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    Question BSOD With My ARC B580 Trying to Render in Vegas Pro 21

    Hey everyone, So I've been using Vegas Pro for over 10 years. I just recently upgraded from Vegas Pro 14 since I got a new GPU. I was having compatibility issues with my B580 and Vegas Pro 14. I wanted a version that would support Intel QSV so my renders would be faster. Please note that I...
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    [SOLVED] No WiFi options on used laptop ?

    Hello. I just got a used HP 14s Laptop, and after fresh win 10 install, my wifi options are not showing. What i tried: Turning airplane mode on/off. Not sure if this laptop has some kind of physical wifi activation other than F12 key, but i couldn't find it Troubleshooting, but it finishes in...
  3. TheOv3rminD

    Question Does this Scheduled Task look right ?

    View: https://imgur.com/MJcG7P1 Thanks for your input!
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    Question I'm lost - - - why is my boot time so incredibly slow ?

    Hello I have had this issue for months now and its driving me crazy. I can't find a solution. My Bios time varies between 40 to 80 seconds. My OS is on a m.2 drive, Specs below 7800 X3D TUF X670E-PLUS 2x 16GB Ram 5090 Windows 10 (I have reinstalled windows and no luck) Several HHD's and SSD...
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    Question Windows 10 / 11 install from USB on new prebuilt computer not working. Please help, getting desperate

    Computer specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X Processor: ASUS Prime AMD Radeon RX 9070 OC Motherboard: MSI B650 Gaming Plus WIFI BIOS ver: E7E26AKB.1MH RAM: Kingston FURY Beast DDR5 5600MHz 16GB SSD: Kingston NV3 SSD 1TB Power: be quiet! PURE POWER 12 M | 650W Cooling: be quiet! Pure Rock 3 LX Phanteks...
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    Question Weird Booting After Enabling Secure Boot

    Hello everyone, So I've been trying to get my PC ready for Windows 11 and also set things up so I can enable Resizable Bar for my new GPU. Here's whats happening: First thing, I realized my drive (which is a cloned drive from years ago) was set to MBR. After some research, I figured out that...
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    Question Windows 10 downloaded AMD Driver. Now AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition is NOT working?

    Windows 10 downloaded AMD Driver. Now AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition is NOT working? The message says "AMD Software Adrenalin Edition Warning. The version of AMD Software that you have launched is not compatible with your currently installed AMD graphics driver." Apparently sometime...
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    Question Boot drive or partition not recognized after a clean Windows 10 re-install

    I was forced to do a clean re-install of Windows 10 after a failed update. I did a simple format of ONLY my C drive partition first before my re-install. I can boot into my desktop successfully but ONLY after I first boot into BIOS and manually select my startup drive in the Boot list. I then...
  9. atticus77

    Question Consecutive blue screens every few months

    Hey! Ever since i got my computer i have been getting Blue screens. Most oftenly with the code Memory management or more seldomly Kernel Security Check Failure. What's weird though is that i get a bunch of BSOD's during a day or two and then the computer is fine again for a few months. Now it...
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    Question Windows File sharing question. - Unable to access computer not under the same domain

    I'm getting the error "you can't access this shared folder because your organization's security policies block unauthenticated guest access". The shared file is on a Windows 7 machine and we are trying to access it from a Windows 10 computer that is on a secure domain. The windows 7 machine is...
  11. BML415

    Question Issue with restart every time I update?

    Every time I run an update for Windows 10 my computer throws a yellow led on the mb and I have to hard restart. After the reset it will finish update and run normally. Does anyone have any insight? My only idea is maybe I need to update the MB bios but I am not very experienced with software...
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    Question Windows failing to boot on restart, only booting when forced through BIOS

    Hi all, I am upgrading/rebuilding my PC with a new MOBO, CPU, GPU, and RAM. New Part list: Mobo: ASUS Z790 Gaming Wifi7 CPU: i9-14900k GPU: ASUS GeForce 5070 OC Tuf gaming RAM: Corsair DDR5 6000mhz 2x16gb Old parts: NZXT Kraken 360 M.2 SSD SSD HDD Etc Behavior: I did a fresh windows install...
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    Question BSOD ntoskrnl.exe crashing computer

    I've recently updated my PC's parts and have been having frequent but random crashes. I have tried updating drivers, removing peripherals, checking system files for corrupted files, repairing drives, doing memtest86, I even tried reseating my CPU and RAM but that hasn't helped either. It can...
  14. Drieck20

    Question Replaced broken laptop screen. New screen works on startup and Bios, but not in Windows 10. Any suggestions?

    As stated above, I recently shattered the screen on my laptop and replaced the screen with an exact match from AliExpress. The new screen shows the startup logo and works in Bios, but wont work in windows. More details below. -Everything works fine on an external monitor. -Screen shows startup...
  15. Axk29

    Question Need Help! Please.

    So I have a Windows 10 system. It's working fine last week until maybe 5-6 days ago where I suddenly got an error of it not booting due to not finding Windows. It suggested I take out all Drives I had and just keep the one with Windows so I did. It worked. But since then I've been getting...
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    Question Problem windows 10 booting with LSI card and SAS drives

    Hello, This is my second post here and I am thank you all to your help your are providing to people ! I have an Avago SAS3 3008 Fury LSI card which is in IT mode. I have SAS drive alongside with it. My motherboard is a MSI MAG B560 TORPEDO with 16gb ram, an INTEL CPU and all running under...
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    Question New computer. Trying to boot from usb but only black screen

    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...
  18. UniFan

    Question Installing WIndows 10 Alongside Linux MInt (Ubuntu)

    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...
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    Question [SOLVED] Windows freeze and GPU at 100% ?

    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...
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    Question Surround Sound Issues after clean install of Windows 10 ?

    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...
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    Question Problem with LSI MegaRaid SAS 9285CV-8E Controller on Windows 10 PC ?

    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...
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    Question Sporadic, graphically distorted Bluescreen on Windows 10 PC - - what's causing it ?

    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...
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    Question Bad system config info

    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?
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    Question Computer wont boot, Bad system config info

    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...
  25. maxboygamer96

    Question Mouse clicking into desktop

    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...
  26. Banqu0

    Question Windows 10 ignoring group policy edits for virus and threat protection ?

    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...
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    Question PC has developed stability issues with no clear consistent cause or behaviour ?

    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...
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    Question Cannot Permanently Set Windows 10 Startup to "Normal Startup"

    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...
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    Question "Page Fault in Nonpaged Area" Error on Windows 10 Startup After Fresh Install

    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...
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    Question Help with PC/Gaming Input Lag

    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...
  31. fishyjack

    Question MsMpEng.exe writing several gigs a day when PC is idle, and "periodic" tasks running every day ?

    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...
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    Question Issue displaying image to second monitor (windows 10)

    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...
  33. NightAndre

    Question Windows 10 slow start - Hanging on Asus screen

    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...
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    Question Can I clone Win10 to a new M2, and then reconnect the M2 to a different NVMe slot?

    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...
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    Question Need help on windows 10 boot issues

    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...
  36. The Great Buran

    Question Windows 10 / 11, With 3x PCs Different Properties and peripherals (AUDIO CRACKLING/POPPING NOT FIXED IN OVER A YEAR)

    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 Recreational Activities like games for a LONG time. Cyberpunk Certain engines crackle, Tarkov Supressed guns leave a pop in the audio at...
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    Question PC freezes daily because of two corrupted drivers

    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...
  38. RubyTheFlareon

    [SOLVED] Control Center 3.0 crashing

    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...
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    Question Help! My task manager keeps refreshing, i cant take it anymore, nothing helps, followed every single instruction.

    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...
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    Question WHEA Logger 19 - Pairty Error all the same APIC ID: 16 ?

    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...