power cable

NVIDIA’s upcoming RTX 5090 is already creating waves in the tech community—not just for its performance specs but for an unexpected thermal hiccup. Early thermal imaging tests have revealed that the card’s innovative 12V-2×6 power cable can reach temperatures as high as 150°C. While the GPU...

Here's the short version: when I attempt to power up (using the power switch on the power supply) the computer powers up for only an instance and then powers off. Here's the long version: on Friday I attempted to upgrade to Windows 11. I got an error message early in the installation, so I...

The issue started when the Laptop was still running Windows 7 and then it was upgraded to Win10. From time to time the screen would do one of three things. The display would either be totally black or have lower resolution on it or the screen would be split into many smaller areas. This...

Hello everyone, my desktop is an HP compaq from 2015 and on the power supply it reads "AC input 100-240 V-/4 A,50-60 Hz" then "DC output shall not exceed 240 W" and on the actual power cord to the power suppy reads "10A 125V" I bought a new European powercord because I am in europe now, but it...

Hello everyone, My HP pavillion dv6 laptop keeps shutting down after I installed windows 10. It was working fine for a while, but then windows started logging me out everytime I tried to log in. I tried to reset my pc but windows kept logging me out and eventually just started shutting down all...

Hi, I have had happen a few times a strange situation where the BIOS screen (I honestly cant remember if its the BIOS or th enew system I have lol) will only show most of the screen and does not load a piece of text at the bottom which says somthing like "hit 4 to unlock asus 4 cores" or...

How's Windows 10 TP? I'm probably going too be installing it over the weekend. Before then, I've got 3 months worth of updates to do first. Haven't had internet access for over 3 months now Doing this on my smartphone. I also need to dig out my old 1 tb had and a power cable for it. 10's going...

HP is warning customers: Check your laptop charging cord to see if it's at risk of overheating. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ, Tech30) and federal regulators on Tuesday recalled 6 million power cords sold between September 2010 and June 2012 with some HP and Compaq notebook computers, as well as certain...

Hey guys, I recently saw a picture of someone that had a P1 power cable where every individual wire on the cable was individually sheathed in, of course, custom sheathing. How is this done? Do the wires have to be disconnected out of the connector, sheathed, and reconnected? Or, can you buy a...

Everything I've found, as far as SATA cable testers appear to only be for testing the power cables, not the data cables. I know that cables are cheap, thus not making testing an absolute necessity, but I hate buying new cables when I'm not certain it's necessary. Is there an inexpensive tester...

For several reasons, I'm considering adding a drive selector switch to my desktop, but all that I've found available are designed for a maximum of 6 drives. I want one that will handle 8 drives...5 SATA HDDs & 3 ODDs. I could put all of the ODDs on 1 switch, which would make the 6 drive switch...

Hello guys. So this is what happened: I had a new external HDD WD My Book Essential USB 3.0 (2TB) 6 month ago. All was good until two days ago. I rebooted my computer and I won't boot up. After disconnecting WD HDD it work perfectly But after I turned my PC off, and tried to turn it on...

Hello all, hoping this is the correct forum for this. History: Back in February I bought a new custom build PC. First PC I've ever owned that didn't come off the shelf at Wal Mart. Had a friend help me spec it out. Asus M5A97 Motherboard AMD FX 4100 Quad-Core Processor 3.6 GHz 8 GB Ram Radeon...

My toshiba A200 laptop was upgraded from vista HP to ultimate with a clean install on new 500gb hard drive and it has worked pretty flawlessly for the past few years from the RC version. But in the past few months it has started crashing, rebooting and rebooting and rebooting, now freezing when...

Hey guys...newbie posting out of total desperation and needing help! I have posted in other forums with no luck... I bought a Samsung SH-D162D DVD Drive in a USB enclosure to connect to my Toshiba laptop via USB. I cannot get windows 7 to find it! When I plug in the USB cable the balloon...

No I'am not hosting it but the one I attend. We have 40-45 people who come and we use the town hall. but we can only go upto 100 people. Why is that? the reason is not enough room. but I thought about it. Is it better to set up tables in long rows accross the hall like big lan parties for...

Hi guys, I'm new here because I'm having some trouble with my laptop. Since this evening, everytime I startup vista it freezes at the desktop. It starts to load the sidebar and then freezes, I can't seem to do anything, even open the task manager. The computer seems to run fine on safe mode...