hardware failure

Receiving a critical warning for your storage device is a serious matter that demands immediate attention to prevent potential data loss and system instability. This article provides a comprehensive guide on understanding these warnings, the types of alerts you might encounter, and the steps you...

Receiving a critical warning for a storage device on your Windows system is a serious alert that demands immediate attention. Such warnings often indicate potential hardware failures, particularly in Solid-State Drives (SSDs), and can lead to data loss if not addressed promptly. This article...

In a peculiar twist, Windows 11 users have reported their systems inexplicably resetting the system date to 2006, reminiscent of the Windows Vista era. This anomaly has sparked discussions across tech forums and communities, drawing parallels to similar issues encountered during Vista's tenure...

Laptop users worldwide depend on a single, often-overlooked feature to streamline their digital tasks: the right-click. When this function suddenly stops working, productivity can plummet, and frustrations soar. Whether you’re a Windows, macOS, or Linux user, the loss of right-click...

BLinitializateLibrary failed 0xc0000001 Error 0135: CPU fan failure Lenovo custom built gaming PC 2021 UEFI-nonCSM Legion T5 32GB DDR4 AMD Ryzen. PC worked well for 2 years, but now has 2 errors. Both errors happen when hard drive is connected or not. Reset CMOS with jumper, had no effect...

I keep getting constant BSOD, typically 2-3 back to back, which forces a restore to before enabling driver verifier. Driver at fault is amdgpio3.sys. This is a new build, I have already RMA'd the MOBO, Processor, and RAM. While playing games or doing other tasks I get intermittent BSOD for...

I have an ACER laptop that has died on me. The 2M SSD is blank. This happened as I was updating the machine with MS Updates. It never ran again after 6 hours of the little marbles going round and round. This is a UEFI booter. Can anybody here reload the OS for me. Acer only shows W-11. I could...

I have an older PC which I keep for test purposes and it has stopped booting. Specs are: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3r Mobo Samsung 850 Pro 512GB SSD Nvidia GeForce GT120 video card 16GB ram Windows 10 home 64 bit When I try to boot, it goes through normal startup sequence, Windows Logo appears...

Recently I have been getting random shut downs (crashes), especially when playing simple Mahjongg type games. These crashes are now becoming more frequent and are extremely annoying. I tried to test the system using FurMark stress tester and it immediately crashed the system. The problem is...

Hello everyone, I would like you to help me with a minidump error that causes the blue screen with the error code nmi hardware failure and tells me that it is in the system minidump, what can I do? 021321-8093-01.dmp NMI_HARDWARE_FAILURE 0x00000080 00000000`004f4454...

Hello, I've been messing with my computer (Laptop) for a few hours now trying to get it to work and it just won't. It got hit on the far right of the touchpad, shut off, and now will not boot. I figured maybe it was my hard drive just having boot problems so I created a windows 8 bootable USB...

I'm having trouble identifying the cause of numerous BSODs and hoping someone can be of some help. The first few BSODs would happen during gaming sessions which resulted in > irql_not_less_or_equal > nvlddmkm.sys. I tried updating video card drivers, then completely removing and updating with...

My friend asked me to upgrade his Lenovo G550 from windows 7 to windows 10. My question is CAN WRONG DRIVER ON WINDOWS CAN CAUSE HARDWARE FAILURE? I raised that question because I cannot find the video card driver for windows 10 of the said laptop on their website. However, when I tried to...

A couple of weeks ago I got a message that I had virtually no space on my C drive (3 x 40GB SSD in RAID 0). This was a big surprise. I am running Windows 7 PRO. I removed some restore points to get back to 7 GB of free space. I then did a disk cleanup to get to 11 GB. Since then, the free...

Hello, Since a few days, my laptop computer Acer Aspire 8920G of 2008 restarts in a loop after a few seconds (1 minute at the most). On the other hand it manages to start in mode without failure and I can use it with all the limitations related to this mode. I cleaned the ventilator so that it...

Yesterday I came back to my PC and tapped the keyboard to wake my machine up from hibernation. Went online to do some web surfing and got that "No connection" screen that you get when something is wrong. My first instinct was the reboot the router. Which i did, to no avail. Looking down I...

Hi, Recently, I got a new computer but I have been getting the blue screen of death (BSOD) almost since I got it. I thought that maybe it was related to a driver of one of the PCI cards connected to the computer but recently I removed all non-essential components (4 PCI cards and two extra...

Hello My external disk fell on the ground. And since, it did not function. It did a bip when I plug or unplug it. The light indicator does not appear. The disk is visible when I go in computer management --> "computer-manage-device manager-disk drive" but it does not appear on "disk management"...

I have Windows 7 64 bit with Bitdefender installed. This morning I was playing a game when Bitdefender notification fired-up and said it has quarantined the SAM file and that the system needs to restart to complete "cleaning". I haplessly did what my antivirus instructed and now my PC won't...

I have a Toshiba Satellite C655 with a DVD RW drive that won't play some DVDs or video games. For example, I put in a new Sim City game I bought today and a yellow light briefly flashes but does nothing after that. When I go to the Computer folder and click on the DVD RW icon, it spits out the...