Recent content by astrosteve

That's interesting, as I just put a new video card in and the problem seemed to go away after that. My old video card was huge and heavy. It hadn't been touched in a long time. I was plugging and unplugging things a lot when I got the monitor, due to me first using a HDMI cable then changing my...

Sorry it took me a while to respond. The fans seem to be working normally now, but I'm still concerned it may be temporary and I probably need to replace something. I use SpeedFan to control the fans. All the fans in the case are plugged into headers on the motherboard. The rear fan uses a 3 pin...

For about a week now, my desktop has been behaving oddly. My case fans unpredictably start and stop working. Sometimes I turn the computer on and they don't spin up. They start spinning if I manually spin them (usually via a quick blast of compressed air aimed at the fan), but not as fast as...

I've spent weeks trying to troubleshoot this issue on my own and can't figure out what's causing it. Hopefully, someone here can help me. I recently built a new gaming rig. Most (but not all) games cause a BSOD. I'm running Windows 7. BSODs on Win 7, I've found, are almost always hardware...