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Windows 11 Bootup Issue
My issue is very strange and complicated and I was looking for a second opinion. For starters, hardware: ASUS TUF Z590 Motherboard Intel i9 10900K CPU Corsair Vengeance RAM 4x16GB overclocked at 3600MHz RTX 3090 FE 1000W EVGA PSU Firstly Ill say I have a custom water loop, in part to handle the...- Bucketman
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- asus bios black screen boot drivers error graphics hardware installation liquid cooling motherboard overclocking performance power supply ram repair system troubleshooting windows 10 windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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System Shutdown error 6008 on all normal shutdowns
Hello! System specs below. Whenever I shutdown and start up my computer I notice in the error log that an "unexpected shutdown has occurred (error 6008)." I'm not having any trouble with shutdowns. I do occasionally seem to have trouble on startup with the computer sending a signal to the...- JourneysThroughMagnamund
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- bios corsair desktop error 6008 hardware hyper-v intel logs monitor signal processor ram security shutdown shutdown issues startup issues system specs troubleshooting uefi virtual memory windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 11 FPS Drops and GPU Bottleneck
My laptop is Dell G15 with RTX 3060, 16 gb RAM and i7 11th gen. My monitor is 2k 165 hz. Usually I played my games on high graphics like assassins creed 3 and valorant and received 165 fps constantly. But in the last week i am facing constant fps drops in all of my games even in medium graphic...- pyrole2002
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- 165hz 2k resolution assassin's creed bottleneck dell drops fps game settings gaming gpu high graphics intel i7 laptop monitor performance ram rtx 3060 utilization valorant
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- Forum: Windows Graphics and Gaming
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Brand new 1TB m.2 NVMe. Crash twiced past two days.
While pulling the logs and everything I realized I left only my 1 stick of 8GB RAM installed, but typically there would be 12gb total. The PC randomly resets mid-game during Apex Legends. That's all I can say as of now. I included reliability report screenshots and uninstalled SupportAssist to...- JeRM
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- apex legends crash gaming hardware issues m.2 nvme ram reliability reset pc support assist troubleshooting
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 10 Turned on PC and the icons on the desktop had symbols instead of letters for titles.
Greetings. I have Windows 10 home with 8 GB of ram and i5 core CPU and use this PC for producing music. Went on a mini vacation and when i came home and turned on PC, the icons on my desktop had symbols not letters under my programs and on my taskbar. Please help!!!!- Wes202
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- cpu desktop help icons music production ram symbols user issues windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows XP Windows XP, 7, 10 & 11 System Suggestions!
Howdy! I want to create a robust system to support Windows XP and later. I want to start some old projects like emulation and other old stuff, so I will probably use XP, 7, and 11 on three different partitions. I want to use a Mini ITX, if possible, or a Micro ATX motherboard. As a CPU and...- ExclusiveWF
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- 64gb asus emulation evga gpu hardware haswell intel ivy bridge micro atx mini-itx motherboard partition ram system suggestions windows 10 windows 11 windows 7 windows xp
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 file got saved as .ram instead of its default extension
have come across a situation where a file is stored with .ram extension instead of its default extension,so is there any shortcut on windows operating system to store file as .ram file,felt like some shortcut unexpectedly created it,can someone help on this? curious to know what might have happened- techquest
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- curiosity default extension file extensions file management help ram shortcuts windows
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- Forum: Windows Security
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Windows 10 No HD Boot
I have been trying for several days to get a just-installed W10 22H2 system to act right. The OS will only boot from BIOS "UEFI <disk> windows boot mgr". I have gone through 6 or 7 YT vids on trying to fix one thing or another. So I re-installed 22H2. For some reason, there's no reserved...- batrot
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- 22h2 asrock bios settings boot issues disk management error graphics card hardware installation partition quad core ram system reserved partition troubleshooting uefi windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 11 Get Started app
I'm running the latest version of Windows 11. I run a few Rainmeter Gadgets too. Particularly the CPU Usage gadget. I have my computer set up to turn off the display after a certain amount of time. Then the display turns back on when I move the mouse. Lately when it starts back up the CPU...- stueycaster
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- active apps asus background processes battery life cpu usage display gadgets getting started intel laptop performance power management rainmeter ram sleep mode ssd system settings task manager user interface windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 11 Laptop using HDD and SDD to run laptop (Very slow)
I usually use my laptop for work/study. However, recently, I noticed when I had a lot of tabs open, my laptop was lagging and becoming very slow. I was quite shocked because this had not happened before and my laptop always used to run smoothly (unless there was a majorly demanding software I...- Gunnj88
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- dell hdd image intel lagging laptop optimization performance ram slow ssd storage study system type task manager tech support troubleshooting usage windows work
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Recommendation for inexpensive all-in-one PC needed
I am looking to recommend an inexpensive all-in-one PC for purchase to one of my clients. Ideally, it would be easy to upgrade both storage and RAM, in order to keep up with increasing OS demands over the next few years. I came across the Link Removed, but there were some nasty 1-star reviews...- DominikHoffmann
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- 2019 all-in-one client compatibility computer dell hardware imac inexpensive performance purchase ram recommendations review storage technology upgrade user experience
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- Forum: Windows Hardware
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RAM Clearing Programs
On XP, I used to use programs like SweepRAM, and they would actually make a little dent in the current usage of then limited 2GB available memory. But nowadays, what do you think, do programs like this help at all on modern systems like Windows 10?- blksith0
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- clearing programs legacy systems memory optimization performance ram sweepram utility windows 10 windows tools
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- Forum: General Computing
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Gmail problem in outlook 2021
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.4 OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home, 64 bit Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 78 Stepping 3 Processor Count: 4 RAM: 8101 Mb Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics 520, 1024 Mb Hard Drives: C: 465 GB...- John Clark
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- directory email email configuration eset security folder deletion gmail graphics card imap known folder move outlook processor ram subdirectories system information tech support troubleshooting user guide windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Outlook Office 2021 cannot run on startup
Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.4 OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home, 64 bit Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 78 Stepping 3 Processor Count: 4 RAM: 8101 Mb Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics 520, 1024 Mb Hard Drives: C: 465 GB...- John Clark
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- administrator antivirus error graphics card hard drive installation intel microsoft teams motherboard network issues office 2021 outlook ram software issues startup system information tech support troubleshooting windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 10 Can an old HP G62 run Windows 10?
Hello, I have this old HP G62 that was on Windows 7 Ultimate. I recently upgraded it to Windows 8.1, and it's working fine. Now, I want to upgrade to Windows 10, but I'm not sure if the computer can handle it. Specs: 2nd Gen Intel Core i3 370M 6GB RAM 300GB 5400RPM HDD Can it handle Windows...- Sam John
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- compatibility hdd hp g62 intel light gaming ram upgrade web browsing windows 10 windows 8.1
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- Forum: Windows Upgrade and Installation
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Windows 10 Preventing re-installation of corrupting feature update
The latest feature update to Windows 10, version 21H2, KB4023057, installed on 25/07/2022 and took five and a half hours. It messed up my computer in many ways so I reverted to the pre latest feature update (under Settings/Recovery). This feature update is poised to install once more, and...- mike21
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- alphabet corruption desktop disable updates feature updates file explorer kb4023057 performance processor ram reinstall settings settings update sorting ssd system restore troubleshooting update issues user experience windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 pc never restarts, requires power cycle
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...- LT72884
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- 4690k bios black screen boot bootcode computer issues cpu gddr3 hardware testing motherboard msi pc maintenance power cycle ram restart tech support troubleshooting windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows server 2016 10.0.14393 X64 standard: The performance tool of the server manager fails to read the total amount of memory (RAM),
Windows server 2016 10.0.14393 X64 standard: The performance tool of the server manager fails to read the total amount of memory (RAM), As per the screenshots, the machine has 16GB RAM. However, the performance tool of the server manager reads only 8GB What could be the issue here?- jamalnuman
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- 16gb ram 8gb read diagnostics memory performance ram server management system performance troubleshooting windows server
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- Forum: Windows Server Forums
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Suggest a good machine for Adobe
Hello, all I am looking to start learning Adobe for editing the videos unfortunately my system get stuck whenever I try to generate the video. I have HP i5 with 8 GB ram. What will be a good machine for learning video editing in a decent budget...- NASAorWASA
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- adobe budget computer editing tools learning machine performance ram video editing
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- Forum: General Computing
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Windows 11 Compatibility with HP Device
Hello, all I have an old machine i5 6th Generation, it has 8 GB ram with 256 GB SSD. I am using Windows 10 and want to upgrade to Windows 11. Does Upgrading will make my laptop slow or it will remain the same pace...- whitelance
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- compatibility hp laptop intel core i5 laptop performance ram ssd upgrade windows 10 windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support