PC Hardware & Support
Building, upgrading and fixing computers.
guys pls help confession: my only backup of my family photos is File History... im fairly sure thats not enough, but every guide i find is either enterprise level or a sales pitch... whats a sensible, low effort setup for a normal person with a desktop and a…
long time lurker first post lol im on a work call, my over ear headphones go silent, and i have to unplug and replug everything while people wait... again... this is what Device Manager shwoed afterwards: It seems worse when I'm downloading large files. Is…
ok weird one i opened CrystalDiskInfo out of curiosity and got this for my laptop SSD: Uncorrectable Sector Count is flagged. The drive seems to work fine: files open, no strange noises. But now i cant stop thinking about it. How serious is this?? Do i have…
help!! trying to do a fresh install of Windows on my laptops replacement SSD, and teh installer says there are no drives: it asks me to load a driver, but I dont know which one. the drive shows in teh BIOS, sooo its not completely dead. what am I missing??…
so annoyed rn confession: my only backup of my game captures is a second internal disk... im fairly sure thats not enough, but every guide i find is either enterprise level or a sales pitch... whats a sensible, low effort setup for a normal person with a…
help!! sooo i was literally in teh middle of a boss fight and my whole srceen just froze into a mess of gibberish lol i tried reseating the ram and checking my temps but it keeps happening even when im just idling on teh desktop... its so frustrating cuz i…
imagine finally buying a bigger SSD, copying all your footage over neatly, opening the project, and seeing this: every clip from teh second shoot day is red. the files are definately on teh new drive, i can play them in a normal media player. Please tell me…
mild panic here because the only way to configure my scanners buttons is through teh vendor app, and Windows flat out refuses to open it: It even happened to a second copy i downloaded again. Am i dealing with a broken download, a 32/64 bit thing, or…
everything was fine until i started grading. now my NLE keeps showing: the project uses 6K RAW clips with stabilization on most clips, renders also fail. what settings shuold i change? The GPU drivers are up to date and the PC handles games without problems.…
hmmmm ok every project starts the same way: i import a screen recording into my NLE and get media offline right after improt: I've been converting files with random online tools, but teh quality suffers. Is there a proper workflow? id like a workflow that…
ugh. i need a calm person to talk me down. that's my Linux Mint laptop after switching to an NVMe drive. it just freezes there with teh caps lock light blinking. I have a live USB from when I installed it. I'm comfortable with a terminal but I've never had…
hmmmm ok my PC just turns off after about ten minutes of running a benchmark. no blue screen, no freeze, just instantly dark, like the power was cut. it turns back on fine afterwards. the last time, the app i was using threw this on the way down: Event…
quick question before i buy a new drawing tablet: Thats what i see whenever i connect it through teh monitors USB port.. 🤷 i rebooted, uninstalled teh device in Device Manager, and tried again. Same thing 😤 Is there anything else on teh software side worth…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts ive been dual booting Windows and Pop! OS for a while, and i noticed i almost never boot Windows anymore. The only reason i keep it is music production, and even that is starting to feel optional. Before i wipe the…
so annoyed rn im on a work call, my wireless earubds go silent, and i have to unplug and replug everything while ppl wait. again, this is what Device Manager showed afterwards: It seems worse when i'm downloading large files. Is that a real pattern or am i…
ok weird one i opened my project in DaVinci Resolve after the external drive getting a new letter, and my heart sank: just the audio files show 'Media Offline'. The files are all still there, I can see them in Explorer. I have weeks of edits in this project.…
My PC keeps crashing with this, usually overnight: WHEA UNCORRECTABLE ERROR. It passed hours of stress testing when i set up an undervolt, sooo i assumed it was stable. Now Im not so suree. Event Viewer has WHEA Logger entries too. Is teh CPU damaged? i dont…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts hey, scenario: a screen recording with a separate voice over track. Everything matches for the first few minutes, then my mouth and teh words visibly drift apart: i tried re importing, same result. Is it the recorder,…
help!! my laptop cant play 4K smoothly, so proxies are the only way i can edit :/ today they wont generate: the output folder is on my external drive and i can create files there manually. Where do i start?
ok weird one added a new NVMe SSD to my PC for extra games storage. its nowhere to be seen in Device Manager: Also, one of my SATA drives disappeared at the same time. That feels connected but i cant figure out how. Id really like both drives to work at the…
help!! to add some context: noticed in a monitoring tool that my GPUs hotspot (junction) temperature is way above the edge temperature during long play sessions. it used to be closer. performance hasnt dropped as far…
our household has a few laptops and a desktop with work files, family photos and some scanned documents. i want a backup setup that doesnt depend on me remembering. i understand the idea of 3 copies, 2 media, 1…
Ive got a dual monitor setup and one screen randomly blanks for a second or two. No pattern i can see. Running at a high refresh rate on DisplayPort. Wondering whether to blame the monitor, the cable, or teh GPU before…
ok so this is a good thraed. Two drvies, one small Linux box, family data :D Option A: mirror them 🔥 Option B: use one as primary and teh other as a nightly versioned backup target. Option C: something else? i want to…
ugh. one of the hard drives in my desktop (used for media and backups) has started making occasional clicking sounds, and copying large files sometimes stalls for a second. A SMART tool reports the overall health as…
