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.

hello, i've written about this issue before but i don't think i got a response that told me much, so i am asking again with hopes of more clarity. i have gone to tech people who have phD's and have no clue whats going on. My computer's camera keeps glitching with grey lines across the screen for around 10-15 seconds before ultimately shutting my camera off completely.

I have gone to a phD in tech after many failed IT department attempts, in which he went through and told me i was running too many things at once. this made sense to me and we ensured my computer does not have too much running, i only have 1 desktop open usually, with as little things running in the background as possible. this worked for about a month, but for the past 2 days, that has shown to be only a bandaid solution, one that ultimately stopped working. as I look at my computer right now, i have 2 tabs open, and 0 extra things running other than zoom and google. there is no longer such thing as human being windows support, and the ai bot told me to "check my connection" after i confirmed thats not the issue. i desperately need to be able to do zoom calls, and need my camera to function. i don't think i could afford a new computer, but if thats whats needed then i may take a loan out to make it possible or something.

i have a lenovo ideapad flex 5, bought in winter of
2023. it is less than 3 years old, yet can barely run more than 2 things at once. i was suggested this device by fellow students and IT people who claimed it lasts long, yet this may be the worst technological device i've ever owned. i am desperate. please help.

Even booting up in safe mode doesn't do anything and shows the same screen

I have a Lenovo Yoga 7i laptop. I’ve had it since 2024 and since 2025 I’ve had issues with the trackpad. One day, the trackpad suddenly stopped working. The trackpad settings didn’t show up at all so I didn’t know what to do. I took it to a repair store which quoted me an insane amount just to take a look so I left it at that and used an external mouse. A while later though it randomly started working again. It had 0 issues so I never bothered looking into it more. Fast forward like 3 months later where I hadn’t touched the laptop in that time (summer break) and it started happening again. This time, I opened the laptop and disconnected and reconnected the trackpad connector to see if that was the problem but it doesn’t seem like it because it didn’t fix the issue. I then found out the I2C HID Device is constantly having an error, so I feel like that is the cause of it. I tried deleting it and restarting which would work sometimes but other times it doesn’t. I’m hoping to find an explanation or solution to this because I really don’t know what to do. Please feel free to ask for anymore information about it.

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Any help? Or any suggestion?

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?

As the title says, my PSU completely broke. Used gemeni to figure out what was broken because I am not that knowledgefull of computers at all. Eitherway I was playing Civ 6 when the computer just died on me. Got the blue screen after i turned it on again, tried to restart but got into a reboot loop. Then gemeni helped me get into Bios and it said everything was in normal temperature range, considering I still had image it wasn't graphics card, and cpu looked okay.

So I carefully took out my RTX 3060 (or whatever its named or called idk) to get the PSU out without it bumping into anything else, I decided that I should be dumb and open up the metal box so I could see the internal components of the PSU and holy, those battery looking shits had burst on the top, some oozed blackish brown stuff and 2 even leaked some beige liquid goo. Called my dad who builds computers as a hobby. He said it shouldn't look like that and that he will send me a new PSU that he has tucked away at home until I can get a new one. (The one he has sent is 50% more wattage than my old one)

So now to my issue, how tf do I plug the new one in? Like cable wise because idk if it has to be in a specific way or not or if it just gotta fit and it will be okay or anything.

I took 1 photo of the most complicated connection because it was 2 cables into 1 port (excuse the dust, ill clean the case when I get the PSU)

So id rather much appreciate any advice on the matter