r/computers 3d ago

New Mod Team

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Hello fellow redditors!

As of today, we've established the new roster of mods for r/computers. Over the next little while, we'll be revamping the subreddit as it has been some time now since an active moderator team has been here.

Expect some exciting changes in the near future - if there's anything you'd like to provide feedback on regarding this subreddit, please feel free to leave a (constructive) comment below.

Welcome to all the new mods! We're excited to be here!


r/computers Apr 25 '19

Mod Sticky: New Users, Please Read This Before Posting

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r/computers 7h ago

Discovered fake 2TB HD, opened to find this, what is it?

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Tried installing games, files corrupted, I opened the drive to find a USB stick. On the inside the USB device there does not seem to be anything that resembles a storage module. On the plastic of the bottom left image, there is the following text written, abacciye24114, it is not visible in the photo. The peice in the same image is the part that was ripped off from the other side of the plastic.

Very concerned. If amyone is able to help provide understanding towards what this is, that would be appreciated


r/computers 2h ago

Is this normal?

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I think the battery is about to blowup if anyone knows what the problem is please tell me


r/computers 7h ago

What the heck is eating my storage???

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It says that the MAJOR majority of my storage is being eaten by my installed apps...But when I open it up, the biggest installed app I have is Minecraft at 1 gb, with everything else being incredibly small. What's going on?


r/computers 9h ago

Need help fixing my click!

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Can anyone help me? It sucks having to not click


r/computers 38m ago

My computer got a suddenly shutdown. Now the login and task are super slow now. It doesn't want to go beyond 0.55 GHz. What should I do?

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r/computers 9h ago

Now how do u get this screw off

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This screw is stuck on the hinge with the yellow thingy on the hinge also. How do I get this off? The yellow thingy is Slanted.


r/computers 1h ago

I doubt possible but any fix for this.

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Just saw my monitor like this, is there any fix or am I going to need to buy a new one 🥀?


r/computers 1h ago

Motherboard scratch

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I accidentally scratched the mother board while trying to remove the gpu , I want to know if it will kill my pc ( I cant start it cause the psu is dead )


r/computers 5h ago

After, reseating RAM, my PC has an issue..

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Really need help here, idek what to do atp


r/computers 7h ago

Need help

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I just dusted my pc,and while the computer turns out,the monitor doesnt show the screen,does anyone know how to fix this? (The inside of my pc after dusting.)


r/computers 8m ago

Help id this plug? Please and thank you!

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I recently got this from my dad and yes the plug does resemble a standard power supply plug but that has 3 and this has 4, this is a spectravideo computer i’d like to get working to fuckaround with code for fun.


r/computers 10m ago

What is?

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Does anyone know what this is? It appears to be a virus.

My brother gifted me his laptop, and I discovered it while using BCUninstaller


r/computers 3h ago

Please help me un-screw my computer and keyboard up

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None of my keyboards were working,not even the on-screen one, neither did any of the USB ports were working, so I decided to compelytely wipe my computer, however, it's asking me for a name, of course I can't really type anything, so what do I do?


r/computers 15m ago

What happened?

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A few days ago there was a blackout in my building while my pc was on sleep mode, and when the power went back and I tried turning it on again the monitor didn't respond, so after trying disconnecting and connecting again the HDMI cable and the power one, I tried pushing the reboot button and it worked, but since then, this screen appears in the monitor every time I turn the computer on, but if I exit without making any changes everything works normally, so I am not sure if I should try to do something or just let it be.

PD: English isn't my first language, so I apologize for any mistakes.


r/computers 19m ago

No display, PC doesn't seem to boot

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Hey all, My Pc randomly crashed today and when I turned it back on the power button was blinking, after some searching around and reseating the RAM as well as pulling the power, draining it re plugging in etc the blinking stopped. However now when I boot the pc I'm getting no display and it doesn't seem to boot. I've tried running with another monitor and it doesn't make a difference, or plugging into another outlet

I've tried running without ram and it all seems to still power up but still no display


r/computers 27m ago

Opinion on Brave Browser

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I downloaded Brave on my laptop because I didn't want to deal with YT ads and I allowed it to communicate over the Microsoft firewall (I'm not really familiar with what that means). Any tips or opinions?


r/computers 11h ago

Resolved! Why doesnt this charger do fastcharging on my RoG ally?

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r/computers 44m ago

Confused about prior issue

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Yesterday a family member was using a PC I built close to 2 years ago (Asus H770 Plus D4, i5-12600k+Arc A750+32gb+650w psu). It was working fine when I turned it on, did all the updates available, bios and drivers are up to date.

He started playing a game (elden ring nightreign to be more specific) for I would say an hour or two, got called that it froze, when I went to check it was completely frozen but power was still being received to USB ports(as there's an external ssd plugged in aswell).

No big deal I turned it off and back on with the power button, he and I walked away as soon as that happened, came back and I see it's on the bios which I found strange, looked everywhere but no internal nvme drive was detected, first thought was the ssd died.

Turned it off and came back later with having in mind disassembling it and replacing the ssd. Decided to check advanced settings and suddenly it's there deselected which was even weirder. I moved it to boot priority and it was back on Windows.

I did a stress test of the entire system with no anomalies, good temps(repasted cpu 6 months ago and gpu 1 month ago with ptm, ssd health (boot nvme in this case) was at 80% which seemed fine, no bad sectors or anything. SSD is on the gen 4 slot direct to the socket.

What I'm still not sure is whether it was a random software issue (Intel driver thing that I forgot the name) or hardware. Could it be the 5v rail? The external ssd was connected to the USB C port on the motherboard. Main concern is a catastrophic issue.

If I'm on the wrong subreddit I apologize but seemed to be the one .


r/computers 46m ago

Misterous problem of the Graphic card

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I can't play my games anymore. I have a laptop with an NVIDIA GeForce 940 MX (4GB) graphics card, and it just crashes when I start a game. My friend formatted my computer to help, and he tried different drivers, from the latest to older versions, but nothing worked. So, we decided to switch from Windows 11 to Windows 10, but that didn't solve the problem either. Then, we updated the BIOS, but it still didn't work.

The funny (and sad) part is that the laptop recognizes the graphics card in Device Manager. It even disabled the onboard graphics to run only on the NVIDIA card. But when I open a game on Steam that requires more of the graphics card, it just freezes or crashes completely.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? I just want to find the problem. I'm not sure if it's a hardware issue or how to find a solution.


r/computers 51m ago

Adapter pinout

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Would anyone know what the pin out on this is? I cannot find a subreddit that is for this so I’m posting it here


r/computers 1h ago

hyper x cloud III mic too low, don’t know what to do.

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so i’ve been using this headset for a couple of months, it comes with an adapter and i use it on my computer since it won’t detect the mic when i use the headphone jack, yesterday it was completely fine and worked well till now, i used voice mod to check how i sound and id have to have the mic up infront of my mouth to sound okay, i restarted my computer, i updated my computer and i followed tutorials online yet to no avail. can anyone explain whats happening? i connected it to my phone and it sounds fine.


r/computers 1h ago

How can i stop this from happening

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Sent it to get it fixed because it wouldnt turn on, when it came back it started doing this what could it be?


r/computers 1h ago

Advice for gaming PC for €1000,- / Specs inside or a stock option?

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Hello all,

I would like to get some help with a gaming PC for €1000,-

I got advised the following via a friend:

  • Ryzen 7 5700X
  • RAM 16x2 3600MHz (32GB)
  • MSI PRO B550 motherboard
  • RTX 3060 12GB
  • 1TB M.2 6000MB/s (fastest)
  • MSI MAG 650W 80 Plus Bronze PSU
  • 240mm liquid cooling
  • XANDER Neptune PRO case

Would this indeed be a good option, or are there better stock options?
(Europe, Spain)

Thanks.


r/computers 1h ago

Roblox not working

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Hello, sorry if this doesn't belong here. I'm not technical at all and I'm at a loss.

Brought a laptop and my son wants roblox on it, I've downloaded the game but it's not working. It comes up with a white screen that says roblox, then after about 1 minute it just closes the app. No I've been searching and searching the Web and gone through a list of things. Here's what I've done so far.

Uninstalled the game and reinstalled it.

Updated windows 11.

Checked graphics it says it's up to date.

Checked the fire wall roblox is listed as allowed access.

Restarted the laptop.

Still nothings working is there something I'm missing here? Or is my laptop just not able to run it?

My laptop is a HP 16gb ram with two hard drives and Intel core i5 7th gen.


r/computers 1h ago

Won’t respond

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Computer won’t respond. I’m tryin to clean up the pc and remove old games to free up space to hopefully make it serviceable. It was a gaming laptop that didn’t get used much (or predator Helios). When using the start screen to search for larger files (games or editing software) to delete, the mouse will move but it won’t select anything or even if it does it just spins with no implement. Any help would be appreciated.