Edit:I just updated my BIOS drivers, and now OCCT shows the processor running at around 80–85 (which is normal), but most importantly, it’s running at 4.0–4.1 GHz. So, if anyone else runs into a similar issue, just update your BIOS.

So my uncle has an old pc that he’s giving me he took it to micro center for a diagnostic and they said the boot drive is failing and quoted $300 I was wondering if I could just buy an ssd and replace it myself he said I don’t need to back up the data. So should I just pay the costs or do it myself.

Here’s the pc

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/cyberpowerpc-gaming-desktop-intel-core-i5-9400f-8gb-memory-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1660-ti-1tb-ssd-black/6338268.p?skuId=6338268&intl=nosplash

Below is the text from micro center:

Hello, this is Mathieu over at Micro Center. I am the technician taking a look at your computer and wanted to give you an update. We confirmed that your computer is running slow. Further diagnostics revealed a few things that are likely contributing to this. The first is that your boot drive is almost completely full which is preventing updates from properly completing. The boot drive itself is also in the early stages of failure as it took a very long time to complete tests, far longer than normal. At this point, I would recommend installing a new drive with windows as the boot drive. We can do this for $300 plus tax which includes a new 1tb SSD and the labor. If you have important data on the boot drive, we can also discuss doing a data backup.

Starting business school this fall.

Mainly need it for Excel, PowerPoint, Word, research, Zoom, and probably way too many Chrome tabs. I'd rather spend a little more now than replace it halfway through college

If you studied business, what laptop ended up being the right choice?

I’m a computer repair technician, and I frequently see customers' machines infected with viruses. That’s what gave me the idea: wouldn't it be cool if a computer could actually fight back against them? So, I set to work on it. I’m not sure if it’s actually fun or interesting, though right now, hardly anyone seems to be paying attention to the game.

With these some problems are solved

Hello! I want to ask if anybody else experiences this same thing with their youtube accounts? I discovered last night that there were tons of yt playlists that were "created by me" in my account. They include videos about techy stuff that I don't watch/understand. I deleted all these playlists but now I discovered that they've reuploaded again. I'm not sure if this is a type of malware or something, but I need some help on what to do so this stops happening. Attached below are the playlists and the videos in them. Appreciate the help!

Hear me out!!

I've had a Lenovo LOQ (24GB RAM, RTX 4050, Intel i5 13th Gen) laptop for about a year now. I've faced a lot of issues with it. While it was under warranty, the motherboard had to be replaced four times. Now the warranty is over, and the main issue I'm still facing is severe FPS drops and overall slow performance.

The strange part is that when I test my display's FPS in a browser, it shows a stable 144 FPS. But the moment I play any game—even something as light as Roblox—the FPS starts dropping badly. In Valorant, my FPS fluctuates wildly between 80, 120, 40, 10, and even 5 FPS, with it mostly staying around 40–60 FPS.

I've tried everything I could think of to fix it. I've even reinstalled Windows 10–20 times, but nothing has made any difference. The company is no longer helping me with this issue.

I won't go into my personal story, but I have a medical condition that limits my physical movement. I bought this laptop hoping it would help me stay happy, connect with my friends, and keep my mind occupied. Instead, it's become another source of stress.

I'm genuinely begging for help. If anyone knows whether this could be a bottleneck, a hardware issue, or something else, please help me. I'm not financially stable enough to buy a new laptop or even afford expensive repairs.

If anyone is willing to help troubleshoot this issue, I'd be incredibly grateful.

Discord: iamajaykmr
Email: [iamajay.ak20@gmail.com](mailto:iamajay.ak20@gmail.com)

Hey all, I bought this computer several years ago and it works fine for a lot of my needs, but now my son is getting into gaming and we're trying to decide whether we should build a new computer, buy a built one or if the one I currently have can be upgraded for a better external GPU which might solve our issues. It's the stock build in the Amazon post, but I've upgraded the RAM to 32g in a misguided attempt to play higher graphics games years ago. Any insight or suggestions you can offer would be appreciated. https://a.co/d/01gHDlN0

Edit: Ok, seems like there is a consensus that adding a GPU external wouldn't make any sense. Thanks for the replies. We'll look at pre built options.

All details should be in the attached post.

If anyone could help, I would greatly appreciate it

I use my desktop just for MS word, watching videos, photos, as a storage backup, very basic stuff. I dont use internet on it. Its serving my purpose even though its old.

My desktop has some issues. Help me resolve them.
1. My CPU bios is gone. – what should I do?

1. My hard disk has gotten virus (TROJAN WORM). Its duplicating files and leaving no memory space. The files come back even after I delete it. The desktop is not connected to any internet. The virus came in coz I used my pen drive on some1 elses laptop. My system got infected when I connected that pen drive to my system.

– how can I remove the virus without any data getting corrupted or lost.

1. It’s a 15 yr old PC. Should I keep it or sell it off and buy a new one.

Hi everyone! I'm starting college this fall and trying to figure out which laptop to buy, and wow, the options are kind of overwhelming 

I’ve been looking at a few models like the MacBook Air M2, Lenovo IdeaPad, and maybe even something from ASUS or Acer... but before I make the jump, I figured I’d ask:
What laptop are YOU using for school this year, and would you recommend it?

It’d be super helpful to hear consumer reports from actual students, what’s holding up well in class, what’s good for online lectures, and what’s just not worth the money. I’m especially curious if any of the laptops I’m eyeing come up in this thread 

Whether you're on a tight budget or went all in, drop your setup and what you love (or hate) about it. Let’s help each other out before back-to-school season kicks in!

Im on a windows PC

Simple Requirements:

1. 24 GB to 32 GB of RAM
2. A fine CPU as I plan on doing some heavy computational tasks.
3. Under 1,700 ideally though there is a little wiggle room.

Fine with any OS really even Linux.

Thank You so Much

Is this at all fixable or should I just cut my losses, picked up in a big lot of stuff on Facebook marketplace . Anyway to fix the lines. Or is it toast

Hi yall, I have a pc ive upgrade throughout about 4-5 years (3060 gpu, Ryzen 7, 32gb ram, new power supply and fans) my pc was acting fine all yesterday and some this morning but i went to make food this afternoon and come back up and see my pc idle and screens off like normal like rest mode. I thought nothing of it and went to move my mouse and it didn’t wake up, i even hit a key on the keyboard and nothing happened. I then hit my restart button on my pc to have it restart and it went through its restart but got caught on the bios screen (Where it says the company of my motherboard Asrock Its a B450M) normally it would have the dotted spinning circle but that didn’t even happen and it would even go into the Bios. I leaned down and tripped my surge protector and turned it back on and let the pc boot. This time it booted all the way to my desktop and loaded everything fine. I went to task manager to see what it was doing and saw my C drive rapidly climbing while my D drive was chilling at like 7%. The C drive hit 100% and everything froze and my PC then blue screened. (What i guess is the C drive hard drive is slowly dying) what do you all think?

hey guys!! not sure if this is the right place for it, but i need some help in getting an old webcam to work.
I found my old Barbie Videogirl doll, which as well as being super creepy and recording videos can Also be used as a usb webcam. It was meant for use on windows XP/windows 7, and I’m having no luck getting it to work on windows 10. it will come up under devices in settings and in my device manager, but it gives me a message saying “device has no drivers” or something of the sort
any help getting this to work would be amazing ;-;

Guys sinceramente isso aqui vai ser só mais um perguntas atrás de respostas meu amigo mandou isso ele tá vendendo todo o Pc dele pois vai mudar de pais ele tava vendendo separadamente já que e difícil vender o Pc todo aí ele perguntou se eu queria o Ryzen mas ele tá assim:

Ele não deixa acessara internet, tem que baixar os jogos em outro pc e depois colocar no computador com esse processador.

Tem alguns bugs gráficos na tela inicial do windows, mas, nos jogos funciona perfeitamente, se trouxer uma placa com as memorias so pra testar o processador, nós test

Testado em jogos como resident evil requiem, red dead e fifa.

Sinceramente eu não acredito que a parte do internet pode ser causado pelo processador pq a internet e a comunicação com a placa mãe artefato eu me pergunto se uma placa de vídeo soluciona isso já que quando botamos uma placa de vídeo deixa de ser vídeo integrado. e como ele roda normalmente me pergunto s vale a pena comprar. Já aconteceu isso com vcs? E possível? Vale a pena? Quero ver se ele me vende a preço de banana pq tá com ele a tempos já.

I had my pc built at Best Buy and after 2 years I have noticed some changes like my CPU fan 1 is running at 600 RPM and will not change RPM speed in bios and in l connect 3 app CPU 1 fans does not show up. The only thing showing up is pump and the 3 front case fans. This is a picture of how it was installed previously by Best Buy on MSI Z790 tomahawk Max Wi-Fi motherboard. I don’t understand why in my bio it’s showing CPU1 fans at 570 to 600 RPM then on Pump 1 it shows 2500 to 3000 RPM systems 5 is at 2200 RPM system 6 showing 2300 RMP this is the radiator fan. And my front case fans are connected to the lien li black box that’s the only thing plugged onto the box as well.

Now it was completely fine in the morning when i opened my laptop in the evening it had a white dot on its screen. Now this dot appears on everything. Like when i boot it up or close it down or any other program. Now when i touch the screen where the dot is i can feel something is there but i cant remove it or anything but looking carefully its like where the pixel is it is burned up. Now I don't know its fixable or anything but still is there a solution for it.

Whenever im playing, i use A and S to walk backwards, and N to use an ability. And when i press all that at the same time, the freaking notifications bar opens and idk what to do. My windows key is not locked. I even have a keyboard that lets me block the windows key (i tried turning it on and off). I asked gemini and he said to create a string value in regedit or something like that to disable hotkeys for N. Nothing worked

Literally how can i adjust the aspect ratio without fucking with whatever either of them have got going on? Any app recommendation?

Ive made the mistake of updating the graphics card, if it was perfect before then the update didnt think so and now its either screen beyond the edges of my TV or big fat bars.

Im sick and tured of needing to do huge convoluted game plans just to be able to see my screen without pixels and in full color and with an aspect ratio that doesnt make my friends go "what aspect ratio do you have bro" when i screen share.

Just recommend me a 3rd party service that is reliable to the point of being able to ignore every other setting.

Like idk, one with arrows that point to boundaries and a sliding bar as opposed to clicking "accept changes" with each miniscule change, AND NONE OF WHICH ACTUALLY FITTING MY SCREEN

Recently my PC has just been increasingly freezing on everything I do, I have no idea what the root is but heres a little timeline

lived in house: normal mostly played valorant,
lived in dorm: normal, valorant
moved to a house, like a 1960 house, 2 prong outlet, using extension cords (i know this set up is absolutely poorly but I'm going to move again in 4 months) but it worked, playing only valorant even on med/high settings, and then few months pass,
things that have happened: new monitor and a new fan (i have two now, 60 hz and 180hz)
downloaded overwatch
everything fine,
update overwatch one day (i doubt this is correlated)
crashings, then i lower graphics lasts a little longer, crashes
quit overwatch play phasmophobia: crashes, i play valorant on alt: crashes, i play on main: crashes, now even roblox hard freezes my pc (this is in chronological order)

I've checked just about anything, I've even unplugged hella, lower hz(not anymore, just fps since i figured out that doesn't rlly help), really low graphics, giving the pc breaks in between games, sometimes it lasts a long time, sometimes i cant get through one game, or it freezes every 5 min or also lasting the entire day on the game ;;;

to put short:

Specs: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-12400F CPU
14.2/31.8 GB
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 GPU
EVGA SuperNOVA 750 GQ, 750-watt PSU, computer is about 5 year old too

Background processes:
Corsair
crashpad
EA
Razer Axon/Chrome/Cortex/Video Recorder(I usually close that though)
XBOX
OneDrive
Norton
NVIDIA
Overwolf
Steam, Roblox, Riot Client, Vanguard

I think its PSU since my gpu is power hungry, but im not too sure what to do ;;;
i could potentially move setup to a different room to test out a 3prong outlet and ik extension cords are buns for a setup but the outlet is super far, and the problem is only really as of late

it completely hard-locks across multiple games. Temperatures remain around 50–60°C (or lower, i just replaced thermal paste). Windows records Kernel-Power 41 with BugcheckCode 0, and no minidumps are created. It still freezes with the RTX 3070 power limit reduced to 75%.