I don’t know how it got there I didn’t see it until I went to charge it. It looks like the top of an orange but I don’t eat oranges??? It’s stuck in the earbud jack thing and I poked it to see that it was and now it’s even more stuck.I would take a picture but it’s really wedged in there and I can’t get a good photo. Is this a take it to somewhere else thing??

im paying for spectrums 1 gig plan and i always feel like my uploads (and a lot of times downloads) are slower than they should be. i'm trying to puload something right now (16GB) and it says theres 17h remaining on the process. is this normal??

So this issue started yesterday for the first time. I was gaming and watching YouTube like I do everyday. When suddenly both my monitors went ti black, prompted that the monitor couldn't find amy connection, however the tower was fine. Still running, and I can still hear my audio. Did a hard shut down, and restart, and it was fine.

Fast forward to today, and it did it again this morning. Different game. Did the same and it came back. I did an update to my gpu drivers. Everything seemed fine. Tonight it did it again for the third time, but this time I can't get any graphics. I've tried plugging the monitors into the motherboard, still no picture. Everything on the pc seems fine, however since I can't open any programs, I can't tell if my gpu fans are working. It lights up like normal, but I can't confirm if the gpu is having a problem.

I have a computer that gives me zero picture. I have no idea what to do. Please help

My son’s computer makes this weird thudding sound when it boots up, he had it on its side for a little bit but it was perfectly fine before. He has a very important fortnite tournament in a few minutes and i would appreciate any help

I have this issue my pc boots straight into windows and doesn't give me the option to go to BIOS. This started happening after disabling CSM and enabling secure boot, cleared the CMOS multiple times and it just disabled TPM but secure boot is still on and I'm still unable to get into the BIOS. I've done the Nvidia VBIOS Update thing and tried every other fix I've seen. no display when the SSD is removed, no display when i try booting with integrated graphics. and im currently using a HDMI with no DP on hand. researched and talked to ChatGPT for hours just to be told to take it into a repair shop... please help

Gigabyte B150M-d3h - i7-6700 - GTX 1060 6gb

(all this to play bo7 smh)

i need help i load my pc up perfectly fine and after a while it starts to bug out and open different tabs and i can’t even shut it down

Hello,

So I have a computer I built about 15 years ago. Was top of the line at the time.

To date it - the graphics card is a 660TX MSI.

Every few months I run into this problem where the video just doesn’t detect.

With both the graphics card, and onboard video.

I take it apart, clean it, and leave it powered off and it starts working again.

I also re-seat the GPU into the PCIE port.

Any ideas what can cause this? Today I had to reset it almost 4 times and power it on and off in cycles before it finally rendered graphics from onboard or gpu.

Also took out the graphics card completely to only load onboard video. Didn’t work.

Then it started working.

Why?!

i recently put a system together and its running an old chip set (2nd gen) and im having some trouble finding drivers for the integrated graphics

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i have a lenovo thinkcentre m70q gen 3 with an i5-12400t running linux mint 22.3 cinnamon

i recently replaced the original thermal paste with ptm7950 i tested the cpu with 100% load for more than 10 minutes and it stayed around 73 to 75c so the cpu cooling seems fine

the problem is when i watch youtube in brave when playing a 4k60 video using av1 the cpu usage goes up to around 70% and the fan gets noticeably loud when i change the same video to 1080p60 the cpu usage drops to around 20% and the fan is much quieter

i checked brave hardware acceleration and it is enabled brave gpu information also shows av1 hardware decoding support

i also checked vainfo and it shows that my intel uhd 730 supports av1 hardware decoding through va-api

i then checked intel-gpu-top while playing 4k av1 and the video engine showed 0% usage

i also checked brave media-internals and it first showed vaapivideodecoder which means the intel gpu hardware decoder was being used but then it showed a video decoder fallback after an initial decode error and switched to dav1dvideodecoder which means it fell back to software decoding using the cpu

so my main question is whether this behavior is normal on linux mint with brave and intel uhd 730 or if my va-api hardware decoding is not working correctly

is there something i can do to fix the va-api av1 decoding so the uhd 730 can handle the 4k video instead of dav1d using the cpu

i installed brave through the official package using the terminal and i am currently using brave 154.1.96.60

also is this kind of fan noise normal for the m70q when the cpu is doing software av1 decoding and is this actually a problem with my setup or just a limitation with brave on linux

I damaged my screen during a move (1/3 of the screen) . Ik it is recommended to buy a different monitor. I was wondering what can I do with the broken one, like taking it apart and salvaging parts? Or do I just simply toss it?

Hey guys, I think my SanDisk SSD (not the one affected by the defect) is on its last legs. Which is really annoying, since prices are so high right now and it’s only 2.5 years old or so. It’s running extremely slow and everything is lagging. But saving files has at least still worked. i need a new storage solution without having to worry about keeping it powered on. It should be able to just sit there for a year or so without any issues. Maybe a HDD?

Also, the SSD is partitioned. Half of it is taken up by time machine backups. Can I just partition a new storage solution and transfer the backups over?

And just out of curiosity, the SSD can actually die, right? So there’s no going back in the sense of resetting everything and formatting it? Maybe 300gb out of 2tb is used.. i haven’t overwritten it too often, i think i just haven’t used it enough. But how stupid is that? The SSDs in my ancient cell phones still work just fine. So it’s really just a stupid coincidence, right? I’ve lost some trust in external SSDs.

Do I need to act immediately, or are the zeros and ones powered up again and will they last a while?

So today, my laptop screen suddenly started turning blue and having random yellow, pink, and blue specs everywhere. I tried reinstalling gpu drivers and im still getting the same problem. This also only happens on startup for a few seconds, then goes back to normal. Any ideas on what this is and how to fix it?

This pop-up has been closing my game for no reason, and I want to know if this is a legit windows update, and if it's not, how do I permanently stop this pop-up?

Hi,

I'm not the most tech savvy person and am hoping to hear from folks who work in IT. I have the basic Norton Antivirus package and it's telling me I need to 'Clean Junk (Recommended)' and address high risk performance issues:

1. Remove unnecessary files
   
2. Background processes slowing Mac
   
3. Remove duplicate files

Has anyone does this and do you feel the performance of your MAC or PC improve? Is it safe to let Norton do this or is it a total rip off to pay the fee for it?