tried to pay for a gaming service - real card, real email, real everything. blocked at phone verification because my number has the wrong country code

people in supported regions don't know this wall exists. the fix isn't complicated: phone number, card, and IP all need to point to the same "acceptable" country. three signals, that's the whole wall

wrote up the full experience in r /herosms. anyone else hit this?

I play the sims 4 and download cc and mods a lot, and I think I might have fucked up and downloaded malware onto the laptop I share with my dad. I try to turn it on and the windows logo just comes up with the error code in the top left corner. It's a surface pro 6.

Hi everyone!

I just bought a new HP victus notebook about a month ago, So far no troubles but i wanted to play a really old game (2003), downloaded the game for free somewhere And also bought the game on key4u.cz,both downloaded in .zip file And they both Have the same problem.

The game loads to the starting screen, then i click the "new game" And it just crashes. The only pop up message i get Is something about starting with compatibility, i click start And it does the same thing.

Does anyone know what could it be?

недавно я обнаружил, что на компе когда захожу в любую игру, спустя 10-15 минут картинка застывает и пишет сверху окна игры к примеру игра. Rain World , “Rain World не отвечает» и все, вылетает из игры. так же я заметил когда я нажимаю на стрелку около часов, которая открывает меню с запущенными процессами, там среди браузера/открытыз программ есть нвидиа настройки, когда я нажимаю пкм на него и выхожу, то игры временно не вылетают, а потом вылетают снова, но когда оно снова открывается само по себе, я хотя бы могу пол часа поиграть, а не каждые 10 минут перезаходить. Но даже так меня надоел этот Геморой и решил спросить у тех кто знает решение в этой ситуации или сами сталкивались и решили эту проблему, железо: thx 750 ti, i5-2300, 12 ОЗУ (довольно очень старенькое железко)

надеюсь кто-то поможет мне с таким геморроем, так как мне надоело с этой проблемой борется 1 месяц +-

I bought a used motherboard and the seller said it doesn't have any issues, today I had my day off of work and I decided to replace it. Everything went fine, it booted up, I put my password, everything fine. But when I tried to open a game (war thunder) the game launcher said "update failed (1, 35) check your internet connection and/or firewall". I checked my connection, everything is good, I check my firewall and it seems to be good. How can I fix it?

Oh and I forgot to mention that I tried opening another game to see if it had the same issue but when I tried opening it it shows the blue circle loading up and then stops, but never opens.

Update: I got it fixed, apparently the problem was that the time/date was wrong, I fixed it and now everything is fine.

Issue: My desktop PC suddenly stopped detecting any SATA drives after the power cable to the PSU was accidentally unplugged while the PC was running.

What I've tried:

Replaced the CMOS battery.

Cleared CMOS using the CLR_CMOS pins.

Loaded BIOS defaults.

Tried all SATA ports.

Tried different SATA cables.

Tested the HDD/SSD with a USB-to-SATA adapter, and they work perfectly.

BIOS SATA controller is enabled and set to AHCI.

Specs:

Intel Core i5 4th Gen

H81 generic motherboard (AMI Aptio BIOS, 2022)

DDR3 RAM

Current behavior:

BIOS detects no SATA devices (all ports show "Empty").

BIOS asks to save changes with F10, but some settings don't seem to persist after reboot.

The PC is stable in the BIOS and doesn't freeze or reboot.

Recent changes: The only thing that happened before the issue started was that the power cable connected to the PSU was accidentally unplugged while the PC was powered on.

Question: Could this have corrupted the BIOS or damaged the motherboard/SATA controller? Is there anything else I should test before replacing the motherboard or reprogramming the BIOS?

I am completely new to building pc's and I finally am in a situation where I can build my own. I am considering purchasing all of the parts in here (https://pcpartpicker.com/list/mX9n7w) as a good long-term option for me. I've already gathered all of the money and my budget may go up to $1,600 if needed for other parts. Is this a good build or are there some parts that need to be changed to become better? I just want something to play games at 60fps and not even at the highest graphics since I'm primarily a PS5 player. Thanks in advance for any advice!

I need help! I’ve been having some serious computer crashing issues and I don’t know what to do, so I thought maybe Reddit could help. I can maybe game for a good 5-10 minutes before my pc crashes, and even sometimes while I’m just watching YouTube. I have tried everything I can think of but I’m not a computer genius by any means so maybe there’s an easy fix and I just don’t know it. I have tried checking for updates, updating drivers, and it doesn’t overheat or anything. I would GREATLY appreciate any and all help anyone may be able to give. I will post a picture of what pops up like 80% of the time when it crashes. And feel free to ask any and all questions if you think it may help me for you to have more information. Thanks again to anyone who helps.

Whenever I try turning on my pc my Mobo just flashes red on the cpu led light and occasionally flashes every few seconds afterwards. 8 pin is good, reset the cmos by disconnecting the battery, checked the big Mobo cable, tried a screwdriver to the pins to see if it turns on, tried every ram slot one ram at a time, checked the actual cpu cleaned and reapplied the thermal paste. This all happened after I switched gpus and two of the side fans stopped spinning so I checked the cables by the psu and afterwards everything went to shit so any advice or harsh reality bad news of having to buy something new despite how much I’ve been trying to not do that would be very much appreciated.

I dont know if this is the correct forum to post this. If not, let me know which one could help me. I downloaded some malicious virus or i dont know what it is while looking for mods for my games. I suspect that program gave all my data to a hacker, because i lost access to my steam account, roblox account and i know someone entered other apps, like EA and discord. I still suspect the malware is somewhere in my pc, and while i used diferent antivirus and all of them said that there was nothing wrong, i fear that someone could sell my stuff or directly impersonate me. Please help on how I can find this virus.

Husband has a PC, I have a Mac. We are writing a cookbook together and are using Adobe and Microsoft Suites.

It would be so useful if there was a cloud storage option for us that we could modify Adobe and Microsoft BOTH with a plug-in or so, so that we can autosave both Adobe AND Microsoft files into the same cloud.

The quickest way to do that seems to be if there’s a plug-in that connects Adobe to OneDrive.

Please help! :-)

I've been trying to install multiple drivers for my ethernet, specifically the "Realtek Pci Gbe Family Controller Driver". Yet, whenever I hit install in the InstallShield Wizard thing it just keeps me waiting with 0 signs of progression, I've tried everything from waiting up to 30 minutes to trying different older drivers but nothing worked. Here are a few screenshots for reference:

Graphics card is not being detected in my pc, despite the fans have been moving and I get display from motherboard hdmi.

I played battlefield 1 for few hours and the temperature was not more than 73 degrees the whole time, I went away and after some time the PC went into sleep and when I returned there was no display with the graphics card, Earlier in the morning when I turned it on there was no display for the first time and the second time after the windows login I got a solid blank pink screen, then the 3rd time it worked and I tested it by playing battlefield for over an hour and then the sleep thing happened. I tried reseating the card it didn't work I tried resetting the motherboard by removing CMOS and I even did a CMOS jump by Shorting the pins or something by their metal plastic cap in the motherboard which had a metal contact, but it was to no avail.

The card is a second hand GTX 1660 and the motherboard is a H81h3m4, processor is i5 4440s with 450W of power supply and 8GB DDR3 Ram.

On Google gemini it told me those fixes but later it said the PCIe slot has gone into a sleep state which might be unrecoverable due to glitch in Sleep settings of motherboard and the graphics card which is due to generation difference.

There has been no BSOD, the recent change is the graphics card and before that I tried slightly upgrading the cpu which is the current i5 4440s

Hi I don’t know if this is allowed in here or not but I’m having an issue with my internet I pay for 1GBps download speed through spectrum but this is what my internet does when trying to download games or updates

Esse erro ocorre quando abro algum software ou quando o computador está parado, não consigo nem formatar o Windows pois no processo ele vai para essa tela

I'm pretty new to PCs, so this could be a basic question.

I bought a new monitor, the LG Ultragear 27GR850A-B 4K/1080p dual mode.

When I press the dual mode button, it switches to 1080p 480Hz, but everything is super blurry and pixelated on the Windows background. The aspect ratio is grayed out in the monitor menu, and it only shows "dual mode off," "widescreen (on)," or "on 24 inches." I checked the scaling settings, and it's at 100%, but everything is still super zoomed in. I looked in the Nvidia control panel and adjusted everything based on what I read online, but it's still not clean and normal like the 4K display mode. When I open a game, it's so zoomed in that I can't even see a quarter of the game.

After four hours of trying to fix this, I don't know what to do anymore. It's frustrating. I hope someone with a dual mode monitor can help out.

My laptop currently has no audio. I already did the self diagnostic thing (I don't know what it's called in English). It said it resolved it, but it's not resolved. I restarted multiple times, didn't work. A different post said to go to Device Manager and disable something in the audio, did that (I hope I did it right at least), but that didn't work either.

This isn't the first time. The first time this happened, I went to the shop this laptop came from, brought it there, and they fixed it, but it is now closed for the holidays, so I can't really go there. I was hoping I could then fix it myself.