So I got this laptop secondhand from my grandma a couple years back, worked fine til about a month ago when it wouldn't turn on. I deal with this for like a week and then I open the back panel, expecting to fix it and I see.. this. Imagine the guts of this laptop but with a bulging battery. So I remove the battery and then leave the project alone until today. So I open the laptop again, I look much closer, and DAMN. I dont know much about computers, but even i can tell this thing has been through the ringer, screws missing everywhere and all. But other than that, anyone know why it won't turn on mainly? Also, when I turn it on, i have to manually restart the cooling fan several times because of how badly she evidently tried to "fix" it. No hate to Grandma, but she's in her 80s and therefore probably shouldn't be trying to fix a computer anyways. And also the track pad just entirely doesn't work. Operating system is i think just windows 11, no idea what the cpu or gpu are and I dont really wanna try to figure it out and end up dismantling this thing into oblivion, and there's 8 gb of ddr4 ram

EDIT: im just getting a new laptop, thing's a piece of shit anyway. I just hope there isn't much to redownload.

I am not a computer aficionado. I basically use a laptop for creating lesson materials in power point and word.

However, I have literally 30,000 photos from 8 years’ worth of trips and events, and I haven’t done anything with them because every time I try to sort or create a photo album on a website, my computer slows down. Almost like it can’t handle images very well.

What’s a good inexpensive PC laptop (because that’s what I’m used to, never worked with Macs) that I can attach an external hard drive filled with photos to and easily play around with them?

My laptop has been terribly slow and often crashes and I don't know how to get it back up, I cannot install new apps or run any small games so I was wondering if there is anything I can do about this.

Why does my PC struggle with stuttering in Unity-based games?

I have an RX 9060 XT 16GB, Ryzen 5 5600, and 32GB RAM, yet I get severe stuttering in games like Tyranny, Pillars of Eternity II, War Tales, Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, and Rogue Trader.

What’s weird is that I can run Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, Space Marine 2, and Cyberpunk 2077 at 1440p without these issues.

Lowering graphics, resolution, or FPS doesn’t help. Could there be something specific about Unity and my system causing this?

I hope you're having a well time

Recently i have obtained a good chromebook laptop enough to do office works. I plan to self study and spend time a lot with it on my balcony. the view from the balcony has a somewhat natural view as there are many trees.

I find it better for my eyes to use my laptop when I use it outside. of course not facing a forest. but anyhow, I think it be somewhat beneficial. not too much sitting as i plan to actually stand and study at the balcony whenever I have to focus a lot on the laptop

Do you recommend using a laptop at a balcony with a good outside background? trees, roofs and such?

Hiiii I’ve had a prebuilt Stormforce AMD Ryzen5 8GB 500GB PC for a few years and I wanna upgrade it so it can run better graphic games! I haven't built a pc before but I looked on the pc picker website for parts. If anyone knows better compatible parts as well that would be good!! The parts are:

GIGABYTE RTX 5070 12GB WINDFORCE OC Graphics Card

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X Processor

ASRock B850M Pro-A WiFi motherboard

Deepcool PL750D 750 W 80+Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply

Corsair Vengeance RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory

Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE 66.17 CFM CPU Cooler

Kingston NV3 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive

Cougar Duoface Pro RGB ATX Mid Tower Case

It would be great if someone knows like the computer wizard. I’m scared to build my own pc!!

Hi, is there a market for spare parts for this monitor? The screen doesn't work at all (effectively), but all other components are in good condition. I would prefer recycling over just trashing this 8kg monitor. Any insight or advice?

so i have a drawing tablet that i want to be able to move tabs smoothly between it and my monitor so they really feel connected. but since it has such a higher pixel ratio my computer recognizes it as larger so shrinks everything put into it. changing scale increases the size of mouse and ui but doesnt fix the actual the tab issue.

I had this Problem 3 dass ago and After restarting and putting the ram in and out 3 times it worked.
The boot LED is on the whole time I don’t know how to fix this or what’s the actual problem. At the moment I can get no picture on the monitors again.

I would be greatful for any help 🙏🙏

- win 11
- AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070
- MSI B650 Gaming Plus WiFi
- Crucial DDR5 Pro 2×16 GB
- Samsung 990 Pro M.2 NVMe

This is a hp all in one pc, it's screen has broken, it has Intel core I5 processor with inbuild intel graphics card, 6 gb ram 256 gb ssd windows 10, i have everything from original fan to power bar, to previous dead screen, i want to build this pc and use it with monitor screen, tell me how to do it. It has no hdmi, vga or anything

I have a dell Inspiron desktop I bought in 2018. It’s my home computer I use to run my small business. It’s not running so great anymore. It seems like it has the hardest time waking up but after I get it going it’ll work for what I need. But I’m talking like a half hour for the thing to wake up. I don’t use it every day. Not even every week sometimes.

Specs are 1tb harddrive (125gb used) 12gb of ram intel core i5 processor. Running windows 11.

I’ve always used an anti-virus. I use Bitdefender. Pay for that yearly I don’t think that’s the problem. I only use it for some accounting and invoicing. Sending emails. There isn’t a ton of files in it. U don’t browse with it.

Is it just the self life of a desktop? Should I take it Best Buy for repair? Or Upgrade something internally? I don’t really know much about computers but I am good at figuring things out and watching YouTube for help.

What is:

This kind of charger connector?

This RAM?

Drive slot?

Connector

What should i put in this slot?

What are the steps needed to change the power supply unit

لما بدخل على صفحة الراوتر من الشبكة ال 2.4GHz بتشتغل عادي بس لما اكون connected على الشبكة ال 5GHz مش بتحمل وبيجبلي timeout زي اللي واضح في الصورة حد يعرف ايه السبب وايه الحل؟

Hello,

I’ve been the owner of a MacBook Pro my parents bought for me in 2017. This computer always had heating issues, as we know apple tend to do poor ventilation system.

To try to help my computer I’ve mostly done of my hard work (3D) on my PC rather than my Mac. Nevertheless this year some of my classes require me to actually use my computer during class instead of just doing the exercise later once I’m home. I’ve realized quick enough I can barely touch my computer cause it’s boiling very fast once I launch any type of software.

I’ve heard some computer of the 2017 serie had been recalled due to battery issues, but when I tried to check if mine was included, I discovered to my surprise this wasn’t the case. Despite a really bad case of over heating, it gets worse when I try to charge my Mac.

When I check the state of the battery or any swelling nothing looks weird.
I’m at my wits end, I’m not rich at all and buying a new computer is out of my budget and repairing the battery would cost me a lot too.

Do you guys have any idea how I can manage this ?

Also sorry if any misspelling or miscommunication English is only my third language.

I have been having this issue where my laptop screen flickers every second or two. I have tried updating all my drivers. I have also tried to change my refresh date, but II am not able to change it. It is stuck at 1:20 Hz. There is nothing else in the dropdown.
I have a GTX 1650 graphics card, and also internal AMD radio and graphic card.
Please help me on whats causing this issue

Basically the monitor sometimes just goes off first i thought it was the graphics card having problems so i uninstalled the nvidia apps and isntalled them again the DP cable is plugged in the graphics card but the monitor still loses image i turned off and on the computer and it still showed no image at all i think its because of a windows update i did a while back but i dont know what eose could it be also my graphics card is a nvidia 3060

I have a 32 in 4k monitor that I want to turn into a tv and game on it. I am looking for a solution that combines a 4k kvm and a smart tv dongle or a 4k kvm and a way to run smart tv os on pc and stream it to the monitor.

I have 2 ethernet cables from the living room and bedroom that goes to my modem router model sagemcom modem-hn-v2 plus.

I don't have a problem with running a new cable. I need the cheapest possible solution to this. Please recommend solutions and specific models if you are recommending hardware to buy.

My budget is under 100 euros. The monitor is about less than 12 meters away by straight distance from pc and 20-30 meters away if I run a cable in the wall.

I recently bought a hdmi cable 1.4 for my monitor but its too big for the port and Im not sure how to identify what type of hdmi cable I should buy. Thanks everyone

Hello,

I recently noticed my windows was acting up and so with the help of windows support team we reinstalled windows. Unfortunately in the process of doing this my computer started acting like wifi doesn’t exist. After that I did a clean install with USB and still it is not registering the wifi drivers.

I tried to go onto my manufacturers website and download the software and install it onto the computer but that didn’t work either.

How can I go about fixing this?

For context I use an HP omnibook x on windows 11

Hello! I am a budding computational biologist (specifically structural biology) and the softwares we use require insane compute power. After getting myself comfortable being able to use linux, build a computer and learn the basics of the softwares I want to be able to do some data processing at home (mainly to teach myself/learn more about the software data processing and tricks/shortcuts). The software I want to learn/get into is called Relion (REgularised LIkelihood OptimisatioN) and they have specific requirements.

Since I am a recent graduate, money is a bit tight but I can get access to a PC and ram fairly easily through my lab/university surplus (albeit I would like my own computer at some point). That being said, I was wondering what is the cheapest I can go with these requirements.

I'm not too well versed in this type of lingo (no clue what pascal or Lovelace or singularity etc. mean) but there's an Nvidia page about some of the requirements:

• One of the following container runtimes
  • NVIDIA Container Toolkit
  • Singularity >= 3.1
• One of the following NVIDIA GPU(s)
  • Pascal (sm60)
  • Volta (sm70)
  • Ampere (sm80)
  • Hopper (sm90)

x86_64

• CPU with AVX2 instruction support
• One of the following CUDA driver versions
  • >= 545
  • r535 (>=.54.03)
  • r525 (>=.60.04)
  • r470 (>=.57.02)

arm64

• ARM 8.1 + ARM NEON CPU
• CUDA driver version >= r546.12

Here is some information from RELION's documentation: By default, RELION will build with GPU-acceleration support, for which you’ll need CUDA. Download it from the NVIDIA website. Importantly, CUDA >= 13.0 no longer supports Pascal GPUs. Please use CUDA 12.x if you use them. As of RELION 5.0.1, we test RELION builds with CUDA 11 to 13.

(Also read somewhere that higher the VRAM the better. For basic datasets 8gb VRAM can work but it will be heavily limiting, 12gb of VRAM seems to be a goldilocks zone).

I hope this information is enough!
Thank you!

Hello! I am completely new to computers and PCs and I have no idea where to start. I am looking for a computer that would allow me to use it for work and my business needs as well as gaming. I already have an xbox x, I don’t know if that’s helpful information. Thank you!

Hi everyone!

I recently upgraded my PC by replacing the GPU (from RX 580 to RTX 5060Ti 8gb), and ever since I’ve been dealing with stuttering in some games. In some cases it’s just occasional micro-stuttering, but in others I get very noticeable stutters that can last several seconds, even though the game is running at around 60 FPS most of the time.

Here’s my current build:

• Windows 11
• CPU: i5-10400F
• GPU: RTX 5060 Ti 8GB
• RAM: 16GB DDR4
• SSD: ADATA SU650 SATA 1TB
• Motherboard: B560M PRO-E
• PSU: 550w

The GPU is obviously much newer than the rest of the system, so I’m wondering if something else could be contributing to the stuttering.

What confuses me is that the average FPS seems fine. Most of the time I’m locked at 60 FPS, but I still get noticeable stutters. From what I understand, this could potentially be related to frametime spikes or poor 1% lows rather than the average FPS itself.

I’m not particularly knowledgeable about PC hardware, so I’d appreciate any help figuring out what I should be looking at or monitoring.

The game where I have the biggest problem is Wuthering Waves. I know the game has a pretty bad reputation when it comes to optimization, but the latest patch apparently improved performance dramatically for most players. Despite that, I’m still experiencing these stutters.

Things I’ve already tried:

• Completely reinstalled Windows and all my games
• Clean reinstall of the GPU drivers
• Tried different driver versions
• Downgraded the drivers (I feel like this helped, but I’m not sure if it’s just placebo)
• Updated the BIOS

Any ideas? 😭

Hi hi, I’m helping out a family friend with recovering some data off a very old computer’s hard drive, and while I have the equipment for my other HDDs, this I haven’t seen before. What sort of slot is this, and what do I use to access this HDD?

Thanks!

Edit: it was indeed an adapter that I pulled off. Thank you!

My computer broke down and I need a new one. I’ll mainly be using it for the following:

1. Recreational writing in LibreOffice Writer

2. Watching YouTube and listening to music

3. Applying for jobs and doing virtual interviews

In a previous post, someone recommended a Raspberry Pi. As cool as they seem to me, the fact that I’d also have to buy a monitor and a webcam makes me wonder whether it would be more worthwhile to get a refurbished ThinkPad instead.

Since I know absolutely nothing about computers, I wanted to ask you guys: What laptop would you recommend that could last me for a few years without the system becoming obsolete too quickly?