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My 6 year old Dell U3818DW stopped working all of a sudden. I'm able to connect my laptop and the audio still works fine, but it can't display anything correctly (see the photos below). It's not the HDMI cable because this happens without any input – I can't read the input selection menu at all...

I got a very weird issue after I swapped out my HDD (possibly even before but I attributed it to the dead HDD). I have my system on an SSD and junk on another SSD or the HDD. When my PC is positioned vertically it often it starts to lag and the cursor almost always has the loading animation (15...

Hello I'm trying to fix/ put togeather my computer but nothing appears on the monitor that I have hooked up when I power it on. I've tried resetting the bios and what i imagine to be the simple things, but i would really like to get it working. Ive got a MSI Z690 motherboard with updated bios...

Hello, I’m having a problem with a laptop. It’s a Lenovo IdeaPad Model Y510P, quite old, maybe 8-9 years old. The battery became bad very soon after it was bought (maybe after 2 years), so for the last years, it has been used without a battery (so only plugged in). The problem started over a...

In these times of great confusion, once again I come to you guys for help. A couple of days ago, my dad was doing something and he turned off a fuse and back on a couple of times (twice, I think, turned it off and then on, off and on again). Meanwhile the pc was working in the other room when...

It seems like my PSU broke down so now i need a new one. But i need help with deciding which one to buy. I'm not sure which Connections and what Wattage the PSU should have. As far as i'm concerned i need one molex connection and the old 12v pin (not the 12vhpwr ATX 3.0 one). Should i go for...

My top left pin of my 3.2 USB header is loose, any help? (Asus ROG STRIX B550 f model)

hello my friend has a gtx 1080ti that has worked perfectly for some time now but today he got into bios and it got reset or something so from then he hasn't gotten any signal to his monitor when the displayport cable is plugged into the graphics card but it works perfectly when plugged into his...

Hello, I'm having issues with a X299 motherboard i have, to a point i created an account here just for that. The thing is, the motherboard, once plugged to a live PSU, flashes it's stand-by LEDs ( That line most motherboards have down at the bottom left + Also a green light just under the I/O...

My pc started going on an off and I quickly disconnected it. Inside i was greeted with an awful smell. Coming out of my gpu. Would you give my boy any chances?

I was up for hours last night and I have no idea what to do. When I had first turned on the PC it had an odd smell and was making a whine so I turned it off pretty quickly just out of anxiety and looked around the pc. The smell was like a plastic / chemicall-y smell. Later on I took the PC to my...

So i have an asus tuf a15 gaming laptop, used to work perfectly fine and was able to play the games i wanted, recently i tried to uninstall a game but ended up wiping my whole C drive some how (yes im retarded). With a bit of help from my friends i was able to get it up and running again but it...

I have a AOC AGON AG322QCX 31.5" WQHD 144Hz VGA HDMI DP LED Monitor i bought like 4 years ago. Almost every time i turn my PC on it has green purple and grey horizontal lines at the bottom of the screen. It goes away if i restart the PC sometimes and other times it just goes away. I'm just...

After this black screen appeared i let it sit for few hours and nothing happened so i restarted it and it still did the same thing so i spent more frustrating hours until i used my bios to wipe my hard drive with OS on it. I obtained a new windows 10 install and when i boot from the flash drive...

Hello people, I've upgraded from a Ryzen 3 2200G to a Ryzen 5 5600G. I have this on a MSI B450 Pro-M2 mobo, which is, according to Google and people on forums, compatible with my cpu. I installed the new cpu on my mobo, and it won't work. I checked everything, everything's powered and I updated...

I was updating my MSI PRO z790-P using the Flash BIOS method. There is a red light flashing in the top left corner and another light (the one that shows if everything works fine. It is glowing red). Keep in mind I am updating AFTER I fully build my new machine so everything is already in the pc...

Hello everyome, ive found this 3900XT for like 90$ and guy said that he could boot with his a320 motherboard altrough the 1 pin is missing, and as i found out on internet that one missing pin is VSS. I got that processor and after pressing power up button nothing starts not even the fans. The...

My laptop has an issue where it will not turn on, plugged in, or not. To get it to turn on, I have to wait one week or so without using it, and then plug it in and turn it on. Once on, it lasts for about five minutes before it switches off and will not turn on again (for another week or so) What...

Hi guys. Title sums it up. Since december 2022 , Windows updates keeps failing after the restart at 97% or so. I think the first update that failed was December 13 (KB5021233) , I just paused the update wand waited for teh next ones thinking that might fix it but no go , 2 more updates since...

I bought an RX 580 used off ebay, which was working, with pictures shown. I downloaded the drivers and used DDU beforehand. It works fine when it is idle. However, when I benchmark it or load a game, the game either crashes or shows heavy artefacts. Temps are around 75 at full load. If it...

I just built my new PC today and I turned it on only to find the DRAM LED on, it then proceeded to turn off and the CPU LED went on. It does this back and forth constantly until it turns itself off then reboots and starts the process all over again. I have check the RAM in a functioning computer...

I did a complete cleaning on my components and stupidly ripped the CPU out of the socket with the fan. I had some bent pins which I carefully fixed and after everything got cleaned I reinserted my CPU. My PC started freezing/shutting down after playing some graphically intensive games randomly...

So I just got my laptop keyboard renewed and while I was testing it the Shift key of the keyboard popped out, and I couldn't figure out how to put it back in. If it isn't clear in the image there's a metal strip inside the keyhole that can be taken out. Also the top left small plastic hooks on...

My SSD drive is shown in BIOS and device manager but not anywhere else. I've tried changing my motherboard to the old one, using USB adapter but nothing works. Although on my friends pc it works just fine.

Pc specs: R7 3700x 16gb 3200mhz xpg ram Aorus b450 elite v2 8800 gts 750w corsair psu 1tb wd green ssd Phanteks p400 digital case So I recently sold my 980 ti to get a new gpu, but when I went to install a new gpu into my system, it doesn't boot, cycles between vga cpu and dram debug...

So my PSU is the oldest part in my PC, at just over 8 years old. It's a Corsair CS750M. My PC has also been on for above-average amounts of time over its lifetime, making the 8 years seem like a fairly long time. Yesterday I came back home to see it off and not turning on again. The weird...

PC not working Hello everyone! I’ve had my build now for about 4 years now and decided a few days ago to upgrade the GPU and PSU. After adding a 2060 12GB and 750 watt psu, the PC wouldn’t POST at all. The issues were characterized by the GPU fans not spinning at all, my peripherals not...

Hi Toms' Friend's, In a predicament, my screen was cracked and can’t be used. I was using my other monitor but encountered an issue running games so I attempted to install windows 11 via usb. A DX issue or graphics card issue and figured windows 11 would be a good upgrade. However, I was...

I'm assuming this is a monitor issue and not my GPU, but something strange has been happening for around 6 months now. I know that's a long time to wait to seek answers, but until today it has always gone away within 10 seconds to 3 minutes. Today, for the first time, it consumed my whole...

I don't understand. I didn't drop it or anything. Bought it 3 months ago, used it to store my Music and Clips nothing intensive. What's happening? What can I do to prevent this? Screenshots (sorry for low quality) https://photos.app.goo.gl/6BJYijgyEYKCm1na8 500gb 5400rpm Seagate x(

I literally got this keyboard today, I played a game for around 2 hours and then left for a while. I came back and tried to install the Reddragon software for some RGB modes, but as soon as I installed it it’s just not working anymore. I’ve tried uninstalling the software, updating USB and...

Hi there. I've just built a new desktop pc, but I don't think the GPU is working correctly. I'm using a ASUS RTX 3060 TUF 12GB V2 graphics card with a ASUS TUF Z690-PLUS WIFI D4 motherboard. To give you some backstory. The GPU is outputting video, but I can't find the component listed in my...

I let the master chief collection download one day and went to work and when I got back my monitors were off, my fans were on full speed, and the cpu and dram debug lights were on. I reset the cmos battery and it worked and came on for the rest of the day but it keeps happening, I just now got...

This started awhile ago, my PC was accidentally dropped about nine months back, I've since replaced the case, the hard drive, and added additional cooling to the PC, it functions fine except when gaming, any game I play while playing freezes for up to 30 seconds and keeps doing this again every...

After about a days worth of use, the file path in windows explorer becomes glitched, rendering completely incorrectly and bringing in bits of other application icons, the clock, etc. When this happens, Copy/Paste functionality is lost from ShareX's screenshot utility. It also seems to break...

To start with, I want to state that before doing any of this, my GPU was perfectly fine, with no odd behavior whatsoever. I've recently bought a used graphics card (yes, I know) as my previous one had died and I obviously needed a replacement since I couldn't live with a gt 730. Despite it...

My girlfriend's pc is not turning off anymore. She was cleaning the desk, accidentally toutched a key and the pc turned on (it was turned off before) but with no display signal and also it does not turn off. Pc Specs: AMD ryzen 5 5600 g Psu aqirys 650w mobo gigabyte b550 2x 8 gb 3200 ram Windows...

Hey all, I've got an older GTX 780 GPU that seems to be working, but the image on the monitor just looks interlaced and torn with horizontal lines all over, and occasional solid square blocks here and there. When it first happened it was in the middle of a game and I thought there was a virus...

My specs are as follows: Mobo: b550 pro-vdh wifi Cpu- ryzen 5 5600x Gpu: asus rtx 2060 Psu: Seasonic focus px-750 Ram: 2 x 8gb corsair vengeance Whenever I boot up my PC the monitor goes from no cable input detected to no signal. This issue has been long running since around last December...

Hey! So yesterday I was kind of in a hurry when seating my new AIO and when I was installing the CPU Cooler and Heatsink, the CPU somehow stuck to the Heatsink and I tried to put it in a couple of times before realising. So here I am, with some bent pins and one broken VSS pin. I managed to...