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    Question New build won't boot

    Hello all my dad has had a pc for about a year now I built it and put it together and worked fine for a few months then it wouldnt boot, cleared cmos and it worked again but now it's happened again but clearing cmos didnt work. Just wondering if theres anything faulty as I built an identical pc...
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    Question Is something phisically wrong with my GPU?

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    Question Broken phone data recovery?

    I have a huawei p20 pro that has a completely broken screen, I need to get the photos off of it or use huawei phone clone but that isn’t as important. I got an otg connector and plugged the phone into a monitor and used a mouse it worked but the display would cut out every few seconds, any idea...
  4. N

    Question GPU not working?

    I was just playing on my pc and it crashed. The pc did not turn off, but the connection to the monitor and sound shut off. All the lights were still on in the pc. I tried turning it back on, for it to shut off for 2 seconds, then turning back on, but not connecting to the monitor. I have an RX...
  5. beno123

    [SOLVED] 144hz displaying 60hz?

    recently just got a monitor and running dual link dvi-d from gpu to display and the windows setting of refresh rate displays 144hz and is selected as an option, the same with nvidia control panel. this also along with it shows 144hz on the ufotest but it just doesn't feel like 144hz at all...
  6. octans.sigma2

    Question GPU underperforming

    Hey , so i have this problem for about 3-4 months where when i play games my gpu has less power than cpu which causes fps to drop about 50% on every game i play the gpu is Asrock rx580 8gb Gaming D ( bought about a year ago). PSU : Corsair RM750x (bought today) CPU : r7 2600 ( bought about a...
  7. Evanlesniewski

    Question USB current overflow

    So I built this PC a few years ago and everything worked great for quite sometime, now I can’t even turn it on because of USB current overflow. I’ve unplugged all of my case USBs and I’ve removed everything else except just my PSU CPU and ram, just trying to get something. My motherboard usbs...
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    Question Can a broken Gpu still heat up?

    So i was mining with my p106-100 and the usb riser I was using shorted now the card isn't detected at all. The weird thing is that usually when a card isn't working anymore(at least in my experience) the card will not heat up at all. This card is still getting hot, all parts of it from the die...
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    [SOLVED] Is my CPU Dead?

    After installing new RAM in my computer, I turned it on to test it. It booted into windows fine, however when I checked CPU-Z I noticed that my overclock had been removed and the CPU was running at stock speeds. I've been running a non-K overclock for years (i5 6500 at 4.5Ghz), so I just...
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    [SOLVED] I think I broke my motherboard by over tightening a CPU cooler, can you confirm?

    So I was building a spare old-gen PC, it has a 4690k & 650Ti on a h81m-s2pv motherboard just for workstation and mild gaming. I bought an aftermarket cooler which is the Cryorig M9 plus and saw that it's compatible with the LGA1150 socket. So, I decided to mount it but saw that the screw-ins...
  11. Tomjoppe28

    Question Help Identify faulty part.

    Hey all, I recently built a computer for a friend, the day we put it together it worked absolutely fine. The day after it did too for around 4 hours. While playing Forza horizon 4 suddenly the computer completely shut off. When we tried turning it on it would flash led lights and spin the fans...
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    [SOLVED] GPU randomly stopped outputting signal but works fine on friends PC?

    I was playing games on my pc last night and everything was normal. Then I switched from Rust to CSGO and my primary monitor (plugged into my GPU) went black, while my secondary monitor (running of the motherboard) remained on. After copious troubleshooting, I deduced that my GPU (EVGA GTX...
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    Question Fans turn on and mobo led turns on but pc doesn’t boot up?

    My pc has been working fine for the last 4 months. Yesterday I knocked it and it turned off, when I went to boot up again nothing would get displayed yet my fans and mobo leds were all working fine. Tried a few different things then my pc turned on with a blue screen error then went off again...
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    [SOLVED] Hdd died, upgrade time, recommendations please?

    Hello everyone My hdd fully died the day other so im in need of a new hdd/sdd. Im hoping some one would be able to recommend a good, fast, reliable hdd/sdd? I have around £100 to spend I have a nvidia gtx 750ti graphics card 8gb RAM If someone would be able to help me out that would be great...
  15. signum_

    Question PC seems to boot up, but my monitor is blank and my peripherals don't light up

    Ok, so basically, wanted to boot up my PC a few days ago, and at first, it sounded like everything was fine. The fans started, the power LED lit up, everything sounded right. Not sure about my SSD, but I definetly heard my second hard drive (HDD) running. Everything did not look right. My...
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    [SOLVED] What are these dots particles on my screen? How do I get rid of them?

    Hello I just built my pc and my monitor has these weird dot particles and i have no idea how to fix it I tried both a dp and an hdmi cable but nothing changed. Drivers are installed. Any ideas...
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    [SOLVED] 1070Ti won't install drivers?

    Hi, I recently bought a "working" Asus ROG Strix GTX 1070Ti OC Edition to replace my aging GTX 980. However when I received it, and put it in my PC, I turned it on and it started booting and making this terrible sound that almost sounded like coil-whine. When it came to installing the drivers...
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    [SOLVED] Leaked Fractal Design Celsius s24

    My Fractal Design Celcius S24 watercooler had a leak through one of the fixings on the block. This caused cooling liquid to trickle all over my GPU and down my Motherboard. I found out when my PC randomly shutdown and i thought to look inside my case, there i found a pool of liquid on my GPU...
  19. WimboJallis121

    Question PC still not booting after replacing mobo + psu (video attached)

    I had an issue with my PC a couple of years ago after it decided to stop working one day right in the middle of uni deadlines (sh*t!). Long story short, i needed something urgently so replaced it with a laptop, and never bothered to go back to it until now. Fast forward until now, i was...
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    [SOLVED] Help! CPU cache issue (probably)

    Specs Ryzen 7 1700 Gigabyte Windforce RX 480 8gb Corsair Vengeance 8gb 2400mHZ DDR4 Samsung 860 EVO 500gb SSD ... Hi, I've got an issue with my PC and I think I've narrowed it down to my CPU cache. The last few months I've been experiencing some instability with my PC while running more...