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    [SOLVED] How to install Windows 10 on unsupported chipset? Dell Precision T3500

    Hello community, I have a Dell Precision T3500 running Windows 7. I want to format it and install Windows 10. However, I am unsure about what to do with the drivers situation because my PC only supports Windows 7 drivers. Now the model of computer I have is really popular so on benchmark sites...
  2. S

    [SOLVED] How can I stop win10 from auto restarting after update

    Basically I left my PC be and went to sleep and multiple times I wake up to a login screen. I know it is not system crashes because reliability monitor did not show a crash but shows updates. And in the advanced options in windows update, all the options are off. But it still restarts in my...
  3. K

    Question Boot time became slow on SSD

    Greetings, I have 480gb kingston ssd. Bought it about a half a year ago and since then it also became my boot device. After migrating Win10 from HDD to it, boot and loading times were 3x faster and was quiet happy with it until about last month or so. For some reason, boot time became very slow...
  4. U

    [SOLVED] Multiple random BSOD

    get multiple BSOD daily. Or i can go days without getting one. It doesn't matter if my cpu or gpu is at 100% or at 10%, I still get BSOD. The majority are the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL, but I also get: KERNEL-AUTO-BOOST-LOCK-AQUISITION-WITH-RAISED-IRQL ATTEMPTED_EXECUTE_OF_NONEXECUTE_MEMORY...
  5. A

    Question system not booting suddenly

    Hello guys I have samsung evo 970 m. 2 drive I addition to 2x 2b sshd firecuda Every thing was fine and working perfectly One of my sshds health was very low and i replaced it with newer one After removing dead sshd and connecting new sshd system suddenly not booting even when i connected...
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    Question New build wont boot after it ran the first time

    I just build a new pc and everything was starting fine for the first time. Played some games and shut it down. Wanted to start it the next day but now it automatically restarts after i get the win10 screening with the loading dots underneath. You can see the screen for about 2seconds and then it...
  7. _dawn_chorus_

    [SOLVED] OS install from 1703 usb won't update to latest version?

    I have a windows 10 USB I bought during the 1703 era so any time I use it I have to sit through all the updates since. No big deal, I have used it several times on old systems with imbedded windows keys to wipe them clean. I just did this again for the first time in a while, putting an ssd as a...
  8. R

    [SOLVED] PC during Windows 10 update

    Hello, There is a new Windows update for my computer and my PC had to update twice today. The first time I updated it I clicked update and restart, and it restarted my pc after the update. I didn’t use my PC for about an hour, so it was idle. But then, I was finishing some work, and it said to...
  9. S

    [SOLVED] SSD disappeared from boot-menu after testing "boot from DVD-only"

    Hello, hopefully I can still get things together right, as this is really getting me to my limits for the last 48 hours. My MSI H81M-E34 doesn't boot from anything anymore, doesn't even recognise the SSD anymore. I m ending up in UEFI shell or nothing. Had a dualboot Win10/Ubuntu which I...
  10. AaronBerry

    [SOLVED] Wifi network adapter stopped working

    The wi-fi adapter on my mother's laptop, just stopped working. I got a message that the drivers were out of date, so I had to get on my laptop to download the drivers. I copied the download to a SD card, and then transferred the card to her laptop. I then ran setup and installed the updated...
  11. wkwallst

    Question Win10 Sleep/Start Screen

    I know this maybe a silly question, but it bug me. When I logon from sleep mode I get a travel post card image/picture. I then have to click this to go to log in screen. Is there a way to by pass this and go direct to log in?
  12. terrormiah

    Question Thinkpad x1 carbon SSD stuck in write-protect mode

    Okay, so, for the last couple of days I've been trying to salvage the ssd in my mom's 5th gen X1 Carbon. She told me that it stopped working back in feb after an update. My assumption is that the computer died or was turned off during the update but I'm not sure. Anyways the issue is now that it...
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    [SOLVED] Bug in windows search

    hello folks! so there is a problem with my searching bar "right of the start icon in the desktop" in the windows explorer searching is doing well! but in the search bar of START, its like my keyboard is not working in there! and another question this problem is related to that "index thing"? or...
  14. C

    [SOLVED] Win10 randomly freezes

    Hello everybody, as I said my pc started to randomly freeze or even give bsod. It's been happening for the past 3 months. Sometimes it happens as soon as I get to the desktop, sometimes after I open chrome or discord, sometimes after 5 mins of playing games (different games too). Sometimes...
  15. AtotehZ

    [SOLVED] Network drive in Windows 10

    Hello everyone, I need to set up a network drive that can be easily accessed on my local network. It will be set up on a Windows 10 pro server that's on 24/7 and has to be accessible from both Android, Linux and Windows. What is the best way of doing this? Back in WinXP I had no problem with...
  16. AtotehZ

    [SOLVED] Installing Win10 on secondary drive while booted up.

    Hey, I'm having an issue with a mini-pc. It won't install Windows 10 when booting to a USB for some reason. The temporary solution I've found is to take an older drive, install windows 10 on that on my main desktop, plug it into the mini-pc, boot up. (The older drive couldn't be installed from...
  17. Z

    [SOLVED] Pc starts and shuts it down itself randomly

    From day to another I heard at night my pc starting itself, i turned it off, then after 30 minutes it started itself again, so I turned off the extension cord. I used to put it in sleep mode a lot. In June sometimes it woke up from sleep mode, after I shut it down every time and unchecked all...
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    [SOLVED] B450f windows 10 crashing, then nvme failed, now vga light on.

    Hi all, I've been having an insane amount of issues with my most recent build. After getting everythingworking for the first time yesterday, every reboot, windows would fail to start like 5x in a row saying it was missing a different driver every time. Once I got windows up everything was fine I...
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    [SOLVED] How to access old Win XP drive with security settings ?

    Some time around 2008 or 2009, I decommissioned an old HP tower PC and transitioned to a Mac. I copied over the files I wanted and backed it all up to an external drive. I removed he hard drive from the unit and bought a USB enclosure for it so I could access it in the future. Fast-forward a...
  20. Jerry03

    [SOLVED] Laptop black screen after clean install Win8.1

    My Laptop: Samsung Notebook Serie 3 300E5C S04 Info: The Laptop has a broken screen so I need to connect a monitor or tv. Yesterday I started my Laptop and it worked. I can login and so on. Now i wanted to make a clean Win8.1 install or Win10 because this was the Laptop of my sis. But I wasn't...
  21. _dawn_chorus_

    [SOLVED] Will Win7 computer with embedded key update to Win10 with USB?

    My Dad has an older computer that came with Win7 installed and I was going to stick my Win10 USB in and update it. I have been able to update several devices that came with Win8 originally this way and their embedded Windows Key works to activate the new installation of Win10. Will this work on...
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    [SOLVED] Few keys not working after some time in Win10

    Hello All, I am getting a strange problem in Windows 10. Few keys stop working after sometime of windows login, may be 10-15 mins. Those keys are totally non-responsive. Keys include - left ctrl, del, F2, num5 [numpad keys work fine] etc. My windows is up to date with all patches installed...
  23. _dawn_chorus_

    [SOLVED] Can I run Office (paid) on an unregistered copy of Win10?

    Will I be able to register my copy of Office on an unregistered version of Win10?
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    Question Laptop most of the times doesn't recognize HDD

    Hello, so I upgraded my laptop with SSD and I put HDD in place of DVD ROM. Now most of the time my laptop doesn't recognize HDD. Sometimes hdd make very short sound like he is gone boot. HDD work fine when I connect him with usb. My ssd has similar problem when I connect him on same place, but...
  25. S

    Question UI Lagging while 6% load cpu and 3% load gpu

    Hello, so I was playing Hunt Showdown and my pc started behaving strange. I dropped from 60 fps to 22 fps and the gpu load also dropped in the taskmgr. It was like the whole PC stopped for some ms and then worked perfectly again. Soo I wiped the ssd's and installed win10 fresh. The problem was...
  26. Nori-Gin

    [SOLVED] Extremely low frame rates when running 32 bit games.

    So I have been trying to play Saints Row 3 on my WIN 10 computer. Specs : Intel I7-8750H Nvidia GTX 1070 16 gb RAM Whenever I open Saints Row from steam Im asked to choose Direct X 10 or 11 or Direct X 9. Of course I ve tried both but have the exact same result. My frame rates cap at 4 FPS...
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    Question Lost In Internet connection every minute

    Hi everyone, I have recently realised that when I surf on the internet or whatever I do in computer, it reconnects again again. So I have checked event viewer to see whats going on. Simultaneously I have looked exact time and event that happen and I have found correlation. The problem is the...
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    [SOLVED] Installation lag and slow running Win10.

    I just built a new rig and I'm having problems running Windows 10. The problems persist both in installing it and running it. During the installation process pressing a button or selecting option from a list is very slow. It might take several seconds before anything happens. Typing things on...
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    [SOLVED] Strange annoying os problem

    So I have a strange issue with windows 10 since upgrading to my ryzen 7 3700x. current specifications are - ryzen 7 3700x Msi mpg edge gaming WiFi voard 16gb Corsair vengeance 3200mhz ram 2x8gb Rtx 2070 super pny xlr8 tri fan 650w EVGA supernova g1 psu Bx500 crucial ssd Seagate barracusa...
  30. wabale97

    [SOLVED] Is there any way to disable a key on keyboard?

    I want to disable some keys on the keyboard that I rarely use but hit accidentally from time to time. (Also I want to disable backspace to force me to increase my typing accuracy)
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    [SOLVED] How to speed it up? SO SLOW, fresh install

    Just reinstalled win10 after forgetting my other password. HP 15-AY039WM Zapped the partition and installed win7, then did the upgrade to win10 which the laptop had, and it was amazing, all automated, set it all up. But its SO SLOW now. Open task manager, memory 85% disk 100% all the time...
  32. Heskeli

    [SOLVED] SOLVED: Intel Gigabit PCI-e adapter not working

    Hey people, I just purchased a brand new PCI-E Gigabit adapter from Intel https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/network-io/ethernet/gigabit-adapters/ct-desktop.html But Im having a hard time to get it functioning, will I get it? The card is installed to mobo and if I connect ethernet...
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    [SOLVED] New PC reboots after a while

    I have a new PC with the following specs: Intel Core i3 8100 MB Asus H310 Plus R2.0 RAM 2x8GB 2400 Mhz Apacer SSD 240GB 300W Power Supply. Windows 10 Ent V1903 Jun 2019 The PC randomly hangs several minutes after booting. Up to now three different situations happened: 1- Screen freezes and the...
  34. R

    Question Dual 1080ti make win10 very unstable and not responsive

    Hi guys, I got some problems with my set up. I have 2 Asus Rog Strix 1080ti, I have tested them on my pc and they work good. and also test in 3d mark, give me 10000+ score, and everything works perfectly, but when I stack them together, the win 10 system became very laggy, not responsive, and...
  35. Aidan B

    Question [BSOD Loop] MSI GF63 8RC-248US "PAGE FAULT IN NONPAGED AREA"

    I just started having that problem last night, but my MSI laptop keeps having this BSOD. I recall it first happening when I plugged in my charger, and it seemed to immediately BSOD. I let it restart, thinking nothing of it, but then it will boot, let me open some files and such a minute or two...
  36. D

    [SOLVED] Display fixed at 640x480

    I had a new PC delivered today. Win 10Pro 16GB. I can't afford a graphics card yet so I am using the Intel GPU on the CPU. I have this desktop PC connected to a 6 year old Dell 1920x1200 monitor via a Display Port cable. It's working fine in all ways except for the display resolution which...
  37. manistar

    [SOLVED] Right click shortcuts doesn't work in any app

    Hi, I have this problem in my new and old one laptop. On the beginning, I would like to say, that I've did a clean install of Windows 10 on my new laptop. In old one is problem gone, after reinstall Win. So, when I do a right click on any app (system - like windows file explorer; or apps like...
  38. Theoderic321

    [SOLVED] Win10 on ssd how much space should I leave free?

    Q1: So I got my Kingston SA400 with win 10 installed (and some other programms), how much free space should I leave free with my OS on the drive ? Q2: I also have another 120 Gb ssd where I install games on, how much free spacec should I leave there ? Any help/tips would be appreciated a lot...
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    [SOLVED] Video lag in WIN10 only fullscreen inside the OS

    So my videos are all lagging around the OS, (Windows Media player and VLC (I use these only )) inside the win10, but if i watch something online in a browser everything is fine... The vide in the OS is starting normally and around 2 seconds it starts stuttering! ( I updated the graphics driver...
  40. afzal108

    [SOLVED] I can't delete Windows.old with Disk Cleanup, help!

    Hey guys, I need help with deleting Windows.old folder (+30GB) from my lappy, did follow some steps and ways from forum (any, I took this one - https://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-delete-the-windows-old-folder-from-windows-10/ ) but it didn't really help much, because I noticed something is...