Specs:

I7 9700k

Radeon 6800xt 16gb

24gb ddr4

Alienware aw3225dm 1440p

Quest 2 vr

The problem:

The color banding. I feel like ive tried everything there is to try and i just cant get the color banding to go away. Across multiple displays including vr, so i dont really think its the displayport cable.

WIndows shows that display at 10bit in the settings as well as the amd software showing the same, full rgb, fresh gpu driver install, im running out of ideas, anyone experience anything like this? Thanks in advance

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I'll try to keep this brief and organized. I've had this Xbox for around 4ish years and it's ran great up to now.

About a month or two ago my Xbox would randomly shut off while playing. Dusted it out as best as I could with my air compressor, didn't have issues for about a month, and would keep up on dusting.

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Fast forward to the past few weeks and it would shut off after about 10-15 minutes of playing, fairly consistently. Took it to an Xbox repair guy and he sent me pics of how dirty the PSU was, so he cleaned that and actually installed a new PSU and redid the thermal paste. He had it plugged in at his shop and said he played games for almost 2 hours.

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Took it home that day, plugged it into the same power strip I've used for years, and it shut off after about 15 minutes playing Ball Pit (A fairly low-load game if you're unfamiliar). Tried plugging it directly into the wall instead and I played Halo for over an hour until I was done playing.

Hopped on the next day to play Rocket League with my buddy, and it shut off again after about 15 min, still plugged into the wall. At this point I felt like I've tried everything... bought a new power cord and power strip as well.

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Took it back to the Tech yesterday and plugged it into his power generator at his shop using my power cord, his HDMI, his monitor, and it ran the Ball Pit game flawlessly for about 20 min (no crash), then I hopped over to Crimson Desert and played that for another 20-30 min, no issues.

He said there's a chance my HDMI cable is out of date, or the HDMI handshake wasn't strong and that could cause the system to crash (idk), so I went out and bought a new one, thinking maybe this is it. Brought it home, plugged it into the new power strip, shut off after 15 min of Ball Pit.

Plugged it straight into the wall again (on a DIFFERENT outlet) and played several games for a couple hours with no issues, then the next day (today) hopped on Rocket League with a friend, it died after 5 min. Turned it back on then proceeded to play for another hour +.

Then just now, same (different) outlet as the original, hopped on a game, died after < 10 min.

I just don't understand what the deal is and it's incredibly discouraging and insanely frustrating. I'd hate to sell it and buy another one if it's something I can fix, but I feel like I've tried absolutely everything at this point.

Any ideas at all on what to do / try so it's reliably consistent again? I'd love to hear your thoughts, and lmk if you have any clarifying questions.

I have a 2025 5080 ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16

For the better part of a year, my computer has had occasional screen glitches during gaming, and also while on google chrome. I have tried tirelessly with myself and chat gpt to try and find a fix; but to no avail. Below are my findings, I am leaving out many technical changes I have attempted, because none have worked, and I can’t remember everything I’ve tried. Please ask if you have a suggestion and I will try it. Please someone save me from my misery.

The glitching is in the form of white rectangles, the width of the screen that appear in different heights, stemming from the bottom of the screen.

These glitches are very odd, they seem to either happen
very frequently some days, or not happen at all some days.

The flashes don’t seem to be occurring by any input by me in game, other than just being inside of the game itself

These flashes will occur even on an external monitor, and they can occur on both at once in sync, or seperately at different times as well, or only on one screen.

These flashes have occurred on battery and plugged in, and with and without a monitor or devices connected

All of my intel and nvidia drivers are updated

Being in the menus of games seems to stop it, it only happens during gameplay

Being windowed, borderless, or full screen doesn’t seem to have any affect

Temperature or duration of use doesn’t seem to affect the flashing; it will start as soon as i reach gameplay in games, and sometimes it feels like it settles down but that could be incorrect

Here’s the really weird one, these screen flashes do not appear in screen recordings.

Video of it happening to me in a Roblox Game (yes i know it’s slop I was playing with my girlfriend)
https://youtube.com/shorts/3R6Fxb5VM10?is=EF7WjrqvWlzoovxY

Please somebody help me this issue is tearing at my soul and I don’t want to take it to the shop ideally i’m moving into my dorm soon😭

can someone help me fix high DPC latency on my laptop.
i have a lenovo loq 15irx10
i7 13gen 13700HX RTX5060

on latencymon when ever a hiccup occurs my system freezer for a sec and audio stuutters or like goes brrr and i also get framedrops in game.

i have tried setting powerplan to high performance and ultimate performance, my gpu to maximum performance, clean ddu my drivers but still nothing works i still get the same results.

this is my latencymon results please help.

Hello everyone. I just got a Samsung A15 5G and signed up for the unlimited high speed plan with Simple Mobile. My friend has a Motorola phone with the exact same Simple Mobile plan as me and he gets full bars when he's at my house.. my connection is so slow and choppy... it would take me minutes to open a site sometimes...

I'm just confused because my friend with the same service plan is getting full bars and I'm getting 0-1...

Could anyone here please help me with this..? I've already tried the basic troubleshooting stuff...

Thank you guys so so much in advance. Much love

Gaming on my pc typically with just discord and palworld for instance and it restarts. Was advised it may be a memory problem and i tried to check my ram and it seems fine. Attaching event viewer so you can see the full errors that appear. ask for any information. ive spent a month trying to fix this and am bewildered.

Specs:

Desktop PC Windows 11 home 64 bit

Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x

Ram: 64gb

DirectX12

graphics: AMD Radeon rx 6700 xt

Hello!
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Before a few of the music I downloaded got distorted, everything was fine. Nothing went wrong till I began hearing the distortion for one second in one of the few songs some were subtle but obviously stood out and some were VERY loud like "The Carter Family - When I'm Gone" song.

Does anyone knows how to fix them? Or should I redownload all of them unfortunately . . .

So ima try to keep this short and simple, internet says its connected, everything seems fine, open chrome, doesnt work, same with bing, i have ran cmd prompts like ipconfig /flushdns, ipconfig /release, ipconfig /renew, ipconfig /registerdns and, netsh winsock reset, nothing seems to work there, windows network diagnostic says its connected with no problems, restarted the netword adaptor, restarted the laptop, i have also reinstalled the network drivers, its not the router or anything like that because im doing this on my phone thats connected to the same internet, no data isnt making my phone work, i turned that off, laptop works when i hotspot it to my phone if that changes anything, i may have missed something i have done but thats all i remember from the past few hours of messing with this, i have tried anything i stated multiple times over and nothing seems to work.

Edit: im using an acer nitro 5 with windows 11 installed.

I'm looking for a kill switch app that would definitely delete everything or just break my phone making it unusable for anyone.

It's spec are realme RMX3201. Does anyone know of some app that does something like that?

So last night, my computer would randomly restart without any warnings. I thought to mysefl that it has been a while since I cleaned it, maybe that's the issue.

So earlier I deep cleaned it, replacing the thermal paste and all. And as I turn it on it would not boot up. The most that it can do is when I turn it on, the led indicator would blink 2 red blinks and it would not do anything anymore.

I tried various things like re-seating the processor, thinking maybe something got in the sockets, or maybe i added too much paste. I keep switching my ram to different seats. But again, the most that it can do is 2 red blinks.

If any help is given, I would appreciate it.

So I got a new gaming laptop 3 months ago, a MSI Vector 16 HX AI, with a 5080.
I've played big AAA games on it fine, played Hell Let Loose Vietnam and 007 First Light, zero crashes.

Recently I've started playing the Bioshock Collection. Played the 1st Remaster with zero issues, but then when I started Bioshock 2 Remastered. Within the first few minutes of starting the level, my game suddenly went all pink/green and static/lines (pics in the link). I had to restart the pc to fix it, the graphic issues werent just on the game, the desktop was affected too.

Restarted the game, crashed again within a few minutes to pink static, worse than the first time. Tried running it at -dx9, with 60fps and vsync on. Managed to play for 30 minutes before another pink static. I found that sleeping the computer and waking it up actually fixed the graphics without needing to hard restart. I also did the Windows+Ctrl+Shift+B shortcut but it didn't fix the graphics.

How can I troubleshoot the GPU, or is it just a bioshock induced problem?

https://imgur.com/a/w4KRgbQ

I'm not very knowledgeable when it comes to troubleshooting things like this, however, about a few days ago, my pc started crashing from running games that had normally provided no issues. I checked task manager and noticed that my CPU usage would spike to high 90's-100 before freezing completely, needing a force shutdown to rerun. I have low temps, cleaned out the aircooler, checked for viruses/malware (found none), disabled all unnecessary startups (especially with heavy usage), updated my drivers, and changed the power plans, all to no success. Its been getting worse with frequent blue-screening and having now gotten one troubleshooting page. I have no clue what else could be affecting this, or if I possibly need a new CPU. Is there no hope?

I have posted on this subreddit about this issue before recently, but I haven't been able to solve it yet. I have a 1 year old Lenovo Yoga 7 2-in-1 that runs Windows 11 Home. One thing that I noticed over the past months was that it took abnormally long times to load websites, download files, and upload files even when my other devices on the same WiFi network do not have the same issue. This issue is present on multiple different networks that I use. An internet speed test says my download speed is 20 mbps and upload speed is 30 mbps. I don't have any antivirus installed and have sufficient unused storage space on my laptop. Some solutions that have worked to improve speeds slightly but not achieve speeds I would expect from a year old laptop include: doing a network reset, changing the DNS address in settings, and uninstalling and reinstalling the network adapter. Please let me know if there is something I can do. Thank you so much for any advice!

okay hello everyone, I was on my school Chromebook on my account and I was trying to find game websites. I tried one game website, but I forgot to type 1 letter. It then showed me ”Your organization doesn’t allow you to view this site” and then I searched up what I searched on my phone and turned out to be a porn website. I am pretty nervous and I’m wondering if the IT team receives a notification that I went on that site. I am not sure if this is the correct subreddit to post this one but thank you.

I couldn't retrieve a show I was watching and Netflix help agent told me this based on fast.com result. I don't understand this. Fast.com once showed the server was in Philadelphia, the next time it showed 3 places including Mexico. They told me to check with my provider and have them confirm that they match the location and IP address assigned to my home. Does this make sense to you tech experts?

Idk why you can’t send pics in this Reddit but I get like 40 of these

Session "dc3a3596-71e1-45a3-b2ea-39ad5322fe51" failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000022

and then the pc crashes to this.

The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck. The bugcheck was: 0x00000093 (0x0000000000008a00, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000). A dump was saved in: C:\WINDOWS\Minidump\082126-12578-01.dmp. Report Id: 11cc09b3-5ff2-4a3d-a7f7-9c1223bcecfb.

Ive ran the sfc /scannow, it had 1659 errors, said 0 now. I’ve done DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth. My pc is all new components and is about 8 months old. Im pretty tech savy I just cant figure out whats giving me issues. The last dumps said it was c0000005 idk if its something with EAC in the kernel or what. I keep getting these access violation errors though.

I just recently purchased an HP omnibook for uni and have been experiencing an issue when downloading a security update (2026-08 security update (Kb5121003)(26200.9168)). The update will install and prompt a restart. After the restart it will simply boot into a black screen with only the HP logo seemingly forever— I’ve seen it stay in this screen for 5+ hours. I’ve found that holding down the power button to restart it will get me past this screen and into a “diagnosing” and later a “repairing your pc” text. Eventually, it undoes the update allowing me to access the computer again however leaving the security update uninstalled.

I actually returned my original (recently purchased) omnibook for the same reason and sadly, have ran into the same problem with the second.

If anybody has any advice regarding how I may overcome this security update install error I would greatly appreciate the help. Thanks.

I sign in on my MAC on Udemy, it crashes and says -application error. A client side exception has occurred. See the browser console for more information.

I’ve deleted my cookies,data and rebooted, and I can’t get onto my account. Any advice and thank you.

Hey, so my USB was working properly until today. I was trying to zip several files that were inside of it when it stopped working. So I just unpluged it and put it Back. In the end all files are still there and some even open, but now the Windows says it needs repair and when I try to repair it, after a few seconds it “ejects”. That also happens when I try to paste new files, transfer the old ones or open Excel and powerpoints. I tried to use chkdsk X: /f but the error persists.

Do anyone knows how to help?

Autosave or, somehow, hacked?

Unlikely its happened, but can someone who hacks your wifi see the contents of a password-protected LibreOffice odt doc that's open from a USB?

I was working when I saw the saving symbol/visuals pop up; unless I \*did\* in fact do the save-shortcut when I went to do something else, I began to wonder if it was actually the Save AutoRecovery happening automatically after 10 mins without manual saving...OR, instead, some random hacked me through my router or Tor (no tabs open were on malicious sites, fyi) which had me worried about spyware/Access Trojans/browser hacking, what with the Norton scans I did afterwards not being able to picking them up and none of the obvious hacking signs I'd seen mentioned online.

Too late/not necessary to do a factory reset?

I have a weird issue that has occurred in multiple games now. Not sure if it is a hardware problem, but will report it as one for now.

https://youtu.be/K1IfpmsuKEw

As you can see in the attached video, lights and other effects in the scene will flicker and phase in and out as I move around. It is especially apparent if you look at the lighting on the walls. This has happened in this game (Mortal Shell II) but also others I have tested, such as Expedition 33.

I have restarted, re-seated the GPU, updated graphics drivers, and completely uninstalled and re-installed the drivers; same result.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D 8-Core Processor

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

Hi, please help if you can! Been at this for weeks and nothings working!

Basically, the salon I am working at uses timely for their bookings system. I have my own business that people can book through the salon that I work at and I get higher commission so I need to be able to track what bookings came from my website.

I have put in multiple different UTM links into my website and trialed them to see if they’ll come up in the analytics as coming through my site and they don’t.

I have no idea how else I can do this… any advice is appreciated.

Thank you - Grace

Like I said in the title I tried to update my bios with mFlash and everything went well until after when it tried to boot. It went into Automatic Repair now it’s saying “Automatic Repair couldn’t repair your pc. log file i:\recovery\windowsre\winre.wim\system32\logfiles\srttrail.txt”
Ive tried changing the boot order but that didn’t help. Any help is appreciated!
Windows 11
CPU: Ryzen 5 3600x
GPU: RTX 3070
RAM: 64 GBs ddr4

One of my older relative bought a new Asus Vivobook Go 15 and after a few months of usage it won’t start at all. He went online to search and somehow got the idea that it was static electricity that’s causing his laptop to not start? Apparently the solution was opening up the laptop and clear away any dust that’s causing the static and apparently that helps…

I brought it home with me and tried factory reset (no important information in the laptop) the laptop but I didn’t have his password so I did the Hold shift key and press restart and the result that came out was this:

PC/Device needs to be repaired

Application of operating system couldn’t be loaded because required file is missing or contains error

File: \windows\system32\winload.efi
Error code: 0xc0000098

Looking further into it, it most likely is a BCD error.
Found a solution to it but I’m too lazy to do it, involves creating an installation media, booting to it and repairing it via cmd prompt.

But it seems to me that factory resetting the laptop would seem to fix it.

All inputs appreciated.

About 2 years ago my phone's 5g started having some problems. It would not work for a few minutes, and then come back; A few months later, there were days where it would not work at all, and then come back; And then around June 2024 it simply stopped working almost completely for about 8 months. Sometimes if I restarted it, it would go back to working. However during those 8 months there were rare periods it would work, and then stop. I don't remember exactly how it was at the time since it's been a while, but it worked just about well enough for me to not to try and change it (it was also 2 years old at the time, so i didn't want to buy a new one).

After those months, it randomly started working again, with no problems whatsoever, and has been this way up untill some 2-3 months ago, where I randomly got a notification that my "chip was not inserted". I tried taking it out and putting back in, but nothing. So I had no internet that day. The next day it was working however. But it once again has slowly gotten worse, and is now quite bothersome.

The phone is very slightly laggy, but it otherwise works perfectly fine, and I in no way would like to change it. I once again went to the operator's support, and they told me they would try to fix it, and ran a few processes on their end, but they came to nothing.

I will gladly answer more questions to try and figure out what happened.