Defective

hey i have bought my pc and started building it but in the end it didn't do any thing . power supply fans don't spin cpu cooler fans don't spin only the light of my board . i think it's a problem from the cpu but if it's from the cpu why the power supply doesn't spin. i took the power supply and...

For about the last 6ish months, my PC has been having this issue where it will just randomly hard restart. It’s been gradually worsening over time, but seems to still happen completely randomly. Heavy work loads don’t seem to increase it, and it happens just as often at idle as it does doing...

I ordered a MSI Ventus RTX 3080 from Newegg about a week ago and finally put it in my PC today. However, when I powered on my PC, the graphics card wouldn't display video nor would it turn on (fans would not spin). Despite doing pretty much everything in my power to troubleshoot (changing...

Hello everyone, I have been running into a nightmare scenario recently after I decided to upgrade my computers RAM. In trying to upgrade the RAM I noticed that when I had (sketchily) built this PC earlier I had put the cooler on the wrong way, so the RAM DIMMs were blocked and I could therefore...

I asked hyperx to replace my alphas because they are faulty and jsut stopped working after 32 days. But it's out of amazon's window of return, they said that amazon has a 1 year return. Is that true or just a ploy to not replace them?

❌ No swearing please --- not allowed on these forums! I did the “oven tactic” as a last resort to try to recover my sisters water damaged graphics card I fixed her computer 2 months ago and I don’t want this card to go to waste. Turns out after the oven tactic I assembled it again reapplies...

Edit: I no longer need help with this issue, seems to of sorted itself out for now. I'd delete the thread if I could figure out how. I'm having a strange problem that I could use some help with. I recently purchased a new laptop and am having some strange issues with the wireless connectivity...

So i bought a used 1050ti. The previous owner said it worked great(already thinking to get a refund) but i've tested it on 3 different known working computers and it won't work. Everytime, the monitor turns on but it stays black, not receiving any video signals but the gpu seems to be getting...

Hopefully I can make this understandable - I am far from a techie on any of this. I work from home and need decent wifi. I also live in an area where hi speed internet is not readily available and so I use a jetpack and cell phone hotspot from verizon. This area does not have good cellular...

Hi! I have read a couple of threads of corrupted mbr etc, but i don´t know if they have been solved. Anyway, I have/had a harddrive that acted very weird after I have installed W10. But it worked at first,..say 1 month or so. Suddenly when i was surfing the harddrive started to spinn or work...

so I bought this case http://pcpartpicker.com/part/rosewill-case-srm01 it came with nothing to separate the mobo with the case, was this intended or should I contact the manufacturers? If it was intended how do I separate the mobo from my case?

Hi, I'm currently researching parts for my next PC build. I didn't build my first one so I'm a little over my head here. I've read a lot on this site (a lot of helpful info) but I'd like some help on this particular build. I need a PC for music production. So a lot of RAM and a good CPU. I...

I need the cheapest reliable pc possible that can run discord app and dead frontier. Here's the sites if you're unfamiliar. Dead frontier is a unity browser based mmo Dead frontier: http://www.deadfrontier.com/ https://discordapp.com/ Tier 3 psu and wireless card required. Got a good...

I am getting an msi z97 gaming motherboard: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00K8KPXUO/?tag=pcp0f-21 and I am a bit confused when it comes to the audio boost as you have to flip a little switch on the board and plug your molex to 3 pin adapter in for power. What does this do, it is really confusing...

I'd like to know model, how much RAM, cpu speed and space in hard drive

Will I notice a difference in 300mbps and 200mbps?

Hello, I recently finished a 3D course and I decided to specialize in character animation. I'm currently working on my showreel with a very old pc and, seen that I'll probably leave home very soon, I was planning to buy a laptop. I know that a mobile workstation would be the best choice for me...

Hey guys I'm wondering how I can overclock my Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 higher than i have so far. I would like to get it up to 4Ghz. The highest I could reach so far was 3.70Ghz. If i set the FSB higher than 475x8 it reverts the settings and goes back to 2.66Ghz (333x8). Of course I have invested...

Hi, I have a samsung camcorder with hdmi and av port. How can I use the camcorder to record videos straight to my pc?

I think I "bricked" my brand new Samsung XP941 M.2 PCI-e SSD. While secure erasing my system drive(s) with Parted Magic, I (accidently) also secure erased the new drive. It took 32 minutes to secure erase the brand new drive, then froze at the end. PM wouldn't close the program, and I couldn't...

Hi all, While my PC is turned on, all of my internet (including other Ethernet devices (but the pc speed is normal)) slows down. I have no Idea why this is happening. (I have tried going into activity monitor to see if there was a lot network activity but there's not) if anyone could help me...

I'm a bit new to the graphics cards and what they will handle...so my question is with 2 gtx 760s at 4gb what games will i be able to handle and how smoothly will they run. I currently have 1 4gb 760, just curious if i'd be better off ditching it and going with something completely different...

Hello, I just bought a Samsung EVO 840 250GB SSD that I want to add it to my PC and have my OS and main programs I use on it. I also want to upgrade my OS from windows 7 to windows 8.1. I will be buying windows 8.1pro student which requires windows 7 to be currently installed. I would like to...

I've been looking at creating a 280x/FX-8320 build. I'm making it black and red themed, and I like the look of the XFX Black Edition Double Dissipation at ,1GHz but it costs $50 more than the regular Double Dissipation, which has a clock of 850MHz. They both look the same, and I think that they...

I am getting a laptop to go to college with, My price range is 700-1000$, I would like one that can run current gen games smoothly such as bf4, and I have no idea where I start looking, advice please!! I prefer windows over anything but all suggestions are welcome

I have a Dell 1535 laptop with windows 7 and swap out the HDD to run XP for several special programs. When I run XP I loose the function of my WIFI and the DVD reject key. I copied the driver file from windows 7 drive but need to know where to install them on the XP drive. PLEASE HELP

Just wondering what I need to be ordering. What's the most heat conductive? What's best for CPUs and GPUs, and what's best for the motherboard stuff? I know my computer came with the greasy stuff for the CPU/GPU (AS5), and I've replaced that before myself, but for all the little chips and stuff...

At full screen the game decides to refresh at 24p.... My NCP has set to 1080p 60hz and I tried the customize and ticked both boxes but it still didn't change anything. I can't find anything on the internet to help fix this and I am not going to settle for anything less than 1080p with 60Hz.