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Detect the origin for my computer's problems, probably hardware-related
In the past couple of weeks my computer shows more and more problems. I think it might be a hardware problem, since most of my setup is 13 years old and it worked before with the same OS. However, I ...
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Motherboard LED is lit (constant green) but turns off immediately when I press the power button (No fans, no POST)
I'm not sure where to begin; I've been trying to get the thing working again for a couple of weeks (waiting on shipping is a pain). There are no trustworthy local shops (speaking from experience) so ...
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Why is Task Manager showing more than 100% CPU Usage? What does it mean?
I have a weird issue. This is the second time that I'm encountering this over the last 2-3 months.
My CPU Usage is constantly running between 120% and 200%... How? How is this possible? What does it ...
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how to troubleshoot MS Word freezing repeatedly with many images on page
I'm working on a single page MS Word document with 64 small images on it. As I'm working with the document I keep getting the spinning wheel and the screen fades every few seconds and the status bar ...
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my pc has become slow, it just gotten slower on its own
These are my computer's specs:
Intel core i5 3570
GT 710 DDR3
8GB ram
It may not be powerful by modern standards, but it can play some games , like Minecraft, kinda good. My pc can run it over ...
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How can I track and log CPU and memory usage on a Mac?
I know I can use Activity Monitor (as well as a slew of 3rd party applications) to monitor the usage of RAM and CPU on my Mac. However, I want to capture a log over an amount of time so that I can ...
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High "System" CPU usage; unaccounted for Memory usage
I fresh reinstalled Windows 11 a couple months back, and for a while now it seems like there's some sort of memory leak (?) that causes high CPU usage by the "System" process, high memory ...
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Why does dmidecode return a higher number of banks than the number of memory channels supported by the CPU?
According to the wiki, a bank refers to the secondary structure of a DRAM chip, which is different from the bank mentioned in the dmidecode command. I am wondering what the relationship is between ...
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Updating BIOS - Increase RAM Capacity? Virtual Memory Increase?
I have an old laptop. Does Updating the BIOS increase Maximum RAM capacity?
Sometimes my programs will shut down and the laptop is slow at Max RAM. RAM is 4gb and Virtual Memory is 5gb. Google says ...
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Distribute Blender rendering to two computers
I have two computers
Macbook Pro Intel i7 2.9GHz with 8GB of ram
PC with Intel i5 2.5GHz and 8GB of ram
Is it possible to distribute Blender rendering to use both of these computers? Currently ...
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Software on Windows crashing/OOMing with RAM well below 100%
I have a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (4th gen, 2016), and lately while working I've been noticing Chrome and PyCharm intermittently crashing.
Usually it seems like like a CPU spike or something causes ...
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No POST screen, No beeps and No display
I have very old motherboard , CPU , power supply.
Motherboard : Gigabyte G31M-ES2C
CPU : Intel Pentium Dual Core E2160 @ 1.8GHz
Ram : Transcend 2GB ddr2 800MHz.
Power supply : Tech-Com 450Watt....
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PC not starting with ram installed - it is stuck in a turn-on, turn-off loop
-CPU installed
-NO sticks of memory (RAM)
-NO hard disks / storage devices
-NO peripheral cards on (PCI-E/PCI/AGP/etc)
Literally just CPU and motherboard connected to the PSU
Turns on, runs fine/...
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PC won't post with 4 RAM sticks
I have a few question if possible.
I have an old system which has the following components: CPU: i7 6700K, motherboard: Asus H110M2 D3, and a GTX 1060 3GB.
I wanted to upgrade the RAM to 32 GB (since ...
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Why is faster pc i5:ram 4, ssd 256, core 4, then laptop i7: ram 16, ssd 500, core 10?
I have such a case and maybe you can help me, what is the reason?
I did a test, reading an excel file (310 MB) in python (pandas).
Laptop(IdeaPad Slim 5 16IRL8): i7, ram 16, ssd 500, core 10, 2.4 ghz, ...
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Lenovo Thinkpad with Windows 11 System Hangs Frequently
I am using Lenovo Thinkpad P14s since last 2 years and haven't faced any issues. Suddenly I have noticed that there seems to intermittent noticeable hang while working on light weight applications ...
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BIOS Setup is showing Gliches in Half Screen in ASUS TUF F15 2021
My laptop with BIOS Screen with half screen flickering or not visible:
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BIOS American Megatrends Inc.
BIOS Version: FX506LH. 310
26/11/2021 (Bought on this date)
RAM: DDR4 16 GB
Graphics: NVIDIA ...
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How can I find my computer's address bus width and data bus size?
I have a 64 bit x86 (x86-64) computer. Does that mean my address bus is 64 bit? I am trying to calculate addressability and address space as explained here.
I don't really have any clue how to find my ...
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can't fully understand how the RAM modules speed works (related to the hardware limitations)
I'm building my first desktop computer and I've discovered lots of things. Some of them regarding the RAM modules speed:
I've seen that Intel specified in their official stats that the i7-14700K can ...
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Computer not booting with single RAM stick. Could Dual Channel be required?
I have just recently ordered new computer parts. In the motherboard and CPU spec, only dual channel are specified. Does that mean my computer may not be able to post and boot normally because I am ...
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Why don't desktop motherboards have more than 4 slots for RAM?
I was wondering why (desktop) motherboards have 4 slots for RAM.
I know that one can use fewer RAM sticks, and that server motherboards have more slots, but I could not find a satisfying answer to why ...
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RAM timing/frequency issues, impossible to enable XMP profile
The problem
My RAM is supposed to run in XMP 2.0 at 1600MHz with the following timings
CAS Latency: 16
RAS to CAS: 18
RAS precharge: 18
tRAS: 38
TRC: 56
As you can see there that's the expected ...
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How to view total CPU and memory usage of per system user in Linux
I know the top command to see the process of CPU and memory usage, but some users of the system can generate a lot of processes, if I wanna know total CPU and memory usage of an user,I must count it ...
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thousands of errors on memtest86+
I recently started having random BSODs that coincided with a Windows installation that became increasingly unstable.
I upgraded the NVMe and reinstalled Windows from scratch.
BSODs are sadly still ...
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How to change the size of shared system memory In Windows 10?
I recently upgraded my laptop ram from 4gb ddr3 to 16gb ddr3.but my system shared memory is not increased so that i cannot increase my dedicated video ram more than 576mb.anyone help me to solve this ...
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CPU and GPU bottlenecking
I am using a hydro-morphdynamic simulation software (BASEMENT) to run river-engineering simulations. Since version 3, BASEMENT is programmed to run on GPU + multi-threaded on CPU (using OpenMP).
I run ...
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Understanding Mac OS MPS Warning
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Hardware: Mac M1 Mini
Software
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ProductName: macOS
ProductVersion: 13.5
BuildVersion: 22G74
Task at hand: Running a piece of Python Code (a Machine Learning Model)....
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How does interrupt controller deals with PCI, QPI and other buses?
We know that communication between CPU and Notrh Bridge things happens through the PCIe or memory bus. Communication between CPU and South Bridge devices is made through the interconnect interface (...
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Can reverting/resetting BIOS Settings completely erase all your xmp/memory frequency changes right?
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 turned on XMP, but then you ...
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Are these reportings/stats typically normal for a CPU?
I was checking my cpu temperatures by using HWiNFO and checking if everything is normal. But i came to notice that the minimum of the Core Clock Speed are "798-797.7 mhz or 0.78-0.79 ghz" ...
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