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Hi all. I was doing some cable management and stupid me wasn't very careful when I started moving cables around. An RGB cable got stuck on a SMD and managed to break it, and honestly I am not too sure what this even is. I did a quick boot test and it seemed to work fine, but would like to know...

When I went to turn on my PC this morning I was immediately met with a black screen and a white underscore in the top left of the screen and keyboard and mouse did not even switch on. I last used the PC the night before where absolutely nothing was wrong and I did not change anything. I have so...

Hi, 2 days ago (25th February) I woke up and pressed on my pc power button before heading to get breakfast at around 9:30 (9:30am). Then when I was done with eating and came back to my room, I noticed that my PC wasn’t running. I pressed the power button again and nothing happened, no fan, no...

my pc keeps freezing ive tested gpu, ssd, and ram and i want to know if there is a way to test every function of the cpu. i want to test the memory controller, northbridge, alu, fpu, cores, infinty fabric, apic, and so on. is there a program like intel cpu diagnosic i can use amd ryzen 5...

I have a 2 year old 2TB adata xpg sx8200, this is my only drive atm and my mobo is an msi b450 gaming pro carbon ac. Yesterday I left my PC with a pretty heavy game running to speak to my housemates, I was gone for about 20-30 minutes and when I came back my PC was sat at the BIOS. I was pretty...

Hello, I am worried my monitor is at the end of its life. I started having these artifacts (picture 1) a while back, first only 2-3 not theres more and more. These artifacts are visible in this order of color from left to right - green, green, red, green, green, red. They are at the exact...

Hi All, I'm having a bit of a problem with a laptop which refuses to turn on. It worked fine one day and then my housemate borrowed it apparently used it fine and turned it off at the end of his work without issue. The next time I tried to turn it on it won't stay on - not pointing fingers or...

Hi everyone! In August I managed to get a GIGABYTE Vision GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and it has worked completely fine until a week ago. When I turned on my pc in the morning, and got nothing but a black screen on my monitors. Currently using my old GPU and it works completely fine so it appears the...

I recently built my first pc. After a few days of running just fine with not crashes, my pc began to randomly shut off. After shutting off it would try to start back up again, sometimes succeeding and sometimes shutting right back off and trying again. It’s not at the point where I’ll turn it on...

Hi I just built a new PC, all part were new other than an rtx 2060 which I had in my last build as well as 2 hard drives from my last build, which haven’t been whipped may I add. Specs: Motherboard - B560M aorus elite RAM - 16GB DDR4 CPU - i5 11400f (no integrated graphics) GPU - rtx 2060...

Hi. few days ago we Bought a new pc and everything was good but unfortunately we plugged in power cord incompletely in psu. and when we turned it on, we heard a spark. after that we fixed the problem and now computer works very good , without any shut down or any problem. but can that spark...

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3 weeks ago, while I was playing a game, my pc randomly turned off. I tried turning it back on, but it wouldnt turn on. I reseated the ram, tried booting without the gpu, replaced the cmos, replaced the cpu with a older one (upgraded from that), and replaced my power supply. Those did not fix...

I’ve had this custom built computer for the last maybe year or 2, yesterday I noticed this clicking noise and soon after the computer completely shut down, at the time I wasn’t using the computer, it was just on. I hadn’t opened it or moved any parts or anything recently. Considering it was...

I recently came into a bunch of old gpu's because i buy and resell them, one of them was this GTX 285. It wouldn't turn on so I tore it apart to find one of the inductors on the board and had come off and fused to the fan hub and another was completely charred and fell off. With these two pieces...

Long story short, about a month ago, I replaced my GPU cooler (gtx1080 Turbo) for the NZXT g12. 200$ down the road, my temps were much much better overall. Yesterday, I opened my computer and was greeted with a bunch of horizontal 1" white lines all over my screen. In my roomate's PC, the...

QLED indicator got stuck at yellow DRAM LED after I removed them to install an AIO. Tested my RAM and all slots, and found out slot 4 on my motherboard died. So I installed my RAM in slots 1 & 3. My PC seems to be running fine, but it's been bugging me for the last few hours. Will installing my...

My Red Dragon mouse decide it didn't like the side button anymore, so It popped out and I have searched through the internet trying to find somebody that knew how to fix it, alas little to no luck. My question is: Does anybody know how to refit a side mouse button that has popped off ? My...

So yeasterday I accidentally spilled coke on my pc. I instantly shut it of and then saw that a few drops got into my 2080 Ti. I panicked and took it apart and cleaned the small drops with acetone and then put it back together. After that the pc stoped booting , even into bios. The card still...

A while back my PC started this trend where after playing a game for a while suddenly it would get super laggy and the FPS would drop to an unplayable level, naturally I figured it was throttling and needed some TLC cleaning- unfortunately this did not fix the issue. I decided to factory wipe...

So I was working on replacing my old i-5 with a newer I-7. After I was finished I noticed that my computer now would not turn on and there is a wire that seems to be out of place. I am in dire need of some assistance!! The Orange cable goes to the P2 Power port on the motherboard. I also am not...

Hello friends I’m new here and I have a REALLY confusing hardware problem, so this is a gonna a bit long. tl;dr, I think my RX 470 is locked to Ryzen systems and will not work with Intel systems. Context: From the Philippines. I bought my girlfriend an RX 470 that she could use in her new...

So I have had this pc for a year and a half now, and haven't changed anything about it. But, recently, like last few months, I have had this problem where whenever I play some certain games, both my monitors will randomly black screen. I have noticed it happens often when I hit my desk like with...

TLDR: Entered grub rescue to fix my system, tried to install normal module. Didn't work. Need help figuring out what to do next. As the title says. About a year ago, I took an old laptop I had and tried to install a linux distribution into it (elementary OS). This was my first time installing...

Recently my pc has being displaying no image but when I turn it on the monitor recognises it and will turn on also but it will say no image source found , anyways this all happened when I plugged my pc to put it somewhere else’s day later I unplugged it while it was running google chrome , but...

Yesterday I built a pc with brand new parts from scan (Ryzen 5 3600 Gigabyte rtx 2060 16gb 3200mhz Corsair vengeance ram Corsair RM750 PSU MSI B550m pro-vdh WiFi mobo Samsung 870 evo 4tb x2 NZXT H510) And it posted and boots just fine to the bios. But trying to install windows from a flash drive...

Hi there I have a broken Laptop hinge – the hinge that is connected to the back cover. And I'm planning to buy a hinge to replace the broken one. No problem here. However, another part that's broken is the Screen hinge. My question here is: Can this be fixed or I can't do anything but buy a...

I woke up this morning and tried turning on my pc, it was working fine I got passed the Gigabyte mobo name part, and then type ur password to get through to into Windows. I noticed after I typed my password it was taking ages to load then it finally loaded and I opened chrome after that it all...

So, I have a built computer from about 5 years ago. A 6700k A gtx 1070 a gigabyte UD motherboard and a corseair cs650 psu. A couple months ago when I would start gaming, my computer would all of the sudden turn off, as if I flipped the switch on the back of the psu. I stoped using the computer...

I've recently bought a prebuilt omen system (2nd hand) from a friend - Rtx 2060, i7 9700f etc. I benchmarked the system at his house, checked temps, everything seemed fine. After a couple days at home the gpu would lose power anytime it would heat up enough to require power to cool it down via...

I picked up parts for 2 builds recently (not gpus) so have some extra hardware to test with. I got a ryzen 7 3700x and 2 asus tuf motherboards (b450-pro II(probably) and x570 pro wifi). My second cpu hasn't arrived yet so I cant test that yet. The issue is that with BOTH boards, my graphics...

Firstly, I'm not a native speaker so probably I will make mistakes in this post. My problem is as it says in the title Game textures loading slow.For example I can see the grasses in front of me loading or spawn of NPC's.But here's something you need to know, Water was spilled(or poured) on the...

Hello, I have had my PC for quite some time now and it has been through a few moves with me however this time something different has occurred. Whether it be due to lack of cleaning, the moving process itself, or being dormant for some time I am having this issue where in game (league of...

My SSD became very slow one day then after a few days stopped working all together. Now when I try boot I am forever taken to the bios. My disk does not show under the bios however other drives do. I have tried other sata cables to no avail. If I boot the pc using another drive that has windows...

Title says it all, HDD light stopped working suddenly after school. I have also noticed that the USB ports are not working (keyboard and mouse not lighting). The monitor does not react at all whenever I turn my PC on and off but the fans are still spinning, I am certain that this is not a...

Hello everyone, hope you are all doing well. This is my first post on this forum, I apologize if this isn't the correct category for this question. The wire of my Razer Kraken 7.1 v2 has been playing up and I have identified the exact fault of the cable is right next to the earcup itself...

My Logitech G413 has been acting strangely recently. Preceding the event of my entire pc slowing down to the point where I had to reinstall windows, my G413 had and still has this issue, where about every 10 seconds or so, the inputs will stop working for a few seconds, and then it will spam...

When I press the power button, or anything, nothing happens at all. Just a clicking noise whenever it is plugged in. No fans, LEDs, or beeps. Even with everything except for the 24 pin connected it still gives this clicking noise. I have tried a variety of components to use with it and none seem...

Hi, So I have been having an issue with a Microphone, mixer setup, it seems to work perfectly fine for like 15 minutes then it just makes this terrible buzzing echo kind of robotic it seems. I will post the exact models of what I have and the bottom. The only way I can get it to work is to...

Hello all, Both the ctrl keys on my laptop keyboard stopped working. I have both ubuntu and windows installed, and they work in neither of the two. Windows is a fresh install, installed after the keys broke, which makes me think it is not a software issue. On ubuntu, I also tried using the...