Hey everyone,

I'm using an ASUS Vivobook S 16 (S3607CA) with a Realtek 8852BE Wireless LAN WiFi 6 PCI-E NIC, and I've been facing a really frustrating Wi-Fi issue.

The entire Wi-Fi option disappears from Windows. It's not just that the internet stops working; the Wi-Fi icon and the option to turn Wi-Fi on disappear completely.

This has happened multiple times now, and it's becoming a serious inconvenience.

Recently, I was appearing for an online assessment (OA), and my Wi-Fi went off around 3 times during the assessment. I had to restart my laptop repeatedly just to get the Wi-Fi option back and reconnect. Thankfully, I managed to rejoin and complete the assessment, but this was extremely stressful.

I also came across several Reddit posts discussing Realtek and MediaTek Wi-Fi card issues in ASUS laptops. Some users suggested replacing the existing card with an Intel AX210 as a permanent fix.

Should I approach ASUS service for a warranty inspection instead?

I'd really appreciate hearing from anyone who has faced this issue, especially S3607CA owners.

I'm honestly tired of having to restart my laptop every time the Wi-Fi disappears.

Just a moment ago, my Acer Nitro5 (not sure what year) that I had closed the lid of to put into sleep mode for a few hours just randomly turned the fans on full blast. When I went over to check it out, the screen was displaying nothing, none of the keys responded, and the only way I could get it to turn off was to hold the power button.

I plugged it into my TV via HDMI to see if the problem was just screen related, and nothing came up, so I'm worried the problem sits deeper than what I'm knowledgeable about...

I bought a Laptop from Gigabyte last year and today it broke. I want to send it to the warranty service so they can either fix it or give me a replacement, however, shortly after buying my pc last year, I installed a new m.2 nvme SSD drive. Does this void my warranty?

My MSI laptop connects to Wi-Fi, but cannot access the internet. The problem persists even when using my phone's mobile hotspot. Windows Defender detected and removed a Trojan, and PowerShell appears in the affected item. I'm trying to determine whether malware may have modified my network settings or whether something else is broken.

Hi guys. When I launch Minecraft Java Edition through either Minecraft Launcher or Prism Launcher, I get this screen. I can hear the audio and can press the menu buttons and hear the clicks, but cannot see anything but this: Screenshot.

I have tried a lot. I thought it was my drivers first but they are all up to date (AMD RadeonT 780M (4 GB). I haven't played Java for about a year. Bedrock works just fine and the Java snapshot works fine, just not the actual "latest release" version. Please help! Thanks.

I plugged my laptop into an ASUS TUF VG279QM monitor. It worked perfectly for a few days. But one day, after I lift the lid of my laptop, the resolution suddenly changes. Now, while plugged into the monitor, there is a 1080p, 1600 x 1024 (recommended) resolution, and everything above that is 4k x 2k. There is a 4k x 2k 1920 x 1080 resolution, but I can only have 60Hz when I use that resolution (before the issue, I could use 120Hz no problem). That's what my Nvidia Control Panel shows me. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Hi again,

Asked a few questions yesterday about a failing SSD, and have a few more updates to see if there's anything else possible before I have to suck it up and buy a new drive.

Long story short, pc crashed during a game. When I rebooted, I couldn't load into windows.

After some fiddling. It's my 2tb sata SSD causing issues.

It doesn't show in bios. And if I disconnect it loads fine.

I try and connect it via usb after loadup, it recognises a device has connected. I go into file explorer to get into the drive, click on the drive and file explorer crashes and I get a grey screen, until I disconnect and then it goes back to normal.

I connect it to a second device via usb, it recognises a device is connected but doesn't recognise any storage in the drive. I try and get into the device properties and it thinks it's a 256gb usb drive.

Can't even get to a point to reformat the drive, as it crashes the whole machine.

I've tried letting it power with no data cables connected to see if it will do a repair cycle, let it sit for a couple hours and nothing changes.

This drive is now like £700, with new m.2s at 2tb being £200+, I'm pretty much open to performing a blood ritual if it might help, but it might be tough.

Data loss would be a pita, but it's all program files I think, so not critical.

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Specs:
- CPU: i5-10400F (no iGPU)
- Mobo: ASRock B460M Pro4
- GPU: MSI GTX 1660 Ti
- PSU: [brand/model/wattage]
- OS: Windows 11

Symptom:
While using the PC normally, both monitors suddenly lose signal at the same time. The PC stays on (sometimes Caps Lock still responds) and the GPU fan sometimes ramps to 100%. When I force shutdown and turn it back on, sometimes there's still NO image at all – not even the ASRock BIOS logo.
Idle overnight with nothing running: no issues.

Event Viewer (System log):
- 28 BugCheck events since Oct 9, two codes:
- 0x113 VIDEO_DXGKRNL_FATAL_ERROR (param1 0x19)
- 0x133 DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION (param1 0x1)
- 51 Kernel-Power 41 in the last 7 days
- One DxgKrnl 549 error

What I've tested:
- PSU: no shorts on any rail; unloaded rails in spec. BIOS shows 12.000 / 5.18 / 3.41 V.
- Under full GPU load (HWMonitor): PCIe +12V 11.84–11.95 V, 8-pin 12.06 V.
- OCCT 3D Adaptive Steady, 30 min: PASS. GPU 70 °C, hotspot 82 °C.
- OCCT VRAM test: PASS, 0 errors.
- OCCT 3D Adaptive VARIABLE (20→100%, +5% every 30 s), 1 h: FAILS every time.
- Driver 617.42: black screen, GPU fan at 100%.
- DDU in safe mode + clean install of Studio 616.56: froze again between min 47–60. This time it was a hard freeze with no BSOD (Kernel-Power 41, bugcheck code 0); I had to hold the power button.
- PCIe slot forced to Gen2 in BIOS: no change.
- Happens on 2 different monitors, so it's not the monitor or the cable.
- CPU temp is ~60 °C when the crashes happen.

Next steps I'm planning:
- Reseat the GPU and clean the contacts, check the 8-pin connector.
- MSI Afterburner: power limit 85%, core −100 MHz, then retest.

Question: does this point to a dying GPU (core/VRAM unstable under load transients) or a PSU that can't handle transient spikes? No iGPU, so I can't test without the card. Any other tests you'd suggest?

Hey guys, I got a predator Helios neo 16. And since this morning my external ssd or drive changed its name from x….. to micron and then a bunch of letters and numbers. It’s also always at 100% usage even when not being used. And it’s called a usb. I have no clue what happend and I really need help because most of my files are on there. Do I delete a windows update or something else. Ps: when I go to windows and then X to see the health of the drive it wont load its just stuck on a “getting information” or something in the same way for 10 minutes

ADATA Elite SE880 external SSD won't format and keeps freezing my PC. It stays connected, and in Disk Management it shows up as "931.51 GB RAW - Healthy (Primary Partition)". There's no important data on it so I'm just trying to wipe it, but every time I try to format or write anything to it, Windows locks up for a minute and the operation fails. I've already tried Disk Management, diskpart (clean), PowerShell, and Rufus, and they all hang or fail. I also swapped multiple USB cables and tested different ports on my PC to rule out a bad connection. Before i take it into an RMA, how can i fix it?

When I launch Valorant, my graphics card usually shuts off—sometimes after 10–15 minutes, other times after just 5 minutes—and my screen goes black. When I turn my PC back on, it lags severely, and I have to re-enable the GPU.
My specs:
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 @ 3.40GHz
64GB DDR4
Samsung SSD
AMD Radeon 9060XT
If anyone knows what I should do, please let me know.

I pay for extra service for my Google Drive so it is nowhere near full, I have already checked the Trash, it is not on autodelete- but my most recent files/folders have completely disappeared on my Google drive. Does anyone know what happened? How to recover?

I forgot the password to my phone so i factory reset it, and now it wont turn on. I've held the power button for over ten seconds, and tried other combinations of holding the power button and volume buttons. But nothing is working.

The PC model is the Beelink Ser5 and won't turn on at all. I've bought a new cord because of previous issues where my monitor was fixed by buying a new cord due to power surges now my computer won't turn on even after buying a new cord

As the tittle states, I had to put my laptop to sleep because I was in a hurry, and when I opened it later the desktop background is black. I checked everything, drivers, gpu, everything, even the lock screen background is fine, just the desktop.

Looking up, one suggestion was to change TranscodedWallpaper file to TranscodedWallpaper.old and even delete it and restarted my laptop, nothing.

What am I to do?

I've had some problems running games on my laptop since a Windows security update on November 11 (update KB5132061). I have a Lenovo LOQ 15, AMD Ryzen 7 (8845HS with Radeon 780M Graphics (3.8 GHz)), 64 GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB. Had it about a year. The only game I currently care to play is Baldur's Gate 3, and the game has run over 1400 hours (six playthroughs) and everything has run very smoothly. I was playing the game just fine on the evening of Tuesday, November 10. Then this Windows security update hits on Wednesday, November 11 and now when I launch BG3 (via Steam), the frame rate drops to about 5 fps and my computer has turned into a potato. The computer is acting like it's stuck in first gear when I know there are higher gears available. A bunch of drivers were also auto-updated at the same time and maybe that did something. Looking at update history in Windows, I see driver updates on November 11 for various things for Realtek, AMD, A-Volute, Nahimic, MediaTek, AISpeech, SunplusIT, and Nvidia Display Driver Update (32.0.16.1656). Apart from the gaming issue, the computer otherwise seems to be working fine.

I find this all so very frustrating. I'm reluctant to go in and change a bunch of settings or try rolling back Windows, resetting the computer, or uninstalling updates (which I've never done), for fear of breaking something. I downloaded the most current Nvidia driver (621.24, from November 13), made sure to assign the Nvidia processor to the BG3 exe file. I updated the BIOS via Lenovo but that doesn't change anything either. I'm hoping that Microsoft and / or Nvidia will get their act together and make updates, but I guess they've been really busy this week. But then I don't know where the problem lies.

Not a computer person, so if you have any advice, please explain like I'm a third grader. Thanks.

I'm going through a large word doc with many track changes and responding to comments. It's so slow and sluggish though on my poor little old filled-up Macbook. Is there a setting in Word that will make this document scroll and update faster?

Thanks so much!

yesterday i was playing the sims on my laptop and i got a popup telling me to plug in the charger so i did, all was well for about 30-40 mins until it popped up again which was odd because everything was plugged in fine so i tried unplugging, plugging again, switching sockets to see if it was on my end

eventually the laptop ended up just turning off at about 3%. now the laptop no longer turning on as its not charging.

whenever i press the on button the charging light flashes 3 times (if that means anything i dont know much about tech😅)

i dont know what to do now and would please want some help as i need this laptop and cant buy another rn

Also i bought the laptop 3 years ago and this is the model number - 15s-fq2570sa

For months i have dealt with my audio crashing, usually it happens when i ALT+TAB out of a fullscreen game or video. Sometime it will also happen randomly or when starting a game. The only temporary fix i found was restarting Windows audio in Services.

I use a focusrite 2i2 with my beyerdynamics dt770 pro.

I have tried the following:

- Plugging my headset into the PC directly

- A different headset

- Uninstalling drivers and installing them again

- Resetting my entire PC

- Various commands in the terminal

Hope anyone can help me out :)

PC HP antigo liga, dá 6 bipes, não dá vídeo e a ventoinha da fonte fica extremamente barulhenta

Fala, pessoal! Estou com um problema no meu PC HP de aproximadamente 2013 e gostaria de uma ajuda para descobrir o que pode estar acontecendo.

O computador estava funcionando normalmente antes de eu desmontá-lo e transferir os componentes para outro gabinete. Depois da montagem, ele começou a apresentar os seguintes problemas:

- Liga normalmente pelo botão Power, que fica com a luz branca.

- Dá 6 bipes ao ligar.

- Não apresenta nenhuma imagem na tela.

- A ventoinha da fonte fica extremamente barulhenta, parecendo uma turbina.

- A ventoinha do processador também gira.

- O processador esquenta, então aparentemente está recebendo energia.

- Uso o vídeo integrado do processador.

O que já tentei:

- Retirei e recoloquei a memória RAM.

- Retirei a bateria CMOS da placa-mãe por alguns minutos e coloquei novamente.

- Conferi alguns cabos e conexões.

- Retirei o dissipador do processador e coloquei novamente, mas não retirei o processador do soquete.

Mesmo depois disso, continua dando 6 bipes e não aparece vídeo.

Minha dúvida é: esses 6 bipes podem indicar problema no vídeo integrado ou na placa-mãe? Por que a ventoinha da fonte fica tão acelerada e barulhenta? Será que algum cabo ficou mal conectado durante a montagem ou posso ter danificado alguma peça?

Qualquer ajuda ou sugestão de diagnóstico será bem-vinda. Obrigado!

I’ve been going through my DVD collection lately. Unfortunately, some of my discs have rotted and are no longer readable. I’ve been using RipIt on an old MacBook Air to make backups of the more critical DVDs (rarer titles that haven’t made it to newer formats or are just generally hard to find) while they’re still readable. Since I don’t have time to physically view each individual disc all the way through, I just wanted someone to confirm that my logic is correct about the following: RipIt is unable to successfully rip an unreadable DVD. It either gets stuck mid-rip or it just won’t even start. I’ve double-checked these discs in a DVD player hooked up to a TV and they’re definitely bad. Therefore, if RipIt is able to successfully rip a DVD, then that DVD is readable? In other words, there’s no chance I’m wasting my time just backing up garbage? I do a quick check of the rips themselves and I notice no issues. It’s relatively convenient because RipIt saves with a .dvdmedia extension, which opens the native DVD Player app on OS X, but like I said, I don’t really have the time to go through everything completely.

This brings me to my next question. I’ve been saving everything as .dvdmedia because it’s convenient on OS X (it’s easy to get the Video_TS out of it though if I need). All of the files are going on a large external drive. What’s the best way to view my collection? Ideally, I’d like something just as convenient as using a DVD player. My first idea was to just get an older Mac Mini and attach it to a TV via HDMI, but that seems cumbersome and expensive. I’m new at this, so I appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks!

Hi guys! Looking for some advice on cloud storage.

I just realised I'm paying for both OneDrive and Google Drive, so I'm thinking of cancelling one subscription and sticking with the other.

My initial thought is to cancel OneDrive and keep Google Drive, but I'm open to advice!

I have around 400 GB of photos, videos and other files in EACH drive.

A few questions:

2. Is there a tool that can scan both drives, identify duplicates and safely remove them?

3. What's the best way to transfer everything without ending up with duplicate files and doubling my storage usage?

My priorities are saving money, keeping everything backed up safely and making the process as simple as possible.

Would love to hear your experiences and recommendations. Thanks!

With sync being busted in MS Edge for over a month and no privacy controls, ad blocking or extensions in Chrome on mobile, I'm switching to Firefox, at least for now.

However, I'm having problems with Firefox appear to be very slow to load pages, including Reddit, Facebook and even Google. In addition to general slowness loading web pages, it often has a delay of over a minute to load images in pages otherwise fully rendered.

My suite of extensions installed in Firefox is essentially the same as in Edge:

• AddToAny

• Bitwarden

• ClearURLs

• F.Block Sponsored

• I Still Don't Care About Cookies

• New Tab Override

• Reddit Ad Remover

• Tweaks For Youtube

• uBlock Origin

• Webcompat Reporter (unique to FF)

• WebP/Avif Converter

Plus a few installed but inactive:

• Enhancer For Youtube

• F.B. Purity

• Facebook Container

• Privacy Badger (this one was causing pages to completely fail in both browsers).