windows 10

I just assembled a intel 12700k pc and everything seems to be working properly as I'm able to boot up into my uefi bios on my asus mobo. In the bios I can see my connected nvme drive, sdd drive and my usb stick. In the boot menu I set it to my usb stick which has windows 10 install media...

For context, we just need it for some software that's unavailable on Linux (anti cheat blocks Linux and the other app has no native port). I currently have Linux Mint on the SSD. I've heard some horror stories about installing Linux and Windows on the same drive together, I have fast boot...

Hello, I am speaking to you here because I have had a problem with my PC for several months, this problem generally occurs after several hours of use. When this happens, my clock at the bottom right of my screen freezes and it is no longer possible to perform any actions on the operating system...

Hello, greetings from Kuwait! I've been using a 10 + years old box with Windows 10 and Nvidia GTX 700 Series display card for last many years and recently was forced to do a clean installation of the OS. Here is how my setup is Sony 65" Android TV. AVR (Onkyo 5.1-Channel Home Theater System...

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well. It is my first post here in TomsHardware, so please bear with me if I did something wrong. Here is the small story of my problem. I recently got multiple SAS drives from a friend, and I want to use them as an external storage solution. I knew that my...

The Bluescreen occurs very sporadically on my Windows 10 desktop computer: Can be twice per day or with two months in between: After it occured I have to do a hard reset. Checking the various Memory dump entries over time showed these entries: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL...

I woke my computer from sleep yesterday and it blue screened. It keeps doing a cycle of automatic repair and crashing with the message bad system config info. It won't let me reset it, system restore doesn't work, any help?

My computer was working normally until I turned it on from sleep and it blue screened. It's now in a constant cycle of automatic repair and it doesn't actually let it repair anything. It keeps blue-screening with the message bad system config info. I don't know what the problem is and I checked...

While playing games or just pressing in regular apps sometimes or very frequently my left click triggers something that is similar to "windows + D" Now i dont have any macros running in the background and ive had this issue with a few different mouses, every setting that is usually recommended...

I'm trying to nerf Windows' aggressive virus quarantine process by setting "Turn off routine remediation" to "Enabled". This does nothing to stop Windows from automatically quarantining files. To add to my annoyance, the same files keep getting flagged despite my selecting "allow" in the...

This is an ongoing problem that pops up quite inconsistently, taking days to resurface. It could therefore take a while before i can verify whether anything that's been attempted works. I'm keeping a regular log of events. What i've got so far is this: Me and my girlfriend have a pair of almost...

I am facing an issue with setting my Windows 10 system to "Normal Startup" in the System Configuration (msconfig) tool. Whenever I select Normal Startup and click OK, the Apply button remains greyed out and unavailable for selection. After restarting my system, the configuration reverts back to...

I'm experiencing a persistent issue with my gaming PC from 2016. Every time I boot Windows 10, I get a blue screen with the error "Page Fault in Nonpaged Area", just before the login screen appears. Here's what I've tried so far to resolve the problem: RAM Testing: I tested the RAM sticks one...

I have the following gaming setup - CPU: Intel Core i5-12600K - Mobo: MSI MPG Z690 EDGE WIFI - - RAM: G.Skill Trident Z 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL14 Memory - Storage: Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SN550 NVMe Internal SSD - GPU: MSI GAMING X SLIM GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER - PSU: Corsair PSU...

I only noticed this when after updating my CPU Chipset drivers, in HWInfo64 that my boot drive was doing a lot of writing while I was monitoring CPU temps. MsMpEng.exe, whenever the PC is idle for more than a few minutes, starts writing. This coincides with the, "Windows Defender Cache...

Hi guys, I'm not entirely sure if this is the best board to post this on, but here it goes: I have a secondary monitor connected via DP 2.1 to my graphics card (rtx 4070) . When I put my computer to sleep, the monitor never exits out of power saving mode. I have to reset the graphics driver...

Hello all, I have a PC with Windows 10 - I was sick and tired of the time the PC took to boot up. As the title mentioned, when the PC is powered on, it hangs on the Asus screen with the dots circling around for about 2 mins, then arrived pretty much on the login screen. Any ideas, or is there...

Hi guys, So I just bought and connected a new M2 to a PCIe slot using an NVMe to PCIe adapter (because I only have 1 NVMe slot already used by my older M2). Now because the PCIe slot doesn't fully utilize the speed of my new M2, I want to clone Windows from my older M2 to the new one, than swap...

Recently i upgraded my motherboard and ram. Reinstalled windows but kept having boot issues with windows. However, its completely random. Most days it boots fine. Other days its stuck circling with a chance of it saying pc needs to be repaired. I thought it was boot loader and found there was...

If you can fix this, I am more than willing to gift someone £5 Steam Credit. I'm hoping Toms hardware wizards can solve this. Had this issue for well over a year now, Microsoft refuses to do anything about it, on any page, Reddit is stumped. I Havent been able to use a computer for...

My pc freezes once or twice per day and I have to forcfully turn off my pc each time and reboot the errors from the event viewers are listed in the pictures bellow : View: https://imgur.com/a/T3la3hg Can you recommand me a good driver scanning software ? My pc is up to date (bios firmware...

Howdy! Just got myself a new laptop and decided to check out the integrated control utility (that looks like this ) View: https://imgur.com/a/FHBybx1 Everything in it works well, the fan speed adjustment, the smart charging, BUT the whole thing crashes when I choose the LED keyboard section...

I just cannot seem to find absolutely anyone who would be qualified to resolve this issue. Please help. Model: Lenovo legion 5 17ACH6H, windows 10 Describe the issue: Task manager constantly refreshes, camera trying to reconnect non-stop. I have been having this issue for a long while now, and...

Hi guys! I've had some real bad luck with my i9-13900k crapping out after a year and a half (BSODs and 100s of thousands of WHEA Error per minute on Event Viewer) and now 3 months into owning my replacement i9-14900k, i'm getting WHEA again but it all seems to be the same exact thing every time...

Hello there, Long time reader / user, first time poster. Apologies in advance as I have tried to read threads that are similar to my issue but I am out of my depth and don’t really understand. I will be discussing three storage devices in my systems,: m.2 which I refer to as m2 My...

Hi, My desktop has been functioning normally until today, no updates. haven't downloaded anything etc. Earlier today I tried to shut down my pc, but it wouldn't completely turn off. Screen was black but the lights on my fans were still on for some reason. Didn't think much about that and went...

Hello! I'm having the problem that once i restart the computer, it won't boot, only after 3-4 tries. (CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED) After first or second try it gives me a black screen with just a cursor. This was after I installed a newer update for my gpu. Also my taskbar becomes black randomly now...

Dear Community, i work for a small company, where we build our own industrial PCs with robust hardware and we now want to use Windows IoT Enterprise LTSC 2021 as the OS. Now i downloaded the Evaluation .iso from the Microsoft page. The desktop therefore contains the watermark saying: "Windows...

Whenever I turn on my pc, for the first minutes I can't open windows store apps that are from the E: drive (only windows store apps, other programs work fine). and this is the error message I get: "can’t open because it is offline. The storage device might be missing or disconnected". After a...

is it possible to install windows 10 live usb version on ventoy ? also add a seperate package for windows 10 installer ? so i need to return my ssd for warrenty and in the meantime i have no boot drive, during this time i have to use a 32gb pen drive as a boot drive. what are my options ?

I’ve updated my BIOS to 5.40 in order to be able to be able to replace my 1800X with a 3700X, following the instructions on https://www.asrock.com/MB/AMD/X370%20Killer%20SLI/index.asp#BIOS Now my fans start spinning up att full blast as soon as I boot, keep spinning at pretty high rate, and...

Hey everyone, I need some help figuring out an issue with my monitor setup. A few months ago, I bought an LG 27gp850p monitor, which I use as my primary display. My second monitor is an ASUS VG245, but I barely use it – mostly just for work occasionally. So, almost all my windows, browsers, and...

On Windows 10 DNLA clients, folders are showing but not files. I replaced the HDD (now E drive in the old DVD slot) with an SSD (now C drive). The E drive continues to show folders and files on my tv but the new C drive only shows folders. If I use a Plex server on the pc, the tv can see both...

So basically I have owned 3 PCs to date and I had all of them running windows 11... But i have been experiencing similar problems for the past 5-6 months... My computer just suddenly stops responding but my cursor still works... I can't do cntrl+alt+del or anything else to the computer other...

A couple of years ago I purchased a CanoScan LiDE 400 scanner for my personal use... single user, very light activity. Every time I tried to scan a plain b/w document I would get the error message (below). I tried launching the scanner with Canon's IJ Scan Utility, Windows Fax and Scan, and a...

Not sure if this is the right place for this thread but here's the problem. When I am playing seemingly any game with my DualSense Edge controller plugged in I have an issue where both my monitors disconnect and show 'No display', while the game audio and video audio usually keep playing but...

Hi all, First of all, specs: PC build age: around 3 years Motherboard: Asus B560M A-AC RAM: Trident Z 64gb DDR4 XMP enabled dual channel GPU: EVGA RTX 3080 (not overclocked) CPU: Intel Core I7 11700KF SSD: XPG M.2 S5 (C drive where OS is) SSD: WD 2TBS where I store and play most games. So im...

I’m having trouble installing Windows 10 on a new build which has: MBD: Asus Tuf Gaming B550-Plus WiFi CPU: Ryzen 5 7600X3D GPU: 3060 12GB RAM: G.Skill 32GB The PC goes right into bios with no issues but refuses to install Windows. When I boot from my flash drive with the Windows installer on...

Hey! I bought a new monitor two days ago and just got around to messing with the settings. When I was trying to change the refresh rate to 165hz, I noticed I was unable to do so with my HDMI cable (could only go up to 144hz). I tried on the DisplayPort cable that came with my monitor and I could...

Hello, I am having trouble with my PC, it's very powerful and smooth running but recently it's been taking about 6 attempts to log into Windows. Once i'm in everything is fine, but i keep having to hard reset my PC because the welcome wheel spins non-stop and won't let me in. somtimes it...