Recent content by Wiebob

Might sound like a silly thing to check, but I had the same issue with a rig, everything seemed to check out okay, and it was fine for a short time after being built. But then it started crashing randomly for no apparent reason, and sometimes not booting up at all. I finally gave up and sent it...

To make a long story short, my Corsair H100i v2 water cooler died on me, and I had to switch back to my old Thermaltake Water 2.0 Performer. The whole reason I switched in the first place was because my AMD 9590 kept overheating and crashing my computer with the single radiator cooler (that chip...

My son has full use of his right hand and arm, however, on his left hand he only has the use of his pointer finger and thumb, the others are atrophied and don't work. Additionally, his left wrist and elbow are locked and don't rotate. What he's been asking me for I can't seem to find, and it may...

Yeah, to be honest, I was pretty sure it was pooched for good this time. Too bad, even though it's a little older now, that was the best laptop I've owned. Edit: Is it possible I just totalled the video card? Just wondering if it would be worth my time trying to get my hands on another video...

I have an Acer Aspire 8730. About 2 years ago, it started giving me one long beep, followed by 2 short beeps, which I've read points to the video card. Putting it into the shop was a no go, they said they couldn't do anything. I'd read about the "oven method" of heating up the card, so the...

Hmmmm...been shopping around, and haven't settled yet, but looking at Intel Core i7-6700K Processor 8M Cache 4GHZ Base 4.2GHZ Turbo FC-LGA1151 and the Gigabyte G1 LGA 1151 Intel Z170 2-Way SLI ATX Motherboard GA-Z170X. And now I can barely keep my eyes open, off to bed, 4am comes early... ;)

I'm currently running a water cooled AMD FX9590 Black Edition cpu on an ASUS Sabertooth 990FX r2.0 mainboard, with 32GB of RAM (offhand, can't remember the brand), powered by a Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200W power supply. I'm running a Zotac Geforce GTX980 Ti Amp Extreme card, and plan on...

Well, well, well...so, I watched that video, and noticed there was no UEFI BIOS Settings on his screen, either, he clicked on Startup Settings, then Restart, and then started mashing on what I assume was his F2 key. So I did that, but used my Del key, but just sat staring at a blank screen...

Firstly, my computer has been working just fine for several months, since I first put it together. Then out of the blue, I started getting random freezes. When I initially built it, I had the same issues, but thanks to some great help here, some BIOS changes fixed the problem. So, when it...

As it turns out, everything left on the drive totaled approx 32GB...far from the approx 2TB he had on there, so we just formatted and got on with it. LOL, and as for the no-drink policy? I didn't even have to bring it up, my son did all on his own... ;)

Too make a long story short, my son accidentally spilled a full glass of water into his computer, in the middle of the night, when reaching for it. Lot of damage, and have since replaced his mainboard and processor. With his main drive connected, I couldn't even get the Windows installation to...

All I can say is, OMFG...I was just looking at the clips on either end, that hold the ram in place, and one looked, literally, slightly off from the others, so tried to give it a push...then pushed MUCH harder...and it clicked. Did the same for the others, and they all clicked. I've never had to...

Okay, this time tried the MemTest button on the mobo, and maybe thay helped...maybe. It boots past the BIOS splash screen now, but now, even more scary, I'm getting a message saying that "Your PC needs to be repaired". If I shut everything down, replace the old RAM, and turn it back on...