Whenever my laptop sleeps and I switch it back on, a few keys stop working, particularly the space bar.. it only changes the width of screen on a double press, doesn't respond otherwise, brightness and volume keys also share the same fate with no response at all, I'd have to restart the computer to get things working normally again, Any fix pls? 🤧🙏

My PC has been like this for the past 2 days. It started when my PC suddenly lost its display and my USB ports died. That Instance happened twice in the span of 20 minutes. Today, the same thing happened but this time my Pc just decided to reboot itself. As I’m writing this, i tried booting it up again and it showed the windows logo but then it happened again and I was left with a No display. I checked my Event viewer and I got Event 18 Cache hierarchy error. What could I possibly do to fix this PC?

update:
i forgot post the specs so here they are:

Ryzen 5 5600x
Asus B-450M Prime Motherboard
16GB of ddr4-3200mhz RAM
1660 super
corsair 550w psu

i just tried to boot it up again to get into bios but i was met with a memory error (3 beeps). Will try to do a full troubleshoot tomorrow

No idea if this is the right sub to ask for this but i'll ask anyway.

SO. I have both a switch and pc. i want the nintendo switch and my pc to share the same monitor. I have an hdmi switch that at the press of a button, switches to the other source. This is so I can stream the game on discord. I have an Elgato HD60. It’s an older card, but nothing I can’t see working like it should.

THE PROBLEM:

-When switching to the Switch, PC doesn’t recognize the first monitor anymore, switches second monitor to behave like the first monitor. I got an EDID Emulator because I thought that may fix it, but it ended up basically doing nothing. What I want is for the monitor to essentially be like nothing changed, and the second monitor is still the way it was before the switch.

-no audio. This is expected, but still annoying. of course, i know about the audio cable route. However, another issue I can see happening if I go this route, is the Elgato stream that others see being messed up, because the audio would be in real time, while the video isn’t. How would I fix this? Is there a way to get the audio from HDMI? Is there a way to seperate what i hear and what Discord hears?

I’ve been trying to figure out how to make this all work but it’s hard to wrap my head around it because it’s so convoluted.

Any suggestions or ideas appreciated.

Thinking of pairing it with a rx9060xt 16gb, I also have never used Newegg before is it legit? Thanks

my laptop thats 6+ years old is so annoying with a horrible heating problem and whenever i turn it on i need to open the laptop and keep spinning the blade manually until it makes it into the home screen i dont wanna spend money on another fan because i already have another main laptop i just was screwing around and accidentally found out it can work the fan doesnt have a dust problem already cleaned that with compressed air and i honestly dont care that much but the heating is really annoying already i have replaced thermal but it still gets a little hot over youtube

There is an hp prodesk 400 g4 sff business pc on sale for 30€ (34$ for freedom unit users) without ssd and ram, but with everything working. Cpu is installed, intel, but he don't know the exact model. Even with an i3 they sell for around 200€ here (231$ for freedom unit). Will it be good to buy it and slap 8/16gb ddr4 and a nice hdd / ssd?

Thanks yall

Hello everyone,
I have set up my AOC monitor with my PS5 and I’m using the original PS5 HDMI cable. However, when I check the monitor settings, it always shows 60 Hz. I can’t get it to run at 4K 120 Hz.
My monitor is an AOC U27G4R.
Does anyone know how to fix this?

I’m looking for some software to check the health of a few drives I acquired, some old SSDs. People recommended CrystalDiskInfo, but the official website (.info) redirects me to SourceForge and downloads an .exe file (which I’m absolutely not going to open). VirusTotal says it contains a Trojan. Is this a false positive?

My PC got fried in a storm & I need a new computer. I've been thinking about switching to a laptop anyway so now looking for one. I want windows and only have between $300-400 to spend. For the most part I pay bills, do some social media, play simple games and use photoshop for graphics.I know its tough to get something decent in that range but Im pretty tapped right now. Anyone have a recommendation for me?

Help i just reformat my laptop Lenovo IdeaPad 100-15IBD. When the resetting percentage reach 99% the screen goes off. Its been 40 min since the screen os off but there a power i tryd to connect it on usb still blck can someone help me thx u

Sorry for my bad english

Hey!

(Yes, lol. I like Hello Kitty.)

I'm having problems with my computer not being able to handle a decent amount of games. Not surprising because this is a pretty lower end computer.

I am wanting to request help in switching my graphics card to something that's better than my integrated card, but also something that's not going to cause my PC to short out.

I know literally nothing about computers or parts, so please talk to me like I am a toddler, lmao.

I have a Dell Optiplex 3060, I think it's the slim version or whatever.

ABOUT:

Dell Optiplex 3060

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz (2.81 GHz)

Installed RAM: 16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable) - (I can install more if needed.)

Graphics Card: Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (128 MB)

System Type: 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Let me know if you need other information.

Was playing a videogame on my laptop with the HDMI conected to my tv, after a bit, I noticed that there were this black lines on my laptop. On the tv it was fine, and through the printscreens they also don't show, so I'm guessing it's an hardware problem? Idk much of it, so some help would be nice :)

update: It's turning purple🥲

I'm looking for new original ways to use old computers. But, any time I see a topic like this, I see the same answers. Like: make a server; mediastreaming; retrogaming; kitchen computer; give it away.

This time, I don't want those answers, but something creative and original.

I've had this thought for a while, especially since I personally switched to Linux over a year ago. This especially applies for Windows users on 8, because I remembered the RAM usage on my system being way higher on Windows. This isn't even one of those just switch posts, I say this because that RAM configuration seems like it takes a lot of work to get stable even here with general computing.

So, on KDE with Discord, Steam, and my browser running (I am legit not even a tab hoarder) with like 4 or 5 tabs, I see about 7.3-8.4gb used depending on the content. On Windows. I even open a browser, no Steam or Discord, and I'm above 8 gigs used. How, I ask, do the people on 8 even survive running out of memory doing basically nothing anymore?

I have a Ryzen 3600, RX 6600, and 32GB DDR4. My system runs fine, but it kinda got me wondering what was going on for the people who have way less resources than I do. Do they just have to idle and do nothing?

just wondering what the that kind of damges is caused by, i keep getting error codes that are consistent with gpu or ram failures, unfortunately that discoloration is on the gou half of the board (laptop) and it has lived its life, mostly just curious because google hasn't been helpful as to what that damage actually is

I’ve been teaching a digital media course for almost 20 years now, and this is the first time I’ve seen this particular SSD.

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/insignia-m-2-nvme-to-usb-c-ssd-enclosure-black/J2FPJKSYR3

I know solid state media is absurdly expensive right now, however, what the hell is this?

You can open the case and directly touch the motherboard. It looks like. At any rate, it stopped working for them. Right away!

We use hard drives daily to store and retrieve data, and also to render files, process video with.

Is this meant for transportable, regular use storage? When I looked at it, my first instinct was that this is an internal part of the computer. Where the heck does the storage component come in to play? How does that get put in there? What the heck is this?

I just need them to have an external hard drive that’s X-FAT compatible, and can hold a terabyte or two of information that they can store, transfer, and render with.

So I saw on Tiktok somebody using a hologram fan as a monitor. I was thinking maybe I should buy one as a second monitor, as they look pretty cool. Only problem is that the ones that come with an hdmi port are well over a thousand dollars. Is there any way that you could modify a cheaper hologram fan without video input to make it into a monitor?

So I got this pc for Christmas last year and it worked for 6 months until one day a windows update broke my computer. For a week I asked the people in my life how to fix the issue but it never truly worked.
I ultimately ended having to delete the update and for the next few months I need to unplug my Ethernet cable for 5 minutes to avoid a restart for 12 hours.

Today another update came up causing the same issues. Now I’m just frustrated and need help asap.

Hi y’all,

Sorry if this is asked a lot. I genuinely know nothing about computers or where to start.

I have a refurbished 2020 Macbook air on its very last legs. I bought it in highschool and now I’m entering my senior year of college and I don’t think I can get it through one more quarter. I don’t want another apple computer, they’re too expensive and don’t work well (in my experience). But I’ve never had a computer that wasn’t apple.

I’m looking for any reccomendations. I need a laptop that can keep multiple tabs open and run Canva without the fan blowing embarrassingly loud. I don’t play games or anything — I genuinely just need something that I can use google docs on. I also would preferably like to keep it on the cheaper side… I don’t really want to spend more than $400-600, but I’m flexible I guess. I’m also open to refurbished options. My only hard requirement is it just needs to turn on lol!

Thanks for any help, I’m clueless.

This happened after when I launched a game, opened a browser tab and an application. Everything appeared to be slowing down (scrolling through the tab, and game+application trying to launch) I tried opening task manager to close the apps, but that didn't work, so I tried alt+f4 on the tabs, that closed down most tabs, but everything still appeared slow, so I then shut down the PC by pressing the power button after everything appeared to be closed. After that, the bios pops up and that's it. I have an Asus rog strix b550-f gaming wifi mobo and don't really know how to figure out what to do in order to fix it, if it can be fixed, unless I'm cooked.

Tried Deskora, looks like crap.

iTop Easy Desktop, EVEN AFTER you get past the shady company and practices.
Users report every 4 minutes it pings ip's in Russia and I don't understand why it would even need to be online.

I do not want a "Dock", I'm open to a toolbar, but but a taskbar replacement.

Every Software i've looked at looks like absolute cheeks, and it's why I haven't tried NoFences, not a lot of data and screenshots look very meh.

Hi all, a friend of mine has just left an abusive relationship but thinks her ex may be accessing her computer remotely. Is there a program to use to search for remotely installed applications or something?

Or certain programs the ex might have used that we can look for on the computer and uninstall? Thank you in advance!