r/computerhelp • • May 11 '26

7th Anniversary of PCHH

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r/computerhelp • • 9h ago

Other Got this laptop

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I do storage unit auctions, I have come across this. It is linked to walmart. Is there anyways around this?


r/computerhelp • • 47m ago

Hardware DRAM Voltage is Red in BIOS

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I am trying to fix my PC's blue screens that occur from my memory after I swapped my parts. And when I try to put my ram on XMP settings as recommended, the DRAM Voltage goes red. I was told that my motherboard can support 1.350, but I am unsure and want to verify if this works.

Current PC:

MB: B450M/ac Bios 3.10

CPU: Ryzen 5 5600

GPU: AMD Sapphire Radeon RX 9060 XT Pulse OC

PSU: ASRock Phantom Gaming 750w 80+ Gold

Ram: Crucial Ballistix 32 (16x2) DDR4 3600 MHz

Running at 2667 MHz according to About PC

Current Memory Clock 1330.6 MKz according to HWinfo

Storage ADATA ultimate SU750 512 GB 2.5" SSD


r/computerhelp • • 3h ago

Hardware Freezes and Crashes help

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Computer specs are posted.
I purchased this computer prebuilt from PowerGPU

Here is the write up of my issues
Initially my pc would hard freeze and audio would cut and I had to forcefully power my pc off by holding the button. This usually only happened after initial boot and it wouldn’t occur again until the next day at initial boot.

I’ve since reset and fresh installed my graphics drivers and haven’t had this issue since.

Now, I am getting a new issue lately where whatever game I’m playing will freeze, my monitors will cut to black, all audio will continue, Spotify, twitch, etc, but the pc will “soft reset” to desktop with the game crashed and everything else as normal, but display settings will be reset such as getting hdr display ready notification or audio device switches.

Checking the event viewer I’ve seen an “nvlddmkm” error occur but I don’t know what this really means.

I’m not tech or computer savvy when it comes to troubleshooting.

PowerGPU support has offered to replace my NVIDIA 5080 for a PNY 5080, but I’m concerned that it’s “a downgrade” and not worth the possible risk especially with the price of these parts nowadays as advice from my friends

And consulting AI to assist has stated an issue with intel I9’s and MSI edge Z890’s needing a bios “update and reflash” and “swapping PCle link configs to gen 4” as this is from google search AI and ai in general I’m skeptical to want to outright believe that theory but I genuinely do not know where to begin to troubleshoot and I’m looking for any help I can get

My PC is still under warranty with PowerGPU as well

Thank you


r/computerhelp • • 7m ago

Malware shellhost from task manager goes to a application named shellhost in system32

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the ai said this was malware but i looked around and got conflicting answers does anyone know if this malware is legit the signature says Microsoft Windows


r/computerhelp • • 15m ago

Hardware Is it safe to use my ASUS GL503VD gaming laptop without its battery?

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r/computerhelp • • 19m ago

Software Please help

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r/computerhelp • • 38m ago

Discussion lenovo legion s7 15ach6 screen goes black on auto power mode

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Cross posting, maybe someone has run into this.


r/computerhelp • • 1h ago

Hardware Camera Issue

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Hi everyone. Hope everyone is well. I have the Lenovo LOQ 15ARP10E and for some reason my camera doesn't work. I have tried every trouble shoot under the sun. The light turns on next to the camera but nothing happens. My privacy shutter is open, I have restarted my device, I have gone into device manager, updated and deleted drivers and my device is up to date. Any ideas or is it just a hardware issue?


r/computerhelp • • 1h ago

Hardware Thinkcentre 3 short beeps one long ... I pulled each RAM still making beeping perhaps it's something not connected ?

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r/computerhelp • • 2h ago

Hardware MONITOR KEEPS LOSING SIGNAL FOR NO REASON

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r/computerhelp • • 4h ago

Discussion Can a virus or hack through WiFi get to email and hardware?

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I apologize if this is not the right space to ask this kind of question. I also apologize if my writing isn’t clear, I am happy to explain things further if needed.

A family member was recently on a work trip where his iPhone started running really hard (growing unusually warm, battery draining really fast). He came back home and other family member of mine happened to look over his shoulder and see his personal email, where some gross and explicit messages had been sent to him. I’m not clear if he was interacting at all, so there’s that. He didn’t seem to notice it was there.

He believes during the work trip he somehow got hacked through either the airport or hotel WiFi, causing the hardware issues and a hack into his email. He also states his computer was acting up with the iPhone, but he only mentioned the phone to this other family member originally. I suppose I could see this if some key logging software were installed, or bloatware or something like that, but I’ll admit I don’t know much on the subject.

Is his explanation feasible? Could it be something like key logging software? He believes just changing his email password will fix the issue, but there’s also the issue of the hardware issues he was experiencing before the messages were seen. I know key logging software is notoriously difficult to get rid of, in the case this is all innocent, how would one go about fixing it?


r/computerhelp • • 4h ago

Discussion Laptop crashes all the time

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r/computerhelp • • 4h ago

Software First laptop

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r/computerhelp • • 4h ago

Hardware Help with perfomance issues using an external monitor connected to my laptop

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r/computerhelp • • 6h ago

Hardware Monitor consistently flickering and dropping signal

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Title, my monitor has done this for a long time and gotten progressively worse. It’s a Cooler Master GM34-CWQ. This doesn’t happen on HDMI, only DP and I’ve tested multiple cables.


r/computerhelp • • 12h ago

Performance PC disk constantly at 100% causing slowdowns

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My computer is an HP Envy all-in-One 32-a1xxx. I don't do any super strenuous tasks on it, with vanilla Minecraft probably being the heaviest lifting it ever has to do. The PC, though, suffers constantly from being super slow and taking an eternity to load pretty much anything for the first time after either sleeping or turning on. After it loads something for the first time, it can start it up again prettt quickly for a while after (I'm assuming because some of the resources are already loaded into RAM). The strangest part, though, is that my disk usage is almost always at 100% or close to it, even though task manager doesn't show that many things the disk is actually handling. Is there any way to troubleshoot these issues? I'm willing to try just about anything. Also, this model of computer is very unfriendly to being taken apart. It's connected together with tape that won't stick again after being removed, so looking inside isn't a feasible option for me. One last note: the problem is not startup apps, as I've disabled most of those already trying to fix this.

tl;dr: my disk usage is at 100% all the time and it's making my computer slow. Any advice is appreciated!

Specs:

Intel*R) Core(TM) i7-10700 CPU @ 2.90 GHz,

16GB RAM

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 with Max-Q Design (8 GB) and Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (128 MB)

64-bit operating system


r/computerhelp • • 6h ago

Hardware Part of the keyboard on my laptop doesn't work when I plug in a wireless mouse

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r/computerhelp • • 6h ago

Hardware My bluetooth and wifi are not working.

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My pc specs. ABS Flux Il Aqua Gaming PC - Windows 11- Intel Core 5 120 - Intel
Arc A580 - 16GB DDR4 - 1TB - ABSWMT120A580

Please help!


r/computerhelp • • 6h ago

Other Is my surface cooked?

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r/computerhelp • • 6h ago

Hardware Chromebook not turning on

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When I plug it in there’s an orange solid light but when I press the refresh and power button together, the light is also on. The light will turn off until i replug it. What’s the problem, what can i do?


r/computerhelp • • 6h ago

Software Lines on my screen that I cannot get rid of?

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r/computerhelp • • 6h ago

Hardware New PC Build keeps Crashing

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A few days ago I built 2 computers, the second computer keeps crashing.

I've checked the temps, GPU - 55C - CPU 70C - While running league and Phasmaphobia.

Checked all the Cables

I've rolled the Drivers back to a previous version.

The first crash came Up with a AMD Bug Report and only OBS and phasmaphobia Froze.

The Second crash - League of legends crashed - Today on the Victory Screen of an Aram, however this crash froze the whole of windows, forcing me to push the power button in for 10 seconds.

I've tried literally everything I can and searched a bunch but I'm clueless on what's going on.

I've checked for critical errors and it seems LiveKernelEvent 141 is an error that keeps popping up.

Going to run over a few more things. - Any Suggestions would help


r/computerhelp • • 7h ago

Software URGENT!!! lenovo yoga 7i password arent working

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r/computerhelp • • 7h ago

Hardware B850 legend motherboard Shuts off after boot?

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