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  1. O

    Solved Are these temps normal? just installed a new cpu

  2. B

    Two Iconless, nameless programs 'waiting to close' on shutdown

    Hi there For a while now I've been noticing this and I can't help but assume the worst, though its probably nothing. Im good enough with computers (build/upgrade them as a hobby) so I know maybe above average. However, I cant figure this one out. The 'waiting for applications to close' page...
  3. Jaw500000

    New PC having problems with crashes

    My friend has a new pc and its been plagued with crashes. Both (kernal power 41) and ( device HID-compliant headset (location (unknown)) is offline due to a user-mode driver crash). I've done all I can think of and searched other forums for possible solutions to try and help him fix it. But the...
  4. J

    Driver timeouts and PC Crashes to Solid Color Screen

    Hello eyerybody. So I had this problem for a year now and I still don't know how to fix it. Basically I would be playing something and my PC would crash to a solid color with a buzzing sound, when I try to restart my Monitor the screen would get green. I'm also getting colorfull pixels but it...
  5. F

    Need help with wiring on MSI Coreliquid 240R

    Hey guys, I really need help. I'm installing a MSI Coreliquid 240R on an ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac (AMD4), and I cannot seem to figure out the wiring. I was only able to get 1 fan to spin, but none of the lights. Here is an album that contains all the photos of the components' wires. It...
  6. Krazyyy

    Keyboard and mouse only works in BIOS and Windows Recovery. They don't even work in Safe Mode.

    Hi! Few days ago, I've discovered something, which happened first time in my life. My keyboard and moyse stopped working. I could see that they work in BIOS and Windows Recovery. That is not because of motherboard, usb port or any related to hardware. I will not answer questions, which are...
  7. mixrogers

    Lenovo Login Issue

    Hi there, I was hoping someone could help. I have a new Lenovo which I have recently been locked out of. There are three login options: finger-print scanner, pin, and password. All three are currently set-up on my device but I’ve only ever needed to use the finger-print because it works so...
  8. iBeBlasts

    Computer keep lagging/Freezing

    Hi, Recently as of 2-3 days ago my computer has been freezing/ lagging. It feels like frame lag when where my will freeze randomly for 1-3 seconds. I have ran Full computer virus scans, i have cleans all my drives, i have uninstalled unwanted/used programs, i have disabled programs that run on...
  9. Jolt32

    Solved is this clock speed normal?

    first time building pc. how do i fix this if its not normal and my pc fans seem to ramp up and down too when starting up an application. and are the idle temps good?
  10. H

    Solved Ram dying?

    Hi, sometimes my PC starts to reboot once or twice after turning it on, but yesterday my pc booted five or more times after turning it on, every time. So i cleaned all parts took everything out and put it back in. My Pc only recognised one ram stick. So i took the faulty one out, after cheking...
  11. Mindager69

    Weird boot with 2 long beeps

    Hello, I have a boot beeping problem, so when I turn on my PC, while it's booting it makes TWO long beeps, then it quickly restarts and boots without the beeps. What is causing the beeps? I recently upgraded my ram to 16 GB and overclocked it to XMP 2 profile for its advertised speeds (3200 Mhz)...
  12. J

    Boot Sector Virus

    Hello, To start off, I know this is a virus without question and I am unable to get into windows or even install it via a bootable drive due to an error message popping up when I get to the copying files part. I've noticed that GRUB is installed on my PC suddenly and I've never installed...
  13. ojasmohan

    Micro stuttering in games

    Hello everyone, so I've been struggling with micro stuttering in my games, most notable in Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War. I'm not sure what the problem could be. I have a i7 9700k @ 4.6ghz and a RTX 3080 and I get about 70-75c on the processor in all my games. At first I thought it could have...
  14. S

    PC Hard Freezing Streaming/Recording/Rendering

    So the topic pretty much says it all, I get a hard freeze randomly gaming some times. Most of the times it's when I'm recording or rendering a long video. I've tried experimenting streaming on this PC setup but no luck just get a hard freeze randomly playing. No clue what to do anymore, I've...
  15. B

    PC Freeze, help pls.

    Im usinga windows 7 operating system, i updated to 10,8 and the problem i still accuring, i haved this problem for like 4 years now with this pc, but sometimes it freezed a lot and sometimes not that often. I think its the power supply but if you have knowledge about this please help! I have...
  16. H

    Pc crashes minutes into any game

    I've wanted a decent computer for a while to play stuff like Crusader Kings or BG3 early access and so on, and with microsoft buying bethesda and very few console exclusive not getting a pc release, I thought I'd opt out of a ps5 and finally build one. I didn't really know what I was doing, my...
  17. B

    Hello everyone, looking to buy a of RAM for an ok price, and need some help. Thank you.

    So basically, I need to purchase more RAM because otherwise one of my games won't work (Escape from Tarkov). Currently sitting on 8GB of RAM (specs below) and i'm looking for a 32-64 GB upgrade. I know, I know, why the **** would I need 64GB? And to be fair, I really don't know. I'm a minor and...
  18. Workclock

    RTX 2060 Seemingly Getting Worse?

    Recently I noticed my graphics card isn't really running as smoothly as I remember it. I'll keep it nice and simple and say; - I've updated my driver, and even reinstalled it, twice now - My FPS is the main issue, dropping below 60 FPS on very simple games, such as Minecraft, League of Legends...
  19. A

    Alienware X51 R2 help identifying issue ?graphics/motherboard issue?

    The PC (Alienware X51 R2) started to shut down and when powered back up it was beeping (1 beep and following advice I could find on here I unplugged everything and held the power button to discharge any static in the system). After looking around I found the below: 1 Possible motherboard...
  20. loismke

    help, screen making weird pixel things sometimes

    so i have made my own desktop about 2-3 months ago amd radeon 5700xt amd ryzen 5 3600x asus x570 a pro motherboard 16gb ram with windows 10 but since a week ago when i was just random watching youtube i got some weird purple squares in my screen (picture attached) and it maybe stays for a few...