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I have been gifted a Sony STR-DH540 and I was hoping to get it setup with surround sound. I currently have an HTPC setup that is running on a Intel 6th gen i7 on a super Micro C7Z170-OCE with a Nvidia 1070. I have gotten the speakers setup and they work but for some reason windows is only...

From one day to another I received this error and no game starts anymore. Already tried running them as an administrator. Screenshot

Hello All! I'm running into some difficulty with my computer so I'm going to splurge it all out. Windows 10 Pro: 21H1 CPU: Intel 8700k Motherboard: Asus Maximus Hero X RAM: G-Skill 32GB SSD: 1TB NVME M.2 Samsung Evo 960 PSU: Corsair 750W Gold GPU: GTX 960 / Asus TUF OC RTX 3090 Monitor 1...

Hello, A while back my motherboard died and I took it as an opportunity to upgrade a few components in my device. I ended up purchasing a new motherboard, new ram, and a new CPU. I kept my old PSU, GPU, SSD, and hard-drive, however. Whenever I boot my device it brings me straight into the...

URGENT PLS HELP, my windows keeps freezing randomly everyday since weeks ago, where it feels like my mouse has stopped time. I wasnt gaming, just browsing all the time /online classes. Scenario: Could open running app, but those app are frozen/unresponsive (some can be closed) Nothing happens...

I seem to have issues with one of my drives and I'd like help with next steps for troubleshooting. This is not my OS drive, but a drive I use for media. I'm trying to determine if I can salvage the data or repair the drive. Questions How can I try to salvage the data? What can I do to try to...

My set up is Mb: asus h310m tuf gaming plus Ram: 16 gb 2600 Cpu: Intel core i5 8th gen Windows goes to sleep, fans are running but the power button is blinking as it should. It does not wake up though. So far I have tried : Updating bios to the latest version Disabling and enabling fast boot...

This happens on Windows 10 and now even worse on Windows 11 dev preview. Obvious lag when mousing over interface in File Explorer. The whole interface feels sluggish. I had this problem for a while now. I thought it was my old NVIDIA Quadro 2000 GPU. I recently upgraded to the AMD RX 6700 XT...

Hey there, this will likely be a long post as I am incredibly stumped and do not know what the issue may be. I am running a i7-6800k w/ stock cooler, a GTX2060, 48GB DDR4, all on a huananzhi x99- if it matters. I've been having some issues since about March, small performance issues (lag where...

Hello everyone, last xmas I built my own pc, I got everything brand new except for the GPU, which is the one I had before. The problem I'm currently having with my pc are random BSOD when I turn on my pc and sometimes when I try to turn it off or restart it. These BSOD are totally random, with...

As the title suggests. A USB mic works on every device except my main PC. However, every other usb mic works on my main PC except this particular one. Where do I even start troubleshooting this? I'm using Windows 10. I have tried all the possible USB ports that would normally work for any other...

Ok, esto es lo que sé. Firefox, Chrome, etc., funcionan bien, perfectamente fluido y rápido. Las aplicaciones, como la discordia o los juegos en línea, no se pueden conectar en absoluto. Hemos intentado de todo y ambos obtuvieron los mismos resultados. ¿Un poco de ayuda?

I have a laptop dell XPS 14 l421x with window 10 pro when I restart my laptop window defender it works fine but after few seconds Windows Defender is not working. Threat service has stopped. restart now this warning shown after few seconds I tried to restart the services of window defender...

Hello all, I am a Uni student in business analytics and I need a laptop. I was hopping you lovely people could help answer my question. Should I get a Chromebook or a PC for coding purposes? Which would be better?

My computer was working great. I have factory reset my computer and install driver booster to install the drivers at the beginning. Everything works fine but sometimes the screen looks like on the pictures. I thought the problem was with the drivers so I factory reset again and installed the...

Hello, so I've been trying to access an application but the 0x000007b error is showing up. From what I've found I need to copy a bunch of .dll files to Sys32 and Sys64WOW, but "xinput9_1_0" is the only one that can't be copied. Now I've been searching and finally accessed the ADMIN account(well...

I just built a new computer for a user at work and after building it all the components showed up properly in the BIOS. I set up RAID 1 between two samsung 1TB NVMe SSDs which worked fine but when I tried booting to the Windows 10 install USB it just kept booting to the BIOS. I was trying...

Hi everyone, I recently built a PC for gaming purposes. Only problem is that my PC isn't picking up my headset. I looked online for a solution (did the usual checks) and even asked in a couple other places. I'm running my speakers directly to my Acer monitor to play sound. I noticed that my...

I have gone through many troubleshooting steps the past few days and even going as far as to try and reset my PC, but to no avail I'm stuck with this same issue after a restart or a power on. Steps tried: wsreset.exe Just gets stuck on the window. powershell reinstalling Says "initializing"...

my computer has 128gb of C: drive and 1T of (D:) drive. I noticed when I first got it that my C: drive filled up really quickly and it didn't make much sense to me. I figured out how to direct most download to (D:) but its a little wonky. Every item I put into the (D:) end up on my desktop and...

For some reason, on very certain games, I get an IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD. I have done just about everything I can think of so far, such as updating drivers, running the windows memory diagnostic, checking my temperatures (all of which are quite cool, even under load), and verified the files...

This popped up randomly as I was turning on my computer. I have already tried to fix it from window 10 within the tool section under the property. I believe it is called error checking. I even did this process like 4 times. It will give me the message twice and boot into windows again, so for...

I have a Dell XPS 14 l421x with 500 GB HDD and 32 GB SSD I was thinking that if I will install window 10 on SSD and then later create pool storage by attaching 500 GB into 32 GB is it possible if yes then is my laptop performance enhanced if no then is okay thanking you in advance

So I have a amd fx 8320, pny xlr8 1070, 24gb of ram a evga 600w psu that’s roughly 2 years old and has been used 2-3hrs a day for the past year for gaming and I’m running windows 10 pro.As I’m gaming or web browsing or just sitting on my Home Screen all of my peripherals will just randomly stop...

laptop model Dell XPS 14 l421x Sometimes my laptop does freeze then I thought it would be the window problem then I reinstalled the window but the problem isn't fixed yet then I search google and get answers that the startup program may be the issue then I disable almost all startup programs...

Link I was wondering if anyone knew where this sound is coming from because I hear every so often while on my pc and it's very annoying. I looked through the sounds and didn't find a match there, I downloaded USBDeview to see if any usb devices were disconnecting and reconnecting and found nothing.

Hey! I've been having some issue with a laptop (Acer Aspire A515) constantly crashing, giving the stopcode 'CRITICAL PROCESS DIED.' I was afraid that there was a hardware issue, but the system is stable in safe mode. I'm not very knowledgeable with this kind of thing, everything I've tried...

hi, i'm using windows 10. I want to watch streams when i'm playing games. But i have only single screen. i can pop out the stream in twitch but how do i keep that popped out window always on top so that i can play and watch the stream same time ?

(this is my first post ever) So I guess ill start with my specs Amd ryzen 3100 asus gtx 1650 super asrock b550 phantom gaming 4 2x corshair vengance ddr4 3200 teamgroup 256gb m.2 seagate barracuda 1tb HDD (for a laptop) corshair airflow 175 Now, my issue is that i installed my M.2 wrong when...

When I try to connect bluetooth controller to pc, my TWS sound become disrupted and soon become mute. The controller works fine. Both controller and TWS still displayed as connected in windows bluetooth device. Bluetooth adapter driver, TWS driver, controller driver already updated. My TWS only...

When I play games Borderlands 3 for example at the moment, background programs run extremely poorly. I have a low resource needy game off to the side on another screen that gets less than 1 FPS when I'm not selected on it. When I select it, it goes back to normal and the main game doesnt seem to...

So this is the device: Lenovo y520-15ikbn I tried everything I think. I made a bootable UEFI usb drive with rufus (8GB USB Thumbdrive) with my windows 10 iso I have. I know this iso (with EFI folder) is perfectly fine because this is not the first system I tried to install windows with. I put...

I have a weird issue with my keyboard. I found an old IBM model M like keyboard and I love it, but it's not working on my windows 10 computer. When the computer boot all the lights (Num Lock, Caps Lock, Scroll) turn on and never changed and the keys don't work or affect the lights. My...

I have an BSODs when playing games, the game is stuttering before BSODs appear my spec : Intel Core i5 3570 Patriot 2x4GB RAM (1600Mhz) MSI GTX 1050 TI 4GB ASUS H61M-E PSU 1st Player 400W Bronze HDD 500GB BSOD's showing only when i playing games, on idle or browsing its not. There are 3...

Hey Fellas, First of all thanks for seeing my thread! Now IDK from where this thing came from but every single file on my PC.From my docs to my music, Every single file is just encrypted with this .Wbxd extension, Also in every folder there is this ransom note saying : ATTENTION! Don't worry...

Hello guys, some time ago I made this post "https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/a-lot-of-bsods-and-no-help-from-answers-microsoft.3656321/#post-22033139" which ended in me buying a new hdd to replace my old ssd (wasn't even 1 year old but well maybe was faulty) but I'm getting again lot of...

so I built a new pc and it worked fine... for the first month, now it has random reboots occasional shut downs and this weird thing where windows partially shuts down. an example being a program will freeze and I will ctrl alt delete to pull up the task manage and it will pop out but its...

I stream on twitch and recently I started getting BSoD. I thought I had virus or something so I reinstalled windows. That didnt work... Next I opened my task bar and checked for any high usage programs, the only programs I had opened were google with 6 tabs opened on it. I saw that sometimes my...

After taking apart my system and putting it back together my system will not longer boot to windows 10. Steps I did to troubleshoot so far. Check to make sure the boot order is correct. All drive are shown in bios Holding crtl alt delete Swapping and switching data cables Not really sure...

Hi All, I hope some could help me. I am currently experience Blue Screen of Death on my 6 month year old gaming machine. The specs are below. Ryzen 7 2700 Nvidia MSI 1060 6gb Graphics card 16gb of ram 650W corsair 80+ gold power supply unit B450 aorus elite motherboard. I have reinstalled...