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Hey everyone, I recently upgraded my PC with an Asus tuf 7800 xt, and ever since then, I've been experiencing a strange issue. My PC won't shut down properly. When I click on "Shut Down" from the Start menu, or when I press the physical shutoff button, the system shuts off completely (i. e...

I just bought this SSD and I installed it today now I have no signal. I tried unplugging everything and I took out the ram and put it back in. This is the first thing I’ve ever done with the PC changing parts so I’m very lost On what to do or what I did wrong. It’s an ALIENWARE Aurora R12 and...

Hi I Have a Asus Z790 ProArt paired with i9-13900K and 32GB Ram and MSI Gold PSU 1000W. The Pc is new and was working normally for several weeks. Until one day when i was working, i restarted the PC and the PC didnt boot and the cpu q-led showed red light. What i tried and replaced: 1. New...

I am trying to clean install a win 10 iso in an old PC with win 7. I have created a bootable usb device using rufus (latest ver.). I have set up the bios to configure booting from usb device. but after pressing anykey to boot from USB, it says BOOTMGR is missing. the USB is MBR, for BIOS/CSM I...

Hey everyone, I've been encountering an issue when starting up my PC, and I'm hoping someone here can offer some insight. Sometimes, when I power on my PC, I notice these unusual red and green pixels appearing on my monitor. Some of them stay static, while others blink, and this only happens...

Hello everyone, I am having this particulary difficult problem. I am curious if somebody already dealt with something similar. I need some new angle because I am not able to figure this out. My client has small M2 Nvme 128 GB SSD on Dell Inspiron 17 5000 Laptop. He has a lot of work-related...

Hi all, I just got a 1 TB Samsung 980 Pro M.2 SSD to use as my new boot drive instead of my current 250gb SSD. However, when I install the M.2 SSD, my PC won't boot from my current SSD and only shows a blinking cursor on a black screen. I'd like to avoid doing a fresh install and just want to...

Hi, I have a system with the following specs - Intel i7 - 6700k Gigabyte GA-Z170-D3H Mobo 16 GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 x 2 Zotac GTX970 Graphics Adata M.2 250gb Cooler Master 600W PSU I have been using this system for the past 7 years. Sometimes, the system would randomly reboot with...

Rebuilding a PC for a CO worker of my girlfriend. The Power supply is from an alienware computer CPU: upgraded to an I7-9700k from a i5 8th gen something Motherboard: upgraded to ASRock B365 Phantom Gaming 4 from the Dell board in the old case Ram: upgraded to Corsair Vengeance Pro 2x8GB from...

I was wondering whether anyone else has experienced this problem and has any advice on what to do, (if anything). I’ve had my PC for four months now or so and everything works well overall, but tonight for the 2nd time since owning when I booted the PC it went to the ‘choose an option’ page...

Laptop model: Sony Vaio E Series N50 SVE151A11W This laptop is not booting. Only the power light and the HDD light is flashing when I hit the power key. See this video here View: https://youtu.be/xWhcoH2JeIM to see this directly. The screen stays black and the keyboard lights do not come on...

Hello, I recently tried to upgrade my system, however I’m now having issues with it not powering on at all, I’ve tried the new parts and put back the parts from my old build as I thought motherboard was faulty, now it won’t power on with my old build in place, I’ve contacted NZXT support and...

My pc is suddenly shutting down with the fans still running. Also sometimes when I start my pc the debug led shows up in CPU. Sometimes the led is for GPU as well. But when my pc boots up it runs perfectly fine. Any idea what could be causing this issue? is it mobo or something else?

Hello! I am having some trouble turning on my PC at the moment. It started after I had reset my BIOS to default settings. I noticed all of my hard drives had been removed from the boot order, and I can't seem to be able to add them to my boot menu. When I go to view my hard drives in BIOS, they...

Hi, first time PC builder here so apologies if I’ve done something silly. I’ve just assembled my PC and attempted to power it on. The fans all come on (both the case fans and the AIO radiator fans, along with their ARGB alighting, but I get no LEDs lighting on the motherboard (including thE...

Hello, I upgraded my motherboard from an MSI B350 to an ASUS B450-f Strix. Everything went as expected (Windows deactivated and installed all new drivers) but the problem is that the system does not reboot. When I power up the system it boots up, then when I try to restart the system from within...

Hello, I'm having a problem recently where my pc doesn't boot and gives me a CPU error on the ezdebug leds. so i hold the power button to force shut it down and turn it on again and it boots normally. i've had this pc for 6 years now so it's not a cpu reseating issue. i've cleared CMOS by...

Hello everyone, I have recently built a PC from sepatately bought components, and installed Windows 11. It functioned flawlessly for some time, but after a power outage I booted it up and it was very slow, mouse movement was extremelly laggy and jaggy. This was nonetheless fully resolved by...

Just bought a new motherboard (ASUS AM4 TUD gaming X570-Plus (Wi-Fi) AM4 Zen 3 Ryzen 5000) to replaced my old motherboard (ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Gaming Motherboard (ATX) AMD Ryzen 2 AM4) and for the first boot everything worked fine except my 2TB Samsung SSD (this is not the one with windows...

I decided to turn on my PC, but Windows didn't want to boot, it kept loading until I restarted and then "Reboot and select proper boot device..." appeared, then i tried turning it off and on, it loaded again but it still wouldn't boot. I did this over and over until it finally booted and I used...

So i decided to factory reset my computer after getting some malware downloaded, i decided to di a full wipe on my windows 11, and i chose the cloud windows download, the process took long time and at around 60%, and also the screen was blinking on and off the whole process, i decided to go to...

My components: https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/k7dqsh Quick list: 7800x3d NZXT N7 B650E ATX (AM5) RTX4070 (founders) Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR5, 6000, CL30, 2x16GB Corsair HX850 PSU Various NVME + SSD drives Corsair H100i LCD CPU Cooler Hi Guys, please help! Built the above PC, all...

I bought a used Asus N580GD laptop. Previous owner said he wasn't able to install Windows because he didn't know how. After turning it on for the first time it was having problems to boot Windows. always getting BSOD or sometimes screen just freezes. I tried to boot with a USB flash drive but...

Hey all I have a H3m01 H mother board Recently i wanted to buy a 4GB ram stick to upgrade my speed. I couldn't get hold of the ram type so I had to open up the pc on doing so I cut of the power supply and carefully removed the ram checked it's version and reinstalled the ram stick into the next...

Hey all I have a H3m01 H mother board Recently i wanted to buy a 4GB ram stick to upgrade my speed. I couldn't get hold of the ram type so I had to open up the pc on doing so I cut of the power supply and carefully removed the ram checked it's version and reinstalled the ram stick into the next...

I have a custom built PC. It's been working fine for 2 years. One day I shut if off and now it won't work right. Here is what I tried. 1. Disconnecting Nvida graphics card to boot from internal GPU. 2. Tried a different OS drive 3. Tried a different Power Supply regardless of what I try...

Im trying to get Windows to be the default option when turning on the PC instead of going through the BIOS I have an ASUS motherboard and every time I want to turn on the PC I have to: Hit the power button Hold the power button to turn off the PC (the monitor says that it is not recieving any...

Issue description: After a system restore, Windows stopped booting correctly. It now throws a Stop error CRITICAL_PROCESS_DIED on boot. The boot logs indicate that the error occurred after the point where CLFS.SYS was loaded. The restore was done in WinRE, and therefore the restore could not be...

Swapping drives from old pc to another... Windows 10 Desktop C: Drive (from original PC) not being recognized. Get non system drive error. Can reboot with USB windows but can't access Drive Drive appears as a "Windows" drive when checked on other PC Any suggestions? Tried swapping cables...

Hi my mom's pc has got a hardware problem. it's motherboard is Asus PRIME H310M-R R2.0. This mother board just have 2 ram slots and i have two DDR4 hyperx 4GB rams. Today my mom told me her computer has no image. I checked my mother's computer First I took out two RAMs Then I put the first RAM...

Hi, I have over the last 6 months had trouble with constant crashes and being unable to boot, and I have so far failed to identify the cause. My setup is: GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5700 CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz with stock cooler Boot drive: Samsung EVO Plus 970 500GB (previously Samsung EVO 970...

Hello! so essentially i’ve been unable to boot at all for the past couple days or so, i’ve had this issue in the past and resolved it by getting a new ram kit but there was nothing wrong with either kit as they are both QVL certified and both full memtest86 ram on them, but here i am again I’ve...

Hey there! I've been struggling with a hardware issue and i've made a deep search on the web but i had no luck at all. I changed my components recently, and I bought hardware from a friend and i've been using the new rig for over a month: motherboard, psu, gpu, and cpu. Note: GPU and PSU were...

Hello everyone, I am looking to get help about my cpu error light on boot. In order to fix this issue I have to physically push on the cpu cooler towards my cpu sometimes also having to loosen / tighten my cpu cooler. And then it boots fine. Sometimes I get a WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR. Then I...

Recently swapped cases, SSD booted up without issue and went smoothly for a day or so. I forgot about my LED strips so I installed them etc and it seems that caused something. Ended up connecting the power from the controller into a secondary power slot on the same cable used on my SSD. After...

Hi, I built a pc about 4 months ago, it worked fine until yesterday. I was playing then had a black screen, I had to force shutdown and when booting windows froze on loading screen. Now every time I boot it freezes on the loading screen even in repair mode. I tried to plug a windows usb but it...

My Macbook Pro required some maintenance as it was overheating on the most basic tasks. So with some help we cleaned the heatsinks and fans. And swapped the crusty dry paste for some fresh noctua paste. After the swap we reconnected everything and started the mac just fine. Gave stuff a quick...

Specs : Asus Ex A320M Gaming Ryzen 5 3500 Circle CG Raw Power 550W 80Plus White Problem : I push the power button and the system doesn't boot up. I can see that motherboard's RGB are lit up. After sometime (approx 30 min) the system magically boots up. What have I tried: 1. I did the paperclip...

Hi, I remove my NVIDIA GPU from my Dell Precision T1500 with Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS but after doing it the pc won’t turn on anymore and plays 4 fast bips in loop. What can I do?

Hi, I am having this issue. My (desktop) computer takes several attempts to boot properly. When I try to turn on the PC, the CPU fan, the LED light of casing, and the casing fans do seem to run fine, but nothing is shown on the monitor. I am quite sure its not a graphics card issue since...