Tech advice

I have a Asus TUF B360m plus motherboard and a i5 9400f. I need to update the bios so the pc can recognise the cpu but how do I do that if I can't boot. The motherboard doesn't have a bios flash button.

About a week ago I had my ISP come out to install fiber lines for gigabit internet. They ran the lines fine no problem (however they are still above ground in my backyard and have yet to be buried, said someone should be out in around 14 days to bury). It has been below freezing point past few...

I'm having this issue in Civ 6 where every time I perform some sort of action (i.e open a menu, order a unit to do something, etc) I experience a freeze for a few seconds and then the game just runs normally afterward until I do something else. Moreover, my game takes substantially longer to...

Has anyone attempted to remove a damaged 1R0 inductor from a GPU before, and if so, what method did you use? Was it successful? I’m going to be attempting it, and want to know if there’s a best practice. some disclaimers: this will be on a GPU that I got for super cheap second-hand, mostly...

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...

Whether on low or ultra all games run around 58 fps with a slight micro stutter. Even when i try to cap the frames higher there's still two less frames. I tried capping it at 62 but it stutters really bad. I have this problem for all games no matter what quality. As far as i know there's no...

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...

Parts are Ryzen 3600 CPU MSI x570 motherboard XFX Radeon 5700xt Corsair Vengance LP 32 GB (4x8) Seagate Firecuda 2TB 7200rmp Hybrid Drive Western Digital Blue 500GB m.2-2280 ssd Seasonic Focus Plus Gold 650W Full-Mod ATX Power Supply ASUS VG248QE 24.0" 1920x1080 144hz Monitor This is my first...

Just like the title, my computer runs fine, but for an "x" amount of time it will automatically shut down most of my applications in use. With me trying to reopen said applications and never really opening like they did before. But to open properly it would require a simply restart and...

After installing the XFX 5700 XT a month or so ago, my computer has been giving me many problems. The first frustrating problem I encountered was considerable stuttering, frame drops, and crashing to the point that games such as R6S and BO4 are entirely unplayable. This is still going on and...

Specs: Motherboard: GA-Z87X-D3H Processor: i-5 4670k @4.2ghz Ram: 8gb ddr3 2400mhz PS: antec true power 750w Video: evga 1070SC Sound: SB X-fi xtreme Gamer Mouse Mx-518 (original) Keyboard CM Storm Quickfire So here is my issue. My usb ports appear to be randomly dropping. The most obvious...

edit new build getting bsod clock watchdog timeout. New freezes potentially unrelated to last build. Hi all, I've been having a consistent issue with my pc where it freezes during Windows updates. I thought it must be processor or even motherboard so they have both been replaced, ram too...

Hello Tom's hardware community. I recently had encountered a problem with my system. When I launch csgo a least graphic intense game title, my CPU peaks at 100% and studders. On top of that my SSD when loading goes to the 80% range. Here are my specs Intel Core i3-8100 PNY CS900 SSD 128GB GTX...

This has been happening for about a week or two now and it is really killing me. I will start a game and then I can get through the loading screens most of the time but after like a couple of minutes of gameplay my game will freeze with some audio still going. I can't alt-tab out or ctrl alt...

I have a budget of 130$ dollars. I bought the Dell for 170$ and it's specifications are: i5 - 3470 @3.2GHz and can be clocked up to @3.6GHz 8Gb ddr3 RAM and can be maxed to 16 275 PSU I was thinking of putting in a 550 psu and then putting a 1050 ti maybe? I also heard you can roll with a GTX...

Ok this is a really confusing situation for me and I don't know if it's a virus or Spyware or a Trojan or what's going on It's not only been on my computer but has found it's way to my phone, computer, and laptop This has been happening off and on more than once In my life as well What will...

So around the end of march I started having an issue on my pc that at first only affected games, but then spread to even videos or even just browsing it seems. Before that my computer ran completely fine. All of my video will "hitch" every few minutes about 2-5 times in a row, audio keeps...

Hello People of Tom's, Since Saturday April 6th I have been getting blue screen of deaths including "system Service Exception", "Memory Management", "Critical Structure Corruption" and "Kernel Security Check Failure". These BSOD don't just happen when I turn my PC on but while I'm gaming. While...

I have an ryzen 7 1700 and 16gb of ddr4, Im planning on using the PC for VR Gaming and 3d modeling, as well as game making and regular gaming..

As posted in the title, after I bought the new graphics card, on first boot the computer boots fine to windows you can use it for a bit but then BOOM!! it freezes and then i have hit the reset button and after i reset it, its fine after no freezing or any issues for the whole day maybe weeks...

Every game I try to play simply crashes to desktop, It really is that simple. The problem began upon the installation of a new stick of RAM a few days ago, ever since then its been nothing but issues with my PC Specs; Mobo - ASUS PRIME B-350 PLUS(Most recent BIOS/UEFI revision) CPU - Ryzen 5...

I have the Gigabyte Sabre 15 with the i7-8750H hex-core processor. It has cooling problems with the CPU because unless I manually lower the maximum processor state, it will hover between 2.6 and 3.9 GHZ on idle with resulting higher temperatures and noise. If I limit this down to something like...

Hi- I just upgraded my CPU and Mobo, but now I’m gettting the blue screen of death and this message when I boot in Windows 10: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED Any advice? I thought this upgrade would be a lot easier than I thought.

Should I get a gtx 960 with an i3 6100 Or A gtx 750ti with a i5 4460?