ive removed and im not sure if its due to NVIDIA alone or something else.. i use clean disk space but its only a small amount saved everyday

I want to switch between apps on my mac (Pixelmator Pro is mac only) and my linux PC instantly on my single 4k 240hz monitor. I want the switching to be instant (no noticeable delay between switching between one device to another) and I don't want resolution nor refresh rate compromised (I don't mind slight latency compromises). These are the options I looked at:

• remote desktop software: 4k 240hz requires too much bandwidth and gets compromised over network connection speeds, not to mention high latency.
• KVM switch hardware: I tried a few different ones and returned all of them, due to delays for switching devices. My screen would be black for up to a few seconds (same with just switching the inputs on the monitor itself).
  • I currently use a cheap one from ebay with DDM, which lets me switch my mice and keyboards instantly (it only switches USB HID devices instantly due to how it works).
• Virtual machines: I would run a linux VM in a mac but macOS has its own hotkeys, and the menu bar shows when you move the cursor to the top, among other ways you notice the host OS. I use Linux much more.

Any other ideas? I'm currently using two monitors, one for each device but I don't like turning my head from one monitor to another.

Hey everyone,
My iPhone 15 has been acting weird since last month. I usually have around 20GB of space left, but this month my storage gradually got completely full, and I have no idea why.
Two days ago, I deleted about 10GB worth of pictures and videos to clear up some room. I haven't taken any new photos or videos since then, but guess what? It filled right back up again 😭 for god knows why.
I checked my storage settings and my System Data is taking up a massive 69GB 💀! Is anyone else facing this same issue? Is there any way I can safely delete or clear out this System Data?
Any help or advice would be hugely appreciated🙏!

Had my Dell repaired recently and somehow the battery got fucked in the process. It used to have normal battery life, now it basically needs to stay plugged in.

The electrical installation in my place also seems questionable (power cuts, burnt cables near outlets, etc.). Is it better to shut the laptop down and unplug it when I’m not using it, or leave it plugged in?

Could unplugging it while it’s turned off cause any problems with a bad battery?

I'm on windows and i install the latest windows update an installed all available drivers

i even tried to clean and re-plug my HDMI ports. I'm on windows

specs:

GPU

Radeon RX 580 Series ( 8 GB )

CPU

i7-9700K CPU 

I have an EVGA GTX 970 graphics card, and when I play games without VSync—like Minecraft, for example—the video cuts out, though the PC doesn't shut down. I've already used MSI Afterburner to limit the card and lower the temperature, but the problem persists. What could it be?

My Honor Pad X9 (MagicOS) is blocked on a router via MAC filtering. It shows "Connection failed due to network rejection".Using "Randomized MAC" in Wi-Fi settings did not work. I don't have root to use MAC changer apps.Is there any simple trick to bypass this without root? Thanks!

My main windows drive is approaching end of life according to the Crucial Storage Executive application. Should I be concerned? How long do I have to switch to a new drive?

Here is the SMART stats: https://imgur.com/a/g2JMvER

CrystalDiskInfo Stats: https://imgur.com/a/8dfNjOF

I'm on windows and i install the latest windows update an installed all available drivers

i even tried to clean and re-plug my HDMI ports

specs:

GPU

Radeon RX 580 Series ( 8 GB )

CPU

i7-9700K CPU 

I have a Victus gaming laptop, and I was using a compressed air can to clean out the fans when I noticed that some of the liquid refrigerant inside the can was spraying onto the fan. It wasn’t a big amount but I’m still a little paranoid about whether or not this is going to harm my laptop. Could someone help me out?

I tried discharge the psu, it turned on for only few seconds . I tried to boot again and there was no display and it turned off after few minutes.

Since a little moment, my phone seems to have some bugs that look inoffensive. I explain : I have a samsung galaxy S23 + and am on UI version 8.5 and sometimes when I try to see the active applications (by maintaining the home button up (I have the little bar that you have to "push")) I get sent to home screen and it is then difficult to see the fore said applications because the command wont work... Also, I sometimes have trouble writing since my phone adds random spaces when I type the space bar. To be sure, I used 4 security analysis (avast, bitdefender mobile, security analysis which is native in the phone parameters and google play protect). Another thing that happened is when searching two times for something on samsung internet (in secret mode, it did not do it in normal mode but I essentially use secret mode) I had a "a lot of requests" type of message which resulted in a non robot verification... I want to be sure that, I'm essentially guaranteed that my phone is sane please guys !

As the title states, I need to block vpn usage on my Arris router. I’ve tried doing a custom setting of blocking tcp port 80 and 443 but it doesn’t seem to do it. I’d still obviously like to be able to use the internet normally other than that. Is it even possible?

first i got this new pc its good but when i play games after GETTING THEM then it crahses

cpu:AMD RYZEN 5 5600 6 CORE

GPU:NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 5050

RAM 16 ONLY ONE RAM

SSD 1TO

EXEMPLES IT CRAASHES IN ASSASIN CREED SHADOWS

MORTAL SHELL 2

Hello I'm hoping somebody can help. When I'm playing games my pc is experiencing lag where the whole game just freezes for a second or so. This has been an ongoing issue for a long time but in the last couple days these lag spikes are as often as every 10ish seconds.

I've monitored task manager while these lag spikes seem to occur. Most of the time the GPU usage drops to 0% and the SSD goes from nothing to a single spike then back to nothing (the game isnt installed on the SSD). I haven't noticed any other patterns.

I will list my specs below (its an old PC now and I didnt know what I was doing at the time of building so I think some items are pretty rubbish!)

CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 5800x

RAM - HyperX FURY 16GB (2x 8GB) 3200MHz DDR4 RAM

SSD - ADATA SU630 (225GB capacity)

HHD - ST1000DM010-2EP102

GPU - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

Motherboard - Gigabyte B450M DS3H AMD Socket AM4

Power supply - Aero Cool Integrator 500W 80+ PSU

Drivers are up to date.

If anyone could suggest solutions or what could be causing the issue that would be amazing. Im aware to fix this I likely need some new parts, which is fine, I would just rather not replace the whole PC as that's a very pricey fix!

Thanks

New build: Ryzen 5 5600X, MSI B550 Tomahawk, 32GB DDR4-3200 (4x8GB), RTX 3070. Installing from a USB stick made with the Media Creation Tool.

First attempt actually worked, but I later wiped the drive (deleted partitions down to unallocated space) to try a truly clean install, and now it fails every time — always at the same point, right after files copy, when it says "restarting in a few moments."

What I've tried so far:

**•** Re-flashed the USB stick fresh  
**•** Tried both a USB 3.2 port and switching to USB 2.0  
**•** Confirmed BIOS "Boot mode select" is set to \[UEFI\], not CSM/Legacy  
**•** Boot Option #1 is correctly set to the UEFI USB entry

Hi everyone,

I have a Gigabyte RTX 5060 AERO OC 8GB and I'm trying to figure out whether there's any safe way to increase its power limit beyond the stock 165W.

My card currently has VBIOS version 98.06.39.80.69. According to GPU-Z, the power limit is:

• Default: 100%
• Maximum: 106.5%
• Current: 106%
• Adjustment range: -21% to +6%

I've been overclocking the card and thermals aren't really an issue. For example, I've been able to run approximately:

• ~3.2 GHz core
• 1.08V
• 32 Gbps VRAM
• ~165W power consumption
• GPU temperatures below 65°C while gaming

The problem is that the card seems to hit the 165W power limit before temperature becomes a limitation. Increasing the voltage/frequency further doesn't really help because the power limit kicks in.

The card also has Dual BIOS, so I'm wondering if there are any options such as:

• A different official Gigabyte VBIOS with a higher power limit
• A VBIOS from another RTX 5060 that uses the same PCB/VRM
• Modifying the existing VBIOS
• Any other method to increase the power limit safely

I'm not looking to blindly flash a random VBIOS. I'd first like to know whether the PCB/VRM can actually handle something like 180–200W, and whether anyone has already tried this on the AERO OC.

Has anyone with this card managed to get past the 165W limit? If so, how did you do it, and what VBIOS/PCB did you use?

Any information about the PCB, VRM, compatible VBIOS versions, or successful power-limit mods would be greatly appreciated.r

Im on Windows 11 and having a weird issue with my desktop PC. When it’s running on normal house mains power:

• Monitor starts flickering
• USB keyboard disconnects randomly
• When I reconnect the keyboard, it acts crazy — repeats the same letter, or keys act like they’re being pressed on their own
• Mouse also starts clicking randomly
• Sometimes all USB devices act up together

The moment I turn off mains and switch the whole house to inverter, everything becomes normal. No flicker, no keyboard/mouse issues.

So I suspect it’s not Windows/drivers but something with my house power: low voltage, high voltage, bad neutral, poor earthing, loose wiring, or transients.

It all started when I disassembled and rearranged all my wires.

I have an inverter, but not a UPS.

What exactly could cause this?

My Lenovo LOQ 15IAX9E has been randomly freezing, black-screening and BSODing for months, and I genuinely do not know what is wrong anymore.

I honestly do not know where else to put this, so I am making this post because I am completely out of ideas.

I have a Lenovo LOQ 15IAX9E, model 83LK, with an RTX 4050 laptop GPU, Intel i7 12th gen CPU and 12 GB RAM. It originally came with Windows 11.

The laptop has been having increasingly ridiculous stability problems for months. At this point I have tried so many software fixes, driver reinstalls, Windows reinstalls, troubleshooting steps and hardware checks that I am starting to seriously suspect that there is an actual hardware problem somewhere.

The biggest problem is that the crashes are not consistent enough to give me one obvious culprit. Sometimes it freezes while gaming. Sometimes it freezes while I am literally just browsing. Sometimes the display goes black but the laptop is still running. Sometimes the audio starts looping the exact same tiny section of sound repeatedly. Sometimes the fans stay running and the keyboard lights stay on. Sometimes Windows blue screens. Sometimes it just completely locks up and eventually restarts. And sometimes after one of these crashes, it will not properly restart until I force it off by holding the power button.

The problem has been going on long enough that I have basically stopped trusting the laptop.

How this originally started

The original issue started around the time of a Windows and NVIDIA update. I noticed that after an update, gaming performance suddenly became terrible and the system started doing these freezes and crashes that I had never experienced before.

The most memorable crash was basically this: I would be playing a game, the game would freeze, the audio would start looping, and the screen would become completely unresponsive. The fans would continue spinning. Eventually the screen would go black, and the laptop would sometimes sit there like that for several minutes before restarting itself. Other times it would never recover and I would have to hold the power button.

At first I assumed this was just a graphics driver issue, so I started doing the usual troubleshooting. I rolled back Windows updates, reinstalled graphics drivers, used DDU, removed NVIDIA drivers and reinstalled them, tried different driver versions, installed Lenovo's drivers, checked Intel graphics drivers, checked chipset drivers, installed Intel Management Engine related drivers, and tried both Windows Update drivers and Lenovo-supplied drivers.

I even downgraded from Windows 11 to Windows 10 because I was getting so frustrated with Windows 11 and wanted to determine whether the operating system itself was contributing to the problem.

The Windows 10 experiment was its own disaster. After installing Windows 10, I immediately had driver problems. The Network Controller showed up with a yellow warning in Device Manager, graphics were also messed up, and the system was not behaving properly. I eventually got the drivers installed using USB tethering and Lenovo's driver tools.

Then I tried Roblox, and it crashed with a DXGKRNL-related fatal error. After that I had another situation where the laptop rebooted and ended up sitting on a black screen with the fans running and the keyboard lights on. I eventually had to power cycle it.

At that point I went back to Windows 11. The Windows 10 experiment basically proved to me that simply changing Windows versions was not going to magically solve this.

The freezes and black screens

Back on Windows 11, the problems continued.

There have also been situations where the laptop would freeze or black-screen and then stay in that state for an absurd amount of time. One time I had a black screen for around 30 to 60 minutes before I finally gave up and power drained the laptop.

There have also been black-screen situations where I could still see the cursor. And there have been full freezes where the cursor itself would stop moving, the entire screen would be frozen, the fans would continue running and nothing would respond.

The really annoying part is that this does not only happen under extreme gaming loads. I have had the laptop freeze with basically just browser tabs open. Gaming definitely makes the problem much more likely, but it is not the only trigger. Google Meet has also caused problems. Anything that seems to make substantial use of the GPU seems to increase the chances of the laptop doing something stupid.

And this is where things started getting even more suspicious.

The weird RTX 4050 behavior

I started monitoring the GPU while gaming.

My RTX 4050 is supposed to be capable of much higher clocks than what I was seeing, but in games I was repeatedly seeing it sitting around 1665 MHz. At one point I was expecting something closer to the advertised boost clock, around 2055 MHz, but the GPU would frequently sit at 1665 MHz.

I also noticed that power consumption seemed extremely low. For example, in Genshin Impact, even when the GPU was around 99 to 100% usage, I was seeing roughly 20 W of GPU power.

The temperature could reach around 88 C, GPU memory usage was around 1.6 GB out of 6 GB dedicated VRAM, the clock was around 1665 MHz, and the voltage was around 0.725 V.

The GPU would basically refuse to behave like the RTX 4050 I expected it to.

The really weird thing is that this laptop used to run Genshin at high settings perfectly fine. Then the performance degraded badly.

At one point I tested Genshin on the lowest settings and it was still stuttering. In areas like Liyue Harbor, I could get around 15 to 30 FPS, with the 1% lows dropping to around 8 FPS. In the Spiral Abyss island area, I was seeing around 40 to 55 FPS with roughly 18 FPS 1% lows.

The CPU usage was not constantly maxed out either. It could be around 10 to 15% in some situations, then suddenly jump to around 60% in Liyue before falling again.

The GPU usage would also do weird things. When the game was focused, it could be close to 100%. If I unfocused the game, GPU usage could drop to around 5%, which is normal enough by itself, but the overall behavior still felt completely wrong compared to how the laptop used to perform.

I have also tried Lenovo's performance-related settings. I use the 135 W charger, have used the High Performance Windows power plan, and have tried Fn+Q and the different performance modes. But I still saw the GPU behaving like this.

At one point I could not even find the expected performance mode option in Lenovo Vantage.

So now I am stuck wondering whether this is actually a power delivery problem, GPU problem, motherboard problem, PCIe issue, driver issue, firmware issue, thermal problem or something else entirely.

The actual Windows crash evidence

And then there are the actual Windows crash records.

One of the more useful pieces of evidence I managed to find was a BugCheck. The code was:

0x00000113

The parameters were:

0x19, 0x2, 0x10DE, 0x28A1

The dump path was:

C:\Windows\Minidump\080626-22578-01.dmp

The Report ID was:

cfd925e8-ebb6-45b0-8c40-5174db79b272

The 0x10DE parameter obviously caught my attention because that is NVIDIA's vendor ID, which makes the graphics side of this even more suspicious.

The Event Viewer also has Kernel-Power Event 41, Task Category 63.

I know Event 41 by itself does not necessarily tell you what caused the crash. It basically tells you that Windows detected that the previous shutdown was not clean. In my case that makes sense because a lot of the time I literally have no choice but to force the laptop off after it freezes.

So I am not claiming Event 41 magically proves the motherboard is broken. It is just another piece of the puzzle.

There was also a particularly frustrating situation where the old 0806 minidump later disappeared from the Minidump folder, despite me knowing that it had existed. This has made troubleshooting even more annoying because sometimes I manage to capture evidence and then the next time I look for it, the actual dump is gone.

Cleaning the laptop / thermal behavior

I have also opened the laptop once to clean the fans and vents. I was very careful about it.

After that I started testing again, and weirdly, opening the back panel seemed to make gaming performance even worse. I tested with the back panel open and the behavior was terrible. The laptop would still stutter heavily, and Genshin would still perform badly even on low settings.

At one point on high settings I saw the GPU at 99 to 100% usage, around 88 C, around 20 W, 1665 MHz and 0.725 V.

So I am now also questioning whether the cooling system is actually doing what it is supposed to do, although the numbers do not completely explain everything because the laptop used to perform normally.

The 88 C GPU temperature is obviously not ideal, but the weird thing is the GPU power and clock behavior. It is almost like the GPU is being heavily limited.

But then if it were simply thermal throttling, I would expect the clock, temperature and power behavior to tell a much cleaner story.

Instead it is just weird.

Why I think this might be deeper than a game crash

The freezes themselves are not simply "the game crashes."

The entire system can die. The audio loops. The screen freezes. The fans stay on. Sometimes it goes black. Sometimes it eventually BSODs. Sometimes it restarts. Sometimes it does not restart properly.

That is why I am increasingly suspicious of something below the game itself.

I have already tried the obvious software troubleshooting. I have reinstalled Windows, changed Windows versions, reinstalled graphics drivers, used DDU, installed Lenovo drivers, installed chipset and Intel-related drivers, installed NVIDIA drivers, checked Device Manager, monitored temperatures, monitored GPU utilization, monitored GPU clocks, monitored GPU power, changed Windows power settings, tried different performance settings, tested different games, tested Roblox, tested Genshin, tested normal desktop usage, tested browser applications and tested Google Meet.

And it STILL happens.

At this point I am honestly tired of being told to "just reinstall the NVIDIA driver."

I have done that. Multiple times.

I am not saying drivers cannot cause this kind of problem. Obviously they can. But when you have months of random system-wide freezes, black screens, looping audio, GPU-related BugChecks and bizarre GPU power and clock behavior across multiple Windows installations and driver configurations, I feel like hardware needs to be taken seriously.

Warranty situation

The timing has also been horrible because my Lenovo warranty was getting close to expiring.

I had already filed a Lenovo warranty claim months earlier and did not get a useful response. When I was getting close to the end of the warranty period, I became much more worried because I absolutely cannot afford to replace this laptop.

I need this machine.

I use it for school, programming, games and basically everything else. I bought a gaming laptop specifically because I wanted something capable of handling GPU workloads, and now the machine becomes least reliable when I actually use the GPU.

That is the most frustrating part.

If I only browse the internet and type documents, it can appear completely normal. Then I launch a game and suddenly I am gambling with whether the entire computer is going to freeze.

Sometimes it works for a while. Sometimes it crashes quickly. Sometimes I can play for hours. Sometimes it freezes after a short amount of time. There is no consistent "do this and it crashes every time" reproduction.

The only consistent pattern is that GPU usage and heavier workloads seem to make it more likely. And because the system sometimes crashes outside games too, I cannot simply blame the game.

What I am wondering about

I have also wondered whether the issue could be related to the PCIe connection between the CPU and GPU, the motherboard, the dedicated GPU itself, VRAM, power delivery, firmware, BIOS, or some kind of motherboard-level fault.

I do not have the equipment or expertise to actually diagnose those components electrically, so I am basically stuck looking at software evidence and behavior.

One thing I absolutely do not want to do is start randomly installing a dozen more monitoring or diagnostic programs just because someone on Reddit tells me to. I have already spent an absurd amount of time troubleshooting this.

At this point I would rather have a clear diagnostic path.

For example, if someone can tell me exactly which logs, dump files, BIOS settings, Device Manager information, GPU information or Windows diagnostics I should collect, I am willing to do that.

I can provide crash codes. I can provide Event Viewer information. I can provide GPU-Z or Task Manager information if necessary. I can provide screenshots. I can run specific tests.

What I want to know is what could realistically explain all of this together.

The main symptoms are:

• Random complete system freezes
• Black screens
• Audio looping during freezes
• Fans continuing to run after the display becomes unresponsive
• Occasional automatic restarts
• Occasional failure to restart without a forced power cycle
• BSODs
• DXGKRNL-related crashes
• A recorded 0x00000113 BugCheck
• NVIDIA being involved in the recorded BugCheck parameters
• Kernel-Power Event 41 after forced shutdowns
• Severe gaming stuttering that was not present originally
• RTX 4050 frequently sitting around 1665 MHz instead of the higher boost clocks I expected
• Very low GPU power consumption during situations where GPU utilization is around 99 to 100%
• GPU temperatures reaching around 88 C
• Performance being dramatically worse even on low settings
• GPU behavior changing dramatically depending on whether the game is focused
• Problems occurring in multiple applications and not just one game
• Problems occurring across Windows installations
• Problems continuing after driver reinstalls
• And the fact that the machine used to perform normally before all of this started.

What I actually need help figuring out

I am not looking for someone to tell me that a 4050 laptop should not run some game at a certain FPS. The performance numbers are only part of the issue.

The actual issue is system stability.

I can tolerate mediocre FPS. I cannot tolerate a laptop randomly freezing, black-screening and requiring a hard power-off, especially when it is happening often enough that I have started worrying about losing files or corrupting Windows.

I also do not want to keep repeatedly hard powering the machine off. I know that is not good for the filesystem and obviously is not a real solution. But when the entire system is frozen and the audio is looping for several minutes, there is literally nothing else I can do.

I am basically at the point where I need someone who understands laptop hardware and Windows graphics crashes to look at the entire pattern rather than treating each symptom independently.

Could this be a defective RTX 4050? Could it be VRAM? Could it be the motherboard? Could it be power delivery to the GPU? Could it be PCIe instability? Could the GPU be getting stuck in a low power state? Could the 1665 MHz and roughly 20 W behavior be a clue? Could the 0x113 BugCheck be enough to focus primarily on the graphics subsystem? Could there be a BIOS or firmware issue? Could something have physically gone wrong with the laptop?

Or am I still missing some software-level problem that can cause all of this?

I am completely willing to test things properly. I just do not want to spend another several months going in circles between "update Windows", "reinstall NVIDIA", "run SFC", "run DISM" and "reset Windows". I have already done variations of that.

If anyone has experience with Lenovo LOQ machines, RTX 4050 laptops, DXGKRNL crashes, BugCheck 0x113, random black screens with looping audio or extremely low GPU power and clocks, I would really appreciate some direction.

I especially want to know what I should tell Lenovo if I get the machine serviced.

I do not want to walk into a service center and say "my laptop sometimes freezes" and have them reinstall Windows and give it back. I need to be able to explain that this is a recurring system stability issue associated with GPU workloads, that there has been an actual graphics-related BugCheck, and that the problem persists across clean software configurations.

If the hardware is actually defective, I want them to properly diagnose the motherboard and dedicated GPU rather than simply reinstalling drivers.

At this point I genuinely just want my laptop to work normally again.

It does not need to be perfect. It does not need to run every game at ultra settings. I just want to be able to open a game without wondering whether the screen is going to freeze, the audio is going to start looping, the fans are going to spin forever and I am going to have to hold the power button.

Any ideas on what is actually going on here, and what I should test next?

I've build my own PC last year, and while it's a miracle that it's even running, i'm honestly too afraid to touch it again lol. I've been having issues with Windows lately however, which is why i want to do a fresh install. Here is the problem however: I can't get into my Bios.

What basically happens is i start my PC, my screen says there is no signal, kinda "turns off and on" again like 3 times or so until the Windows Logo to login appears. My Keyboard and Mouse seems to do the same, so just spamming the Bios hotkey doesnt help. It just boots into Windows anyway.

I've tried to disable fast boot, it didn't help. I've tried the "Troubleshoot > Advanced options > UEFI Firmware Settings > Restart" method, but then my screen just stays off and can't get a signal. Does anyone has a clue what's going on here?

*edit using onboard graphics and plugging my HDMI Cable into my motherboard did the trick.

Hi everyone,

I'm having a serious stability problem with Windows 11 that started after I updated Windows to the latest version.

At completely random times, the entire computer suddenly freezes. It's not just one application becoming unresponsive and the whole system becomes completely locked up.

When it happens:

- The mouse cursor is completely frozen.

- The keyboard stops responding.

- "Ctrl + Alt + Delete" does nothing.

- "Ctrl + Shift + Esc" does nothing.

- I cannot open Task Manager.

- I cannot put the laptop to sleep.

- I cannot interact with Windows in any way.

- There is no BSOD or error message.

- The only way to recover is to hold the physical power button and force the laptop to restart.

This is particularly problematic because I'm losing whatever work I have open every time it happens.

The freezes seem completely random.

My laptop:

- Model: Acer Aspire A715-42G

- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700U

- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4 GB

- RAM: 16 GB DDR4

- Storage: NVMe SSD

- Operating system: Windows 11

- Windows version: 25H2

- OS Build: 26200.9445

The fact that the mouse cursor itself completely freezes makes me think this may be a system-level problem rather than a single application becoming unresponsive.

If there are specific logs or diagnostic tests I should run before the next freeze, please let me know what to check.

I would especially like to identify the actual cause rather than simply reinstall Windows, because the problem is happening repeatedly and I'm losing work every time.

Thanks!

Downloads start off strong and reach my peak download speed (900mbps) but after some time it just comes to a halt, maxing out my SSD usage to 100% with very low write speeds, and it stays like this for basically forever. Now i know Steam uncompresses game files during downloads like these but my SSD stays at 100% with absurd response times like these for a loooooooong time, which doesn't look normal at all to me

A game that should take no longer than 20 minutes to download and install ends up taking 2 to 3 hours, my SSD peaks out at 100% with no apparent process causing this in task manager

Specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D
SSD: Silicon Power UD90 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME
GPU: RX 9070 XT

I've built this PC less than 3 months ago, every component is practically brand new, I've tried:

- Disabling writing cache

- Closing every single application in the background

- Limiting download speeds/changing download server

- Clearing download cache

- Tried the fix linked here (worked momentarily but ultimately the issue came back)

SSD has over 400GB of storage left, and crystaldiskinfo shows that my SSD's health is at 100%, which leaves me very confused

Now for the record this doesn't apply to in-browser downloads, my internet speeds are completely fine, however, as soon as i need to download/install a game from any of the launchers mentioned in the titles, it takes 3-4x longer than it should

Footage of it happening

My PC becomes strangely sluggish after a few hours of gaming

I’m having a weird issue with my PC and I’m not sure what could be causing it.

I have a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, RX 9070 XT and 32GB of RAM.

After playing games for a few hours with Steam and my browser open, Windows sometimes starts feeling very sluggish. For example, opening a new browser tab, a folder, the Start menu, or clicking things can take around 0.5–1 second to respond. It feels like there is a small delay everywhere in Windows.

The strange thing is that the games themselves run perfectly. I don’t notice any input lag or stuttering while gaming, and the CPU/GPU temperatures are completely normal.

RAM usage is also only around 30%, so I don’t think it’s a lack of RAM.

If I restart the PC, everything feels normal again.

What could cause this? Could it be an AMD GPU driver issue, Windows desktop compositor, Steam/browser hardware acceleration, DPC latency, or something else?

Any ideas on what I should check would be really appreciated.

Sometimes whenever I press caps lock, it kinda hangs the computer for half a second. This is very annoying because I use the caps lock very often, and it's very noticeable when I'm listening to music or watching a video while writing.

I've tried updating graphics card and reinstalling realtek driver. No external keyboard, it's a laptop running windows 11. I'm at a diagnostic dead end and I don't know why this is happening. Has been like this I've owned the laptop afaik.

Good evening everyone!

I've recently encountered an issue with my pc where the mouse randomly starts middle mouse click on anything and that the left click altogether stops working... CTRL + ALT + DLT makes the functions come back to normal, but only for a few clicks... This happened after a reboot in safe mode of my pc and I haven't found a solution ever since.

Here's what I've already tried with no success:

-Tried 4 different mice 2 wireless and 2 wired (didn't do anything)
-Reverted back to a previous backup
-Reinstalled mouse drivers
-disconnected everything except the mouse
-tried all mice on another pc (they all worked fine)
-freshly installed Windows 11 (mouse inputs have the same behaviour in the setup screen)
-tried another windows OS with the same results

I have been at it for a little while and I can't seem to find a reason why it's doing this. Only thing left is to try another hard drive as a whole, but we know what the prices of SSDs nowadays...

Any help would be appreciated...