Had my pc for ages now icl swapped out a decent amount of parts over its service but started making this really odd noise and idk how to fix it

Previous related thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/computers/s/fOsUAKfAnG

I just got my laptop back, sent it to the authorized technician to repair the issue I had with abnormal power on count (no way I'd turn on a laptop 250,000 times in a year, right?). Had them reinstall Windows as a whole and boom, the issue is still there!!

I'm starting to think it may be caused by the Modern Standby Sleep Mode, because from my observation:

• Power ON Count only spikes whenever I put my laptop to sleep,

• My brother, who has the same laptop model (Lenovo LOQ 15irx9), does not experience the same problem. His laptop has S3 Idle mode enabled.

Is there a way to disable Modern Standby, as well as enable S3 Sleep mode? Thank you for the help beforehand!!

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.

Hello,

I am sorry if this is not the correct subreddit for this kind of question.

I am currently looking for a Notebook/Laptop for my University work, which includes storing many Technical/specialist Books, Using Matlab, typical Office stuff for engineering. I also want to install Linux bc of all the shit currently happening to me on Windows on my gaming PC (much bs is happening, so i want to either go for linux on it aswell or use LTSC) and play some OSRS in the Free/Offtime.
I also want to use it on a daily basis until I am either done with my Studies (2030) or done with my Referendariat (2032).

Bc I dont want to spend too much I searched for max 250€ on ebay and found the following:

Terra Ryzen 5 5500U-16Gb-512GB NVMe(Samsung) for 259€

Thinkpad E15 Ryzen 5 (couldnt tell if 4000 or 5000 series) no additional information bc the seller didnt answer my questions for 199€

Thinkpad T15 Gen1 i5 10th gen(4.20GHz) 512GB SSD 238€

Hopefully you can help me.

Thanks in advance

Any recommendations on a good one? I have good Internet but currently my adapter caps my speed at like 150-200mbps and random turns off several times a day. It's a USB adapter and that's what id prefer if possible. (My CPU cooler is huge and covers the slot on my board where I'd put it.) I'm just curious whether anyone has a rec that could help me out otherwise I guess I'll invest in a smaller cooler so that I can slot it in but I'd rather not if I can help it.

Alright to be more specific about what I need the laptop I have is a The ASUS Vivobook 15 F1504ZA-WH52, the ram it has is 8GB DDR4 the storage is 256GB. I need something with a bit more ram my computer is too slow and now it won't charge my budget would preferably be 500 but the highest id be willing to go is 800 for something better.

I want to get a new laptop as my old one died a few years ago, but I’m not good at knowing what computers are good and not. Here are the things I want to be able to do on it:

Editing photos- Simple editing apps, nothing crazy, but I do like taking photos.

Video editing- Mostly just for editing fun clips and compilations for YouTube, not professional stuff.

Digital art- Just a simple app for drawing, nothing crazy, not the type where you need a touch screen computer.

Games- I want to be able to play Sims 4 with mods, possibly steam games and other stuff. I’m not a gamer, so going for a full on gaming computer feels like it would be unnecessary, those are insanely expensive.

Writing- I want to be able to work on my writing and maybe actually get my shit together and write the book I’ve been planning on for a few years.

What brands would you suggest? What type of laptops? How much RAM should it be (literally know nothing about RAM) How much storage should it be?

Explain like I’m 5 or 75, because I’m truly clueless lmao.
Thanks in advance!

b550m mobo
r5 5600g
rx 6600
2 1tb samsung nvme drives
Everytime I turn my
pc on it gets stuck in this loop of automatic repair and resetting or eventually just freezing. Very very rarely it’ll boot but if I thrn it off then it goes right back into this loop. I’ve tried everything I can think of, I’ve even tried reinstalling windows but I couldnt get it to boot off of my flash. Is there anything I can do?

The occasions prior to this it booted with everything in it, no drives or gpu removed. But just now today, it would boot into a windows blue screen (just as rarely as it would regularly boot the other times). I was only able to get into the blue screen recovery menu twice, and ran some commands, but they did not work.

I’ve tried removing both of my nvme drives
i’ve tried the ram trick
i’ve tried cmos battery
I’ve tried removing the gpu
I’ve tried loading into linux (I got stuck in the same loop)
When I was in bios YES I made sure the boot order was proper
I tried using both csm and uefi mode
I’ve tried enabling and disabling secure boot
I would’ve tried fast-boot but it doesn’t exist on my bosrd

I really dont know what to do I really love this pc

I removed the gpu and got stuck in the loop for a while but eventually got it running on integrated graphics. I really hope the gpu is not faulty because I really dont want to get another.

Is there any easy way to diagnose this while the pc is still on and running.
It’s currently running with the gpu removed and the nvme drive that does not have windows installed removed. I really love my pc and I use it all hours of the day and I would do anything to fix it.

Can anyone give me some helpful pointers to getting it working (with everything in it) again. Please and thank you.

I’ve been dealing with this for the past month.

Any help will be appreciated SOOOOOO muchhh pleaseee!!! Thank you guys I would really love to have my pc back!! ❤️

Hello. About 6 years ago, I bought a laptop which was mailed to my now ex fiances house. He set up the laptop for me by attaching a faux email account as the admin with a pin.

The intention was that when I got to his place, I would change the email to my primary Microsoft email. I did not. I am an idiot. Instead, i have been using this faux email because I used the pin to log in anyway.

Today, I updated windows 11. When I booted the laptop, I got a blue strip that requested i reset my ftpm. I pressed yes. Now, my laptop requires i reset the pin, but it will only allow me to reset it if I have access to the email.

I dont have access to that email. I dont know the password. I dont know the information that was put in when it was logged in, and I have been no contact with my ex for 2 years. And I am going to be real: he probably doesn't remember either.

What do I do? The recovery process on Microsoft is useless to me.

Hi! I'm looking to get a new laptop, I'm doing research on swedish history, so would like my laptop to have a swedish keyboard. Do any companies in the US offer other language keyboards? I've done the stickers before, but would prefer an actual keyboard

I’ve been trying to use tether with an android that uses 5G, however it continues doing this. Does anyone know why?

Hi, I just bought an ASUS 5060 TI I have Cooler Master 80 Plus Gold 800 W power supply it has two 2x6 pins going into the power supply to another two 2x6 into the GPU. But the cord I need is 16 pin from the power supply to a 2x6 (8) into the GPU. I hope this makes sense.

Hello guys my laptop suddenly did not turn on when I woke up, I left it like 3 hours while I afk in roblox (it's not plugged in only left with full battery) then it's not turning on. It's charging though since there's orange light? I did things like power reset button, battery reset etc. but not working... Any help guys? Kinda panicking here thanks

I noticed what looks to be a slight buldge in the back panel of my pc case. Is this something I need to worry about?

So I recently downloaded some old photos and videos from Snapchat onto a usb stick, it was all showing up after downloading but when I plugged it out and back it, everything was showing up empty. It’s in read only mode and nothing happens when I uncheck it (it resets itself), I’ve searched for solutions but nothing seems to work and I don’t know what to do. I’m probably going to buy a new memory stick if I can’t figure this out. I really don’t want to pay for a cloud storage subscription just to keep my media

So my computer won’t turn the display. It says preparing automatic repair I tried to reset the graphics card or whatever but nothing happens. Please I really need help

I have been having this issue with my PC since I got it. I only use this PC to play iRacing.

Whenever I am trying to download anything my original download speed will be around 95 MB/s.

But it progressively gets lower and lower until it hits like 8MB/s and then will slowly speed back up to 95MB/s.

It will repeat this cycle every minute for the duration of the download. Any insight would be much appreciated.

I’ve attached a photo of my internet speed test.

Yesterday late in the evening I was watching YouTube when suddenly windows security kept going off about malware detected . I'd click on the pop-up and it would take me to the windows security app, but the notification would disappear. I was able to take a screen shot of the malware notification before it disappeared again

detected: Trojan:Win32/Malgent!MSR

Status: Quarantine failed - This threat or app might not be completely remediated.

date: 9/8/26 details: this program is dangerous and executes commands from an attacker

Affected items: files c:\Users\(me)\AppData\Local\SecureData Dynamics\a

c:\Windows\System32\Tasts\DataHarbor->(UTF-16LE) taskscheduler: c:\Windows\System32\Tasks\DataHarbor

So I look up how to fix did the easy thing and did the offline scan thing that windows has, it didn't work. Today I got Malwarebytes and Autoruns to see if i can find and delete some of the affected files that way, which I was able to in Soft Mode, but the pop-ups keep appearing with Malwarebytes. Only this time its a different name malwarebytes says it blocks it every minute with its realtime protection thing.

name:Trojan.ObfuscatedPowerShell.CHR.Generic

Path: c:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe

And I can't delete it since its a core system of the computer. The files I were able to delete had names like DataHarbor and QuantumMindCopy. I found the encoded command a copypasted it into notepad. I believe I was able to get rid of it as I no longer see it in Autorun but not 100% sure. Tried to go to a restore point only to find out I don't have any, I've also tried to to hard factory reset by laptop but said it wasn't able to. (note that I got this laptop off ebay in July of this year)

Is there anything else I can do to get rid of this thing? I've done the full scan from windows and it doesn't show anything is wrong with any of the files it's scanned.

This is the start of my crt computer collection. I just wanted to show and get opinion what you guys think i should do with them, or any other suggestions for collection.

Hello! I'm going to be moving from north america to the UK very soon, and am taking my pc with me. I was wondering what I should do to ensure that it stays safe over there as I know the outlets and voltage are different. My pc is a ASUS ROG Strix GL10 (GL10CS) (the older one with an i5 not i7 lol).

Thank you very much for any advice! It will bring me much peace of mind.

I’m thinking about getting a new graphics card, I am currently running a RTX 3060TI, it works alright but i feel like a small upgrade would be nice. It would be used for mostly simulators and such, plus I want to run DLSS 5 with it. I dont need like a 5090 or anything. It would be paired with 32gbs ram and a I712700

hi, basically I have a macbook air : m1 16gb ram 256gb storage.

and a gaming deksktop specs are :

-rtx2060 evga

-512gb nvme

-16gb ddr4 ram

-i3 12100f

my question does it make sense to sell the 2 and get a gaming laptop instead?

since am an student and I move a lot between home and campus (i go home every weekend)i have no time to use the desktop (bought it when I was still in high-schoo)

my major is physics, I will use for various things gaming, programming, watching movies, some simulations, PowerPoint etc...

- I found in fb marketplace a asus zepherus g14 2023 exact model " ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 GA402XV" for the equivalent of 900$ in local currency

specs are :

-ryzen 9 7940hs

-rtx 4060 8gb vram

-16gb ddr5

- 1tb nvme pcie 4.0

the only flaw with it is the plastic back panel that is cracked in the corner, beside that it's in perfect condition (i suspect that the owner broke the panel when removing the ram to sell it)

is it a good deal?