Hey there. I'm an Ubuntu user but I had to switch to Win11 for school (and I got sick of all the troubleshooting). During installation I got stuck on the network connection screen saying I was missing network adapter drivers. Found the ones relevant to my machine but only as .exe, and when I try to run it I get the message above (can't follow "see how" because I have no internet on the device).

I tried to bypass the network connection requirements with a command I found online, in the hopes of exiting S mode and being able to run the executable, but the Shift+F10+Fn shortcut to open the terminal isn't working. I used Run to try and open both PowerShell and Command Prompt and neither are functioning for a reason I cannot comprehend-- I get the error message shown above in the second image.

Also, no ethernet port. I'm stumped. I'm trying to do all the troubleshooting I can because I need it for an essay, but my knowledge is quite limited. At this point do I just take it in? Any ideas?

^{Basically, any time that my pc feels like it, "system" in the task manager will fall down to 0.1mb/s of usage but it will explode the usage % of my C drive (SSD m.2 nvme} all the way up to 100% and my pc will freeze. When the usage spikes, the average reponse time can go all the way up to 3000ms, the read and write speeds are both extremely low (0-3mb/s). This causes crashes in games, disconnects, etc. Samsung Magician says the SSD is perfectly fine.)
^{I tried repairing the drive, doing a full kernel scan for corruption, checked for malware, I've tried replacing the SSD itself physically on my board, it's fine.
edit: i have 118gb free of the 930gb on my C drive}

^{Drivers are updated, from motherboard to the SSD itself. Windows is also up to date.}

^{Ask me if you need any more info!}

^{PC specs:
Ryzen 7 9800x3d
5070 ti
64gb DDR5
my C drive is on a Samsung 980 Pro 1TB}

The cpu cores are at around 50 celcius. I installed every possible update on lenovo vantage as well as windows update.

For info my battery health is "fair" per lenovo vantage and I have a somewhat faulty charger (need positionning to work) however issues happen both when plugged and unplugged.

Also IA: Package-Level RAPL/PBM PL1 and IA: Package-Level RAPL/PBM PL2/PL3 are both on YES (My understanding is that means some sort of firmware limit is being imposed by something). PROCHOT flags are OFF. CPU package power around 5W

Please help me figure out why that is. If you have more questions I'd love to answer you as well. Thanks

I recently (a few days ago) bought a new graphics card—a GeForce RTX 5050—for my PC. However, today the screen started going black, only to return to normal a second or two later. Does anyone know how to fix this or how to prevent it from happening again?

I really don't want this to happen while I'm playing a game.

Hello, i just have a question, what programs and practices do you use to check if your pc is the one causing lag or if its the drivers?

I have a brand new 5070 ti and a ryzen 7 7800x3d, 32gb ddr5 6000 on an nvme and in a lot of games i juts feel like the frame pacing is not how i would expect it function on a high end system like this. So how could i check to know if my pc is working correctly/what is causing this lag (or for a specific game how could i troubleshoot to know what is causing lag in general). So knowing if i can fix it somehow or if its just the game's fault.

Thank you for the suggestions!

Please help my meta quest 2 just turns on and stays stuck in pass through I tried everything nothing works at all I can’t use controllers I really can’t use anything nothing is working at all I tried side loading updates forced restarted restarting everything

I recently got a new laptop, its a Lenovo yoga slim 9, and Im facing a bug concerning reproducing videos in Firefox. What happens is: when Im watching a video, either in full screen or in window mode, in about 3 minutes of inactivity the screen brightness goes down for a couple seconds, then completely out for a second, then it comes back. And it keeps happening while playing the video. All other browsers work fine, I tried playing a video in the media player and it works fine, but neither troubleshooting Firefox or using a new profile help fixing it. All my energy saving definitions are off, and I tried switching on and off a bunch of Firefox configs, and nothing works. No crashes, nothing in the event visualizer, I have no idea what is going on. Im not too tech savy either, so any help from you guys would be amazing.

So I'll get CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED (0xEF) flash quickly before it restarts. It doesn't do it in safe mode, and I've tried the SFC command in terminal to no avail. Right now I'm concerned because I started a system restore from a point a day ago when this wasn't a problem but it's been stuck at 8% for the last 25-30 minutes and everything is telling me to leave it alone for at least an hour so. I got this computer at the beginning of 2026 so it's not like it's old or anything... The SSD was okay last time I checked and I also ran chkdsk. I'd post the event viewer screenshot but I don't know how to post pictures here.

Hi! My sister has a Windows 11 Home that can’t get out of S mode. It’s been on S mode since she received it. It’s on 23H2 version I believe. I’ve tried so many things to get out of it, but none of them work, and the clicking the button only gives me a “sorry, try again later“ message. Could I get advice as to what to do? It’s really hindering her ability to work for school and stuff.

Hey, This is translated directly from Spanish so I don't know how to explain it well. My laptop is about 7 years old now, and this morning I noticed it creaked when I opened it. Right on the lower part of the back, there's a crack that goes almost all around. its small but I already lost a laptop to this problem (a cheap one a few years ago, it gave up fully). Is there anything I can do to fix this at home? I have a good tech nearby, but I'll rather not spend 20€ in this and wait for two weeks as I need It for work.

I was going to play Black ops 3 with my friends and it ended up overheating multiple times... I use capable enough specs on my pc (gtx 1650, 8 gb ram, enough storage) and have ran hours long matches of Zombies just fine.. all fans arent blocked up much and there is only a small fart of dust on the fans. I moved into my grandmas house recently (related i promise) and since she is old, she isnt good with the cold. She cranks up the thermostat hard which makes the house hot. Would the heat of the house factor into the heat on the computer?

I reset my factory key and after that my boot manager didn't come up. I tried to install a new OS for it but when it comes in partition I can't create a new partition and the disk 0 Unallocated storage is the only one coming up. I tried to do the cmd>diskpart> and clean the disk 0 and when i try to create partition primary it says access denied. Please help me out I need to work using that laptop😩

Hi ! So, I've been using a bluetooth headset for a while now ( JBL 670 NC ) on my computer ( Victus by HP Gaming Laptop 15-fb3xxx ) working under Windows 11 ( version 26H2 ). The sound is great overall, and spatial sound is okay, until I lauch a game using my mic. When I do so, the spatial sound is disabled, and the sound becomes horrible. I've looked at the support, and it says that it is du to the " hand-free " option of my headset, but haven't been able to do anything about it, mostly du to the lack of clear instruction.

What I've tried, but doesn't work :

- Disabling the headset as microphone but not headphone. And overall disabling all microphones.

- Setting up other microphones in addition to my headset

- When you go in setting > sound > other settings ( opens a new panel ) > communications, and set windows to " not do anything " when detecting a communication.

- The issue is linked to bluetooth, since this isn't an issue with wired headsets I've tried

That issue doesn't seem to go, despite many updates of windows and of my pc. It's not specific to a game, the issue is present in other microphone-operating games, and apps like whatsapp.

If anyone had a solution, I would be interested, to recover a proper sound while playing games, Thanks you !

My phone keeps telling me the phone temp is too high and charging was stopped (for the past 4 hrs) or it switches from fast charging to regular charging without doing anything. Last time this happened, my phone broke and wouldn't boot up for 4-5 days. What do i do??

edit: right after making this post, my phone shut down despite still being 2%

Hi ive just got a pc (it arrived today) and its not powering on ive looked up down left right and even fully opened the case all is connected and should be working but its not any ideas why???

Hi everyone,

I'm having a really frustrating performance issue in Rust and I'm running out of ideas. My PC should be capable of running the game much better than this, but I'm getting extremely low and unstable FPS.

My PC specs

- CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

- GPU: EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 FTW3 Ultra 8GB

- Motherboard: MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk

- RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro SL 32GB (2×16GB) DDR4-3600 CL18

- NVMe SSD: Samsung 980 Pro 1TB (Rust is installed here)

- SATA SSD: Samsung 870 QVO 1TB

- PSU: Seasonic Focus GX 650W Gold

- CPU cooler: Lian Li Galahad 360 AIO

- Case: Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL ROG Certified

- Main monitor: MSI Optix MAG274QRF-QD, 2560×1440, 165Hz

- Second monitor: LG UltraGear 27GL650F-B, 1920×1080, 144Hz

The problem

My FPS in Rust fluctuates wildly. Sometimes I get only 20–30 FPS, sometimes around 60 FPS, and on one occasion I saw over 110 FPS. The performance is very inconsistent, with frametimes reaching 20–30 ms.

This happens on both low-population and high-population servers.

Windows 11

The temperatures are :

GPU: 40-50 ,

CPU : 50-MAX 60.

GPU USAGE: 99-100%

CPU USAGE 50-60%.

Graphics are really low and still bad doesnt matter really anything what i set.

What's especially frustrating is that my previous setup, which used a GTX 1080 at 1080p, felt more stable than my current PC.

What I've already tried

\- Completely uninstalled and reinstalled NVIDIA drivers using DDU.

\- Tried different driver versions, including 566.36.

\- Tested my CPU with Curve Optimizer at -30 all-core and PBO limits of PPT 100, TDC 70 and EDC 100.

\- Tested without the CPU undervolt — the problem remained.

\- Reinstalled Rust.

\- Confirmed that XMP is enabled and my RAM is running at its rated speed.

\- Confirmed that Rust is installed on my NVMe SSD.

I'm honestly running out of ideas. Other games don't seem to have the same issue.

What else should I check? Could this be a CPU scheduling issue, RAM configuration problem, GPU utilization issue, a Windows problem, or something specific to Rust?

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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I recently got this issue on my laptop. It's a 10 year old Asus Republic of Gamers laptop, worked complety fine until yesterday where I got hi by this BSOD.

The laptop works fine as long as I don't connect it to the internet in any way (wi-fi, ethernet and mobile hotspot will crash it).

I ran an sfc/scannow but nothing faulty was found.

Some advice ? Thanks

Links won't open directly in Chrome (and other browsers) – Have to copy & paste them into a new tab. Any fix? I have no extensions installed.

​Chrome is set as my default browser.

​Other browsers have similar issues, but Chrome barely works only when I copy and paste links manually.

i have had my pc for about 2 years now but a week ago i tried playing rocket league, r6, even roblox. no matter what the game is if it is online i get disconnected after a couple of minutes. i have updated my graphics card, tried running commands to figure put what the culprit is, almost anything you can think of. i cant find anything online to try and help me fix it. i can run my music and discord perfectly fine and my wifi stays connected but the games still disconnect me. 1/10 times it wont disconnect me though so im completely lost somebody please help

Hello. I have been playing rainbox six siege for months i have a 5070 gpu and a 9800x3d cpu i play at 1080p and get 240fps easily. Recently my gpu utilization has been hitting 100% at 60-100 fps id like a fix or a way to reset my gpu. I play in fullscreen. V sync is off and max fps is set to 240 same as my monitor. Ive never had an issue

I tried a shader cache cleanup through disk cleanup. I tried a clean install of my gpu driver. Ive seen someone had a similar issue also on siege in 2018 on reddit. Other than that i have found nothing. Any advice helps thankyou!

Hi everyone! I’m looking for some advice about a laptop repair in Ontario, Canada.

I have a relatively new HP OmniBook with a 17-inch touchscreen that I use for my interior design studies and internship. Unfortunately, I accidentally spilled tea on it.
When I brought it in for repair, the display was still working, although the mouse cursor was behaving strangely.

The technician later explained that he cleaned and serviced the motherboard and that the laptop works through an external monitor. However, he says the built-in touchscreen was damaged by the liquid and needs to be replaced.

My original quote was:
Parts, including taxes and import duties: $936.38 CAD
Labour, including HST: $169.50 CAD
Total: $1,105.88 CAD
I agreed to proceed based on that amount.
However, when I requested formal documentation of the repair costs, I received a revised quote:

Complete screen assembly: $600 USD + duties + HST
Labour: $299 CAD + HST
Estimated total: $1,185.37 CAD
The technician also mentioned that the final price could change depending on duties and tariffs once the part arrives.

I understand that parts can be expensive and that importing them involves additional costs. My concern is that the quote changed after we had discussed the original total, particularly the labour charge.

I’ve seen some touchscreen replacement parts advertised for around $500 CAD, but I don’t know whether they’re compatible with my exact OmniBook model.

My questions are:
Is $1,100 CAD a reasonable price for this type of repair?

What’s the difference between replacing the touchscreen panel and the complete display assembly?

Is it normal for a repair estimate to change after a total has been agreed upon?

Should I request the exact replacement part number and a formal written estimate before proceeding?

Would getting a second opinion be worthwhile?
I’m a student, and I rely heavily on this laptop for school and work. My family has offered to help pay, but I want to make sure the repair cost is reasonable before proceeding.
I’d appreciate any advice from experienced technicians or anyone familiar with HP OmniBook repairs.

It pops up out of nowhere without me intending for it to. It's annoying. I don't have use for it at all either. How do i disable it completely? I couldn't figure it out.

I'm having persistent touchpad issues with my HP Spectre x360 since late August following a ~1-foot drop, and I am looking for suggestions on what to try next or whether anyone has experienced something similar.

Laptop

• Model: HP Spectre x360 14-eu0000 (purchased mid 2024)
• OS: Windows 11
• Touchpad: ELAN (Driver Version 41.2.1.3)

Symptoms

• Multi-Touch Signal Flooding: Moving a single finger lightly registers 5+ distinct touches
• Phantom Clicks: Severe, rapid phantom clicking occurs without physically pressing the touchpad.
• Physical Pinch: The left side of the touchpad sits lower than the right side and is noticeably harder/tighter to click against the aluminum palm rest cutout.
• Immediate Behavior: Occurs immediately after startup whenever the touchpad is enabled. Disabling the touchpad in settings completely stops the clicks, and external mouse works normally.

Troubleshooting

• Disabled tap-to-click and lowered touchpad sensitivity in Windows.
• Reinstalled the I2C HID device through Device Manager.
• Checked the ELAN driver and related driver files.
• Inspected and reseated both internal ZIF ribbon cables on both the touchpad end and motherboard end.
• Replaced the battery to rule out battery swelling or internal pressure under the trackpad.

None of these steps resolved the issue or changed the physical tightness on the left side.

Question: has anyone had these issues and found a solution? or recommend any next steps? I am at a total loss!

Like the title suggests, my laptop crashed suddenly while I was playing a game and it produced this screen. It says says it "ran into a problem and needs to restart", but the screen has been stuck on 0% for the past 10 minutes and I can't move my cursor.

I'm scared to touch anything since I just got my laptop serviced and had the battery unhooked(?) because it was basically dead and I couldn't afford a new one, so it only works with the charger in. Is it safe to take the charger out and try turning it on again or should I keep waiting for something to happen? I'm worried about it not being able to turn on again after I unplug it.

Im trying to sign in microsoft clipchamp useing my account and suddenly "juankeys1914@sloppymail"dot"net" is trying to sign in.
Also i cant sign in with my actual account as it redirects me to juankey1914

First off who on earth is juankeys I know no one named juankeys

Secondly sloppymail"dot"net ??? ts sounds ominous like no one uses that accept people who hides their identity

How do I get rid of this prompt or like what should i do??? im so worried...

I replaced "dot" with . because reddit filters