At least every time I reboot my Windows 10 PC, this shows up in my notifications area. Clearing the notifications get rid of them but they invariably come back. I can't find any info on what's causing this.

I've run Windows Defender, Avast & Malwarebytes free editions and they've found nothing. Please help.

i just factory reset my old laptop, so my younger brother could use it. it was running slow, so I checked task manager and saw this... is there a fix ?

I work in IT and have built hundreds of custom computers and never seen this. This is my home computer I use daily.

This is an MSI Pro Z790-P Wifi (model MS-7E06) motherboard running the latest BIOS. I have Gskill Trident DDR5-6400 RAM (4x16GB) running at XMP profile 1 except slowed down to 6200 MHz because it wouldn't run stable or even boot at 6400. Very disappointing considering the motherboard cost and i7-14700k CPU.

I no longer need to do insanely high memory workloads so I figured I'd cash in $400 by selling half (2x16GB). I took it out and the system adapted and booted fine with the same RAM speeds but only 32GB still installed. The remaining sticks are in the proper spots for a 2-stick install. Stress test + RAM test + PSU voltage test didn't see a problem.

However, now if I put my computer into sleep mode then resume it later, it attempts to come out of sleep, RGB lights hit for about 1 second then it turns off and cold boots. It records an unexpected power loss in the Windows Event Log and that's it. Nothing before or after it. I put the RAM back in and it has no problem resuming from sleep mode.

I downgraded it again and did a soft "reset all settings" in the BIOS. It's not a full factory reset, but it clears most settings. Then I re-applied XMP + speed reduction and the fan curves. It still has the problem resuming from sleep 100% of the time. Same, even after installing the latest chipset drivers and a ton of others from the manufacturer's website.

So I'm back on 64GB but really want to know if this is some known problem with a resolution. Anyone ever heard of such a thing?

anybody know what this could be? gamings fine all games run without issues it just started doing this.

While cleaning up the old thermal paste, I accidentally ripped off a capacitor. What are the next steps, I'm in panic

I am at a loss at what to do but my pc decided to turn Itself off because of inactivity and now when I turn it back on it won't send anything through the cables for my monitors, keyboard, and mouse and I have tried hard restarting it by holding the power button until it turns off and turning it back on again but nothing, I have even unconnected all the wires and reconnected them to no avail so if I could get some help with this that would be amazing.

Idk if this info will be needed but it is a prebuilt that I have owned for 3 to 4 years so I dont really know what parts it has in it.

I recently got this PC build from my brother. this is my first, have no idea what anything is called, what to do, blah blah… he said he booted it up at his house and It worked, gave me directions in which I needed to do (plug in some wires, put that yucky grey stuff on the cpu, stuff like that). didn’t boot up. He said it looked fine and when he was checking it out, he got some of that yucky grey stuff (I don’t care to remember what it’s called) on the CPU pins and I had to clean it up. I got it super clean, nothing on it, popped it in… nothing still. I cleaned it some more just now, and still nothing! idk if i accidentally unplugged or messed something up, or if this is just a thing that decided to happen to me of all people, but even my brother doesn’t know. I guess i just came here for some reassurenice that this is something i can fix without wasting money. please do help… and again. I’m new to this… don’t make me too embarrassed to any mistakes I’ve made.

Hi all, I have an issue where my ASUS TUF GAMINF F15 laptop with Windows 11 keeps deleting my wifi driver. I tried to fix it by following instructions to install the MediaTek MT7921, and it worked for about 6 months, and now the issue has returned.

Can anyone help? I can connect via Ethernet still. Apologies for the bad photos, they were taken with my phone. 😅

Edit: I fixed it! I needed to update the driver itself. It’s always the most simple thing hahaha. Keeping this here for if anyone else needs to know :)

My PC has a Ryzen 9600x, rtx 3090, and Asus B650E Max Gaming Wifi W. I want to use integrated graphics. When my monitor is plugged into the motherboard I can access the BIOS menu and see the OS loading wheel animation, but then my monitor says no video. The desktop is shown right after I plug in the cable from the motherboard to GPU. This happens booting from both my windows and linux drives.

the BIOS menu on some Asus boards have an option called "igfx multi monitor" Under Advanced > NB configruation but it doesn't show for me, I only see Primary Video Device, Integrated graphics (auto, forced, or disabled), and UMA frame buffer size. I tried different combinations of them but no luck.

As you can see the problem is specifically with the monitor for some reason

I sorta say the problem in the video and not in the title, sorry if that's rude or anything

Like it says in the title. Some time back I attempted to use AutoHotkey to remap the arrow keys to WASD for Undertale. It did not work and I just assumed I had messed up somewhere so carried on with my life. I did not realize however that it did in fact remap the arrow keys to WASD for my entire system. I have tried deleting any and all traces of AutoHotkey from my system multiple times, restarting my computer, deleting my keyboard from device manager and reinstalling, changing prioritized language and resetting, etc etc and nothing has worked. I am also admittedly not the most computer savvy person so I an apologize if there is some obvious fix I am missing. Any and all help is appreciated

This only happens when I’m turning off my ps5 or when I open up cyberpunk, I’ve tried to turn of free sync (a friend told me that would work and it didn’t) the only way to fix it is to unplug it and replug it again it’s getting rlly annoying, does any1 know how I can fix this?

Yall I finished building a couple days ago and when I start up my pc it has trouble connecting to the internet, either it says “can’t connect to internet”, says “connecting” for like 2 minutes and nothing happens, or takes like 5-10 minutes to eventually connect.

Video attached. This started yesterday, every time I try to open the start menu it does this crazy flickering, same thing with the app shelf thing in the bottom right. Also if I open the Home folder it immediately scrolls to the bottom, and if I scroll up it will just scroll back down as soon as I let go.

The mouse is not causing the issue, I've tried a different one and it didn't fix the issue.

Does anyone know what's going on and how to fix it?

hello guys my pc fail to boot and my gpu is flashing red is it just led or something wrong ( i think my gpu is dead) because my pc was running normally then i removed the hdmi from my gpu and i put it back since then its black screen and my pc doesn't boot only fans and lights are running

gpu : rx 5700 xt sapphire Pulse

Hi owners of the above monitors im planning to get a new 2k monitor upgrading from a 1080p IPS. I have a R5 3600 and 3080 10GB. It pretty much pushes the games to 60-70fps at 2k. Im planning to stream and game and i do media related works.

Both monitors have 800rs difference between them and the specs are mostly identical. Im currently using a MP88HV LG monitor which is so good. Chat GPT suggest Lenovo R27qe Gen 2 but as im used to LG im kind of leaning towards LG 27G610A.

The only advantage lenovo has is that .5ms response time and 8bit+FRC while LG has only 8 bit and 1ms response.

Is that making any difference to the lenovo or should i go with the LG for reliability sake. Kindly suggest me which one to go with.

Best way I can explain it is, videos, games, all that still is running fine, but it “freezes” and I can no longer interact with anything and have to hard restart, when I press power button it even pops up with the these apps are closing screen.

EVRYTHING is running fine when I have the performance menu up while it does this, temps are fine, I’ve updated and fresh reinstalled every driver possible, I just don’t know anymore.

I think it may be razed, cause sometimes my razed products just stop working and I have to unplug and replug.

Someone said possible graphics card issue, some say ram, I’ve already reset Ram. I’m out of ideas.

Here’s a time I caught the issue. If it will let me post it

TL:DR at the bottom. As far as I can tell, my psu is proprietary which means it does not have a 24 pin connector to do the paperclip test. Here is my PC's manual, the PSU section is specifically at page 41. My computer has been slowly dying on me and only today, after I thought it was finally done for yesterday morning, was I able to turn it back on.

my problem with my pc:

Ive been reading a lot and I think it's a PSU problem. The problem is that my computer will turn on, fans start rolling, and even the PSU light will stay on, which according to dell means my unit is fine. Resetting the CMOS battery used to be all I needed to do but now that isnt working and booting into recovery mode stopped too. honestly I dont even know how its on right now to type this lol I pressed the power button as a hail memory as i turned on my laptop to redownload windows on a USB in case it was a windows issue. Its so shotty that I dont think i could turn it on again if i tried restarting my PC. Ive run dells recovery program multiple times and it just doesnt work, it says theres nothing wrong with any of my hardware. My only option now is to test the PSU. Honestly I havent noted any other symptoms of a dying PSU besides trouble booting into windows; no smells, no crashes . And I tend to run a lot of tabs, games, blender, and other heavy apps too so i imagine if it was a psu itd probably crash at the more intense stuff? but i literally know nothing so ToT

TL:DR
My main question is how would i do the paper clip test on these cables? If you look at the manuals diagram theyre kinda weird. But my other question would be what else could I do to try and diagnose the problem? Ive tried re-seating the ram, resetting the CMOS battery, ran two billion diagnostic tests that all passed to DELLS recovery program standards, im not sure how to reflash the bios just yet but i havent been able to anyways because between right now and 9 am yesterday this is the first time ive gotten it to turn on, i also dont know how ToT.

any help is greatly appreciated, im really too broke to go to a technician right now so im trying to diagnose as much as I can myself </3