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Hello all, I bought my PC from PCSpecialist 5 years ago (cant believe its been this long) and and all that remains from the original is the PSU, the case and one HDD. So my problem. In the BIOS and in windows the 3.3V and 12V readings are abit off. instead of 3.3V Im getting 3.264V and 12.096...

Hello everyone. So i booted up my pc today and launched BF4 and 10 mins in my pc turned off. i got a message about anti surge protection on american megatrends screen. I have had my pc for over two years. the power supply and mobo have never given me problems. any ideas? is my psu on the way out?

My mobo bios detects it and the DVD drive is plugged in and working, but Windows just wont pick it up or play anything from it. any idea what i can do? Edit: i just checked my device manager and it is picked up but it is giving me an error. Picture http://i.imgur.com/18vuebh.png?1 Its...

So i got a smartphone the other day and the only way to charge it is through USB. I downloaded Asus Ai charger but it doesn't work :( Anyone have any idea what i can do? I have tried all my usb ports and none of them activate ai charger.

Title says it all really. I'm getting around 72C maxed out running prime95. I tried 1.400 but i just blue screened. Also I know this is the wrong place to post but The overclocking section seems pretty dead. Sorry.

hello everyone it has been awhile since i have posted(which is a good thing right?) I hope you all had a very nice Christmas. I got an SSD for Christmas and I am in need of some assistance. I am not 100% sure on how to backup my SSD because I know they have a limited number of Reads/Writes so...

Yesterday I was on my pc and it was working flawlessly. I seen on Steam that Sleeping Dogs was half price so i bought it, downloaded it and played it for about 1 hour. Here is where things start going downhill. about 5-10 minutes after, i Installed the latest nvidia drivers. They installed...

Hello everyone :) I might be getting an SSD soon and I'm wondering would it be possible to backup my HDD and then install windows on my SSD and just restore the backup? is that a way to transfer the os? or am i just dumb.

Hey guys. So I put my PC into sleep mode and the HDD went crazy, lots of buzzing and other noises then it blue screened, So i ran a memory test and everything was fine no problems there. I ran a Disk Error Check in Auslogics BootSpeed program and it came up that there are disk error (...

Hey all. Whenever I plug a USB flash drive into my computer it bluescreens. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Hey all i just got a phone....yes a phone. I was wondering if the Maximus IV EXTREME-Z has that feature where some USB ports put out more power? i want to be able to charge the phone with the USB ports. does this motherboard have that feature? I look all over the internet and cant find...

My Main Hard drive for boot seems to be always at 32C. My cpu idles cooler then that. Is there something wrong? Screen shot of HWMonitor: http://i.imgur.com/PQBeL.png

hello all The Two top USB 3.0 Ports on maximus iv extreme-z wont detect anything please help if i dont use these for my mouse and kb my pc just freezes on boot.

Hello all I'm going to be buying a GTX 580 for my PC and wanted to know will it be under my warranty? and if not can i buy a warranty for it? Thanks.

Hello all :) I'm having a boot problem with the Maximus IV extreme-z, when i turn on the PC it sometimes just freezes on the BIOS splash screen and other times it gets past that but freezes/gets stuck on "initializing marvel adapter..." I really don't know what is doing this. i think it may be...

So i recently RMA my 580 because it overheating/getting artifacts on screen. i got a new 580 last week and it has the same problem.. :( i installed new drivers i done everything i done with the last one and it still has the same problem.

Hello all I recently RMA'd my 580 and it got replaced lightning fast! When PCS sent me my order tracking number i went to the DPD website and entered it and it says "Awaiting receipt of parcel" . Its been like that since the 3rd(Friday) Should i be worried about this? Also one other thing...

Hello all Im from Ireland so is there a number i have to enter in before i enter the PCS number? I am supposed to phone PCS tomorrow but i know from the past that there phone number does not work for me.

Hello all. Recently my pc has just started using lots of ram for no reason. i turn it own and it jumps to 4-5GB or ram used. i have 8 GB installed. Anyone know why my PC is doing this? Thanks.

How do i stop windows from backing up all my hard drives? I only want to back up my main boot drive but it keeps backing up all my other drives? is there are way to stop this? thanks.