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I upgraded my friend's dell Inspiron 15 3573 from 4GB to 16GB of RAM. It has a single RAM slot, and I made sure it is also DDR4 SODIMM. Now, the PC won't turn on. It receives power as indicated by the white light at the front, but it does nothing when I press the power button. No fans or...

Hi. I recently bought a Corsair RM850X Shift from Amazon and installed it. I began noticing the coil whine. The coil whine is present at all times, even on games and on idle. View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EKc6FRZ8a2M View: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7nzkxhh8NWw View...

i bought a NuPhy Halo75 V2 Keyboard, an MX Master 3s Mouse, and an Arctis Nova 5 Wireless Headset in Hong Kong, and I was just wondering if they will still work when I move back to the US ?

I got a new computer and I hadn't tried playing Elden Ring until today. My old pc never had this issue. But whenever I try opening Elden Ring, it also has the EAC, and when the bar for it finishes to 100%, it gives me the BSOD. I tried reinstalling the game, and it gave me a "disk write error"...

Can someone please help me i just installed a new gpu (gtx 560ti) and it starts up then monitor gets no signal, after 3 times it puts me in the advance start up. startup dosent work i already tried command prompt also i have a i5 2320 so i have intergrated graphics and it works perfect on there...

When I boot My computer up everything turns on, fans spinning, including gpu. When I plug the hdmi into the gpu it shows on my monitor that it's getting power but not getting a display, everywhere I look tells me to boot into bios except I cant.. because it doesn't display (Nvidia 3060ti)

I wasn't sure where to post this thread, I couldn't find a category that fit. Anyway, I wanted to know the easiest and fastest way to share pics on Toms. I uploaded some to imgur and then when I tried to post them in a thread I was creating, it just kept telling me an error has occured. Contact...

I tried many things! Reconnecting keyboard, resetting computer, uninstalling apps, but to no avail! Is there any way to fix this? i ran an app in german called upgrade process, for the K556R keyboard, it looked like mine so i downloaded the program, ran it and now it has the configurations of...

Hello, I have a game crashing to desktop issue where my games freeze, depending on the game I see a error that says that my GPU device has been lost, in event viewer I see event id 4101 and in reliability history tool I see livekernelevent 141. Specs : GPU - RTX 2070 Super CPU - i5 8600k RAM -...

Hello, ive got this issue lately, whenever i boot to windows 11 i get a bsod Error code : Bad System Config info - when i force shutdown the laptop to get to recovery, or even when i try to boot to safe mode i get this bsod Error code : process1_initialization_failed

If my system runs on 300-400 w, can I get a 600w? or will it harm the components

the touch button is working like a power button when the pc is turned off and when it´s turned on does nothing ! never seen anything like that , well maybe because of my lack of experience but anyway , what the hell is that button suppose to do ? It´s doing what is suppose to be ? Image:

As the title says, I am constantly getting blue screens, or black screen crashes with some graphics still showing followed by restarts, when playing games. I did previously post on the Windows forum, but the person who was helping me stopped responding. They had me update BIOS and motherboard...

So i have formatted my ssd from raw to ntfs. After that i reboot my pc from restart pc and after that my ssd have formatted itself back to raw. If i just shut my pc and then open it, nothing happens to my ssd format. I tried to chkdsk /f and /r , but it didnt help at all. I also tried to...

Hello!, I want to buy a power supply but i have quite a few options here. XILENCE XN053 | XP600R7 600W , VER 2.31, CE , P.PFC Deep Cool|DE600 | 600W Zalman ZM500-XEII (500W) 83+, 230-240V Could you tell me which one is the best here? all of them cost the same, i have only these 3 options, I...

Hey, I've been recently experiencing random game freezes and slower load-ins into games. The game used to freeze randomly anywhere from 4 - 15 minutes and would force me to exit out of it and restart the game, sometimes even freezing my Start button so I would have to restart the computer to be...

Hello guys. So basically my pc is slower than a month ago. Normally I have +- 100 fps on Ultra in GTA 5 but now the fps is around 40. On people playground I had +300 fps when there are +10 npc on the map. Now I have +-50 fps with 5 npc. My specs: I5-9600K RTX 2070 SUPER 16GB RAM 2X8 2TB HDD...

We’ve been building a platform for graphic designers to import and edit creatives with open-source creatives. But recently, we observe that if we have too many creators on the platform, at the same time our platforms tend to crash. We’ve tried upgrading the server size and everything, but it...

Hello, recently there was a power surge/power outage and my after that my laptop stopped working. I googled it and tried some methods where it says that the battery may be a problem or the cables but it didn’t work. Took it to a guy to see it and he said the problem is at the chipset and he...

Hey guys. I just built my pc yesterday. It was running fine for that day and today until it randomly shut off and gave me an orange dram light on motherboard after trying to boot it back up. I have tried: reseating ram, booting with one stick, trying the possibilities of my 4 ram sticks in 2...

Hi, My Dell Chromebook isn’t charging. It also isn’t turning on because it’s out of battery. When I plug it in the charge light comes on for about a second but then turns off again. I have tried the charging ports on both side of the chromebook and have tried multiple plug points. Has anyone...

Hi, I’m currently thinking about buying a used PSU from Fractal Design, Fractal Design Ion+ 860 Platinum. Apparently some cables are missing, but I don‘t know if they’re essential and I have to buy them for my build afterwards or if they’re unnecessary. My build: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 Nvidia...

Green screen tearing, color shifts, and crashing at seemingly random times, like stated above. So far only during gaming seems like all games so far. I've used DDU to re install graphic drivers. Now none of the RGB on the board is working including the G skill sticks. Any solutions? I9 10900k...

So, I ran games perfectly no lag nice fps before i factory reset my pc, i recently reset it and im getting random lagspikes, in CS, overwatch, even though i get 300+ fps, its super annoying Cpu: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz Gpu: GTX 980 RAM: 16 GB VRAM: 4 GB All my drivers are up...

Hello everyone, I was wondering if there are any CPU, RAM, HDD, etc. manufacturers out there that make these components in the US instead of China? I'm most curious about AMD because I know Intel has multiple manufacturing facilities right here in the US.

Malware? On my previous thread https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/im-having-a-few-problems-not-sure-if-i-should-make-a-new-thread-for-each-one.3615133/ I shared some problems I had with my CPU Fx-8350 And I was told that the symptoms were Indicators of malware. 1 YouTube video started...

A couple of days a go, my pc wen't from 75 fps in all games at ultra settings to almost 60fps in ultra settings (55). The issue startet suddenly started and i have no idea why, i booted my pc normally and then everythng was slower. I have tried to updtate the bios and overclock the gpu but...

Some of the apps on windows are blurred for me for some reason, I use 125 scaling which is marked with (Recommended) I am on a 1920x1080 laptop. What can I do to fix this? I have tried the built in troubleshooter with no success. Some apps which are blurred: When I download something and it...

Hey. So theoretically my pc should run majority of the popular games pretty well but it just doesn't. I have the most stuttering and freezes out of all my friends although I have better specs than some. I think the parts worse than them are RAM and CPU. But they shouldn't be that bad...

Hey, so my PC has been running pretty badly lately. It often crashes and performs really bad even on games that shouldn't be hard to run. Also stuff like webpages often lag even though I've got ping and download speed. Apparently my specs should actually be decent and shouldn't have any problems...

I just bought a new gtx 1660 and an i7 4790 to replace my old i5 and 970, after i upgraded i cant play any games, i get errors like render device lost or "gpu crashed make sure you have the right driver" on world war z and sea of thief's. its weird because i can play the new mw with high fps...

This usually happens during a game of league of legends but has also happened when I'm not playing a game/doing anything intensive at all. Sometimes the buzzing continues infinitely with the screen frozen on whatever it was on, requiring a manual restart. Other times it will buzz for 2 seconds...

Hello Last night I switched off my pc and it updated, this morning it wouldn't turn on at all. I did some messing about and managed to get it to turn on but the monitor displays no video input from gpu or integrated graphics. All the fans are spinning and led lights are on. I thought it might...

I had this monitor for like.. 3.5 years? All was perfect, 0 problems but like 30 minutes ago i was playing luigis mansion in this monitor while watching youtube on my secondary monitor connected to my pc... Suddenly some color lines appeared like 1 second and bum, no image, the screen still...

Hello everyone, I was wondering, what features cannot be utilized in an unactivated version of Windows 10? All I know is that the default wallpaper cannot be changed. I've looked up videos with the differences between activated and unactivated versions but the problem is is that most of those...

The issue is only when I play certain games. The ones I've had it do it to up to now Is fortnite (at same point everytime) and the sims 4(random times). This never was an issue till I reset my pc ! Because I reset it I thought it might be an issue with the drivers so I reset my pc again to make...

Hello everyone, In my new config(I've built it a month ago...) , I sadly experience after a simple reboot something is not okay. I checked, and it has turned out that the DIMM slots don't work properly. I've tried all the slots each by each and got always an error code C5 (reserved code) . Only...

Hey guys, i've been having a number of issues with my PC for quite a while and everything i've done so far hasn't really helped so i decided to come here since it's the most advanced place i've heard of. So, starting, i've recently formatted my computer, after doing that, a lot of weird things...

Hello guys I'm author of [link removed] need your opinion about my PC which is heating too much what can i do and could this harm my laptop. It is a MacBook Pro 13Inc i5 from 2013. Haven't never cleaned it. Share your experience and knowledge. Thank you.

My computer has recently been randomly shutting off and when I try to turn it back on, the computer turns on but the monitor says no signal. If I take out my graphics card ans use the on board display it works fine. Specs: Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit CPU Intel Core i3 6100 @...