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Hi guys I just recently upgraded my PC with new parts (i5 9600k, RTX 2070 super, 16GB DDR4 RAM and gigabyte z370p d3 motherboard. However after playing games (forza 4, battlefield 1, witcher 3) for a varied amount of time the game will crash and so will the computer itself which requires me to...

I want to reset windows to factory default to help speed my pc up a bit. having some problems after a cpu install, and I have tried everything so i figure a windows reset needs to be done as another option. my pc is slow to begin with so i need this anyway. the email that i use to log into my...

Ive have added 16gb of ram (2x8) to my already existing 16gb(2x8). they are all COSAIR VENGEANCE LPX 16GB(2X8GB) DDR4-3000. I added for a game cities skylines as my RAM was topping out all the time (96%). But now after I installed the ram my pc seems to lag my game was getting as low as 8 fps...

Hello everyone, So I've had this laptop (Asus Zenbook UX430U) for about 2 years, rarely using it for the past 1,5 years. I'm starting a new project with it so I wanted to give it a factory reset to get rid of anything I won't need. So that's what I did but when I powered it on afterwards it...

so i messed with the voltage settings and when i restarted my pc noting showed on monitor, i then decided to reset CMOS by taking it out, i unplugged pc and took CMOS out waited about 5 minutes and put it back in. Still nothing on monitor, im thinking the problem is that when i first got my PC i...

ok sorry I know nothing at all about pcs so I don’t even know if I’m in the right category fam but basically I tried turning my computer on today and it started up with “preparing automatic repair” and then went on to “Diagnosing your pc” which then takes me to a blue screen saying your pc did...

Hi to all! I'm new at the forum. I hope you can help me with this issue that I have. OK, here's the situation. My PC freezes randomly along with a buzzing sound coming from the headphones during about 3 seconds until it stops. When this happens, I can't do anything except hard reset the...

My case only has a power on/off button. There IS a reset button, but I have to OPEN the case and press it (it's on the motherboard itself) which is not ideal. I also don't want to unplug my computer from the wall and plug it back in, too much work. There is no I/O switch on the PSU either sadly...

Hi, I'm trying to 'reset/format' my computer, drives and reinstall Windows 10. This would be my first time doing so, I want to make sure I don't make a mistake that I'll regret later. I downloaded Media Creation Tool and installed it into my 64GB USB Drive, and I placed most of my backup...

My chromebook has been reset several times, nice joke :) . How to prevent this?

Hey everyone! I’ve been having this issue for a while. My BIOS flashes a blank screen for about 30 seconds before it even shows the windows logo. I’ve reset it but it hasn’t helped. It’s an ancient board from 2011 or 2012 so there might not be a fix. Here are the specs: ASUS M5-A99X EVO r1.0 AMD...

Hi everyone, So several days ago, I built a new game pc. It seemed to work fine and I updated the Bios first and after that, I installed Windows 10 from USB. The next day, I downloaded some programs, like Office 365, Spotify and malwarebytes. My pc got a blue screen for the first time and...

After being recently hacked by a scammer claiming to be from OFCOM, I was recommended to factory reset my PC. I tried this via the windows 10 "reset this PC" setting, but it got hung up at 22% before stopping and notifying me that it couldnt delete all my personal information. After this, I have...

Hi guys, i built my PC about 2 years ago and it was OK since couple of months ago. The problem is every time i turn it on ROG logo Shows for couple of seconds and restarts itself and then ROG logo again and it boots up windows 7. I have tried to set BiOS to boot up with difrrent devices and even...

Is there a circumstance where a DSL modem/router (Actiontec PK5000) could - without being hacked - block access via both the custom admin logon and SSID password? In other words, it had all the symptoms of changed passwords without undergoing a reset. Hacking was my immediate conclusion but the...

What do you guys think the problem is? Whole PC froze, mouse wouldnt move, couldn't bring up task manager, i then held down PC reset button and power didn't go off. This might be related that 1 of 2 monitors wasn't coming on but it had power and when i checked display settings on my other...

So my computer has gotten a bit wonky so I backed up all my files and I plan on factory resetting my PC. However I got a new 500gb 860evo SSD to use as a boot drive and want to use my previous boot drive as a storage drive along with my old HDD. How can I do this if I want to wipe all my...

I did a clean wipe of my pc through windows and clicked on wipe everything completely. However, I was loading one percent every 5 minutes or so but it has been stuck on the MSI Resetting this PC 21% loading screen for about 2 hours. It is a custom built PC, I do not know how to check if the HDD...

I've been struggling with a crashing issue for what feels like a year. I've been putting it off since it used to be random and very infrequent. But it has finally progressed to a point where the problem is repeatable/testable. Where I'm At My PC crashes every time I power on. It happens...

This is catastrophic and I am freaking out, Removed. I had a 10-second power outage last night, and now my Seagate Business Storage 4TB NAS which contains my entire life and business’ worth of every single imaginable thing seems to have big problems. The fans are running at a super high RPM...

I bought a used pc for 200£ with windows pro already installed but it wasn't activated and im paranoid that if i reset my pc, will my windows license reset as well?

I need help desperately I reset my computer and I made a windows 10 usb recovery and I start to recover but right when it hits 75% it fails and says it has ran into a error no changes has been made. Is there any solution?

Okay, so I will make it as specific as possible. I wanted to preinstall a PC, I made a bootable USB flash drive, then I entered the BIOS, but the UEFI utility was Asrock which I've never seen before. I tried to make the settings to boot the Windows 10. I but the flash drive on first place and...

Hello! A friend of mine gave me an old Pc that he had laying around, the specs are: MB: Asrock 775i65G CPU: Pentium D 805 RAM: 512MB DDR400 HDD: 80GB SATA So.. What's the problem? I don't know.. The motherboard POST fine, I can access the BIOS and change things and all that stuff perfectly, but...

Somehow my computer seems to have gotten a powerful virus and I have tried every damn thing I can to reset the computer and reinstall windows and just have a fresh wipe. Nothing has worked it keeps getting blocked saying can’t run this program or it will just kill the process. Any ideas on how...

I wanted to do a complete reset of windows (i chose the option to "delete all files"). I started the reset and everything was going fine, but now its been stuck at 47% for 5 hours, its a 1TB HDD where only 150GB were filled, the screen is still active with the loading dots going around in the...

I installed Ubuntu in my laptop, I got rid of Windows 10, and Linux is the only OS in it now. If I do a factory reset of the laptop, will I get windows 10 back? Or, even if it came within the laptop, it is gone forever now?

Hello, so basically I was trying to get my new gpu to work, and I’m doing so I went into bios and changed from igd (integrated graphics) to pge (the gpu) but the gpu didn’t work, so I just got black screens. Since I couldn’t change back without going into bios cause of black screen, I tried to...

I have changed my chipset settings from bios from INTEGRATED GRAPHICS -Auto To INTEGRATED GRAPHICS-ENABLED after that pc resolution got less and i was unable to get in bios again and now my pc is not booting please please please please help me

So I have the same problem as the guy in this thread: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/reset-my-pc-now-i-have-no-hard-drive-space.2889729/ Kept personal files, but deleted everything else when given the option of resetting my PC. But I still have the same amount of Hard Drive space...

Every time I turn on my computer from being off, I am subject to my computer freezing for a moment, then resetting itself. I can have it mid the first game of League I play, but after that it will be fine to go as long as I have the computer on. I don't imagine this is a temperature issue given...