AntonChigurh

The installer set it up this way. I dont know why it gave me 4 partitions by default or why only one of them is working. I'm thinking it might be some weirdness due to me switching over from windows? idk.

also this partition manager appears to be for windows only

didnt seem to work

I will try this out, thank you

Just converted my Win10 laptop to Kubuntu linux, this is my first time using it. I'm having some trouble trying to format and allocate my internal HDD. As you can see in the picture, the drive and its partitions are recognized in partition manager, but i only have 30GB of available internal storage when it should be in the hundreds. No clue how to fix this, any newbie-friendly explanation would be awesome, thanks.

So recently I have had issues with my PC randomly freezing. This only started happening since about a few months ago, and never before that. 99% of the time it will happen while I'm away from my PC for an extended period of time, but rarely it will happen while I'm using it too. It's also not a full on freeze of the system. I can still move my mouse around and type using the keyboard, but every program, including basic windows stuff like file manager is unresponsive upon opening, and the only solution is to fully shut my PC off and turn it back on. I have absolutely no idea what could be causing this and it's driving me nuts. Any and all help is appreciated.

So recently I have been encountering an issue where if i leave my pc on for extended periods while not using it, when i come back to it windows will be semi-frozen. I don't know exactly how to describe it, but every application window that i leave open (mainly steam and discord) are totally unresponsive, and my mouse is frozen onscreen. The taskbar still kinda works, but i cant click anything on it and the search function never returns any results. If anyone knows what's causing this I'd be super grateful, as it's been driving me nuts having to restart my pc every time i come back to it.

I have to leave for work in a few minutes, but I will try this later tonight and get back with the results.

Unfortunately I do not have another computer with which to test the cable, but the cable is connected at both ends. Also, I have used 3 other CAT5 cables to make sure it isn't just a faulty cable and none of them worked either. Also, no lights at all. Although, looking more closely at the back of my mobo, I don't even see any lights there in the first place. The IO shield covers everything except the ports.

I'm assuming these LEDs would be on the back where the IO shield is. Anyways, I do not see any LEDs on/blinking near that port.

The Wi-Fi NIC is currently the only way I can use internet on this machine so it is somewhat needed but I'll happily take it out if I can find a surefire solution to getting my ethernet connection back. Also, I checked MSI click bios and I didn't see any kind of option to disable/enable ethernet connections. The only network related setting was enable/disable LAN PCIe related shenanigans. As for activity indicator LEDs, I don't know what they'd look like or where they'd be located on my mobo.

I did try once before, yes. However, no results. If you'd like I can try again.

So I recently had to move my PC out of my office, and therefore bought a wifi card since I couldn't use an ethernet connection anymore. However, I've moved my PC back into my office and I am trying to use an Ethernet connection again since it's faster. But for some reason, after having installed the wifi card, windows doesn't seem to think my PC is even CAPABLE of having an ethernet connection, despite the fact that I have a working CAT5 cable plugged directly into my router from my mobo. There is no ethernet adapter in device manager, and no ethernet connection in network connections. I'm pulling my hair out trying to fix this, and any help at all is appreciated.

Okay so I've tried a couple different things. I thought potentially the cause of the buzz was a ground loop, so I switched my PC's wall outlet. No dice there. However, I noticed when I touch my PC case the humming goes away. No clue why that fixed it, but I obviously cant touch my pc case 24/7. I tried changing the USB port my mic is plugged into, which didn't help at all. I'm so confused here. Honestly I might just break down and buy some new headphones.

USB dongle for my headphones or the wifi card? Cause I am using the USB dongle for my headphones but my wifi card is PCIE