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New member here, but long time lurker. Thanks for having me. I'm stumped and I need some help that would be greatly appreciated. Trying to help a friend, I went to his office today to check on his computer, since he claims that his upload speeds to the Internet suck. After some testing he is right, but it is so weird. He has a 2.5GbE NIC on a 2.5 Gb local LAN, with 500Mb Up and 500Mb down fiber. While he can send and receive files from other PCs on the LAN at 2.5Gb, and he can download at 500Mb from the Internet, he can only upload at around 10~20Mb to the Internet. All the other PCs on the network can upload at 500Mb. Since the NIC can transfer internally at 2.5Gb that would mean the NIC works fine. I thought it was the switch, so I swapped the ports with a known working one and the same for his computer and the other PC worked fine in that slot. I reason it can't be the router since the other PCs don't have that issue. I ended up removing all middle equipment and plugged the machine with a new cable (CAT 6a 3 foot tested cable) directly to the ONT, with the same exact results. I just installed an Aorus WiFi 6 AX200 wifi card, and the results are the same on the WiFi6 on 5GHz and 2.4Ghz (500Mbs down/20 up, and 228Mbs down/18 up, respectively on each). Card set to Full Duplex with 1500 MTU. Uninstalled NordVPN, disabled bitdefender as well. I don't think its bitdefender because all the other machines in his office have the same version and it was installed the same for all users. Tested with speedtest in Chrome, Opera GX and Edge, which are all installed and then download the app from the MS Store getting the same results. I brought the machine home and plugged it in to my network, and it is doing the same thing. All this leads me to think something could be capped in his windows configuration or something like that. Something will not let me upload to the internet at more than about 20 Mbps on this machine. Anyone has any ideas where I should start looking for an answer to this? Thanks in advance. PC Specs: Microcenter's PowerSpec with intel core i7 12 gen, 32 Gb RAM with a Realtek PCIe 2.5GbE Family controller and now an Aorus WiFi 6 AX200 wifi card. The router here at home is an ASUS RT-AX88U while in the office it was a dream machine.

So for the past month I have this problem, whenever I try to change resolution or extend/duplicate my display to my 2nd TV/monitor, either from the nvidia control panel or display settings, my desktop disappears and turns grey, like this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1evWh-C9IwNqEekFSicOkc0h649qbosW8/view?usp=sharing I've ruled out that it's my 2nd monitors problem, since it the problem persists even when it's disconnected. Also it's not a cable problem, since I just changed to a brand new monitor and went from HDMI to DP. I tried restoring nvidia control panel to default settings but that didn't help. I'm guessing it must be a windows or GPU problem. My pc specs are: CPU: Ryzen 5 2600 GPU: MSI Gaming Z RTX 2060 6gb PSU: Corsair CXM Seriers 650W 80+ Bronze RAM: 16gb dual channel 3200mhz MoBo:MSI B450 Tomahawk-MAX SSD: Samsung 970 Evo Plus (NVME m.2) HDD: Seagate SD2000DM008 (SATA) Everything was brand new when I built it almost 1.5 years ago. My Windows 10 pro (64-bit) version is 19042.746 Thanks in advance to anyone that helps!!

This is what is showing me every time I am trying to use sandbox. And I turned on Hyper v in windows according to Microsoft support and it still not letting me to use sandbox, and i have checked my system that my current windows is running Windows10Pro. Can someone help me resolve this issue? Thanks.

So I recently bought a bluray player (LG BH16NS40 manufactured before 2015) and I wanted to use it inside my Windows 10 VM to rip blurays. However the drive wont recognize and dvds, even non blurays inside the vm and makemkv wont recognize the drive. I plugged it in my physical pc and the drive works and makemkv recognized the drive. So now I am wondering if anybody here knows a drive that will work with makemkv inside a vm. I know this might not be quite the right subreddit, but I am desperate because I am working on this issue for 3 days now. So any help will be really appreciated!

Hi. I faced a problem with updating BIOS. Back when enabling TPM was a hassle and some motherboards released a BIOS version that would automatically enable TPM. For my motherboard, ASUS TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI) released a stable BIOS version 4021, which is currently what I am using. Later on, they removed 4021 and replaced it with 4022. Note that they always add Beta next to a Beta version, but with 4021, they didn't add any beta next to it; instead replaced that version entirely. So, I updated my BIOS back then, not knowing that version 4021 had automatically enabled TPM. I had no intention of jumping the trend of upgrading to Win11, and still don't. I had tried to update the BIOS to a new version available at that time but got this message instead. Not understanding what it is and what it does, I searched on youtube. Their methods of finding out where this key is stored didn't work for me. So, I didn't update the BIOS back then. I had emailed ASUS to know where this is stored and got a reply which I attached a screenshot. I navigated as they told me and found that the BitLocker is turned off. Know this, I never turned on any BitLocker, hence got no idea where it is stored. I went through Microsoft's site, but it seemed a bit more confusing. I am a complete newbie in this BitLocker stuff. So, if any of you are using the same motherboard as I am or know how to back up the key and update the BIOS, let me know. Thank you. Btw, I am trying to update to version 4403 from 4021.

Heya fellow locdown nerds. My 8086k system has been freezing up in windows randomly... there is never anything in the crash reports... i tried some software a while ago that never logged any reason a while ago either.. sometimes it will just freeze and sometimes the mouse will stutter for a second then freeze with almost tails and distortion! can anyone suggest a WORKING crash/freeze logger that might be able to pinpoint my issue? i monitor temps for gpu and cpu in the taskbar and never see any spikes in temp when these freezes occur!.... I've tried going back to an older bios.... no results...

I have a 32 bit os i wanted to upgrade to 64bit, I will use the bootable pendrive to install 64 bit os but do i need to erase all the files in the drive to upgrade to 64 bit? Will all the data in other drive be safe? plz reply..

is compatible an nvidia quadro k4200 with win 10 pro? i had problems last year when i had win 10 pro because the drivers didn't recognised the grafic card so i had to change to win 10 enterprise? what can i do if i want to change to win 10 pro

Ryzen 1600 overclocked to 4.05GHz at 1.4v NZXT Kraken X62 280MM AIO ASRock B350 Pro4 latest BIOS 6.00 32GB's Corsair Vengeance 3200MHz XMP enabled Gigabyte Aorus 1080 Ti Xtreme Edition 256GB Samsung NVME M.2 Used as OS drive, not in RAID mode, in normal NVME mode AMD HW RAID: SP 500GB SATA SSD + Samsung 840 Evo 512GB both healthy drives, used for storing games AMD HW RAID: Crucial MX500 500GB SATA M.2 not technically in RAID, just initialized by RAID controller because it doesn't show up in the OS otherwise due to Mobo in SATA RAID mode. So ever since the September cumulative update that broke lots of things like audio and Windows Search UI CPU utilization spikes, my PC was extremely slow to boot to desktop after installing them. Uninstalling them fixed the slow to boot but started having the quieter audio issue's randomly? So I paused updates until yesterday 10-3-19 which Microsoft released a new Cumulative update, so I figured I'd try it out. Same issue. I've tried reinstalling all AMD Chipset and RAID/SATA drivers, and it also causes device manager to report and I/0 error with one of the SATA controllers. If I go back before these updates, no SATA driver errors. Using the previous driver versions do not fix the issue either. Finally after hours of trying literally everything I disconnected my RAID drives and switched SATA mode in BIOS from RAID to AHCI, and voila! Glorious NVME boot speeds. But as soon as you enable RAID again, it's stupid slow So idk what to do to try and fix this. I'm tempted to get a new mobo or even get a i7-8700k and mobo and sell this AMD stuff, but I want to fix this if possible first. I've also tried a Win10 Pro Fresh install leaving SATA in AHCI mode, and installing the AMD Chipset and SATA/RAID drivers, getting Windows 100% up to date, drivers up to date, several restarts, then enable RAID connect RAID drives, and still the same slow issue. Like at least 1-3 minutes of spinning circle. RAID Xpert reports no issues with RAID drives or RAID array's etc, but again device manager says supposed I/0 error with a random SATA controller. HW ID points to ASMedia controller, but the ASMedia SATA ports are not being used whatsoever, only AMD SATA port 1 and 2 on the mobo, which I've verified with the mobo user manual. If I plug the RAID drives into the ASMedia SATA ports A_1 and A_2, the mobo sees the physical disks, but is not detected by the RAID controller until I move them back to the AMD SATA ports. I'm at a loss right now. I have Gigabit internet, so yes I could delete the RAID and reset the SSD's and download my 800GB's worth of games that was on the RAID array in probably less then an hour but still. I hate seeing and having to manage 2-3 separate SSD's and space etc.

(cross-posted from Superuser, because it's all crickets over there...) I've been toying around with iSCSI for a little while (FreeNAS 11.1-U5 target, Win10 Pro (1803) initiator) and have run into what would be a bit of a deal-breaking issue: I can't seem to disconnect from an iSCSI target, regardless of what I try. All methods get a "The session cannot be logged out since a device on that session is currently being used" message, and fails to disconnect. What I've tried: Clicking Disconnect in the iSCSI Initiator panel Running the equivalent command in PowerShell Taking the disk offline in Disk Management first Disabling the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator device in Device Manager (requires a reboot, not tenable) Turning the iSCSI service off in FreeNAS (this works eventually, but I'd like to not have to do it this way, if I can help it) Per other sources, I've removed all favorite targets and target portals in the iSCSI properties dialog first The 'device' is not currently initiated in Windows, and therefore does not have a file system (so, if I understand correctly, cannot be accessed by the OS in a way that would hold the connection open); it's just a disk device at the moment. My preferred behavior would be to disconnect on request (or at least, successfully force disconnect), so I can then connect from another machine, and then back again when necessary. Thanks in advance for any ideas! Hardware Details: Win10 Pro System (desktop): Ryzen 5 1600X, 16GB RAM, NVMe boot drive, Mellanox ConnectX-2 (direct connection to server) FreeNAS System (server): Core i3-4170, 32GB RAM, 4×10TB in RAIDZ2, Mellanox ConnectX-2 (direct connection to desktop)

Hi there! I am recently got a *new* pc, running windows 10. I currently use 2 displays with it. When I play fullscreen games I have no problems, but when I close the game my secondary display gets disabled, and my screen projection resets to only the main screen, and I have to manually set it back to extend. What could i do to solve this problem? With my old pc i didn't have this problem. Currently I am using windows 10 pro 64 bit build: 18362.900 If it matters the specs are: CPU: i5-3330 RAM: 16GB generic 1333 Mhz VGA: Asus GTX 770 2GB (i used the same gpu with my old pc) MB: Gigabyte GA-H61MA-D3V (rev. 2.1) Displays: Main: AOC C24G1 (1920 x 1080 - 144 Hz connected with DisplayPort) Secondary: HANNS-G HW191A (1280 x 960 - 60Hz connected with VGA)

Greetings.I have win 8.1 Pro 64BIT and when i tryed upgrading to windows 10 it gave me this error: What can I do about it? what's the problem?

So I purchased a BenQ XL2411Z 144hz monitor, and I can't get my computer to display past 90hz. Before installing my GPU I used DDU to completely remove all graphics drivers from the OS/registry. I have Windows 10 Pro. Using a Asus STRIX GTX 970 4GB, and a AudioQuest Carbon HDMI cable http://www.bestbuy.com/site/audioquest-carbon-6-6-hdmi-cable-black-dark-gray/9892785.p?id=1218202520524&skuId=9892785. I came across another website forum saying to use CRU (custom resolution utility) which creates override profiles and forces the resolution you set up. After figuring out the software, I created the correct values for 1920 by 1080 @ 144hz. It says that profile is currently active, but when I go into games it doesn't display a 144hz option. The BenQ info tab says it's only at 60hz as well. So then I used the Nvidia Control panel, and before I couldn't get past 60hz, I was able to succesfully create a custom resolution of 1920 by 1080 @ 90hz, at 91hz it black screens and I have to go back. When I go into games I do get the option for 1920 by 1080 @ 90hz, so CRU is doing absolutely nothing for some reason. According to Best Buy's website, the HDMI cable I listed above can only go up to 120hz, but why can I only get up to 90hz? Also, in the BenQ's OSD menu, the first category for changing settings is Display, but I can't edit those settings no matter what I change else where.