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    Solved Help!, never had this till recently, Mic issue, not standard one!!!

    I have left an attachment of the sound below, never seen this before, this happens even when mic is not plugged in and when I try use any recording or any min requiring software, I have tried a reinstall of windows 10 professional I have updated all drivers, and tried switching different...
    • emilasty
    • Thread
    • audio audio input fix mic microphone microsoft professional tower windows windows 10
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Peripheral Support
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    Solved Audio cutting off randomly in games

    For the past few days, my audio has been randomly cutting off in games. It only happens with games (I can still hear my friend in discord while the sound cuts off). I have updated windows, updated my realtek audio drivers to the latest version, tried with different headphones, but the audio bug...
  3. TheStylishOne

    Windows 10 Black screen on startup sometimes

    Hey there I have had an issue with my PC that is intermittent pretty much since i built it and I've just been living with it but would like to know if anyone could help. So on startup there are 4 possible scenarios that i get: 1. PC starts up and boots into windows in ~10s and everything works...
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    Help! FFXIV Won't Stop Crashing, Sometimes Takes Computer With It

    Hi there. My partner and I have been experiencing a lot of issues playing FFXIV on Windows 10 in the past few months on my custom-built desktop, with the game crashing frequently and the computer sometimes crashing along with it. We tried a lot (which I will list below), including replacing the...
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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...
    • SpecAgent BEN
    • Thread
    • cpu gpu help help me please help requested motherboard psu ram support windows 10
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Internal Hardware
  6. 2080Problems2020

    Performance issues 2080, apex legends and more...

    used to think I knew it all about pc's, until this happened. 90-120 fps in apex legends, 114hz monitor with an overclocked 2080. I have tried no overclock, I have tried np MSI afterburner, no ge-force experience, or overplay. Still, rubbish fps, this pc about 1-year-old and I have had some...
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    Solved PC Won't start up :(

    Hi there, Thank you for checking this post, I will provide any information that's requested as quick as I can as the help is very much appreciated! I built my PC about 6 months ago, all new parts. I called the company I bought the parts from but they've stated that I need to send them the...
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    RDS vs VM for Home computers

    So I am going to be building a home server for network storage, Plex media server, small-time rendering services for video editing, etc. Since I am building a server for these other purposes, I would also like to test out either virtualizing all home PC’s for my home (we have about 10 PC’s...
  9. Exyztence

    BSOD

    Hello! I had a thread in this forum before and Phill helped me. We did not come to any solution and the BSODs ended by themselves. After a while, they returned, but they were very sporadic, literally once a week. Unfortunately, they are quite common now. 90% of the time, BSOD occurs when I'm not...
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    Very inconsistent internet connection

    For a little while now my internet connection has been unreliable at best, and downright demoralizing at worst. This is especially annoying since it's starting to interfere with my studies, and I've been looking for a solution for a while now, but I've come to realize that without any specific...
    • Hydro
    • Thread
    • asus network adapter usb adapter windows 10
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Network Help
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    Laptop not detecting any external microphone - Conexant

    Hi there, I'm posting for my partner. We have tried everything that we can find on google, to try and get her laptop to detect a microphone on a headset to be detected, but with no luck so far. It was working fine, then she had a fresh install of windows 10 done and now it just isn't detecting...
    • Lorathia
    • Thread
    • audio conexant headset laptop need help windows 10
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Laptop Support
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    Mic not working

    Hello there i got a big problem. No one of my mics seems to work sinse july, middle of july... I tried with Steelseries siberia 650. Its own "soundcard", Usb and 3.5mm Steelseries siberia 800 Usb. also has "chatmix " for xbox, even tried that cable nothing works. i know i know its for xbox and...
    • privatename
    • Thread
    • audio mic microphone not working windows 10
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows 10
  13. powplow

    Why won't my PC boot after I turned on safe mode?

    Hi and Thanks for reading. This all Started yesterday with my PC when I found a malware chrome extension on my computer that has been there for a while called optimum search. I wanted to get rid of it so I went to YouTube and search up a tutorial on how to do this. During this tutorial it...
    • powplow
    • Thread
    • boot issue safe mode windows 10
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows 10
  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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    File missing inside a share folder

    I have two PCs (let's say PC1 and PC2) connected to each other through the LAN cable. From this connection, I created a share folder which can be accessed from both PCs. However, most of the time when there is a file inside the folder, PC1 is able to detect the file while PC2 detected that the...
    • Winter
    • Thread
    • connection folder lan windows 10
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Windows 10
  16. kitkatx123x

    Solved Accidentally uninstalled Dolby Atmo

    Hey, I accidentally uninstalled Dolby Atmo on my Lenovo Y520-15IKBN Laptop. The app was there when I first bought the PC and I can't find anywhere on Lenovos site where or how to install it again. I think I might be missing also some drivers for it but I'm not sure.
  17. Evenkarke

    Random shutdown without bluescreen.

    Hey, The computer does (atleast what seems random) shutdown. No bluescreen, no warnings, just a black screen. Anyway to get some sort of error logs, or do some dianostic? No problem restarting it after the random shutdown. HDD changed to SSD, did not fix it. New RAM is ordererd. CPU torture...
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    Need some help to bypass windows 10 password

    My younger sister changed win10 login password as requested the other day. But she forgot to write down the new password and now it is locked because of incorrect password. I am trying to use Ophcrack to recover the password, but it returns table not found error when booting into it. Any suggestion?
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    What should I do about this automatic repair problem?

    Hey guys. Last year my pc would go to automatic repair screen when booting up after a windows 10 update. I was able to access my files without logging in so I grabbed what was important on a usb drive and reinstalled windows. I just had another update recently and it said automatic repairs when...
    • hunter
    • Thread
    • automatic repair windows 10
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Windows 10
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    Solved Pinned Taskbar Programs not Opening or Disappearing?

    I have recently been having some problems with my PC. The two main issues is if I leave my system on and walk away for a while then come back and try to open any program via desktop shortcuts or pinned programs on Taskbar, they will not open. i just get a hourglass waiting icon. When this...
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