I built my PC a year ago, and for the past three months, I've noticed some very odd behavior. For example, when playing Dead by Daylight, my game will sometimes crash out of nowhere, and I'll get an AMD Adrenalin crash alert. Other times, my game stutters a lot.

Could this be because my GPU is starting to fail? I bought it used on Amazon about two and a half years ago and had it in an older PC build before this one.

Also, is it normal for my PC screen to completely freeze whenever I touch the RAM inside my PC? I’ve noticed that every time I touch it, my screen freezes.

Another strange issue is that sometimes, while gaming, my mouse cursor turns into a weird pixelated square or a square with rainbow lines.

I also don’t have Windows activated on my PC, in case that’s relevant.

Also I noticed there's this little battery symbol on the top of my PC case that flickers a red light..

Here's some specs

GPU: Sapphire 11310-01-20G Pulse AMD Radeon RX 6600 Gaming Graphics Card with 8GB GDDR6

CPU: Intel Core i5-10400 Desktop Processor 6 Cores up to 4.3 GHz LGA1200 (Intel 400 Series Chipset) 65W, Model Number: BX8070110400

Ram: TEAMGROUP T-Force Delta RGB DDR4 16GB (2x8GB) 3200MHz (PC4-25600) CL16

Motherboard: ASUS Prime B560M-A LGA 1200 (Intel 11th/10th Gen) micro ATX motherboard (PCIe 4.0,2x M.2 slots, 8 power stages

PSU: EVGA 220-B5-0650-V1 650 B5, 80 Plus Bronze 650W, Fully Modular, EVGA ECO

Any help would be highly appreciated!!

My pc work connect to anything. It happened when I was removing my ram it was working fine but but when I put it back in nothing would work the pc booted up but it wouldn’t connect to any of my monitors or my mouse and keyboard I tried reinstalling the ram again, one ram at a time different ports I tried using the connector on the gpu and motherboard I don’t even know what’s wrong

I have a problem on my PC (ryzen 5600 rtx 4060) where the graphics in some places like hair and vegetation seem to be blinking or shaking (I don't know how to explain it) I've already tested it with dlss and without dlss and it still continues. At the moment I'm thinking it's my monitor (t24c310 samsung, very old).

I found this video on the internet that shows more or less what it's like. I haven't tested Just Cause 4, but games like Resident Evil 4 remake and Marvel Spider Man 2 have this. https://imgur.com/Bl18vqC

I captured a video of Marvel Spider Man 2, look at the characters' hair.

https://reddit.com/link/1ifosix/video/3d87f6nlgnge1/player

It’s not charging, and I’m gonna have a breakdown if it is broken

Every time I turn my computer on it loads up, says “windows automatic repair, would you like to restart?” I press yes then this happens. Can someone tell me what’s happening?

I have a Microsoft surface 5 laptop, and recently i bought a 1080p 180hz Monitor from Gawfolk on Amazon. And when I connect it, games lag when they are on the monitor but when I move it across onto my laptops screen there is no lag. Fix?

I have a dell universal adapter that has display port hdmi and a bunch of usb plugs and I use display port to connect the laptop to monitor

I have a Dell Latitude E7450 (Intel Core i5 5300U 2.30GHz, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) running Windows 10. It's about 10 years old. I plan on giving it to my 9-year-old niece for school or games or whatever she wants to use it for.

I'd like to replace the OS since Windows 10 is almost dead. It's not eligible for Windows 11 because the processor isn't supported and it has TPM 1.2 rather than 2.0. I understand there's a registry hack that will let me bypass the eligibility check and install Windows 11, but I worry that could cause problems during future software updates. It's in good shape and the battery was replaced about a year or two ago. So which OS should I install ?

• Windows 11, because I'm wrong about future problems
• Linux (if so, which distro ? )
• Chromium OS or ChromeOS Flex
• Just recycle it ; nobody wants that old POS

Thanks for any help.

Can kernel level game anti-cheats be used as spyware?

It's just that I ran a chatbot check and it said this: "..note that some anticheat systems may require broad access to system resources and user data in order to function effectively, which could potentially include sensitive information if not implemented with proper privacy controls. It's always a good idea for users to research the specific anticheat solutions used by their favorite games and make informed decisions about whether they are comfortable with the level of access those systems have on their machines."

Im looking to upgrade my gpu and get more fans, rightnow i have no intake fans and 1 exhaust so im wondering whats the best gpu i could get and if i should get more fans

My current NVIDIA geforce rtx 3060 just went out and im looking for a replacement thats better. My specs are Intel Core i5 12th Gen / Intel Core i5-12400F / GeForce RTX 3060 / 16GB DDR4 / 512 GB PCle. Im also using a 1080p 240 hz monitor.

I only know basics about computers so please use noob terms. And any other part replacement ideas would be appreciated.

I have a 3000 dollar budget (I can put in an extra couple hundred dollars if needed but preferably not) I want an RTX 4080 (or 4090 if it can fit in the budget) and 64gb of RAM (not 32 I need 64), hopefully at least 2TB of ssd, I don't know much about CPUs but I just want a good one. Thank you!

Hi guys, how are you?

I have some doubts regarding my FANS…

My case https://www.terabyteshop.com.br/produto/18723/gabinete-gamer-montech-x3-mesh-mid-tower-white-atx and I recently bought this motherboard https://www.pichau.com.br/placa-mae-pichau-b550m-k-ddr4-socket-amd-am4-m-atx-chipset-amd-b550-b550m-k-1p and I noticed that it doesn't have a 6-pin input, but rather 4 pins or less enough connectors for my FAN.

Can I buy a 10-pin controller and make the connection? the fans on my case (6 pins) + controller (10 pins) for the 4-pin motherboard and with few connections for the FAN?

Sorry for my laziness! thanks for the help.

I've started having an issue where my PC will not show a display intermittently when I boot it up. I try all the ports on my Graphics card including running a HDMI to my TV instead of my monitor with no display on either. I am able to hook up my Switch to both the monitor and TV for output.

The weird thing is that when I unplug both my monitor and PC for 10+ minutes I am mostly able to get a display on the first boot. But the subsequent will have no display.

I just put my PC in sleep mode and after exiting sleep mode I seem to have a display. For reference I have the following GPU/CPU:

• NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
• 11th Gen Intel(R) i7-11700K @ 3.60GHz

Any Suggestions?

This happened for the first time around the beginning of June of 2024. Every once in a while, maybe ever 1-2 months, my computer will randomly start giving me horrible performance on games. From Roblox to GTA, I'm averaging 10-30 FPS. I usually get at least 100+ on any given game. The first time it happened, I updated my drivers and I think that's what fixed it. The rest of the times it's happened, probably about 5 or so, it just randomly fixes itself like overnight. This just started happening again recently, and it's not going back to normal. I've tried air dusting my computer and stuff, installing new drivers, restarting my PC, and nothing seems to be working. I'll launch a game, and then 3 minutes later I started going from 30 to 120 FPS, and then it just stays at 10-30 FPS. What should I do to fix it?

I don't know too much about my computer specs, but I have an RTX 2060 Ti graphics card.

Hi,

Recently, my 13 year old Toshiba Satellite C855 running Windows 8.1 bluescreened and got stuck in a boot on crash loop, leading me to believe that its long time half-corrupted HDD finally ceased to function. I have a second Toshiba Satellite C855 laptop that I bought off of E-bay last year, basically brand new with the caveat that its variant is S5107 instead of S5190. As far as I can tell, it's virtually identical except that it came with Windows 10 Home installed instead of 8.1, but I partioned the drive in half and installed a Windows 8.1 OS with (most) of the appropriate 8.1/Satellite drivers via the Dynabook website.

Now, I know this sounds stupid, but I vastly prefer the way my older worn-out laptop feels to use, to the point I would like to swap the old HDD out with this new partioned one running 8.1. What would happen if I do that? They're virtually identical in terms of hardware, both running Intel processors and the same Toshiba stuff, so is it not possible I could just change them out and boot it up with the old one working just fine? Obviously there's risks that other components could fail with it being old (which I intend to replace), but for now I'm just curious about the drive compatibility.

EDIT: From what I could find, the only difference between the two models is the processor - the 5107 has a slightly faster Core i3-2370M compared to the Core i3-2328M in the S5190.

Okay so workgroup/my username with a dollar sign in it? am i being watched by a certain "workgroup"

my internal keyboard is broken, it ghost writes and I really need my laptop. I'm wondering if I ever disable my internal keyboard, will I still be able to use the power button

I hope this isn't a frequently asked thing. I've had a pre-built pc for a while but I don't know a damn thing about it's parts or really how it works. I need to buy an ssd for more storage but I don't know what's compatible with my motherboard, which leads to my real reason for posting: how tf am I supposed to learn about all the different components and their compatibility? I purchased PC Building Sim on Steam to at least get myself familiar with the hardware that makes up a pc but I still feel like I'm missing a lot of knowledge. I helped my boyfriends build his pc, so I'm not entirely unfamiliar with that. But I have gone into the DEPTHS of my computer before to resolve issues without actually knowing that I'm doing and it's just confusing and frustrating.

It feels like the educational content out there is so saturated that I don't know where a good trustworthy beginner point is. I'm not looking to be an IT god, I just want to be able to understand my machine and have an idea of the cause of issues when they arise.

Do you guys have any resources or tips??

Edit: after a brief google search, yes, ssd is not memory (case in point lol, thanks scuba)

I want to build a budget gaming pc, i have 800 euros and im also willing to build one myself. Could anyone help me with this? I live in the netherlands(thought this info might help).