PC Hardware & Support
Building, upgrading and fixing computers.
ok so i need a calm person to talk me down. Thats my Pop! OS laptop after enabling disk encryption. It just freezes there with the caps lock light blinking, i have a live USB from when i installed it. Im comfortable with a terminal but Ive never had to…
im literally losing my mind here my laptop takes forever to become usable after every boot... task Manager shows this: Disk at 100%, and the response time is huge. Clicking anything takes ages. After 15 or 20 minutes it calms down. Its a few years old with a…
After a graphics driver update, my monitor just says No Signal and goes to sleep. The PC is definately on, fans spinning, keyboard lights up. Im using a DisplayPort cable that worked fine before. Ive tried turning everything off and on again. Im afraid Ive…
guys pls help got this today: the old boot SSD holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning Ive ever seen. uncorrectable Sector Count went from zero to a small number. should i replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go…
okay, Im officially frustrated. my Dell Inspiron has been blue screening with IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL, and it always seems to happen while joining a voice call, heres what it looks like: i have a deadline on Friday and i can't trust this machine to stay up…
ugh. heres my crash: it happens at idle, maybe twice a week. WHEA Logger Event ID 18 says smth about a processor core and a cache hierarchy error. I have no idea what that means in human terms. if someone can translate those log entries into plain language,…
ok weird one i just finished my first build. Everything lights up, the fans spin, but theres no display and the DRAM debug LED on the B650 board stays solid. I've reseated the RAM twice and checked the 24 pin and CPU power cables. I'm terrified I bent a pin…
ugh. question for teh backup nerds: how often do you test restoring? i realized Ive been backing up my client projects to a NAS for years and Ive never once tried to get a file back from it. Is that as risky as it suddenly feels? Also curious how you…
built this PC myself a year ago and it was perfect until now, lately it shuts down during exporting phtoos. i wacthed HWiNFO and the CPU was near 100°C right before it went dark. At idle its normal. Im wondering if the cooler isnt making proper contact…
so annoyed rn i recorded phone footage and dropped it into my NLE ;) everythings perfectly in sync at teh start, but after 10 minutes the audio is noticeably behind: Cutting and nudging every few minutes is driving me crazy 🤦 Is there a real fix for this?…
guys pls help has anyone beaten 0x800f0922?? im close to giving up. the work from home desktop is otherwise healthy, plenty of free space on C:, no weird software. i did resize partitions a while ago to give more space to C:, if that matters. every attempt…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts panic post. this appeared only after warming up: i had a mild overclock on my laptop GPU through the vendor tool, and Ive already reset it to stock. the glitches still appear sometimes. im hoping its a driver thing, but…
ok so weeks of work, and after renaming my project folder, DaVinci Resolve shows this for only the drone shots: I tried dragging teh files back in, but that just created duplicates. whats the proper way to relink? the files are definatley there, same names,…
so annoyed rn every project starts teh same way: i import a screen recoridng into the free Resolve vesrion and get clips wont import at all: ive been converting files with random online tools, but teh quality suffres. is there a proper workflow?? I'd like a…
its 1 AM and my new build refuses to POST. thats all the monitor shows, the DRAM LED on teh B550 board lights up and stays on. I waited five minutes and nothing changed... my old PC is already sold, so I have nothing else to test parts with... please tell me…
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 dont realy understand where all the GPU memroy goes. any advice?? any tips on settings or workflow…
im literally losing my mind here quick question before I buy a new external hard drive: That's what i see whenever i connect it through teh laptop's USB C port, i rebooted, uninstalled the device in Device Manager, and tried again. Same thing. Is there…
long time lurker first post lol i've been running a first gen Ryzen for a long time and i'm wondering whether it's holding me back for code compiling. i don't want to spend money on a new CPU, motherboard and RAM only to see a small difference. how did you…
pressed the power button for the first time with my heart pounding. result: The VGA light is on and nothing else happens. I used the RAM slots that looked logical to me, teh first two. Was that a mistake?? Ive built it inside teh case already, so Id love to…
ugh. my PC keeps crashing with this, usually while browsing: WHEA UNCORRECTABLE ERROR.. ;) it passed hours of stress testing when i set up a CPU overcolck, so i assumed it was stable, now Im not so sure... event Viewer has WHEA Logger entries too... is the…
Help! Client footage is a mirrorless camera's 10 bit files, and my NLE gives me clips won't import at all: I need to start editing today. What's the fatsest reliable fix? Im comfortable with simple command line tools if thats what it takes. I just need a…
I finally added a monitor arm to my desk after years of putting it off, and it has quietly changed my whole day of spreadsheet work. It made me curious what everyone else is using. Not the fanciest gear, but the stuff youd actually rebuy tomorrow if it…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts honest question: does cable management matter for anything except looks? my PC sits under teh desk with a solid side panel. im not suree its worth an afternoon of fighting with cable combs. but I keep seeing ppl say it…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts 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 drvies disappeared at the same time 🔥 That feels connected but i cant figure out how. Id really like…
hmmmm ok weird one. after a power cut mid update, my Ubuntu install panics on boot: but if I pick teh previous kernel under advanced options in GRUB, it boots fine and everything works... so the disk isnt dead. whats diffreent about the new kernel entry?? id…
