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I did the breadboard and it booted right up, but then started having issues again. I was reading the manual to look for which order to put the sticks in (8 RAM slots) and noticed that the toggle I've been using to switch between BIOS is, in fact, not the correct toggle. Switched to the second...

Hi all, I have a PC that I built that has been working fine since 2015 until today. Specs are at the bottom. Computer was working fine, it is primarily used for gaming. Was playing on it this morning, left to run some errands, came home and it was in sleep mode and would not reboot from...

I pulled the RAM before and still nothing. No fans spin, no beep codes, absolutely nothing. I'll pull the mobo from the case tomorrow and check it for water damage, and try it without the CPU in too. I'll post results here.

Hi all. I'm trying to fix a computer for one of my friends. It is about 4 years old. We were playing a game the other day when he got a warning that his core temp was too high, so he shut the computer down. He had a self contained liquid cooling unit, similar to the Corsair H80i but a...

Evening, Trying to help a friend out with his son's computer. Everything was working fine on it until about a week ago. When he turns it on now it goes straight into power saving mode, without even displaying the bios splash screen. He's running a Dell desktop, about 3 years old. I don't know...

Evening all. Just wondering if this is possible. I'm currently running a very robust custom build, i7 5820k on an MSI x99s gaming 9, 16gb RAM, one gtx980, a 500gb ssd and a 2tb standard hard disk. I'm wanting to set up a secondary screen-a TV I'm going to put up above my regular monitor. I know...

Wasn't sure if I should put this under screens or graphics cards. I'm running a custom build, MSI gaming 9 ACK mobo, i7 5820k cpu, 16gb ram, 1 gtx 980. Within the last 2 weeks or so when I boot the computer up there's a really bad flicker. This only happens when booting, not coming out of...

Echoing the above, ask yourself what you will lose and what you will gain. Wearing a wrist strap you lose nothing, and gain peace of mind. Not wearing it you gain a tiny bit of mobility freedom, but potentially lose your graphics card.

Hi all, I have a new PC I've recently built. I'm running an I7 5820K (3.3ghz) on an MSI gaming X99- ACK with corsair vengeance 2800 DDR4 ram. The ram comes at 2133 when stock obviously, so I used the XMP profile to get the actual 2800. Using the XMP boosted the base clock, which I've heard...