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Newbie here. Just upgraded to a different case. And it came with 6 RGB fans preinstalled. I had an old phanteks case with only two fans Now the problem. I have an MSI B350M bazooka motherboard with the 4pin RGB and two slots for SYS-FANS. Fans are working great now how do I get the RGB to work...

I bought a pre built PC around 6 months ago now and since i have got it i have never had my graphics card usage go above 25% when im playing any games from rainbow six seige to FiveM, I can run these games at max settings or minimum yet it just stays around 25%, My PC is a MSI MAG H510 infinite...

Hello, Was playing Diablo 4 tonight and my system abruptly blue screened and I saw "Windows is restarting your PC" blue screen for about a second before the computer went into a restart. Once it tried to restart, none of my peripherals were getting power (keyboard,mice,monitors not getting any...

Hi, so recently I've gotten this PC, it is the first PC I've ever gotten. It's a CORSAIR VENGEANCE Gaming PC. At first I was able to play Modern Warfare 2 Warzone using Steam and it would run smoothly. I've also downloaded games like Overwatch 2 and Valorant and would play those games for a...

I've had this issue previously except I didn't have a UPS, but now I do and this still happens, albeit not as often. The monitor and PC are both connected directly to the ups. The UPS is connected directly to the wall. When the air conditioner makes a clicking noise the monitor goes blank for a...

I just decided to upgrade to the 4060 ti from the GTX 970. This required me to upgrade my power supply as well. After connecting everything and going to boot the system, the GPU didn't display. I figured it was a driver issue and switched to on board graphics. Now, when I boot the system, it...

So ive bought a pc off of ibuypower back in December of 2021. I don’t remember the specs off the top of my head but if im not mistaken my cpu is a ryzen 5700 i think. And i dont think ive faced this problem until this year. It heats up all the way to 90 degrees and will turn off due to it. Ive...

Hi everyone, Good Day! Hope you're all doing well. I have a problem, I reformatted my laptop which is an Acer aspire 3 a315 24p r255 but now I cannot find the drivers to enable it's wireless network (wifi), touchpad and more. How or where can I download those and manually apply all the...

Hello everyone! This is my first post on this forum and I would like to ask for help with my PC. My CPU randomly fluctuates even on idle, I have almost the same issue as this thread https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/peripherals-randomly-turning-off.3807239/ but mine is a lot worse, all of...

So recently I installed fifa 23 and it was asking to switch on Secure boot setting from bios. When I enter the bios. My keyboard and mouse weren’t working at all. can somebody help me with this? 😭my keyboard and mouse are windows and pls try to use easy term i am sought of new to pc things...

Please Help! I recently started building a new / upgraded computer. (Specs below) but I’m having issues with it posting, specifically the issue being the screen staying blank and the dram mobo light staying on. Keep in mind I’ve also gotten to the bios before but it couldn’t boot to OS. (cpu...

Pc: GPU: Rx 6600 CPU: Ryzen 5, 5600X Ram: 2x 8Gb g-skill idk 3.2Gz Motherboard: MSI B450 Pro-VDH Max PSU: Be Quiet L-11 500Watt So my pc just crashes at random times. It is a quick crash, resulting in reboot without an error code displaying. Sometimes it boots again, sometimes it gets stuck at...

(Before you read just know I’m not good with this kinda stuff I’m really dumb when it comes to this stuff) I need help my pc wouldn’t turn on a couple of days ago but now it does cause I got a new power supply from my dads old broken pc. So my pc turns on but only two of the 4 fans turn on two...

Ok so to get started my computer was not stable in the first place. Back in 2020 I built it with DDR4 trident z ram (F4-3200C16D-16GTZRX) a ryzen 7 2700x , and a b450-f asus rog motherboard and a rx 5700xt somehow or another I was able to get it stable but forgot to save a bios profile so I...

i have one case fan and one cpu and one gpu fan for a system with a AMD Ryzen 7 2700 cpu, a Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. B450M DS3H-CF (AM4) motherboard, 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (PNY) gpu, and 2 sticks of 16.0GB Dual-Channel DDR4 ram do i need more fans?????

My PC boots with all the RGB working, fans spinning, etc, when I connect a monitor nothing posts. I tried everything such as 1 stick of ram in all slots and all the tricks, nothing shows. I plugged a desk fan to see if all the USB slots were working fine but when I plugged in my mouse and...

I bought a Legion 7i Gen 7 recently and wanted to move it into my old case, since that case is so much nicer. Everything went well until I pressed the power button and nothing got powered up. I believe I'm using the correct pins on the motherboard but it won't turn on. I have tried to plug in...

Hi All, I've been having an issue with my desktop where when I load multiplayer games, the computer appears to shut down or restart. The screen goes black and lights turn off in the tower. then, one light out of 2 will turn on. if I push the backlight button on the keyboard, it will flash but...

So i haven’t used the pc in a while and im away it’s a old pc tell optiplex 390 but wondering if anyone can help me as i know nothing about pcs the motherboard light is on when plugged in but when i try turn it on it makes a noise the light goes away and the pc cuts off and if i try press the...

5th custom built first with Ryzen cpu Specs: Ryzen 5 5500 MSI B550 Gaming Pro Gtx 2060 8gb Ballisix Ram (2 sticks but only have one in for testing) PSU 850 GOLD NZXT I have flashed to the newest bios same issue I have flashed to a 5th gen compatible bios I have resocketed and fix'd 2 bent...

I formatted my device, but after doing the format, I could not know the serial number of my device. I searched in the CMD and wrote (wmic bios get serialnumber) to find out the serial number, so the system told me (Default string) I did a lot of commands and got the same result and I went to the...

My display keeps cutting out when the DisplayPort cable gets bumped; the only way to get the display back is to pull the cable out and put it back in, which sometimes takes a few tries and sometimes makes the display appear square and low-quality. This happens on both of my monitors. What do you...

Program: Cinebench R23 10minute throttle test, but it starts throttling after a minute only, then it kinda shifts in and out of throttling repeatedly and I was worried to let the full 10 minutes complete, so I stopped it..(is it safe to let it finish? even though its hitting 100c?)...

[Note: Moderator edit to break up solid unpunctuated paragraph.] I got a nasty virus on my pc and ended up having to use easeus partition master tool to wipe every drive I had and every partition including the partition with windows and boot it wouldn’t come up in my bios (ASUS prime Z790...

What do you guys think my gaming pc is worth? (With and without components like keyboard and mice etc)I am thinking to sell it in the future but i have no clue how much it is worth Here is some info I live in the EU I build the pc 3 years ago I only replaced my GPU from a gtx 670 to a rtx 3060...

PC Specs: CPU: Intel I5 4460 (3.20 ghz) Motherboard: Biostar TB85 GPU:MSI RX Radeon 570 Armor OC 4GB Ram: (2x)4gb Team Group Elite 1600mhz DDR3 OS: Windows 10 Storage: Samsung Evo 500 gb SSD PSU: EVGA 600W Power Supply...

Hi, i upgraded my pc back in october and from the start i had a Bluetooth issue connecting to an Xbox controller where it would connect for a few minutes then begin searching for my pc again. I didn't think much of it and assumed it was the controller but after using that controller on an Xbox...

PC specs I5 10400 Asus b560 ma 16gb hyper x ram 1050 ti MSI MAG550W I was playing gta online yesterday then suddenly the pc shut down and wont start. After some troubleshooting the pc started to boot without the gpu connected to the pcie slot, any fixes please?

Hi, i just finish a new PC 15 days ago, and i have a big problem. Each time i start a game or a software who require GPU my computer shut down in seconds. i ll try with Eve-online / Gigapixel / Heaven Benchmark 4.0 same results. sys : w10 pro 64 bit original GC : Geforce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GO Proc...

HI, I have a ASROCK Z170M EXTREME 4 and im trying to under stand the full thing, i have a few questions if you guys could help! What are the compatible CPUs ? Does it matter if its Skylake, Coffee Lake or Kaby Lake? Does the ram have to be compatible to the motherboard or the cpu? What if the...

I know there are several forums about a similar topic already but none seem to sound right or fit what's going on with my Computer and really room in general. I am in college and live in the dorms and last semester my friend had the room I am currently in. He had a 3060ti, 10th gen Intel CPU...

After this black screen appeared i let it sit for few hours and nothing happened so i restarted it and it still did the same thing so i spent more frustrating hours until i used my bios to wipe my hard drive with OS on it. I obtained a new windows 10 install and when i boot from the flash drive...

I'm pretty new to this stuff I just made this account to try to find help I just opened by PC to clean some dust out and I took off the heatsink and cleaned off the old thermal paste and put new on and put it back together and when I turn it on it won't show anything on the screen it boots up...

Hey guys, I’ve made a recent post about how my pc was crashing and assumed it was because of my gpu, but I’ve realized it is not that. Transferred my brothers gpu into my system and unfortunately, the crashes are still happening. I am sort of stumped on what the issue is, I’m not a big computer...

So for 5 months I'm still having the same problem: BSOD I have changed my SSD, RAM, MOBO. had reset/reformat(SSD, HDD) my system multiple times with different technicians. After a day or two, again BSOD appears. I also tried switching my procie to my friends' procie if mines the problem, But...

I’ve had this issue for more than a year now. So I recently tried playing Cyberpunk 2077 and I can’t seem to get the game to run correctly. I’m getting between 45-65 fps no matter what I turn the settings to in Cyberpunk 2077. Even if I turn the game to the lowest supported resolution and...

Hey guys, so recently I’ve had this problem where my computer randomly crashes with a black screen & then my screen becomes all disorientated. I had this issue when I first built my rig, but I haven’t had them anymore after I swapped out some custom cables I had gotten. This only happens...

A corruption was found in a file system index structure. The file reference number is 0x30000000212ea. The name of the file is "\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\WinRAR". The corrupted index attribute is ":$I30:$INDEX_ALLOCATION". Im having this error code on my window logs I...

really need help fixing my audio on my laptop as i work as a dj and its really effecting my job and ive lost work form it and money, please help anyone, i can provide pictures etc. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gtkJFLCngkbBYBfEwiHlss4yL1xt99u9/view?usp=share_link...