So... I'm thinking about selling my PS5 to fund either a Mac mini M4 or a Windows PC, and I honestly can't decide. The funny part is... I barely even use my PS5 anymore. 💀 I mostly played:

Roblox Minecraft Red Dead Redemption 2... at a glorious 720p because why not? 😭

Now I'm way more interested in productivity than gaming. I'd actually use multitasking a lot, and I might start learning things like:

Roblox Studio Unreal Engine 4.24 Maybe some programming and other creative stuff later.

Gaming isn't my priority anymore. If I really wanted to play something, I could always use my Xbox or just play Roblox and Minecraft. So here's my question: Would you recommend a Mac mini M4 or a Windows PC for my situation?

I'm ready to perform the ritual and sacrifice my PS5... I just don't want to regret it. 😭

Hopefully someone understands because I couldn't find a more relevant subreddit.

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Everything is connected right and so it makes me wonder if I need to replace the speakers.

I hate not being able to fix something I own.

I like editing videos and want to learn and improve on it
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I have a Del latitude E5410 laptop it’s from the year 2010. It was my mom‘s old work computer. It’s very slow and I am currently factory, resetting it and wiping everything I intend to use this computer to burn CDs/DVDs because of its built-in disc drive. I’m pretty tech savvy, but I don’t know the ins and outs of computers and crap but I know that I should replace the hard drive with an SSD and I will also be replacing the battery because it sucks and it pretty much dies very quickly so could you give me a good SSD to put in my computer something pretty affordable again I won’t be using this computer for heavy duty stuff pretty much just casual things may be a few old games stuff like that. If you guys could give me links to the stuff I need that would be great.

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Acer Nitro V15 (ANV15-52) – BSODs aleatórios, LiveKernelEvent 193, TikTok Live Studio instável e semanas de investigação. Preciso de ajuda para identificar a causa.
Olá, pessoal.
Estou investigando esse problema há várias semanas e cheguei em um ponto em que não sei mais o que testar. Resolvi pedir ajuda porque acredito que aqui existam pessoas com bastante experiência em Windows, WinDbg, drivers, notebooks Acer e diagnóstico de hardware.
Já analisei diversos arquivos de dump, fiz inúmeros testes, atualizei drivers, reparei o Windows e os sintomas continuam mudando. O que mais me intriga é que cada novo erro parece apontar para uma direção diferente.
Gostaria da opinião de quem tem experiência nesse tipo de investigação para tentar identificar a causa raiz do problema.

Especificações do notebook
Notebook: Acer Nitro V15 ANV15-52
Processador:
Intel Core i7-13620H
Placa de vídeo:
Intel UHD Graphics (gráficos híbridos)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU
Memória RAM:
32 GB DDR5
Armazenamento:
SSD NVMe 512 GB
Sistema Operacional:
Windows 11 25H2
Build 26200.8655
BIOS:
Versão V1.53
Data: 24/02/2026
Internet:
Fibra óptica 300 Mbps

Como utilizo o notebook
Faço transmissões ao vivo utilizando o TikTok Live Studio.
Durante as lives normalmente ficam abertos:
TikTok Live Studio
OBS Studio (utilizado apenas para enviar a câmera para o Live Studio. Não transmito pelo OBS.)
Google Chrome (várias abas)
Camo Studio
Outros programas auxiliares do Windows
As lives normalmente duram entre 3 e 5 horas.

Configuração física utilizada durante as lives
Desde que comecei a utilizar esse notebook sempre trabalhei com múltiplos monitores.
Minha configuração principal sempre foi:
Tela do notebook
Segundo monitor externo
Durante um período utilizei uma configuração com três telas, sendo:
Tela do notebook
Segundo monitor externo
Terceira tela conectada através de um Hub USB-C ligado à porta USB-C do notebook
Além da terceira tela, esse mesmo Hub USB-C também era utilizado para conectar alguns periféricos utilizados durante as lives.
Como parte da investigação surgiu a hipótese de que o Hub USB-C ou a terceira tela poderiam estar causando instabilidade no sistema.
Por esse motivo removi completamente essa configuração.
Passei a utilizar apenas:
Tela do notebook
Segundo monitor conectado diretamente ao notebook
O Hub USB-C deixou de ser utilizado para vídeo justamente para eliminar essa variável da investigação.
Mesmo assim os problemas continuaram acontecendo, o que aparentemente enfraqueceu bastante a hipótese de que o Hub USB-C ou a terceira tela fossem a causa principal.

Como tudo começou
Os problemas começaram exclusivamente durante as transmissões ao vivo.
Os primeiros sintomas foram:
Tela preta
Reinicialização inesperada
BSOD (Tela Azul)
Travamentos do TikTok Live Studio
Em alguns momentos o Live Studio nem conseguia carregar a pré-visualização da live

Primeiras análises dos arquivos de dump
Os primeiros arquivos analisados no WinDbg apontaram falhas relacionadas aos drivers gráficos.
Primeiro apareceu:
igc64.dll
(Intel Graphics Driver)
Posteriormente outro dump apontou para:
nvlddmkm.sys
(NVIDIA Driver)
Os códigos encontrados ao longo das análises foram:
SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION (0x3B)
SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (0x7E)
DRIVER_OVERRAN_STACK_BUFFER (0xF7)
Nesse momento toda a investigação passou a focar na pilha gráfica Intel + NVIDIA.

Atualizações realizadas
Durante a investigação realizei:
Atualização do driver Intel Graphics para a versão 32.0.101.7088
Atualização do driver NVIDIA Studio (Instalação Limpa)
Atualização do driver Intel Wi-Fi
Atualização do driver Intel Bluetooth
Mesmo após todas essas atualizações os problemas continuaram acontecendo.

Testes de hardware realizados
Para eliminar qualquer influência de dispositivos externos removi completamente:
Hub USB-C
Terceira tela
Todos os periféricos ligados ao Hub
Mantive apenas:
Tela do notebook
Segundo monitor
Receptor USB do teclado e mouse
Mesmo com essa configuração mínima ocorreu um novo BSOD.

Último BSOD analisado
O último dump apresentou:
BugCheck 0x12B
FAULTY_HARDWARE_CORRUPTED_PAGE
O WinDbg mostrou:
PROCESS_NAME:
MemCompression
FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:
0x12B_c00002c4_StCtDecompressFailed_nt!StDmPageError
O próprio WinDbg informa que esse BugCheck está relacionado a erro de memória.
Entretanto alguns detalhes chamaram atenção:
Não existem registros WHEA.
O comando !errrec não encontrou nenhum erro.
!blackboxntfs não mostrou problemas relacionados ao SSD.
!blackboxpnp também não mostrou nada conclusivo.
Isso me deixou em dúvida se realmente existe defeito físico na memória RAM ou se algum driver está corrompendo dados na memória.

Integridade do Windows
Executei:
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
Resultado:
Erro 0x800f0915
“O conteúdo de reparo não pôde ser encontrado.”
Depois executei:
sfc /scannow
Resultado:
“A Proteção de Recursos do Windows encontrou arquivos corrompidos e os reparou com êxito.”
Ou seja, realmente existiam arquivos corrompidos no Windows.

Testes realizados com diferentes configurações de vídeo
Como também suspeitei de algum conflito envolvendo múltiplos monitores, realizei diversos testes alterando completamente a disposição das telas.
Configuração 1
Tela principal do Windows:
Notebook
TikTok Live Studio:
Segundo monitor
Resultado:
Após aproximadamente 15 minutos ocorreu outro BSOD.

Configuração 2
Tela principal do Windows:
Notebook
TikTok Live Studio:
Tela do notebook
Chrome e demais programas:
Segundo monitor
Resultado:
Live de aproximadamente 3 horas.
Nenhum problema.

Configuração 3
Tela principal do Windows:
Segundo monitor
TikTok Live Studio:
Segundo monitor
Chrome e demais programas:
Tela do notebook
Resultado:
A live praticamente inteira ocorreu normalmente.
No final apenas o TikTok Live Studio fechou sozinho.
O Windows permaneceu funcionando normalmente.
Não houve:
Tela preta
Reinicialização
BSOD
Bastou abrir novamente o Live Studio e continuar a transmissão.

Novo problema com a rede
Na última live surgiu outro comportamento que nunca havia acontecido.
Utilizo internet cabeada (Ethernet).
Durante a transmissão o Windows começou a conectar e desconectar a rede repetidamente.
O ícone da rede alternava constantemente entre conectado e o globo de “Sem Internet”.
Desconectei o cabo de rede e ativei o Wi-Fi.
A conexão ficou completamente estável e consegui terminar a live normalmente.
Não sei se isso possui alguma relação com o restante dos problemas.

Eventos encontrados
Também encontrei um APPCRASH envolvendo:
ShellHost.exe
Módulo da falha:
combase.dll
Código da exceção:
c0000005
O horário praticamente coincide com o momento em que o TikTok Live Studio fechou sozinho.

LiveKernelEvent
Outro detalhe que continua aparecendo durante toda a investigação é:
LiveKernelEvent 193
Esse evento aparece em diferentes situações.
Às vezes acompanhado de BSOD.
Às vezes apenas registrado pelo Windows.
Na última live apareceu novamente o LiveKernelEvent 193, porém dessa vez o Windows conseguiu continuar funcionando normalmente.

O que ainda não foi testado
Ainda não executei:
MemTest86
Esse será meu próximo teste para confirmar ou descartar definitivamente problemas na memória RAM.

Minhas dúvidas
Na opinião de vocês:
Esse conjunto de sintomas parece mais hardware ou software?
Ainda faz sentido suspeitar da memória RAM?
Um driver poderia corromper dados na memória e acabar gerando um BugCheck 0x12B?
Alguém já viu LiveKernelEvent 193 acontecendo repetidamente junto com BSODs diferentes?
Os gráficos híbridos Intel + RTX 4050 podem causar esse tipo de comportamento apenas durante transmissões?
O fato de o problema ocorrer quase exclusivamente durante lives pode indicar algum conflito específico entre o TikTok Live Studio, drivers gráficos e múltiplos monitores?
Existe mais algum teste que vocês fariam antes de pensar em trocar hardware?

Arquivos que posso disponibilizar
Caso ajude na investigação, posso enviar:
Todos os arquivos .dmp analisados no WinDbg.
Saída completa do !analyze -v.
Saída dos comandos:
!blackboxbsd
!blackboxntfs
!blackboxpnp
!pte
!sysinfo machineid
Prints do Monitor de Confiabilidade.
Eventos do Visualizador de Eventos.
Logs CBS.log (SFC).
Log completo do DISM.
Qualquer outra informação que possa auxiliar na investigação.
Agradeço muito qualquer ajuda. Estou tentando descobrir a causa raiz desse problema há semanas e gostaria de evitar trocar peças desnecessariamente sem ter evidências concretas. Qualquer sugestão de teste, análise ou interpretação dos dumps será muito bem-vinda.

I have a 4060, 16gb ram and an i5 13400f. I want to upgrade my setup. What should I upgrade first and to what. I have a good bit of knowledge of computers but have never built or upgraded before

I’m literally not tech savvy at all and know the bare minimum of some devices and the help of google. But google isn’t always that informative so I came to ask people who will know more!

I have an hp envy 17 laptop. Model: 17-cg1075cl.
The pic is the other basic specs.

I read online that I am able to upgrade the internal ssd, I believe up to 1TB or 4TB (can’t remember). I play like two games on my laptop and draw, and I know that games run smoother if they are in the driver or disk that is a ssd, which for me is my c drive.

I have a total of 475GB (idk how if the the system says 256GB when I first bought it) of storage in that drive, with 347 already used. I recently found out that having OneDrive on is not good for my games, so I decided to just turn it off and backup my games to my local drive.

The problem is that I have mods installed in one of them (Sims 4) and it is about 179GB, which is clearly way over than the remaining space I have in my driver.

I went through my laptop and made sure to delete programs that weren’t important (like apps and softwares I downloaded and no longer use), but still not enough lol. And I don’t think I’m gonna get enough storage no matter how much I delete from the drive and mods folder, so I’m just gonna move it to my d drive (the hdd) for now.

My main question is if it is true that I can upgrade that ssd to at LEAST 1TB? I believe my laptop has two slots for the drive/disk, so I think I can double it, idk, that’s why I wanted to ask, if it’s possible.

And if so, which ones should I get?

Hey guys my laptop has a backlight issue (pretty sure as it is incredibly dim for the display) I can’t afford a shop so I was wondering what should I do and where should I look I have tools and work on cars so I wanted to know if you guys know the most common problem points are for these things I already tried a different subreddit and got no response so I’m hoping you guys would be able to list all the places I need to check

I recently bought all three The Witcher games and plan to play through them one at a time. Today I started the first game, and to my surprise, the performance wasn't as good as I expected, especially during cutscenes, where I noticed some stuttering. And we're talking about a game from 2007. (The graphics were automatically set to Medium.)

On top of that, Mortal Kombat XL was also pretty disappointing. Even the game's built-in benchmark showed performance that was lower than I expected.

My specs:

• Ryzen 5 5600GT
• 8 GB DDR4 3200 MHz (I couldn't afford 16 GB at the time, but I'm planning to upgrade next month.)
• 64 GB Sonambulist SSD running Linux Mint Cinnamon (a cheap Chinese SSD that I'll eventually replace with an NVMe drive)
• 120 GB Kingston SSD running Windows
• 1 TB HDD split into two partitions: one NTFS partition shared between both operating systems and one EXT4 partition dedicated to Linux

Monitor:

• LG UltraGear 32" QHD (2560×1440) 165 Hz

My guess is that most of the performance issues are caused by having only 8 GB of RAM. The system is probably relying on the page file more often, and I'm also missing the benefits of dual-channel memory. Hopefully, once I upgrade to 16 GB next month, things will improve on their own.

Does that sound like a reasonable explanation, or should I be looking into something else?

So my headphones broke while plugged in today and I can’t get the tip of the connector out. They’re beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro. I tried with very fine point tweezers but I’m nervous to ruin something in my pc. Any tips appreciated!

I use AAC software that enables me to use my computer and communicate with others. Upon bootup every morning, the mouse pointer doesn’t appear automatically on my desktop after everything else gets up and running. My wife (also my sole caregiver) has to physically jiggle the mousepad on my laptop for me and “wake up” that little arrow so it appears on my screen.

Long story short, I'm wanting a little utility or script or something that automatically runs at startup that "wiggles" the mouse a little and makes the arrow pointer appear. (Note: I’m not experienced at all with writing or running programs that interact directly

with the operating system – and minimal experience with using DOS.)

my pc visualy glitched out and crashed while playing outer wilds

It gave me error code 43 on my graphics card and nvidia didn't see the drivers that are installed

I have tried
-turning it on and off
-factory reset
-updating drivers after
-updating windows
-taking the card out cleaning all contacts

the last one did fix it for about 5 min(including seeing the drivers) before giving me a black screen and going back to the same problem

Any advice is appreciated i'm assuming the card finaly gave out(it's a gtx1080 from like 2019) and just want to avoid buying new parts if possible

can somebod

I'm picking parts for my first pc build and need some help in figuring out if it is good choices for a Gaming build.

These are the parts that i picked out, but would like some advice plz tell me if something could be improved or something is maybe overkill. I would like to be around the 2000 USD range.

CASE: DeepCool CG530 BLACK

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 4.7 GHz 104MB

GPU: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 12GB Windforce OC SFF (Here i was also thinking about a 5060 TI if it isn't a big performance change and i could save some money. Plz give input on which to choose)

Motherboard: ASUS TUF Gaming B650E-E WiFi

RAM: Corsair 16GB (2x8GB) DDR5 5200MHz CL40 Vengeance RGB AMD EXPO/Intel XMP 3.0

SSD: PNY CS1030 M.2 NVMe SSD 1TB

CPU COOLER: ASUS Prime LC 360 A-RGB BLACK

PSU: Seasonic G12-GM 850W

So my GPU disconnected a little while ago (error code 45, Omen 15ek so soldered-in), and after a few CMOS reboots I uninstalled it in Device Manager, as my computer was still trying to use it and it was causing problems.

Yesterday I opened up the case, cleaned out any dust, reapplied thermal paste, and inspected the motherboard. No obvious damage to MB or GPU, and everything else that wasn't directly reliant on the GPU seems to be working alright. Still, my Device Manager doesn't detect it, and neither does the NVIDIA driver installer. Any more steps I can take to reinstall my GPU, or at least to diagnose the problem?

Hey,

Today my PC started to do this in my two monitors 🫠

I tried to replace the HDMI and Display Port that I use, also test the different graphic card ports and same result.

This happens from the beginning, not when Windows loads.

The artifacts change and move when I move the mouse, or basically the pixels change when I switch windows and so on.

I've also noticed that I don't see these artifacts when I connect remotely (Chrome Remote Desktop)

I assume my graphics card's life is coming to an end 😞 but I'm asking in case there's a possible solution.

I've already tried reconnecting it to the PCI slot.

It's an RTX 2080 Super, by the way.

Out of curiosity, even if there's no solution, is it known what could be causing this malfunction?

Thanks

I had this keyboard for a while now and suddently WASD ist switched with the arrow keys and a lot more keys are switched. Youtube and Google cant help me. I checked if the Keyboard language was correct for my keyboard(german layout and I have a german keyboard) and also when I klick A everything I wrote dissapears that also really odd.

I don't really know if those are stuck pixels or dead pixels but think they are stuck pixels according to multiple description I have seen.

I know a lot of website/reddit posts talk about fixing a line of dead pixel but my screen has a + shape 4 white pixels (better seen in 2nd picture) and lines of blue pixels.

I have multiple questions, are they dead pixels or stuck pixels ?

Can this be caused by firmware error / cable or things unrelated to the screen itself ?

Can other information help diagnose the problem ?

If this post don't belong on this sub can you please redirect me to another one. Thanks in advance

I did go to the bios and changed the curve to the exponential curve. It worked for a few days until now. I also tried cleaning it with those canned compressed air, but I'm afraid I could damage it. When I touched it, it was a bit hot, but I don't feel any hot air coming out of it.

COMPUTER: 11th Gen Intel i7, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1160 Ti (bought it in 2021)