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My grandfather died recently. He had an Acer or asus PC I'm not completely sure. Obviously it had all his stuff, emails, music, various accounts for paying bills etc. as you would on a personal PC. It's an all in one type thing so there's no PC tower. I am the person who helped him with the purchase, setting up, problems ran into so I'm now taking the computer to use as my own. I would like to completely preserve all his stuff, but obviously keep it completely seperate from all mine. Also, a lot of bill paying and stuff was done through that computer. Any advice on how to do all this would be great thank you

Hi everyone,

​I recently got a brand new Acer Nitro V 15 laptop (i5 13th Gen, RTX 5050, Windows 11), and everything is 100% healthy on the hardware side. However, I'm trying to understand a specific technical phenomenon regarding game crashes.

​I've noticed that many players face sudden crashes where the game just freezes and closes. Looking at the Windows Event Viewer, it either shows RADAR_PRE_LEAK_64 followed by Exception code: 0xc0000005 (Access Violation), or it triggers a TDR error like "DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED".

​What's fascinating is that this doesn't just happen with old, poorly optimized titles like PES 2019 or FIFA 21 (where memory mapping conflicts with newer hardware architectures), but it has also been reported in brand-new heavy titles like Resident Evil 9 (RE9).

​To be clear, I have already tried every standard troubleshooting method:

​Did a complete clean reinstall of the latest NVIDIA drivers (using DDU).

​Added the games and their folders to Windows Defender/Antivirus exclusions.

​Played around with Windows power plans and graphics settings.

​Verified that the laptop is brand new and thermal/hardware performance is perfect in other tasks.

​Since the hardware is completely fine, my question for the developers and tech experts here is:

​What is the exact root cause behind modern Windows 11/NVIDIA drivers treating these memory allocation and rendering timeouts so aggressively that it forcefully terminates the process? Is it strictly a software/optimization conflict between old/flawed engine code and modern GPU architectures?

​Would love to hear a deep technical breakdown! Thanks.

Looking to get a pre built pc around 1500 doesn’t need to be crazy would like to play call of duty and gta stuff like that. My wife also wants to get sims and stream it any good suggestions on what would work for us?

I need help, I’ve been having issues with my windows 11 pc. I have an issue where I can’t open the start menu with the keyboard or by clicking it. The control button opens the start menu, but it immediately closes. I can’t use windows + R to open the run window, I can’t start a new task from task manager, I can’t restart any services, I can’t open or close anything, other then windows explorer but then I can’t open anything else from there. I’ve restarted and ran an SFC Scan now but nothing came of it.

I know it happens more frequently when I use my xp pen when animating, but I’m not sure what the cause would be or how to fix it?

Hello guys thought id send this in here maybe someone knows the problem,

Sometimes when I boot up my pc it just straight up boots up into the bios and I will have to save and exit it until the computer boots normally. None of my components are broken, my drivers are fine and my ssds are all fully functional too (including the one that has the windows boot manager).

It's a really weird thing and I just thought that maybe someone would know what it is. Also when I but up the computer and that happens basically I can see the asrock logo like 1 second like it is trying to but windows and then it just goes straight to bios.

i bought this online ups by a company named lamassu for my brand new pc since we get power outages alot and i dont know when or how to turn it off, i press the off button and it just keeps working, idk if thats what its supposed to do but im not well versed in tech at all and im worried theres a chance it might blow up lol

Hello po ask ko po sana if alin po may problem about my computer, nago po ung monitor and matagal na samin ung cpu yet no signal nagpapakita pag kinokonnect. ano po mas maganda gawin? thank you po need po for review ng boards😭

I have a "MSI MPG CARBON WIFI x870e", my cpu is a "ryzen 7 9850", corsair 64 gb.

My PC will not post, originally my motherboard was stuck on solid red and yellow debug lights with code 00. I do not believe this is a power issue because the cpu was generating heat, the rgbs on the ram are also lighting up so I am guessing they are getting power to. I also flashed the latest bios on the board, but it is still stuck on the solid red and yellow lines with error code 00. I thought it may have been the board so I got another board, this time it starts cycling through a bunch of error codes and sometimes shows green, sometimes red yellow and green, and sometimes nothing at all.. but it still won't post. I am not sure why but I did clean the gold contacts of both the ram and cpu with isopropyl alcohol and a microfiber cloth then took a dust fan to them, then I installed them on the first motherboard and left them overnight in there before I finished the build in the morning and the red and yellow light error started happening with error code 00.

PC is super laggy and slow. Take forever to do anything. Unplug Plugged in everything. Restart. Check update etc.

Notice that cpu is running under 1ghz. It’s runnkng like 0.58-0.63 Ghz. Fan is running and msi afterburner said it’s 40c