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I want to buy a laptop that lets me disable the battery when I have it stationary and connected to an external monitor at home....and also lets me turn the battery on when I want to take out the laptop with me... Are there any particular brands or models ? it should also meet the following...

I installed a new GPU about a month ago, and recently have been having issues in game (WOW). I don't know if it's a GPU issue or not. The screen will flash for a few seconds then stabilize. I'll go from 160 - 200fps in game to 25. I attached a video I took of what happens. System: 8700k...

Hi everyone! I'm encountering a weird issue here... I have and Alcatel-Lucent G-240W-A optics fiber router. WiFi and LAN used to work as intended until yesterday. I can't get internet access on any device except my android phone. Ethernet cable to laptop or desktop doesn't work either. There is...

So I recently have been having a problem with my G2. Yes, I know it’s an old phone. But it was working perfectly fine a few days ago. There are no cracks, damages or anything on and inside the phone. It’s in perfect condition. So the problem is that there is a perfect row of the top part of the...

I am wondering if I am able to mix match my ram sticks as my motherboard has 4 ram stick slots and I have 4 ram sticks one being A 2×8 DDR3 1600 1.5v:https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B006YG9EEW?psc=1&ref=yo_pop_mb_pd_title The other being a 2×4 DDR3 1600 1.5v...

I have an HP Pavilion laptop, and recently installed the Windows 10 Creators Update (not that I had a choice). After the install, when Windows booted up, I found that my keyboard and touchpad would not work. I have a wireless mouse that I use with it anyway, and that works, but I can't get an...

I was looking at pumps for a new liquid cooling build and came across this one. Swiftech maelstrom d5 x200/x300: http://www.swiftech.com/maelstrom-d5.aspx I can't find any reviews on it anywhere, they seem to be too new and I don't want to take a risk if I have to, especially with the price...

When booting my pc, it posts, shows the bios flash screen, then begins to load windows, after it goes from the windows logo and loading animation, to just a loading animation, the screen goes dark. I am unable to perform a system restore, both times I’ve tried I get an error (0x80070780)...

I have a Asrock B250M Pro4 motherboard with Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 2400 UDIMM (PC4-19200). I ordered extra RAM which is a Samsung DDR4 2400 (PC4-19200) aswell but DIMM instead of UDIMM. Will these two RAM sticks work as dual channel on my motherboard?

Hey everybody, my buddy wants to double the amount of ram he has from 16gigs to 32 by adding a second dual channel kit. When he went to buy a second kit he found that the model of ram he currently has is not produced any more, the question i have is would it be a problem to just add a similar...

I build my own [Windows 10] PC about 2 months ago, i didn't have any problems the first month but i recently have had a lot of freezes. When it freezes i can't do anything, the only way to get out of it is to hard restart. I have tried almost everything i could find like updating the drivers...

So this might be quite a long explanation because there seems to be quite a few things wrong with my system. A few months ago I upgraded my stock cooler to a cooler master evo. However when installing it I must've plugged the pins in backwards because the socket started smoking. I assumed the...

Newegg and amazon links only. Motherboard price range for me 70-80 Case price 40-50-60 Thanks

I'm trying to upgrade a friends graphics card and PSU in this refurbished Dell Optiplex 790. Using a thermaltake 600W smart power supply, and a Radeon HD 6850 graphics card. I installed the power supply, plugged everything in, and then the graphics card right after. There wasn't a whole lot to...

I have an HP Pavilion dv6 3033-sa with a broken battery and it won't boot up. The problem persisted for at least 6 months now. Before it would boot up after reseating the ram or holding the power button for a minute. After a while, we sent it to the repair shop but they said that the problem...

Money is not the issue, I can pay however my area does not have fibre which will allow me to have very fast internet. I need 25mbps atleast because of 4k, but where I live in the UK the companies are not yet ready to install their fibre wires in our area yet. Is there any way around this? I have...

Can someone please link the bracket I need to upgrade too. I have the Thermaltake pacific DIY 360 currently equipped to a ASUS ROG Crosshair formula z board with an AMD 9590. I am now upgrading to the Ryzen 7 1700and Giga B350 MOBO and want to keep the loop I have but need the correct bracket...

So i have this western digital wifi with videotron. And i checked on my 192.168.1.1 and each 40 minutes the connection time goes back to 00 days 00 hours and 00 seconds. It's really annoying and apparently i'm the only one in the family who experience this on my DELL Laptop. Sometimes i just...

Newbie question here I recently bought a masterbox lite 5 case which dont have top or bottom fan slot.(i use 3x120mm in front as intake and 1x120mm in back as exhaust)i use id cooling sf 12025 RGB as my fans will it affect my component(video card,cpu,mobo,HDD,SSD,etc)temp drastically or just...

Is anyone else having issues using USB gen 2 external enclosures? I use many different external enclosures on many different host mobos or host PCIe cards, using many different cables and many different HDDs, SSDs, and many complete "bought" external devices too. They mostly have "A" plug at the...

My PC suddenly have this stuttering problem. Like for example, when I move my mouse to the left, the cursor would go to the left but there's a slight delay, it skipped the animation of the cursor when it moves and it happens a lot. Also, I get audio stuttering when this happen. My CPU temp is...

i wanna choose between these two cards and i wanna know which one is better? -Gigabyte Aorus Xtreme GeForce GTX 1060 6GB...

MY gtx 970 was okay for certain months,but recently it started by refusing to display anything when i turned on my computer,I can clearly hear everything running but it wont display,the solution to this was sometimes leaving it off for a while or plug in a hdmi and it would turn on,then it...

Hello. I was in my bios changing some stuff And I accidenetly did something with Chassis. Now I cant load the PC And cant get Into the bios because I have a Intel storage thing coming up but Thats fine. Anyway I always have to get to the bios after that screen but now I just go straight to this...

I just ordered a gtx 1070ti and already have a gtx 1070 Can I SLI them?

I was using my PC when I got a BSOD and I had to force shut down. When I turned the PC back on I got ‘windows failed to start due to a recent hardware or software change’ and the error code ‘0xc0000185’. In BIOS, my SSD is no longer detected. I’ve tried power cycling it and after I did that the...

Hello, my HP stream laptop will not do anything. The screensaver is on the screen. I can login. The HP logo will come up, then nothing. And it keeps saying error and can not reset. I have no recovery cd/DVD, but I do have 2 Hp laptops with black screens. Help!!

I haven't used iPhone for a couple of years. Since the launch of iPhone 8 I want to get back to the Apple world , especially because they don't take iPhone 6S off the shelf. It's of the best value in my opinion, compared to that of 7 or 8. However, I have one concern, that is if it will get...

Is my GPU in the wrong slot? Why doesn't it say my graphics card is running at full potential? https://imgur.com/XU8WTaL Link to my HWiNFO

I came home one day and the power had been out. My computer would not turn on, it played a number of beeps which I looked up and determined the video card was bad. Once I replaced the video card, it would turn on, but it took close to five minutes to go to the first screen. From there, the...

Hello im looking for a motherboard with dedicated gpu onboard uAtx, micro Atx or Itx. It must have 2gb at least of dedicated memory.

Finished my first build today, but it won’t boot up. The fans and lights all come on, but no display and also no lights from keyboard or mouse. Any help would greatly be appreciated, thank you! Specs: Asus PRIME H270M-PLUS Intel i5 7600k Evga GeForce GTX 1060 6gb Corsair H100i V2 Corsair...

hello all after various threads and advice I have hopefully come to my final build. This is for my son for gaming with a budget around £750, although it will have 1 monitor to start with for games the plan is to get a 2nd monitor for things like skype , spotify, youtube. It would be nice if it...

Hello,This is my first post on tomshardware :wahoo: I would just like a HDMI to VGA Adapter for my monitor...I'm planning on buying a gtx 1050 2gb as my monitor's max res is around 1440x900 and the gtx 1050 would be a massive upgrade over my current gpu...also buying a extra 4gb ram stick to...

Hi, I have just replaced my old (MSI) R9 270 with a (Gigabyte) GTX 1050 as the old R9 270 died. After the replacement, my PC starts crashing randomly (gaming, surfing the internet, or during start-up). It shutdowns by itself randomly and sometimes it gives a continuous buzzing sound+the last...

I'm using a Lenovo laptop with Windows 10 installed and this morning when I logged on my keyboard started acting up. After using a keystroke check it seems that the keyboard is simultaneously pressing a bunch of the top row number keys and a couple number pad keys as well as some random other...

I am looking to create a new account onto a network of a Windows XP computer. What would be the best way to do this?

I currently have a Xeon X5670 with a GTX 1050 Ti 4GB. Performance w/ a 200MHz core OC and 500 MHz VRAM OC is decent (~55 fps in Fallout 4 on High.) However, it really isn't that big a jump from my old GTX 670. I'm considering moving up to the next tier of performance with a 970/1060. I can get...

I was looking into buying a new 1440p - 144 Hz GSYNC monitor and I was wondering if it would be worth it at all. I don't really know if GSYNC would be any good if I were to run a game at say 60-90 FPS. I have a GTX 1080 and a Ryzen 7 1700. So I'm not really sure if running lower frame rates...

Hello, I own my PC since about 2008, but upgraded the GPU, ram, SSD ans such. My build in general is: i7 860 @ 2.8GHz Sapphire R9 390 16GB Ram DDR3 750W Of course, the oldest component is the CPU (and motherboard). On GTA V for example, on max settings in most options, I get 25FPS avg (more or...