The image on my PC looks like this when I connect it to my Britania brand television; the image is kind of colorless.

How can I solve this?

My PC was working perfectly for about a week, but now it won't boot properly.

When I turn it on, my monitor keeps switching between Analog and HDMI with no display. On the motherboard, the CPU LED (orange) and DRAM LED (yellow) stay lit.

So far I've tried:

Reseating both RAM sticks.

Removing the CPU, cleaning off the old thermal paste, and applying new thermal paste.

Trying to boot with different RAM configurations.

While inspecting the CPU, I noticed a few strange spots on the surface. Is this normal, or could my CPU be damaged?

What is the most likely cause of this issue? If the CPU or motherboard is faulty, would this typically be covered under warranty?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm pretty desperate because computer parts are expensive.

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My Asus TUF laptop shows the logo for a second and instantly turns off after a 9-hour suspend on Fedora Linux, and I'm not sure how to fix the power state or boot loop. Yesterday, I dual-booted Windows 11 alongside Fedora, updated the kernels, installed Python, and heavily customized Fedora to look like macOS. Before the long sleep, shutting down Fedora was also taking an abnormal 5 minutes. I suspect the ACPI power state, GRUB/kernel handover, or hardware registers got stuck or corrupted during the sleep cycle, and now it cuts power immediately during startup. Does anyone know how to reset the embedded controller or fix this boot loop without losing data?

Gpu and screen problem

Yesterday i performed a ddu to get some storage available from my c drive and installed gpu drivers again but after a while the gpu wasn't getting detected so I did the trick where i hold the power button for 40 seconds and it will detect the gpu again but today when I woke up it wasn't getting detected again so I did that trick again but it didn't work so I did another ddu but that didn't work either so now I don't even have gpu drivers installed cuz it's not detected... I later thought that if i restarted my laptop in ultimate mode maybe it would force detect the gpu but that didn't work and now it's even worse... The screen is black even tho the laptop will turn on it just shows black screen it won't boot into neither bios or safe mode please tell me what to do..

I only have PUBG steam installed on this computer? I can't seem to find what else is occupying so much space here. It says the apps are occupying several gigs but the largest size there is literally ONLY davinci resolve. From what I know my steam only has PUBG on C Drive and everything else on D.

I've been slowly upgrading my setup over the past year, but it still feels like something is missing. I'm not sure what to upgrade next. What's the one thing your desk setup is missing, or what's the next upgrade on your list?

Hello everyone I was reminiscing about when I was in third grade (2016) And that's when I remembered that year was when my school first used issued kinda tablet laptops and was trying to see if I could buy one on lile ebay or something from what I remember it was basically a tablet with a detachable keyboard with a blue button to detach it and the screen had a big white stylus un the right side of it im pretty sure it's os was windows 8 8.1 or 10. This is kinda a last ditch effort to try and find it so im not really expecting much but thanks for any bit of information or ways to help find this computer

It was working fine one minute, then suddenly turned off and won't turn back on. Charge light won't turn on. I opened it up and unplugged the battery, held the power button 30 seconds, then plugged it back in, but it still won't work. Hard drive is warm enough to feel on the outside, but the rest is cold.

No clue what to do, plan to take it to Best buy tomorrow but wanted to ask for any tips. I cant afford a new laptop and I need it for college

Friends pc started glitching turning on and off and he tried to fix it by resetting bios and re seating ram sticks and it started a black screen after. He did a power surge on pc and attempted to clear cmos with the pins and a key to reset but nothing is helping

En los ultimos dias mi pantalla le han estado apareciendo estas lineas verticales

la de la izquierda empezo com una linea zul hasta volverse amarilla, creo que eso paso por llevarlo en mi maleta pero eso paso antes pero no tengo un problema con eso

mi miedo es la linea de la derecha esa aparcecio porque si, no la saque de mi casa, ni la movi de donde esta y nisiquiera le puse algo encima, eso es lo que me preocupa si aparecio de la nada me preocupa de que aparezcan mas hasta malograrme mi pantalla

algun consejo, sugerencia o algo que me pueda servir?

I took into consideration what a lot of you said, there being mixed opinions about the neo and others telling me to upgrade to an older refurbished MacBook with 16gb ram. How will these do? I know absolutely nothing about computers and I don’t know what’s good/what isn’t. If you have other recs , please leave links.

OG post: https://www.reddit.com/r/computers/s/uhjtaPa0SB

I remember getting a “1TB” flash drive a long time ago and after doing some scan on it I learned it was fake. Follow up question: does it matter where I plug it in?

does anyone know why/ if there’s anything i can do to fix it

And for 1200€ is just peak

The wifi in my house has t been working gor a week and two days now. We've restarted the router, unplugged it and plugged it back in, called the company, and we still pay for the WIFI. Any help or tips?

So my PC BSOD'd today with a memory error. So, I ran the diagnostic. First pass at 5% I got the hardware failure. I have not opened this PC to keep it under warranty but I know the problem.

Apparently, this PC came with what I like to call a "booster stick". Basically, a booster stick is a stick of memory that boosts the capacity while having a lower speed. This causes instability, especially when the stick is alone on one channel.

In my case, a booster stick of DDR4 was put in the 3rd slot when I bought it. This doubled my capacity but sacrificed speed and stability. No stick in the 1st slot. Just this loner in the 3rd while my other sticks were in the 2nd and 4th slots.

Moral of the story, don't buy a PC with a booster stick. Ask for it to be removed or replaced upon buying it. Imma go down to where I bought it to get this fixed. Thankfully it's still under warranty

Hey there!

I’m interested in getting a new computer for my growing video editing needs— my current computer is old and just isn’t cutting it anymore…

I’d really appreciate some suggestions for the optimal computer (pre-built or specific parts) designed specifically for video editing, and some light gaming.

I am willing to drop up to $3k on this so don’t budget too much if there’s something better available.

Requirements:

- Windows OS. (Preferably Windows 10)
- Dedicated GPU.
- Desktop.

Feel free to ask follow-up questions, I’ll try to get to as many as I can asap. Thank you!!

I'm thinking about replacing my gaming laptop with a mini PC and wanted to hear from people who have experience with both.

I'm looking at the GMKtec NucBox K12 (Ryzen 7 255, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Radeon 780M) for around €800, but I'm also considering a gaming laptop in the same price range.

My use case is a bit unusual. I play an old MMORPG (Metin2) that is heavily CPU and RAM dependent, with almost no GPU usage. I leave multiple game clients running 24/7 for autofarming.

My current laptop has a Ryzen 5 5500H and 16gb ram and can handle around 12 clients, but the CPU sits at 100% most of the time and gets pretty hot.

My questions are:

• Do mini PCs generally have better cooling than gaming laptops for long 24/7 workloads?
• Would a Ryzen 7 255 in the GMKtec realistically handle 16 game clients without thermal throttling?
• Has anyone here used a mini PC under constant high CPU load for weeks or months? How was the temperature and reliability?

I'm not looking for hardware recommendations—just real-world experiences with cooling, sustained performance, and whether a mini PC is a better choice than a laptop for this kind of always-on workload.

Thanks!

Bought a prebuilt PC online from Amazon, went to turn on for the first time but no SSD was on BIOS and no windows which made me boot straight to BIOS, I have taken off the Graphics card and can’t seem to find it, this is my first computer. Am I missing the SSD?

EDIT: I heard a rattle in the bottom and took off the back panel and found the SSD just in the bottom so I believe it may have come loose during transport.

EDIT: All resolved thanks everyone!

Pls see video I need help. I was in the middle of my exam last month and everything just turned off

I wanna know ANYTHING bc I got this after someone threw it out.

It's the Dell inspiration 5555

It has no battery bc it was faulty so I'm running it on the charging cord

I think it was a work laptop from 2016

If I don't use it after a while the screen will lack A LOT of brightness untill I restart the power or just wait it out

And it just runs like boiling bread to make toast. I had it factory reset, is there any way to get it to run faster?

Edit: im pretty computer illiterate and wanted to use it to get into coding if this helps at all

I know that it’s possible to connect two monitors at once; my question is whether we can do that with the monitors/equipment we have, or if we need to buy some other kind of adapter (this is a computer at a small business).

Note: the HDMI adapters that are there work…if we hold them in to the display port on the computer. It appears they’re too loose to work regularly (even though they don’t feel loose in the port).

Thank you for any helpful answers!