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If Windows 10 or Windows 11 refuses to detect your external monitor, the problem is almost always one of three things: the physical connection, the graphics driver stack, or the monitor’s own identification data. The how‑to checklist rolled out by mainstream guides is solid — start with cables...

My PC is not starting up as it should. Sometimes it just defaults to the Bios screen, other times it defaults to the blue sign-in screen but without the p/w box, other times it goes to blue screen and freezes immediately I enter p/w, and sometimes it just starts normally. It can take me 3 -8...

ok, so i have a Z87M MSI board with 16gb of gddr 3 ram with a 4690k cpu. i also have tested with different cpu, ram and gpu with exact same results. Anytime i hit restart via the windows menu, it never restarts. it goes black and just sits there. the onboard troubleshot number says 00 and there...

I cannot get windows 10 to start on my PC. Cannot get safe mode, cannot get to boot from mem stick. Sometimes it will try automatic repair but that gets stuck too. Tried the 3 times pressing power but that eventually puts it back to either automatically repair and gets stuck or back to the...

I bought a new gaming computer 2 months ago...when I plugged it in no video...replaced cable to TV...pulled out video card and memory....unplugged a bunch of wires...plugged everything back in carefully....video works....when pressing alt key on keyboard I loose video...got new...

I have a Lenovo N22 laptop running a fully updated Windows 10 Pro (20H2). A week ago I had a Netgear router running with a private class C LAN IP address range. The router was at address 204.107.91.254. Everything on my network worked fine, including the Lenovo. The Netgear router turned out to...

Hello, I've been getting a bunch of these BSODs for a very long time. It's been fairly frustrating to try and figure out what's been happening since the PC hangs long before it manages to dump any sort of meaningful logs as to why the BSODs occur. I've only had one exception where it actually...

Hello, Summary of problem: After re-installing Windows 10 on my SSD, I have to have my 2nd HDD unplugged to get it to boot to windows. As a test step, I did configure the HDD SATA port for hot swap mode. This does allow me to boot the computer with only the SSD plugged in and once it boots, I...

Hi, My wife's laptop was sluggish and full, so I decided to do a reset (save personal files). During the reset... about 2 hours in. It decided to freeze... non responsive. No further progression in the reset. I waited another hour to try anything, just in case. After 3 hours of it being stuck I...

Okay, I recently replaced the power supply on my desktop machine. This was after, this last Sunday, I went to turn the machine on and the power button wouldn't do anything. It was dead as a Dalek. I replaced the power supply with a Thermaltake TR2 600W ATX PS, and the machine powered on fine...

So my PC is on and no programs were opened, and suddenly a error comes with black screen "No Operating System Found" or something like this so i pressed the power button and turn offed my pc and then turn on and now it works fine.. can anyone tell me what was happened?.

So only recently, we have been experiencing disconnects from our router on all 3 computers and our Xbox 1. When they are turned back on, they are completed disconnected from the internet and must be manually reconnected which has been very annoying. The connection is fine until I close down one...

I just had someone build my computer with a new SSD and I'm getting random BSODs during use. Any help would be appreciated. I'm an IT guy but I've never taken the time to learn how to read dmp files :( The only other problem I"ve noticed with this new build is that sometimes, when I hit the...

So my Acer aspire 5750g-9463 is having an issue with new RAM it currently has 2 x 2GB sticks, and i wanted to upgrade, so I used CPU-ID to discover max frequency, which was 1333. Link Removed Link Removed So i bought 2 x 4GB for my acer aspire 5750g-9463 Link Removed It's in German because...

For whatever reason, all three computers that I installed and tested my HP CP1025nw printer on just a few days ago, the tray icons now show that it isn't connected. I recycled the power on the printer and rebooted one of the computers as well as attempted to print a page, but nothing worked...

I have the following USB devices: USB Joypad Sony Miro Xperia mobile phone Wireless Transceiver for Keyboard and Mouse these are all in USB 2.0 ports. I ran a program called DSL stats that I have used before but was a new version, when I ran it there was some odd behaviour and the screen...

Hi folks, I've been having these hard crashes for roughly 3 weeks now and i'm not too sure what the cause of them are. It seems to usually be when my computer is playing a video file or running a game or multi-tasking. When it happens it's very sudden, the whole computer completely freezes...

I recently built a new computer (specs below) and have no problems with it except that whenever the computer goes to sleep and I wake it up, either with the power button or keyboard, the monitor does not wake up. I can fix the problem easily enough by cycling the power on my monitor. After the...

OK, it seems my W8 system is possibly in a bit of trouble... I ran CHKDSK on my C: drive, and at the end saw this : ============= Errors detected in the Boot File. Windows has checked the file system and found problems. Please run chkdsk /scan to find the problems and queue them for repair...

OK, new to the site, but I'm asking for help, as I have an annoying problem - I installed Windows 8 on Jan 28 and finally got my computer back to *just* the way I like it about a week later. Since then, I have had random freezes/reboots (no BSOD) every couple of hours. The screen will completely...