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Approximate Purchase Date: November 2022 Budget Range: Around 500$ (Hoping to find a good deal for black friday/cyber monday) System Usage from Most to Least Important: GAMING, also do a lot of school work as well but I got this pc for gaming. Are you buying a monitor: No, currently have LG...

Whenever I turn on or restart my PC I am always met with the same screen/message and it always resets the BIOS settings. If I change the settings, F10 to save, then go past that raid configuration pop up screen again and press f8 to bring up bootable drives and boot into my windows drive then I...

So I am having quite a peculiar issue here. So when I download something from Steam let's say a game, it downloads that game but all the other devices that are running on the same wifi lose their internet connection. I have never seen anything quite like this. It's important to mention that if...

My pc got some weird virus that eats up c drive space and i wanted to install windows to solve that but i just discovered my dvd drive doesnt work anymore. Its an old pc and the dvd drive hasnt been used for ages. I cant download the windows installation media from microsoft web due to low space...

Motherboard : Biostar A320MH BIOS : 5.14 Processor : AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics RAM : 16 GB DDR4 DirectX Version : DirectX 12 SSD : WDC WDS240G2G0A-00JH30 Problem: PC started freezing on boot. Changed CMOS battery. PC still Freezes on boot. It says CMOS fail in the American...

This is my second PC where the audio has crackling and my microphone has a constant whining sound. When I got this new PC there was no audio troubles but my computer would have random stutters and I updated everything from the BIOS to the drivers, even doing a fresh windows install which now...

I never used this dvd rom before and now i am trying to install windows 10 from a disc. But i cant find the correct way to insert the dvd. There isn't a holder in the center like the most of the laptops dvd rom has where the disc easily sits. There is no such holder in the center and i also...

I've had my PC for almost 3 years now, but in the last 2 days it has been crashing and now I can't even boot up a game or web browse What's happening: 1. I First noticed 2 days ago I left my pc on while I left the room foran hour and when I came back it was off, after turning it on it looked...

Hello! Around a month ago now, I built a custom built PC with new components ordered online. Ever since building it, I have been having issues constantly with the computer. Usually, it starts with a game repeatedly crashing (this happens randomly from 10-60 minutes into a game, and happens...

Few days ago (16days ) while i was gaming (specifically opened Destiny 2 game) the Pc freezes and i get BSOD showing watchdog Violation! after that i ran Scandisk got no error and since then it never happened again, until today, i was again structed with the same error massage and BSOD, not once...

Hello everyone i hope all of you are doing well I have a weird problem in my MSI Leopard GP66 gaming laptop The problem is suddenly my laptop starts to act weird. I run a game and i get like very low fps and when i check GPU usage it says 97-100% I tried different methods to try and solve it...

I visited a website called processchecker.com earlier which seemed a bit dodge to me, I didn't download anything but I am a bit of a noob and am worrying whether just by visiting a website it can cause a virus or malware on your system? Thanks! I have Chrome up to date and have anti-virus installed.

Hello, I recently built a PC and everything booted up and ran correctly, but I've been running into some issues playing games. I will post the PC specifications at the bottom. Whenever I am playing a game, the games will crash periodically anywhere from 5 minutes in, to a few hours in. With...

Hello, I need help. bascially my pc just powered off one day / with no display randomly while using it. I tried turning it on again but nothing worked i removed the reset switch on the motherboard then it worked for a day or so but now I see no display, no power to my keyboard or mouse BUT the...

Hello, I'm hoping for some advice. As the title suggests, I have a strange issue with my system. Last week while playing a game, my computer randomly crashed. Over the weekend it progressively got worse to the point where it would crash anytime the drivers for the GPU got updated. Thinking it...

I was wondering whether anyone else has experienced this problem and has any advice on what to do, (if anything). I’ve had my PC for four months now or so and everything works well overall, but tonight for the 2nd time since owning when I booted the PC it went to the ‘choose an option’ page...

PC Model: Asus Rog Strix GL12CX Motherboard: 60PD02P0-MB0B04 Old RAM: Samsung 8gb x 2 2667mhz New RAM: Crucial 16gb x2 3200mhz I previously ordered ram for this PC a month ago, but it would only run at 2133mhz, and games ran pretty badly compared to my old ram (I upgraded from 16gb to 32gb) So...

Hi! I am thinking about upgrading my current system to a 13th gen CPU (And with that, my graphics card) but I realized that the 13th gen will be the last gen supporting the socket LGA1700, making me doubt in buying a whole new motherboard with no ability to upgrade later down the line without...

My PC stopped working in the morning. Day before my PC died, I have used it normally, everything worked fine. Then next day, in the morning, my PC did not want to turn on. Like there was no power in it at all. First I thought my PSU died. I changed my PSU for the new one, but nothing. Pitch...

My MSI Mag X670E Tomahawk WiFi is sometimes showing a yellow DRAM light. Of course, I can not continue setting my PC up with this issue because sometimes I don't even have a graphic signal to my monitor when I reboot the system. I have two DRAM5 modules. I tried a single module separately in...

Hello! New here. Just built my first PC for my kid—all brand new parts. Everything rans smoothly; he didn't have any issues for over an hour. I asked if he tried ARK: Survival Evolved yet, so he boots it up, plays for a minute and the computer crashes. Whenever I turn on the PC, the CPU, PSU...

Specs : Motherboard : Asus Ex A320M Gaming CPU : Ryzen 5 3500 PSU : Circle CG Raw Power 550W 80Plus White GPU : Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti RAM : Corsair Vengence 2*8GB Previous thread : https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/three-year-old-system-acting-weird.3812286/ If a mod sees this post kindly...

Hey everyone, I would like to upgrade my system from 2016 in the following months, towards the end of this year to be precise. I would love if I dont have to change a lot of hardware to save some costs. I will game on this machine and I do sound processing in Ableton from time to time,nothing...

Long time user, lost old profile... But could use some help. I remember the prebuilt system lists that have this the best place for computer information, and I also adored the best GPU in each price range articles. Please help me with suggestions for anything that you think can help my...

Hey, I've built a new pc with mostly new components. The only old ones are the ssd from the last system. The motherboards shows light, but after I press the power button the fans will spin for 2 seconds and stop. I checked all the power cables, plug out and in the RAM, CPU and GPU. I am...

Edit: Problem fixed, it was a faulty/broken 24pin cable, never seen that to be wrong... Fresh new build, I'm not certainly new to building. Specs: MSI PRO Z790-A WIFI i7-13700KF Kingston Fury 32GB 6000MHz kit ( KF560C36BBEK2 - 32 ) MSi Ventus 3x 4070 AORUS modular psu AP750GM 2TB M.2 from...

Does anyone have an idea of why when I press the mentioned key above that it sends: \ - enter all at the same time. It's very annoying... it's acting more like a function key of somesort or keybind. I've checked the driver/firmware all seems to be up to date. Keyboard is a Logitech G213...

Recently my pc has been crashing where my monitors both turn off, i still hear audio, then after a few seconds all the rgb in my case turns off other than my ram, and then the ram and fans act like they're working until I hold the power button. Happens normally when in a game or something...

Hello! so essentially i’ve been unable to boot at all for the past couple days or so, i’ve had this issue in the past and resolved it by getting a new ram kit but there was nothing wrong with either kit as they are both QVL certified and both full memtest86 ram on them, but here i am again I’ve...

Hello, I'm experiencing rather unusual issue where my new PC cannot proceed with the installation of an OS. After I finished building PC, first configuration loaded correctly and BIOS works properly. I've created Windows 10 installation on a USB drive, but every time I tried to open it, it froze...

So my pc has been having some werid issues that started with a failing m.2 ssd which has been replaced but while that fixed alot of issues have still been having problems, after many installs of windows 10 still been having issues and lots of blue screens even during windows just downloading...

So my PC restarts randomly and I don't even see any BSOD, sometimes it resets on it's own but 90% of the time it freezes with a black screen and then I have to hard reset it manually. I have done all the things, each and every threads solution from reddit and from other threads as well. None of...

Z490 AORUS XTREME Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900KF CPU @ 3.70GHz, 3696 Mhz, 10 Core(s), 20 Logical Processor(s) 1863GB Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB corsair vengeance RBG Pro Ddr4 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (MSI) AX850 - 850 Watt 80 plus I've been having this problem for a few weeks now and I...

Hey all, Long time no post! I do really like this site, its forums and community though. Looking at some thoughts on a build I am putting together for my buddy just wanting to update an old build that has a GTX960 in it. He just basically wants awesome gaming at 1080p without showing off...

so recently i had re-installed windows on my pc and in doing so i had to reformat my drives from gpt to mbr cause it wouldnt let me install windows on it unless it was mbr but found out that it had to be gpt when windows was installed so i used the built in MBR2GPT.EXE to re format it to gpt and...

Hey all, I've been having a ton of issues with my rig lately. I was wondering if there was a/some recommended programs I could use to check the health of the various computer parts. My specs: -GPU: EVGA RTX 3080 -CPU: Ryzen 5800x -Motherboard: MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk -RAM: 32GB (16x2) of G.Skill...

Z490 AORUS XTREME Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900KF CPU @ 3.70GHz, 3696 Mhz, 10 Core(s), 20 Logical Processor(s) 1863GB Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 2TB corsair vengeance RBG Pro Ddr4 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti (MSI) AX850 - 850 Watt 80 plus Been having this problem for a few weeks now and I have...

Having a serious and consistent problem now with my PC On Idle, with no youtube etc... PC can go to sleep and not wake up unless I manual restart. Alternatively, it will just freeze the screen and need a hard reset to be usable again. When gaming, it can disconnect random USB ports and create...

Hi everyone! I built a new PC about a month ago and have been experiencing some crashes while gaming with this error being thrown: dxgi_error_device_hung I understand that this is related to the GPU hanging and Windows issuing a reset of the GPU driver. Specs: MB: AsRock B650 PG Lightning...

Before i get into the preamble of what lead up to this, I just want to clarify that for the time being I *just* want help getting my display working again, the rest can come after. Here are the components I'm using, except the case is different. I have a 2-monitor setup and about a week ago I...