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I have a 2018 Alienware Aurura R7 with the following specs: OS Name Microsoft Windows 11 Home Version 10.0.22631 Build 22631 Other OS Description Not Available OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name System Manufacturer Alienware System Model Alienware Aurora R7...

Are there any newer AIO coolers with displays that work well on Linux without requiring control software? I know that many AIOs default to a basic settings without software, but the pump or fan speeds might not be customizable, and some displays could show error messages if software isn’t...

I have a Windows PC which must have USB mass storage disabled. I have gone into Group Policy Editor (Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Removable Storage Access) and enabled all three removable disk policies which deny R,W,X access. I have enabled the policy to deny...

Hey community, Sometimes whenever my PC is NOT under heavy load (like gaming) it freezes when it is near idle (like downloading games), this has been happening for almost 6 months and I can't seem to understand what is causing this issue. I thought It was a corrupted Windows installation so I...

I rebooted. I don't have anything else open. Task Manager shows low resource use. I only have 15 tabs open. I left-click on the URL to drag it to the desktop. The first few times it works. Then, the process freezes on me. It won't release the URL to the desktop. I move the cursor arrow back and...

The title says it all, unfortunately. I recently swapped my Windows over to a larger SSD. The cloning process disabled BitLocker on the new drive and I just went to re-enable it. The process seemed to go well, and I got my identifier and recovery key. I restarted my PC when it requested it and...

I have a 3700x 3070ti system that I built for my girlfriend. It has 3200 16g vengeance ram, 700 watt thermaltake smart, Gigabyte A520M AORUS ELITE, 1 Terabyte NVME. Everything seems to be working fine until I try and run games. It tells me the frames are really high but the games feel...

Hello, I put a new 3060 card in the PC. After switching on, the PC works fine, the graphics are quiet and fast, but after a while, sometimes an hour, sometimes two, or after sleeping and waking up, the PC is extremely slow. Not only GPU is slower but overall PC performance (I think also SSD read...

Hi all, is it possible to build a decent mini PC with an intel i5 or i7 cpu for about $1000 Canadian or less? as an example of the physical size i'm referring to, take a look at this Lenovo PC or this Dell. thanks

I want my PC to automatically reboot when Windows hangs. In my BIOS settings I've set Core Watchdog to Enabled, with Interval on ~10s and Severity on Fatal. But when I make my OS hang (by running a Rust program that spawns 32 threads with infinite loops and giving it realtime priority) nothing...

i upgraded from a Intel Pentium dual core to intel Core i5 3570 3.40hz that has 4 cores 4 threads but my pc using only 2 cores i tried every possible way to enable all cores although my BIOS shows that i have 4 cores is there any way to fix this problem ?

So, I have built my pc myself, and it has been working flawlessly for the past 5 years until 6 months ago. I started having issues, and I can't find a cause whatsoever. I'm posting here to look for some advice in troubleshooting this problem and finally end my suffering. My pc starts randomly...

I have a Lenovo E440 laptop (aged 8 years) with Windows 10 and it's about 1 year that when I do a heavy process (or open multiple apps), the app freezes for about 10 seconds and then explorer.exe (and my taskbar and start menu) become frozen and then explorer.exe crashes and taskbar and all...

I recently shipped my PC to my new place. Plugged it in and the first time it booted, it went into the bios. I manually switched it off, reinstalled the ssd thinking it was maybe shaken out of place and turned it on. This time it went straight into windows. I switched it off and went to work...

Hello. These are my specs 7800X3D Asus Rog Strix x670e-Gaming Wifi 64 Gigs of Ram Windows 10 Pro 22H2 ROG STRIX X670E-E GAMING WIFI BIOS 2007 What bios update do I need for the Sinkclose mitigation? Is it worth getting? Will I lose performance...

Hello. I'm in desperate need of help. I couldn't find a solution for this problem for 5 days. MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk Motherboard Ryzen 5900x Cpu 32GB Ram Rtx 2080 Super Graphics Card 2 M2 Ssd 1 Sata Ssd 2 HDD Last wednesday, I updated the BIOS. After the update, none of my drives was seen on...

For 2 weeks now I have had this problem that appeared after the PC froze (it has happened to me many times) that forced me to force it to shut down. When monitoring the performance values with MSI Afterburner it gives me normal readings (80-90 in demanding games) but it feels almost half of...

I can only boot into Windows 11 if I have CSM (Legacy Boot) on, otherwise I get a hanging black screen. Also if I have CSM on - I can boot into BIOS, however iGPU is inaccessible! I would rather have a UEFI boot, but as stated, if I set it to that ¹I can't boot into Windows, and ²I can't...

I'm sick of this problem that comes up from time to time. Every once in a while this issue has come up, and the solution seems to always be something slightly different. This time the thing that was the solution last time, is not working. I blame those pesky Windows-Updates. Version: 22H2...

So like i have a paid Windows 11 Pro Edition license and i used it on my pc but i was thinking about dual booting. Is it possible to use the same license for the second one?

So windows downloading a newer driver that's on the manufacturer site (Asus) such as: Intel management interface. I check it on armoury crate too. I saw that newer drivers are not always the best for my hardware. So should I disable windows drivers update? And windows not download my chipset...

Hello there; I have two problems with my laptop that happened around the same time.. First is the Wlan adapter, It used to work for a limited amount of time until it stopped working, and then I would restart my PC and it would work again.. But then it stopped working at all anymore. There is...

Hi. I have a AMD system and i have HACKINTOSH on it. Also i have Chromeos, which i replace it with the intro. THE ARCH LINUX! (like the Electroboom DE RECTIFIER intro.) AMD Ryzen 5 3600. 3 fans (In cooling, does not matter.) 1 exausht fan 650W 80+ (normal 80+) PSU. MSI B450M-A PRO MAX 2 hdds 1...

Hey, I was looking for a new laptop and stumbled on the TUF series. I saw on a few threads talking about the ROG series that a preinstalled Windows is recommended as there are tweaks that Asus does that increases performance or allow certain customizations. Is this also true of the TUF series...

Hi all! Long time a lurker and a first-time poster. I'm building a new PC for myself, and it's been over a decade since I last built one. I have everything installed, but I'm having issues installing Windows 11 onto my NVMe drive. Motherboard: ASRock B650M Pro RS CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X Hard...

Hi all, I'm at the end of my rope here. So far I've tried all solutions and potential fixes I could find till now. I really hope someone has the permanent solution. Small recap. Beginnning of this year, January, I was getting constant latency spikes. I've been tracking them with LatencyMon and...

TL;DR Bolded I've had this issue for months (maybe longer). I'm not sure when it started, but here's what happens: My monitor will go into standby mode, after 3-7 minutes (no set amount of time) it will wake from standby, display nothing on the screen for a second (a black screen), then it...

It shows under system status but not under boot order. I cloned windows onto this new 2tb m.2 ssd since my mobo only has one m.2 slot. I am getting bios loop and wondering if it's my m.2. Msi b450 tomahawk Upgraded to 5600x cpu Bios version is e7co2ams.1i0 (7/22) Windows is in uefi mode if I...

I have a laptop and currently installed a new windows 11 and removed the windows which came preinstalled with laptop. When i played games on old windows it automatically switches to integrated graphics card and caps FPS to 30 when unplugged but in new windows it does not switch I get same 120FPS...

Been trying to connect my iphone 14 to my win10 pc and I don't even get a popup to choose what i want to do with that device, I sometimes get the "trust this device" popup on my phone and very rarely get the popup on the itunes app on the pc. (which also does nothing) Will need some...

Seeing some great deals on amazon right now and was thinking of going with a new PCIe M.2 ssd, my question is how would i transfer my windows over being that I got my windows key from one of those key websites. (I still payed for the key but it was much cheaper than original) mobo b450...

So I am having some very annoying issues with my PC. It randomly freezes where I can no longer move my mouse, talk to people on discord or hear any audio (the audio always stops like 10 seconds after everything freezes). The only fix for this issue is to hold down the power button on my case (or...

Hey everyone! I have been trying for so long to save this motherboard, and I am 100% sure it can be saved! I think it is the culprit, giving me endless BSODs when trying to install/boot from any type of media. Usb, dvd drive, nvme, ssd. Nothing works. Whatever I do I keep getting bsod. All...

Hello, as title say I might have a problem with explorer.exe. Since today (I think yesterday it was still okay) I noticed when starting up computer with windows that my icons on desktop takes forever to load which usually took like a second before. Also if I click on taskbar during that time...

Windows not installing correctly no matter what, tried installing with CSM off which didnt recognize the ssd or usb and sent me to bios, with CSM it recognized both ssd snd usb, finalized the setup (via usb part) the moment it restarts and it should take me to the hello screen of windoes...

Hey guys ! I have a question that has been bugging me from a past few days. I've provided the link to my Disk Management page and it shows all partitions that are currently available. My primary concern is not to mess up the Recovery Partitions. As you can see in the picture there is a partition...

So, here's the scenario: I need to run a really long render on my MSI GL63 Laptop with a 1660ti. The render might take days and it'll be running 24 hours. I understand 85C is normal for a gaming laptop while gaming but letting it sit at a toasty 85 constantly for numerous days (maybe even a week...

Hi, I have some older Windows (XP, 7, 10) platter primary (C:\) HDDs from different old computers of mine. Unfortunately, the stickers got removed so I no longer know what motherboard each drive was associated with originally. Is the identifying information for the original hardware...

My PC is booting directly into Windows without showing the BIOS or boot logo This problem does not persist, sometimes it happens and sometimes it does not. My device specifications: HP Z230 I don't have a GPU but the device is connected directly to the DisplayPort of motherboard

Hello! As many of you know, Windows 11 v24H2 comes out later this year. Copilot+ PCs will have AI "features" like: Recall, which will take snapshots of our PCs every 3-5 seconds! This is just "Big Brother" in disguise, to me! So, Microsoft, instead of working on Windows 11 to make it better...