General Computer Thread

[Marc]

guys hope this is ok to put here
my desktop pc started to show incorrect time and date over the last couple of weeks .my guess was the cmos battery was dying .(bios showing wrong time as well
so changed battery, had to remove graphic card to do it ,battery directly under part of it and reseat graphic card
started up good ,window tile showing and white circle rotating ,but it kept hanging there
inserted windows install/upgrade disk selected advanced options ,selected startup repair and after about 2 hours i got into my workspace with access to programs and files great
powered down then next day switched on now still hanging on window tile screen where do i go now there is a startup setting on windows disk (low res video /debugging/safemode)do i use this option or what could be wrong or how do i fix this ?

use the safe mode.
the go into device manager, from the view (iirc) option at the top, choose show hidden devices.

Then go down to display adapters, right click on each and any entries related to the gpu then restart and see if Windows reconfigures the display correctly.

Thing is that removing the gpu to replace the battery and then putting it back in the exact same slot shouldn't be causing this issue even if it's Windows that we're talking about.

It's possible there's some other issue causation != correlation.

 

[Bad Thoughts]

Do the above.

If you think you will have recurring problems, make a bootable USB (at least 64GB) drive with Ventoy, then download Hiren's Boot CD to it. It uploads into memory as a diagnostic version of Windows along with a lot of great utilities to diagnose and fix problems. While you're at it, put an ISO on it, something like Linus Mint, a version of Linux that is beginner friendly.

 

[Santaman]

Hmm, there is a small posibility that the GPU isn't completely seated properly, especially larger cards can be a pain in the backside to seat properly.
If Marc's suggestions don't work out then maybe open up the machine again, pull out the GPU and seat it again and look closely that is is really seated good and also if the powerconnectors are seated properly, if it's a NVIDIA card and it has one of those rotten 16 pin connectors then also check twice...

 

[Candlicious Ghost]

Hmm, there is a small posibility that the GPU isn't completely seated properly, especially larger cards can be a pain in the backside to seat properly.
If Marc's suggestions don't work out then maybe open up the machine again, pull out the GPU and seat it again and look closely that is is really seated good and also if the powerconnectors are seated properly, if it's a NVIDIA card and it has one of those rotten 16 pin connectors then also check twice...

Exactly this.. I thought my card was seated level and everything hooked up well one time but I kept having random video glitches, freeze ups. Opened the case and took a better look and the gpu was in fact not seated fully in the slot.

 

[tavor]

update
noticed the motherboard has integrated graphics so disconnected the graphic card and used the integrated graphic, still same result, so plugged back in the graphic card and booted it into safe mode
after long time i got into my workspace
i shut it down and rebooted normally, after long time (10 mins ) got to login screen ,keyed in password again after long time ( 6 mins)got into work space, clicking on shortcuts and folders take about 4-5 minutes to open some just hang (settings page) .tried again tonight getting in but long delays (shortcuts/folders/setting page , usb mouse working fine
any ideas where i go from here to get it back to normal speed again ?

tried boot cd long time ago on a flash drive i had and screwed it up (don't know my way round that sort of stuff ,did download a linux mint 21 couple week ago didn't try it yet ,can that be used to fix my windows problem (again programing/software is not my strength

 

[Santaman]

Sounds like Windows destroyed itself, I would try and boot from the Linux Mint drive and see what that does, if it boots without a problem and behaves normally when it comes to speed etc then Windows needs to be reinstalled, if Mint also is slow then you might have some hardware damage.