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So i left my PC on overnight, and when i returned to it today, my Ctrl + V is not working as it should. In effect, actually pressing it does not paste anything *Unless* i let go of Ctrl before i let go of V. I tried troubleshooting with ChatGPT before coming here hoping it was a quick fix.. but...

I have a PC that I am trying to help a friend diagnose. When he plays Star Citizen it randomly BSODs. He doesn't crash while play anything else - however, while playing Split Fiction it said his GPU VRAM was insufficient and he had to play it with DX11 instead of DX12 and any time he upped the...

Hello, i've already installed win 11 and deleted the ubuntu partition. Now i want to change the boot order to start win 11 without usb stick. but in the bios settings i cant directly select the windows boot manager. When i press enter on OS boot manager windows boot manager is on priority 2...

Hey guys. Thanks in advance for any help :) First of all my cpu is at 52c during CPU-Z benchmark. (during aida up to 63c) According to HWinfo my mobo and vrm are around 50c Windows power management profile is set to Ultimate Performance I was noticing a linear drop of fps in UE5 thought it was...

Does anyone have experience with the new Antec CSK DC 650W? According to SPL's new PSU tier list, it's rated C and similar to the MSI Mag A650bn; however, other CSK models are rated very poorly, so I'm cautious about a new budget PSU. I haven't heard anything about it online, so I assume it...

Hello, I’ve recently built my brother a system and I have been having problems with it not boosting Specs: R7 3700x Asrock Steel legends b450m 750w evga GQ Rtx 3080 16gb 3600 geil 2tb Samsung 970 evo The pc turns on; everything is on including the mouse and the keyboard leds but no display...

So, after years of saving for it itself and a good enough computer, i bought my first VR system, the full Valve Index kit. Initially, everything seemed to work perfectly: I powered it on, explored VR, and enjoyed the headset for about a month without issue. Then, one day, the headset refused to...

My case fans, mainly the rear one, started flickering a lot when the RGB light in them is on. I tried just RGB with no rotation and they stop flickering so I guess its wobble? I dont know how to fix it, it's driving me mad. Right outside my peripheral vision there's just this large, white...

Hello, Ive recently built a system that ive been having a lot of trouble with, specifically the storage and the led rgb I have 7 argb controlled things that are linked to the main argb header, the fans are working fine; they are spinning and I can control the speed. the only thing thats not...

Hello, Ive recently built my system and Ive been experiencing extreme slow speeds through my gen4 pcie slot. Im getting 800-1000 mb/s compared to when I plug it in gen3 slot I get 3500mb/s Please help, Ive been trying to fix this for the past 4hrs, I reinstalled windows, updated windows...

Hi, so I have an msi ventus 3x rtx 3060 12gb which worked only two days ago, I hardly play on my pc so when I booted up a game, it asked me to update my gpu driver which I did. I’m not sure whether it was downloaded properly or not, but the screen started flashing after the update was installed...

Was scanning the usual events on my Win 11 PC, because I have a life, just forgot where I filed it...and came across a new Event ID: 113 Called from Http Service, it reads Attempted to add URL (http://*:5357/acb8f24c-c46f-49e9-9d54-cc7aad10848d/) to URL group (0xFE00001020000001). Status: 0x0...

A Nessus scan said the below entry in the host file is suspicious: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts : 0.0.0.1 scinstallcheck.mcafee.com Does that look malicious to anyone? I'm not sure how to confirm or deny that 0.0.0.1 scinstallcheck.mcafee.com is malicious.

PC Specs Mobo: ASUS Z170-K CPU: i7-6700K GPU: GTX 1070 RAM: Corsair Vengeance (2 x 8GB) 2400mhz PSU: DeepCool PF550 (bought Oct 2023) For the past week my computer has been shutting down on its own and i was getting anti surge trigger warning in the BIOS when powering up again. This was...

My PC has BSOD last night and was not giving display after I restarted it. Then I started trouble shooting which I am outlining below: Removed GPU, All RAMs, All Storage devices. Result: no display Added one RAM stick and primary OS SSD, also removed CMOS cell and put it back again. Result...

I'm looking to buy either "ASUS ROG Strix XG27UCG" or "LG UltraGear 27GS85Q". Should they be avoided like the plague? I've tried my best to whittle it down to these two but there are so many stats to compare. Thank you for reading my post.

As the title says. Whenever I am playing certain games (BG3, Arma Reforger, BF1) my PC just randomly shuts off after playing for a little while. With other games I don't have this issue at all. When it shuts off, my screen goes black and I can hear the PC turning off, while the light on the...

I just installed my new AIO and something is seriously wrong. I've had this AIO before and just bought a new one. The one I had kept the temps at 45 - 50c for the most part. This one is shooting up to 84c as I'm typing this with nothing else running.

I stupidly shorted 5V and ground on a device connected to my PC via USB (its a USB 3.1 or 3.2). After restarting the computer, it still works, but it provides less power to it. It still works fine for low power devices like my ESP32-C3, but my dualsense controller does not work on that USB port...

Hello! I need to connect 4 fans to my nzxt kraken elite 280, two lian li uni fan v2 140mm and two kit fans. I can connect the fans without any problem, but the AIO is designed for 3 fans. Is it safe to connect 4 fans? Link to the photo of how I connected it View: https://imgur.com/a/w51jLCD...

So, OCCT (test version) showed a lot of error when I first did a power test. After 30 min I tried it again and there was no error. How is it possible or what problem is that?Picture OCCT, Picture 0xc0000005 error Here is the full problem: I had an issues with rocket league and some other apps...

I bought stinger 2 cores recently, tried them out, audio was so low, I returned them and got logitech g432 thinking the headset was the issue, but same thing happens again. I noticed when i unplug the usb port and plug it back in a couple of times, i get the "real audio" levels on youtube, until...

So, OCCT shows a lot of error when I first did a power test. After 30 min I tried it again and there was no error. How is it possible or what problem is that?Picture of the problem. Here is the full problem: I had an issues with rocket league and some other apps (0xc0000005 error in event...

my specs are 32gb rams oc speed at around 4000mhz, cpu i9-9980xe with like 6 of the cores oc at about 4.8 4.9 ghz, mobo is ROG RAMPAGE VI EXTREME OMEGA. i noticed when gaming at 3840 x 2160, 7680 x 2160 etc i get frames not above 70 average. shouldnt i be getting higher fps with rtx 4090 even...

idk how else to describe this just take a glimpse for yourselves is there anything i can do or do i just have to rma it, this is an actual issue since some games (mainly fromsoftware) also lock the screen refresh to 60hz when fullscreened

This issue has been plaguing me where every game I play, stutters. In msi afterburner, when the stutters showed up the gpu usage went 0% and the cpu usage goes 100% , I thought it has something to do with either of those components but it's the ram stick. I took one out (the second slot) and the...

My PC started doing this thing where it will post normally when powered on, but wont show display after the bios screen. I restarted my pc with the power button 6 times and I got it to turn on normally. Usually following restarts work fine, until the next day or so and then it happens again...

I have a problem that Rocket League throws this error randomly. Usually I close the game smoothly and then I start it again smoothly and then I feel that the game is slower and the input lag is also slower. Then after that it randomly doesn't throw the error. This is Windows 11 24H2 installed a...

What is causing my AIO connection issues? My AIO cooler’s connection flashes on and off in the device settings. Because of this, the device isn’t accessible in the Razor Synapse app. Also the cooler’s fans spin but the rgb on the AIO fans and pump have never turned on. I had to plug a rgb hub...

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600 RAM:Silicon Power XPOWER Zenith Gaming 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 Motherboard: PRO B650M-P PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower GX2 600 GPU:Gigabyte GAMING OC Radeon RX 7600 8 GB Video Card Pcpartpicker list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Nfvbdb I've been trying to get this rig...

Hi. I'm getting the same BSODs in the same software - Davinci Resolve - in Windows 11 24H2. i7-14700K, RTX 4080, 65GB of RAM (XMP 5600). Latest BIOS First of all there's no overheating or errors - I tested my rig everywhere. OCCT, Cinebench, Prime95, MemTest, Windows memory test, AIDA...

Problem Hello I have a sudden problem with my games fps and im just out of ideas what to do so I hope you can help me. The Problem is as follows: Whenever I play a game in Borderless or Fullscreen the game has random Freezes/FPS Drops/stutter for a second or less. It started as far as I know as...

Hi I just finished my build and after multiple hiccups I can't seem to get any display? It worked last time I booted it and came up into bios straight away, I got halfway through installing windows and it couldnt detect any storage and my fans weren't spinning but the rgb in the fans were...

windows 10 cant restart(stuck on asus logo screen) I have a rog strix g18 laptop and currently can't restart the computer. Whether I do a windows update and need to restart, or manually try to restart the pc normally it attempts to restart, loads into the asus logo screen before booting into...

During a recent visit to my local flea market, I came across a table selling a few computers. They were priced at $125 and I ended up talking them down to $40 for one of them. My computer started having issues recently so I figured I'd take a chance and buy one. Once I plugged it in, it goes to...

i want to upgrade my CPU and need help to decide between Ryzen 7 9800X3D or Ryzen 7 7800X3D. And will I need to upgrade my PSU as well ? My current specs CPU: Ryzen 5 7600 + Tuf LC240 liquid cooler GPU: RX 6800 RAM: Kingston 8GB x 4 Storage: 2 x NVMe SSDs, 1 x HDD, 1 x SSD 5 additional fans...

hi, i recently bought a new case for my pc and gpu, after i switched all the components over i trurned it on and all was well until i shut it back off again, disconnected power and tried to plug in some led lights, then when i tried to boot it back on again it did a small pulse of power, light...

I just bought a GTX 1080 Ti FE off of ebay listed as tested and working but I can't get any display out of it. When I turn my PC on I can hear it boot into Windows over my speakers, the GPU light turns on and off a couple of times, fan spinning at normal speed, everything looks fine. However...

I knew I had to update the BIOS on this board (GIGABYTE B650M Elite AX) before using it with my 9800x3d so I followed the steps to use Q-flash before any hardware was connected to my board. Everything seemed to work and complete fine. Now with CPU, RAM, fans, cooler installed the system does not...

My computer seemingly randomly started blue screening. It started when I tried to launch a game, and has repeated pretty consistently about 3-5 minutes after startup. What's also strange is that it does not blue screen while in safe mode. Aside from the Kmode exception error, I also got this...