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Hello everybody, It's my first time posting on a forum so sorry if I do something wrong. :grimacing: First of all, I wanted to say that my PC is currently functional right now and I'm not seeking advice on how to resolve the issue, I just want to share my story in case anyone else also has a...

Hello! Sorry if this will come out as obvious, but I had some issues with my i9. In 2020 I bought an i9 10900k, i have an ASUS PRIME P Z590 mb, but foolishly enough I had paired it to an air cooler Arctic Freezer Esports Duo 34 (which I am not lying - was less than 50 euro). For the first 2...

So, I've had my pc for a while and just got it back from a friend who was fixing it, im going to invest about 500$ into new parts, (GPU,PSU,Case,And maybe a cpu or motherboard(this will determine which one)) My old gpu crapped the bed and all my ram i have suuspicions of being bad but then my...

My dog peed on the back of my Lenovo ThinkPad P17 Gen 2 laptop. The vented cover that that ram sits under allowed some droplets in. There is bad corrosion on the pcle bridge/connecter to the gpu and some minor corrosion on 2 of the 4 ram slots. motherboard images Nothing else seems to be...

Hi all, seeking some help / advice. So let me start from the top: GPU is a 2080, and I’ve been using it for a few years no problem. Recently I’ve been noticing any little bump leads to a total system crash. Today I finally got to a point where I tried to post and ASUS mobo displayed GPU...

Last night while I was playing some video games my monitors went black but my PC was still functioning, I know because I was on discord and was still having a conversation with someone even after my screens went black. I restarted and things seemed fine but as soon as I booted into the game my...

Hello, I was building a new PC with my old PC components with a new case+motherboard. So naturally I had to reinstall the motherboard into the case. I screwed the motherboard on directly to the case, which killed the motherboard. Before it totally died, the system was working totally fine...

What Happened? Yesterday, It was a normal day of using my PC. Considering it has been working for few months no issue, I thought there would be nothing wrong. I turned on my PC and all the RGB all light up for about 2-3 seconds - Then I saw sparks and heard a loud bang coming from the PSU. Then...

Hello, I am new here so if I posted this in the wrong spot, my bad. I built my PC about a year and a half ago and forgot to the take plastic off of the CPU cooler heat pipes that touch the CPU. Rookie mistake, I know. The CPU was hitting 100 Celsius almost daily and I thought I needed a new...

Hello all! I built my pc back in 2018. I built it using the MSI Z390 MEG ACE (premium MoBo) and the BeQuiet Dark Power Pro 11 1000W which gave me good opportunities for locking the turbo clock for the i9 9900K that was newly released at that time. 1,5year ago my pc suddenly shut down and did...

ok so I did the rookie move by plugging in my old PSU cables into my new PSU, only just found out ur are not meant to do that. however my pc still works but my HDD is fried, which is no problem for me as I can get a new one and re-download the stuff. the problem I have is that it seems that the...

I'm assuming the motherboard at the very least was fried in a PC I owned, but I haven't tested GPU to ascertain whether or not it suffered a similar fate. It shows no signs of physical damage and the fan works perfectly when connected via a PCI cable. What're the chances it's usable? Do I have...

I haven’t diagnosed the problem yet I just bought a bunch of new parts. Although, my new motherboard, cpu, and psu won’t boot up with my old gpu, but my new gpu boots up. my questions If I want to test my old gpu in the new motherboard, are there any risks to damage to the new motherboard, if...

Hello, I upgraded the ram and accidentally touched a power inductor (PL20) and it got fried. The laptop works perfectly fine, should I be worried? The only weird thing that I found is AMD Radeon integrated graphics >> GPU core voltage to be 529110V. I disabled the GPU.

Yesterday, my PC randomly shut down while I was in another room. Approx 5 year-old custom-built gaming PC. I couldn't get it to start up, the LEDs on the mobo would light but no fans spinning. I tried reseating many parts but no luck. Eventually I decided my PSU was dead so I replaced it -- the...

Hi everyone, today i did something real bad…. I connected the motherboard 24pin and 8pin i to mobo. (Psu: Corsair HX850 platinum) I flipped on the switch on psu and my pc started … was not connected to a monitor and I didnt realize psu have this 0 rpm mode was looking at psu. I’ve had this 8pin...

Specs: Motherboard: asus prime x570-pro Cpu: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Gpu: GIGABYTE RTX 2070 windforce (not used for diag) Ram: 32G (4x8) ddr4 hyperX fury (1 8GB stick for diag) OS: windows 10 on SSD ADATA sp550 Psu: seasonic gx-750w So my buddy had a asus prime x570-pro motherboard that he bought to...

To preface this post for understanding, my build is as follows: AMD Ryzen 5800x, Noctua D15, Asus Strix B550-F, Corsair Vengence Pro SL 2x8gb 3600mhz, Corsair RM750x 2021, (Old) Msi Gtx970. As the title suggests, I am pretty sure my GPU just fried. I am building a new PC and currently cannot...

Hello everyone, 2 days ago my pc suddenly turned off and wouldnt turn back on but the green light was on, on the motherboard. 2 days later i start investigating what causes the pc not to turn on my thoight was the motherboard, cpu was fried somewhere or the psu is not performing as well anymore...

Hey, two years ago my old laptop's internal HDD presumably fried and the computer stopped detecting it. I've held onto it ever since then because I was pretty confident I could somehow recover the data, but never have. The fact that I've been able to procrastinate on working with it for two...

Many months ago, I was doing a small project with a lenovo t410s when I accidentally shorted out the laptop fan port's pins for a split second. So, whenever the laptop turned on, it displayed "fan error" and the cooling fan did not work. It also immediately shut down following the error. I tried...

I didn’t use my better judgement today. Created an account for a second opinion and to log my stupid mistake. specs: Ryzen 7 3700x (prev. Ryzen 3 3300x) w/ temporary stock cooler (lack of abundant thermal paste required me to swap out my EVO Cooler) ASUS B450 Pro 2x 32GB 3600mhz Corsair ram...

I have an older Alienware laptop that I "fried" a couple years ago. I took an external DVD drive, plugged it into the USB port of the laptop. Then I put the wrong AC adapter into the DVD drive. BOOM! instantly killed the laptop. Is it a cheap hardware replacement, or would it be a whole...

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...

Specs Core i5 3570 8gb ram ddr3 1600mhz Toshiba q pro SSD Toshiba HDD 500gb GTX 970 wind force g1 Corsair rm750 (new as a gift) Antec h20 620 soo cooler for cpu (seems like a overkill but hey it was 30 dollars and boxed new, I also know that this AIO came out years ago specifically 2011, but...

Hi everyone , yesterday I finished a completely new PC build with the following specs: CPU:core i9 10900k GPU:EVGA 2080 super black MOBO:AORUS Z490 elite (LGA1200) PSU:AORUS AP 850 GM (850W 80plus gold) COOLER: NZXT Kraken x73 RAM:G skill trident neo 32gb Storage: 1tb Kingston nmve m2...

I just got a new GPU and was trying to update the BIOS, so I popped the CMOS battery. I realized far too late I hadn't unplugged the power cable, and i can't even remember if I flipped the power switch (though the computer was off). When I popped the CMOS battery back in, no response to power...

I recently encountered a serious problem for which I have found no answer. As of Saturday night, my custom-built PC was working wonderfully. In the tech world, it's starting to get old (built in July of 2014), but it's still a powerhouse of a computer for someone like me. I noticed there was a...

When swapping hard drives, I generally plug the SATA power first, then the data ports. In the diagram below, this is how I intend to connect my drive: PSU > SATA Cable > SATA Power 1 (Main SSD) > SATA Power 2 (Second SSD to be powered) > SATA Power 3 > SATA Power 4 When I plugged in SATA Power...

CPU: Intel i5-9600k GPU: Gigabyte RTX 2060 Super MOBO: MSI MPG z390 Gaming Pro Carbon RAM: Corsair Vengeance 3600hz 2x8gb Storage: Crucial P1 1tb m.2 Pwr: Corsair TX650M cooler: NZXT Kraken M22 From new (Aug 2019) I clocked my cpu to 5Ghz at 1.334 volts. Had issues w crashes so I ended up...

Hi Tom’s Hardware community I’ll ask you about a part of my PC, but first I’ll tell you what happened this morning so as to give you a little background. My PC was powered off but connected. Suddenly the power went off, came back and went off again. I thought it had to do with my city’s...

So some context as to why I'm asking. Earlier today I got back from college and found out my computer didn't turn on. I wasn't sure why but thought it was the RAM, which it was because I put it in my brothers mobo and an led lit up indicating that there was something wrong. His motherboard is a...

so i accidentally plugged a floppy disk power connecter into my fan header because it’s connected to my case fans and it started smoking. the chip next to the fan header blew. is my motherboard dead do i need to get a new one? do you think the other components are dead too?

Images (of harddrives, the SATA cable and the laptop): View: https://imgur.com/gallery/doRcnmd So i had this old dead laptop lying around, and i thought i would plug the HDD into my other laptop to extract some files since it was an ssd + hdd hybrid. Both drives use SATA, although the old...

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...

So this is my third time trying to build my computer, I sold my old one due to money reasons and thought I would pick up the portable VELKA 3 ITX case. How ever every time I close the case I end up frying the motherboard some how. I am currently using the rog strix b450-i board and have replaced...

I recently got the MF120R adressable RGB fan. I plugged it into my RGB cable splitter, which is plugged into my D_LED1 RGB connector on my Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite. It worked fine. I then realised that the D_LED2 connector was close enough to be connected to my fan. I decided connect it to that...

Long story short, my CPU’s performance was considered terrible after running multiple UserBenchmark tests but the CPU usage was very low in task manager which I found odd. I’m not gonna bother going into detail on how I may have fried it in the past to keep this somewhat short but soon after I...

I bought a Ryzen 5 3600 with a MSI B450 Tomahawk Max. However, I feel I botched the install. However, I dont feel too mad, as I realized mistakes like these are part of the game. My EVGA PSU is a bit of older model that only uses 4 pin connector but it is 750 watts so in theory it should run...

So my problem came about 4 months ago when I heard noise coming from my laptop, it sounded like an old hdd which was crazy because I have an ssd installed. A few days passed by and I decided to disassemble my laptop to change the thermal paste, changed the old one for some arctic 5, all set and...