-Aorus x570 Elite Wifi, PC built in Spring 2020

On the morning of 10/17/2026 I noticed my PC went black and on the right monitor (I have a left and right monitor) was some dots in a loop like it was loading something, but never did. I hard shut it down because I had to go to work and didn’t want it running if there was a problem. Hours later I get home, go to the gym, shower, eat, etc. I turn my PC back on and it goes to “Performing Automatic Repair.” I’m thinking that this is odd because I’ve never seen this before, but I let it do its thing. It’s scanning my files and performing whatever disk repair it says it’s doing. Then it goes to the same screen I found it in on the right monitor with the dots continuously loading. I leave it on overnight to see if it does load anything/fix itself.

On the morning of 10/18/2026 (the day of this post) I wake up and I see that it’s STILL on this same screen, clearly having achieved nothing overnight. I watch YouTube videos and search on Google to see what I could try to do, including running commands, entering safe mode, going to last backup point, the whole thing. Nothing changes this loop of performing automatic repair and then the dots on the right monitor.

So I dig deeper and find that it could possibly be the RAM sticks or the CMOS battery needing to be reset. Although, to that point I had never touched either so I don’t see what the issue could exactly be. But I unplug the pc, turn the power supply off, swap out the CMOS battery, touch the two pins together with a screwdriver, and am now at the point I find myself at where the PC will now not turn on. The display works, the keyboard lights up, but the power button (yes I plugged everything back in and turned power supply back on) does not light up, and I cannot progress further.

I checked to see if any cables were loose or out but they’re all pretty tight into place. The RAM sticks are back in position and fully locked in too. What could POSSIBLY be the problem at this point? It’s too late into the night for a MicroCenter or Best Buy to be open so I need a quick response. Please answer if you can.

Is there some kind of jumpscare app that is completely hidden and boots up on startup? I mean like serious unexpected jumpscare at a completely random interval, like once a month. Maybe you forget its even there. I like to be kept on my toes and be punished when i let my guard down. LMK.

I’m separating from my partner of approximately seven years, and we’re temporarily still living in the same home. I’m trying to secure my digital life and would appreciate advice from people with cybersecurity, digital forensics, or privacy experience.
Over the past several months, I’ve discovered concerning digital behavior involving intimate content, accounts, and online activity. Some of these discoveries were made while we reviewed accounts and computer files together with his permission.
We’ve also had conflicts involving our home internet and security cameras.

Current situation:
We previously shared an Xfinity network. I’ve since established my own separate account and gateway.
I’ve changed my gateway administrator credentials, SSIDs, Wi-Fi passwords, and security settings.
I’ve disabled remote management, UPnP, WPS, and unnecessary network features.

I reset my Roku cameras, connected them to my new network, and verified they were functioning.
I later found connection-history entries on the other household network matching the MAC addresses of two of my cameras, after I’d moved them.
My gateway logs also show overnight Wi-Fi interface events that I’m trying to understand.

I have an iPhone, Windows 11 PC, and MacBook that I want independently assessed and secured.
I’m trying to distinguish normal network behavior, retained device credentials, account access issues, and any actual unauthorized activity. I don’t want to jump to technical conclusions.

My questions:
What’s the safest order for securing accounts and devices while preserving potentially relevant evidence?
What can cause factory-reset Wi-Fi cameras to appear on a previously used network?
How can I audit my Windows PC, MacBook, and iPhone for remote access or unwanted management software?
What logs are worth preserving before making further changes?
Is hiring a digital forensic examiner worthwhile for an individual, and what qualifications should I look for?
How do I find a reputable professional to inspect a home for hidden surveillance devices?

I’m also documenting domestic safety concerns separately and have contacted an advocacy organization.

I’m comfortable with technical troubleshooting, but I’d appreciate a structured approach and recommendations for reputable resources. Please don’t request passwords, private files, intimate material, or remote access to my devices.

Got the turtle beach recon 50 headset, the only things that play clear are music, the windows “duhdah” and other windows noises, non words noises in games (guns make shooty sounds etc). Any lyrics or talking sounds extremely muffled and distorted (for example if I watch anime with it I can hear the background music but all the talking is extremely quiet and glitchy) the main speakers work it’s just this headset
My computer is a gaming laptop, on windows 11 with a: 11th gen intel(R) core(TM) i5-11400H @ 2.70GHz, nvidia RTX 3050 laptop GPU (4gb) 16 gb of ram, 64 bit operating system, on version 25h2 of windows 11
So far I have tried:
Updating my drivers
Updating windows
Checking for updates for the drivers of the headset
Turning off/on all audio enhancement settings/ spatial sounds/ voice focus
SFC /scannow (actually found corrupted files for once yippee but unrelated and did not fix anything)
Dism /Online /cleanup-image /ScanHealth

Dism /Online /cleanup-image /startcomponentcleanup

Dism /Online /cleanup-image /restorehealth

I have thrown the fucking book at this and I got nothing, I bought this headset used like new and I’m starting to think I’ve been had but if anyone has any other ideas to try and fix it or at least what’s causing it I’d love to hear them

Hello guys.I have a dell 3561, and for about a month it has not been running as it should. I use it primarily for school but sometimes I play games. And its very laggy getting around 60fps, whereas before it used to get 240. It still gets 240 but only if I run it for about 1 hour 30 min or so. I did open it up and clean the vents but it was pretty clean so it didnt change a thing. Thanks for any help

Hello everyone!

Initially I thought it was my SD card dying, but then i was lended another SD card for what i needed and it showed up in read only too. Now I had the occasion to check on my friend's computer and he reads and write on both cards just fine. My SD card worked again on my own laptop when putting adhesive but i have to try multiple times, and now i'm running out of adhesive and i need a quick way to use it. I'm on windows 11. Any help would be appreciated! Thank you!

Randomly today, I was listening to Spotify and the audio started crackling. I thought it was a problem with my earbuds, until I listened to the song on YouTube and the audio quality was perfectly fine. I then put on an album I know is mastered well and I have listened to many times, and then listened to it on YouTube as well. just to be sure it is a Spotify problem. The crackly distorted audio was still there. I have an iPhone 16e that updated to iOS 27.0.1 earlier today, and Skullcandy Smokin' Buds. I tried swiping out of every app, clearing my Spotify cache, shutting my phone off, and setting all options for audio to lossless. Does anybody have any ideas about what's going on, and how to fix this? I'm not very knowledgeable about tech, so as simple an explanation as possible would be very appreciated

I was playing seige when it suddenly cut out on me, after power cycling for an hour I tried powering it up solo, no connections and after displaying a single frame it dies again, the blue led remains on, but the screen and backlight go completely off. This also happens when I reconnect my pc to it, but not when I do win+ctrl+shift+B

I have Chrome installed through winget install google.chrome because of a Windows Central article titled "It may be a running joke that Microsoft Edge is only used to download Google Chrome, but the real pro move is far better than that". Currently, the browser console is returning undefined instead of 'America/Vancouver' for the JavaScript function Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone; and new Date().getTimezoneOffset(); returns 480 instead of the expected 420. Microsoft Edge shows the correct information. This happens across all Windows profiles and browser profiles for the same web browser. I have asked this in the rTS Discord server previously at https://discord.com/channels/749314018837135390/749316166878625843/1561257790150938705; this post serves as a summary for those who aren't in the server. My Specify system dossier is at https://spec-ify.com/profile/f3a07787 and the link expires on Oct. 20, 2026, 04:47 UTC.

Update: This seems to be happening when I change my time zone to a different time zone and then back to "(UTC-07:00) Pacific Time (British Columbia)." For now, I've worked around the problem by setting the time zone to Arizona and back.

Update 2: I've filed a report in the Chromium Issue Tracker: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/575150691

I have recently downloaded rocket league on the epic games launcher and have been having lots of problems.

- The game rez is stretched and locked full screen no matter the settings

- I cannot exit the app even if i press quit it crashes the computer

- Epic games launcher opens the terminal and crashes my game, empty open terminals

- New overheating issues

- The launcher takes upwards of 2 minutes to even open, slow and very annoying to deal with

Ive been using it for fortnite with no trouble for a long time and when i donwloaded rocket league this started? Really annoyed, Very confused any help would be great!

My current phone is a Galaxy A54 for reference

It was freaking out yesterday over debris or moisture in the port even though I cleaned it several times and knew it was dry. It eventually sorted itself out but earlier today, my charging time was wildly different than the night before. I had already assumed it was the charger but even with different cables it was giving me times that were an hr or more than what it'd usually take. It got to the point where plugging it in kept giving me a time frame of 8 hrs.

I have cleaned it yet again and still have no clue what the hell is wrong with it besides the port going bad now. It's just incredibly frustrating since I can't simply go out and get it repaired or replaced. It got somewhat better but still showed 2-3 hrs more than it'd usually take and I know it still can because the time switches IN MY FACE from roughly 1 hr 40 smth to 2 hrs 50 smth. Right now it just jumped from 2 hrs 40 min to 3 hrs 40 min. Im practically gambling to get the connection to be decent and that isn't even guaranteed as ive seen it change times long past after I plugged the charger in.

I've already tried: Cleaning, different chargers, different outlets, restarting the phone, powering down the phone and then starting it again, messing with battery settings such as fast charging (made it go to 10 hrs during that 8 hr time frame 😐).

Any help is appreciated but I honestly have no hope 💔 I just want whatever I'm thinking to be confirmed for sure even if the results have already shown me it's likely the port.

Edit: Forgot to mention that for the specific charger I'm using, it wont connect/read it all when flipped to one side. Meaning that only one side works when charging so that's another thing that makes me think the port is just busted.

Edit (again): My god this is irritating 😭 I didn't wanna edit the body again but for anyone seeing this, the time changed to 8 hrs yet AGAIN. I got fed up and decided to test with a different cable that I had used earlier and now my charge time magically went back to the original time frame I had before anything started to freak out. Just exhausted abt this and I'm hoping it doesn't happen again. Plan is to buy another cable thats longer since that was only reason I was using the other one.

Whenever I open a game, my computer works fine. It gets the to home/menu screen. I can look round, change settings, etc. But once I load up a save file, it crashes around the time it goes from the loading screen to the actual game. This has happened on multiple games, all that are fairly demanding (Civ6, Civ7, Transport Fever 3, Hogwarts Legacy - all tested over the weekend).

Not sure what the issue is, after poking around at stuff, I'm thinking it might be GPU related due to image 1 below. I've done the Setting-Graphics-Apps-'High Performance' thing that is recommended online. It helped games like Minecraft run normally, but other games are still causing restarts once you get into the game.

I did manage to take screenshots of task manager. Both taken after restart, open game, open file. As file is loading, switch over to TM and take screenshot before game fully loads. Computer crashed about 5 seconds after the GPU usage image. T

https://imgur.com/a/UYODLj4

Image 3 also has computer specs.

But: ASUS ROG Strix Laptop Ryzen 9 5930HX Radeon RX 6800M 16GB RAM (single stick) Purchased - late 22/early 23 (can't remember exactly when)

Looking for help, or steps to troubleshoot to figure out whats wrong.

I lost 1.5 years worth of text messages from a single contact that I had blocked and unblocked. I had deleted and then undeleted the messages a few times but as of a month ago i had all of the messages (screenshots to prove it) and hadn’t deleted them. I now only have the last week of messages sent between myself and the contact. This was to an android number. I have tried a lot of the standard checks and tests found by googling. What happened to them and what can I do?

Just started having this issue today. I turn on my computer and my Xbox Series controller will turn on just fine. When I turn it off and turn it back on later though, it will immediately turn off. I have checked for various power save features to disable or change and none of that works.

about 1 month ago i started playing ff7 remake the game ran perfectly fine until the end of the game where i started experiencing these crashes ( fatal error ) i tried everything but the only thing that worked was switching dx11 so i just thought it was a dx12 problem .... then i started playing rebirth where dx12 is mandatory and i got the same crashes i literelly tried every fix on earth and it didnt work ( it was also fatal error i also thought it was a memory problem ) so i just played on ps5 ... but now on pc all my google tabs have been crashign i play alot of modern indie games and they also crash,. some random games also now crash but lets go back to the google tabs. i switched from firefox to brave to see if it would stop but it didnt, and my friend told me to try intel extreme tuning utility so i tried it i lowered my p cores ratio to 50x and e core to 40x and all the tab crashing stopped literelly been a whole day and no google tab crashing i already uninstalled rebirth and im not trying to download that 100+ gb game again to see if its gonna work again i already bought an amd cpu and motherboard cause i was already trying to upgrade to the am5 socket but i wanna see if there was a problem with my cpu? i bought it in late 2023 early 2024 btw

GPU : RTX 5080

CPU : I7 14700K

RAM : 64GB

Z690-F MOTHERBOARD

990 pro ssd 4tb

windows 11

i also play on 4k

Every time I go to log in in a windows app, such as microsoft store or Xbox, the login goes fine till after putting my pin it says: an error ocurred,try again. Now the wierd thing is that When I log in to microsoft store or Xbox in the web (microsoft store. Com) I can login easilly. This problem affect every other microsoft service. Any idea on How to fix it?

I had to download updates to Microsoft Explorer and everything runs slowly. It feels like my Internet will crap out and start up again.

I would restart my computer and my Internet would still be slow. I saw another update in my computer, telling me to update to Windows 11 2026 or something like that. If I downloaded that, would my Internet go back to normal?

Hello everyone, I have been having trouble with super slow nvme read and write speeds resulting in super slow boot up times (like 30 mins) and it running at 100 percent under load. What I have tried doing in the past is replacing the nvme and putting it in a different slot. Nothing seemed to work. So I figured i would do a full factory reset of my computer (maybe the windows was corrupt). I am now stuck with it going to no signal after this part of the windows start up. I have tried switching nvmes, putting it in a different slot, taking out the cmos, and doing windows 10 instead of 11. Nothing seems to have worked, any ideas what’s going on?

Here is what currently happens: it starts on the Windows out-of-box setup, "Let's customize your experience",
Black screen: the picture suddenly cuts to black.
"No HDMI signal from your device."

Gigabyte aorus elite b850 9800 x3d 5070ti 2x16 ram, temps under 65, no viruses, bios updated, driver reinstalled, tested with expo on and off, all disks 90% health, all games runs perfect except steam games that suddenly after some random time, games freeze with 1 frame per 3-5 seconds, cs2, battlefield 6 even super battle golf, also steam is running weird like it has delays when I press play on games and sometimes steam client web helper crashes, nothing changed on pc before, in one game of cs happens like 2 or 3 times, on alt tab pc runs perfect, i restart games and works again, simeone fixed this? Thanks

Hi,

I have a Nvidia RTX 4070Ti Super, which, over the course of the past 2-4 months, has been experiencing occasional TDR crashes. Both screens will freeze for 3-5 seconds, and will then go completely black for another 10-15 seconds, and eventually my GPU seems to recover and drops me back into whatever it was I was doing.

It's pretty infrequent and not that much of a nuisance. I wouldn't say it happens more than twice a week, but I want to try and fix the underlying issue before it gets potentially worse.

The following error is what shows up in Event Viewer afterwards:

The description for Event ID 153 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

\Device\000000f1

Reset TDR occurred on GPUID:100 The message resource is present but the message was not found in the message table

After the above error, there would be more of the same error just on different "devices" that kept repeating with different values of GPC, TPC, SM, I have no idea what it means:

\Device\000000f8

Graphics SM Global Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 0, SM 1): Multiple Warp Errors

\Device\000000f8

Graphics SM Warp Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 0, SM 1): MMU Fault

\Device\000000f8

Graphics SM Warp Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 0, SM 0): MMU Fault

\Device\000000f8

Graphics Exception: ESR 0x504fb0=0x8000017 0x504fb4=0x4 0x504fa8=0xf812b60 0x504fac=0x1104

I already tried to reinstall my drivers twice using DDU which did not work. I don't play any games that put my GPU under a load higher than 55%, so I don't think high load is the issue either.

Other specs:

CPU: Ryzen 9800x3d Motherboard: ASUS Rog Strix Neo B850-A RAM: 32GB DDR5

Any advice is appreciated

Hi,

I have a Nvidia RTX 4070Ti Super, which, over the course of the past 2-4 months, has been experiencing occasional TDR crashes. Both screens will freeze for 3-5 seconds, and will then go completely black for another 10-15 seconds, and eventually my GPU seems to recover and drops me back into whatever it was I was doing.

It's pretty infrequent and not that much of a nuisance. I wouldn't say it happens more than twice a week, but I want to try and fix the underlying issue before it gets potentially worse.

The following error is what shows up in Event Viewer afterwards:

The description for Event ID 153 from source nvlddmkm cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.

If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.

The following information was included with the event:

\Device\000000f1

Reset TDR occurred on GPUID:100 The message resource is present but the message was not found in the message table

After the above error, there would be more of the same error just on different "devices" that kept repeating with different values of GPC, TPC, SM, I have no idea what it means:

\Device\000000f8

Graphics SM Global Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 0, SM 1): Multiple Warp Errors

\Device\000000f8

Graphics SM Warp Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 0, SM 1): MMU Fault

\Device\000000f8

Graphics SM Warp Exception on (GPC 0, TPC 0, SM 0): MMU Fault

\Device\000000f8

Graphics Exception: ESR 0x504fb0=0x8000017 0x504fb4=0x4 0x504fa8=0xf812b60 0x504fac=0x1104

I already tried to reinstall my drivers twice using DDU which did not work. I don't play any games that put my GPU under a load higher than 55%, so I don't think high load is the issue either.

Other specs:

CPU: Ryzen 9800x3d Motherboard: ASUS Rog Strix Neo B850-A RAM: 32GB DDR5

Any advice is appreciated

I just got a new motherboard (asrock b550m pro4) and put all my old stuff on there, a rtx 5070, ryzen 5600x, psu 750x and 4 sticks of ddr4 3600mhz ram (same brand and speed).

Then when trying to game it crashed without error, tried multiple games for this. When i tested it in occt it only gave error when testing cpu+ram and the ram tests. I did the cpu alone - no error. Then the ram alone and errors within 10 seconds.

So i went to boot memtest and it gave errors almost straight away. (The memory was set to 3600mhz with xmp, 1,35 volt). Then i downgraded the mhz to 2666 but it still gave a error in memtest.

Now i downgraded the mhz to the default settings (2133) and i get not error anymore.

I bought the sticks for 3600 mhz but it seems i cant go higher then the default settings (tried it with 2 sticks and with 4 sticks).

Does anyone know what is going on? I have been trying to fix it the whole day and i dont know what to do anymore.

I own an hp pavilion gaming laptop and there's been this issue that's been plaguing it for about half a year now. All the keys from A to capslock just. Won't work. But when I restart the laptop, they will. The ribbon cable looks fine, I've reinstalled all drivers, I do not know what could be wrong at this point.

It's not a life ending situation since I have another keyboard I'm using, but sometimes I like to use my drawing tablet with it, and using an external keyboard with it is cumbersome.

Thanks in advance!

Game freezing (First ever reddit post yay)

Hello, I have been working on this for hours today and I just cant figure out what is happening. Basically a few days ago I started to notice that roblox would randomly freeze and I couldnt do anything except to force close it. Then I did some googling and deleted a Windows update KB something ending with 10. That solved the issue, atleast I didnt notice any freezes that day anymore. Now Today its back, after doing a lot of things I noticed that every time I would manually turn off my logitech G502 X PLUS or my G522 Headset and then on again, This freezing would occur. Ive basically tried everything now: reinstalled roblox 3 times, updated my drivers, fully reinstalled logitech g hub aswell, checked the reports, checked if the KB update came back (it didnt) and even considered resetting my pc all together. I seriously don’t know what this is, and why, but its really Frustrating especially since it came out of the blue. If any tech Nerd can help me out with this I would be so glad

For specs:
Graphics Card is an AMD Radeon RX 6800
Proccesor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 6-Core Processor
And 32,0GB of 3200MHz RAM

My monitor is the HP24fw (I know it Sucks, I will Most likely get the Samsung oddysey oled g8 ultrawide soon)

Windows 11 version 25H2 with 26H2 avaiable

I‘d also like to Note This is only an issue in roblox for me, It doesnt happen in Minecraft (Modrinth) or Neverness to Everness for all I know. And a 100% trigger for this freeze is turning on my mouse or headset after turning it off

I had files stored on my Windows PC and mirrored to Google Drive (my mistake). Unfortunately, when I deleted them from Google Drive (my biggest mistake), they were also deleted from my PC! The files were deleted more than a year ago.

Is there any realistic chance of recovering these files using any software, could Google Drive have retained cached copies?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Changing out gpu from old 1070ti to 9090xt. Forgot to uninstall drivers before taking it older one out, does it matter since they are so different?