troubleshooting

Running a Seasonic G series from 2012 (550w gold rated) on an Asus p8z77, my Nvidia 1070 vid card randomly died while gaming, PC shut off and PC won't boot if power cable is plugged into it... figured it was a 12v short and moved on (tried it in other slot and different PC, no change). Onboard...

hello everyone , i face lately a problem with my pc which has the following specs : asrock z77 pro 3 Ram 10 gb ddr 3 (8gb 1600 MHZ crucial 2gb 1060 mhz micron) I7 2600 gtx 970 4gb the problem starts while i'm playing videos games pc suddenly shut down and when i wanted to restart it the cpu fan...

https://imgur.com/a/8HMPM4i My PC has recently started blackscreening while I'm AFK. I just upgraded the bios to the latest version and selected XMP to see if that would fix it. Previously I had been running 3800MT/s c16, 1.4v vDimm. I have watercooled the GPU & CPU. I have not tried...

Just got this monitor for when I’m working from home. It’s a 5K2K 21:9 ultrawide, it has Thunderbolt 4 ports. My work laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad X13 Yoga Gen 2… which has Thunderbolt 4 ports. I’m sure I read on a blurb for the laptop it can run 3 4K displays. When I connect the monitor, the...

So 10 years since my last build, this time had the wisdom to test everything before putting it in the case. Build is: Ryzen 7 7800x3d MSI b650 Mag tomahawk wifi Phantom spirit 120e G.Skill Flare X5 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-6000 CL36 Memory Western Digital Black SN770 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4...

Hi everyone! I have an old PC that started showing malformed characters during boot and windows started to fail to start up. I wonder if these malformed characters can point to the potential issue (cpu, mobo, etc). Here are a couple of pictures On the first picture the D, 5 and e look weird...

Hello all! I'm really at a loss trying to fix this particular issue I've been having, with no luck looking elsewhere on the world wide web. The thread title may seem ridiculous but I'm so frustrated and out of ideas right now that it's the only thing I can think of. As briefly as possible: My...

Hi all Just built my 1st PC in over 10 years and got a Win10 iso on a usb. Got a post and I can see the usb and m.2 within the storage options in the bios but can’t get it to boot from the USB. Actually it’s saying there aren’t any bootable devices to prioritise. If I go into the advanced...

Hi All, PC Specs AMD Ryzen 5 5600X Gigabyte RX 6900 XT GAMING OC 16G MSI MPG B550 GAMING EDGE WIFI 32GB Corsair RAM 1TB Sabrent Rocket 4.0 Background I purchased a 6900XT around February of this year (Gigabyte RX 6900 XT GAMING OC 16G) at a pretty penny. Since the start I have had some...

i have a proob with my desktop pc on a cold boot of pc i get 4 error beeps and no video out at all once i get the video out to work if i can i have no probs that day i think it's getting stuck on b2 Q code but i can see the loading lighting going so i think it's still booting in to windows im...

The Noise! This is the noise I'm hearing ignore the fans it's the whining noise behind the fan noise. This is much louder then the actual noise. For some background I just installed a WiFi card and when playing a game I could hear this noise or something similar, I went to investigate and...

Computer randomly freezes, slowly every app will lock up and the only option I have is to hold down the power button to shut it all down, and then it works perfectly fine again afterwards until the next crash The higher I have the xmp settings at (3600-3200-2666) etc, the faster it will crash...

Hi everyone, I’m wondering if I can pick people’s brains, any help/advice would be much appreciated. So my PC has been on 24/7 for the last few weeks. I shut it down today for the first time in quite some time to sort out some cable management. Now when I try to power it back on it shuts down...

I've just finished my first proper build, and this is the last hurdle I am stuck on - any help greatly appreciated, I've scoured the web but cannot identify a fix. I've posted a similar summary to different forums to little avail - in my search for fixes I found several people raising similar...

Hi everyone, I hope you are all doing well. Or at least, better than I am. I have just built my PC today. it is: Ryzen 7 5800X MSI X570 Tomahawk WiFi Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 32gb 8Pack DDR4 RAM Seasonic Focus PX-750 I haven't once managed to get it to connect to two different monitors on...

Hoping someone could kindly assist with any experience or knowledge that might help me. I have been running my PC with 2 sticks of 8Gb Ram and purchased 2 more. I can't get my system to boot for love nor money with 4 dimms. I have a 10700k Nzxt cooler Msi Z490 Tomahawk Motherboard 750...

Hello there, I am relatively new to PC gaming, having first did some when I was around 13 years old 12 years ago, then stopping and moving to console for most of my life. I have now bought a used gaming PC that was extremely cheap and the best specs I could get for the money. I have been...

So after this and this post we went ahead and redid the whole loop with 90° fittings and improved layout and new tubes. The PC looks visually good as seen in the picture here. So we thought maybe our problems are solved now, a new and improved layout, a new mainboard, PSU, rad later this could...

I'm having an issue with my card, sometimes while playing games, core and memory frequencies move back to idle. In order go back to normal I've to restart my pc, anyone know how to solve it?

Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my pc, but I'm getting a really strange issue. I'm upgrading my cpu, ram and mobo (parts list below). The ram and mobo upgrade went fine, but when I upgraded my cpu, the windows spinning dots start stuttering forever, and I can't boot. https://youtu.be/KOckcu8gBu8...