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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
  5. 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...
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    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...
  7. 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...
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    Dell Optiplex 990 start up issue.

    Video of issue: To fix this issue I basically hold the button on the PSU at the back of the PC. The light blinks faster and faster the longer I hold it until it eventually turns blue and I can turn the PC back on normally; so almost as if I'm recharging something till it has enough power to...
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    amazon scam question

    amazon account locked scam help Amazon Locked scam question I recently accidentally clicked on a Amazon scam email that claimed that I was locked out of my account. Upon later inspection I realized that the message claimed to need my account info, and credit card info; but at the time i had...
  10. jerrysfontän

    Comparison between two Nordic HP gaming PC's

    Hi My name is Jerry and I live in Sweden. Recently HP launched newer generations of nordic HP Omen, and my friend is mainly having to choose between two of them. Here are the sepcifications to the pc's. HP OMEN 25L Desktop (GT11-0017no)...
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    New Win10 Gaming PC Build BSOD!!!!

    To start off, I'm running: asus rog strix z390-e gaming mobo i9-9900k CORSAIR Hydro Series H150i PRO TEAMGROUP T-Force Delta RGB DDR4 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz GIGABYTE - GAMING 3X 8G NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER OC Edition EVGA SuperNOVA 1300 G2 80+ GOLD, 1300W I have been having issues left and...
  12. lunar_m1st

    Solved Woke Up to Blue Screen

    So I woke up this morning to "Aptio Setup Utility" saying "ROM Layout mismatch detected, partial update is not allowed, only full image can be updated, proceed with flash update". I just got this laptop in May. It is a MSI Alpha 15 A3DDK. The only issues I've been noticing are they keyboard...
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    My PC not wanting to boot Realtek, or detecting anything that's plugged into the audio jack inputs...

    Hello, I just recently upgraded my computer with a newer CPU, the AMD Ryzen 5 2600 from a AMD Ryzen 3 3600. Everything is working great except for a strange issue where none of my audio jack inputs are detecting anything. Like, nothing is displaying on the computer that shows something's plugged...
  14. StayExcellent

    A lot of Issues suddenly came up...

    So about a day ago my pc started to get random crashes on programs like task manager, file explorer and just many other applications in general. It also freezes sometimes while typing (so far only noticed on discord and steam) but Task Manager says my components are doing fine and are not...
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    Solved Hard Drive not showing up

    Hi am super new to the pc scene, just finished my first ever build, and am having issues getting my hard drive to show up in disk management, but it shows up in device manager and BIOS Any help would be greatly appreciated, not sure what info anyone would need from me to help, so if theres...
  16. adudethatneedshelp

    Solved What fps will my first custom pc build run at?

    I am building my first pc, and it's more of a test than a real pc I will game on. Here are the specs I am looking to put together. Lenovo M91p Motherboard NVIDIA GT 1030 From Craigslist (don't have yet, I don't know if this is trustworthy) Intel Core i5-2500 (already have) 500 GB SSD...
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    HELP! Reboot and Select Proper Boot Device ERROR

    Thank you in advance. I have just finished building my PC (specs below), and get into ASUS BIOS. The BIOS recognises all the hardware, and everything works seamlessly. The problem appears when I click boot from Sandisk USB (ExFat) to boot up Windows 10 (downloaded onto the USB from a macbook)...
  18. helpmeobiwan

    Windows 10 Crashing BSOD when I open task manager and click performance

    when I access task manager and press performance my pc crashes http://speccy.piriform.com/results/sAjvr10ki5bLPCzTYZVzYzn please use simple language when attempting to assist me
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    Solved How do I prevent my PC from freezing when gaming?

    I just recently built this PC a few days ago, these are the components: CPU: I7 9700k not overclocked GPU: 2080 Super Hybrid MOBO: MSI MPG Z390M Gaming Edge AC (mATX) RAM: 16GB Corsair DDR4 SSD: 500GB M.2/1 TB SSD (Both Samsung PSU: Corsair 750W Gold Plus Rated The issue I am having is that...
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    Entire PC stuttering, need help to identify problem.

    Trying to determine if a specific piece of hardware has been causing my issues. PC specs: Z97MX- Gaming 5 motherboard with Intel Core i7-4790K (motherboard is about 5-6 years old) Geforce GTX 1070 Ti (card is relatively new, a little over a year) C: drive is Samsung SSD 850 120GB (came with...