Recent content by Cameron_turck

Hard drive was unplugged for the rest of the night and the noise didn’t come back, so I’m pretty sure it’s the hard drive that is nearing its death… just worried that it’s a once in a blue moon type of thing for my PSU though…

Hi all Recently my computer started making a crackling sound (very similar to the sound of a Geiger meter), initially I thought it was my PSU but thought of disconnecting my hard drive to see if the sound would persist. It’s an old sea gate hard drive that has been making scratching sounds for...

Added note , the graphics problem displaying to my monitor only accrued after I plugged it into the UPS. So many unknown variables and problems just leads me to wanting to buy a completely new system. But to save costs I’ll try my absolute best to save this systems and it’s components.

I’ve done a full uninstall of the graphics card driver using DDU and reinstalled the latest driver , haven’t had enough time to leave to see if the black screen problem comes back, will have to leave my pc and test that tomorrow. I’m also considering sending it in for diagnosis at a local P.C...

Recently my P.C. would randomly just boot down and then power up, it did it once about 2 weeks back and then again yesterday and then twice today. In my area there’s been speculation about the manucipality decreasing power to houses, so I then connected a UPS to my pc to see if that was the...

When I say idle I refer to my computer not having anything running or any applications open.

Hi , I have an issue that I have tried to troubleshoot now for a while , whenever my P.C. starts up or is even at idle my CPU constantly idles at 20%-60% and spikes up to 100% for no reason, I’ve tried to monitor which processes are chewing at my CPU but everytime its a different application ...