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  1. T

    Question PSU or Motherboard dead and can’t tell.

    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...
  2. S

    [SOLVED] [SOLVED] Older PC wont post after staing off for a longer period

    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...
  3. G

    [SOLVED] Did my gpu seriously die on me?

    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...
  4. Seibert

    Question Which one is dead: my CPU or my mobo?

    Hello guys! I got an issue with my computer. I'll try to detail it as much as possible. Oh and, thanks in advance. A few days ago, I moved the PC to the living room to use it with my TV. It stayed there for a couple of days, working just fine. But when I brought it back to my room, the PC...
  5. Shaaxy_

    [SOLVED] PC cleaning gone wrong?

    So I was cleaning my pc Today, which I’ve Dan multiple times now. (With compressed Air) for the First time I took out the GPU, and cleaned that too. My pc chilled for 5 Hours before I booted it up, but nothing happened. Or my Fans are spinning and my GPU (lamp) is on. my keyboard mouse or...
  6. Uno_777

    [SOLVED] New b450 motherboard potentially dead

    So I used to have a Ryzen 3 1300x with a MSI B450m Gaming Pro motherboard but I recently got a decent amount of money and decided that it's been too long since I have upgraded my pc. So I bought a Ryzen 5 3600, ** Asrock B450m-HDV R4.0, and an RTX 2060. Knowing that I would potentially have to...
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    Question Lenovo y700 boot loop

    Hi, I recently got a y700 laptop and all was going well until i decided to wack an ssd in it, how the bios on it was locked set up in a to not allow usb's to be boot from, which i needed to install windows on the new drive. So i pulled the back off, cleared the cmos but unplugging the battery...
  8. K

    Question Is my Motherboard Fried?

    Hello, my pc randomly stopped worked yesterday without warning. Everytime I try and turn it on, nothing powers up. There is a brief flash of light from one of my fans and there are some led lights on the mother board that are working but that's about it. No fans accually turn on. I have no idea...
  9. ToastyFridge

    Question Is my cpu dead?

    So I was attempting an overclock and failed. I got a black screen with no signal. So I attempt to clear the bios. However I had no success in making my pc run again. I can turn it on, all fans will spin but I can not turn it off via power button. What is my problem?
  10. J

    [SOLVED] PC reboots, clicks, dies

    Hello, First post, always found answers here except for this problem, so figured I'd ask. My PC has so far ran without issues. However, a few weeks back, it began rebooting at random. No BSOD, just a black screen and the fans spinning up again for a moment before starting again. I thought...
  11. J

    Question Help! My computer wont turn on for unknown reason!

    I swapped out my wifi adapater and when i turned off my computer and flicked the back switch off i pressed the power button to make sure all the powers out. Make it completely dead of power, which is what ive done for years with no issue. Just to note, right before this, unrelated to the wifi...
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    Question NO RESPONSE- Asus ROG Zenith II Extreme

    Yesterday I put together a PC with the motherboard above and an AMD Threadripper 3970x and Corsair Platinum RGB RAM and 1300W Silverstone ST1300-Ti PSU. I made sure everything is properly seated, triple checked all power connections and ports to the motherboard. The motherboard lights up fully...
  13. T

    Question Screen goes black and fans go to 100% when in 3D application - 2 GPUs tested

    So last week I posted this thread, with all the issues I described in there (I'm not gonna retype it, on mobile). So, thinking it was the GPU, I went and bought another 1070 ti. It arrived today, and I put it in my pc. Everything was working fine, until I loaded into a 3d application, where the...
  14. R

    Question Tried to install new components and computer died

    Hi all, I ordered some new RAM (32Gb Corsair Vengeance 24MHz 2x16Gb) to upgrade my PC which had 8GB (got a deal on amazon). After the first batch came with only 1 working stick, I returned and got a replacement set sent to me. After installing this set, one stick at a time, both sticks also...
  15. T

    [SOLVED] Is my 1070 ti dead?

    Pretty sure it is but I thought I might as well ask. Got it off ebay a few months ago - worked fine until Friday where I was playing CSGO and the screen went black (no backlight) and the fans went to 100%. I thought it was because of my overclock so I restarted, turned it off and rebooted to...
  16. RoyalNexus101

    [SOLVED] Dead motherboard/CPU?

    Hi! I wanna start this off by saying that I've had this system for a number of years now, it's fairly old so I've been expecting something to give sooner or later. Now, as for the problem, my computer is failing to boot, no post screen or code, just fan-spin and LEDs. I was wondering if anyone...
  17. D

    [SOLVED] Dead CPU or dead motherboard?

    Hi guys, So recently, I had an issue where my PC would boot up, begin loading the OS and then reboot suddenly. I did a lot of testing and eventually concluded it was the PSU as I plugged it into another machine and had the same issue. However, after an hour of testing (so quite a few reboots)...
  18. rubbertoe

    Question Month old 5700xt DEAD

    Hey guys, I recently purchased a brand new Saphire Nitro+ RX 5700XT about a month ago. Today I went to turn on my PC and it initially booted with a small white dot on the screen and a 'VGA' LED on my mobo. After a few failed boots it completely stopped showing signal. View...
  19. J

    [SOLVED] HP Laptop Hard Drive Dead

    Hi guys, I have a HP laptop bought on January 2019 and it seems to be the hard drive on the laptop is dead as it stopped booting from the HDD, then I removed the HDD from the laptop and tried plugging it in on my desktop and unfortunately I wasn't detected there too! At that moment I was...
  20. T

    [SOLVED] PC Build not powering on at all

    First off I had an old Z97s SLI Krait Edition, i5-4690k, 16gb of DDR3 ram and an SSD lying around so I decided to build a PC for the family. I bought the parts: Thermaltake Versa H25, 2TB Red, CX550M, some fans & a dvd drive, all brand new, after the parts arrived I installed it all as usual...
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    [SOLVED] Advice on possible dead motherboard

    Ill make this quick and short , I recently moved from an apartment where I had to deal with a dirty roommate and roaches got in my pc , I sprayed it with Raid which im now regretting. I tried booting my pc in my now clean apartment and I get case fans and cpu fans spinning but my gpu fans try to...
  22. N

    Question Should I test the CPU in another motherboard?

    Basically, my motherboard had a short circuit or something else thanks to the PSU. I bought a new motherboard the Gigabyte b450 aourus elite and a new 700W powersupply. I have tested the motherboard with an Athlon A6 apu and it is working. Should I test my old CPU Ryzen 5 2600X, or is it risky...
  23. L

    [SOLVED] MOBO dead?

    This morning when i tried to start my PC i didn’t work. I tried and i tried and i tried with different tactics each time to make it start. Eventually disassembled the PC and i just reassembled it, this time nothing happened either so i gave up on trying to save it with no clue what the...
  24. N

    [SOLVED] Dying Seagate 3TB HDD

    So like 4 days ago my HDD wasn't showing up in Windows one time when I turned it on, so I shutdown, checked the cables and turned it on again and it showed up. So I thought I was all good. Then it happened again, and was really slow to use. So I checked SMART with cryataldiskinfo and it said...
  25. D

    Question My Asus ROG laptop is dead after windows update.

    After an update I went back to my laptop to find it is completely dead. It won't charge, even though it had full battery it also won't turn on. I tried unplugging the AC and tried holding the power button, no luck, still completely dead. No boot up noise, no indicator or charging, nothing. Any...
  26. H

    Question Laptop not working out of a blue

    Hello guys, I guess it is stupid question, but is it possible, that motherboard in notebook is dead out of a blue ? When I press ON button, button starts to glow, but nothing else (fan, hdd, etc...), to turn it off I need to hold ON button very long time. Except this, WHEN I plug in AC - button...
  27. N

    Question Is my new motherboard dead?

    I have the following components: i5 9400F 2x8 DDR4 sticks of ram Antec VP450 PSU (450W) ASRock B365 Pro ATX Motherboard Those are all brand new parts (except the PSU) which I received today. I put everything together (I've built many PCs in the past so I'm 100% sure I did everything correctly)...
  28. Dynamoo

    [SOLVED] Is my motherboard dead for sure?

    As the title suggests, I want confirmation that my mobo is completely dead before I order a new one. So the thing is I was browsing youtube this morning on my pc and suddenly it turned off without any warning. I pushed the power button a few times but nothing happend. So I opened the case and...
  29. T

    [SOLVED] Did I fry my CPU?

    Hello everyone. Bad news. I recently installed a new M.2 drive which meant I had to rearrange my other drives, and my SATA power plugs. I must have accidentally left my CPU cooler unplugged. My PC idled for 4 hours before I came home and noticed the fans were not on, so I shut it down...
  30. B

    Question Can a magnet kill my power supply?

    A few weeks ago, my PC was working perfectly. No problems. Until we moved the room around and moved the PC to another corner of the room. It worked fine still, used it over the weekend for assignments. It wasn't until a week later after not using it for a while, it wasn't turning on at all. I...
  31. P

    Question Computer Won't Post, Again

    Hey Everyone, I really need some help here. I have had my build for about a year now, no issues until the past two months. Back about a month ago I woke up one morning and the computer wouldn't boot or have any power at all. I went through some troubleshooting and replaced the PSU. Problem...
  32. SlamBeast

    Question PC is dead after some wire management

    Two days ago I installed a Strix 2080 ti into my rig. Overclocked it and played for a couple hours, turned the pc off at night and everything was fine. The next day I wanted to do some cable management, cleaning, and fan swapping. I unplugged my mobo, cpu and gpu cable. swapped some old corsair...
  33. T

    Question Is the Motherboard dead?

    Hey guys, First time for me here. A week ago I bought used Asus z97-h3d Mobo without checking the mobo (I know you think I did mistake but in my place that is normal). The guy who sold me the mobo said it was never been used and it's brand new which make sense since the mobo was in it's...
  34. R

    Question I am not sure if its dead because of a fuse

    Hello, I accidentally plugged in the wrong ac adapter into my monitor and it died, it is a quite old monitor it is a philips LED 248C, I dont have much knowledge about circuit boards but I have opened it and look at the io board, right next to the ac input there is a orange-brown component that...
  35. J

    Question Dead Graphics Card?

    Hello, I hope someone can help me here! So today I bought an new CPU, Mainboard and Ram. (Ryzen 5 2600X, 16GB Ram, Msi B450 Tomahawk). I build everything together, used my ssd and my Graphics Cars (msi r9 380 4g gaming). And ... everything WORKED! I started Rainbow Six Siege to see some...
  36. BlackBurn98

    [SOLVED] MSI X370 Gaming Pro Carbon Died, No Power

    Hey guys. I'm in a bit of a bad situation right now. I think my PC just died and that too all of a sudden and pretty strangely. So here's what happened. I built this PC back in December of 2017. Everything was smooth except for when the RGB LEDs on the motherboard died around 6 months later...
  37. Maldenite

    Question Dead Motherboard Help

    So I have a ASUS G11CD-K desktop that stopped working on me. From what I can tell it looks like the motherboard is fried (mobo model G11CD-K as well). So far I’ve went out and bought a new 400W PSU to rule out that as the problem. When I installed the new PSU still nothing happened at all when I...
  38. pirx_the_pilot

    Question 1080 Ti not showing up in apps except Device Manager (with code 43), can't install Nvidia drivers or run GPU-intensive stuff, runs MS basic driver

    Hi folks, please advise me on how to deal with my likely faulty GPU. Preamble. It’s an ASUS 1080 Ti (STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING). Before the issue occurred, it had been running flawlessly for a few days (less than a week in use) in all scenarios – benchmarks, games, videos, etc. Then, enter...
  39. W

    Question Mac won't turn on or charge - apparently water damage (with pics)

    Hi My girlfriends Macbook air (early 2015 Intel i5) won't charge. I delivered it to an licenced Apple Service Center in Norway, where they told me water damage was found. They wanted around $1200 to fix it - apparently they had to change "The motherboard, the keyboard and one cable". She says...
  40. N

    Question Is my MSI Gtx 970 dead?

    Hi everyone, I have been having this issue with what i believe is my gpu. It was working fine with no problems for about a year or two, I then went to reset windows because it was acting slow and i presumed that i had too much installed or whatever. However after reinstalling windows, my gpu...