Recent content by frymillstrum

Update: I ran with 1 stick for a couple of hours, went to bed, then tried both sticks this morning and it.... just posted. Memory training or something? Idk.

So I set up a mostly new build with on a Gigabyte B650 EAGLE AX, a 3080ti and AM Ryzen 7 9700x last week and was getting a red light on the DRAM light on the MOBO and it was driving me crazy. I tried multiple configurations but eventually the only way it would post and boot was with 1 stick only...

I recently noticed that task manager is showing that my memory usage percentage is unusually high compared with what I'm actually running on my computer and the RAM I have installed (16gb). As shown in the below screenshots, the first 10 or so processes add up to about 2.5GB of usage, with...

Sorry, I thought I had been thorough. It's a heatsink fan.

So I was having an issue where my PC would just randomly crash across a variety of "normal use" situations (Browsing Chrome, watching movies with VLC, using file explorer). Sometimes it would hang for ages before crashing, sometimes it would just switch off. Event viewer also logged it as a...

So I decided to replace the wraith prism cooler (and MOBO while I was at it) and the noise appears to be gone. I initially thought it wasn't the CPU fan as the noise had earwigged it's way into my head and was still present even when I turned the fan off. Noise actually stayed with me for the...

Then what's my best chance of identify where it's coming from, since I've basically ruled out everything else it could only be the MOBO or could the Ryzen Stock Cooler be the source without the fan running?

It's too high frequency to be picked up by a recording...

So I build my first PC a few days ago and it makes a REALLY high pitched noise all the time, no matter what I'm doing, browsing files, checking Twitter or gaming. It's exactly like that effect you hear in films after there's been an explosion and the character is supposed to have gone deaf for...

I'm using a display port to HDMI cable to connect my pc (GTX 1050) to a Samsung Smart TV and I'm getting little bits of static accross the screen but only when there are multiple colours, it is noticeable in videos as well but when playing a black screen video on YT everything is solid black, no...

DT2410. Why?

Thanks for the help everyone, apologies again for the waste of time. I've never really messed with a BIOS before, I'm sure it's nothing to be afraid of but I just decided to get a VP to HDMI cable for €10, was just trying to save a bit of cash since I already had a VGA cable lying around

Well after actually looking at the back of my PC instead of just derpily seeing a VGA port and assuming it was part of my graphics card I realised what I'm looking at is the VGA and DVI ports from my motherboard. Apologies for wasting everyones time but I guess it was an intriguing mystery to...

Nope, the DVI port is directly above it and besides the VGA cable is sitting snuggly into it, screws and all...