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Hi guys I have a pretty serious PC problem so I hope some of you can help me. A few days ago during a shutdown Windows hangs on shutdown by switching to a black screen that leads the PC to a loop of blank reboots terminated by a direct shutdown of the PC using the power button. Subsequently, the...

Computer randomly freezes, slowly every app will lock up and the only option I have is to hold down the power button to shut it all down, and then it works perfectly fine again afterwards until the next crash The higher I have the xmp settings at (3600-3200-2666) etc, the faster it will crash...

Hello, I’m new to this forum. Hope I’m posting in the right category. So as the title says, I’m getting lesser than average scores on my 3080 fe paired with a 5600x. Users and reviewers got a graphics score of 17800-18000 at stock. I don’t like to fiddle around much expect for the fan curve so I...

I've just finished my first proper build, and this is the last hurdle I am stuck on - any help greatly appreciated, I've scoured the web but cannot identify a fix. I've posted a similar summary to different forums to little avail - in my search for fixes I found several people raising similar...

So after this and this post we went ahead and redid the whole loop with 90° fittings and improved layout and new tubes. The PC looks visually good as seen in the picture here. So we thought maybe our problems are solved now, a new and improved layout, a new mainboard, PSU, rad later this could...

Hi! So I’m done building my first PC, and everything appears to be working … but I can’t enter BIOS. I can see the TUF GAMING splash, with the instruction: “Please press DEL or F2 to enter UEFI BIOS setting”. However, when I press/mash either key, nothing happens. I thought it was an issue with...

First up my relevant specs PSU - Corsair HX850 GPU - EVGA GTX1070 Mobo - Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 RAM - 4x8GB So I rebooted the other week (I don't reboot often, usually uptime is many months), and PC didn't want to come back online. It would hang on the BIOS logo, wait about 5 mins then either...

I just finished my new build, the problem is that it freezes or gives me a blue screen when i open games and sometimes while just doing nothing, when i get 2 sticks of ram in it's almost seconds after booting, if i only keep one in it can last for hours but eventually the result will be the...

Issue: I'm trying to share a folder on my home network server PC, but nothing is showing on any of the other network PCs. Background: We have 3 PCs on our network, 2 daily use PCs and one that is act as server and we send files to the folders that are shared on it to back up stuff. This server...

Hi all, I have an Alienware 17 with a GTX 860M with Intel Core i7-4910MQ CPU @ 2.90GHz which is now about 3 years old. A little while ago, I needed to replace my battery – initially no problem. About a month ago I noted that on mains, when the laptop battery reached full charge, the laptop...

Hi all, as title says i bought a soundblaster z soundcard, set it all up, works fine while the pc is on, but whenever i shut down and turn the pc back on the driver has magically gone/uninstalled, so far iv tried: *installing the latest win10 driver *disabling all other drivers for sound...

I have had this monitor for about 2 months now with no problems but all of a sudden a faint grey horizontal line has appeared across the monitor, all drivers for my monitor and graphics card are up to date and i have tried unplugging the monitor then plugging it back in but that hasn't worked...

Very annoying, Windows wont update and now takes 2 hours just for me to log in On the desktop I can download the updates fine. But when I have to restart to install them that's when trouble starts..... When turning on the computer these messages appear; It says Windows is configuring updates...

Hi, so I built this PC recently out of some components I had already and some new components. The specs are: Intel Xeon X3440 not oveclocked with a stock intel heatsink MSI R9 270 ASUS P7Q57-M DO Motherboard 500GB Seagate Pipeline (refurbished) Aerocool 500W Integrator 80+ Bronze (brand new) 8GB...