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Hello, I needed to decultter my PC and decided to back everything up and reset my PC as it was having issues for a while. I reset my PC and waited for the wipe to happen. Upon the reset I noticed that it didn't go to the normal windows start screen but it tried to log in my old user account( with my Zelda login background, which is what struck me as odd) I tried to enter my pin bur got the message " user can't be logged in" or something to that effect. I can't do anything now, I've tried troubleshooting, I've tried booting from a USB with media creation tool on it. I've tried safeboot and have even tried to wipe the system again with no luck. Does anybody have any idea what messed up or the best way to fix or wipe things and start fresh?
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Every time I restart or turn my pc off it acts as if it just crashed. "Default performance tuning settings have been restored due to an unexpected system failure" I don't have fast startup enabled. I just did a clean windows install, and I replugged my GPU. It was happening previously as well, not sure for how long though, but months at least. Why does it do that? At first I thought it was undervolting but it happens even if I just turn off zero-rpm mode.
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I have a Dell Precision M4800 that we used for a project several years ago and typically noone documented the bios password which was set. I've tried removing the CMOS battery and discharging all power but that doesnt seem to do the trick. I've also tried a couple of sites which claim to offer dell master passwords but neither seems to work. https://bios-pw.org http://www.tech-faq.com/reset-dell-bios-password.html Does anyone have any ideas or recommendations on how I can reset the BIOS on Dell Precision M4800 laptops? I don't really want to have to call Dell Support because well, its a painful experience, and the laptop was supplied by a partner from the project so we wont have it on our Dell account so getting them to support it will be difficult. #sigh Any advice gratefully received!
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I was just wondering if a simple "Reset To Optimized Default" can be really impactful or effective to reverting all the changes you did. Like for example, you turning on XMP, but then you changed your mind and changed The XMP Profile/Version, Changing Memory Frequency, etc. BUT can doing a "Reset To Optimized Defaults" Be that really effective/enough for you to fully revert to the settings you had before you even fiddled with your memory frequency and xmp settings? Or would it still be able to affect your PC in some way shape or form even when you booted up into windows normally even though you loaded the BIOS settings to "Reset to Optimized Defaults."
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Hi, i purchased a thinkpad x270, it unfortunately has a BIOS password. Does anyone have a method of removing it that actually works? Thanks, Wendy
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Hi! I need to reset a Lenovo Thinkpad E590 laptop but need to keep the Windows 10 Pro key and the factory pre installed genuine Office 2019 applications. If I correctly understood the Windows part shouldn’t be a problem because it is virtually activated and bound to the motherboard. I am still looking for a way to deal with the Office part. Another problem is that I cannot seem to reset the PC. I don’t have the option when accessing the troubleshooting menu, and using the Reset PC in the control panel prompt for me to restart and use a iso CD. Also when using F11 on start to access recovery mode, the text « Launching recovery mode » appears but it just continue to boot normally. I also can’t seem to find any Novo buttons anywhere on the chassis. If you can help, let me know! Thanks in advance
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Lately my pc has been booting up slowly. I noticed that it takes the 2 boots for my computer to boot up. It shows me the bios flash screen twice before coming to windows. So i completely reset my pc with fresh windows thinking it was some windows issue . The issue still persisted. Later i noticed in my task manager that my ram speed was decreasing from the normal XMP profile so after every boot I have to boot into bios first and set my ram speed to XMP . My pc works just fine and the performance is also good just that this is causing inconvenience to me with delayed boot up and changing the ram speed after every boot up. My pc will be almost 3 years old in august and i have used 3200 mhz speed for the same amount of time. This is issue pretty new. My bios is up to date My specs are Ryzen 5 3600 MSI Gaming X Trio Rtx 2070 Super Gskill Neo 16gb 2x8 gb kit at 3200 mhz speed. Motherboard: Asrock B450 Steel Legend Windows is installed on my M.2 SSD 512 gb and games on my Hard drive 1TB. Any help would be appreciated thanks.
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It has been a few weeks since I used my Kali Linux Virtual Machine and I can't remember my username and doing Root and the password root doesn't work either any help?
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Idk whats causing this problem , so when i start my motherboard the fans run for like 2 sec then it restarts and then it boots up again normal , but what it seems to be happening is that it resets my bios settings for some reason i already tried replacing the cmos battery and did the jumper reset same thing , p.s: this only happens when i remove the psu and cut the electrecity completly when i only regular shutdown it stays the same but when psu is off it does this weird thing also lately it be shutting down when im playing games not even demanding ones(league of legends...) and the tempatures are fine , pls i need help InShot_20210210_122602469.mp4
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How do you reset a school computer. I got a dell laptop for having my tuition pay off. So yes it’s mine and it’s not a loaner. Anyways, I transfers schools and I am in this computer business class, that requires citrix to be download, but it won’t let me because It says I need to be logged on as an administrator. I need this done ASAP. I don’t have time to fall behind.
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so i wrote a code that calculates the VAT , but i want it to ask the user 'Press (R) to Repeat Or Any Other Key to Quit' but it doesn't work for some reason , am not that good at C yet so if anyone could help or explain in simple for ,what i need to do that would be great
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tl;dr: should I unplug windows storage space 2-way mirror drives prior to a windows "reset this PC" to prevent any risk of losing data/will I be able to just plug them back in and have the storage spaces recognised? Or is the "keep my files" option safe? Hi all, I wanted to clean up my windows install - I've used my desktop for a number of years, and I think small tweaks here and there have added up. I'm having issues such as windows hello not detecting my camera, and deleting and reinstalling drivers hasn't fixed the issues. That aside - I have a C drive (SSD) as my boot drive, a D drive ("fast" storage HDD) and E drive (Windows storage spaces "Two-way mirror" between 2 slower HDDs). I've got the C drive backed up externally, however I don't have capacity to back up the HDDs externally. So my question is this - can I just unplug the D and E drives before the reset to prevent any risk of losing data? I.e. will I be able to just plug them back in after and have windows recognise the storage spaces without overwriting the data? I imagine this isn't an issue for the D drive, but I'm unsure of the 2 drives used for the windows storage space. The "Reset this PC" does have a "keep files" option, but I don't know if this is guaranteed to not effect the non-boot drives or if there is any risk. Any insight is welcome!
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I am selling my custom built computer, which includes Windows 10 that has been activated with my personal Windows account. I told the kid who is buying it that I would do a fresh install of windows and update the drivers for him (since he doesn't know how). What I need to know is: When I go to reinstall windows, how can I activate windows on this machine again, without having to use my personal account? I downloaded the windows media creation tool and made a boot USB from that, but I don't want to go through this process until I know what steps I am going to need to take. I have looked all over for this, but there is so much conflicting or irrelevant information to parse through. Thanks in advance for any help!
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Hi, I'm working on a chassis design and I have a question regarding how a start button functions. (not sure if this is the right subforum) Normally, the front IO start button cables are plugged into two motherboard connectors, plus and minus. But if there is no start button present, you can start the PC by making contact to both the + and - pins on the motherboard with an electrically conductive material and flipping the power switch on the power supply. So if i want to fabricate a custom power button, will it work like i've drawn in this picture? Sorry for the poor quality of the drawing, I hope it still conveys what i mean. The contact between the metal piece and wire ends essentially close the loop which starts the PC, is this correct?
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I have been having this issue for a couple months now on every boot ever since I got my 2nd kit of ram (I did a reorder, both kits are exactly the same) and I have tried a couple of different solutions with no luck. I have tried changing the cmos battery 3 times now, which does work for a couple weeks, but I get the same problem. I have also attempted manually setting timings and voltages (although I'm noob at that so it is possible I could have done it wrong), enabling High Frequency Support, and swapping around the sticks in the slots. No overclocking has been done on my system yet, besides XMP. I currently am only using 2 sticks with XMP enabled since I know the problem is having the 4 sticks installed with XMP enabled. I can have 4 sticks installed running at stock speeds but I don't want that (Duh.) It may also be worth noting that on the ram sticks themselves say specifically that they are INTEL XMP 2.0 ready, not sure if that has much meaning. Anything else I can attempt or should be aware of? I don't have extra kits to test. Specs: MOBO - Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite CPU - Ryzen 7 3800X Boot Drive - WD Black SN850 1TB RAM - 4 x G.Skill Trident Z Neo 3600 CL16 GPU - Gigabyte 3060 Ti Gaming OC Pro 2.0 PSU - Rosewill 700W Gold
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Android we love them except for one thing... When they get stolen. Why is it that apple you can track your phone and they cant hard reset it, android on the other hand you can just hard reset it poof there goes your phone gone and in another persons hands for free. So you tell me have you had this issue? should it be addressed by the community and brought fourth so we can get change so our phones we work hard for aren't just snatched from us
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Basically my dads forgotten his laptop sign-in password, Its a local account not connected to Microsoft, so it been a bit extra tough. The data in his SSD is really important so I can't factory reset it entirely, Otherwise I could've easily cleaned it up and installed fresh windows. Its a dell Inspiron 7706 2n1 Laptop Processor 11th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 Processor (12MB Cache, up to 4.7 GHz) Operating System Windows 10, English Memory* 16GB, 2x8GB, DDR4, 3200MHz Hard Drive 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive These are the basic specs, it's the core I7 variant. I've tried a lot of methods to bypass the sign-in including Using the recover image function and swapping the Ease of Access feature to cmd Prompt. ( Didn't work even opening image recovery required a password) Lazesoft Software I followed through on the tutorials present on the internet and Youtube, but it wouldn't detect my ssd, I checked out the support page and they said to download some drivers since some Laptops use Intel Rapid Storage Technology to improve SATA hard disk performance. If the Intel RST is set as AHCI or RAID mode, you need to load the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (Intel RST) RAID/AHCI driver. ( Did it and it didn't work, they were right about Intel RST being on though, because I checked the BIOS out and did find RAID On and the description mentions Intel RST) Tired using cmd prompt on a bootable USB to get into Local Disk C and change the User password ( Unfortunately it didn't work as it wouldn't detect my ssd either) Tutorial I was using P.s I'm not particularly tech savy, I do know a bit of my way around a computer though. Any help would be appreciated
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tl;dr: What is the best way to have a fresh windows install; build-in factory reset option or clean install with media creation tool? My PC always has had some weird software quirks but nothing too alarming. I recently upgraded to Windows 11 (I know... probably should have waited) and my gaming performance has dropped considerably. I do not have a Ryzen CPU but an i5-9500K (full specs below). When I try searching for performance differences between Windows 10 and 11 there shouldn't be too much difference, at least for me. I decided to wipe my system to remove any potential software issues. What is the safest and best way to do it? I'm thinking that a factory reset is less thorough than a clean install off of a USB stick. Specs: GPU: GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 2070 Super WINDFORCE OC 8G CPU: i5-9600k RAM: 16GB 2666 C-drive: Samsung 970 EVO plus, 250GB M.2 SSD Power Supply: GIGABYTE B700H Motherboard: AsRock Z390 Phantom Gaming 4 Case: Sharkoon VG6-W Red
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Hi, im about to upgrade my motherboard, I've read online that I'll probably have to do a clean install of windows to get rid of the old motherboard drivers. Should I do the reset before or after I install the new motherboard or does it really matter?
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As the title implies, im dealing with all these issues at once on a single PC. starting with specs: AMD fx6300 CPU evga 500 gold PSU Rog Strix rx570 GPU Asrock 970m pro3 motherboard seagate 1TB HDD 2x4gb g.skill 1333 ram loaded in slots 2 and 4 I believe The most common problem is PC freezing. When playing games or doing anything other than sitting on desktop the PC will eventually freeze, lock, and make the buzzing noise through audio. only fix for this is a press of the reset button. The other two happen in conjunction. USUALLY the PC will just cycle power randomly no matter what is going on and go through normal boot processes. A few failed boots will give me a blue screen. The motherboard is recently bought, like 3 days ago bought. it is refurbished so it very well might be at fault. all parts where previously working when attached to an older board. reason for change was that i needed a board with 6gb/s speed instead of 3. Ive noticed that the board does have clicking and whine coming from near the CPU, could be coil or board vrm. Only happens when cpu is under slight stress and gets worse as loads continue to increase and will lead to one of the mentioned crashes. The only time the computer doesnt crash is when its sitting at the desktop not doing anything other than background tasks. dmp files attached, I believe 2 are for hardware failures and 1 is a driver? hard for me to tell. Any help would be greatly appreciated. funds are tight and so I cant really be throwing parts at it. 110521-25203-01.dmp 110521-28968-01.dmp 110521-30000-01.dmp
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Little weird: Power button does shutdown and reset randomly
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Hi, So I am working on a project right now and we have a machine, which does a couple of important things. The problem is, we installed a button which should normally just reset the PC. Just like a reset button should do. Sometimes it resets the PC and sometimes it shuts down the PC. And it's random (at least I didn't see a pattern). It's just a tiny PC inside of a machine and we did all the wiring ourself and it should all be correctly wired. Why is it, that it sometimes resets and sometimes shuts down the PC. I could really need some help with it, because I have to get it done in 2 days. Thanks in advance. -
when i turn on the computer, the press f1 shows up, then i configure the bios and unplug and re-plug my pc(drain the power on the PSU capacitors as well) when i turn it on again still shows the press f1 tried *check and reseat cmos reset pin *replace new battery *reseat ram *reset bios *reseat power connectors still not working tried *bios flash *bios reprogram *bios reprogram using external flasher (CH341A programmer) *change bios chip this is no software fix, only hardware can fix this, either replacing a chip or something i have a air solder station here so i can do a bit of smd rework if needed i dont have or cant find any free schematics and soldering is only my hobby, i just need guide on how to fix this stubborn thing
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Hi everyone, hope y'all doing great. Just a quick list of my pc components : Ryzen 7 3800XT - was 3800X 4x8Gb 3000Mhz CL16 X570 Aorus PRO Gigabyte RTX 2070 Super Windforce x3 Aorus 1Tb NVMe PCIe4 480Go PNY SATA SSD 2TB 3.5" Seagate HDD 1TB 2.5" Seagate HDD Aorus PCIe WiFi Card Gigabyte P750GM PSU I had the idea recently to "borrow" the CPU in my testbench (Ryzen 7 3800XT) and to put it in my own PC (Ryzen 7 3800X). So basically, not a great change. But my PC acted wierd right after the change. First of All, it didn't booted properly at the first time. I had to do a quick CLEAR CMOS to redo my boot priorities. After that it went well, and i had some BSOD about my corrupted VGA Driver that was quickly solved. But after that, things got funkier. As I'm playing, or doing something a little stressing for my pc, about 10 minutes into it, my PC restarts by himself. Just like if it was a overheating issue, or a overclock stability problem. But i have no overclock on my pc, and I've monitored the thermals of my pc, and everything is way under overheating. I thought that was maybe a BIOS update issue, but even after updating it to the latest version, it didn't solved this problem. I'm thinking also about a PSU issue, but I have a 750W unit, so i don't think I'm over this wattage. I'm kinda lost about what to do next.. If anyone has any response, I'm so willing to hear them. Thanks for your time!