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Hi, I have a Samsung rv511, when I press the power button within 3 seconds it turns itself off.. Nothing comes on screen the fansd power up then it turns itself off? I've tried the ram when there is no ram inside all the lights and fans power up but again.. nothing on screen ect

So here's the question. This is all theoretical, I don't have any actual concerns or complaints about the system. I'm curious as to what determines how quickly a program will install to your SSD/HDD. Say I'm installing a program to my SSD, and it's about a 2gb install, theoretically, my SSD...

Why can't I see the one forum posting site: > http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/www.tomsguide.com/forum/id-1798282/mobile-budget-expense-apps.html Other forum postings are working. I get this message:

So, I have an issue with the processor in my HP Envy (m7-k111dx) laptop which I believe has to do with the power saving modes. I have been told that U series processors only go to their advertised clock speed only when it detects a heavy-weight application. However, if I run something like...

Greetings to all the fellows in Tom's Hardware Forum once more! My laptop is a Sony VAIO VPCEC2M1E with these specs: http://mobile-computers.tech-specs.com/sony-vaio-vpcec2m1e-wi-n57149865 ,it's more that 7years old and i thought, it would be nice, ('cause the laptop itself is still a...

I was wondering if you could help me out with a problem I've been having/ I recently purchased a motherboard for my old Compaq CQ57, and I need a new processor as well. Could you please advise me on the processor type for this MB? The MB part number is 646275-001 and on the socket it says rPGA...

I have followed Tom's hardware for years, it has become a sort of a bible for my computing endeavors. I have researched and researched my issue for a while now and the frustration with Lenovo and my own lack of skills has come to a head, so I must ask for your assistance. I am using a Lenovo...

As the title says, I need to burn a small video (18 Minutes/175MBs) to some 700MB CDs, and I need it to play on a DVD player. I have tried a guide online but I ended up being told by the program that it didn't fit on the CD because it became a 1.2GB file... How does175MB turn into 1.2GBs? I...

Hello Tom's Hardware. I'm just wondering if there's a good sound enhancer for Windows 8.1? My laptop has poor sound even when I play through my surround. I've used SRS Pro Audio Essentials before but it ended up completely messing up my sound drivers. Thanks in advance.

i think are some viruses on my laptop and its getting really annoying because weird things are happening need help now

Does anyone know why this website doesn't refresh the number of unread posts on the edge browser? I ask this as I have win 10 now which is way better than win 8 or 8.1 and it has the edge browser as the default and I don't want to install another browser just for this website. I have an asus...

Hi Everyone! So i realized after a long search that no matter how many Websites i visit, Tom's Hardware is the best and has the best answers. So I am Back with Another request! The thing is that few days ago I downloaded a GTA V File and it was confirmed by many of my friends that it works...

Receiving emails from many sales companies. All have something like this: Auto Response: **Look 30 years younger!** How do I block these things? I received at least 15 a day.

Hello everyone, I decided to try out the virtual reality readiness test on Steam and my score does not make much sense. According to Tom's Hardware, my card should score around an 8.5 (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/steamvr-performance-test-gpu-comparison,4489.html) That result was...

I have just learned from Apple that the "find my iPhone" app is a permanent app with the new software update. If I want to use iCloud yet NOT use find my iPhone for my own security issues, I can't do both. Does anyone know how to hack this so I can remove this app and go back to using iCloud...

Tom's Hardware is where I always get the best advice, so I'm asking for it once again. I'm trying to decide on a laptop purchase between the following: ASUS X555LA-HI31103J...

My laptop shuts off and restarts while gaming. (only when AC adapter is plugged in). However if i power on the laptop and don't launch any game it won't shut off during the day. At the moment i launch a game, even if the laptop won't shut off during the game, it will shut off within the next...

Hi Tom's Hardware community, I know there has been a lot of people asking the same question but maybe I will give it a different view of point. Couple of months ago one of my friend showed me his new Macbook Pro (it was 15 inch actually, but I checked out the 13 I liked it that better) and I...

Hello, I'm from Poland and I wanted to buy a notebook. Didn't see a notebook section so wanted to ask here. It's for my girlfriend. I wanted to spend around 1500 PLN which is close to 400 USD. The notebook has to be white color. Its purpose should be documents, movies, browsing, skype. As long...

I recently found an old polaroid when cleaning out my grandparents basement. I was given permision to try to sell it and all I could be told was that they didnt know if it worked. It was in what looks like a lether carrying case and has a flash attachment (in another box and ancient styrofoam)...

Happy New Year to all, can anyone help me, acer aspire V3-572 would not boot up, so next time i tried to boot up no joy, so just left it on and it eventually did boot up, but it is very slow, it takes ages to go from one site to the next one, maybe 3 to 5 minutes, I tried to to reset back to...

Good morning Tom's Hardware. I am having some issues with my work laptop. For reasons unbeknownst to me it seems that more and more often I am losing what I have worked on. It is a 2002 custom build Dell laptop that I use nearly every day. As much as I would love to simply buy a new laptop, I...

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Hi ! Need help.. I had some personal photos uploaded to my PC (Win 8.1) from my cell phone and Shift+deleted on the same day. I use 3G internet for an hour daily. Am afraid whether hackers can hack deleted pics from my PC thru an internet connection. Pls help with ur answers and pracautions to...

Does Tom's Hardware Have A Forum Section Dedicated to Android Tablets? I purchased an LG G Pad f7.0 last week for $59. Every time I fire it up, it tries to get me to register for a Sprint data plan. I have no use for a mobile data plan, my wi-fi is enough for me. Wish I could get this thing to...

Hello I wanted to know if my msi ge72 2qf Apache pro can support another hdd/ssd because I'm down to 250 gigs and with new games being 30 gigs and up that's going to fill up fast

Hi am thinking of buying a laptop around 800$. Iam confused between Lenovo y40 and Dell inspiron 15 7000 series. Below is the config of both. Lenovo Y40 5th Generation Intel Core i7-5500U Processor (2.40GHz 1600MHz 4MB) AMD Radeon R9 M275 4GB 16 GB Memory Price 850$ Dell 6th Generation Intel®...

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How to disable WPS Office expansion tool which keeps popping up to update my word processing program? This keeps popping up while I am in the middle of something else (usually a game raid) and totally stops everything until I can click NO. I never had this problem with the older WPS versions...

Hey, Need the help of the handsome basking sharks of Tom's Hardware ;) So I'm doing a photography course in college.. I thought it would be a good idea to give my old camera to homeless Indonesian orphans in our town for Hanukkah. So I'm buying a new one but needed to know if this camera would...

Hey all been a reader of Tom's Hardware for a few years but this is my first post as I haven't found this particular question answered before. Laptop Model: HP ENVY 17-J111TX Intel Core i7-4700MQ 16Gb DDR3L GeForce GT 740M Samsung Evo 850 120Gb SSD As the title explains I have been getting...

Hello Tom's Hardware community! I finally got my hands on a ASUS N551JK laptop.I'll be using it for mostly gaming and schoolwork. I purchased it at 25 Sep and instantly went home to install all the updates and such, the laptop came pre-loaded with windows 8 and I went ahead downloading Windows...

Hey guys, i have a problem... when play online game (warface) after 15 min my pc freezes and only can i do is turn off pc.. keyboard, mouse everything not work.. please help me !!! pc is new : fx-6350 - gtx 750 ti - 8gb ram in other game (Hitman absolution) not freezes... Drivers is all up to...

Hi, This is my first post though I've been reading Tom's Hardware for a while now. I'm rather new when it comes to tablets, et al - living in the 20th century and everything! I'm essentially looking for a laptop or a tablet that allows me to write. My current gripe is the horizontal screens...

Hello! This is my first post onto Tom's Hardware. I'm looking a fast laptop for software development. The types of development I do are 1. OpenGL/DirectX (more computation than rendering) 2. Server-side connections (lots of ssh'ing and network transfers) 3. Assets Editing (photoshop...

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I entered this thread a few days and now I can not find it. There is so much information here, that may be impossible. Finding response to my queries used to be easy on Tom's Hardware, but not anymore. Perhaps I must look elsewhere.

I have an Asus G73jh and I recently used a compressed aircan on it. I sprayed the outer vents just fine, and there are two vent holes for the fans on the surface of the keyboard. The compressed aircan sprayed the liquid onto the vent hole. After that it started malfunctioning. It shuts down...

Good day to all members of Tom's Hardware! I'm new here, and I'm excited to ask a question and seek for an advice about upgrading my Laptop. (Please let me know if this is not the right section for this inquiry.) I'm a little disappointed with this because it's kinda slow even I am just surfing...

Hello Tom's Hardware community. Recently i formatted and cleaned inside of my laptop due to slowing downs. After a month of two, my laptop started to overheat and make buzzing sounds from the speakers. I have attached (linked) the temperature values of my PC. (Running programs are Paint, Dota2...

I can't download anything off mediafire. Its not a deleted file or anything like that. It's any file. I've tried all browsers, deleted cookies etc. I've tried save link as and it just tells me unknown file format when i try to open it. I have Norton Internet Security if that makes a difference...

Hello fellow Tom's hardware users, Today I've gotten my brand new gaming laptop from BTO It has amazing specs (GTX 965m & i5 4690s) These specs are pretty good in my opinion and are better than my desktop pc specs (GTX 780 & i7 860) But still does my Desktop have a way better score in 3DMark. I...

Every tab I open on Tom's Hardware Page pops up a script is unresponsive error. Stop cancel continue. I can't use the site.

Hi there, I was wofnderingf if you guys can share some light on choosing between the new macbook pro 13" w/ retina or the 13" Macbook Air (Current Model).. If i went with the Pro I would get the following spec: 2.7GHz Dual-core Intel Core i5, Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz 16GB 1866MHz LPDDR3 SDRAM...

Hello Tom's Hardware community. I have a Samsung NP300E3C model laptop. I decided to clean the dust inside the of my laptop. I opened the case and I saw that the bottom part which comes off has changed color from black to bronze with rainbowish endings(1. picture). The only piece which has the...

Hi people of Tom's Hardware! I need help on finding a good gaming laptop preferably under $1400. I have a list of requirements of the laptop: -Must be thin -Light weight -15" -Good on battery -Able to run upcoming modern games. (ie: Sims 4, Borderlands 2..... etc) -SSD is prefered but not...

For a while now I've been looking to purchase a laptop for basic web browsing, small windows programs, and word processing (no Chromebook). While 32gb of hdd space doesn't seem like a lot, these two laptop seemed appealing...

Hello Tom's Hardware community, so I was looking into the Dell XPS 15 and I was determined to buy it untill last week when Microsoft showed off the new Dell XPS 15 with infinity display like the XPS 13. It looks like a really nice laptop but since it's not officially announced yet it so might...

They open every time I open certain pages. They are blank, so far. They don't load at the same time the page is loaded, they load a few seconds after. Here's a picture. I'm using BitDefender. Here's the picture of it happening in Toms Hardware page. Plz how do I get rid of it? How come it...

Hi everyone. I am new to Tom's Hardware! Thanks for having me. Hehe. So to the question, I am planning to get a gaming laptop since ill be traveling a lot, but I am in a budget. I am looking at the MSI GP60 2QE. The specs I am seeing is: nVidia Geforce GT 940M, 2GB GDDR3 i5-4210H+HM86 DDR III...

Hi people of Tom's Hardware, I have gotten the BSOD twice so far, but it is really worrying as this is a new laptop. This is also very recent after an OS refresh (It's been about 3 weeks since I refreshed it). Every single time there's been a BSOD I have gotten precisely 8 errors beforehand (In...

Hello i'm not sure if i am in the right thread as this is first time posting on Tom's hardware, I assumed this would come under Social Networking as i use google chrome to browse Facebook and you tube but it keeps crashing. The problems that i am having is that when i've been using google...

Hello Tom's Hardware members, I own a Logitech G430 and bought it for $99.99. I have always had problems, such as the right ear sound not working, but I have resolved those issues. But now, I cannot hear anything from my G430 and the mic does not work. It is incredibly strange, as when I go to...

Hello Friends :) I would really appreciate your opinion on this issue. I spilled coffee on my HP Pavilion so I took it to the service after removing the battery and cleaned it. After I got it back I ran some games and designing programs to test if everything is fine and it was all fine. Then...

Hello and best regards,Tom's Hardware. I'm very confused in choosing a Laptop. I'll use it for gaming and internet surfing. Somehow,I'm stuck between AMD&Intel,AMD&NVIDIA,Dell vs. Lenovo,HD displays vs. Full HD displays and so on. All I can say is that I want a complete package with the most as...

First off, this is my first post on Tom's hardware and I'd just like to thank all the regular posters, so many threads on this site have solved my problems. Alas, I have encountered a problem so severe I cannot find a solution anywhere. I need to delete McAfee from my laptop because it's using...

I would like a drone that is possible that doesn't have a go pro on it but can have one put on it that it cheap. About $150.

Hello citizens of Tom's hardware! Where do i get a razer jack splitter Alternative? My recent razer splitter broke with my blackshark and i need help.

hello everyone, once again i am in need for help and that's why i always come to Tom's hardware because that is the best place i can get the information from, today i just received my Logitech G930 Headset and i am very satisfied with it however i have a small question about that headset which...

Hello, I'm going to buy a headphone. The purpose will mainly be for Gaming of course but music and movies are also a priority. And it would be better to have a mic on board. My budget is 3k. So please suggest me a good headphone. Peace....!!!!!!!!