Unanswered Questions
7,909 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Unusual Boot Issue Win 10
I have windows 10 home edition and i generally leave my pc on round the clock. Today I had to restart my Pc and of course windows forced an update on me like usual except, this time it would not boot ...
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How to enter BIOS using an external monitor
How do I enter BIOS using an external monitor? My primary display is broken, so I'm currently using an external monitor. Right now, it is set to display only on the primary screen by default.
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No video output after BIOS upgrade
My PC's WiFi was disconnecting intermittently. I tried common solutions like network reset and reconnecting, but they didn't work. After installing the latest WiFi driver from the MSI website, the ...
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External HDD (1 EXT4 Partition) Won't Show Up On Other Linux Computer
I have recently formatted a Seagate 2TB portable HDD with 1 EXT4 partition (from my laptop running arch). When attempting to access this on my PopOS desktop, the drive will not show up in the file ...
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RAM compatibility issues
I have an ASUS M2N68-AM SE2 motherboard, I want DDR2 RAM so I bought a Simmtronics 2GB DDR2 800 MHz RAM, after I plug it into my motherboard it doesn't turn on with my old RAM,
but if I plug only the ...
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Troubleshooting white VGA LED on ASUS B550M motherboard
I'd like to ask. What can I do to fix my pc? Yesterday I turned it off as usual, but today the PC won't boot and the VGA led is constantly white.
Pc specs:
Ryzen 5 1600, stock cooler
Gtx 1050ti, ...
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Save a btrfs disk after power failure?
I have a non-system 4TB Western Digital disk (WD4000F9YZ) with a sole btrfs partition that no longer shows up after a power failure.
I can see this in /var/syslog that it's struggling to do something ...
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MotherBoard or NVME disc error - unclear
Recently there was a power outage, and while the PC seemed fine, woke up later to all NVME disks not being bootable.
I had a dual boot win11 and ubuntu, I was still able to access all the files on the ...
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Can't read my user files from internal hard drive using USB 3.0 To SATA and IDE Cable
I am using a USB 3.0 to SATA adaptor to recover data from some old internal hard drives from old laptops. The hard drive had been used on a Windows 11 laptop.
I can see all of the folder structures ...
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Auto Shutdown of Laptop Lenovo Legion blue screen windows stopcode
Recently from past 1 week my laptop got shutdown after getting kernel message, windowstop code, blue screen. Start button is on but I do not see any screen after trying all methods shown on lenovo to ...
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Intel server not booting with dual processors
I've bought an intel S2600WF server. At first, I put two Intel Xeon Gold 6148 processors into the server, but then it got stuck on the initialization screen after "Memory initialization complete. ...
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Windows extremely slow, doesn't sleep when closed, BIOS screen when closed
A week ago I found that my computer had suddenly become extremely slow. Both Windows processes and the browser take a very long time to load. For example, the BIOS start time hovers around 40 seconds. ...
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Old HDD not recognized by Windows
I connected my old PC's HDD external drive to my laptop. (I have a connector to connect it. Since it requires an additional voltage to run, I've all the necessary tools and I am able to connect it to ...
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PC 'randomly' restarting w/o blue screens after installing Windows 11 - what to do?
I flashed my Gigabyte Z390 D motherboard to a newer BIOS and found out I can actually run windows 11 with my setup. I then made a fresh install of windows 11 and set up my pc regularly.
I am getting '...
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"predictable" device names in smartd.conf on various linux-like systems
To configure S.M.A.R.T. monitoring, there is a configuration file at /etc/smartd.conf. That control file and several web pages I've seen, indicate that the configuration file should be customized by ...
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