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I have an old laptop (Lenovo Thinkpad R61i) that I was using as a spare, running a lightweight Linux distribution on it. I leant it to a friend whose computer had died. I don't know what she did or didn't do with it, but she never managed to make it start up, and I couldn't get anything to...

Hello everyone, i was wondering how did i end up killing my cpu by installing a new ssd? At first my pc is working perfectly fine. I bought a new ssd and try installing a new windows os on it, but my pc won't boot with the ssd installed. When i tried to boot my pc without the ssd, my pc turns on...

Hey everyone. Recently my Seagate 1 TB desktop HDD completely stopped working. It wont show in BIOS and no question of appearing in Desktop. I am so disappointed. Mainly because I had lots of important files, pictures and projects stored in it. My question is what do I do to recover files...

Hi, first of all I wanna say sorry in advance about my English grammar issues. Specs: - Gigabyte RX 590 Rev 2.0 -i5 9400f -gigabyte b360m -evga 430w 80+ white. So, I've been mining for a month with my RX 590 for an extra income, all great, good temps and low wattage. Today I decided to try...

Hi Everyone, I recently moved and at my old place I had a living room pc and my regular gaming pc. I wanted to swap the two from each cases as one of them hangs on the wall and I needed that to save space on my desk. When rebuilding the living room pc into the new case I dropped a screw into...

I recently used some older components including my Gigabyte GA-78-LMT-S2 to make a guest gaming PC, upon build completion it wouldn't boot. PSU non-responsive, case fans non-responsive, MOBO non-responsive. So I figured it's either front IO, PSU, Case/MOBO incompatibility, or dead MOBO. So I...

So far this has happened twice now. I replaced a laptop screen with one found on Ebay and it works fine for a month or two and the laptop dies. When you press the power button, the light next to it turns on but nothing else turns on, no fan, no ports, nothing. Not sure what the first model this...

Hello, today I just upgraded from 8gb of 3200mhz Kingston ram to 16gb of Corsair 3200mhz vengeance pro ram, it doesn’t boot with either of the new sticks, it still boots with the old one. Other valuable information: Ryzen 5 2600 EVGA 600w semi power supply bronze. Msi b450 tomahawk any help...

Hello, I'm trying to pinpoint the faulty hardware on my old HP 6820s laptop. Is it the GPU (no onboard graphics), is it the only RAM stick, or something else... This is what happened when the problem occurred: I turned on the laptop noisy fans start spinning at high levels, as usual The BIOS...

Recently bought a Dell D460EM-00 REF.NO DPS-460DB016 A power supply, I plugged it into my PSU tester and the -12v rail isnt lighting up, so i was wondering if anyone had any luck fixing this. I own a soldering station and a hot air station so im more than happy to replace parts if needed.

So, I got a new CPU cooler, which required me to disassemble my entire system (considering it was hard to install it while everything was in the case) and once I assembled everything back I saw one of my hard drives not being detected and my PC wouldn't even turn on (past the MOBO loading...

all parts were purchased last year except for the graphics card which was purchased two weeks ago. it worked out of the box but the first day of use produced a BSOD while playing Final Fantasy 14, of all games. The last BSOD's error code read "buffer stack exceeded driver" and upon reboot I...

Hi I have a problem with my HDD: A few months ago it randomly started doing a somewhat scratching sound every second. This happened mid day and was gone as soon I started opening files on the drive. Today it looks like it finaly gave up: When I start the PC (selfbuild pc, drive is from a...

Graphics Card: GTX 980 GPU: i7 4790K Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H A bit of backstory: After a couple years of usage my GPU performance gets severely hindered, I always fix this by reinstalling windows, my guess is background processes and "entropy" over time. It had been a while my PC...

Hello community, I have this i7 4790k when I turn on the pc the fans move but then it shuts down. I already tried with a celeron g1840 processor and the pc turns on normally. I have the Asus Q87M-E motherboard. I already tried with two different power supplies. I want to be sure if he already...

Short Story: - Basically I had my PC in Portugal (Europe) for over 3 months and it was working perfectly. Paid a company to move my Computer to the UK since I was going to live there. Brought my Graphics card (separated) on the plane to protect it from anything. (felt more safe) The computer...

Hello! Simple as the title: The motherboard worked fine for around a month, and then one day it wouldn't turn on-fans spin up and then crash, starts again and then crashes. Repeats like this infinitely. Nothing displays on the monitor, and no time to get into BIOS. However I have managed to get...

Hi there, excuse my poor english, I've managed to kill my second PSU this year by swapping the components. Was swapping from i5 4460/random mobo to i7 4770k/msi z87 and my aerocool gt700s aparently died (after pressing the power button the pc went on for 2 secounds and shut off, this in an...

Right, so I have an omen 880 and I have done a couple upgrades over the two years I had it. I wanted to upgrade the case so I chose a Corsair 280x and began moving it in. Just before moving it I used it and it was all working fine. After moving it it now no longer shows any kind of life, no fan...

The power went out while my computer was on but it was plugged into a surge protector so I thought it would be fine. When the power came back on, I tried turning it on again but I kept getting a black screen, everything else on the computer seemed to be working fine, the gpu fans were also...

I've had this laptop for over 3 years now. It's an Omen 17 laptop with a GTX 1070 and a i7 6700HQ. I used to play COD:MW at 100 fps, almost everything on Ultra at 1080p. I went to play today and I almost couldn't reach 40 with everything on low at 720p... The temperatures are fine, nothing's...

Hi About a day ago I turned off my pc, and right after hopped back on to help my friend but it wouldn’t turn on. I though I narrowed down the problem to be my motherboard, but I just got a new motherboard and plugged everything in and it seems to still not work. I tested my psu by using a paper...

About 2 Months ago I fried 2 8gb sticks of G.skill Trident Z RGB 3600mhz C18 Memory. It was absolutely my fault, and a result of my own ignorance. My question is, is there any point in keeping these around? The rgb strips on the sticks are still functional, but the memory itself is not. Should I...

This morning I turned my PC on and only the RGB on my RAM and the fans on the heatsink started. The PC never booted. I made sure everything was properly connected and tried resetting the CMOS battery. After I tried booting it up again, nothing happened. No RGB, no fans, nothing. I tried...

I used this drive about a year ago, and I shut off my pc because it was running slow, so I went to sleep. I woke up and it took minutes to boot into windows, which is irregular because I run a 7th gen intel chip and a NVME m.2 boot drive. this one terabyte drive was missing, and I now want to...

I had a new up-date on my drivers (i was at 452 and the new was 456 ot 458) ok i did the up-date or tried it and failed tried and tried again i gave up uninstalled everything made a quick restard and nothing again. That's when i realized my gpu does not even show on device manager just...

Hey guys, Built a new pc that has been working great for almost 3 months but now it wont fully start. It makes a noise like it is about to start then cuts out for the most part. The cpu fan lights up for a second then cuts out but the rgb ram, orange motherboard lights on the back, and power...

Hi A few days ago I was moving my pc and while moving it made a weird sound and now it does not give any signal. I took it apart and rebuild it still no luck. The mobo has already been flashed once in the past but im not sure if it is the mobo or psu. The cmos has been reset i put in a brand...

Hi. So my monitor pixels just died and I have no idea what is the cause of it. It just randomly happened. I remember earlier I choked with water and maybe I spilled some drops on the monitor, but this doesnt seen to me to be the cause of this, or maybe it is. I wanna know what you guys think...

The fan stopped spinning, i took it out, cleaned it, and still didnt spin until i literally stuck my finger to it and gave it a push. I need a new fan but i dont know where to start looking for one compatible with my rig.

Hello Tom's Hardware community! My friend has an Intel Core i5-4590S that has been used for more than a year now. It has been running very well until yesterday. It decided not to boot up my friend's PC, not even POST. So I tried the following diagnostic steps: swapping motherboards, removing...

I was up till about 6AM playing games on my PC, until I shut it off for the night and went to sleep. I woke up the next morning and tried to turn it on but nothing powered on. I immediately checked the power cable and the wall plug to make sure that wasn’t the issue, and even tried using another...

Hey everyone. So I already suspect that the HDD is basically dead, but I wanted to get some second opinions. I have this old PC that I used as an impromptu MC server, to test stuff. But when I tried to boot it, I got a BSOD with the code : UNMOUNTABLE BOOT DRIVE. I've tried using automatic...

Hello, I’ve have this issue for a little over a week now. Long story short the pc turned off by itself and wouldn’t boot anymore m, after a lot of research, Reddit posts, and videos I’ve almost given up. I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s either the cpu, or motherboard. When I disconnect the...

So I recently built my first computer with a B450M Steel Legend mobo. A few days ago I tested it for the first time with no response from anything actually. The case fans do not spin, CPU Fan doesn't, nothing. Although, the RGB lights come on, which throws me off entirely. I don't think the...

I hope this is the right section, in case it isn't then sorry Hello, so I have a HP Pavilion 17-e101sl which recently the CPU (an i5-4200M) died and I need to replace it (yes, the CPU on this board is replaceable) Now, I could just buy the same one on Internet but then I thought it would be...

Hi all I built a new PC 4 weeks ago and the PC would restart itself every few days randomly, under no strain, heavy strain, everything. A few days ago it completely died on me and I couldn’t even boot it up. It stuck itself in a boot loop. The current furthest into the PC I can get is here...

So, I’m out in twentynine Palms, CA and I got my Pc shipped to me from Arizona, I just got it today and I plugged everything in and pressed the button and nothing worked so I put everything into a new case, I kept the same power supply, motherboard, CPU, GPU and SSD. So, I pressed the button on...

Hello, I have an older PC that I tried to put on the other day. For some reaseon it does not want to post. I do have a green light on the motherboard, but nothing happens when i turn the power switch on. I also checked the 12V by jumping the cable. This turned on the PSU. I tried to jump the...

First of all: sorry for the long read. My specs: Motherboard: MSI Z370 Gaming Plus CPU: Intel i5-8400 GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 6G (rev 2.0) PS: Corsair RM550x Hi guys, I’m very sad because I’m afraid my gpu died last night. So I bought a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 G1 Gaming 6G...