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  1. Astronauman

    Question Windows 10 will no longer boot, or even attempt to.

    Windows 10 will no longer boot, or even attempt to. It ran fine and then all the sudden it just wouldn't boot up again Scenario: turns on PC, screen to enter BIOS pops for ~2 seconds (I don't enter BIOS), screen shows no DP signal, screen to enter BIOS pops up again. I've made a bootable USB to...
  2. Obsidian2024

    Question Help. My PC starts with no display, Keyboard or mouse

    My PC got the BSOD and the error message told me that win32kbase.sys failed. My PC wouldnt restart so I did it manually. My PC then crashed twice under normal use and after the second time the keyboard, mouse and display don't turn on. The BSOD screen told me it was just collecting error...
  3. ke5tgd

    Question Video Driver Crash: Windows 10, GTX 970. Looking for trouble shooting advice.

    Hello all, I've have a problem that is resulting in what I believe to be a video driver crash. This is a recurring issue that has persisted over many months and through many common fixes. The Symptoms: Audio glitch, Audio output holds a note or tone for maybe a tenth of a second when the problem...
  4. J

    Question Computer freezes at random, Windows 10 (64-bit) still operating but not fully responsive

    Recently I've started to experience strange behavior - at random my Windows starts to stop being fully responsive. Sometimes it does not happen for hours, sometimes after 30 minutes other time almost over 2 hours of using the PC before it freeze again. Sound of the YouTube video is still...
  5. KLVK

    Question pc won’t boot after clicking restart

    pc won’t boot after clicking restart will go to restarting page and just shuts down running Win 10. Checked all front panel connectors, and also tried hard resetting the pc , hard resetting the bios also still won’t restart. Using Ryzen 7 3700x,2060 super, aorus X570 elite and 850w psu(gold)...
  6. A

    Question Laptop not recognising USB headset, not installing drivers ?

    I recently bought a new ROG Zephyrus G15 GA503QM laptop and when i try to plug in my Hyper X Cloud Alpha S with USB it does not recognise it at all, like no Windows prompt or anything. The small dongle thing gets power but the normal hyperx devices dont show up in device manager or in playback...
  7. TheExperiment01

    Question "ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED" on various sites and I don't know why ?

    So sites like https://www.fnb-online.com/ and https://www.ea.com (specifically when I click login for ea). I've tried everything I can think at this point, different browsers don't work (other devices on the network work), firewall turned off, updating drivers, clearing cache, using google dns...
  8. X

    Question Geforce GTX 750TI 2GB video card: Searching for Win 10 x64 drivers

    Hi, I have a Geforce GTX 750TI 2GB video card which I have been using with Win 7 for video editing. I am trying to find a Win 10 driver for this card for an upcoming Win 10 x64 install. Searching on the official NVidia website www.nvidia.com, is met with no hits and the response: "No certified...
  9. C

    Question Kernel-Power, Event ID 41, Task Category: (63)

    Hello, I’ve been dealing with this Critical error for quite some time now. The issue only happens when I’m gaming and at completely random times. Sometimes I’ll go weeks without getting any, and sometimes I’ll get four in one day like I did the other day, which finally prompted me to create...
  10. N

    Question saving my windows environment

    My boot drive is reporting it has raw file system (instead of NTSF in Win 10 Disk Management) and will not boot. I have a spare boot drive so the machine is up but it does not have all of my most current environment. I can see all the files on the bad drive with several disk management...
  11. bishoukun

    Question Clipboard is spontaneously adding a text string ?

    Hello all, I've been a lurker for years, and you lovely folks have solved problems I haven't found answers to anywhere else multiple times. So, with this issue nowhere to be found even here, and persisting to more than six months now, I decided to just go ahead and be the one to ask. What's...
  12. 1Reality1

    [SOLVED] Stuck on BIOS Screen - Won't Boot to OS

    Monitor went into "Power Saving Mode" while I was sitting at the keyboard and actively using the PC. Shortly before the happened, there was screen flickering and going black - and it came back from that a few times; until it didn't anymore. After trying a couple things, I reset the CMOS and...
  13. H

    Question My computer suddenly restarts while browsing, gaming even using MS Word.

    My system unit/computer has been randomly restarting while browsing the internet, while gaming, and even while using MS Word for the past week. This is really frustrating as I do my projects writing on MS Word, research on the internet, and play some games on the side. My Memorytest result(pass...
  14. Colif

    How To Identify what Device a Driver is used by

    There are plenty of guides out there showing how to find a driver for a device, but what if you have a driver running and don't know what its associated with Download and run Driverview - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/driverview.html All it does is looks at drivers installed; it won't install...
  15. B

    Question Dual boot Windows 10 and Fedora on Laptop with SSD set to MBR

    Hi All, I'm looking to set up a dual boot between Windows 10 and Fedora, but my SSD is set to MBR. From all the videos I have seen, when creating the bootable USB using Rufus, they all set it to GPT. In my situation I'm guessing, I would have to set it as MBR. Will doing this cause any issues...
  16. G

    Question Why is there a problem with OS everytime I install

    I have formatted and installed windows so many times in the last few days due to some error or glitch. Sometimes the WIndows Start Menu won't open on pressing the Win key, other times many parts of control panel won't directly open give the error " The item you selected is unavailable it has...
  17. T

    Question Corrupt HDD cloning issues

    Experienced PC enthusiast here, looking for advice on what to do here. I'm trying to clone my mom's old hard disk (upwards of 8 years old) onto an Nvm-e. Every time I try it, my progress stops at about 40% and will not progress further. I left it overnight and still no luck. I tried defragging...
  18. Xpoes

    Question restarting windows 10

    Some programs on my system occasionally freeze. I then close them with the task manager and restart the PC. When I restart I get the following message: "Closing 1 app and restarting - To go back and save your work, click Cancel and finish what you need to do". The app that needs closing is "t"...
  19. leolulu

    Question Need Help with annoying Stuttering Problem

    Hi everyone i hope someone can help me with this problem, example: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joizk-d2jSM its not my video but its basically the exact same i have, latencymon looks like this View: https://imgur.com/a/4CeH0Or it seems the "Current measured interrupt to process...
  20. wabale97

    [SOLVED] I'm installing windows on my new SSD, What will happened to my old HDD data?

    I think unplugging the HDD before SSD windows installation and plugging it back again will be fine. Need to confirm this as I never have tested this. Also, what will happen to the C drive on HDD as there will be a new C drive on SSD now?
  21. G

    Question Start menu slow to respond to keyboard

    I have to press the windows key 3-10 times for the start menu to open. Keyboard works fine(checked online ). The menu opens just fine when I click on it to open. The RUN function using WIN+R keys works everytime, but when taking screenshot WIN Key+Printscreen key ,shot is taken but earlier it...
  22. breezett93

    Question Trying to implement dual-boot with two drives, Win 10 and Win 7. Keyboard/mouse functionality gone on the Win 7

    I bought an ssd from someone with Windows 7 on it. When I initially connected it and booted to it, my keyboard and mouse were working. I then started installing the chipset cd so that I could get networking etc to work. Install needed pc to reboot. After rebooting, keyboard and mouse stopped...
  23. Rosales

    [SOLVED] New Samsung 980 SSD keeps crashing while playing games ?

    i bought a new samsung 80 SSD recently and clean install win10 on it. It works normally when i do nothing but keeps crashing and restarting like every 10 mins while i play games. It just freezes for 5 sec then reboot the pc. I tried reinstalling win10 and updating my drivers nothing works. Any...
  24. S

    Question Dual boot: main drive no longer bootable

    This morning my dual boot pc (Win 10 & Win 8) decided to stop recognizing the Win 10 drive as a bootable device. If it's first boot device in bios I get an endless loop of restart/BSD error 0xc0000001. If I put the Win 8 drive in first position it boots up and I can see all the files on the Win...
  25. S

    [SOLVED] How to stop Windows 10 defaulting to Microsft Edge for things like "Windows Help" ?

    Hi this is probably a common question but I couldn't find the answer, How do I stop windows using Edge to open the internet for help etc. Example: when I accidently click on the little 'help' question mark at the top right of an explorer window (see pic) it will open the relevent webpage in...
  26. W

    Question Does anyone have a clue as to what is going on?

    I've looked everywhere and I can't find the specific issue that I am having. My windows 10 PC starts up fine, but a few minutes after I log in my monitor goes black. The PC stays on and I can't wake the monitor up or anything. The only thing I can do is force shutdown or hit the reset button...
  27. H

    Question Blackscreen after choosing Safe Boot from msconfig

    I tried to boot into Safe Mode to uninstall drivers using DDU because i had issues with game drivers but everytime I tried to access Bios or Safe Mode, it showed only blackscreen. Windows was booting without any issue. So, I changed from “msconfig”, boot option to “Safe Boot”, and then after...
  28. Lucasff

    [SOLVED] BSOD "The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.

    So i build a pc in the end 2020 and i change a lot of parts but i got a problem that happens about once a month eversince i build it, already made several clean installs but nothing changed. PC runs fine no real BSOD but when i turn it off it reboot and create a minidump, and then i can turn it...
  29. N

    [SOLVED] Outlook Mail telemetry

    I have an Intel desktop with Win 10 Pro and the MS Office Suite which includes Outlook. I recently began a trial of Eset security software and set it to require my permission to scan any outgoing mail communications. These are non-"send" functions that seem to be triggered by various security...
  30. rulaeer

    Question Constant crashes and BSOD in Win 10

    Hi guys thanks for watching this. I am encountering this same problem for more than a year that is my PC crashes constantly (sometimes twice in a few minutes, sometimes one in a month). The log of the recent two crashes are (sorry some of the words are Chinese, pls let me know if you need a...
  31. D

    Question Win10 won't boot if I add second HDD

    This is a first for me: Just did a major upgrade on my roommate's computer (CPU - Intel 11th Gen/RAM - 16GB/Mobo - Gigabyte Z590 Gaming X/Storage - 2TB Firecuda NVME). I installed Windows 10 on the new NVME drive, no issues, even after several reboots. When I try to add one of his old SATA...
  32. B

    [SOLVED] I've been having Blue Screen issues for a number of days ?

    Hello, I've been having issues with various blue screen crashes for the last couple of days. My PC was running fine a few days ago, then it started off with one blue screen crash which progressively got worse until I am completely unable to use it. I first updated windows which did not solve the...
  33. Konstantinpoliteskai

    [SOLVED] How to check if my machine has 3rd party remote access software installed?

    Hi I work in Software Development Company (a startup) in Nashville Tennessee. Our head office is in NYC. We have only two offices the one I work in Nashville and NYC. In Nashville office, we have total staff of 20, about 90 % are developers with one System/Network administrator. Let’s call him...
  34. AvgAmdUser22

    Question Pc wont load windows

    Please help i am at a loss. Was gaming one night and bsod. M2 drive stopped booting into windows. Could not recover or reinstall. Managed to install on new 2nd ssd. Worked ok for a day then bsod. Tried third ssd and w ould not load windows. Went to pc shop. They tested all drives, ram etc...
  35. H

    [SOLVED] Take out NVME SSD (Win 10 OS) from old PC – install into new PC (different hardware) and USB boot with Win 11 license for inplace upgrade

    Intention: Move from old PC (Z170,Win 10 Pro on M.2 NVME SSD) buy a new PC (12700K with Z690) and put the old NVME on motherboard of new PC. I would like to avoid that I have to install on new PC all the software again, licenses, settings, games etc. which will cost me at least 2 days...
  36. odenl0

    [SOLVED] NVMe Not Recognised when SSD Removed

    Bought an NVMe SSD and installed it on my pc which initially had a SSD. While i had my windows installation on the SSD, i installed win10 on the NVMe aswell so i can easily transfer key files from one disk to the other. Ive been using my NVMe win10 installation for over a month now and decided...
  37. blue_rays

    [SOLVED] What's the last partition on my SSD?

    Hey there, My (mx500) SDD is fully partitioned by Windows 10. Recently, I noticed that there is a 509MB partition at the end of my drive. What's that? Can I merge it to the last partition? image: View: https://imgur.com/dG7r5Xo My other question is about the free space remaining on my C...
  38. Jlhc0505

    Question Why is my new PC build freezing & crashing ?

    Hi everyone, First of all sorry for my English. It is not my first language. I built a game pc early this month with these specs: Cpu: Intel Core i9-12900K 3.2 GHz 16-Core Processor MB: Asus ROG MAXIMUS Z690 HERO ATX LGA1700 Motherboard GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB SUPRIM X Video Card...
  39. Herc1

    [SOLVED] What kind of issues can a clean windows install NOT fix?

    Hey, I have a question regarding software issues that could persist after a clean install of windows. Certain apps has stopped functioning, and everything I have tried, including doing a clean windows install have failed. Is there something I can do to fix software issues that doens't happen...
  40. elbot7

    Question Win10 BSOD when start up chrome. KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED & DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION

    Hi experts, I've been having BSOD since a week ago and I can reproduce it quite consistently. It happens when I tried to use some of my chrome profiles or use the chrome starter. I have no problem starting chrome from other profiles. This problem happens both on a clean and my main profile so I...