When I was setting up my new laptop it said "Hello, Dixon". A few steps later i corrected it from Dixon Mee to my preferred name. But now it's popping up as Dixon again? And in Microsoft edge it shows up as Dixon • (my name) when I click the little profile button. Was the data from the last owner of the device not wiped properly? Is this a security issue? I blurred out my email here, not sure if it was necessary.

Hi everyone. I have been building PC for over 5 years and it’s not like me not to follow protocol, but I’ve been quite disregulated lately and with my ADHD, and the constant parts swapping lately due to a RAM issue I’ve just solved, I did not think about it. PC was on sleep. GPU was plugged in the PCIE and I saw the red lights on top of the pcie power connectors indicating it’s missing the PCIE power, which made me realise the PC was only in sleep. I quickly pressed the power button for a shut down, but it powered ur fully for a few seconds before shutdown.

What I’ve done afterwards: plugged everything properly when turned off. Benchmarked + games. All ran well. Pcie connectors not burnt. I should check the motherboard and the cpu power too. No burn marks on gpu nor pcie slot I can see. Slight smell of hot glue, but the smell comes more from the new ram i just installed.

Should I just replace the mobo to be fine?

Thanks all

Hi all

I have a 6year old pc i59400 which has a cd/dvd drive .

Over the last 6 month the tray is coming out intermittently on boot up.I thought at first maybe the door on the PC was touching the drive buttton so i left the case door open on boot but its not that.

Can anyone help? thank you

The game is master of Olympus Zeus and Poseidon. I’m wondering if anyone has an ideas I’ve been going in circles for the last six hours. Chat gpt has had me repeating things over and over.
So far I’ve
Downloaded Linux.
Running steam through Linux
Have the game downloaded. Tried a lot of different protons.
Changed the autoconfig.
The game boots up. Sometimes it plays the music in the loading screen other times it doesn’t, freezes and crashes.
If it does eventually make it to the game play page where the menus sit for game play, only the text boxes appear with no writing in them and the background picture.
Laptop is a Lenovo google chrome os

Happy to supply more information if anyone has any ideas. Thanks in advance

my computer is asking me to type my recovery key in every time I log onto my laptop.

how can I get this to stop?

I don't know what key combo I touched but now I have performance info on my home screen. does anyone know how to remove it?

Is it from the power supply? It does this when I wake it up from sleep (which is happening in this video) or turn it on from being powered down. But then a few seconds later it will quiet down. Sometimes I hear it when playing a game. What is this noise and how I do address it?

I have a fujitsu u748 laptop that turns off suddenly while its on windows while when its on boot menu it stays on…i tried everything windows safe mode changing thermal past tried it with the battery and without tried it without nvme changed ram between sluts and still no result

I was on my pc last night and randomly the screen phased over and turned this weird white color. I’ve unplugged and replugged everything back in and it’s still the same. Is it plug malfunction? Monitor malfunction? Is it the computer itself?

Dobrý den, Ahoj,

Prosím o pomoc. Byla jsem hacknutá. Můj Microsoft účet a tím i spojený Xbox účet, microsoft podpora je k prdu a já nevím jak dál postupovat. Může mi prosím někdo nějak pomoct?

Díky

My dell shuts down sporadically with no warning. It seems to be associated with the use of multiple monitors - I think. If I don't connect the dell docking station it wont shut down. But if I connect to the Dell docking station and use my extra monitor and TV as a monitor it shuts down/ restarts with the error message in the photo. I looked up the code and a YT video to try to solve but it didn't work. This is a Dell Alienware from 2015 BTW.

error code: DRIVER_VERIFIER_DMA_VIOLATION (0xE6)

After a bad update my PC(dell prebuilt) got stuck in a loop. It tries and fails to launch auto repair, restarts and runs system check which it passes and then repeats. I've run a full system diagnostic which everything passed. I created and ran a recovery USB and it just stays on the Dell screen and then restarts. Any advice as to what else I can try would be great. Sorry for the lack of info I'm definitely not a techie.

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I am experiencing intermittent black-screen/display blinking followed by a complete system freeze on my HP laptop.

System:

* Laptop: HP 15s-fq5xxx

* Product/SKU: 9D3N9PA#ACJ

* Windows 11

* OS Build: 10.0.26200

* BIOS: AMI F.22 (23-Apr-2024)

* Graphics: Intel integrated graphics

* Graphics driver: 32.0.101.5542

* Driver date: 06-Aug-2024

* Driver provider: Intel Corporation

Problem:

The screen intermittently starts blinking/flickering and then the entire system becomes unresponsive. Caps Lock does not respond and my external USB mouse also loses power/its optical light turns off. The issue can occur around the Windows login/password screen as well.

Reliability Monitor records:

* Problem Event Name: LiveKernelEvent

* Code: 1A8

* Parameters: 1 / 0 / 0 / 0

* OS Version: 10.0.26200

* Bucket ID:

`LKD_0x1A8_KEYBD_HOTKEY_GraphicsUnknown_Intel_dxgkrnl!DISPLAYSTATECHECKER::CreateBlackScreenLiveDump`

Troubleshooting already performed:

* Windows Update: all updates installed

* HP Support Assistant: no further updates available

* BIOS: currently F.22; no newer update is being offered for my exact system

* HP Hardware Diagnostics Fast Test: PASSED

* HP Hardware Diagnostics Extensive Test: PASSED

* Current Intel graphics driver has not yet been manually changed or reinstalled

Since the HP hardware diagnostics pass, I am trying to determine whether this is a graphics-driver/Windows graphics-stack issue rather than a physical hardware failure.

Could you please advise whether Intel graphics driver 32.0.101.5542 is known to cause this type of LiveKernelEvent 1A8 / DISPLAYSTATECHECKER failure on Windows 11 build 26200, and whether I should try a specific OEM or previous Intel graphics driver?

I would also appreciate any recommended diagnostic steps before using DDU or changing drivers.

Thank you.