Recent content by ravin_29

It's a process of troubleshooting to narrow down the possibilities which are many at this point. It's not supposed to be a normal way to access BIOS anyways!

I found that whole fast boot thing unreliable. Sometimes even with fast boot on I was able to enter BIOS by pressing Del fast enough. The tricky thing is it's implemented at different levels on different systems. At OS level and at Firmware level or only at OS level. Depending upon where it's...

what if you remove (just disconnect) all hdd(s) /ssd (s) from your system. It has nowhere to go and it should land in BIOS ideally. If Windows q0, what if you instruct it to boot to BIOS thru update/ recovery options. You are not updating anything just instructing it to boot to BIOS. Do you...

try this. Assuming key to access BIOS is say Del, when PC starts hit Del key again and again. Now I understand nothing shows up on monitor. Here switch off the monitor and switch it on again and check.

Basically what I meant is CMOS battery had nothing to do with pc shutting down. It's mere coincidence. As you figured out old thermal paste was the issue not CMOS battery.

May be it's just a coincidence that you might be having a bad PSU now and it just happened around the time you changed the CMOS battery.

I suggest if you are using Windows 10 or above on one of the existing SSDs, disable Fast Boot, and from Recovery options try to restart to UEFI (BIOS). If that does not work, disconnect all SSDs/HDDs and boot PC without any storage drives and check if you can enter BIOS. If your keyboard is...

Hi, This is a general query and is out of my curiosity. These days after Windows 11 has been announced and has been available (insider and now final) internet is flooded with many users complaining that after they enable secure boot on their desktop PCs they get black screen. I have been trying...

BIOS update before installing new RAM specially when not bought from the original vendor like HP in your case or its authorized service center is recommended. Sometimes there might be some incompatibilities between board and RAM and BIOS update ideally improves such RAM compatibilities and also...

If at their repair center it booted with 2666 native stick, then ask them to update BIOS and recheck with your RAM stick. Also reset BIOS to defaults by shorting pins on the mobo and check again. I believe when you say PC is not booting, you mean it powers on, all fans run but it does not POST...

If you can manage great, else take it to a nearby repair shop. They will have spares to swap parts and quickly nail down what is faulty. Issue could be in psu or mobo or some other aspects like may be some short somewhere causing psu not to start

Check if Corsair offers 3 or 5 years warranty in your region.

There's a very basic (Not that reliable) paperclip test for PSU. You can check that out, if PSU runs in paperclip test may be it means bad mobo or even a PSU that now fails to supply enough power under load. If PSU fails in paperclip test it means it fundamentally is not turning on. Are parts...

Thanks. As per Amazon reviews users are commenting that the RAM can also work at CAS 17 at a specific speed, that made me wonder if 19 would automatically switch to 13 at 1800 as it has done for existing 4GB. But that one is from Samsung. But Crucial is silent about it. Looks like this data is...

I have HP laptop with existing RAM which is 4GB 2666Mhz and here are the CPU-Z screenshots. If I understand correctly, this RAM is running at 1863 Mhz with CAS latency of 13 at the moment. I am interested to replace this stick with a new single 8GB Stick from Crucial. As per specs it has latency...