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I was given a Samsung - CHG7 Series C27HG70QQN monitor from a relative because it no longer works. When connected to the original power brick, no blue light or sign of life. Bought multiple aftermarket 22v 4.5a power supply to no avail. Tried the power cycle I've read on forums too. I have it...

Gamers…Nerds… I need your serious help. Last couple of weeks Ive been getting massive lag spikes in my favorite game, Escape From Tarkov. Over the last couple of years I have upgraded my pc to handle this poorly optimized game and I think I did ok. It’s been great until a couple weeks ago. PC...

Recently i upgraded my motherboard and ram. Reinstalled windows but kept having boot issues with windows. However, its completely random. Most days it boots fine. Other days its stuck circling with a chance of it saying pc needs to be repaired. I thought it was boot loader and found there was...

When i play games usually multiplayer ones, my games freeze for a second and the colors turn weird it doesnt usually last long, it started randomly happening on my new laptop after i updated the nvidia game driver but i dont know if it has anything to do with that. it happens randomly in games...

If you can fix this, I am more than willing to gift someone £5 Steam Credit. I'm hoping Toms hardware wizards can solve this. Had this issue for well over a year now, Microsoft refuses to do anything about it, on any page, Reddit is stumped. I Havent been able to use a computer for...

Hello, a year ago I made a post for help on upgrading my system resulting with constant PC restarts/crashes during gaming. Now I've been suggested to make a new post with my errors I'm having for months after I bought new GPU for my system. For any background info and my system specs and...

Hello, I bought a brand new gaming laptop mentioned in the title. Specs - AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS, RAM 16GB DDR5, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 8GB 140 W UserBenchmark results - https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/69247842 I tried Cyberpunk for example, getting 90-100FPS inside buildings on High/Ultra...

Hi, we have hust bought a second-hand AsRock B365M PRO4 motherboard on Ebay to replace our old Gigabyte one which suddenly broke. But once we opened the package, we just found out that all 4 dimm slots have only one movable lever to lock and unlock the slots. On the other side it's just a solid...

About 2 months ago I noticed my smart light that was connected to my motherboard IO was having charging issues so I switched out the wire and the same day my pc shuts down after 30mins of playing a video game as if there was a power cut, so I checked to make sure and that wasn’t the case. I got...

Hello everyone, I had this laptop for the last 5 years and it was functioning flawlessly, till about 5 months ago when for some unknown reason it started lagging. In gaming, I never experienced any lag except for thermal throttling which only occurs on high-end AAA games and not on other games...

To keep this brief, the CPU, Motherboard and Heatsink are all components I already have and are not changeable, and this is a computer who's primary and main use will be 1080p (currently cause thats my monitors resolution) gaming. https://uk.pcpartpicker.com/list/J3mWDj

Hello, I've been having this problem for a while and I can't figure it out, my PC restarts as soon as I try to use Furmark, and there's some games like Insurgency Sandstorm where it restarts before it even opens up the menu, I had the same issue with it takes two and CS:GO 2 where I had to put...

Hi, I have a Lenovo pre-built that is no longer working, it started with different BSOD messages which then progressed to BSOD with no text, just a blank blue screen. After that I started my troubleshooting by resetting the CMOS and even replacing it, reseating the RAM...

Ive recently noticed an issue when trying to open a good number of games. The game opens the initial app window then immediately closes usually with no crash report. On occasion, the game will get a few seconds into loading up and play a bit of music or spin the loading screen a bit, but then...

Recently, my PC's headphone jack stopped working so I bought a 3.5mm to USB type C dongle to use since my PC had a USB type C port, but occasionally I have audio crackling that start out weak but gets more severe over time (~5-10 minutes). Additionally, my keyboard stops working properly. While...

Hi all, This is my second build. My components are: MOBO: Mag z790 Tomahawk wifi CPU: 14900k GPU: GeForce RTX 3060 AIO: icue link H170i RGB RAM: 4x32 GB Kingston Fury Beast PSU: DeepCool PX1000G Storage: Samsung 970 EVO + 990 What's happening: I put the build together, powered up for the first...

So, earlier this week I had my very experienced friend build me a new pc for school/gaming off some parts we found on quite good blackfriday prices. First boot went well, and we updated the bios without issue. After that we turned the pc off and when we tried to boot it again into bios, it...

Hello! (disclaimer: I'm not too knowledgable about PC stuff, still learning) TLDR at the bottom I recently decided to upgrade my PC due to poor performance, as it was getting near 7 years old. Originally, I ran: Gigabyte z170x-gaming 5 mobo, Geforce GTX 1050 ti, and an Intel 6th gen Core i7...

My PC won't start/boot up when I press the case button to start it, but my motherboard shows that at least some power is getting to it and it is "working". I know this because it is an ASUS TUF-Gaming x570-Plus which has the motherboard glow with LEDs. I had just installed a new SSD (Teampgroup...

I had to downgrade my driver from the lastest version to one of the earliest ones to fix a horrendous graphics issue in Forza Horizon 3 but now every game with OpenGL or Vulkan has issues with HDR. For example it turns off hdr when switching to another program or when closing the game, every...

Hello, I’m thinking of buying the deepcool Morpheus because it’s 420mm radiator support and 200mm fan support and I’m wondering if putting fans on the fan slots next to the motherboard would help the cooling or not. I’m not sure since it could disrupt the flow direction of the other fans so I’m...

I recently moved apartments and have been having trouble with my PC. It powers on and boots fine, but will suddenly power off after about five minutes. There is no blue screen or "shutting down" message it just turns off. I know things can get jostled around during a move, but I'm not sure what...

PC Details: Windows 11 Pro GIGABYTE GA-AB350-GAMING 3 (Latest BIOS) Ryzen 7 1700 G.SKILL Sniper X Series 32GB DDR4 3200 (Confirmed that the timing and voltages are correct) EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB GAMING EVGA 210-GQ-0750-V1 750 GQ, 80+ GOLD 750W Need some help. This PC has been rock solid...

Last night I was in the middle of my build and I put in a Ryzen 7 3700X to update my bios, no issues. After, i put in a Ryzen 9 3950X and it posted, no issues. But after I switched out my GTX 1080 for a RTX 3060, nothing. No power at all seeming to be reaching my motherboard, other than some...

I've been having this issue for some months now and haven't been able to find a solution. Specs: Mobo: B550M CPU: Ryzen 7 5700X GPU: RTX 4060 RAM: 32GB 3200MHz PSU: 650W I previously had different specs and I started to update my pc by parts, but to the point where the only things that are...

I've tried taking 1 ram stick out. I've tried all 4 slots. I've looked at the cpu socket pins. I've looked at the cpu power pins. I've looked at the MOBO power pins. I've flashed the latest bios. I've reseated everything several times including the CPU, the heatsink, the m2 ssd's. Everything's...

So I bought a pc and two gpus from facebook marketplace. Now I am hoping that it wasn't a scam. So, heres the pc: Cpu: already forgot its a pentium gold i think g4600 (what I remember when I opened it) Ram: Gskill 8gb ddr4 ram (1 stick black pcb no heatsink) Psu: (I think my main problem)...

I've been having this issue for some months now and haven't been able to find a solution. Specs: Mobo: B550M CPU: Ryzen 7 5700X GPU: RTX 4060 RAM: 32GB 3200MHz PSU: 650W I previously had different specs and I started to update my pc by parts, but to the point where the only things that are...

Hey, I recently upgraded my system from an RTX 4060 to an AMD RX 7900 XTX. Unfortunately, I installed an old driver version and am now unable to boot. This is the edition I chose (I was told it would be most compatible with my system): AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition Revision Number Adrenalin...

Hello, I have the ASUS ROG Strix laptop, but the motherboard connector to the main monitor was fried(I was told service), and the main monitor was not displayed anymore, easy workaround: I used it with a second monitor.Worked perfectly until one day, I got fed up with the Gforce experience...

For a long time I had a Ryzen 5 5500 and gigabyte b450 mATX motherboard, which I messed up, so after that I upgraded to the MSI B550 Gaming Plus, but at first I had a problem with the RX 580; it was not giving me any output. While it was working on other motherboards, the MSI B550 Gaming Plus...

The title says it all. Everywhere I look online its never one straight answer so hopefully I find it here cause I'm a little worried about whether or not my PC will fry itself. The other day my mom had vacuumed the front and back mesh of my metal pc case. The entire computer was turned off and...

Components I had the problem with -Z790 Asrock/Z690 Asrock Phantom itx (with biosflash for the newest update) -NZXT 750w/Corsair SF750 -MSI 1070/Gigabyte 4070 -2 Corsair 32GB -I5-13600kf I tried both GPUs on multiple ports with 3 cable, and I know the hdmi works for sure. I tried all ram slots...

hello, i just recently upgraded my pc with the specs listed below and i feel as if i am not unleashing my rig's full potential. I have optimized my rig a little bit and overclocked my gpu +100mhz, and my gpu usage is 20-30% and cpu is 25-35% - currently getting about 180-230 fps in game when i...

Specs: Intel Core i5-13600kf, 3500mhz, 13th Gen Nvidea RTX 3050 8gb Thermaltake 600w PSU Asrock B660 Pro RS Motherboard. This is a used prebuilt gaming pc that I just bought. To attempt to fix startup issues, here's what I've tried: 1. Shorting power pins on mobo and trying to power on with...

Looking to build a new pc mainly for gaming and potentially streaming. Thinking of 32gb of ram but what to know other peoples thoughts on the whole build or if there is any incompatibility cause this will be my first build. Build: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 3.4 GHz 8-Core Processor CPU Cooler: be...

Hello! I got this LG UltraGear 24'' IPS FHD 24GN60R-B.AWZM and I notice that when I turn it on, the pixels slowly updates when watching videos for some minutes, then after some minutes it becomes perfect. Also when launching some programs only for the first time (OBS/Discord) looks like the PC...

Had 8 beeps on startup, I reapplied thermal paste to gpu to fix it, which fixed the beeping. But now when I start up the pc, the gpu fan is having a hard time spinning, and doesn't keep spinning. If i poke it, it spins shortly. When I start up the pc, the monitor displays the startup for a few...

When I built my PC, I originally used Kingston KF560C30BBAK2-32 RAM but returned it and switched to the Corsair equivalent, CMH32GX5M2B6000Z30K. Recently, I noticed that the Corsair RAM doesn't work with my motherboard's RGB software. To fix this, I decided to go back to the cheaper Kingston...

I’ve been having problems with my disk drive usage spiking to 100%. At first, I thought the issue was with the drive itself, so I bought a brand-new 1TB Samsung SSD, thinking it might fix the problem, but it didn’t. I’ve already reinstalled Windows using installation media, wiped the drives, and...