Recent content by mikeym1989

Thanks a lot for the help here guys, massively massively appreciated. Everything appears to be working okay and somehow survived the PSU exploding... I'll monitor temperatures closely going forward in case there's some unseen damage. I Can't thank you both enough for talking me through here.

Unfortunately can't recall the brand but it definitely wasn't a particularly well esteemed one - it was a 500watts job that had run perfectly fine with an HD6770 and then an HD7770 but blew out when trying to run with an R9 270. I have removed the GPU and tried booting after connecting the...

Hi there guys, I'm a bit of a noob so be gentle, I'm a bit delicate after potentially destroying my entire PC.... I recently upgraded my GPU, and after playing circa 10 minutes of a next-gen game my PSU blew out - sparks, smoke etc. I have now bought a new PSU and when booting this up, I can...

I recently made a build for my dad and took some old components from my PC that I had upgraded in the last year. I used my 350W PSU from my old desktop along with my old AMD 6770 GPU. After putting these into my dad's new build, he seems to have this crash occurring when on flash heavy websites...

I've been tasked by my brother to fix his old Aspire 1810TZ. The initial problem (I believe) was that the old HDD had become corrupted and needed replacing. I popped over to his house and replaced the HDD and added some more ram, though had the dreaded acer black screen of death problem and went...

Hi there, I just finished building my dad a PC (first time builder) and noticed that my CPU clocked speed was significantly lower than retailed: the 4130 is supposed to clock at 3.8 with mine coming in at 2.8. Having looked around a bit, I've seen this might be something to do with combining...