Hey guys, my friend has some problems with his gaming PC whenever he plugs it into a surge protector. When we have a LAN party, we all plug our computers into a surge protector to get power. My friend’s computer though is affected as its performance is reduced and becomes quite slow. Even when he is the only one it is still slow and his computer has the least amount of wattage, but it works on any other wall socket just fine. I have tried to find out the problem but couldn’t get anything, anyone...

The other day my laptop Asus Q550LF would not boot. First night after I got from work, it did boot for a few minutes then shut down. I waited for a minute or so then turned it back on and it worked just fine without any incident for that night. The next day after work, I tried to put it on and t won’t boot at all. Upon pressing the power button, the front lights turn on, I hear the hard drive click a few times then all the lights turn off on the front,...

My PC was working and everything fine in the first PCI slot I used. I took out the graphics card while the PC was off and when I put it back on, nothing came up on the monitor. I plugged it into a different PCI slot and it worked fine again until it showed a blue screen, I reinstalled windows and now the screen shows black when turned on. I want to reset the bios to factory value but am not sure if the hardware will work, need some advise.

I have an Asus Z-97 PRO Wi-Fi AC mother board, Intel i7-4790K CPU, Corsair H110 CPU water cooler and 4X8GB GSKILL Ripjaws X 2133mhz RAM. I am now wondering whether these will fit into  Corsair 730T case that I want to purchase. Will this case have an appropriate ventilation that will keep my RAID graphics card cooled since it only has a heat sync? I was also told that an ill-fitting case can reduce computer speeds by upto 8X, is this true?

I have a Wi-Fi adapter but it does not do anything when i connect it to my computer via the USB port. Since I have no internet on my desktop, i cannot install a wireless adapter. This is a netgear wireless adapter and is there a way that i can get it to work on my Ubuntu OS without having another internet connection?

I need to buy a windows operating system for installation into a friends computer. My friend only needs to use the system for the microsoft products and surfing the internet. With many Microsoft Windows versions, I do not know which one to choose. Her computer is an intel i3 with 500GB HDD and 4GB RAM. Which windows version would be appropriate and why is it?

I need a good power supply to use with my Core i3 MSI Z77A-G43 socket, i7 ATX Motherboard W/Z77, USB 3.0 and a DVI HDMI. The problem is that i do not know the kind of power supply to buy for this. Anybody with an idea or an explanation on the kind of power supply that i should get? I will be glad. Thanks

My computer has the GTX 970 EVGA FTW graphics card that i bought soon after I had returned the GTX 970 MSI gaming edition back to the shop since it had a faulty HDMI. I am now thinking of getting a new card, available at the same cost.This is because the present one causes a lot of noise, it has 66% quality only and has a loud coil wine. I have seen the GTX 770 and found it...

I have been using internet explorer on my computer well but beginning from last week, it stopped working and now it only flashes on for about 2 seconds before shutting down. i have tried turning off its features on the install screen but nothing seems to work. I have also tried running it without option or resetting it but it still gives the same issues. I have scanned it twice with an adware cleaner as well as virus cleaner but none of these has worked. Is there anything else that i...

I just completed building my first PC and I have been through lots of learning in the process. I have heard and read about overclocking and I understand that it involves a liquid cooler. However, I am not aware of the technicalities to be considered. For example, the voltages needed. My PC has an Asus Motherboard Z-97 A, Intel i7 4790-K CPU with 4.0GHz, 32 GB Crucial Ballistic Tactical Ram, Windows 7 Pro on 120GB HDD, 1TB HDD for storage and the XFX Radeon R9. The casing is a Rosewill Thor V2 and it has...