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Not sure if this is the place to post this, but I really need help. I recently ordered the Mpow M30 from eBay and it was amazing. But last night I was using it with my laptop and then put my laptop on temporary hibernation while it was still connected. When I came back, the right earbud no longer had any sound and even after resetting it, only the left one works with my laptop, phone. I would greatly appreciate help to fix this issue, as I'm not able to buy a new one.

So I got a pc about 2 weeks ago and recently I went and got a new service provider for WiFi. It took a while for a technician to come in and set it up (since I was using another provider). Everything was working up until the part where I tried to connect the Ethernet cable to the PC and it did not work at all, it shows an orange light with yellow blips. I want to know what is the problem because on the modem it shows green and on my pc it just shows orange and yellow. PLEASE HELPPPPP!!!! p.s. I already tried to unplug then plug the Ethernet cable, delete the drive for my connection, and went as far as trying to go reset windows. All of them failed!

Hi everyone and Merry Christmas! I need your advice. I have only one try, so I need no mistakes here! All cabels would go under new flooring. My PC is going to be in a separate room from my main desk, distance is 20 ft (6m). My main desk is going to have: 2 monitors (4k and cheapo 1080p) Wireless peripherals (Logitech lightspeed) DAC+Amp combo for headphones and speaker set. So my question, am I right if I want to pass these cables under the flooring from pc to main desk: 20 ft active usb 3.0 extension cable for usb dock. 20 ft active usb 3.0 extension cable for DAC x2 Displayport cables Am I missing something here? Is 3.0 necessary? Hope for your help. Thanks for reading.

Hello, So right now I have a P9X79 motherboard which has 1 DVI port. My current monitor has 1 dvi port and a d-sub port (which I believe is the same as a VGA). Now I would like to get a new monitor to use as my main monitor. If I get a new monitor with 2 HDMI ports, and I connect that monitor with my pc with a DVI-HDMI cable, can I connect my second (current) monitor with my main (new) monitor using another dvi-hdmi cable or a dvi-d-sub (vga) cable? Kind regards, Roy

Hey Everyone, I love my MacBook Pro 2017 - specs in my signature (since its part of the issue, it is the version with just 2 USB-C Ports), although I wouldn't mind one with higher specs - but that's a different discussion for another time. Brief Description of issue: Basically, I'm running into an issue where my MacBook is losing internet Wi-Fi connectivity when I use a dongle or a USB-C to A adapter. I think know what's causing it - according to other users on the internet, its due to the shielding (or lack there off) in the adapters. Its causing the signal to either short or block or something. Now, this is annoying for many reasons - most notably, the lack of Wi-Fi, but more so that due to the lack of storage on my machine (only 128GB SSD) I basically have to use external storage, and I also like to use my MacBook on my monitor while I'm at a desk - for that odd occasion for when I decide to use OS X. As such, I need the extra ports provided either by a dongle or a dock. Main Question: Can anyone recommend a good, fairly cost effective dock that can provide multiple USB-A Ports (preferably at USB 3.0 Speeds for storage purposes), at least 1 HDMI output, and possibly an ethernet port. But most importantly, they know or at least can confirm that they do not cause any signal issues with the MacBook Pro. I don't use Thunderbolt, so if possible - I want to avoid getting a Thunderbolt Dock as it would basically just end up being used as a glorified USB-C Hub. My budget is around the £20-£30 mark. I don't really want to spend more, but if I have to - then I will. Thanks in advance for any suggestions and sorry for making you read a wall of text - but I though it'd be best to at least explain the problem.

Hi! I just got a new monitor to use as a 2nd, it's a Dell P2222H. My GPU is an iGame RTX3060. My 1st monitor only has HDMI connection and my GPU only has 1 HDMI output so, I connected the 2nd monitor through a DisplayPort. Now, the quality is very bad. I've tested the Dell with HDMI and looks ok, so, is there a chance that it's just a bad DP cable that makes the image looks so bad? I have every driver updated. Thanks! (in the images, the one that has a black background is the good looking one)

Hey everyone, I've got a weird issue with one of the PC's in my home. It suddenly stopped being able to access youtube.com. It gives me a ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED I can ping youtube.com from cmd. And the other devices (iphones, TV, other desktop) can browse to youtube just fine. I can browse all other sites fine, just youtube is a problem. The only abnormal thing about this PC is it runs my Emby server. But I tried shutting down the server just in case and still nothing. I've tried: erasing browser data and cache tried 3 browsers (chrome, Edge, Firefox) tried windows connection troubleshooter (no issues found) flushed my DNS cache in windows changed DNS to google 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 rebooted my router disabled and re-enabled my network card I've run out of things to check and this is really confusing. Any suggestions?

So I've been trying to get access to my FileZilla server from another network and I was able to connect the normal way but it wouldn't load my files. I found an old post on this issue on stack overflow where they solved it by using SFTP. I started trying this but now I'm completely unable to connect to my FTP server. What could I possibly try now? Thanks in advance

Oculus 2 has WI-FI video transmission, which would be nice to use. Unfortunatelly for some reason I cant use it. I can play without any problems via USB-C cable (or previously via USB 3.0). But when I tried to connect my Oculus to PC via app, it just doesnt see my PC. I have everything I need to play like that, yet it cant find PC/Oculus. Any idea what may be the problem? I already tried to uncover my pc (since is set as if it was on public network) but couldnt find PC anyway. Tried also with laptop, which is supossedly not able to run VR games but they work just fine, but even laptop on same WIFI couldnt find my oculus. I do have wifi split into 2,4 and 5g and PC is connected via cable. Any idea what may be the problem? Already tried oculus support but that helped with nothing..

So I wanted to try and start a Terraria Server with my friends because I felt that it would be easier if my friends got on when they wanted to and not need me to do it. So I followed a guide that pointed me to the ip for my network provider (Frontier) and I went into the Firewall Section, then into Port Fowarding, logged in and basically followed what the guide told me So after I followed that step, Immediately after my Lan connection stopped working. Thankfully my rig has wifi that I can use but it makes it a pain as it can randomly disconnect and my ping can be very explosive. From my troubleshooting, I figured out that the Lan cable works with a separate computer I have from a lended friend and the connection works just fine. I decided to reinstall windows 10 in the hope of fixing the issue but it has done nothing. I'm left very confused on where to go from here so any help would be greatly appreciated. I have also followed the process of opening CMD as an administrator following the process of Netsh... to try and I guess reset the ip but it hasn't done anything after I've restarted.

So out of nowhere , my internet started being buggy. I didn't switch different wi-fi networks or anything but somehow it was just buggy for certain application. For example, I'm not able to join my friends when playing Risk of Rain and Halo Infinite. For Risk of Rain, everytime I tried joining my friend, I would get a black screen and it would just kick me out. It would not let me join or play. I tried to think over it and the only problem I see is my network. And its only these 2 games that it wont let me connect to the game and wouldn't let me join my friends. For halo infinite, It just said that I get disconnect form the game server or get timed out. I don't know why my network is like this. Just recently the biggest trouble is that whenever I try to join a world on Elden Ring or when other people try to join me, they would get timed out. Anyone familiar with this issue? .I run a NETGEAR router, the NETGEAR Nighthawk R7000P, and I've tried to look at the setting for unusual settings, but I don't know how to fix it. I tried factory resetting my router the other day and for a solid hour to hour and a half, it worked and let me join my friends in Risk of Rain and Halo Infinite. I don't know what these 2 games have in common, but they just wont let me join my friends to play it. I don't know if Its a port forwarding issue or if its something else. Let me know your input, anything is appreciated. Thank you!

My boss has tasked me with trying to set up a projector for movies (Amazon prime etc) in the care home I work for in the UK We are looking for reasonable ceiling mounted projector but at a reasonable cost as this is funded by charitable funds. so recommendations for a suitable device would be appreciated the second part concerns connectivity, we have wifi 5 in the proposed area our laptops are 10th gen i5 with thunderbolt and mini hdmi running cables would be about 6metres, our initial thought was to connect the projector to a trunked cable (male to female) to prevent our lovely customers getting hold of the cables and pulling, but I am unsure the range HDMI or thunderbolt will go without degrading the signal Any advice would be useful

I have an old NEC ready 330T and the last owner removed the HDD. Unfortunately in the process they also removed the little adapter/riser needed to plug in a HDD and I have no idea where to find one. Anyone have any idea what this connector is and where I can get a riser/adapter? I presume it's just a standard I'm unaware of.

Hi LTT community! I feel like I have reached the peak of my knowledge of trying to figure out why some sites I try to access just won't connect. There are specific sites (major one is where I go to pay one of my bills) that result in connection reset errors on both Chrome and Firefox. I can access them from my Macbook (Safari and Chrome) but not here on my PC. I tried releasing/renewing my IP, flushing the DNS, and manually applying public DNS servers multiple times - Nada. I've even tried flushing Chrome's host cache and clearing bad proxies. I haven't touched sockets or DSPs in Chrome yet, though. I did mess with Firewall settings for a Diablo walk a while ago but I restored the settings to default. Since I run NordVPN on both machines, I don't suspect it to be the culprit. But if it does, here's some insight: My active networks consist of my home private network connected via ethernet and NordLynx2 public network connected via the NordLynx protocol. Neither networks are connected to IPv6, just 4. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, thanks! An aside: I've also recently been having issues with chatGPT where I can input my text but "an error occurred" is returned via the chat, not sure if the two are related as this just started happening on this machine. Works on my phone and laptop, though. Would be nice to get that back up, too :)

Hi everyone, I bought an used Omen obelisk 875 PC and I am having important connection drops each 30-40 seconds. This occurs with every wifi connection even if the signal is good. here follows a screenshot of the command "ping -t 8.8.8.8" I ran to verify. I kindly ask for help troubleshooting the possible cause, thank you in advance.

Hello, I was displacing my keyboard, Toshiba portege z830, and suddenly my screwdriver slipped and a spark occured. After that my battery is no working and battery signed led is blinking. Can this be fixed or should I consider my battery connector is gone?

Hi! Not new to desktops but also not very expirienced. I need some help. For my pc, I am having some troubles regarding internet connection. I have resorted to a usb adapter for Wifi. This was not my first choice regarding internet connection. My router is nowhere near my pc setup and I would be unable to access ethernet at the moment. I have tried Wifi cards but they still get the same unfortunate results as my current usb wifi adapter. Anywho, I enjoy gaming, but I can't help to notice when playing online/multiplayer games that I get lag spikes or conection freezes every roughly 5 seconds. My laptop along with my family's desktop has no problems as such and expirience no connection problems like I do. I used to game on my laptop and never got the connection freeze. I am able to stay in game and not be disconnected but can't help to lag for about a second or two every 5 seconds. I have had this problem for as long as I can remember on my desktop. I always wondered if it was my usb adapter or pci-e slot so even went as far as getting a new expensive Asus usb Wifi adapter for christmas but still get the same connection spikes. My friends either have ehternet or wifi cards and those who have wifi cards have a totally fine time playing online games. I can even clearly see my connection spikes happen when on discord my three green connection bars when in a voice chat goes to one red for a second or two then back to three green bars. In multiplayer games I would rubberband back to my spot roughly 1 second before th lag. I don't get any problems like these since offline games such as City Skylines or Slime Rancher don't have these lag/rubberband problems. Have had this pc for about 3-4 years now. Can't help to think if it's the motherboard or something. (I honestly couldn't know). Help would be great! GPU - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 CPU - Intel Core i5-4430 Ram - 24.0gb Storage - 1.0tb Motherboard - Asus z97-Pro Gamer Bios - American mega trends inc. 2203 2016-02-26 Power supply - evga 500w Operating system - Windows 10 pro 64bit

Hi! Not new to desktops but also not very expirienced. I need some help. For my pc, I am having some troubles regarding internet connection. I have resorted to a usb adapter for Wifi. This was not my first choice regarding internet connection. My router is nowhere near my pc setup and I would be unable to access ethernet at the moment. I have tried Wifi cards but they still get the same unfortunate results as my current usb wifi adapter. Anywho, I enjoy gaming, but I can't help to notice when playing online/multiplayer games that I get lag spikes or conection freezes every roughly 5 seconds. My laptop along with my family's desktop has no problems as such and expirience no connection problems like I do. I used to game on my laptop and never got the connection freeze. I am able to stay in game and not be disconnected but can't help to lag for about a second or two every 5 seconds. I have had this problem for as long as I can remember on my desktop. I always wondered if it was my usb adapter or pci-e slot so even went as far as getting a new expensive Asus usb Wifi adapter for christmas but still get the same connection spikes. My friends either have ehternet or wifi cards and those who have wifi cards have a totally fine time playing online games. I can even clearly see my connection spikes happen when on discord my three green connection bars when in a voice chat goes to one red for a second or two then back to three green bars. In multiplayer games I would rubberband back to my spot roughly 1 second before th lag. I don't get any problems like these since offline games such as City Skylines or Slime Rancher don't have these lag/rubberband problems. Have had this pc for about 3-4 years now. Can't help to think if it's the motherboard or something. (I honestly couldn't know). Help would be great! GPU - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 CPU - Intel Core i5-4430 Ram - 24.0gb Storage - 1.0tb Motherboard - Asus z97-Pro Gamer Bios - American mega trends inc. 2203 2016-02-26 Power supply - evga 500w Operating system - Windows 10 pro 64bit

As the titles describes, my computer takes a hot second to connect when booting / restarting. This never used to happen, maybe a month ago is when it did. It usually just booted up and was connect without issue. Now it's like it takes its inital second to connect, but then it dips for a mintue then comes back. Weird thing is that after that part, Discord sees it just fine and continutes to work while Chrome takes a minute as well to start working again, and even then connection is still slow until later. Who knows, maybe this is perfectly normal but I don't remember it ever being like this. Specs: AMD Ryzen 5 1400 Quad-Core 3.2GHz 16GB GTX 1060 3GB Asus ROG Crosshair IV Motherboard https://www.asus.com/us/Motherboards/ROG-CROSSHAIR-VI-HERO/ A good thing to note is that the way I have Windows installed, I'm wondering if I should just deal with it until I get another storage device that might fix both issues. The issue being that the boot loader is on my old harddrive and i'm using Windows off of my SSD, which still loads to my harddrive to load Windows on my SSD. Not looking to fix this, I already know the problem but just asking if there may be some correlation? Thanks!

So I recently had a power loss at my house from a recent storm. I have a surge protector, so no big deal. Well, not so much. Now I randomly am disconnected from the internet (Wi Fi) and I have to forcefully hit disconnect and reconnect every time. And every time I hit reconnect, it connects instantly. I wanted to go back to streaming, but with my stream cutting out every five minutes, I can't. I don't know what to do. I tried reinstalling drivers and programs (even deleting the programs out of the registry, which did nothing to help so I just loaded the registry I backed up before I edited it), resetting the router, and reinstalling the physical hardware. I even tried using an old PCIe Wi-Fi card. Nothing. I even tried seeing if the router was blocking me, nope. I just don't know what to do and am frustrated beyond belief. Any ideas are appreciated. -Darkroe

Hi! Not new to desktops but also not very expirienced. I need some help. For my pc, I am having some troubles regarding internet connection. I have resorted to a usb adapter for Wifi. This was not my first choice regarding internet connection. My router is nowhere near my pc setup and I would be unable to access ethernet at the moment. I have tried Wifi cards but they still get the same unfortunate results as my current usb wifi adapter. Anywho, I enjoy gaming, but I can't help to notice when playing online/multiplayer games that I get lag spikes or conection freezes every roughly 5 seconds. My laptop along with my family's desktop has no problems as such and expirience no connection problems like I do. I used to game on my laptop and never got the connection freeze. I am able to stay in game and not be disconnected but can't help to lag for about a second or two every 5 seconds. I have had this problem for as long as I can remember on my desktop. I always wondered if it was my usb adapter or pce slot so even went as far as getting a new expensive Asus usb Wifi adapter for christmas but still get the same connection spikes. My friends either have ehternet or wifi cards and those who have wifi cards have a totally fine time playing online games. I can even clearly see my connection spikes happen when on discord my three green connection bars when in a voice chat goes to one red for a second or two then back to three green bars. Have had this pc for about 3-4 years now. Can't help to think if it's the motherboard or something. (I honestly couldn't know). Help would be great! GPU - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 CPU - Intel Core i5-4430 Ram - 24.0gb Storage - Intel Raid 1 Volume - 1.0tb Motherboard - Asus z97-Pro Gamer

Hi, Anyone curious about SATA Controller they had in their system? So, I was just getting to know my system, and to my surprise, the Gigabyte Aorus X570 Pro WiFi actually uses 1 SATA controller to manage 4 SATA devices and 1 SATA controller to manage 2 devices. So I'm just curious why they don't fully use 2 of the chipset SATA controller with 1 PCIe x4 SATA controller which will give 8 SATA ports but instead use 1 SATA controller from the chipset and disable the other one and 1 SATA controller connected to PCIe x4 lanes which only gives 6 SATA ports. Here's the image I got (I think I got it from Anand Tech but I have forgotten), and as you can see from this image, the chipset has 2 SATA controllers that can handle 2 SATA devices each. I'm not sure if Gigabyte use one of the PCIe x4 lanes (X4 PCIe PHY) and convert to 4 SATA port, but according to the Device Manager, I think they did. If they did, I think many manufacturer that produce the motherboard with 6 SATA ports uses the same connection. I'm curious why we don't get 8 ports instead. The unused SATA controller from the chipset is a waste, don't you think? Anyway, After a little observation, I seems to have observed how the connection were connected to components for Gigabyte Aorus X570 Pro WiFi. (Note: below are just my assumption. I have no way of confirming what I write is accurate.) For the processor part, we have: 1x USB 3.10 eXtensible connection which split into 4 USB 3.2 ports, 1 being Gen 2 while the other 3 being Gen 1. Directly interface with audio chip 2x SATA controller (probably not use because it shares PCIe lanes from NVMe slot unless using SATA NVMe) Platform Security Processor (PSP) 1x PCIe x16 or 2x PCIe x8 for graphic cards 1x PCI (I'm not sure what is this, though, or what device is connected to it) For the X570 chipset part, we have: 1x PCIe x4 2x PCIe x1 1x PCIe x4 for M.2 slot (yes, it looks like the M2 slot does not share lanes with SATA ports, but I couldn't confirm that because I don't have an M2 drive) 1x PCIe x1 for Intel I211 Ethernet controller 1x PCIe (but not sure how many lanes, but probably x1) for Intel Wifi AX 200 2x USB 3.1 eXtensible controller where 1 controller is connected to 1x USB-C (back panel), 1x USB 3.2 Gen2 (back panel), 2x USB 2.0 (Header, total 4 ports) and the other one is connected to Intel Bluetooth, 2x USB 3.0 (header, total 4 ports), and 4x USB 2.0 (back panel) 1x SATA controller for 4 SATA device (Port 0, 1, 2 and 3, I suspect they use 1 PCIe x4 connection) 1x SATA controller for 2 SATA device (port 4 and 5) (Also I suspect they disable another SATA controller that control 2 SATA device) Anyone have more info on this? Are my assumption accurate? Chiyawa

Everything was fine until i got back home from st.patricks day when i noticed i coudlnt play any games they all needed updating so i try updating they download to about 99%and then it starts to slow down the download speed to bytes then the Est just climbs and climbs till i get connection timed out ? img 1 img 2

I am not too sure why my PC cannot connect to VPN on Opera, my laptop and phone can connect for some reason and I am using a Ethernet Powerline adapter for my pc. Can someone please help me out here.. I am trying to do some "things" without leaving evidence behind.

So I have been having a lot of issues involving my connection. To be more specific, Rubberbanding in video games is the real problem. I contacted Comcast first, and they helped resolve some issues, but the rubberbanding still persists. To make sure it was my computer next, I had my friend come over to test it with his computer, he was fine. So now this leaves me to be wondering what is wrong with my computer that could be causing this. PLEASE HELP! AND THANK YOU SO MUCH!