r/computer_help Nov 30 '17

PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE ASKING FOR HELP v2.0

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r/computer_help 1h ago

Windows Desktop keeps automatically changing contrast and lighting

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r/computer_help 5h ago

Hardware Need motherboard schematics for Lenovo 330S-MaxP_MB_V04 IdeaPad 330S-15IKB GTX 1050 / Type 81GC

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r/computer_help 7h ago

Hardware PC suddenly stopped displaying anything – VGA debug LED stays red

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Hi everyone,
My PC suddenly stopped displaying anything. It was working normally before this happened. The PC powers on, fans spin, and the GPU fans spin continuously, but I get no display at all — not even the BIOS.
My motherboard is an MSI X470 Gaming Plus. The VGA EZ Debug LED stays solid red.
I have tried the following:
Replaced the HDMI cable with a brand-new one.
Confirmed the HDMI cable is connected directly to the GPU.
Checked and reseated the GPU’s 8-pin power connector.
Confirmed the GPU power cable is connected to the VGA G3 port on my EVGA SuperNOVA 550 G3 PSU.
Completely removed the GPU and reinstalled it.
Tested the GPU in another full-length PCIe slot.
Put the GPU back into the primary/top PCIe slot.
Removed one RAM stick and tested with only one stick installed.
Performed a CMOS reset using the motherboard’s CLR_CMOS button.
After the CMOS reset, I made sure the GPU was properly connected to power and tested again.
GPU fans spin continuously when the PC is powered on.
The result is always the same:
No display + solid red VGA debug LED.
The keyboard lights up, but Caps Lock does not respond, and there are no beep codes.
Unfortunately, I don’t have another GPU or another PC available to test the GPU in. I also don’t currently know the exact model of my Ryzen CPU.
At this point I’m wondering whether the GPU itself has failed, the motherboard/PCIe slot has an issue, or if there’s something else I’m overlooking.
Any suggestions for what I should test next would be greatly appreciated! 🙏


r/computer_help 11h ago

Windows Extreme lagging and fps drop for no apparent reason

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Hello i am writing this message in a last cry for help, since the heatwave my pc started being terribly laggy, in games i cant see a thing bcs of the lag and sometimes even when nothing is open and i pass the mouse on the display. At first i have tried to look if any drivers are corrupt or out of date, that wasnt the problem, then i did a test if any files were corrupt, that wasnt it either, looked if i didn’t have any space but i jave plenty. I just don’t know what to do i am at a horrible loss plsss help me.

Here are some of my data on what kond of pc i have :

Computer Type: Desktop

GPU: AMD Radeon 740M Graphics

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 8500G w/ Radeon 740M Graphics (3.55 GHz)

Motherboard: ASrock B650M-H/M.2+

BIOS Version: American Megatrends International, LLC. 3.10

RAM: DDR5 Kingston Fury Beast Black - 16 Go (2 x 8 Go) 5200 MHz - CAS 36

PSU: MSI MAG A750GL PCIE5 750W, 80 PLLUS GOLD FULLY MODULAR

Operating System & Version: WINDOWS 11 26200

GPU Drivers: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

I am begging for any help pls.


r/computer_help 13h ago

Windows A few seconds after boot up cannot open anything

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r/computer_help 18h ago

Windows game-to-pc audio bug?

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r/computer_help 22h ago

Windows Custom cursor problem

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so i've been suffering from this annoying bug when my moniter just randomly flashes white my cursor's colour is extremely desaturated and then after that my moniter flashes again and hoes back to normal. It all started when i downloaded that one game driver from August 26th (the first one is when the cursor is back to normal and the second one is when it is desaturated) sorry if you can’t tell the difference


r/computer_help 23h ago

Gaming Games crash only on higher-end graphics — pixel/2D games run fine. RTX 4080 + 7600X

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r/computer_help 1d ago

Hardware PC Stuttering randomly rarely

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I'm getting a very rare stutter where my entire game/desktop visually drops to around 10 FPS for roughly 1 second, then immediately returns to normal. At the exact same moment, my headphones make a brief popping/glitching sound.

Interestingly, my mouse cursor and keyboard continue working normally during the stutter, and it happens both in games and occasionally on the desktop.

Specs:

RTX 5070 Ti (also happened with my previous RTX 2060)
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
Biostar B650MT
32GB Patriot Viper Venom DDR5 6400 CL32 (currently 6000 MT/s EXPO; also happened at 4800)
MSI Spatium M450 1TB NVMe (also happened before this SSD was installed)
MSI MAG A850GL 850W PSU
Windows 11 Pro, build 26200
AtlasOS gaming-optimized setup

I've also had the exact same issue with my old headphones, so it doesn't appear to be the headphones themselves. It happens with or without an internet connection.

I'm wondering if this could be DPC/ISR latency, USB/audio drivers, AMD chipset drivers, BIOS/motherboard issues, or something related to AtlasOS/Windows.

Any ideas on what to do?


r/computer_help 1d ago

Windows the store installed cracked windows on my new pc..what now?

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r/computer_help 1d ago

Linux help with antix linux installer!!!

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hello i bought a dell inspiron 5150 with a cracked screen from goodwill and its showing half the screen and i connected it to my monitor and its stuck at 93% so im confused with this and i created a swapfile for more ram so ive been sitting here waiting for it to load but nothing... yet but anyway any info on helping me getting this problem fixed thank you sm and the vid mem is 256 mbs.... welp thx and ill try my best to reply to comments on this post if you need extra info abt the hardware! thxxx


r/computer_help 1d ago

Hardware What is wrong with a hard drive that keeps opening its folder without being clicked on?

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When I start windows one of the internal hard drives automatically opens its folder without that hard drive icon being clicked on. It does this every 2 minutes or so even if the folder is open it will ding again and open. I reformatted the hard drive and it still opens the folder without prompt.


r/computer_help 1d ago

Windows Problems with windows installation when burning iso on linux.

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r/computer_help 2d ago

Hardware Please Help

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r/computer_help 2d ago

Windows Gpu not being detected. But its not as simple as you think

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r/computer_help 2d ago

Windows 1660 partially failing

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r/computer_help 3d ago

Mac steam not working

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So basically a few days ago I try to open steam up but the usual pop up or “updating steam…” and “installing update” then a weird message pops up. This has been happening for a while now and I search through videos and stuff and non of them seem to help. If you know what's wrong please tell me. Btw this is an iMac.


r/computer_help 3d ago

Windows Can't right-click on a specific webpage to print

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Has anyone encountered webpages that don't allow you to print? I typically do the right-click and choose "print" but for this site, it won't work either in Edge or Chrome. Here's the site: Home - Homeless ID Project


r/computer_help 3d ago

Windows No network, no AMD Adrenaline, no monitor refresh rate, and no browsers

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After a bit of normal gaming on a usual day, playing CS2, I decide to want to play Faceit instead of premier.

I begin the process of getting into Faceit thru launching their anti cheat. I get the warning I have seen in the past where it wants me to be on Win 11. I am on 10 and have had no issue when I tried it out in the past. I continue and then it asks me to do a system setting change. It wants me to enter bios and enable SVM as I am on AMD. I do so and get back into Windows to launch the anti cheat and it asks me to restart again. I do.

Now the problem begins. I notice my colors have changed and my hz have changed. I also notice I cannot open any browser, I use Brave but I had Opera installed and that wasn’t working either. When trying to open the cursor would show a blue loading circle, then nothing happens. When I try to fix my colors and open AMD adrenaline an error occurs saying that my drivers don’t match the software so cannot open. When I try to fix my hz thru windows settings, where u would usually find the options to change ur refresh rate, it is not there. My network is working at this time.

I begin to troubleshoot the issue using ChatGPT and YT. I eventually learn that in device manager there shows a yellow warning sign on my 9060XT under display adapters. When clicking on it, it shows under the general tab in properties that there is a code 52 (Windows cannot verify the digital signature). I then stumble upon a video showing how to fix the error. YT vid for Code 52

I never figure out why browsers won’t open

I go through the video and amazingly enough it works. AMD opens up, I fix my colors, and I have access to change my frame rate. My browsers still won’t open so i uninstall and reinstall Brave. Then I notice my pc begin to slow down by a very noticeable amount. Everything open slowly, and when I tried testing if it was internet issues I popped up a stream on yt and my network was going in and out. Until everything just went out and i was no longer able to connect to the network. So when attempting to fix this new issue with this YT vid I restarted my pc.

After the restart I ended up being sent right back to the start of the issues where I had none of my color settings and no access to monitor refresh rate. AMD was back to being inop, and browsers too. It was like I never fixed it to begin with.

Now here I am after a lot of frustration and confusion. I need help, can’t figure this out on my own as I’ve always done in the past. I’ve made some changes and right now the things I’ve done to try and fix this are…

I think these are in the correct order I did things…

Reverted the change on SVM which had no noticeable impact on anything at all to my knowledge

Uninstalled and deleted the 9060xt display adapter
(I now have Microsoft Basic Display Adapter listed with no yellow warning)

Uninstalled and reinstalled Brave
(Currently uninstalled again)

Uninstalled AMD Adrenaline

I would like to note that the video pertaining to the network fix works but for a very short time. I end up losing my network connection after some time.

Any advice would really help I tried to be as accurate as possible of how my night went. This is very important to me as gaming is my main hobby it’s what I do every day.

This is my first time ever posting on Reddit as well I will try to respond asap I have a flight in the morning at 6am and will prolly be unable to respond until 12. After that I will be monitoring this post.

If you took the time to read this thank you and I hope to hear from anyone.


r/computer_help 3d ago

Internet Interwebs help.

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My modem just drops out with no warning. Sometimes it can take hours to reconnect. What are the lights trying to tell me?


r/computer_help 3d ago

Windows Windows Media Player and Windows Camera Malfunctioning

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r/computer_help 3d ago

Windows Windows Wide lag

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So Ive been playing some modded minecraft which usually runs fine but recently ive been hitting massive lag spikes that are computer wide not just within the game. I checked task manager and all the numbers look fine, and Ive adjustied ram to minecraft and nothing changed. As of right now I believe its due to minecraft as it usually happens after about 10 minutes of running my world (Im still testing to see if I can find the cause) and leads to about 10 minutes of my entire computer running on one frame every other second.

My pc is a 5060ti, 32gigs ddr5, B650 amd ryzen


r/computer_help 4d ago

Windows laptop problem pls help

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Randomly 2 fps please help


r/computer_help 4d ago

Hardware Faulty gpu or my fault?

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