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- PC shutting down sporadically and making clicking noises
- Massive fps drops
- The generic drivers for the HD Graphics 620 in my Aspire E5-575-33BM are way more recent than the ones in the Acer website, will something bad happen if I replace the OEM drivers with the generic ones from Intel's website?
- Having 2 Windows versions on 2 seperate drives safely?
- Accidentally viewed porn on work wifi, personal device, help!
- Laptop cooling solutions
- MacBook Air Recently Accessed Remotely
- HP Deskjet 2060 printer wont turn on
- White fuzzy screen on startup
- Brand new ryzen system.There is video signal but its just black.Debug led for boot stays on.
- PC crashes when starting a game (Blue boxes all over the screen)
- 100% CPU in practically any program
- [WIN7] There's a way to change the folder icons?
- Windows Defend missing from services.msc but is in regedit. (Windows 7)
- A game crashed my pc, now I can only boot in safe mode, and I get weird lines all over my screen...
- Computer freezing when doing any type of window update.
- Problems with firefox?
- Business Internet down when running through Sonicwall TZ 300 W
- Samsung tv green lines
- Dell XPS 15 9560 recurring blue screens of death
- Ethernet connected to 2.4GHz instead of 5GHz
- Suspected problem with power supply and potentially with GPU. Ideas and opinions greatly appreciated :).
- Laptop not very responsive, except for when I use an OS on a flash drive. Bad hard drive, or laptop too old for Windows 10?
- I'm desperate for help.
- [Open] High/100% disk usage since Windows 10 update
| PC shutting down sporadically and making clicking noises Posted: 27 Nov 2017 10:01 PM PST My 10 yr old PC I was using to store/access files would shut down on its own sporadically. I replaced the power supply with a new one and all seemed fine except now instead of shutting down it would restart a couple times a day. I usually have it in another room and I will hear a loud clicking noise, like when I push the button to turn on the PC, followed by the revving noise of an attached USB scanner as it reseats its head when turned on. Then I removed Windows 10 and installeed Windows 7. I will still hear the loud clicking noise once in a while, but the computer does not restart. I get the feeling its a bad motherboard and the power supply is just being dragged along. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2017 08:16 PM PST Hey guys, I´ve been experiencing weird fps drops for the last few days. Games run at >100fps and all of a sudden they drop to dead set 22fps for 2-3 seconds, go back to 100-165 fps and that often repeats for few times. In dota 2, alt tabing and clicking the game again usually solves the issue for few minutes. In Mount and blade Warband it can drop to 22fps and stay that way forever, forcing me to restart. I am getting desperate :( ----Cpu:1700x oc-3.8 - 1.3v - cooled by kraken x62----MB:crosshair VI hero, latest bios----GPU:gtx1080ti - strix, latest drivers, no oc outside of the one from asus---Ram:corsair lpx vengeance 3200mhz 2x8 [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 27 Nov 2017 08:02 PM PST Intel's website says i could lose features but it could also cause compatibility issues, I assume that's a generic warning so will something bad actually happen if I do replace them? [link] [comments]  |
| Having 2 Windows versions on 2 seperate drives safely? Posted: 27 Nov 2017 12:11 PM PST Okay, so bear with me here as I'm still learning how all this computer stuff works. My gf has a computer running the 64-bit version of Windows Vista Home Premium, and I have a legitimate copy of Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit ready to go. Now, I did run the compatibility test for it, and pretty much everything checks out, hardware-wise. However, I'd like to do a clean install and NOT an upgrade. After doing some research, I found I could possibly install it and run it on a second HDD. I DO have one I can format and use, too. My main concern is making absolute sure nothing gets totally lost (like a few programs she doesn't have the installers/cds for), so I'd like to install W7 to a fresh drive so that if something goes wrong, I can just go back to the other drive with Vista. I have a problem though. I've read that trying to do this can break the original OS somehow upon installing. Does anyone have any advice about going through with a second installation? I'd REALLY rather not break something. Also, I'm on mobile, and I'm REALLY hoping the formatting/grammar doesn't look like garbage. [link] [comments]  |
| Accidentally viewed porn on work wifi, personal device, help! Posted: 28 Nov 2017 12:09 AM PST Hi all. So I went to the toilet to take a dump and thought I'd watch some porn as well. When I went to load the video an error message came up and I realised with horror that I was connected to my work wifi. They have a very strict policy around ICT use, and viewing porn using their system is an offence that could result in termination. I am about to have a mortgage so the thought of losing my job due to such a mistake is doing my head in. My device isn't named after me. What are the chances of it being logged, reported and getting back to me? I have thought that if I am confronted I could claim I had tabs open in my personal time and just opened the browser and it popped up. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2017 02:08 AM PST So my laptop is an ROG G501. I have had the FHD version for about 2 years now and I recently have been noticing spikes in CPU temperature. Idle temp averages around 60C while it reaches high 80s to low 90s during gaming. I was able to find my old laptop cooler, which I bought for my previous laptop, and used it for the ROG, but it doesn't make any difference since the laptop's vents are in between the keyboard and the screen. Aside from taking it to a professional tech service shop for cleaning (and paying ridiculous fees for it), or for coolant replacement, is there any other way to cool it? Note: It wasn't this hot about a year ago. It averaged around 40-50C at idle. System cooling policy has already been set to "Active" for both Plugged and On Battery modes. [link] [comments]  |
| MacBook Air Recently Accessed Remotely Posted: 27 Nov 2017 09:33 AM PST Recently my MacBook Air was compromised and remotely accessed. The user deactivated my trackpad, took control of my cursor and even turned on my webcam. In the bottom toolbar, there was a .rdt icon from a Windows 10 computer. Eventually I plugged in a USB mouse and activated my firewall, confirmed screensharing was turned off and changed my password. Since then, nothing has happened. I live in a duplex and the people living upstairs are geek squad techs. I was wondering how easily they could have accessed my computer. Can someone please help? [link] [comments]  |
| HP Deskjet 2060 printer wont turn on Posted: 28 Nov 2017 03:47 AM PST So yeah, today i bought new cartridges for my hp printer and when i arrived home, i installed the drivers to my laptop since i recently formatted it. While doing so, it took me a good 20+ minutes to find the right driver that works so i just turned it off. Then after i was done installing, it wont turn on anymore. I was thinking that when i moved the printer the plug went loose since its not that tight and it suddenly turned off. What can do to fix this? The whole purpose of buying the cartridges is gone. :( [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2017 03:41 AM PST If I boot up my computer, I get a screen which looks like this. (The pixels look like they are changing rapidly, with a white/blue colour). If I hold down the power button as soon as this screen appears, nothing happens. If I wait 15 seconds, and then hold the power button, the computer turns off. Usually the next boot is completely normal. I see the MSI logo and then boot into Windows 10. The other thing to note is that yesterday, the 'MSI gaming' splash screen which appears on boot did not appear correctly - it had white streaks through part of it. I don't have a graphics card. I've just run MemTest86+ for a couple of hours (did a whole pass) and found nothing. What are the next things to test? [link] [comments]  |
| Brand new ryzen system.There is video signal but its just black.Debug led for boot stays on. Posted: 28 Nov 2017 03:37 AM PST Ryzen 1300x cpu Msi b350 PC mate motherboard gskill 8 gb ram msi rx 460 4gb 500 watt psu I have tried everything i can think of but i cant get into the bios no matter what i try.I am using a single stick of ram and tried it in every slot.Power cables are connected correctly and the hdmi is connected directly to the gpu(i even tested the cable with my laptop but it was working fine). I reseated the cpu,tried the other pci slot for the gpu and cleared the cmos several times. Ez debug leds turn on and then off indicating that it passed the cpu, ram and the vga test but the boot led stays on.Do i need to update my bios for ryzen 3 or ram compability? The dual kit of the ram that i use is in the qvl for this motherboard but not the single stick version can this be the problem? [link] [comments]  |
| PC crashes when starting a game (Blue boxes all over the screen) Posted: 28 Nov 2017 03:26 AM PST Happens since yesterday. Was playing a game and all of a sudden my PC crashed. Not just a bluescreen, my screen looks bugged and most of the time it starts with weird blue boxes all over my screen. I thought everything is fine after reinstalling Windows but I started a game again and it crashed. This time just the game crashed with the blue boxes. Everything seems to work just fine when I don't start a game. Is it my graphic card or just the system? What should I do? Was thinking about uninstalling my windows updates, do you think that helps? [link] [comments]  |
| 100% CPU in practically any program Posted: 28 Nov 2017 03:25 AM PST The last couple of days, my computer CPU will spike to 100% whenever my wife or I open a major program. These programs have never done this before, but the last couple of days, we open something we usually use, CPU fan goes loud and task manager says a process for that program is 100% CPU. It did this yesterday when my wife was using Google Chrome. Same for my Firefox, Photoshop, Sim City 4, and Bluestacks. None of these programs have done this before, but now they are. I tried restarting the computer, but CPU still spikes to 100% with fan every time I or my wife opens a program. This is Windows 7 64-bit on Dell Optiplex 780 Does anybody know what the problem could be? [link] [comments]  |
| [WIN7] There's a way to change the folder icons? Posted: 28 Nov 2017 03:25 AM PST Hi guys. As my title say, there's a way to change the icon? but not for a single folder, but as the default one so, when i create a new folder, there will be the new icon automatically. Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Windows Defend missing from services.msc but is in regedit. (Windows 7) Posted: 28 Nov 2017 03:19 AM PST |
| A game crashed my pc, now I can only boot in safe mode, and I get weird lines all over my screen... Posted: 27 Nov 2017 09:15 PM PST Technically a cross post, but I'll go delete the original and put up the pic somewhere if it's a problem. (Link to post/pic https://www.reddit.com/r/PC_Help/comments/7g1lrz/so_a_game_crashed_on_me_and_now_my_screen_is_this/?st=JAJ66COQ&sh=2ac801ad ) Text from post: It mostly seems to be where the screen is displaying blue, as you can see it does not go over the cursor. I can only get this in safe mode, booting normally just hangs on a black screen forever. I loaded up a new game, I don't even remember the name right now, it was a Ubisoft experimental shooter where you grow bigger by collecting the cubes of your enemies, looked somewhere between Evolve and Plain Sight... anyways, I hadn't even got to play it, but as I left the key bindings settings, it just went to a mauve-purple screen with repeating audio and wouldn't respond to anything, so I forced power off. Now I cannot boot normally, and my graphics card seems effed in the a what with all these weird lines (even the boot screen has weird green artefacts over the white text)... what the heck do I do now?? Gonna try rebooting, and if no luck, will try and reinstall graphics drivers in safe mode, but I may not have luck since it won't load up my USB-Ethernet adapter in safe mode... argh :( Edit: device manager shows unknown device with compatible id of VCSVADDS2DHW. A quick search shows this could be intel audio related. I hope this is a fixable audio driver issue and not something actually broken with my GPU, weird how it would manifest visually though... [link] [comments]  |
| Computer freezing when doing any type of window update. Posted: 28 Nov 2017 02:50 AM PST Computer freezing when doing any type of window update. Windows 7, pretty sure this is why I my old OS was freezing too. I have updates to do, but every time I use the windows updater, It always freezes my computer. Very frustrating. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2017 02:43 AM PST I have a problem with my Firefox. For some reason all sites load weird, I can't log in to Office 365 and Google also looks like it's an older version now. This started happening after I blocked a certain site with NoScript. I've tried disabling add-ons and reinstalling Firefox. Even resetting my Firefox settings Any idea why this is happening? and how to fix it I'm on Windows 10 Education 64-bit. [link] [comments]  |
| Business Internet down when running through Sonicwall TZ 300 W Posted: 27 Nov 2017 03:25 PM PST Operating SystemWindows 10 Model of modem, router, or other devicesModem/router combo: Arris NVG595Firewall: SonicWall TZ300Switch: Dell X1052 IP ConfigurationN/A When the issue beganThis morning Recurring issueNo Date of purchaseN/A Description of problemI own a small business without an IT dept. I came in to work this morning and all our computers (running Windows 10 Pro) had the yellow triangle indicating Ethernet plugged in but no internet access. After trying the troubleshooter, resetting the modem/router combo, the firewall, and the switch, still had the same issues. Finally through trial and error realized it was something wrong with the firewall (Sonicwall TZ 300 W). By bypassing the firewall and plugging the switch directly into the router internet access was restored. However, since doing that nobody can access the server or share drive. I can't get a hold of the IT contractor we hired to set this all up. Throwing this up as a last ditch effort in case I'm missing something stupid before hiring a local firm to come out and fix everything. Cause/Steps to recreate the issueAnytime traffic is routed from router to firewall to switch to PCs there is no internet access. Bypassing the firewall fixes the issue. What I've tried so far to resolve the issueReset the modem, firewall, switch and PCs. Ran Windows Network Troubleshooting tool. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2017 02:42 AM PST https://imgur.com/gallery/Xr9BJ Tv worked fine this morning, came home to this and it the lines won't go away. [link] [comments]  |
| Dell XPS 15 9560 recurring blue screens of death Posted: 28 Nov 2017 02:35 AM PST Hello all. I bought my XPS 15 from Dell's website over the summer, but I'm in school in Taiwan this the basic warranty doesn't help me at all. For the last couple of weeks or so I've been getting constant blue screens and "your computer had an unexpected issue and needed to shut down" and I've had to restart it over and over. This has been happening at least once a day when bringing it back from sleep. On the screen it says I should get support from Windows.com/stopcode but that hasn't been useful in the slightest. I tried resetting to an earlier image but it said it had none available. I don't want to factory reset my computer as I've downloaded a bunch of stuff and restoring everything will be a pain, but it seems like it's my only option. Can anyone PLEASE help me? It's honestly driving me crazy and all my programs keep failing and stuff and I don't know what caused it or how to fix it. Any and all help for this would be appreciated. Thank you very much. [link] [comments]  |
| Ethernet connected to 2.4GHz instead of 5GHz Posted: 28 Nov 2017 02:33 AM PST Would like to know how to get computer to connect to the 5GHz channel, it's faster. I don't know how to get it to connect. Only have a wired connection, no wireless chip. Edit: Capital letter. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2017 02:29 AM PST About my PC: It is fairly high spec and just over a year old. CPU: intel 6700k GPU: gtx 1070 RAM: 8gb PSU: Unfortunately I do not remember its details well I'm fairly sure it was gold rated and believe that it was 450w however I'm pretty uncertain on that. (I wanted to open it up and look but is has a sticker that says if it's removed warranty is voided which doesn't sound so great.) I was having a chill night on my computer when I noticed a strange electrical smell that got stronger and stronger. My instincts were that it was my computers PSU (even though my pc seemed to be functioning normally) so I immediately shut it down and disconnected it from the power. I have a few electronic devices in my room that were running so decided to disconnect them all and let the smell dissipate. I decided to try and isolate the source of the smell so I opened up my pc and started it up. Everything appeared to be operating normally but Sure enough after about 3 minutes I smelt it again this time it definitely appeared to be coming from the PSU. Now I don't know much about PSU failures however I have heard of cases where they have fried all the components of a pc. This is where I start getting nervous... because starting about a couple of weeks back I experienced a noticeable drop in FPS when playing games, far below what I thought my GPU was capable of, but I didn't really think too much of it. Could this mean that my GPU has been damaged by a fault in my power supply, or maybe hasn't been able to function at maximum due to lack of power delivery and will be able to function normally with new PSU. Note: I was running dual monitors until I noticed the drop in FPS, after which I disconnected one. I'm not very knowledgeable in this area so any ideas/opinions would be greatly appreciated. :) [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2017 02:18 AM PST Laptop: HP Probook 4530s (2009) I3 processor 8GB RAM Windows 7, but now Windows 10. So, my laptop took some physical trauma recently. Not long after it wouldn't boot. I had a dual boot with Ubuntu on there. Neither OS wanted to boot, but I didn't know if it was just the hard drive failing, or if it was other issues with the laptops hardware. So, I did a fresh install of Windows 10 (it was on 7 before) so now what happens is, browser will just not launch (Or, an outline of the window will open up, and it'll freeze, and most things take forever to open up and everything crawls. I threw in a flash drive with Ubuntu on it, and it operates fine, which makes me think the rest of the hardware is fine except the hard drive. But I also worry the laptop may simply be too old for Win10, I've read about this but don't know much about it either way. Does this sound like my HDD is gone and I should just put in an SSD, or do you think it may be that my laptop is too old for Windows 10? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 28 Nov 2017 02:11 AM PST When I try to open iTunes and AMD Radeon Settings I get an error "____.exe - Application Error The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application." I've tried all the fixes I could find on internet with the .NET reinstall, Microsoft Visual C++ reinstall, DirectX reinstall and none have seemed to help. It's really bugging me and this might be a dummy problem so please help me out! I might have even made a mistakes when attempting fixes mentioned above, but I've been struggling with this since I updated my AMD Drivers, and 3-4 weeks have past since then. Thank you for your kindness fellow redditors! - I have Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit version. [link] [comments]  |
| [Open] High/100% disk usage since Windows 10 update Posted: 27 Nov 2017 06:33 PM PST A couple weeks ago I got a Windows 10 update -- I think it was the creator update. It was around then, anyway. Since then my computer will randomly shoot up to 100% disk usage and basically brick my computer for 10-60 minutes. It often happens around an hour after startup, but sometimes it happens hours later too. I'll be able to do some things that don't obviously use disk, like scrolling up and down a large AskReddit thread (presumably because it's all already in RAM), but as soon as I try to hit a new website or something else Chrome will just freeze. I won't even be able to do something like open Task Manager if it's not already open. Some googling gave me ideas like disabling Telemetry, or disabling Windows Store, or updating drivers, but nothing has done the trick so far. The strangest thing is that neither Task Manager nor the Resource Monitor are able to tell me what, exactly, is hogging all my disk. Screenshot disk usage is at 100% and everything is frozen, but no tasks/processes are using any significant disk. Same thing here. Or, this one doesn't even have any processes using disk. Anybody have experience or thoughts on what's going on here? Or, even thoughts on how to diagnose the problem? I don't know what else to do besides having Task Manager/Resource Monitor up when the problem randomly crops up, since I can't do anything while my computer's frozen. And even that doesn't seem to have given any useful diagnostic information. [link] [comments]  |
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