PC Hardware & Support
Building, upgrading and fixing computers.
help! client footage is OBS recordings, and my NLE gives me unsupported codec on every clip: I need to start editing today. whats the fastest reliable fix? im comfortable with simple command line tools if thats what it takes. I just need a reliable fix that…
guys pls help i bought a secodnhand mining card secondhand a few weeks ago, it seemed fine at first, but now i get this on the desktop: The seller said it was never overclocked, i can still return it for a few more days. How can i prove whether its teh card…
I spend most of my day on video editing and my desk feels like a museum of half good decisions... three mice, a kebyoard I dont love, a webcam taped to teh monitor. I want to rebuild it properly this year.. ;) what do u use and why? im especially curious…
My PC keeps crashing with this, usually under light load: WHEA UNCORRECTABLE ERROR. it passed hours of stress testing when I set up a CPU overclock, so I assumed it was stable lol now Im not sooo suree. event Viewer has WHEA Logger entreis too lmao is teh…
i upgraded to a DDR5 6000 kit, enabled XMP in the BIOS, and since then Ive been getting this every day or two: MEMORY MANAGEMENT. sometimes it's Chrome that just closes instead. with XMP off everything is stable but slower. is teh RAM faulty, or is my system…
everything was fine until i started grading. now the free version of Resolve keeps showing: The project uses 8K timelapse with Fusion titles on most clips. Renders also fail. What settings should I change? the GPU drivers are up to date and the PC handles…
hmmmm ok my wireless earbuds keep disconnecting from my PC roughly every fifteen minutes. The sound cuts out, the reconnect chime plays, and sometimes it doesnt come back at all. Device Manager shows this after one of the drops: On my phone the same wireless…
i just finished my first build. Everything lights up, the fans spin, but theres no display and the BOOT debug LED on the B550 board stays solid. ive reseated the RAM twice and checked the 24 pin and CPU power cables 😭 im terrified i bent a pin or fried…
guys pls help classic dilemma. i have some money saved and i can either replace my 6 core from three generations back or upgrade my GPU. i mainly use the PC for streaming while gaming. everyone online has strong opinions, but most are about different use…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts im about ready to return this 4 stick 64 GB kit. Thats teh third blue screen this week, usually while Chrome is open. I ran Windows Memory Diagnostic and it found nothing. But Ive read that tool isnt very thorough. Whats…
Classic dilemma. I have some money saved and I can either replace my older i5 or upgrade my GPU. I mainly use the PC for code compiling. Everyone online has strong opinions, but most are about different use cases. If uve been in a similar spot, what did you…
my three year old GPU has started shoiwng artifacts on teh desktop. colored blocks, stretched polygons, flickering lines across teh screen: It doesnt crash right away, but its getting more frequent... i updated the driver yesterday and nothing changed. Is…
ok so heres the crash: and heres teh twist: i added a second pair of sticks to make four, same model, and thats when it started. the DDR5 6400 kit was fine alone. do four sticks really change things that much? the crashes are random enough that i cant…
ok so my PC keeps crashing with this, usually under light load: WHEA UNCORRECTABLE ERROR. It passed hours of stress testing when i set up a multicore enhancement setting, so i assumed it was stable. Now Im not sooo sure. Event Viewer has WHEA Logger entries…
its 1 AM and my new build refuses to POST. thats all teh monitor shows. the CPU LED on the mini ITX board lights up and stays on. i waited five minutes and nothing changed. my old PC is already sold, sooo i have nothing else to test parts with... please tell…
Weird one. After switching to an NVMe drive, my Ubuntu install panics on boot: But if i pick teh previous kernel under advanced options in GRUB, it boots fine and everything works xD So the disk isnt dead. Whats different about teh new kernel entry? Id like…
i finished editing a project Im realy proud of, hit render to ProRes in Resolve Studio, and at 37%: I tried again, same result... im sending this to a client tomorrow morning and Im panicking... how do I find out whats breaking? ive tried restarting,…
render job failed. again. daVinci Resolve, exporting to DNxHR, fails at 37%: Playback in the timeline works fine. i dont understand why export doesnt. Any debugging tips? Ive exported many projects without issues before. This is teh first time it fails like…
strange one. ever since a graphics driver update, teh screen stays black through teh BIOS logo and only comes on once Windows finishes loading: sometimes it doesnt come on at all and I have to unplug teh DisplayPort cable and plug it back in. it works fine…
so annoyed rn im planning a build with a 8 core CPU in a glass panel showcase case and I keep going back and forth on cooling. Big tower air cooler, or a 240/280 AIO?? Air feels simple and reliable. The AIO looks cleaner and Ive heard it helps with spikes. I…
ok so hot take: editing native is overrated for most projects. Or is it? I edit 6K RAW on an older workstation, and Id love to hear real experiences before I commit to a workflow. Experiences from people with similar hardware would be esepcially valuable.…
im literally losing my mind here my secondhand laptop has been trying to install teh .NET cmuulative 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. Ive rebooted…
ugh. classic dilemma. i have some money saved and i can either replace my 6 core from three generations back or upgrade my GPU. i mainly use the PC for video editing. Everyone online has strong opinions, but most are about different use cases. If uve been in…
help!! i upgraded to a DDR4 3600 kit, enabled XMP in teh BIOS, and since then Ive been getting this every day or two: MEMORY MANAGEMENT. sometimes its a game that just closes instead. with XMP off everything is stable but slwoer. is the RAM faulty, or is my…
I'm new to serious editing and the free version of Resolve just threw this at me: The timeline is 6K RAW clips, and I used a heavy color grade a lot. I don't really understand where all the GPU memory goes. Any advice? Any tips on settings or workflow…
