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    Question My ssd died! I need replacement

    Hello, I need to replace my old ssd since the one im my laptop failed(windows 10 instalation need at least 3 hour to start and when it comes fo formating or deleting partitions it just show error) My old ssd is SanDisk sdsA5JK-256G and my laptop is asus ux31 ultraslim. So can someone sudgest me...
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    Question How to fix input lag: nvlddmkm.sys and dxgkml.sys drivers

    My problem would be that for some reason I have an input lag and it's only and I looked in this program and it's because of 2 things LATENCY MON _ CONCLUSION _ Your system appears to be suitable for handling real-time audio and other tasks without dropouts. LatencyMon has been analyzing...
  3. DIIIIIII

    [SOLVED] HELP!! BSOD intermittently a few minutes after boot

    Hi Guys! Recently my partner's system has been experiencing some Intermittent BSOD's about a minute after it boots to windows, I've attempted to single out the possibility that the blue screens were linked to a new hardware/software change however she assured me nothing had changed that she was...
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    Question Lagging Low FPS Doing Anything

    For the past week or so my pc has been acting up a bit. I could be using it playing games, or just watching stuff and out of nowhere it will begin to lag. When I open a new tab, or when the windows task bar collapses or appears it comes out in slow motion.. When I go to turn off or restart my...
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    [SOLVED] Can't access BIOS after HDD format ?

    Hey, I've been trying to clean install windows 10 on my aunt's old office PC (HP Compaq dc7800). I've wiped the HDD clean and continued the installation process. But it got stuck on 67% so I figured my installation medium got corrupt...
  6. GandraXD

    Question Fresh installment of Windows 10 loads only once on a NVMe M.2 and never again

    I just put a brand new NVMe M.2 on my PC and when i try to install Windows 10 it works just fine, the windows installs correctly it boots into it for the first time and it works properly only for that one time, as soon as i try to restart my pc windows 10 fails to load. I tried pulling out the...
  7. Diesel_.

    Question Problems with Fujitsu Primergy TX200 S6 ?

    I have been having problems with my pc recently. I bought a mobo from ebay(10k+ positive reviews, its an actual german store) Its a d2799 mobo, with a 3x8GB(kingston ktm-sx313k3/24g) ramkit, and a hynix ram. I tried with 2x xeon l5638 and xeon x5570 cpus, pc turns on, recognises everything...
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    Question All PC games are crashing on startup ?

    New PC was built a few months ago and games such as Apex Legends, Fortnite, Remnant from the Ashes, and other Steam games are crashing on startup. Games on the Battle.net client seem to be working correctly but any time a new game is purchased and downloaded regardless of platform it will not...
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    Question Outlook Deleted Data File

    I am trying to help a professor at my college. Outlook Data File(.ost) was removed and now his emails are synced, but does not have calendars, contacts, etc. However, the web version of Outlook contains the correct information. How can I sync the web version to her outlook desktop app so she has...
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    Question NVIDIA Control Panel default screen refresh rate for all configurations

    Howdy! I've recently upgraded my screen to a higher resolution and faster refresh frequency one, but in the meantime forgot to upgrade my ancient DP cable, which is probably too slow to support the bandwith required. That's my hypothesis, as when I've turned on the monitor, there was no signal...
  11. Diesel_.

    Question can't get windows installer started

    Hey! I'm having issues with my MSI MS-9661 Speedster2 mobo. I have an USB, which may be bad, but its getting recognised by the mobo, starts up fine, in bios i select the usb to start from. Pc starts up again, press key to start from usb.. ok , i press it, but then a little _ is flashing in the...
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    Question Computer suddenly not responding. Desktop loads but then freezes. No signal to monitor.

    Switching to a different display port doesn't seem to be working either. I've done absolutely nothing different today that would cause this. At first I wondered if my mouse was broken which would explain no signal, but I tested it on another computer and it works fine. My only suspicion is...
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    Question Stuttering and hitching on relatively powerful PC in every game, especially Fortnite

    I have about a 2 year old PC with a 9900k, 2080Super, 32gb 3200 RAM, M.2 SSD's for storing games (with plenty of extra space available). For at least the past year I've had microstutters in almost every game I play. Valorant is the one game that still runs well, and Fortnite is the one game that...
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    [SOLVED] Can't open Razer Synapse or Cortex installers ?

    Yesterday when I opened my PC the razer central was broken and I couldn't open Razer Synapse and Cortex. I tried uninstalling with the instructions from here: How to perform a clean re-installation of Razer Synapse 3 & 2.0 on Windows. When I tried to reinstall the software, the installers...
  15. FoodOfTheGods

    Question CPU overheating after Windows update, despite low CPU load

    Windows 10 updated last night and today shortly after Windows booted the fans started spinning on max. This is the first time I have encountered this issue and I am pretty sure the Windows update may have caused this. I have reverted the update back, checked if all drivers are up to date, did a...
  16. Noobiness_Unlimited

    Question Game controller sensitivity or deadzone issue ?

    i recently bought a generic xbox 360 styled gamepad, installed all the provided drivers but now im facing an issue with the sensitivity. first of all there's a delay or block due to which i cant get an output by slightly moving the analog sticks, but after i get the output (when i move the...
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    Question How install PC-Probe II Software related to old asus motherboard in windows 10

    Here is my motherboard's model in asus web site: https://www.asus.com/SupportOnly/M3A78/HelpDesk_Download/ It is very old & i am so sorry about it. I installed windows 10 on it recently. Every thing is working very well on win 10. But there was a nice & useful software related to my...
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    Question GPU overheating and black screen after log in to windows 10

    I have been using my new build PC for around a month now and have had no issues until about an hour ago whilst playing lego star wars the screen went black and my headphones were producing a loud buzz. I couldn't get any feedback using any keys so I restarted the PC with the on off switch, once...
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    Question GTX 770 graphics card seems to be acting up ?

    The whole thing started about a week ago, games started crashing and windows deadlocking, after restarts, i see visual glitches some times like the following View: https://imgur.com/a/92JUoGs I tried uninstalling and updating all drivers, scanning for malware, fixing registry and broken system...
  20. Bradharker

    Question Ssd not recognised anywhere

    Hello, I’ve recently bought a new low(ish) end set up (i5-3570k, GTX 560, P8H61-MX) and trying to install windows to a new, larger ssd, however when I set it up and go to install the boot media (usb) the ssd is nowhere to be seen, this is the 3rd one I’ve tried with multiple sata leads...
  21. m4r1n7

    [SOLVED] Hello everyone, need help! whats the case here?

    The problem occured like 4 weeks ago. Iam using nvidia asus strix 1080ti card. The problem was like occasionally 2 times happened during Elden Ring -THE SCREEN GOES BLACK and GPU FANS start spinning ( you can hear them really good). I need to restart via button my pc and everythings back to...
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    [SOLVED] frequent long stutters occurring from "system interrupts" ramping up usage CPU usage to 100% according to Task Manager.

    I have a Acer Nitro 5 AN515-54 that started having issues with Windows having corrupted drivers, preventing it from even booting (before this happened, there wasn't any system interrupts). Inside the laptop was an M.2 NVME SSD, and I ordered a ADATA SU760 SATA SSD from Amazon to replace the NVME...
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    [SOLVED] Harddrive permissions, can't save to this location.

    Recently I've come across a problem saving files to my external ssd. I tried save a .txt file to my ssd today via my browser and it didn't work, this prompted a message saying "You don't have permission to save to this location, save to pictures instead?" This is really annoying when saving...
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    [SOLVED] PC turned itself on when i unplugged an external drive ?

    I shut my pc down and there was an external drive mounted. While it was shut down I unplugged the drive and all of a sudden PC started running and I had to shut it down again. What could be the reason?
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    Question No connection after win10 installation

    I have recently built a computer with a MOBO with no built in wifi . Did a installation of Win10 by downloading it off the Microsoft website and did the normal run through of set up . ( I didnt purchase Win10 yet ) I do have a router with a ethernet cable. It appears my ethernet cable isn't...
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    [SOLVED] PC goes to bios everytime when restarting

    Hi everyone, Recently I have been having a weird one. (I don't know exactly when I started to have this issue but I think it was after installing some new windows 10 updates ... or new drivers?.. I don't remember :( ) Basically when I restart my computer it goes to BIOS everytime and keeps...
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    Question Error while updating from Win 8.1 to Win 10

    Hi, I have following error while upgrading from 8.1 to 10. See logs setupact and setuperr attached, which I find in C:\$WINDOWS.~BT\Sources\Panther. I ran SFCFix but no errors found. Logs available on: https://we.tl/t-eb2Ho9xwvF My PC specs are as follows: Acer Predator G3-605 DDR3-SDRAM...
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    [SOLVED] PC on hibernate/sleep automatically wakes itself up after a few seconds ?

    My PC automatically wakes itself up a few seconds after I've set it to hibernate or sleep ? I've already removed all computer peripherals (mouse, keyboard, LAN, speaker, wireless adapter, display, webcam etc.). The only remaining device plugged in is the power supply but still it automatically...
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    Question Various windows issues upon starting as well as apparent corruption [Please help]

    I woke up today after using my pc successfully the other night and found mysf stuck in a boot repair loop, I tried various of things on the internet such as trying to go into safe mode (it wouldn't even let me do that) and a lot of cmd stuff which didn't work (friend said it's because I don't...
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    Question Using Powershell to install asus driver - for dummies

    I am completely ignorant about powershell but an ASUS driver has to be installed with powershell windows 10 operating system Download - done Click to run powershell as admin done NOW WHAT? THIS IS WHAT POWERSHELL window says: PS C:\Users\cance\Desktop\touchpad\Touchpad> THIS IS WHAT THE...
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    Question Dual boot of Ubuntu and Windows 10; High fan speed and high cpu temp only for Windows 10

    Hi everyone, I have been using my desktop with both Ubuntu and Windows 10 installed for two years. Suddenly, from the last month, I found out that when I boot the computer with Windows 10, the fans go crazy, even though I didn't run anything. (I checked the task manager and the CPU and Disk...
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    [SOLVED] Random MemoryManagement BSOD

    Getting random memory management BSOD since December.No special driver was installed ,no app ,no update from windows it just started doing this randomly. Tried sfc , dism , chkdsk .Ran memtest and got 8 passes. Upgraded every driver possible but still nothing. Here are some...
  33. cjwolls

    Question BSOD after a fresh OS install.

    Hello everyone, this is my first post onto this forum after quite literally years of lurking. I apologize in advance if this is not posted to the right area. I have been experiencing periodic blue screen issues with my PC for about 2 to 3 months now. Various things causing crashes, too long to...
  34. Evosphek

    Question My available memory is less than total memory

    View: https://imgur.com/a/nmd9wpH I have 8GB of RAM installed. My total physical RAM is 7.80 (I am aware of this) but the available physical memory is less than 4GB. Can someone help?
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    [SOLVED] booting straight to bios after installing new cpu and motherboard

    Soi have updated to new cpu i5 11400f and motherboard msi h510m pro e motherboard rest all system is same. This is my my first build by my self. Windows is already installed in my hard drive. But when ever i boot up my pc it takes me straight bios. I have checked bio both my harddisk are being...
  36. Evosphek

    Question CPU fans/Sys fans and lights are still on after shutdown

    Everytime i press the power button or manually shutdown in windows the fans and lights are still on. I've check bios and turned quick boot off aswell as windows power options but it never works.
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    Question Audio/Screen Output is lagging every 7 minutes

    I have had this problem since I installed Windows 10 about 2 years ago (new custom PC), but the problem was occuring very rarely until some days ago. I have tried Windows reset, clean install of drivers of audio and video card with no luck. I noticed it is happening every 7 minutes (after...
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    [SOLVED] Can't enter UEFI / BIOS Setup on ROG STRIX Z490-H GAMING ?

    When i go to: Windows settings > update and security > recovery > advanced startup > restart pc into advanced startup > go to UEFI firmware settings > restart to open UEFI firmware settings, the PC just restarts normally into windows 10, and trying to enter BIOS by using the keyboard keys while...
  39. super_computer

    [SOLVED] Can't access BIOS and Windows not starting ?

    Dear Sir, Please help me! I can't enter BIOS even after pressing DEL/F2/F8/F12/END KEY, it only shows 'Prepare to Enter'. After that an undersore symbol keeps blinking at top-left of screen. I can't start Windows either. I did every possible trick but nothing works: RAM Changed, Processor...
  40. Alexithymla

    Question BSOD when starting Minecraft ?

    I've made a thread about this before, but that was apparently only my temporary solution. I've recently gotten my new pc back from the shop, I was using my old 1030 build before this new one and it could run Minecraft without a BSOD on launch. Now I got my SSD replaced around 5 days ago in this...