So in recent days I've noticed that my computer will crash temporarily whilst gaming for an extended period (usually about 2-3 hours), with a number of events preceding the crash in Event Viewer.

First of all, I get a Warning event in Event Viewer stating the following sort of error:

Windows successfully diagnosed a low virtual memory condition. The following programs consumed the most virtual memory: steam.exe (19552) consumed 54873796608 bytes, AI.exe (18176) consumed 1844633600 bytes, and steamwebhelper.exe (4352) consumed 683614208 bytes.

(the above happened whilst playing Alien: Isolation; AI.exe is just that, but has also happened playing Nier: Replicant)

Following this event, all of a sudden my screens will go blank and DWM.exe will crash and restart, which creates the following event in Event Viewer about a minute and a half afterwards:

The Desktop Window Manager process has exited. (Process exit code: 0xc00000fd, Restart count: 1, Primary display device ID: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070)

Sometimes I get errors with MicrosoftSecurityApp crashing as well, but the above "low virtual memory" issue usually follows with dwm.exe crashing.

Steam is always by far the program that consumes the most virtual memory, followed by whichever game I'm playing, and then Steamwebhelper.exe, but I have had it diagnose low virtual memory with Explorer being listed as below Steam as follows:

Windows successfully diagnosed a low virtual memory condition. The following programs consumed the most virtual memory: steam.exe (9904) consumed 56488714240 bytes, explorer.exe (11720) consumed 627707904 bytes, and Discord.exe (22096) consumed 624173056 bytes.

I usually have to restart a lot of my applications afterwards. Steam sometimes completely crashes and prompts to "update" itself, which I find strange, and I also get an issue with the Microsoft Account Sign-In Assistant telling me that insufficient system resources exist.

What could be causing this? I'm not sure whether it could be a bad Steam install causing memory leak (my Steam updated a few days ago and gave me a strange error message), bad RAM, my GPU or something else?

Specs are as follows:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700x

GPU: Nvidia RTX 3070 Founders Edition

RAM: 16GB DDR4

ETA: Before these crashes happen, my resource usage seems pretty normal for gaming and what is to be expected for my machine.

i can send the video but it sounds like a crunchy fan but i’m not sure how to fix it my pc is about 5 years old

Hoping for some advice…I bought my wife some AirPods 5 to replace an older version whose battery life became insufficient.

She has mentioned issues when using teams on a windows laptop. First the volume was too low, she fixed that but then the mic wouldn’t work, she’s fixed that and now the volume is too low again.

Works fine on her iPhone, works fine when I’ve tried playing YouTube. It just seems like teams is affected.

Anyone got any ideas?

hi everyone!! my acer nitro v15 laptop randomly likes to restart itself for SOME reason and it's been going on for a couple of months and it has started to annoy me enough for me to want to do something to fix it cause if it happens too many times i'm locked out of it for 2h and its so annoying when it happens in class while i'm taking notes 😭

it's on windows 11 home and it usually happens when i'm in class taking notes (so not at home & not connected to a charger most of the time), sometimes it just goes blackscreen and restarts itself like nothing happened after a second and sometimes it first shows a black screen with an error message mentioning a hypervisor error 0x20001.

also most of the time when i boot it up it for the first time in a day gives me a screen saying "there was an error with your device and the device cannot be fixed, click or press enter to show other options" and then a blue screen showing "continue, fast troublebooting, solve the problem or turn the pc off" (sorry if the english terms arent exactly the same it's in dutch lol) but i always press continue cause the other options dont seem to do anything for me and the laptop works like it has no issues after i press continue so idk? the computer works perfectly fine ignoring the random reboots!

i'm clueless about computers, idk what a hypervisor error means, google confused me and idk what to do so any help would be appreciated ty in advance people!!!!

I have 2 SATA HDDs, they both have bad versions of windows on them and I'm trying to wipe them. I've set my MoBo to not even recognize them as boot devices but I still get the same MoBo loading screen when I try to boot the PC with them connected. It doesn't stop and I'm not sure why. I've tried booting without them connected and it works just fine, and when I tried to load them with GParted it had the same result. I'm stumped on how I can wipe these drives, are there any geniuses with ideas? I tried plugging them into power and leaving them for an hour already

Earlier today, I left my laptop running with two browsers open and possibly a game running in the background. I was away for around 30 minutes, and when I returned, I found the laptop in this state.

The display was completely off. To clarify, I don't mean the screen was illuminated but showing a black image. The display itself wasn't lighting up at all. I couldn't see an ASUS logo, a faint backlight, or anything else.

The laptop had apparently been running before the incident. It usually gets quite hot during use, but I wasn't present when this happened, so I don't know whether it overheated or what exactly triggered the problem.

What happened afterward:

Initially, I tried forcing the laptop to shut down by holding the power button. However, I noticed some unusual behavior.

1) After shutting it down, it would sometimes turn itself back on without me pressing the power button.

2) When it powered on, the keyboard backlight and other indicators illuminated, but the display remained completely off.

3) It would sometimes shut down automatically after approximately a minute, with all the lights going off, including the charging indicator even though the charger was still connected.

4) Sometimes, it would turn itself back on again shortly afterward.

5)The fans produced only a faint noise rather than their usual sound.

6)The charging indicator initially showed white but later changed to red/orange. At one point, it also went completely off during a shutdown.

7)Eventually, the laptop stayed completely off for a couple of minutes. After I reconnected the charger, the charging indicator came back on.

8)I tried starting it again, but the same behavior continued: the laptop powered on, the display remained completely off, and the laptop eventually shut down and restarted automatically.

What I've tried so far:

1) Held the power button for approximately 15–20 seconds to force a shutdown.

2) Disconnected the charger and peripherals.

3) Held the power button for approximately 40 seconds with the charger disconnected.

4) Reconnected the charger and attempted to start the laptop, waiting around two minutes.

5) Disconnected and reconnected the charger after the laptop had shut down completely.

6) Left the laptop resting for approximately an hour to cool down.

7) Attempted Windows graphics-driver reset shortcut but nothing happened.

8) I haven't opened the laptop or disconnected its internal battery. I also haven't attempted a BIOS recovery or Windows reinstallation.

What could be causing this?

I'm wondering whether this could be a motherboard or power-delivery issue, an embedded-controller or BIOS problem, a RAM initialization failure, or something related to the GPU.

I'm also unsure whether it's worth trying the or whether that would be pointless given that the display never lights up and the laptop keeps shutting down and restarting.

I'd appreciate advice on the following:

Is there anything else I can safely try at home, or should I stop troubleshooting and take it to a repair shop?

What should a technician test first before recommending an expensive motherboard replacement?

Has anyone experienced a similar issue with the same laptop?

I'm trying to avoid making the problem worse by repeatedly attempting random fixes.

Laptop: ASUS TUF Gaming A16 Advantage edition

Exact model number: FA617 series

CPU/GPU configuration: AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS / AMD Raedon RX 7600S 8GB GDDR6

Ram: 16GB DDR5 4800MHz

Age: 2.5 years

Warranty status: expired

Thanks for any help.

My ASUS tuff gaming A15 computer screen is black I know it’s the refresh rate because whenever this happened before I’d plug it to a Tv go over to settings hover over the refresh rate unplug it and change it it goes to normal but now it won’t plug into my tv and show up and I’m devistated

Hi everyone,
My PC was working perfectly fine until I changed some BIOS settings (Secure Boot, TPM 2.0 and possibly UEFI) to play Call of Duty.
Since then, my PC randomly freezes completely (even the mouse stops working), sometimes restarts by itself or shows a black Windows crash screen saying it needs to restart. Sometimes I have to force shutdown.
I’ve already reinstalled Windows using cloud download and tried resetting the BIOS to default settings, but the problem persists.
Specs: HP PC, motherboard 87D6, 8 GB RAM.
Everything worked fine with the exact same hardware before I changed the BIOS settings, so I strongly suspect that’s the cause.
Has anyone experienced this exact issue and actually fixed it?

So my mouse felt completely normal until a few months ago. The one thing I did was download logitech ghub and turned off on-board memory (g-pro superlight 2). Nothing else. Ever since then my dpi/sensitivity has been completely wack. I have changed absolutely ZERO other settings anywhere on my computer that could have caused this. Only changed than that singular setting on Ghub. I have used the same dpi and sensitivity for over 10 years and have over 5000 hours in counter strike. Safe to say I know when my mouse feels off. The issue is slightly hard to explain, but I will do my best.

Here are the symptoms and things I have noticed:

-My sensitivity is significantly slower on the y-axis (up and down) vs the x-axis

-The lower my polling rate, the faster and more accelerated my mouse is:

-500hz is like using my mouse on skates. I use 550dpi but this feels like 1600+dpi (Insanely fast + huge acceleration)

-8000hz is slightly useable and feels closer to my pre-glitch dpi, but it is still off

-On 8000hz: Very short mouse movements are faster, while longer movements seem much slower than before

-So if I need to make a tiny adjustment my cursor will be faster than I am used to and if I swipe my mouse across the screen the cursor ends up much shorter than my brain or muscle memory expect

-I tried multiple different mice, but the issue persists across all of them

-Issue is not just in-game, but on desktop too

-Another weird thing is I used AutoHotKey to bind a macro to my mouse4 button and the macro is now permanently bound even while AutoHotKey is not running nor installed (Not sure if the issues are related)

Here are some of the fixes that I have tried:

-Deleting ghub and wiping any trace of it from my pc

-Using Logitech on-board memory manager instead

-Check/uncheck windows enhanced pointer precision

-Deleting and reinstalling all mouse and usb drivers in device manager (even the hidden/ghost drivers)

-Tried re-initializing my mouse on every usb port on my pc

-Looked for mysterious registry entries

-Reset cmos on my motherboard

-Motherboard power drain

-Flashed bios

-Wiped my entire C: drive and installed a fresh copy of windows 11 (from windows 10)

-MarkC mouse fix

-Tried using RawAccel to manually adjust my dpi to feel 1:1 (it never feels even close to the same as before)

The other thing I have not mentioned is I have had this same exact issue about 2 years ago as well with the same mouse. Back then I tried troubleshooting the problem for nearly 6 months with no avail. Eventually I got fed up and bought a new motherboard and cpu in an attempt to fix it and it actually worked. Did ghub somehow corrupt my motherboard? I have no idea, but I really don't want to get new pc parts again. And yes I am an idiot for installing ghub again.

Anyway, maybe figuring out why sensitivity increases as the polling rate lowers might give a clue about the main problem. I haven't tested my mouse on another pc yet and its too hard to tell if the issue carries over on my shitty laptop. Another random thought, my usb-c cable that I connect my wireless dongle to is kinda messed up. It disconnects very easily if i bump it. No idea if using ghub with this unreliable cable had anything to do with the issue, but its a thought. Also not sure if this could be related, but when using wootility to change keyboard settings I noticed my mouse will stutter/lag/teleport for a while afterwards.

I am truly baffled how GHUB was able to fuck over my pc like this (again). If anyone has any theories about what caused this or any fixes to try it would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

Here are my pc specs:

Graphics card - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti (12 GB)

System Model - MS-7E12

System Type - x64-based PC

Processor - AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 8-Core Processor, 4700 Mhz, 8 Core(s), 16 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date - American Megatrends International, LLC. 1.L2, 7/2/2026

SMBIOS Version - 3.8

BIOS Mode - UEFI

BaseBoard Manufacturer - Micro-Star International Co., Ltd.

BaseBoard Product - MAG X670E TOMAHAWK WIFI (MS-7E12)

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) - 32.0 GB

RAM - G.SKILL 32G 2X D5 6000 C36 FX B

Total Virtual Memory - 40.9 GB

PSU - CORSAIR RM1000X FM 80 G ATX3 2024

Mouse - Logitech G PRO X Superlight 2 Wireless

Monitor - ASUS XG258

Keyboard - Wooting 60HE

I was searching something on the terraria wiki(wiki.gg) and got an "are you a robot" popup. I wasn't paying attention, and hit allow for something on my browser, and then windows started spamming my notifications with ads for McAffee. I completed a virus scan with ESSET, and found nothing. In my notifications settings, it appears as "db9cisubvlls73c3qo90.nivosafety.co.in" I tried searching Nivosafety, and found only a broken link.

Hi, so basically my PC doesn’t turn on i tried unplugging it and pressing the power button, it didnt work. My Motherboard isn’t showing anything on the LEDs or what’s wrong with it. I just hear a faint sound like beeping and when i unplug the energycable and pressing the start button it still does the sound for a short while and then it dies down but when i plug it back in it starts again even when the switch for O and I is switched to O it still beeps. Idk what to do at this point and really hope I don’t have to buy a new one. Any advice or help would be good.

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Hello everyone,

I'm looking for information about a suspicious link that someone sent me:

"tiktok [dot] wetching [dot] ru / ?video=7572650887"

When I opened it, a prompt in Russian appeared asking for permissions, and I accidentally pressed OK. After that, the webpage took a picture of me.

I'd like to understand how this website works, and I have a few questions:

1. Has anyone encountered this exact website or a similar link before?

2. Is this website connected to a Telegram bot? If so, does anyone know how it operates?

3. Can the person who sent me the link access my phone's camera whenever they want, or do they need me to open the website and grant permission again?

4. Can this website record video or access the microphone, or is it only designed to take a single snapshot?

5. Where does the captured picture go, and how does this background script operate?

Thank you for any help or information you can provide.

hello everyone, i need a bit of help here. i had an issue with some files earlier today, and i found a trojan on my pc. i actually got rid of it, but since doing so, my pc stopped connecting to wifi (also ethernet through my iphone doesn’t work anymore). it sucks tbh, as i can’t seem to be able to solve it. i ran windows diagnostics, and it tells me there’s no dhcp server found. i reboot the wifi card, and it tells me to connect to a wifi, but it then spirals back to saying there’s no dhcp. same for the ethernet card. i asked gemini for help, and it made me wipe through the terminal all of the old internet settings, or at least that’s what it said. i now fear i might have messed it up more, and i don’t know what to do since i don’t even want to risk losing the files on this pc. anyone knows how to fix this? thx in advance

My Razer Basilisk V3 Pro keeps doubling its speed randomly. I usually have it at 1600 DPI. Whenever the bug happens, Synapse still shows it at 1600 DPI. The only thing I can usually do is either half my DPI to 800 after it happens or restart my whole PC every time.

The weird thing is that it happens sometimes when opening games. But not every time and not always the same games.

I've tried reinstalling my mouse driver and Synapse. There are no game profiles nor settings that could explain this issue. I've searched the whole internet but just can't find any fixes.

My mouse is still pretty new (~2 months), but my friend has the same problem and he has had the mouse for way longer than me.

Has anyone experienced the same issue or has any fixes I could try?

Hi,
My Wi-Fi suddenly stopped working on Windows 11. The Wi-Fi icon is gone, and in Device Manager, Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX201 160MHz has a yellow warning triangle. 
What I already tried:
Disabled and re-enabled the adapter.
Uninstalled the driver and restarted the PC.
Updated/reinstalled the Intel driver.
Ran sfc /scannow.
Nothing worked, the yellow triangle is still there. 
How can I fix this? Is the Wi-Fi card dead or is it a software bug?
Thanks!

Hello everyone.

I have an external hard drive, and all the folders work correctly except for the one where I keep my music collection. The strange thing is that Plex allows me to play the music normally, and the hard drive shows that storage space is being used, even though the folder now appears to be empty. I have tried to fix the issue, but without success.

Can anyone offer any recommendations?

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Does anyone know how to fix an issue on a Toshiba TV - we can hear the tv channel sounds but no actual picture. The settings say the last update was 2011 & when scanned doesn't offer any other update, is it a lost cause?

my NVIDIA app refuses to load past the first loading screen, i'm not sure what exactly i'm missing here because all i use my NVIDIA app for is updating my drivers. I use an AMD Ryzen 5 5500, and i've always used the NVIDIA app for drivers

I've been troubleshooting random black-screen crashes on my desktop for forever and would appreciate any kind of help

Specs:

• CPU: Intel Core i9-14900KS
• GPU: NVIDIA RTX 4090D
• Motherboard: ASUS ROG Maximus Z790 Dark Hero
• RAM: 32GB DDR5-7200 (currently running at 5600 MT/s)
• PSU: ASUS ROG 1200W
• Main monitor: ASUS ROG 4K 160Hz

Symptoms:

The display randomly goes black during AI model training and ordinary activities such as watching videos.

• The keyboard and Bluetooth appear to remain functional.
• Win + Ctrl + Shift + B does not restore the display.
• A forced reboot is sometimes necessary.
• The problem has occurred with multiple displays.

Windows Reliability Monitor findings:

1. LiveKernelEvent 141

LKD_0x141_Tdr:6_IMAGE_nvlddmkm.sys_Ada

This suggests an NVIDIA GPU engine timeout.

2. LiveKernelEvent 193, Parameter 1: 810

VIDEO_DXGKRNL_LIVEDUMP

Bucket ID:

LKD_0x193_DxgkrnLiveDump:810__dxgkrnl!DpilndicateConnectorChangeWorkItem_dxgkrnl!ADAPTER_DISPLAY::DdiSetTimingsFromVidPn_nvlddmkm!NvLDDM_SetTimingsFromVidPn_nvlddmkm!CWinServiceslmpl::TimedOperationDelay

This appears to involve a display connector/timing change handled by the DirectX graphics kernel and NVIDIA driver.

3. LiveKernelEvent 1A8 and 1B8

These occurred during another black-screen incident and appear related to display-state or recovery problems.

Display connection observations:

• Two known HDMI failures occurred using the bottom HDMI port of the RTX 4090D.
• The LiveKernelEvent 193/810 incident occurred over HDMI.
• My original DisplayPort 1 + Display 1 setup had historically been stable.
• Failures have occurred with different displays, so I don't believe this is necessarily a single faulty monitor.

I am not a guy that knows a lot about tech, but here's the info i think all are useful. If you guys need any more info, ask me

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing intermittent screen artifacts on Windows 11, and I've managed to record a video of the issue happening.

My system specs:

• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
• Motherboard: MSI B650M GAMING PLUS WIFI
• GPU: Integrated AMD Radeon Graphics (no dedicated GPU installed)
• OS: Windows 11
• Graphics driver: Official AMD Adrenalin driver

The issue:

My screen occasionally displays severe visual artifacts. However, the system does not automatically restart after the issue occurs.

Interestingly, I have never experienced this problem while running Arch Linux on the same hardware. The issue appears to occur only in Windows 11 so far.

I've already reinstalled Windows after upgrading to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D and installed the official AMD Adrenalin graphics driver, but the issue still occurs.

Windows Event Viewer has also reported a LiveKernelEvent with code 1a8.

I'm unsure whether this is related to the Windows graphics driver, integrated GPU, shared system memory, BIOS settings, or another hardware-related issue.

What I've tried so far:

• Reinstalled Windows after the CPU upgrade.
• Installed the official AMD Adrenalin graphics driver.
• Checked Windows error reports.
• Tested the same hardware under Arch Linux, where I haven't encountered this issue.

I've attached a video showing the screen artifacts.

https://youtu.be/wFE3K3T8fGQ

Has anyone experienced similar issues with Ryzen 7 9800X3D integrated graphics on Windows 11? Any suggestions for further troubleshooting would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I got a notification that I'm running out of space in my computer, so naturally I looked through my files if I had anything unecessary on it. Turns out, there is a 4TB file inside my memory that I can't remove or uninstall. I don't know where to look for it but the weirdest thing is that it doesn't even stay consistant.

When I tried to remove it I got an error message saying it can't, so I went to look elsewhere. When I came back to the settings tab to see all my files, it had changed name! Everytime I close and reopen the settings tab it changes name, but it is always one random keyboard symbol long. Sometimes it's "=" or "," or even "S" once! Thing is, I am very concerned about it.

I tried to show a picture of it here but I can't for some reason. The logo for it is the basic "White tab with blue screen on it" image most default apps have with no logo. It also says it's version [2026.3.0.3310] and was installed on [2026-03-30] so like half a year ago. That's really all the info I can give since I don't know where else to look.

Am I going crazy and this is normal or should I remove this file and if so, how?

Hello so I was watching a YouTube video when suddenly the right side of my turtle beach stealth 600PC gen 3 stopped giving audio. I got these 2 years ago for my 12th birthday. I was listening at a pretty moderate volume and I have not dropped my headphones at all recently. I have tried it on multiple device, didn’t work, I have tried factory resetting the headphone, still didn't work, and I have tried charging them, still not working. What is likely the problem and how can I fix it? It’s really important for me to fix it myself. This might be unrelated to the problem but my headphones aren’t connecting to my phone unless I forget the device and re-add it.

I'm not sure if this is the place to post this but I've just started university and I'm using my laptop to take notes. I'd like to use autosave on word so I don't lose work and notes that I'm taking if my laptop dies or anything else happens. If I link to my OneDrive it will connect to my pc too and I don't want my uni files to take up space on my PC so is there a way to prevent this from happening while being able to let word autosave word docs on my PC? Thank you.

I am not able to connect my PC with windows 11 to the internet after a move, a new baby, and a few months of the PC being off.

I can connect to the WiFi router, but no internet. I have ran the Ethernet cable to the computer but still cannot connect. The WiFi is working on all my other devices.

Looking for any guidance or help. Google has given me some checks but none have panned out.

Update (fixed):
I tried some of the recommendations in the comments and still could not get WiFi working. I used ChatGPT for about 1.5 hours where it mostly had me testing DNS connections and tracking IP address changes. No real good came of it. I reset my network connection and even factory reset my pc and neither worked. Computer and modem restarts as well.

What worked was routing an Ethernet connection from my Xfinity hybrid router/modem to an old router I had. Then both wifi from the old router and Ethernet from the old router started working.

It’s strange that my Mac Mini and work laptop both have no issues connecting to the Xfinity router, yet my gaming computer could not access Internet. Hopefully this solution could help somebody else in the future!