ConnorSt

I hope that this is the right thread to post this in, but I've been having this really weird issue with my screens timing out and going to sleep on my desktop. When Windows times out and my screens go into their power save mode, after my main monitor fully goes to sleep and the backlight turns off (it takes a little longer than the other two screens), the computer wakes back up like I moved my mouse or pressed a key. The screens will then time out again, go into power save, and then immediately wake back up. It'll just continue doing this over and over and over. This happens when I leave it unlocked and the screen turns off after 15 minutes (like I have it set to), and it also happens when I lock my desktop and the screens turn off after a minute or two. It's really annoying because I leave my desktop on at night and, since my desktop is in my bedroom with the screens facing my bed, the screens keep waking up and lighting up my room and bed all night, preventing me from sleeping. I've done some testing and I first started with making sure my desktop was updated (Windows 10 btw), I updated my graphics drivers, etc. That didn't help. I did some research and people said it might be devices like a mouse or keyboard waking up the computer, so I went through my computer's device manager and turned off the 'Allow the device to wake the computer' option on my mouse, keyboard, and other devices. None of that helped either. After restarting the computer and not opening any applications, the problem went away. Once I discovered this, I tested opening applications and seeing when the problem started. Eventually, I figured out that specifically when I have Google Chrome open, the screen timeout issue starts. Simply closing Chrome before I lock my computer makes the problem go away. Does anyone have any idea why this would be happening? I'm just so confused as to why Chrome would make the screen wake back up after it turns off. I haven't tried re-installing Chrome yet and I'll probably try that soon, but this is such a weird issue that I never would've thought could happen.

So I live in Louisville Kentucky and the closest Micro Center is 2 hours away (one way, not round trip). At the current moment, I don't need to get anything for my computer or my 3D printer, but I have a couple days off from college coming up and I was thinking about going as I've never been there before and who knows maybe I'll find something I need or a great deal on 3D printer filament. My main question is, is Micro Center worth it? Like are the prices really good? Or do you think it'd be a good day trip and not something to do every time I need some filament? Maybe I should just go for a little day trip away from college? What are everyone's thoughts?

Hmmm... That's really weird and frustrating. I really have no other ideas, but I did find something about people with Lenovo Flex 14's having problems with the flex cable for their HDD's being slightly displaced from the motherboard. If you have an external dock, you could try putting the SSD in there and see if the laptop sees it.

Since the SSD, network cards, CD drive, and touch pad weren't working, it kinda sounds like a PCIE lane issue. Is your CPU socketed? If it is, you might try re-seating it.

My only problem is that I can't use a full length card in the case that I'm using.

I'm building my first PC and to keep with my budget, I'm thinking of getting a GTX 1060 3gb. I want to pair that with a MSI B450I Mini ITX motherboard and a Ryzen 5 3600 CPU. I plan to use it for photo editing, the occasional video editing, and light gaming. I don't need anything special or too crazy, just something that'll work well and have a little bit of power behind it. It's kinda hard to pass it up because they're currently around $100 on eBay.

I'm trying to run the SanDisk SSD Dashboard to do a little checkup on my SSD. I haven't run it in a while and when I tried to run it today, I got this message (see picture). I have an ASUS K53E laptop with an ASUS VS207 monitor. The message said I might not have the correct graphics driver installed, so I reinstalled the driver and it still says that message. I also reinstalled the software with the newest installer from SanDisk and it still doesn't work. Any info would be very helpful! *Edit* I've figured out that if I disable the display adapter driver (Intel(R) HD Graphics 3000), the program will actually run. So... weirdness???

I have a USB with the Windows 10 installer on it. Should I use that and click the upgrade button or should I use some other way to upgrade it?

I'm upgrading my parent's laptop (currently running windows 8.1 I think on a HDD) to an SSD with windows 10. I was wondering if I should just put in the SSD, install windows 10, and try to find a cheap product key online or if I should attempt to copy Windows 8.1 from the HDD and upgrade it to windows 10 that way?

Mosfets got a little excited and ate a few too many pixies. LIke @Valkyrie Lenneth said, claim warranty on it.

I have an Asus K53E laptop that has an Intel Core i5-2430M, 4gb of RAM, and a 128gb SSD. I recently bought another 4gb stick of ddr3 1333mhz RAM, which is exactly the same as the stick that came in the laptop. I installed it and everything works fine. All 8gb shows up. I tried to run mdsched.exe, and when the laptop restarted, it showed the Asus logo for a second (like normal) then went to a black screen. It stays like this until you press the power button and restart the laptop. I tried each stick by them selves and mem check ran fine. I don’t know why it won’t run with both sticks installed.

The $929 with the core i7-8750H, 256 ssd, GTX 1060 6gb, 8gb ram.

My brother is going to University of Kentucky next year for mining engineering and he needs a laptop. He wants to get the Dell g7 15 (http://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/new-dell-g7-15-gaming/spd/g-series-15-7588-laptop) but I don’t know if it’s a little over powered. I know he wants to do some gaming and that this laptop would work great, but my parents just aren’t ready to throw $1000 into a laptop without knowing it’s a good deal. (It’s his money btw)

I have an ASUS K53E laptop and I'm planning on getting a new SSD and possibly RAM for it. It currently has a Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD6400BPVT 640GB 5400 RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 2.5" (which is the original drive from 2011) and 4gb of RAM. (which is also original) I'm planning on getting a 250gb SSD to use as my boot drive and get an external hard drive enclosure for the old HDD. I will use this through the usb 3.0 port. I ran the memory test twice and it said the memory had a problem both times, yet the computer works fine. (so the RAM is optional) I would like this upgrade to not be too expensive, for I only have like $150 to spend. Any help would be great!