capacitors

Hello, I have recently made my PC, which has been left unpowered for more than a year, boot and run. However I've noticed a problem. Whenever I opened an image and zoomed in, sound in being generated (while doing the zooming proccess) and held left click and dragged the image (while dragging)...

Hi, I have a question which hasn't been solved yet. I was repasting/repading my 3090 aorus xtreme, put in all the correct pads and paste and I am rather happy with the results. The card uses a lot of thermal pads in different sizes, including the round capacitors(1mm). I repasted and repaded the...

Whilst creating my new pc, i had forgotten to remove the pcie brackets. I thought i just had to take them off as you would on any other motherboard, but these were strange. they were adhesed to it instead of screws or any similar type i had seen before, so i checked youtube and similar places...

Hey there mates! My heavily modified cheap-ass SilverStone HELA 1200R Platinum is dead silent due to my mod, but when I have C-States enabled in BiOS, all hell breaks lose with bird noises in my PSU. I tried different configurations with C-States, but all of the possible and impossible...

So, I am new to this whole soldering game as well as motherboard electronics along with board circuits. Excuse my ignorance if I call something the wrong name or give an incorrect reference. I have Dell 1545 motherboard and I am learning how to follow the power path and checking capacitors to...

I'll try to be brief => installed a waterblock from Barrow on a Gigabyte Geforce RTX 2080 Super. Everything worked fine, temperatures weren't going through the roof but after a good night of gaming one of a series of 7 capacitors blew. A few days later, a second one did the same. The red...

I picked up a new cpu (Ryzen 3600) and cooler and the mounting brackets are touching a line of mobo capacitor caps when fully screwed in. I just want to know if this is going to cause issues at all.

My PC just made a loud bang (can't tell for sure, but it did sound like a capacitor exploding) and turned off immediately after, but it managed to boot itself back up right away without me pressing the power button. I only used the pin to log in and check if all the hardware showed up normally...

The computer is lagging ( Slow by 25%). I replaced everything; RAM, Graphics card, Processor, Processor Fan, Hard disk, SMPS. Even Reformatted it several times, ran mem test 86, Intel Processor Diagnostics etc.. scanned for viruses and malware using premium Softwares. Stopped the unwanted...

I am wanting to overclock my processor, and I'm wondering if it's possible. If it is how would I be able to do it, I believe I would most likely need to go into the bios settings, when I was in there I didn't find too much about it, all I found out was BCLK, which I figured out wouldn't help me...

I bought a new laptop and want to move the SSD, from my old laptop (which no longer turns on) into my new laptop which has an HDD. Ideally I want to be able to just plug my old SSD, into the new laptop and start working. I understand this won't work though? I have: a) Cloning software. b) A...

right now i have 5 Case Fans 2 DeepCool XFAN 120U R/R for intake 1 AESOP 120mm Red LED For VGA Cooling, placed it at the top of the psu which is positioned at the bottom 1 PCI Video Card Cooling fan,1 92mm at 3000 rpm 1 small one at 4000 rpm 1 DeepCool XFAN 120U R/R for Exhaust 1 AESOP 120mm Red...

greetings guys,i need some serious help: since the last update something happened on my system and now i can't execute any operation that requires running as administrator because if i do said operation gets stuck; so i can't try and use a restore point to go some days back,i can't access...

Hello, I am looking to build my first gaming pc. I've compiled a pcpp list and I want to know if there are any improvements I can make. (budget = 2.1k). All help is appreciated thank you PCPP: http://pcpartpicker.com/list/m2xGxY

Hello, i'll keep it short and quick. Spilled a bit of water on case, water got in case's audio jacks and usb ports ( didnt know at the time) (both ports were active at the time). Plugged off pc, cleaned all with a paper towels, turned on pc, a pop up msg kept on popping up that i have plugged...

hye guys...just want to clarify before i upgrade my graphic card,will my motherboard MSI A68HM-E33 support Asus R9 270?.last time i tried to plug in my brother Sapphire HD 6850 1Gb its fit not quite well,it seems like my ram is blocking the graphic card.fyi i put both of ram slot for 2x4GB DDR3...

OK, so I just bought my rig about 3 month's ago from Xidax. I am not having any problems with it at all at this time really. I just bought Battlefield Hardline and also running Call of Duty Advance Warfare and I have all the setting on Max with V-sync on as well and I think I am pulling around...

Just BSOD'd upon unplugging and plugging back in my Logitech G502 mouse. Dump file: https://www.dropbox.com/s/l7lzg0xkv33awe1/012915-22750-01.dmp?dl=0

I got a brand new pc build it from scratch. I built it but when turned on got 4 beeps. I reseated the ram, gpu power and thw mobo power. Now when i turn it on i get a orange light then it goes away.... My cpu fan and back fan get power. I took everything apart testing each hardware. My mobo is...

So in my build I've everything but storage figured out.(linked above) As this is a school computer I need large capacity but fast as well.the hybrid drives just don't seem to have enough cache for Photoshop and the rest of Adobe CC as well as windows and the few games I'll end up playing. so...

Hello, I have an urgent problem with my PC Yesterday I put it into sleep mode and today it won't start. It has never happened before. The LED flashes signalising it is in a sleep mode but nothing wakes the PC up. I tried: - ctrl-alt-del to turn it on, but no effect - using anything to turn it...