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So I've recently purchased a new computer like a few months ago with the following build: (Ryzen 5 3600, AMD RX 590 8GB, 8GB RAM, a 500GB SSD and a 1TB HDDabd a 550W PSU) It worked fine for a while and was running everything smoothly until like a week ago when it started freezing. I play mostly league of legends and that's where the issue was. The image would freeze for a few seconds/minutes while the audio (or some portions of it) keep playing. When in full screen i won't be able to alt+tab out of switch windows however ctrl+alt+delete still works fine. The moment the crash ends it tabs me out to whatever windows i have or to task manager if i click ctrl+shift+escape. At first i thought it was an issue with the game, so i did a repaid and the problem didn't stop, then I did a clean install of windows and drivers and reinstalled the game from scratch, but the problem persisted. I though this maybe a league issue so i installed Dauntless and after like an hour sessions of play the problem started occurring there as well. I ran a few memory tests with windows diagnostics and disk tests with HDtune and both showed no errors at all. PLEASE HELP! I am legit an idiot when it comes to tech stuff so i'd appreciate any step by step help you can offer me, thank you! PS: Screen was taken during a freeze, the GPU temp was around 70 degrees C but dropped to around 50 during the few seconds of the freeze, not sure if that's relevant.

Hi everyone, a couple of things I wanna talk about first: Obvious one perhaps: English ain't my mother tongue, but I do try. Second: I've tried to reach r/apple on reddit about this topic but, for some reason, moderators thought it didn't fit there. Don't ask me why. So in february this year I decided I want to upgrade from my ThinkPad E480, which accompanied me for two years and was a great piece of hardware for my Bachelor-thesises and generally my daily driver, to a newer, bit fancier piece of hardware for my master-thesis. I've tried the ThinkPad P53 and Dell XPS 15, but returned both due to mostly hardware, but not unrepairable issues (well, my P53 was basically completely bent but it's not like a replacement unit would've been automatically too), and decided to drop around 2900€ on the higher end base model, which is not CTO and usually available in stores (at least here in Germany). And for the first few days I was... okay, I wasn't extremely happy with but there was nothing I couldn't cope with over time. E.G. not having access to 32bit-software is annoying, but as it mostly affects games and I wanted to use it for work and less for gaming, I thought I'd be okay with it. Short sidenote here: There're still games being released for macOS that aren't 64bit, so... I guess that's not absolutely Apple's fault, but it's still stupid. Three months in... yeah, I am far from happy with it. In fact, I use it so little that I haven't even noticed that I was without my power brick for two weeks. So what are my issues with it? Well... why don't we get started... First things first: The keyboard. It's nice, for sure. Subjectively it's nicer than the XPS 15's but absolutely nowhere near the ThinkPad keyboards. Honestly, from using it in stores I didn't mind the butterfly switches, but I digress. What's objectively worse than at least the ThinkPad-keyboards is the time it took to show wear. After three months of irregular use my keyboard is shiny as hell. My ThinkPad E480 didn't show as much of wear a year in and I used that one a whole lot more. And I am absolutely not the only one with that issue - if you look up used MacBook Pro 16s on eBay you'll definitely find pictures of keyboards showing that smooth shine. Battery life: So, okay, I have an eight-core and a dGPU in my Mac. Naturally battery life wouldn't be amazing. But the often reported and reviewed 8 hours or more were never achieved. I'd be happy if I got 6 hours from doing barely more than webbrowsing, using MS Office applications or even daring to code will drastically reduce it to 4 hours. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, my battery is at already 28 cycles, but it's apparently still at about 95% capacity. Even turning off a lot of background stuff like Outlook, Mail, Webex-apps, etc. won't help that much. It's still better than while using my Mac with Windows 10 - but I'll get to that later. Speaking of unnecessary drain: Powermanagement. It blows. For whatever reason the dGPU gets activated every now and then, which is especially annoying in battery mode. That I can't use any built-in GUI-function to turn off dGPU completely is stupid enough, that I have to rely on terminal-commands for that shows me that there are options for that, but Apple just doesn't bother to give their users the option of choice. What's even more annoying is that I can't use an external monitor without relying on the AMD GPU - which, for whatever still unfixed reason will then lock into at least 15W power drain, causing not only the system to warm up and get loud (oh, and believe me, it can get LOUD), but, again, resulting in unnecessary power drain. And under load the MacBook will emmit noise at about 46db(A). I was able to hear my MacBook two rooms away while watching a movie, and it still runs hot, barely touchable around the Touchbar. Workaround for external display: Close the lid. ...yeah, thanks, it's not like I'd want to use two screens when I have two screens. Stability: I've heard so often that macOS just "works". I don't know if my usecase is just so different. Twitter crashes at least twice a week, the software for my Game Capture HD 60S crashes the entire Mac regularily. Using the false USB-C-Dongle can not only crash the system while simply plugging in any USB-stick, but can also cause Bluetooth and WiFi to stop working at all. Well, what about approved USB-C-solutions, like an eGPU-enclosure. Apple's implementation of eGPU is actually pretty great, unless you want to boot or reboot your system while having it plugged in, trying to log in will case a login-loop in which you have to manually shut down the system, unplug the eGPU and turn it on again. So you might think - well, most problems are related to macOS, why not just run Linux or Windows 10. Well, basically no Linux-distro will work well out of the box because most hardware, like touchbar or Wifi, doesn't have any open source drivers. And Apples implementation of Windows 10 is pretty much the worst thing ever. You can not only just copy paste all problems with macOS onto it, with Apple deactivating the iGPU and the resulting absolute non-sense for eGPUs - AMD GPUs barely work in Windows 10 so you'd basically need an additional Nvidia eGPU for Windows 10 - the system gets so much bottle-necked by the software it's barely useable as a laptop and with about 2 hours of battery life becomes a really bad desktop-replacement. And the cherry on top: Eventually I returned my eGPU-enclosure, I simply couldn't get ethernet to work and with my RX 580 being barely faster than my Pro 5500M, there was basically no use for it anymore (besides the thermal issues I encountered later on). As I still wanted to use my 4k display with it, I decided to get Apples USB-C dongle with 4k-HDMI. For 80€ it's actually a decent price because it can display 4k60, normally you'd have to pay more... and it works! ...as long as you use it with an Apple device. I've tried it with my E480 and it can only output 4k30 - like any 30€ dongle... My guess is that the Apple dongle communicates with the T2 chip as it also won't work with the 2016 MBP 15, which didn't have it. I've heard bad stuff about Apple before I've decided to take a peek into the cult. But I did not expect it to be so bad. I don't know if my usecase is just so special that barely any to no reviews touch the problems, but I can surely not be the only one that wants to connect its computer to a display and not have it run hot and loud. After all - even the Pro Display XDR is compatible with it. This entire journey left me saddened and disappointed, especially as not all problems can or will be solved via updates or a replacement device, as they are hard-wired by, honestly, bad design choices. I'd love to love my MacBook Pro 16, and some parts I really enjoy. The trackpad is as good as everyone says, the screen is amazing and the speakers make me almost forget that I have pretty good external speakers lying around here, too. In the end, unless the retailer is for some reason incredibly cool I'm stuck with a system I've so far dumped 3500€ for, as I've got myself Apple Care Plus, a case, a sleeve and two stupid dongles. All it did though was helping me appreciate my desktop PC even more. TL;DR: In my eyes the MBP 16 is a design failure and I wonder why noone talks about the following: Horrible wear of keyboard after short time Inconsistent battery life Constant usage of dGPU with external display Regular system instabilities Disastrous implementation of Windows 10 Inconsistency with eGPUs Unnecessary hampering of their own peripherals If you want to use your MacBook Pro 16 exclusively as a laptop, sure, go for it. But in my honest opinion noone should buy or even recommend it.

So i have a vm in azure and i was wondering how i can use my microphone on it because idk what to do thanks:)

Okay here it goes, I have: -Scarlett 2i2 audio interface -Traktor kontrol S4 MK2 (with audio interface built in) -Razer Ripsaw -Sony A6000 The setup is: Using the S4 as my dj controller for music streaming, I take the Audio main output from the S4 and feed it into the Input from the 2i2. That's for recording the audio into OBS (since obs won't recognise the controller from Native Instruments Natively (see what I did there?)). Then I have my Sony A6000 set on clean HDMI output, taking a Micro HDMI to HDMI to the HDMI IN on the Ripsaw. The ripsaw is connected via USB 3.0 to my pc. I get the video feed, CRISPY AF. And I get the audio feed from the 2i2 into OBS. Here is the problem: When I turn on the video feed in obs the audio from the S4 is stuttering. When I play it through the 2i2 only, (so not using the main output from the S4) there is no problem. I never had this problem when I was using 2 Webcams... Are my USB's saturated? Is there not enough bandwidth? Is it a grounding issue (the camera works on a battery atm). Could it be that the USB controllers are not giving enough power??? I used latencymon, and it showed me (upon opening the A6000 in OBS as a video feed) very high numbers which means stuttering audio... As soon as I disconnect the camera from the capture card (with the capture card still running) it's all fine... Should I buy another capture card? Should I buy a powered USB hub? Should I buy an internal capture card?? Kind of allready tried everything and not really willing to spend more money unless it's really necessary.. Hope some of you techies can help me out here!! Grtz!!!

The other day I experienced a blue screen error, VIDEO_SCHEDULER_INTERNAL_ERROR while running a heavy game (Doom Eternal). Since it happened once I ignored it. The next day it happened again while running the same game and I decided to research it. I basically got nothing but heard that resetting my computer would fix any issues I had. So I reset my computer (kept personal files). After resetting my computer I have a few issues such as not being able to right click my desktop and the removal of my application icons. Today I booted up the same game and encounter another blue screen VIDEO_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT_INTERNAL. I am out of ideas and I'm thinking of just doing a full factory reset. Help is appreciated. Might come in handy: Issues: Blue screen errors, desktop becomes unresponsive when right clicking Using a Laptop: Acer Predator Helios 300 2018 version, Predator PH315-51 GTX 1060, i7-8750 CPU, 16 gb ram Yes I am updated to the latest Windows 10 version and have updated all my drivers.

Heyy, I just got a I5-4460 but the bench is showing that its base frequency is 3.6ghz, however, turbo isn't going over 1ghz:( this means that it's performing way below expectations in around the 13th percentile. Any thoughts?

I just received the blue screen VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE while running a fairly heavy game, (Doom Eternal). Last week I was receiving similar problems getting VIDEO_MEMORY_MANAGEMENT_INTERNAL and VIDEO_SCHEDULER_INTERNAL_ERROR. I thought I fixed the problem after reinstalling my gpu drivers. I dont know what to do now I may just try reinstalling my drivers again. Using Gtx 1060 (mobile)- laptop

Running Ubuntu 18.04 normal via Hyper-V (using it as steamcache server) I shut down the VM - the tried to boot into Ubuntu VM again and got a black screen - in GNU im trying to repair borken packages and i get this: https://imgur.com/a/xlcJ47k This is the SSD i have the VM in, it clearly has enough disk space, so whats the problem? Disk info in Hyper-v also shows there should be space Edit: System-summary shows disk is full - how and why? With 500GB of cached games on the VM - i sadly, had to reinstall ubuntu. This time i made sure that the disk size was sett to 930Gb - insted of 465.

Acer Nitro 5 Ryzen 5 Quad Core - (8 GB/1 TB HDD/Windows 10 Home/4 GB Graphics/NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1650) AN515-43-R3JU Gaming Laptop (15.6 inch, Obsidian Black, 2.3 kg) I tried recording and it always shows black screen. I have GeForce Experience to Record games impeccable to say the least but when I want to record just the screen it shows black screen and in output too. I tried default setting and also watched a video from Nvidia to set it up. but still no luck.

Hi guys and girls, first of all here's my spec: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 MSI b450 tomahawk G.SKILL 16GB (2x8GB) 3000MHz CL16 Aegis Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER GAMING OC 8GB GDDR6 SilentiumPC Vero M2 600W 80 Plus Bronze so, i bought and built my first computer in august 2019, most of the games were running ok without any crashes but after couple of weeks while playing minecraft, my game just started to crash randomly on window mode, while on fullscreen mode graphics turned, well i dont even know how to describe it so i will attach a photo then more and more games just crashed in random moments, and then i thought "well maybe updating BIOS will help" BOOM BADA BAM it did not, it just made things even worse, i was on bios version 7C02v1B for my motherboard and updated it to version 7C02v1D using msi's live update 6, now with games crashes in random moments i got blue screens also popping up randomly, i will attach some of the most common blue screens that i got on my pc, I have tried many things: memtest (everything ok) i checked my disk (nothing wrong) swapped disks i tried to reinstall windows 3 times sfc /scannow cleaned all the drivers and installed brand new ones then i tried to swap graphic card from my brother's pc when i did that and tried to test in some games they just crashed (i dont know if it was becouse of the bottleneck (the gpu was allways on 100%) or the issue in my pc) i dont even know what it can be now, is it becouse of the RAM or the graphic or the psu, i dont know but what i know is that i need some help with that pc and sorry for my english, its not my main language here are some of the attachments:

Hello guys, My spec is : MB- AsRock z270extreme 4 RAM 2x8 HyperX fury 3000mHz GPU- Palit GTX1080TI CPU- I7 7700k Having issues for example with COD MW Warzone to even cross the 120 FPS mark with all graphics settings at low , not to mention staying on consistent 144FPS. I feel like that this spec should have not troubles getting 144FPS. Please help with any advise that you can give on what to improve or what to check on. Thanks.

Hi everyone, 4 days ago i build a pc with a friend, but since the first moment I´ve been experiencing problems. I think I´ve tried everything but nothings seems to work, I´ve read lots of post, whatched lots of videos but I can´t find any solution. This is my fisrt PC, so I am not great at troubleshooting, also I am already getting confused with all of this because I tried so many different things... My specs: Ryzen 3800X Stock Cooler RX 5700 XT Red Devil HyperX Fury 16GB 3600mhz RAM MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC M.2 970 Evo Plus 500GB (Windows is installed here) SSD Kingston 500GB HDD Seagate Barracuda 1TB PSU Thermaltake ToughPower Grand RGB 850W Samsung 27" 1440p 144hz (I´ve heard changing the M.2 from 4.0 to 3.0 could help, but I´m not sure how to do it) I already triend reinstalling Windows and it didn´t help I updated the BIOS, and all the drivers. (I´ve tried with the RX 5700 XT 20.2.2 drivers and after that the 20.4.2 and I still have the same problems) Also my monitor has FreeSync and it´s activated I´ve tried changing the screen configuration from 144hz to 120hz to 60hz I´ve tried changing the configuration on the games and on the AMD Radeon Software And here some examples: When playing Battlefield V the game stutter every 5 seconds, and the frames drop every 15 seconds or so from 100 to 60. Also the frametime is not consistent, most of the time ranges between 10ms and 16ms but frequently goes up to 46ms also Whe playing The Outer Worlds the game stutters constantly and sometimes the frames drop When playing Metro Exodus the frames drop form 90 to 30 and i get micro stuttering too Forza Horizon 4 seems like the only game where i don´t have so many issues. The frames don´t drop but micro stuttering happen every 5 minutes or so (I have all the games storaged in the M.2 or the other SSD so the HDD is not the problem) So I really cant get my hand on what is the problem here, I am starting to think that maybe is a hardware problem and I should return the GPU, but maybe the CPU is the problem... I don´t really know anymore. Please, if someone could give a solution it woul be great appreciated.

Hey how's it going, I have a Samsung Galaxy S7. I have been noticing battery drain issues, where the phone goes from 0 to 100 in one second, and it will not even turn on without being plugged into a charger. It's always shut off unless you use a charger. It only turns on if you plug it into a charger. I want to replace the battery and charging port of the device. Do you think that will be enough to fix the battery drain problem? Replacing the battery and charging port

So recently, my computer has started acting up. I would shut it down when I went to bed, and then the next morning, it wouldn't turn on. The motherboard would start blinking as it posted, the fans would start spinning and the graphics card would light up, but it wouldn't display anything. My solution was to unplug the computer for a couple minutes, and then when I plugged it back in it would work fine. It kept happening, and my solution kept working, but I knew something was wrong. Today, I went to wake it up after finishing dinner, and while usually it woke up fine, it didn't. everything lit up and started spinning, but no display. So i tried a couple things: I replaced the motherboard battery, I reseated the RAM, and I even tried just doing the unplugging thing that worked in the past, but all for naught, it wouldn't work. does anything know what's wrong and how to fix it? I really need help, I have classes, and my finals are coming up fast. Thanks in advance.

My computer has had intermittent problems with the bios and games lagging/crashing. After fully shutting down the computer and starting it up again it goes straight to windows. The delete key does not work and when I try to boot from inside windows, the computer will "restart" turning off the monitor but leaving power to my fans and motherboard never completely shutting down to restart and won't turn back on after a Manuel shut down. It fixed itself once but is happening again, any ideas as to what's happening? (games like Apex Legends, Destiny 2, Beat saber and Half life Alyx consistently have problems) PC specs: i7-4790k 4.00Hz Msi Z87-G45 gaming motherboard 16x Corsair XMS3 ddr3 RAM Geforce GTX 1070 armor 8gb OC Samsung 860 EVO 1TB

Hi there, I am new to this forum but I have been watching LTT for quite some time. I have tried looking up solutions but a lot are years old at this point so I figured I would just ask for help. The problem started a couple months ago. In chrome not every time, but sometimes when I click on a page or link or just anywhere a random sketchy page pops up. Here is one that appeared as I was typing this https://gyazo.com/b18c9f420ea0b50bb3b346283eca6fae . Along with that sometimes when I search google it redirects me to Bing. Which as we all know, only old people who don't know how to reset their default browser use. Anyways I assumed this is a malware or something infecting my computer but I have no idea what to do to get it off. Any help is appreciated, thanks.

Im trying to OC my Asus ROG Strix 1080, but im only getting it up tp 1987Mhz (+100Mhz) stable. The temprature is oround 65C. When i try to push it any further i get artifacting in Heaven and Firestrike. I have given it 120% power limit and also tried giving it +100 millivolts to the core, but nothing helps with the artifacting. It is only i Heaven Benchmark and Firestrike. It does not crash and/or artifact in games. When i give it +100 millivolts to the core it boosts up to 2012 but goes back down after the GPU reaches 64C even tho i set "target temp" to 92C. Is this normal? I was sure i could push it further than this.

I've been having problems with my HDD and by checking the SMART information I can see it probably time to change it. what do you think?

Right so I recently board an MSI z270 SLI plus and an I7-7700k. I put everything together and booted the system which went okay however the CPU temps seemed incredibly high so I removed the cooler and replaced the thermal paste. On putting the PC back together the system will no longer even reach post. The fans and everything do start up though. Another change I made recently was updating the BIOS. I really don't know how to fix my issue everything seems to be connected just fine. Any suggestions? On the motherboards EZ-debug the LED's are switching between DRAM and CPU

Hi! The Laptop: I have an Acer V15 Nitro Black Edition (aka the VN7-592G), and it currently has an additional 512 GB Intel 600p and 16GB of Crucial ram. The Issues: The most important issue is that it has huge trouble suspending. Sometimes it wakes up on its own from suspend into this weird pre-BIOS level where the USB ports don't power up. This can sometimes last for 30 minutes or more while I'm doing whatever I needed to suspend it for. Then, the next time I try to boot, it says that the default boot device failed to boot. Once I power cycle it once more, it starts up mostly fine, but the BIOS reverts all of my custom settings to factory defaults (ie secure boot on, Ubuntu at the bottom of the boot order). This has been going on since roughly the time I installed the SSD + Linux. Recently, I wiped the whole system drive and reinstalled only Windows, but that did not solve the problem (but it seemed to help). My running theory (as of 30 seconds ago) is that the SSD sometimes fails to POST and that causes the system to get confused and stop the boot process, and the next time it confuses the BIOS of where to find the bootloader (even if it is on the other drive). Anyone ever run into this? Thoughts? Further questions? Any help is much appreciated.

So I was messing around with overclocking my CPU (FX-8370) and got it stable at 4.8Ghz with the voltage target at 1.45 and temperatures on the package around 40 C with an H100i V2. So I then proceeded to overclock my GPU's (970's in SLi) in MSI Afterburner. When I checked the option to allow me to control the voltage, my computer shut down and the power LED on the case started blinking. I turned it off and attempted to turn it back on but nothing happened. I removed both GPU's, the CMOS battery (put it back in after a bit), and every cable attached to the motherboard except the 24 pin power, the CPU power, and the case power. When I hit the power, the Corsair logo on the CPU waterblock flashes on for a split second and then shuts off and I have to turn the power off and on then hit the power button to replicate the flashing. I then unplugged the CPU power and pressed the power button again and the Audio Boost button blinked twice, the Corsair logo did the same and the radiator fans spun up and down twice in sync with the blinking, which I'm guessing was it telling me the CPU power wasn't plugged in. I'm stumped and have no idea what to try next. Is my CPU dead? Is my motherboard (a MSI 990FXA Gaming) dead? Is my PSU (a Corsair CX750 and yes I know the PSU is mediocre) dead? Any help or advice would be appreciated. TL;DR Computer crashed, now it won't turn on, the Corsair waterblock logo flashes, unplugging the CPU power makes radiator fans (these ramp up and down twice), Audio Boost, and Corsair logo flash twice. Edit: I have actually OC the GPU's before but reset it because it was getting a little toasty in my previous case. And I used the "OC Genie" in the BIOS to get the CPU to 4.3Ghz with 4.125 volts as the target and both OC's were running fine for months (since July; This was my first build). And also, I have tried bridging the power pins and it results in the same outcome as pushing the power button.

For some background information, my computer shut off while it was sitting at the desktop and now it won't turn back on. I've tried unplugging everything, jumping the power pins, clearing the CMOS, but nothing has worked. If I press the power button (or try to jump the pins) there is just a brief flash of light from my H100i V2's waterblock led and then nothing. BUT if I unplug the CPU power from the motherboard and press/hold the power button, the waterblock led flashes, the radiator fans spin with the flashing, the audio boost led flashes, and the GPU fans spin with the flashing but they all stop after about four flashes. I have to turn the PSU power off and back on before I can make it flash again. Any ideas what is wrong/dead? FX-8370 GTX 970's SLi MSI 990FXA Gaming CX750 (I know it isn't the best PSU)

Hi, So I had some issues recently, in fact for about 3 weeks now, with Whatsapp on my Samsung s6 (newest Android version 6.0.1, that is available). So, i often dont get an on screen message that i got a new notification and it`s content, but rather, a message that claims,, There could be new messages available for you"( roughly translated). Often this claim isn´t true at all and their arent even new messages available. Additionally, when i start Whatsapp, it often doesnt download the new messages i got, until i tap on a specific chat. Has anybody the same problem or some advices ?

hello i am wondering if people can help me i have heard a rumor about ryzen cpu's having problems with dual and quad channel ram and that they cart support ram that is above 2400mhz does any one know any thing about as im thinking about buying one

Okay, this has got to be frustrating more people than me. I have been using Dolphin emulator and I love it... For the most part. See, some games I can run at sixty frames per second fine. Then there are others like Super Mario Sunshine and etc. that run at a max 12 frames per second. Does anyone have some advice on how to boost it up at least to maybe 25-30 frames per second? My Laptop specs are listed below: 750 GB HDD Intel N3540 2.16 Ghz processor (Dual Core) Linux Mint (Latest release) 4 DDR3 RAM/Memory A lot more specs that would take to long to explain. Lol. Can anyone help?