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Hi Guys, all 3- 5 years i upgrade my pc myself. i just bought asus x670 p Wifi with 7800x3d to ugrade my old intel. It was late and i was stressed. i Found an "extra" 4 pin ( atx-12v-2) next to the normal one and connected a pci cable. Yes it fit perfect... -.- After starting zero fans were...

Hello, can someone tell me whether it's possible to burn an old "2x-4x compatible" CD-RW disc on a modern optical drive, such as ASUS ZenDrive U9M? Is the minimum possible burn speed mandated by the drive's firmware, so the discs below that minimum fail to burn? Thanks in advance.

So I used to DJ quite a bit back in the day….I have two Seagate Wall Powered External Harddrives and Two LaCie Wall Powered External Harddrives These drives haven’t been on for at least 8 years. I try to plug them in and nothing. They don’t power on or anything. Tried different cables...

I agreed to help fix my friend's computer. He said when he powers the machine on, he sees smoke and smells burning. and it doesn't boot into Windows. I did the same, and there was indeed smoke coming from the case. I examined it and found a burned/melted spot on the GPU. I tested a good GPU in...

Hi, I've been burning avi and mp4 files from an external hard drive to BD-R disc. Most have been fine but I've just trashed two discs and I think the issue may be read/write speed. 1. I've tried moving files from external HDD hard drive to internal HDD to see if windows has trouble moving...

My gpu Zotac Rtx 2060 6gb GDDR6 is making weird fan noise (buzzing, clicking and some sort of crunchy noises) it is also giving off some weird plastic smell while both idle and and during gaming (it also gave some burning smell a few days ago), the fans rpm doesn't go beyond 400 while both idle...

After accidentally breaking my new 24" CRG5 curved samsung monitor, i returned it and got sent the same one back by amazon. After only 2 days of using it, my new monitor, all of a sudden, started showing and cycling through 5 colors: black, white, red, green and blue. Non stop and nothing is...

Hi, Got a sudden and very frustrating problem. After burning 'Audio Discs' with CDBurnerXP for many years (from MP3s) without any problems - always using using Verbatim CD-Rs - I'm now getting the following error message every time: "CStarBurn_SCSITransportSPTI: ExecuteCDBO: Command failed -...

I built a new PC around 2 months ago and when I built it initially there was a burning smell when it was installing Windows so I turned it off. I checked all the Modular PSU cables and all seemed firmly in but in the end decided to pull them out and start again. The smell never came back but...

I recently recorded some of my old home video VHS taps and now have an mp4 file for them. I want to transfer them into a disc/DVD but am having issues doing so. I tried just using the built-in Windows 10 burning "program" but after it is done it doesn't seem to work in any of my DVD players in...

There was a smell of burning dust or plastic , i couldn't see any obvious cables or burnt marks inside my computer case, so i dusted it, it's been maybe a year or a little over since last time i dusted it, so it was really needed anyways. I tried to locate the smell but there was no obvious...

So I tried selling an old r9 390x sapphire nitro (unused). The person I sold it to returned it to me saying "we sys admins recognise when a gpu smells burnt". So I felt really guilty, had no idea, I mean I never even used the thing. So I basically said "well if the warranty is off i can't mess...

My father's birthday is coming up and he records various tv shows on TV and burns them to disks using an old Panasonic disk burner. He loves doing this, however not only did they stop making DVD burners, the shows only burned in 480p max. I am looking to build him a fairly cheap PC to achieve...

Hi My pc keep shutting down while gaming i cleaned the power supply and yesterday i noticed a burning smell coming from the psu i only use my pc for desktop work like browsing internet or studying My configue AMD FX 6300 GTX 960 8 GB RAM MSI MOTHERBOARD KCAS 500W Is it safe to use it? what can...

Hi My pc keep shutting down while gaming i cleaned the power supply and yesterday i noticed a burning smell coming from the psu i cant buy a new one because of the Quarantine Is it safe to use it? i will only use my pc for desktop work like browsing internet or it will burn my pc My configue AMD...

So when turning on the power to my PSU i get a series of pops and then a burning smell, however, it seems to work fine afterwards. GPU: RTX 2070, PSU:EVGA 750BQ. Both of them are fairly new, maybe a month old at most. Please let me know what I should do accordingly and if I should be worried.

Hi, I found An old RAM (1GB) and I tried to upgrade my mum's PC having 2GB... The PC started smelling like burning without showing anything. After removing the RAM the PC started working properly. Is that good?

i recently purchased a laptop, but it came with no optical drive. i am looking to purchase [during thanksgiving ( in USA) or UK or Singapore] through friends, an external blu-ray writer capable of reading and burning CD, DVD, BR (single-, double-, triple- quad-layer) discs, ultra-HD blu-ray...

Hello, The power supply I will be talking about is a non modular Cooler Master MWE Bronze 600W. A buddy of mine was building a PC and I showed up to help him finish the build, mostly everything was plugged in, just had to install the hard drive and plug in a few cables for him. Upon trying to...

My computer is roughly 7 years old. I haven't played games in a couple months now but recently when I played For Honor, my computer has emitted a burning smell and has shut off (4 times now). This occurs on after about 30 minutes to an hour after playing the game. Specs: CPU: Intel Core i7...

I turned on My Pc This Morning and smell something burning from inside my pc upon further insepection it wwwas coming from my gpu and the gpu fan wasn't working. I took it out and kept on sniffing it to find it was coming from the fan header and I found a lot of dust and a small black ball size...

Hi, I googled the problem to no avail. I started my HP Z420 PC after a while and it ran fine for about 10 minutes. It suddenly shut off and started a continuous 4-beep code with a red light. On top of that, there was a plastic-y burning smell coming from the PC. The next time I tried to start...