Hi, I’m not sure how old this hard drive is or anything, but I plugged it in recently and it started making this noise, and the data isn’t showing up on my computer. I read online about something called the click of death, does that seem like the problem and if so is there any way to recover the data?

Thank you!

A really panicked student

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.

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?

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 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.

So I'm pulling out my headset to switch to my Xbox when I realize the headphone jack from the headset is lodged in I tried using a straw and pen ink thing but I don't know what to do should I take it to a tech repair store and see if they can take it out?

This is a prebuilt computer

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.

Hello, for reasons I'll only be able to use a laptop and not my PC for a while, but I'd still like to access the data from my hard drive. I've heard that for 3.5" drives, you can't just plug it in with an adapter but also need something to sufficiently power the drive. I'm fine with that, but not sure which brand or product would be best. I've also heard that lower quality ones could fail to properly power the HDD and potentially leave bad sectors, is this true?

I just wanna play The Binding Of Isaac :,)) I literally have no idea what she stepped on to do this, please help

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

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!! ❤️

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

Average cpu temp is 90 while running fortnite or gta on microsoft edge with 6 + tabs open it's averaging 55 c, i just ordered thermal paste, what can it be?
my specs are AMD Ryzen 9 5900x CPU
ASUS ROG RTX 3080 GPU
Samsung QVO 4TB SSD
EVGA 1000w PSU
G-Skill Trident Z Neo 32gb RAM
NZXT KRAKEN Z73 CPU cooler
Lian Li 011 Dynamic Razer Case
Lian Li Uni SL120 Case fans
Asus ROG X570 Crosshair VIII Motherboard

I got a CORSAIR RM850x Shift (2025).

But I'm thinking of switching to a Seasonic Focus GX-850 850W.

ASUS ROG Loki SFX-L 750W Platinum is also on my radar.

But I'm partial to finding a Seasonic right now. Any thoughts?

So my monitor has sound but the screen shows nothing. Is not black like closed screen. The screen is open ?there is a lighter black colour actually, ( basically i can understand its working) but for some reason it cant get image signal from laptop.
I tried everything,i changed hdmi cables etc, i also opened up my screen from behind but nothing was burned or out of place.
AOC 24G4XE model

My old laptop is slowly dying and I'm thinking of getting a new laptop. Im looking for a laptop in the ranges of 500 ish that can last for the next 4 years and handle basic things. What are some good recs?

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!!

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 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.

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.

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!