if it is possibile to upgrade an Asus X53SC (the one with GT 520M) which has socket HM65 from pentium B950 to an i7 2760QM. Socket looks the same and I'm quite sure that heat will not be a problem. Are there any reasons to think that it won0t be compatibile or I...

Hi there, yesterday my computer started to have issues. When I turned the pc on, the fans would come to life and the computer would start, but none of the peripherals would turn on. I waited for 5 mins to see if anything was happening, but nothing did. I turned it off and then on to see if that...

Hi guys so i made a custom built PC like 4 months ago Specs: I7 930 2.8GHZ 16GB ram(1x8)(1x4)(2×2) MSI's AMD RX 560 4GB DDR5 OC edition My friend got an I3 7th gen 3.9ghz, a gt 1030 2GB ddr5 and 8GB of ram, and he scores higher fps then me almost double fps on all even tho my gpu's benchmark...

Looking at upgrading my PC wondering where to start or to just start with a brand new PC. It’s a 2012 build so is getting on a bit now, it still holds up on most medium setting games. Just looking for a little more... I’m running: i7 2600k CPU 8GB Corsair vengeance DDR3 ( 2x4gb sticks )...

So when I turn on my desktop computer, it says, Alert! Keyboard initialization failure. Alert! Air temperature sensor not detected. Alert! Cpu 0 fan failure. Alert! Hard drive fan failure. To continue press f1 key. To change setup option press f2 key To run on board diagnostics press...