PC Hardware & Support
Building, upgrading and fixing computers.
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…
guys pls help we have a multifunction pirnter on our office network that randomly goes "offline" for half the PCs. restarting it fixes things for a few days. i suspect something network related, but i'm not suree what.…
Every time I boot, the PC is unusable for ages. Clicking the Start menu takes seconds, apps hang with "Not responding", and Task Manager shows this: CPU and memory are fine. It's the disk pinned at 100%. I'm genuinely close to throwing it out the window.
quick question before I buy a new USB flash drive: That's what i see whenever i connect it through the rear USB 3.0 port. i rebooted, uninstalled the device in Device Manager, and tried again. Same thing. Is there anything else on the software side worth…
Picture a wedding film: ninety minutes long, delivery due tomorrow. i queue teh export, go make dinner, and come back to this:
guys pls help my budget notebook takes forever to become usable after opening the browser... task Manager shows this: Disk at 100%, and teh response time is huge. Clicking anything takes ages. After 15 or 20 minutes it calms down. Its a few years old with a…
ugh. picture it: you upgrade to a camera that shoots 10 bit 4:2:2, film a whole weekend, get home, import, and: pls help 🙏
I was copying files over teh network on my home built Ryzen PC when teh screen went blue for the third time this week. Same message every time: It counts to 100%, reboots, and everything looks fine again until the next time. Ive already run Windows Update…
ugh. i upgraded to a DDR4 3600 kit, enabled XMP in the BIOS, and since then Ive been getting this every day or two: MEMORY MANAGEMENT.. xD sometimes its Visual Studio that just closes instead... with XMP off everything is stable but slower, is teh RAM…
Building a workstation that mostly does code compiles, some video encoding, and lots of idle time. Noise is my main concern. The CPU is a 12 core part that can run warm under all core loads. I keep going back and forth…
ok weird one ive followed every guide olnine: disabled SysMain, turned off Search indexing, even uninstalled some apps. still: the family desktop is pegged after every boot. my patience is gone. is there a way to actually find out whats using teh disk…
long time lurker first post lol new build on a B650 board with 2x32 GB DDR5 🙏 With the memory profile (EXPO) enabled, teh system is mostly fine, but every few days i get a random reboot or an app crash :/ With the…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts every so often my keyboard and mouse stop responding for a second or two, and i hear teh Windows "device disconnected" then "connected" sounds. It happens a few times a day. Both…
From experience: Im putting together a mid range gaming build: an 8 core desktop CPU, a single graphics card in teh upper mid tier, two NVMe drives, a handful of fans. The online calculators Ive tried land somewhere…
Im new to serious editing and the free version of Resolve just threw this at me: The timeline is multicam 4K interviews, and I used stabilization a lot. I don't really understand where all the GPU memory goes. Any advice? Any tips on settings or workflow…
my family PC has been trying to install a security update for a week, it downloads, asks to restart, gets to 100% and then says its undoing changes... back in Windows, i get this: error 0x800f0922. I've rebooted more times than I can count. I'm worried that…
im literally losing my mind here my laptop takes forever to become usable after Windows updates. Task Manager shows this: disk at 100%, and teh response time is huge... clicking anything takes ages. after 15 or 20 minutes it calms down... its a few years old…
long time lurker first post lol confession: my only backup of my family photos is cloud storage. I'm fairly sure that's not enough, but every guide I find is either enterprise level or a sales pitch. what's a sensible, low effort setup for a normal person…
ok so short version: blue screen, restart, repeat. Longer version: teh ThinkPad laptop is about two years old and was perfectly stable until roughly a month ago. Now it crashes while copying files over teh network, sometimes twice in an evening. i havent…
so annoyed rn i edit 6K RAW on a gaming PC 😤 Playback is choppy, and everyone tells me to use proxies. But it adds steps and disk usage. Is it really worth it, or should I just upgrade my hardware? I'd love to hear how others organize this: storage,…
ive got a small form factor office desktop thats maybe six years old: quad core CPU, 8 GB of RAM, a SATA SSD, it runs everyday stuff fine... my nephew wants to play some lighter games on it, and i wondered about adding…
inspired by a coworker's setup, i'm thinking about a mechanical keyboard. before i spend teh money, i want to hear the downsides from people who own one. what annoyed u in teh first week? did you get used to it, or did it end up in a drawer? bonus points for…
ugh. i was streaming video on my Dell Inspiron when the screen went blue for the third time this week. Same message every time: it counts to 100%, reboots, and everything looks fine again until teh next time. ive alerady run Windows Update and the system…
