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Hi. I have a dell precision 3620 that i pulled out of the garbage somewhere. It is working fine, but I wanted a fresh experience. So I reset the bios and clicked the "wipe internal disks on reboot" function. It started up, and the progress bar moved along. But after about a minute or so, it...

I recently was given a friends used full sized tower. It is a whole set up but the issue is, he does not know his windows 10 password. We tried to reinstall windows 10 to clean install through the log in options but it just stops the reinstall process at random times and then boots normally...

Hi, I currently have a PC with one SSD and one Hard Drive in. The operating system is on the SSD aswell as a few games. The rest is on the HDD. I have an SSD from my old computer that needs to be wiped before I sell the old PC, so I was planning on taking the HDD out my current PC, plugging in...

Hello Everyone, I only write this because my google research didn’t turn up my specific request and/or problem. I am new to the whole forum thing, so please be tolerant with me, if I don’t respect some guidelines. I try to give you as many informations as I can think of. MY PROBLEM After shut...

my 5 year old WD HDD 1TB 7200RPM won't format since I tried to repartition the drive. After a while when I try to format it comes back with a 206 error code I tried with both Win10 disk format and with my AOMEI SW and neither can get this done. Is there any way to completely wipe the disk...

My chromebook has been reset several times, nice joke :) . How to prevent this?

I'm very paranoid about buying things on eBay especially now that so much money is involved. I've been stuck wondering whether I could trust this seller... what do you think? Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/123600179705

Hey guys, I'm running a Ryzen 1600 and want to add a CLC I already have, Thermaltake Water 3.0 240mm, with a wicked OC. Great cooler btw. Since the stock cooler will be removed, along with the downdraft air flow, will the VRMs be cooled enough? The heatsinks don't look beefy enough? In the...

Hi, today i bought a Msi R7 250x 1gb gddr5.I saw it has a 1x6 pin connector and my chinese psu has two four pin vga connectors ( forgot to mention it's power is around 450W to 500W, idk exactly but i know it is around there.I searched the internet and I saw an adapter form two four pin...

I’m pulling my hair out over what decisions to make as I try to save money modifying my daughter’s existing PC. I am on a super tight budget. She has an Acer Aspire X1930 that I have already modified a bit b/c it crashed last year. Current Specs: Motherboard: Intel H61 Express Chipset...

Hello, i have switched to i7 3770, dh61ww motherboard, i have installed Zotac NVIDIA GT 730 4 GB DDR3 Graphics card, 8 gb ram, 1 tb hard disk, but even if i'm playing a video on youtube, sometimes the usage cpu goes to 100%, not sure whats causing the bottleneck here.. And will switching to SDD...

I want to leave a pc, which I clean installed windows 7 on with drivers and stuff, on a setup, so like the first time setup keeping the files already in it. Is this possible?

I bought an asus all in one computer with Windows 7 professional off a guy who was selling it. When I turned it on it has a password and I can't do anything with it won't even let me factory reset it without the password. Is there anything I can do about it? Please help.

I put 2nd hd in laptop.Bios see it,i see it in disc management but not in my computer.

Hello. I am a having trouble with installing my graphics card in a computer desktop. My dad had a desktop and gave it to me. I wiped out all the data and i just want to play video games and stream the web with it. The desktop is an HP p7-1227c. The graphics card i bought is the Gigabyte Radeon...

So I am looking to upgrade my PC in January around the time of the Kabylake launch. I was curious to see how users feel that my PC will stand against the newer titles. Specification list: CPU: Intel core i5 4690k 3.5Ghz CPU Cooler: Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler. GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970 GAMING...

Hello everyone, i had bought this CPU a couple of years ago and i never overclocked it mainly cause i was afraid of frying the chip, even if you really have to try in order to mess it up. Anyway, i'll be upgrading my PC in a few weeks so might as well try to OC it, maybe i can get a Z170 with an...

While I myself have a system running on a 2 TB SATA and one 240 GB SSD, lately I'm seeing builds with 4 or even more HDDs in a single system. I came across a build where 5 HDDs were used. A-Data premier SP550 120 GB SSD. Two samsung 850 EVOs, one 250 GB and one 500 GB. One WD red 3TB 3.5''...

A month ago I bought a new G-card, Nvidia GT730 2GB DDR5. It had the min power requirement at 300W and my PSU was rated at 450W so I assumed it to be compatible. I installed the card onto a PCI-E 2.0 slot. I started playing Counter Strike Global Offensive. Thats the only game I play. A few...

I'm planing to build a skylake desktop and I was wondering if I have to worry about getting a 6th gen intel processor compatible PSUs. I noticed some PSU advertise that they're "Engineered to support 6th generation and Skylake C6/C7 sleep states". Is this just marketing mumbo jumbo or does this...

So I am building a PC for my friend who only has about 500 euro to spend on it , with a small bit of wiggle room. I know its not much but it's all he can afford. He already has a harddrive so that doesn't need to be bought. Any advice or changes would be appreciated! Intel Core i3-6100 3.7GHz...

CPU:AMD FX 4300(4x3.8GHZ) i selected this CPU mostly because its AM3+ socket ,so i could upgrade in the future Motherboard:Asus M5A78M-M LX3-i selected it because it suits me well.It has PCIe x16 2.0 port(which is almost as good as the 3.0 :D) and it has legacy bios but i found gpu that will...

I just recently built a new gaming pc. It runs all my games really fast but when I try to access the Internet (google chrome) it is really slow and takes a long time to load the pages. Does anyone know why this happens?

The link below has the photo of my PC parts (My PC is an hp Elite 8300 MT PC) i wanted to know that can i install Radeon R7 370 on my motherboard? A GT 640 is currently installed on the right side above the bottom currently. Another question is hat can i also upgrade the PSU to Corsair VS450...

I have a temperature monitoring program from the manufacturer of my motherboard and it says my temperatures arearound 44 degrees celceus however speccy says its all the way in the 60c's. Which one should I believe?

So I have a frequent Youtube stuttering/fps drops problem in chrome. Sometimes when I try to watch a video in 1080p 60fps it starts stuttering and fps are dropping, but watching the video in 720p 60fps is butter smooth. I have all the newest GPU, sound board drivers, and Adobe flash installed...

I'm confused because blenders site recommends Open CL GPU cards, but all the forums talk about how CUDA is necessary for the rendering and that the Open CL is not supported? Which do I go with? Is this a more recent development?

This has been an ongoing issue for well over a year now that a tech in town and myself have spent a ton of time on. Here's the rundown. Technical specs: - Custom built PC, yes everything is plugged in correctly, as I've had it double, triple, and quadruple checked with myself and some...

How do you turn off shadowing and caching in the BIOS of a Dell 1440? It runs Vista Ultimate, and it keeps popping up a memory dump crash screen.

i Am using a Gtx 770 now and i wanna go SLI but i can only find that its quad gpu crossfire x supported.. does that mean i can only go 2 gpus with amd crossfire or does this also works for nvidia sli ? thanks

PCPartPicker part list: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/329n8d Price breakdown by merchant: http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/329n8d/by_merchant/ CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 3.4GHz Quad-Core Processor (£164.39 @ Aria PC) Motherboard: ASRock Z87 Extreme4 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard (£97.02 @ Amazon UK)...