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Locked out of newly partitioned hard drive
Installed a 970 EVO Plus 1TB hard drive on my laptop upgraded from the factory installed 500GB hard drive. After multiple attempts at formatting and installing the drive as a single unit, it wouldn't utilize the full 1TB unless I partitioned it. So it was partitioned into C, E, and Recovery. All three drives worked fine…
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COD: Cold War redemption code
Hello, I just bought a 3090 RTX Suprim X yesterday and I believe I should've received a code to redeem Cold War. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks
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Winbook TW801 drivers please
Hi I have a Winbook TW801 on the way and I'd like to install win8.1 pro 32bit on it as it's lighter, faster and has a smaller footprint than win10. I was hoping to find the drivers on the site, only to see that I need to contact you for them. Could you please provide a link? Thank you very much. Merry Christmas. 😁
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acer predator 300 helios docking station
looking for a dock for my acer predator 300 helios being advised by acer not to buy a usbc connector so im trying to go with a usb 3.0 connection but cant find one that states good for gaming any help?
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recommendation on HDMI splitter/extender?
We are looking to purchase a HDMI splitter/extender similar to this one we found on Amazon that takes an HDMI signal and splits it to multiple monitors/TV's over Cat 6 cable, but that one only goes to 165 feet. We need one that goes at least 225 feet and I see single extenders with a 326 foot range, but not one with 4 or…
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3080 Promotional Code
I recently purchased an MSI Suprim X 3080 but did not receive the promotional code for Cold War/Geforce Now. Am I missing something?
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Call of Duty Cold War Code
Hi, I recently purchased a Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 VISION Overclocked Triple-Fan, and the Call of Duty Cold was not on my receipt.
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Replacement motherboard compatibility looking to purchase replacement
Shorted a asrock z370m pro 4 looking for a compatible replacement. My first choice isn't in stock sold out. ASRock X370 Taichi AM4 AMD Promontory X370 SATA 6Gb/s ATX AMD Motherboard I'm looking for a compatible motherboard. Cpu i7 8700k Gpu gtx 1080ti evga Psu 650watts. Looking to purchase asap. Please no 3rd party non…
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I am desperately looking for a Ryzen 9 5900x or 5950x.
Is there any way to see a real-time inventory from the Micro Center in my area? I don't think the general inventory on the retail site is accurate, because it was saying they had no stock of RTX3080 gpu's and when I drove up there in person they had like 6 of them in stock. Any advice or help on this y'all?
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Reserving Zen 3?
Is there a reason we still can’t reserve these cpus? I was able to reserve another in-demand item, the Dark Hero motherboard fine, but I’m having no luck with Zen 3’s since I can’t get into a store until later in the day due to work. Scalper bots make it impossible to get one online. My local stores in the Chicago area…
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Two 8 pin connectors on 3060ti for power
So first build with a graphics card with 2 power plugs (msi 3060ti ventus 2fans). I bought a corsair 750watt from micro center (you can check there website for what plugs and connections it has). It only had one gpu cable that was daisy chained, so I used it to plug in both 8 pin connectors of the graphics card. It just…
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Recommendations for PC Build (audio production)
Hey all, I was about to pull the trigger on this Dell XPS 8940, mostly for use as general purpose desktop, along with some audio production work (medium duty, not 100 highly processed tracks of pop music or anything). I'm not doing any gaming. But then I got curious about building a PC, and came up with this list of…
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Call of Duty Code Missing
Hello! I bought a ASUS ROG STRIX 3090 yesterday and never received an email with the code for my copy of cold war
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AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT Asus ROG Strix vs. Asus TUF GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming OC
Can you please tell me which graphics card is better the AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT Asus ROG Strix OC 8GB or the Asus TUF GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming OC?
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Cabling not marked for LANCOOL 215
I have a technical question on the power switch and reset switch cabling for the LAN Cool 215. It does not say on the cable which is positive or negative. In the documentation it shows the cables as black and white, in actuality both are black and there is not + or - on the cable. I tried to contact Lian LI but their…
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Unusual situation with Dell support - XPS 15 9500
I have a rather unusual situation here that I am hoping to get a little guidance or maybe another option towards resolution. I was looking for a way to contact customer service directly, but I was unable to find one (or I accidentally overlooked it) so I'm posting here. Long story short, I purchased a Dell XPS 15 9500…
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Graphics Card
Something is messing up and it wont post my question i think its because i have a link in it but i saw your response with the benchmarking thing but the 5500 XT didnt look like the one i found the one i found is on newegg and its titled Sapphire - 11295-01-20G - Video Card 11295-01-20G Pulse RX 5500 XT 8GB GDDR6 PCIE…
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Connecting a fan to the motherboard
I recently purchased a LIANLI LANCOOL II MESH case and an ASUS TUF GAMING X570 PLUS WIFI motherboard. I am having difficulty attaching the fans in the case to the mother board. This is our first computer build and it looks like a need an additional wire to connect the three fans together and then to the mother board. What…
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Bios update
I have a msi z490 gaming plus motherboard (e7c98iz1) on my pre-built pc from microcenter and I can't update the bios can anyone help me with this???
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Faulty JoyStick
Hello, Last Friday I purchased a Micro Center 32" Stand Up Arcade Kit - Unassembled When testing it appears with one of the Joysticks has a bad switch OR the USB controller has some poor soldering. Is it possible to get replacement parts?
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G706 Fans and BIOS Settings
Hi, everyone! I recently picked up a G706 as my first true gaming rig (previously have always been a laptop user). I'm loving the PC overall but have a few questions regarding the fans and fan settings in the BIOS. I'll separate these out in bullet points below for clarity. * How can I change/see the settings for the…
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Wifi 6 and WDS a thing?
Looking to grab a 2nd wifi 6 router (preferably under $100 if possible) to get close to gigabit wired speeds on a media center pc and a few other devices. Far as I can tell there are mesh wifi options but that's a much more expensive rabbit hole than I can get into at this time without my fiance stabbing me (lol?) I've…
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BYO Question
Hi! I'm hoping to put together a new rig sometime next year and since I've never built before, I'd rather leave it up to folks that have experience doing it. How does the extended warranty work when having MC build it? I plan to purchase probably every component short of the GPU from MC (if I get the GPU from the…
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Direct x error
Just downloaded the COD WarZone update. I also updated my nvidia driver and MSOS. When i load the application it crashes given me a DirectX error. I have confirmed I have the DirectX 12 version. I have reinstalled the GPU driver and application several times with no resolution. Help would be appreciated.
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PC Compatibility
I made a previous question about the compatibility of my pc parts but i changed the graphics card so i want to make sure these parts are still compatible AeroCool Cylon RGB Mid Tower case GIGABYTE Z390 M Gaming motherboard I9 9900k OLOy DDR4 RAM 32GB ID-COOLING SE-234-ARGB CPU Cooler Sapphire RX 5500 XT 8GB…
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PowerSpec G465 Freezing issue
Yesterday I purchased a PowerSpec G465 (Build 4). I have been trying to play Modern Warfare and have not been able to play more than 2 games at the most without experiencing the PC freezing. This has happened 10+ times. One of the times I received the DPC_Watchdog_Violation code and my pc restarted automatically but, every…
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Do they make motherboard testers for Chromebooks?
I work for a school system and I have several Lenovo 300e that I think have bad mobo's. I'm hoping someone makes a mobo tester for Chromebooks.
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PowerSpec BIOS Updates
Hello, I have a Powerspec PC that I have upgraded but I was wondering how to go about updating the BIOS. The computer has a B360M Pro-VH system board from MSI, but seems to have a custom BIOS not from MSI. Just wondering how to keep the board current with an updated BIOS.
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Geforce RTX 3070 availability
Hi I was wondering when the RTX 3070 will be available for purchase in store? I looked around the website and found all of them to be sold out, Is there a certain day when restock happens at the Fairfax store?
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Computer powers on but no display
I bought an Asus ROG Strix GL10DH a couple weeks back on Black Friday, and has been doing me well, but a couple days ago whilst playing minecraft, my computer goes black. I let it sit there for a bit till I finally forced it to shut down. I booted it back up with the nice roar of my fans as they calm down but only to find…
