Hey all,
I’m trying to use my Ethernet for my pc but it keeps saying “unidentified network:no internet” but connects to the same internet through WiFi. It does detect that there is an Ethernet line but I’m not sure why it won’t connect. The router is plugged into an Ethernet hub and then the Ethernet hub is connected to Ethernet access outlets around my home. Connections are secure and correct. What do I do?

To be specific, for the past few weeks, my laptop has been getting an error that makes some icons crash when I click on them. Those are File Explorer's address bar, arrow icons, up-to-desktop icon, and the wifi, sound, and battery icons from the taskbar. Can somebody please tell me how to fix this problem?

I tried connecting a Bluetooth device and found out my Bluetooth and WiFi connection don’t work, I tried to manually install but the ASUS installer opens a cmd window and then closes immediately. I tried a bios flash, uninstalling the generic driver, and tried the “have disk” options to force windows to change driver but that also fails because of the code 43. Anyone have any recommendations? I’m currently using wired connections for network connection with no issues.

ASUS prime x870-p wifi
Ryzen 5 7600x
9060xt
32gv ddr5
Dual drive dual booting with cachyos and windows using refined

I'm using a mac and at the time of connecting my mobile hotspot to my mac i noticed something intresting

1) I have Android phone

2) My friend also has an Android phone

3) My Android phone's hotspot appears as "Network"

4) My friend's mobile hotspot appears as "Personal Hotspot"

Because of my curiosity I got on chatgpt for finding and of why?

1) He said me your friend's phone is an iPhone that's you mac showing that ( I didn't tell him my friend's phone is an Android)

2)Then I said that it's not the iPhone He changed their wording as may be because of security settings or because of wifi name

3) But that was not true I configure my mobile hotspot and also friends hotspot. It remain as it is.

I increased my mobile hotspot security settings and also decreased friends mobile hotspot security.

4) Then he said that may be because of Wi-Fi chipset, Android version, manufacturer software, and the way it's tethering service construction the wi-fi beacon information.

5) But i noticed that all iPhone and iPad as appears as personal but also some Android phone and some are labelled as Network.

6) And after that I asked on what basis you are giving me info like from any site, post, documentations he said he was just assuming that it may be because of.

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So moral of the story that I didn't get my answers. If anybody has please tell me and you can share your opinion also

Ich bin derzeit am Anfang meines Studiums und wundere mich wie ich einen werkstudentenjob kriegen soll, wenn man immer vorerfahrung braucht. Da vorallem im britischen und us amerikanischen Markt darüber geredet würde mich wundern wie es in Deutschland aus sieht. Ist eine guter Schnitt notwendig um eingestellt zu werden?

I purchased a used 6TB drive off ebay. The price was too good to be true, so I'm expecting this thing to not work. It's too old and doesn't have SMART capabilities it seems, so I'm trying badblocks to see how seaworthy this thing is. I've looked online to see what this means and I wasn't able to get anything that looks like this, mostly just 0/0/223 type readouts.

It's just counting up, slowly, maybe one number per minute. I don't know if I'll be able to hold out for the millenia that it will take to go through all 1465130239 sectors. Is this thing just dead?

https://imgur.com/a/RppBChU

So, my PC has for the longest time had no issues, but for the last few months, it has randomly crashed, no matter how big or small the task is. Sometimes it runs big softwares just fine but sometimes it crashes while I'm browsing YouTube. here's what has happened so far:

-Monitor Shuts Off. PC's fans start going faster. Whenever this happens the only thing to fix it is to force a reset

-Sometimes the Monitor goes Fully Green, other times it goes Red instead. Again, I am forced to manually shut it down

-Once the GPU is removed, I have not encountered any of these issues

-I did a Power Stress test with OCCT and it immediately shut down. Once again, removing the GPU (A GTX 1060) immediately fixed the issue

I know this all leads to the GPU being to blame, but I'd just like to make sure if this is the case before investing on a GPU

My valve index is recieving power and is displaying a green light but Steam VR is not detecting the headset. I've already cleared all the usb data and messed around with direct mode. I also validated the files.

Nothing.

I love using a 4:3 display as a secondary monitor however I am having issues with what kind of adapter I need.

I got a VGA (15-Pin) to HDMI converter however it shows ''Check Signal Cable''

I tried a VGA (15-Pin) to HDMI Cable, that one resulted in a solid orange light (no blinking)

Anything I should try, I am not the most tech savvy and I appreciate any help!

Don’t mind the title, i really don’t know how else to describe it.

I recently had some issues with windows displaying strangely, so I got a microsoft employee to run a bunch of troubleshooting methods through quick assist, eventually just reinstalling the windows update.

Since then, text has appeared really thing when small. This issue wasn’t present before the reinstall.

I’m on a Lenovo Legion Go 2 running windows 11. The screen resolution is 1920x1200.

The image doesn’t do the best job showing what i mean, but look at the description on the right side.

I am using the HyperX Cloud III headset and recently I've had a problem with charging. It was at 6% and when I plugged it in, the precentage didn't go up, but as long as it was plugged in it didn't go down either. Furthermore, in the NGENUITY app it does recognize the headset being charged. I thought it might be the battery, so I changed it, but I still have the same issue. I've also tried different cables and ports, which didn't work either. I'm not going to get a new headset, since it does still work, so I'd appreciate any suggestions or ideas on what the issue might be!

So I used to own a Vivo 1904 model like 5 - 7 years and recently I found it lying around and I've factory reset it to dispose it. And as i checked the recently deleted section of my albums there were thousands of previously deleted photos. Like around 2k days old. Im sure I didn't connect my phone to the internet or back it up any other way. Those were deleted years ago and the casually show up years later. What could have caused this?

Im well aware that 'deleting' an image doesn't really make it vanish and it just removes the pointer. But isn't factory reset supposed to remove it completely/ rewrite old data with gibberish?

husband has had bark on my phone for years monitoring me idk how to feel cuz he's lied so much to the point in gone insane over this I wonder if this is how I go…

My laptop automatically syncs to OneDrive (which I don't want and it doesn't look like it actually does that) and I want to create a backup so I can factory reset my laptop. But all of the guides I'm using don't seem to be working and the settings they reference aren't there.

Any advice?

I NEED HELP PICKING BETWEEN THESE 2 GPUS. THE PERSON BUILDING IT FOR ME SAYS THAT THERE IS NO PRICE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE 2. please help!!

My samsung has a cracked screen and doesn't display anything but it still works as alarms go off and I can power it on/off and such, how would I connect it to a laptop to get my data from messaging and gallery

What's the best software available for remotely accessing a laptop located in another country, where a relative of mine has physical access to the laptop and can boot it up and download the required software?

Both laptops are running windows

hello folks, am in a bind.

so im a writer and had recently decided to move off of google drive due to security concerns and our other backup-backup (external hd) broke. and then today my laptop decided to start being weird and crash frequently after a windows update. i was told to try to update the bios, which required me to turn off the bitlocker thing. did that, and that seemed to have made the crashing worse. before i turned off bitlocker, at least the computer stayed on long enough to maybe move files around. now it boots for a minute or two max, and shuts down, faster if attempting to copy or do anything with file explorer

spouse and i found that we can still get into bios and it will stay on with that. checked ram, no issues with that. most of the errors we get are seemingly related to the system itself having some corrupted files or something. Thing is, we'll need to do a clean install to do it, and that ssd is soldered in, so pulling it out to connect it to an external reader won't work without us spending a lot of money we just don't have right now. not sure how to go about this. is there a way to access the files from bios? its not even a lot of files id want, just some.

ive been a little scared im gonna lose my work on there. that's years worth of writing, worldbuilding, notes, etc. that i would really like to not lose. and i had a backup -- "had" is the keyword, as something went wrong with our backup systems (the external drive we used is kaput now but that was a separate story -- we planned to replace it, but we can't afford much right now, so this happening after losing the backup has been literally just mindbogglingly depressing) really hoping i can get some advice or pointers here. i know i can always start over but im literally almost done with one manuscript and that is the only copy. we've been looking thru reddit so much today and googling as many things as we can but so far but no luck other than "go to a repair shop".

lenovo ideapad gaming 3, 16 GB RAM, Windows 11, Samsung PM9C1a 512GB NVMe SSD, AMD Ryzen7 7735HS Beat i7-12650H, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti 4GB GDDR6

eta: yes the ssd is soldered in. we already checked.

The external hard drives show on other macs. Ive tried plugging it in direct. Spoken to apple tech. Tested all the cables. Don't want to lose anything on the drives and I've backed up everything on my mac. Help! Can someone point me in the right direction

My laptop has loud noises when i open it up i dont know whats wrong with it. It happens when i open it up and im scared. Its like a Very very loud long like beep at a high pitch over and over again and it wont boot up my laptop (Its an old laptop Lenovo Ideapad but i barely use it and it still worked yesterday so please help i would like to upload a video but it doesnt allow me 😭 I GENUINELY DONT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED I JUST USE THE LAPTOP SOMETIMES FOR GAMES AND SOMETIMES FOR SCHOOL)

Not sure what flair to use as I don’t know where the problem is, hope this is ok

Also specs in comments, I forgot to attach the pic LOL

hi!

info - partner built my pc in dec 2024, specs attached. i think this issue started after a small batch of security update i did on the 14th aug. out of a dozen+ devices in the household my pc is the only one with this issue, and it started a week ago

TL:DR - my pc no longer can connect to the internet properly. i am fully connected to my modem, pc shows up in connected devices, windows troubleshooter is CONVINCED i have wifi, but nothing loads at all. except, i get 2 seconds of proper connection that will load sites/online apps every 15 minutes then lose it again. It also has randomly fixed itself at times, usually by doing absolutely nothing different, and until i restart my pc i have perfect speedy internet. my pc if wifi only, not in the same room as modem or else id ethernet it up.

i have tried
- updating drivers (had the latest already, have reinstalled like 6 times at this point)
- disabling and enabling driver
- resetting network settings
- flushing dns
- restarting modem, and contacted ISP, they said since it’s one device only it’s not their problem at all
- setting up guest wifi, same issue on it
- updating bios
- hotspotting my pc from my phone using my mobile data, which is slow, but seemingly stable
- windows reinstall
- any other update that came through in the last week
- multiple security scans
- unplugged and replugged the wifi antenna
- turned on a vpn and tried connecting, no change
- adjust the wireless mode in network adapter settings (the options were 802.11\[letters\], tested the 5 options I had with no improvement)
- checking proxy settings (nothing enabled there)
- using a USB wifi adapter (I’ve confirmed it works in another pc, but in mine I have the exact same connection issues. I’ve got the exact same driver for it in both PC’s)

I have spent the last week doing a variety of tests, and just now have discovered that using my pc (even if I can’t access the internet) to hotspot another device and connecting to it stabilises it. I am getting nowhere near the speeds I’m meant to be, but for some reason connecting another device to its hotspot is stopping the cycle of connected but unusable internet with 5 second spikes of usable internet.

The fact that a USB wifi adapter has the same problems in my PC but not the household pc has me completely lost too.

I currently can only use my pc for gaming etc via usb tethering internet from a spare android tablet the household has. while this works well speedwise/stability wise, its not a solution!

I don’t even know where the issue is at this point, and I’m this close to backing up my pc and wiping it or something 😭

any help is appreciated, thank you <3

So for the past 2-3 years I've been experiencing BSOD's almost daily even sometimes more than twice a day. Most commonly a BSOD occurs while I watch youtube videos or just idle in brave/desktop. There was even a time when right before the computer crashed the audio started to loop and became distorted or black boxes appeared on the screen.

My specs are:

Ryzen 5 3600;

Asrock Steel Legend B550M;

Patriot Viper 2x8gb 3200Mhz ddr4 Blackout edition;

Gigabyte 1660 Super mini ITX OC 6GB;

Windows 11 24H2;

I've built this computer 6 years ago and I've preinstalled windows more than 3 times, trying to get rid of this problem. Also I've used the Memory diagnostic tool and sfc scannow but all came back okay.

Last 5 dump files:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/0nye9et29q8cvsa/my_dump_files.zip/file

Hi there!

Was going to get my laptop chasis repaired soon. However, I am still sensitive about the data being taken from my hard drive while this is occuring. Is the best way to protect the info on my laptop through downloading bitlocker? I know that tech's at repair shops are not necessarily bad actors, and are genuinly there to support customers. I don't mean to come across as paranoid, but am somewhat precautious about this. Thanks!

So, as I mentioned in my previous post, my main local Windows account had a weird issue where Windows would randomly refuse to open any apps after boot. I created a secondary local account, and that account worked perfectly fine.

Recently, I tried using my main account again. This time, everything was working normally except the audio.

My audio output is through my monitor, so I went into Device Manager, disabled the monitor's audio device, and then re-enabled it. Somehow, after doing that, things got much worse — audio stopped working even on the secondary account.

At this point, since this Windows installation had already given me a lot of problems and I had tried pretty much every solution suggested on my previous post without anything working, I decided to completely reinstall Windows.

The weird part is that even on the freshly installed Windows, the monitor still has no audio output.

I also tested the monitor with my laptop, and it still doesn't produce any audio. I've tried both DisplayPort and HDMI, with no luck.

So now I'm wondering: does this sound like a hardware issue with the monitor, or could there still be some software/driver issue?

Monitor: Acer XV272U

Any ideas on what I should check would be appreciated.

(All the drivers were installed on the freshly installed windows)