windows 11

Evening everyone, having a issue out of nowhere with my PC. Its POSTing fine but immediately after BIOs POSTs it blue screens and gives me an error stating "Inaccessible Windows boot device" I have an NVMe SSD in it, everything is plugged in correctly. PC was working fine two days ago, just got...

Hello Tom's Hardware Community, I'm hoping I can get some expert advice on a long-term and very frustrating performance issue with my PC that has made it unreliable. I'm dealing with what I can only describe as a system drive "stroke." System Specifications: OS: Windows 11 Pro (Recently...

Up until recently, I found out that Secure Boot is being required by certain games. (The ones I know of are Valorant and a recent update was released requiring Secure Boot to be enabled). The update has a few folks up in a stir, and some have bricked their PC doing so. PC Specs Mobo: MSI Z370...

Hi everyone, I have an Acer Aspire 7 (A715-51G-74CX) and I’ve been dealing with an issue where the touchpad becomes laggy or unresponsive at random times. The clicks still work, but the cursor feels delayed or “heavy” — like it’s not tracking my touch in real-time. I found that toggling the...

My desktop computer has recently been fresh installed with Windows 11 Home and my CPU replaced. Many of my other parts were also tested due to BSODs. Since the fresh install I have had two BSODs occur 2 days ago on 6.19.25 soon after I turned on my PC and walked away. The most recent BSODs...

For the past month, I’ve had an issue where Chrome, Discord, and Rob locks (word is banned) all close themselves at random times — no warning or messages. Sometimes it happens after just a few minutes, other times after hours. I’ve reinstalled software and hardware drivers, monitored...

I downloaded Kaspersky yesterday and today a lot of my desktop icons are black, I'm not sure if it's related but that's the only thing that changed with my pc. This happens with both standar apps and programs I've downloaded. In this picture the black icons are for Steam, Edge and Kaspersky...

This is quoted from my post on Windows 11 for contex "My Wife did a windows update on her PC, (Update and shut down) but after when she booted her pc the next time it wont boot into windows. On trying to repair the current instillation of windows it states it cannot detect windows, I tried a...

My wife did a Windows update on her PC, (Update and shut down) but after when she booted her PC the next time it won't boot into Windows. On trying to repair the current installation of Windows it states it cannot detect Windows, I tried a few more things like reverting updated in which I...

Good afternoon all, I have been having some issues with Windows 11 freezing and a lot of issues have just run the FRST64.exe and need some help reading/ understanding the txt file. I will add, yes this system is not Windows 11 compatible but it was working fine until recently . I also do not...

Hello When reviewing event logs for Microsoft Defender Antivirus, and wanting to find out if something malicious was stopped, quarantined, removed etc. What else should I consider looking for besides the above? (I know some of them are mentioned more than once): Detection: 1006 1015 1116 1117...

Hi guys, Anyone having issues with white Windows icon of their Xbox Game Pass games appearing on their desktop? It appears to happen after a game update through the Xbox app or an Xbox app update via the Store. I found this fix on Reddit but it's annoying to keep having to do it... Thanks.

Hello, I am having issues with my JBL Tune 510BT mic quality. The entire issue began when the Bluetooth option was randomly hidden in device manager and there were no properties connected to it. I ended up installing Realtek & MediaTek from ASRock's page for my B760M-C motherboard where i was...

tl;dr: SATA SSD starting running slow and became unusable after reset, fixed by reinstalling Windows to another drive using USB, wondering if that was a virus Just last night, while I was just browsing on Chrome, I've noticed that my computer started to run really slow. At first, I thought it...

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...

Hi everyone Before I start, I speak Spanish so communication may fail me, I will tell you my problem, since yesterday my laptop has started to have constant blue screens with the error CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT. The most relevant thing I have done these days on the laptop is to multiboot between...

I followed this guide on how to remove internet results from the W11 search. I have restarted and used CMD to kill explorer and then run it again, but I'm still getting search internet search results. https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/disable-windows-web-search So I'm wondering if the guide...

Hey everyone, I could really use some help here. I recently did a clean install of Windows 11 on my PC. Everything went fine, but now I have no audio when I plug earphones or speakers into the 3.5mm jack, whether it's on the front panel or directly into the motherboard. The only audio that...

I got a newer PC from a friend for my mom to use for work. The “new” PC came with a 128GB NVMe SSD which I put Windows 11 on and was going to keep that as the boot drive. Given my mom has a lot of work and personal stuff on her current PC I thought it would be easiest to just bring that 500GB SD...

I'm facing a serious issue after attempting to upgrade my computer's storage. I decided to install a Samsung 990 NVMe SSD, replacing my 860 EVO. I backed up all my data to a traditional HDD, which remained connected in my computer during the installation process. That was my mistake, I neglected...

This happened while I was editing in Lightroom CC. Need help! This popped up... "See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: InvalidArgument=Value of...

How can I play a PC game at 1440 on my LG C4 (42 inch)….I don’t want to run at 1080 but the spec sheet requires I have a better GPU (have 3090) to push 4K (4070 or 4080). Any suggestions?

Maybe im missing something here. I decided to fully reset my laptop and start clean due to the battery life and bloat of the Asus Rog ZM16 (I7 11800H & 3050 TI) at best I got 4 hours with the laptop set to 1 ghz and intel graphics. Laptop is fairly new and only used for college homework and...

I'm at my wit's end. Nothing I do relieves me of the torment that is my mice. My mouse just stops working randomly as I use my PC. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme nor reason why it does this. the only way I get it to work again is by unplugging it and plugging it back in again. It's not my...

Hi, I need some help which I have been trying to find answers myself but no luck. So I have a pc connected to my LG 4K TV using HDMI. The issue is when I open windows 11 settings or the Microsoft store and then turn the TV off and back on again while the settings window or store is open, I...

Hello, so I have an RTX 4060 as my main GPU and an RX 570 as my secondary GPU. I have the HDMI connected to the AMD GPU so I can run LSFG through it, and I render the game through the Nvidia GPU. It works as expected but some games refuse to run on the Nvidia GPU even after specifying GPU...

Hi everyone, could really use some help troubleshooting an issue I’ve been experiencing recently. Full Specs: Gigabyte AB350M Gaming 3 Ryzen 5 5600 Radeon RX 6700 XT DDR4 2x16GB 3200mhz Adata Gammix d35 Corsair TX750M Gold PSU 256GB 2.5" SATA SSD (Installed windows here) 1TB M.2 SATA SSD...

I just rebuilt my PC and I’m having trouble getting any windows related programs to work. Media player won’t open. The start menu won’t open after a bit (I have to reset explorer in task manager when that happens) but when it will, I can’t click and open anything in the menu. I pressed windows +...

Hello guys, i recently built my new pc with windows 11 and since then i have this issue. I have as my display language English and typing languages english and greek , but when i change typing language with ALT + TAB or WIN + SPACEBAR it shows 3 options, english greek and africans. In africans...

Hi, So, I've been having a really strange issue lately. I have an 48Gbps HDMI cable running from my PC to my Samsung "The Frame " 2019 model TV, that I'm using in duplicate display mode in Windows 11. Everything works perfectly, videos that are in the browser, video games and everything else...

I could've sworn I was able to just plug in my two Mackie CR3 desktop speakers (via one split 3.5mm) to the rear speaker output (black). But maybe it was the green line out all along. Does anyone know if I should be using the black jack instead of the green jack? Or that if this cursed Realtek...

Hey everyone, I recently purchased a new PC that has an AMD cpu and a Nvidia 3070 GPU. I plugged in my monitor and started and everything was fine. I launched a game and noticed it was super slow, I checked everything and I accidentally plugged in my monitors HDMI cable into the motherboard slot...

I'm setting up a laptop for AutoPilot. Laptop OS > Windows 11 22H2 If I update to the latest version of Windows, can I reset the OOBE to 24H2 or will it revert back to 22H2 ? Unfortunately I don't have a USB stick handy to load from USB.

Hello. First post here. Can't seem to solve this one. Looking at Windows 11, given Windows 10's demise is on the horizon. For familiarity/recognition, enhanced user experience and a smaller learning curve for people I'm updating PCs for I would like to use the sounds from Windows 7 for several...

My cousin bought Mi Notebook 14. It has i5-10210U, 8GB 2666MHz DDR4 RAM, SATA3 SSD by Kingston. Recently it got very slow. The task manager kept showing less than 20% CPU utilization. Also, less memory usage. Still the performance is noticeably slow. Each click / UI interaction was laggy...

I installed Windows 11 on a non-TPM computer ages ago, using Rufus. But now I'm told my version 21H2 has reached end of service and when I try to update using the Windows11InstallationAssistant, it tells me TPM is needed. I already change the registry and rebooted as I found on this site...

I downloaded the little Windows tool, and it told me my PC is not compatible with Windows 11, but it's basically because of the lack of the TPM 2.0 module. Specs: CPU: Intel Core i7 8700k Mobo: Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming Ram: 32gb DDR4 3200 I'm thinking about upgrading my whole system (Ryzen 7...

Hi All, I wanted to gather some opinions about this. On almost every thread on forums like this one there is someone suggesting to do a Windows fresh install, whatever the problem is. I have been running the same Windows install for years (started with 10 Pro in 2017 and now updated to 11...

I have two monitors which i always have set to "duplicate". A TV (monitor 2) and a normal Gaming monitor (monitor 1). Recently, whenever i only turn on "Monitor 1" windows switches to "Extend these displays" and it adds a non existent display to the right side of "display 1". If i go to display...

I recently got a RTX 4060 Ti but I’m unable to use it properly. Every time I try to play even a relatively simple game like Planet Coaster, the GPU starts making a very loud noise, spinning like crazy and the entire computer freezes. In some cases, the screen also goes black. This issue occurs...