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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...

Hello, I built a new PC around last month and got a new GPU about last week but ever since I got this new GPU it has been stuttery as hell with regularly below 50% usage, same thing with my CPU. My specs are: CPU: Ryzen 5 5500 MOTHERBOARD: GIGABYTE A520m k v2 RAM: 16GB DDR4 3200mhz GPU: RX...

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...

Hello everyone! I've recently noticed via event viewer that since last month, every shutdown and restart I initiate is met with a series of processes running when the computer boots into Windows, one being quite strange. Reading: And the same but for shut downs reading: Is this a possible...

Greetings, I've prowled and lurked through here for various answers to PC issues for years and am usually pretty successful with what's already been asked. This time I am in a position where I am wracking my brain and Would need some specific help looking into what recently started causing these...

Hi everyone! I'm planning a new build in a few months, and I'm wondering if anyone could shed some light on something I've been wondering lately: In my my current system, I have Windows and all my non-gaming software installed on an SSD, with my games stored on a HDD (I know, I should have...

Ok, so my PC keep restarting by itself. I came from work like 3 days ago and i wanted to play some games. I power it on and after it reaches the Log Screen it suddenly restart by itself (without saying *Restarting..*). After this restart it starts normally. This build worked so fine for over 2...

Hi Peeps, I've looked at this: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/gigabyte-z590-will-not-display-post-bios-screens-but-loads-direct-into-windows-even-after-cmos-reset.3728985/#post-22484727 and this...

Every bit of help is appreciated. I already tried everything i could. It's a HP Probook 450 G5. So basically it is working IF IT WOULDN'T JUST TORN OFF

Hi all, i cannot complete windows updates and the error code i received (0x80070643) has led to my sytem not having the winre.wim file. I tried the CMD prompt of reagentc /enable but it says the windows re image was not found. I then have done bcdedit /enum all and at the windows boot loader...

Hello, A few months ago I bought following configuration and assembled it myself: AMD Ryzen 7 7800 X3D Kingston fury 2x16 GB DDR5 6400 MHz Gigabyte Nvidia windforce 4070 TI Asus prime b650m-a Wifi II Samsung 990 pro 1 tb nvme Corsair icue h100i water cooling Gigabyte psu series 1000 w 80+ gold...

Hi! This is my first message at Tom. :) I have an older rack server (Cisco UCS M200 M2) and I want to add 4 NVMe drives to it on a PCIe card. The common ones (at least the cheap ones) today seem to basically plug the drive to a 16x PCI under this so called x4/x4/x4/x4 configuration. I've read...

Hi, I'm currently upgrading my PC and I'm gonna buy a new CPU, motherboard and a cooler and intend to keep all of my SSDs and HDDs. So, my question is how do I re-use the disks without losing any data and re-activating Windows? Do I just plug it in? Thanks for the response in advance!

I have a handful of games that freeze when they are in focus. I can't play them anymore, games that used to run fine. If I alt tab, or click on my secondary monitor, it unfreezes and runs fine. I can even hover over the menu items and everything highlights as normal, FPS is fine. As soon as I...

I had an electrician over in the past week. He accidentally created a power surge that cooked a power strip and blew several bulbs. My PC was on during this as I thought he was done at the time. So now a couple days later every time I attempt to stream my PC blue-screens with a varying code each...

Long story short. I had Windows 11 installed on this very same system with 2 2TB NVME drives in Raid-0 Using VMD and intel RST. I decided to switch to arch linux, and disabled RST, and instead left the two drives in their default modes. I installed arch linux on an mdadm (software) raid-0 and...

Hello everyone, recently I've noticed a quite uncommon behavior on my laptop, it started with an old M.2 SSD I had which was quite bad and I thought maybe the SSD was the reason so I switched to a Kingston 1TB NVMe SSD. It started off nice but then when I unplugged my laptop the usage got...

My computer is an Asus ROG STRIX G10CES Desktop. I have been dealing with this issue for quite a few months, and it's really frustrating me. I am getting blue screens on my computer, even when I'm simply browsing the web. I have tried everything, including running a memory test, using sfc...

Hello, About a month ago I've encountered a very strange problem with my laptop. The built-in microphone stops recording any sound whenever I put the laptop to sleep and wake it up. It won't work for an extended period of time, and sometimes it'll just suddenly start working again. The sound...

Laptop model: Asus Swift 1 SF114-32 The device previously had a cup of coffee spilled on it. Since this accident, it refuses to stay on without the charger plugged into the laptop. I have replaced the battery with a verified and worked batter from iFixit's website. Even with the new battery, I...

So i built my gaming pc about 6 months ago and i have been using linux to game. Everything has been pretty good but linux has been having problems for me because there isn’t a lot of games that work great on linux and I can’t just have that on a daily basis where I just want to sit down and just...

Just got a new laptop and installed windows on it... I can't change my brightness, which is a different problem, but when I went to use the F5 key to refresh a page, the Fn function triggered instead of refreshing (I'm not pressing any other keys ofc) What should I do?

Hello! I purchased 2 new monitors for my build at the start of the year, the primary monitor is a Fire Legend 34HC5CUR and the secondary monitor is a cheap 27" 1440p Viewedge I got off of amazon; both are running off of a 6700 XT Hellhound GPU. The issue ive been having is that every time my...

I’m giving a family member my old notebook, to replace hers, and I have 2 questions: - First, I want to do a full format on my machine’s m.2 ssd. Can I do it on the notebook itself? Or should I transfer it to my PC in order to run a format on disk manager? Do I risk anything with my notebook’s...

Hi guys, I'm having this BSOD issue when waking up my PC from a sleep state. The dump will be in the end. This happens occasionally and it feels like it only happens when the PC stays asleep for 8+ hours. I can put the PC asleep 50 times in a row and wake it up a few seconds later, and there...

Hello, I was wondering if anyone has any idea if I can fix this issue I am having. Unfortunately I do not have a list of components now, though I would be very surprised if components are the issue. My friend had factory reset his PC with no backup, and fallen asleep. Once he woke up he tried...