Recent content by Kevin Andres

When you're dealing with very high end graphics cards, I'd never recommend going cheap on your PSU. First of all, that's a bronze rated PSU which the ratings refer to the power efficiency and guaranteed throughput (I believe bronze is like 80 or 85% efficiency). I'd recommend getting probably...

Hey all, I'm having an issue with my desktop. I'm trying to install Windows 7 alongside current installation of Ubuntu. My motherboard is a MSI z77a-g45 with an Intel i5-3570k. Here's what I know. A month ago, I had windows 7 only on my machine. I upgraded to windows 10 (a pre-release...

I had to buy a new motherboard because my last one was going out on me. I installed the motherboard and everything seemed to go off without a hitch, however, I cannot get any sound whatsoever. The board I bought is refurbished and open-box from newegg so there was no promise of driver disks or...

You need to give us more details man. Not to mention a little bit of grammar goes a long way. Is this a new rig, old rig? If it's not powering on at all, either the PSU is bad, or you managed to damage your computer while installing the new PSU.

Were you grounded (ESD strap or hand on case) when you put the PC together?

I've had this issue with my computer for a while now where occasionally the pump on my closed loop water cooler doesn't work, causing the CPU to heat up. Normal operating temperatures on the CPU tend to be 30-35C while idling and 50-60C while loaded. On the other hand, it seems like an issue...

Hi everyone! I apologize right off the bat if I'm in the wrong section of the forums with this question, but it seemed most appropriate to go here first! I just got a 2003'ish server tower (current specs unknown, I haven't played with it yet, but my brother who gave it to me thinks there is an...

Yeah, that's kinda what I figured. I'm getting pretty quick at dismantling and reassembling my rig though :P Thanks for the help Rolli59, I got my serial, I'm going to test it a day or two on the hardware "reassembly", see if that happened to fix anything. Hopefully it does, if not, I'm...

Oh sorry, I meant just a basic system reset (reset button, not a CMOS reset). Is there any way to get the motherboards serial number without disassembling my PC? I'm at school and don't have the box the motherboard came in to easily get the serial number that way. I've tried various programs...

Would that fix anything? I don't know how to do it, and I'm kind of afraid to try.

By the way, after a reset, the back plugs are working.

If it has a non-intended red glow, that means something is critically failing. In other words, something's getting REALLY flipping hot. Time to request an RMA

Hey everyone, I had an issue start up the other night, when I noticed that the pump on my water cooling loop for my CPU was off. I started getting BSODs, which I presume were caused by my overheating CPU (It was getting up to 105C, with the pump working full load never exceeds 60C). Today, it...