pc performance

For a while now my computer has been freezing up, quite odd freezes as well. I can move my mouse, and interact with some objects, but i cant do things such as open folders/files/start menu. If i have a browser open, i can still scroll on the page, but if i click on anything it wont load. its...

I need help with slow booting of win10.. 1.my pc1 is connected via network cable to my router 2. my second pc2C is minix neo win10 media device, connected to same router 3. on that PC2 neo win10 media device i have usb disk1 which has shared movies and series folder 3.i have usb disk2 shared via...

Recently just rebuilt my workstation PC to be a lot better for this school year (I'm an engineering student). My hardware is as follows: AMD Ryzen 7 1800x CPU AMD WX Radeon Pro 5100 GPU Samsung 860 Evo 512gb SSD 2 WD 2tb HDD in RAID setup ASUS Rog Strix B350-F motherboard Corsair Vengeance RGB...

I am looking to buy a prebuilt desktop for 1080p 60fps gaming (e sports and "AAA"). I have found an Acer GX desktop for $1300 AUD ( ~ $1000 USD). The specifications are: i7 7700 16 gb ddr4 ram 1 TB HDD 256 GB SSD 500 W Power supply Gtx 1060 3 gb. These are the best specs I can give. The part...

Hello. I am just asking. Maybe this is coincidence and i am worrying about nothing. So listen... 2 days ago after turning on kitchen, fuse was tripped and i get power outage. When power back after this i booted pc fine but i saw that Windows 10 desktop refresh changed itself from 144hz to lower...

I shared two drives on my PC so I could play my media on my Raspberry Pi KODI box and one drive opens an Explorer window every 20 minutes on my PC. One drive I shared was F: which is a partition on an internal SATA drive, it never opens a window. The other was J: an external USB drive. The...

After changing the video card the second monitor does not show up in screen resolution & both screens show the same thing. How do I get the screen resolution to show both screens like before so that I can select what shows up in the second screen. Home build, Asus P5K Premium WiFi,Intel, CPU...

Everything was going well until about a month ago when for some reason it decided to start freezing...kernel power issue, so I tried a clean boot and that hasn't worked and nor has running in safe mode. I'm running win 7 64bit ultimate, motherboard Gigabyte GA 990FX UD5, GTX 750i gpu, 4 sticks...

My PC was extremely sluggish and it was so slow it was a long struggle to open one file or run a program. I ran anti virus tests etc and eventually reinstalled Windows. It is better but still freezes on opening a folder and whereas as before this happened boot time was 30 seconds or less now...

Hello I posted somewhere and forgot; it had to do with moving from 7 to 10 I have a pc that came with 7 . if I install 7 and upgrade all the BIOS(would be like A3>A7) drivers etc to beef it up then move to 8 then 8.1 and finally 10 would my PC be better off? I moved from 7 up but never updated...

The performance requirements for VR games are much higher than for typical PC games. So if you're thinking about buying an HTC Vive or an Oculus Rift, wouldn't it be good to know that your PC is ready for VR? VRMark includes two VR benchmark tests that run on your monitor, no headset required...

Hi Today my computer suddenly froze up, I was in the process of deleting some files in file manager, not anything unusual at all. Unfortunately it wouldn't respond to Crtl, Alt, Delete, so after trying everything I could I did a hard shutdown. When it rebooted it said that the boot sector was...

NVIDIA released new 368.39 drivers today It fails to install install on my Windows 10 Pro x64 pc, even after runiing Display Driver Uninstaller in safe mode. Then I tried all past NVIDIA drivers going back to 364.72. Every driver fails to install. I've tried this route over 10 times in 2 hours...

Hello! I just recently got a better PC so I could play videogames, however, every time I play certain games, 15-45 minutes in the game crashes and I have to manually shut down my computer and physically turn it back on. I already looked around and I've tried reinstalling my drivers. I verified...

That's what my grandson calls it. He's got 8GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive in an Asus PC. System info is attached here as a .pdf file. 95% of his activity is Minecraft, but even before that comes into play, the OS is slow to load and if he should enter an erroneous password at the start...

I've had this problem for months now and I'm at a loss about what to do next. I've ran the Windows Diagnostic Tool- multiple times. No change. I've refreshed my PC. No change. I've just recently reset my laptop back to factory settings and still nothing has changed. Honestly, I don't know...

(Note: I have been updating from Windows 7 to Windows 10). I have installed Windows 10 on a laptop and two PC’s All went well but today (3 days later) my main PC when switch this morning on gave me the following. (Fig1) System Thread Exception Not Handled (igdkmd64.sys) I looked at all the...

So I followed the instructions to posting a BSOD help thread, I hope I did this right with the dump file, as this is all new to me. Details on the BSOD, this occurs when my system goes under a medium or high load, and is always 15 after my PC went under load, WITHOUT FAIL the last 8-10 times it...

Hey guys, I really need some help, I've been getting blue screens at certain situations : -If i play a game and many little particles are on my screen, i get a blue screen -If i havent restarted my pc in a long time, whenever i run a game, i get a blue screen It never happends if im not in the...

My Windows 10 PC seems to be working OK but I notice that between the Windows 10 splash screen and the user sign on page there's a period of time when the screen simply goes black. The system does get to the sign on page but black screens freak me out a bit and I was wondering if anyone else...