Hardware
INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE After Enabling VMD in BIOS, What to do?
If you turned on an option called “VMD” or “Enable VMD controller” in your BIOS (maybe thinking it had something to do with virtual machines) and now Windows 11 or 10 [...]
Hardware
Gaming
Steam Crashing on Launch with an AMD Radeon Graphics Card
If Steam closes by itself right after you open it (or a few seconds later) on a PC with an AMD Radeon graphics card, and it only started after Steam’s mid-October 2026 update, reinstalling [...]
Hardware
Monitor Says “No Signal” When Windows Loads (Works in BIOS)
If your Windows 11 or 10 PC shows the BIOS and the loading screen just fine, but then the monitor goes black and says “No signal” right when the sign-in screen should appear (while [...]
Hardware
SSD Stuck at 100% Active Time and PC Freezing in Windows 11
If Task Manager shows your SSD stuck at 100% active time while it’s barely reading or writing anything, and the PC keeps freezing or stuttering for a few seconds at a time, it usually [...]
Hardware
LiveKernelEvent 141 or VIDEO_TDR_FAILURE Crashes on NVIDIA GPU
If your screen suddenly goes black for a few seconds while gaming (or even while doing nothing), and Reliability Monitor then shows a “Hardware error” with LiveKernelEvent 141, or [...]
AMD
Sapphire or Gigabyte RX 7000 VBIOS Security Update, Should You Install It?
If you own a Sapphire or Gigabyte Radeon RX 7000 series graphics card and just found out there’s a VBIOS (firmware) security update for it, you’re probably wondering whether [...]
Hardware
Black Screen on DisplayPort Monitor After NVIDIA Driver 617.42 Update
If your main monitor on DisplayPort lost signal while NVIDIA’s Game Ready driver 617.42 was installing, and it now stays black every time Windows loads even though the BIOS or motherboard [...]
Hardware
LiveKernelEvent 144 Hardware Error in Reliability Monitor, Why?
If you’ve opened Reliability Monitor on your Windows 11 or 10 PC and found a “Hardware error” that says “A problem with your hardware caused Windows to stop working [...]
Hardware
Intel RST Driver to Install Windows 11 When No Drives Show Up
If you’re installing Windows 11 from a USB drive and the screen where you pick a drive is completely empty, or setup asks you to load a driver, even though your SSD shows up in the BIOS, [...]
Hardware
TPM 2.0 Enabled in BIOS but Not Showing in Device Manager
If you’ve turned on TPM 2.0 in your BIOS but Device Manager shows no Trusted Platform Module 2.0 under Security devices, and tpm.msc says “Compatible TPM cannot be found“, [...]
