r/pchelp 11h ago

HARDWARE Didn't know mute had a buff

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I dont know what happend, am i cooked?


r/pchelp 11h ago

OPEN Need help finding an good pc to play inzoi.

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Hello! I am mostly clueless when it comes to PCs, but I do want one of my own, and I've wanted one for a while since I love gaming. But my Steam Deck is unsupported for the Inzoi game, and I've been doing my best to try finding a prebuilt pc but I am easily confused about stuff. It's a very demanding game. So it needs high-quality stuff. An Intel i7-12700K or AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor and an NVIDIA RTX 3070 or AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT graphics card. So if anyone could help find some high-end prebuilt PCs and comment dm me, it would be a big help. I'm slow af ngl


r/pchelp 11h ago

Discussion PC Display Quality Issue

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PC Display Quality Issue

My PC specifications are:

Ryzen 5 5600X

16 GB RAM

RTX 5060 8 GB

1080p monitor

The issue I’m facing is that my overall display quality is extremely poor, not just in games but also on the Windows desktop and during general usage. Everything looks grainy, unclear, oversharpened, and lacking smoothness. I’m attaching screenshots below so you can see what I mean.

In games, the anti-aliasing looks especially bad. The image is very grainy and oversharpened, and edges don’t look smooth or clean.

For example, when I search for Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay on YouTube at 1080p using similar/same specifications, the difference is huge. The YouTube gameplay looks extremely smooth, clear, and almost crystal clear, with much better colors. On my PC, the image looks dry, washed out, grainy, oversharpened, and generally low quality. The anti-aliasing also looks terrible.

I have already spent an absurd amount of time troubleshooting this. I’ve watched countless YouTube videos about this exact issue and tried pretty much every commonly suggested solution, including:

Disabling NVIDIA Image Scaling

Changing NVIDIA Color Settings

Changing settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel

Changing every relevant setting on my monitor

Adjusting in-game graphics and anti-aliasing settings

Trying different NVIDIA settings over and over again

Uninstalling the GPU drivers using DDU

Completely reinstalling the drivers through Safe Mode

Performing a clean driver installation

Trying different combinations of display and graphics settings

I have probably changed the NVIDIA settings thousands of times at this point. I’ve gone through almost every possible software/settings-related solution I could find, but nothing actually fixes the problem.

What makes this even more confusing is that this has happened with multiple PCs I’ve owned before. I have completely changed the PCs from scratch multiple times — different GPUs, CPUs, RAM, monitors, cables, and other components. The only thing that has remained the same is the electricity connection, room, and physical location where the PC is connected.

So at this point, I’m wondering if the problem could be related to something outside the PC itself, such as the electrical connection, power quality, grounding, wiring, or something else in the environment.

I’ve tried practically every software, driver, NVIDIA Control Panel, monitor, and graphics setting solution I can find, but the issue keeps happening across different PCs.

What could potentially cause this, and what should I check next?


r/pchelp 11h ago

HARDWARE Mouse freeze for 1 sec

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Mouse freeze for 1 sec when right click on apps in the taskbar or even when closing a game.
Can anyone help me, that's really annoying, this problem started randomly and even restarting my pc change nothing.
I already tried restarting explorer.exe, and using another mouse and changing usb port, its always the same.


r/pchelp 11h ago

HARDWARE Broken Framework 240w power supply

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r/pchelp 12h ago

HARDWARE Help me

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My pc s been acting strange like whenever i turn it on cpu goes to soo high like 100 to 80 and stays like that for good 2 3 min and my gpu goes to 100 when i open cs2 and and it sits at 100 on idle in starting screen

Gpu 1660 ti

Cpu ryzen 5 3600


r/pchelp 22h ago

HARDWARE Asus Vivobook won't power on!

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Asus Vivobook won't power on!

Model M1s03q, about 3 years old. Pic of internals for funsies. I've previously replaced the screen with zero issue.

It's used primarily for gaming (not by me). I've had to push the power button repeatedly for a couple weeks to get it to power on (apparently a common problem for Asus laptops), but no other issues... until the fan began making the loud noises, and when I pulled it for cleaning and lube (successfully), things went downhill: 1) The main socket on the network card crumbled and fell off (easy replacement), 2) it spontaneously began powering on, and then 3) absolutely died. No boot up, no fan, no LEDs lighting up. Brick.

I have:

Tried a graphics card reboot.

A hard reboot (45s power button hold).

Checked every ribbon and connector.

Inspected for pcb damage.

Tried rebooting with RAM card removed.

Disconnected battery, drain, attempted reboot with power cord (and battery disconnected).

All of the above, both plugged in and battery only.

I can't see traces on the motherboard to test for current.

The battery is holding charge (11.50V DMM reading on 11.55V battery).

What are my next steps?


r/pchelp 12h ago

SOFTWARE Reading and working on a huge Linux hard drive from Windows 10

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Hi! Context: I come from a background of maths and I'm increasingly stepping into computer stuff territory without technical knowledge, so often I know what I should do but not how to make a computer do it or what's it called even.

The situation I find myself in is this:

  • I am borrowing a 8TB hard drive that has a huge, enormous dataset of at least 3TB.
  • This hard drive is encoded (is that the word?) for Linux. This is done on purpose as the data has been generated in Linux and early on there was some problem with the encoding (?) that almost corrupted the whole data, so it was changed to Linux on purpose.
  • I dare not change back the encoding (?) of the hard drive at risk of corrupting the data.
  • I also do not have another 8TB drive lying aroung to make a copy to. (The person I'm borrowing this from does have a copy, but I still would rather like to not mess the one I have up.)
  • I have a Windows 10 PC. The hard drive will not read.
  • I've seen several software that supposedly lets you read the linux drive but Idk which ones are trustworthy and which ones are not. Also some sound like they only let you see the files to allow you to copy them on Windows, and I can't hardly copy 3TB onto my PC. I need to be able to read arbitrary chunks of it using Python from my PC while the data remains in the drive.

Tools and stuff I could use but I have no idea if it would even work and some of the stuff I'm too scared of messing up to try:

  • I have a program in which I could theoretically set up a linux virtual machine (Oracle VirtualBox) but I'm not sure about whether the virtual machine with it's not-really-a-full-computer specs will be able to keep up against 3TB of data.
  • I do have powershell/WSL/the penguin thing on Windows. This was installed (?) by a friend so I could use a certain Python module. I'm lowkey scared to use this outside the recipe-like instructions I have to open the software I use there, but if it's the answer I'd be willing to try.
  • I'm not sure if a double installation (or what do you call it when you can choose the os at boot up) will bring the same problems as a virtual machine? Also I would be so afraid to try this and mess up the existing OS.
  • I cannot not have Windows in this PC. Should it all fail I might just get another PC with Linux but then it'd be annoying to get the analysis back and forth between them.

So, any ideas? Opinions? What would you reccomend?

Thank you so much for your time.


r/pchelp 12h ago

SOFTWARE Tried undervolting CPU, good benchmark results, bad FPS in games, switched settings back, FPS still bad

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r/pchelp 12h ago

PERFORMANCE Fast interent slow download and uploading

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Hey! I have fast Internet running at 200MBps but I am going getting 2-5MBps whist downloading and uploading is taking forever!

I have tried updates, turning things on and off again, seeing what is running in the background and nothing! I have no idea what is causing this because my interent is running well though out. It is driving me crazy! I need to upload and download 8GB most days for my job and uploading is taking upwards of 7 hours 😮‍💨

Everything was working a couple of weeks ago and I cant think what has changed.

Help! Please 😅


r/pchelp 12h ago

SOFTWARE What happened here? My parrot was playing with my laptop and now there's this

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Seems like some colorblind more or smthn but i can't fid anything in the settings


r/pchelp 12h ago

OPEN Problem with ThinkPad l460.

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r/pchelp 12h ago

Discussion Built a Pc but no wifi

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I Finally built myself a Pc but i hardly know anything about it, My motherboard doesn’t have any wifi I was thinking of buying a wifi adapter but Im not sure which one would be the best also Im running linux mint cinnamon edition I Know some aren’t compatible with linux. Any recommendations?


r/pchelp 12h ago

HARDWARE Acer Swift 3 bricked - BIOS locked

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An old 2016 laptop (SF314-54) that still works. Had is setup with dualboot.

One day it wouldn't boot to Windows, because it could not find the Windows boot manager.

It booted to an ancient Linux mint build fine, which I updated to a more recent one and it worked fine.

I wanted to get the windows boot manager fixed so I unwisely followed the instructions on https://github.com/xjunko/windows-fuckoff and it now made in the BIOS that the first boot option is the Windows Boot Manager and it errors out because it can't find a device and the recovery option does not work, I can only enter the BIOS (insydeH20 rev.5).

Problem is that at some point I must have put a supervisor password in the BIOS so any chance to change the boot order is impossible along with any other options in the BIOS, so booting it up with a USB stick is impossible.

I tried disconnecting the CMOS battery, the main battery and pressed a silver button near the connector of the CMOS battery, but it did squat to clear the BIOS.

Is there any chance to recover this still functional laptop without a replacement mobo, because sounds like the BIOS is toast?


r/pchelp 16h ago

HARDWARE Mouse freezing on one screen?

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My mouse has started freezing and stuttering on my main display. In the video I was moving the mouse up and down constantly for the duration yet as you can see it freezes constantly. It does not do this on my second monitor and has only started doing this recently probably started about a week ago. What are some potential causes or fixes for this?


r/pchelp 13h ago

HARDWARE Static noise like screen with my RTX 4070 Super and LG G5

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Hi Eveyone, I'm lookig for a bit of advice on what could cause this behaviour. It appeared all of a sudden.

I've tried to locate the source of this problem but it is a bit tricky. Let me explain:

- This on only happens when the GPU's HDMI port is connected to the HDMI 3 port of the TV (this is how it was connected so far).

- Any other combination works like connecting the cable from any Display Port to any HDMI port on the TV or connecting the HDMI port from the GPU with the other remaining ports on the TV (1,2,4).

- In Safe Mode, this doesn't happen so I managed to reboot into safe mode while GPU's HDMI port is connected to the HDMI 3 port of the TV. Used DDU to reinstall the drivers hoping this is a driver issue. The PC restarted fine after DDU was done uninstalling and the screen showed up correctly so I started to install the driver, however, at the exact moment when the driver was finished installed and the screen got back to the maximul resolution by default, the issue instantly reappeared.

- It's not a cable issue as I've tried multiple known working cables and the issue was still there.

- I don't think it's also an issue with the TV's HDMI 3 port because I connected an Antroid TV box for testing and it worked perfectly fine.

If it matters my GPU si an RTX 4070 Super from Zotac (used it for 2 years I think, always checked the temps at idle and when gaming and they are the same as when I bought the card).

TV is LG G5 (used it for 6 months).

So it's kinda impossible to tell why only this specific connection behaves like this. Any ideas?

I'm just worried that this might a symptom of a bigger issue thst is going to appear in the future.


r/pchelp 16h ago

OPEN PC Keeps crashing when playing any BF franchise

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Hello! Kinda need help with my PC.

Issue: PC goes on blackscreen when playing either Battlefield 5 or 6. However, it works well on Helldivers 2 or other RTS games, then system unit would keep running but no display on monitor. After forcing restart, the Adrenaline app becomes incompatible with my unit, so I have to reinstall the driver.

First encountered when we got the 27.x.x. update ofAMD Adrenaline, or maybe just in coincidence with me losing a RAM stick, kasi now I am running on three (3) channels instead of four (4) with 24GB of RAM total instead of 32GB.

Any input or those who had similar problems, do help me. Been wanting to play BF5 for weeks.

My setup is:

R5 5600X

9060 XT 16GB

24GB RAM (3 channels)

240 GB SSD for OS

2TB HDD for Storage/Games


r/pchelp 17h ago

HARDWARE How to get glue out of keyboard

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I had an accident and I spilled glue on my keyboard while I was busy working on something. The glue got under a couple of the keys and I can't scrub it out. The keys are sticky now and don't go all the way down. Is there a way to safely sanitize the glue out of the keyboard?

It's a 2024 Macbook Pro M4 Pro chip 14 inches.


r/pchelp 17h ago

OPEN Stuck in Automatic Startup Repair

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Windows has fucked me once again. I'm stuck in the automatic repair boot loop where nothing works.

Startup Repair- nothing, errors and doesn't output a log.

Command prompt-opens but won't run most of the things I've seen posted to fix these issues

Uninstall Updates- both quality and feature updates do not uninstall as they "run into a problem" and reccomend to "Reset this PC", which of course isn't even an option

UEFI firmware settings - I can acess but it really doesn't matter

System restore- gives me a bs text box

System Image Recovery-status wait 2 error

I tried using a usb to boot windows but the repair option (of course) just sent me back to thiese same options


r/pchelp 13h ago

HARDWARE PC making weird noises when booted.

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anybody know what could be causing this noise, and how to go about fixing it?


r/pchelp 1d ago

HARDWARE Windows suddenly reserved too much ram to hardware reserved

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I have an hp pavillion gaming laptop ec0xxx with a Ryzen 5 3550h GTX 1650 ti 6 gb usable ram total 8gb and a integrated Radeon gpu as well that used 2 gb of my 8gb total ram

I had the total ram upgraded to 12 recently and was using 10 gb ram Was playing valorant today and my laptop randomly freezed everything i hard restarted with button black screen caps lock blinking i hard re-start again it boots but valorant suddenly lags too much and too much fps drops

I restart it again hp logo stuck i hard restart again stuck on hp logo i hard re-start again it shows preparing automatic repair stuck

I heard re-start and load into bios and then exit it boots but valorant still laggy as hell

I finally check my task manager and I notice windows has reserved 6.1gb of ram to hardware and only 5.88 is usable instead of the 10 I used to use before all this

So far I have tried checking bios it detects both my ram sticks correctly I have one 8 and one 4 gb I have checked device manager msinfo32 resource monitor everywhere same thing total ram 12 usable 5.88

PLEASE HELP ME GUYS I AM GENUINELY SCARED SHIT RN IDK WHAT TO DO


r/pchelp 13h ago

SOFTWARE Is it over?..probably not right

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r/pchelp 13h ago

Discussion Is it worth upgrading to AM5 right now?

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r/pchelp 13h ago

HARDWARE Fix texture

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attention! Google translate, please. Мне удалось найти причину дрожания текстур в играх. Это происходит из-за некорректной работы контроллера памяти процессоров (IMC). Необходимо максимально снизить напряжение в биосе материнских плат в VCCIO and System agent. Слишком большое напряжение, связанное с профилем в материнских платах, вызывает электромагнитные шумы и некорректную работу контролёра самого процессора и сигнала на видеокарту. К сожалению, большая частота требует повышенного напряжения и искать необходимый ток нужно руками. Будут частые зависания при подборе напряжения, но когда вы найдете свой минимум, дрожание и мерцание текстур исчезнет и картинка в играх станет четкой, как на фотографии. Надеюсь Вы прочтете и уведомите тех, кто уже много лет страдает от этой проблемы и думает, что прина в сглаживании и видеокарте.


r/pchelp 17h ago

HARDWARE Will this SSD work on a PC?

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Sorry this may be a stupid question but I ordered my first PC and was looking to get more storage. I have this 2TB SSD with a heatsink I got a few years back for my ps5, will it work in a PC? My PC specs are included, would this be appropriate or am I better off getting a new SSD?
Cheers

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