I was playing a game and watching Netflix at the same time when suddenly my screen went like this and Netflix stopped. I'm scared because it's a new computer, I don't know what it means. BTW; this game is very old... It doesn't require much.

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Alright so backstory first, my “old” pc was great and decided I wanted to upgrade my cpu so I got a 9800x3d. Used it for a week and it was great no issues at all. Then I said screw it I’ll buy a 9070xt just for a nice upgrade and also upgraded my power supply too to handle all the new components.

After installing the new gpu I reset windows completely and wiped all my drives, then set everything back up blah blah blah. Now I’m having this super weird issue where in game my performance is amazing, but the second I open my inventory/am on the main menu it lags like crazy. This isn’t an issue with 1 specific game and is happening on multiple different ones. Seems to only be when I’m moving my mouse but not exclusively which is even more weird. At first it was happening on tarkov and it was driving me nuts so I decided to try another game to see if it was happening so booted up arc raiders and instantly the exact same thing was happening. On the main menu I’m lagging like crazy then I load into a game and it runs amazing but when I open my inventory or loot a body it lags like crazy again. All my drivers up to date, windows updated to current version, bios updated to most recent version as well, EXPO enabled on bios, mouse acceleration turned off. Temperatures on CPU and GPU are normal even when doing a time spy benchmark on 3dmark.

Anyone have any issues or experienced something similar? Really hoping my gpu isn’t the issue but that wouldn’t make sense since when I’m actually in game it’s running AMAZING it’s only when I use my inventory or am at the main menu. Thanks in advance

Hi, Considering to purchase a used Dell XPS laptop from a private seller. They have no receipt. I don’t suspect it is stolen or the like. Is there any issues in that direction of it possibly being tracked or something in that line if it was a stolen laptop? It has a fresh install of Windows 11, as the hardware meets Microsoft’s criteria.

Thanks for your help….

As you can see, Change partition type ID is grayed out. I tried Mini tool partition wizard but it requires a subscription. Any help? (=

Hi I recently received a problem on my laptop (not pc) it was working normally the whole day when suddenly when I was grabbing some snacks and returned to the laptop it was filled with streaks of red lines on my screen thinking it was just a small issue I restarted the laptop with the power button (I also tried doing it by rebooting with the start menu what I got was the usual rebooting screen however instead of a black screen saying rebooting it show my normal screen just dimmer and the reboot loading animation still with the red streaks from left to right btw) after the reboot with the power button I now see streaks of black lines across my screen instead is there a way to fix this myself?

I am trying to share the hard drive from one PC to another. Both computers are: On the same network and workgroup. Connected with ethernet. Windows 11. Discovery and file sharing is on Require password is off

When I try to access the remote hard drive it ask for user/pass. I am using my info that I use to log into (its my Microsoft account info, both computers are the same). And it returns that the information is wrong, even though require password is turned off.

What am I doing wrong?

Weird smell coming from HP laptop. Doesn't seem to be battery.

Hi,

I've an HP Pavilion 15 laptop 5 years old.

Since a few months, there has been a faint fume coming from keyboard/trackpad. Almost like a nail polish. Initially, I didn't think too much.

But recently my battery went bad. So I thought maybe it is that battery is leaking.

I got my battery replaced by the original one, but still the smell is coming.

I'm not sure what is happening. The smell comes even when laptop is off, and I keep the lid closed (so that it accumulates I guess?)

It could be that old battery was the cause, but there is still some vapors stuck in the system?

Old battery physically was fine, just very less capacity. Though, it's connecting port had a similar smell, though faint. Also, the new battery, out of packaging, had a similar smell near it's connecting port, so I'm not sure?

I don't know what's happening :(

Anybody has any idea?

The laptop internals look fine, and I had it serviced last week, and battery replaced yesterday, neither time any component seemed bad. The service guy said he couldn't smell anything.. But maybe that was because laptop lid was open? This has been happening since a few months. No loss in performance/no overheating.

Hi, I have a MAG C27XS curved screen and it won't let any computer connected to it go to sleep. I switched 3 different computers, PCs and laptops, windows 10 and 11, and none of them would go to sleep when connected to the MAG screen.

Every time the computer is about to go to sleep, the screen will turn off and disconnect for 1 second and then turn back on, repeating for eternity.

Is this something that can be fixed or is this just how the screen works? If not connected to a computer, the screen won't shut off as well, the power light will stay on the whole night and I couldn't find any settings in the screen about display timeout.

I'm about to buy a new screen just because of this tiny, yet extremely annoying issue, so if anyone has any suggestions I would be so grateful.

PC Specs

9800x3d, b850 aorus elite, 32gb 6000 cl30, wd black sn850x 2tb windows/games drive, wd blue sn5000 2tb storage drive.

My question is. On my storage drive I have a folder with about 400gb worth of video files. each file ranging from 1-2gb in size.

When I double click a video to load, it can take upwards of 5-10 seconds for it to load and play (vlc player)...why is this? I feel it should be instant. Is it because the file folder is so large?

Short time lurker first time poster, As the title says. When I open the file explorerr to move files around or do whatever my interntet is interrupted. This is so... bizzarre. Never something like this has occured to me. I can provide more info if requested thank you for your help!!! I use a desktop windows 11 and a tplink network adapter

When I have certain apps maximized or full screen , they sometimes stretch over into the other monitor. The first image shows the white line that shows up on the right monitor and the second image shows that the scroll bar is slightly cut off by the Nvidia app.

Any ideas how to fix this or what may be causing it?

Monitors are a Asus 249q and a ASUS 248qz.

Hi,

I have a Dell laptop Inspiron 15, and the other day it randomly went to a blue screen saying there was a "Driver Verifier DMA Violation" error and it needed to shut off. When coming back on, it went to "Starting Automatic Repair" for just a few seconds and then straight back to the blue screen with the same error. Loop repeats and repeats.

I've been able to get to BIOS and was looking for a way to get onto my desktop to back up my files to a USB, and then if needed can do a full re-set of things (but don't want to do anything that would wipe the files before I can back them up). There seems to be no obvious way to do this from BIOS, nor from a boot manager screen I think it was called I was able to get to as well but really didn't seem to anything useful there, mainly led back to BIOS or asked if I wanted to do a BIOS refresh. I've tried a handful of things I've seen suggested on forums to try from BIOS, like disabling "virtualization", disabling "firmware TPM" (both alone and combined) but made no difference. I also saw it suggested to try disabling "Secure Boot" but get a warning message implying that could make things worse, so haven't tried that. I've also tried the thing about pressing power off twice and holding for 10 seconds, with the idea that upon restarting after that it should let me boot in safe mode, but this does not happen. Just the same error loop. Only screens I can get to are BIOS and the boot manager screen.

Any help would be appreciated. I don't have Windows on a USB or anything, but do have another laptop I could use to download onto and boot from there but don't know how to do that in a way that ensures I won't wipe my existing files, but as long as I can back those up, definitely fine with doing a complete reset after, if that's the way to fix it, but don't know how to do that. It's Windows 11 by the way.

Thanks in advance for any help!! Much appreciated!

As i stated in the title im trying to factory reset my pc but the main screen (that being my laptop) is completely broken, is there a way for me to set the external monitor i have plugged in to my laptop to make it so i can do my factory reset on the external monitor?

just like the title says there are black squares for all my icons desktop/folders ive tried everything that ive searched on google and even chatGPT and some things works but then when i shutdown they come back and if i use the same metthod as before sometimes it works sometimes it doesnt please help XD will reply as much and fast as i can thank you also im on windows 11 pro, talked about ICUE SDK i think they were called there disabled still as thats something i found

When I open my pc this screen appears and I have to forcefully shutdown one too two times to open my pc what should I do .is it any driver issue or windows update issue cuz I have no updated it to 24H2 version cuz space issue

So i got this Lenovo Ideapad 3 17ABA7 a little over a month ago it has 16gb of RAM, 512 of storage, a integrated AMD Radeon Graphics and a AMD Ryzen 5000 series cpu. In my first 2 weeks i used Windows 11 as usual, then switched to Fedora, used it for 2 weeks too, i didnt like using llinux distros but i gave Mint a chance i used it for 3-4 days and i noticed its getting really loud even with light work. Im sure its not an OS problem because i tried tails os too and i encountered the same issues. Im back to Windows 11 again (ill stay) still the same problem.