PC Hardware & Support
Building, upgrading and fixing computers.
ok weird one my wireless earbuds keep disconnecting from my PC roughly every ten 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…
hmmmm ok i just installed a second M.2 drive and it doesn't appear in File Explorer: its seated in teh M.2 slot and screwed down. the motherboard manual says teh slot supports it lmao im starting to think the drive is defective. before i send it back, what…
guys pls help total panic moment, my NLE after restoring from a backup: just teh audio files are offline. The footage isn't deleted, just moved. i realy don't want to rebuild the timeline by hand. How do i reconnect everything? I've learned my lesosn about…
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, sooo i assumed it was stable. Now Im not so sure. Event Viewer has WHEA Logger entries too. Is the CPU…
i need a calm person to talk me down. Thats my Pop! OS laptop after rseizing teh root partition 🔥 It just freezes there with teh caps lock light blinking. i have a live USB from when i installed it. Im comfortable with a terminal but Ive never had to repair…
Ive been dual booting Windows and Debian for a while, and i noticed i almost never boot Windows anymore. The only reason i keep it is programming, and even that is starting to feel optional. Before i wipe the Windows partition, i want to hear from ppl who…
ok so im on a work call, my Bluetooth headphones go silent, and i have to unplug and rpelug everything while people wait. Again. This is what Device Manager showed afterwards: it seems worse when Im downloading large files. is that a real pattern or am I…
spent hours on an edit only to notice the audio drifts after 10 minutes. heres what I see in Resolve: The source is a gameplay capture. It plays fine in a media player. Why does the editor show it differently? Short clips are fine. The problem only shows up…
ok so im planning a build with a 16 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 sipmle and reliable. The AIO looks cleaner and Ive heard it helps with spikes. I care…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts short version: blue screen, restart, repeat. longer version: teh Dell Inspiron is about two years old and was perfectly stable until roughly a month ago... now it crashes while joining a voice call, sometimes twice in an…
trying to do a fresh insatll of Windows on my second M.2 drive, and teh installer says there are no drives: It asks me to load a driver, but I don't know which one. The drive shows in the BIOS, so it's not completely dead. What am I missing? lol I'd rather…
guys pls help i spend most of my day on writing and my desk feels like a museum of half good decsiions. three mice, a keyboard I dont love, a wbecam taped to teh monitor. I want to rebuild it properly this year. what do you use and why? xD im especially…
Weird one. After switching to an NVMe drive, my Arch install panics on boot: But if i pick the previous kernel under advanced options in GRUB, it boots fine and everything works. So teh disk isnt dead. Whats different about teh new kernel entry? Id like to…
guys pls help i upgraded to a 4 stick 64 GB kit, enabled XMP in the BIOS, and since then Ive been getting this every day or two: MEMORY MANAGEMENT. sometimes its Chrome that just closes instead... with XMP off everything is stable but slower, is the RAM…
weird one :/ after enabling disk encryption, my Fedora install pancis on boot: but if i pick teh previous kernel under advanced options in GRUB, it boots fine and everything works. so teh disk isnt dead. whats different about teh new kernel entry? id like to…
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…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts curious how others handle this: when do you use proixes, and when do you edit native?? im working with 10 bit phone footage on a gaming PC and want a reliable workflow without wasting hours. I want smth reliable that I…
guys pls help hot take request: for a budegt quad core, is an AIO just a status symobl? i see ppl with huge radiators on chips that would be perfectly happy under a decent tower cooler. On the other hand, i've seen air coolers that block RAM slots and barely…
long time lurker first post lol my secondhand mining card has started showing artifacts in the BIOS screen... colored blocks, stretched polygons, flickering lines across the screen: it doesnt crash right away, but its getting more frequent. i updated the…
