Recent content by ekreger

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    Question Best way to troubleshoot a bad GPU?

    I want to point out that I am pretty new to this kind of stuff so I may be in over my head already. Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to reply to me. I'm looking to fix this as learning experience as well as maybe as a fix temporarily until his new GPU arrives. For all I know...
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    Question Best way to troubleshoot a bad GPU?

    Hello. Recently my brothers computer randomly shut off and upon startup, the computer chimed 5 beeps. Several steps later, we found out that the GPU was not being recognized by the motherboard. I am looking to get my brother a new GPU, but for the time being I would like to see if I can find...
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    [SOLVED] 5 beeps after random shutdown

    I found the problem. Supposedly the ASRock mother boards put out 5 beeps for GPU errors as well. The rx480 nitro was the problem. Looking to see if I can fix it.
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    [SOLVED] 5 beeps after random shutdown

    Hello, I was using my computer normally as usual when all of a sudden it turns off abruptly. I tried to turn it back on, to which the computer would light up with no display on the monitor. The computer then beeped 5 times, which I looked up to be a CPU error. Here are the steps I have already...
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    [SOLVED] May 2020 Windows 10 update messed up my PC's bootup process

    Ok, I will try that when I get home. You said I could have possibly installed Windows on both my SSD and HDD, if I were to do a clean install on my SSD like you said, would I have to manually remove windows from my HDD too or will I need to completely clean that HDD too?
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    [SOLVED] May 2020 Windows 10 update messed up my PC's bootup process

    Hello. Supposedly my computer was not able to update windows by itself since September. So today I manually updated it through the Microsoft Windows website. After running the updater, to make a long story short, upon startup I am hit with the "Reboot and Select proper boot device" message as...
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    AMD RX 480 Memory Clock Capped at 300 MHz

    how old should I go, 17.1.2 is the lowest I've gone
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    AMD RX 480 Memory Clock Capped at 300 MHz

    Specs: Radeon Software Version - 17.9.1 Radeon Software Edition - Crimson ReLive Graphics Chipset - Radeon (TM) RX 480 Graphics Memory Size - 8192 MB Memory Type - GDDR5 Core Clock - 1342 MHz Windows Version - Windows 10 (64 bit) System Memory - 8 GB CPU Type - Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4430 CPU @...