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so just the other day my PC is having an issue where it will not connect to any monitor, through my graphics card with Display cable and HDMI. i was playing a game and everything was perfectly normal, when all 3 of my monitors turned black so i took my headset off and it sounded like one or two...

i have a 1TB Toshiba external harddrive that was working fine until i tried recording OBS to it. the recorded files were inaccessible and likely corrupted, so i deleted them. a day or 2 later, the drive is having issues being recognized or accessed. when i unplug and plug back in the drive, its...

My keyboard stopped responding normally and now half the keys don’t work. If I press h and then another key once that key will be written like 10 times. The ~ key has also been blinking blue. I have the Epomaker x Aula F75 Gasket Greywood V3 mechanical keyboard...

Hello, I'm purchasing a full build later today online but now am 2nd guessing what GPU to go with, I understand they are virtually all the same. I was going to go with Zotac Twin Edge Regular 4070 super at first but realized for only 10 more dollars I could have an additional +75 MHz base speed...

Without supplemental fans/cooling device, will this proposed build have enough cooling without the need for extra top mounted fans? I will be building this next week but I DO NOT want to turn it on and come to figure out it wont stay on because its too hot and have to wait to use it because lack...

Title says it all, looking for the best longevity and performance wise, ASRock B650 LiveMixer AM5 ATX Motherboard OR ASRock B650 PG LIGHTING AM5 ATX Motherboard Nearly the same thing, the livemixer seems to offer more pcie and other ports with alleged better audio, but was going to buy the...

Hi! So recently I've went from 9th gen to 13th gen, as you may know doing that requires a new chipset board obviously. I've recently replaced my i7-9700k and Z-370-a Pro for a i5-13600k and a B760-P DDR4 Motherboard. Doing all this and replacing the original CPU cooler as well worked fine for...

Hi all, I recently started dabbling with old PC hardware as I find it all quite interesting. For the purposes of testing old AGP and PCI cards, I thought I’d get a test bench together with an older motherboard. I then discovered ASRock made weird motherboards that had AGP, PCI, and PCIe slots...

Today, my pc power cord got burnt, pc turned off off out of nowhere then i found out, the psu is a EVGA GM 650 SFX, ive had this pc for 2-3 years no issues, i have a power limiter connected to my pc. Full set of parts: Powercolor 6700xt Ryzen 5600x EVGA 650 GM ASrock B550-ITX Any clue what...

Hello, I've had my current pc setup for a while and since I got the new GPU (about 3 years ago) my games have been running very poorly. First to start of with my specs: - AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (Little overclock) - Nvidia 2070 super - 32GB DDR4 RAM (16GB of Hyperx Fury and 16GB of Corsair Vengaence...

I'm not sure why but my some of my keys haven't been working properly lately. They worked fine a few days ago but now the Windows and alt keys have switched and the Fn key doesn't work. How can I fix this?

So as stated in the title I’m planning on building a new pc and I’m looking for some advice on some of the components. On some of the components my decision isn’t final, such as the cpu/power supply/motherboard Here’s the build And the budget is about £1,500 and I’m in the uk. Cpu: I’m...

Hello, I recently built my PC and didnt know about Bios settings and attempted to overclock my cpu. After restarting my PC, the settings applied and ran well until i noticed minimizing issues. After noticing such issues, i decided to put everything back to auto. When my PC reset, it will no...

Hello! For two weeks or so I've been having this strange new stutter appear. I have tried a few things, cleaning, reseating the graphics card and power cables, reinstalling drivers multiple times and I've made sure that all drivers for the computer is fully up to date, so I am at a loss where...

Service center used the same psu cables for two different drives and fried a seagate 8tb hdd that is very important to me . This is the drive that is now fried: https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-Internal-3-5-Inch-ST8000DM004/dp/B075WYBQXJ It is not letting me link pictures but the SATA...

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/FDL4bL My part list, case is just the white version, and for the cpu cooler i have the https://www.newegg.com/sama-liquid-cooling-system/p/2YM-0095-00025?Item=9SIB41TK4K7119 Motherboard is Asrock B650M PRO RS. I tried a bunch of stuff but I have gotten no where...

When running games or resource-intensive applications my system will just restart. (My screen will go black and my system will restart). Sometimes though the computer will give a BSOD Message, (Minidumps attached) The weird thing is sometimes it gives different BSODs errors every time...

My primary drive was an intel nvme ssd that I’ve had for almost 5 years, but it started disappearing from my BIOS every now and again, so I decided to buy a new primary driver, the WD sn850x 2TB which has a heat sink. I got a repair shop to clone the old one and everything was going fine until...

Good Day, Games crash on my PC. I keep getting a ton of different errors and I have tried everything to fix them and have gotten nowhere. Any suggestions? Here is a link to a photo of my Event Viewer which shows all the recent crashes. Here is everything I have tried: New ram (replaced...

Hi, I've built a PC myself. It will be used for 3D CAD work and, in my free time (if available), for gaming. Here it is, please be honest.P.S. It has 64GB RAM because the 32GB RAM in our school PCs (HTL) is regularly maxed out. Also, I want this PC to last for 10 years without needing any major...

Alright, I'll make this brief and blunt; as stated, I am a 16-year-old teenager with plans to attentively work a summertime, part-time job and save up to buy a computer. This aside, however, I have NO IDEA what to do and how to go about doing it, hence why the phrasing for all of this is...

Hi there! I've been struggling with this problem for awhile now, any advice would be appreciated! The Problem: While gaming, after around 1-2hours on moderate to high loads, my computer will randomly crash. Now, the PC with remain on, however my monitors will go black, sound goes off and no...

Hello, I'm having somewhat of an odd issue which I'm a little scared could be an undetected virus of some sort at this time, I've ran multiple scans and cleared lots of files don't worry... As well as my pc being VERY clean, I was left super confused. When turning on my pc the red led indicator...

Hi! I’ve been experiencing random freezing/stuttering with nothing showing in event viewer, i’ve tried fresh windows install last night and tested again today but still getting the same issue and it’s almost impossible to replicate it, both of my monitors will freeze briefly then readjust...

Hi! When turning on my pc today i noticed that there was no signal coming from my gpu to my monitor, and it didnt post at all, which i thought was strange since it was working perfectly fine yesterday. i went through some trouble shooting tips, reseating gpu etc but the only thing that helped is...

A friend of mine wich I sold an Aqirys Pulsar LS 650w 80+Bronze want s to put it in an old pc with an i7 4790k a 1050ti gpu and 32gb of ram, but on his motherboard(Idk the model, but old ish) the cpu socket only has 4 pins, and the Aqirys powersupply has 8 pins wich can be divided in two, each...

Not sure where to post this, but I just started having this issue, I will be playing a game (destiny 2) a usual, but now I will have black screens. I can't really tell what causes it sometimes it happens within minutes of launching the game, sometimes at the desktop, and sometimes I can play for...

I just enabled windows periodic virus scanning and I got a notification from Norton saying something about unabling it again. I wasn't aware that I had Norton, but I've heard negative things about it being outdated and taking up a lot of space. Should I uninstall Norton or unable the periodic...

Hey all! So a few months ago my PC started stuttering/hitching seemingly out of nowhere. I tried everything I could find online but nothing fixed it. I have switched every component in my PC, including switching my old drives to new ones, and trying OS with 2 new drives. I also changed my...

I just built my pc and both my Wifi and Bluetooth connections are really weak. I'm not sure if there's much I can do with the Wifi connection, my pc is far away from the WiFi, but can I fix the Bluetooth connection? When I use my airpods the audio connection buffers if I even turn my head away...

CPU: R5 5600 Motherboard: Asrock B550M Pro 4 / MSI B350 Pro VD Plus Ram: 32 GB Kingston Fury (KF432C16BBK2/32) SSD/HDD: Samsung 860 SATA SSD GPU: Sapphire Pulse 6700xt PSU: Chassis: CoolerMaster Q300L OS: Windows 10 Home After a lot of procrastination, I finally decided to swap out the...

I have a PC I built myself and today I got a new MasterBox Q300L case and Thermaltake 600w PSU. I tried the power supply earlier and the PC would turn on but no display, I was hoping that after I moved everything that it’d fix itself, but no, It still showing no display. After searching up a...

Hi I have a 3060 and it has been running fine for the past couple months since I built my PC. I recently downloaded the new driver update .555 or something like that and my gpu load has spiked. When I load into a game like valorant my load is always at 100% when it used to be 50-60. I also lost...

My PC SPECS => Mother Board: MSI B450M PRO-VDH MAX Gaming Motherboard => CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3500 Desktop Processor 6 Cores up to 4.1 GHz 19MB Cache AM4 => CPU cooler: DEEPCOOL GAMMAXX 400 V2 Blue LED air CPU Cooler => Graphics Card: ASUS pci_e_x4 Dual GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 8GB GDDR6 RAM...

Hi I just upgraded my Dell Latitude E6410 from an Intel i5-520M to an Intel i7-740QM. Since then I've been experiencing random hard freezes with the new CPU. Also I can't revert back to using the old CPU because as when I turn it on, it shuts off and the three lock symbols at the top of the...

Every bit of help is appreciated. I already tried everything i could. It's a HP Probook 450 G5. So basically it is working IF IT WOULDN'T JUST TORN OFF

Hi, I have a weird problem when I put on high resolution the game crash at some point and I don't know why if somebody encountered this problem how did you managed to fix those are my computer parts and they are pretty strong and I don't understand it, I have a GPU: RTX 4090 CPU: i9 13900ks...

Hi guys, I've been having this issue with my PC for a while. Sometimes when under load, it will just restart by itself. I've changed out the PSU and motherboard but it didn't solve my issue. I attached my event viewer log. It happened at 11:53AM. Please help!~ Thanks! -->LOG<-- My PC spec...

I have a ASUS tuf f15 2023 i7 12700h with RTX 4060 and then i bought the gigabyte g24f 2 monitor but now i have some issues . First of all when i used the HDMI port i need to unplug and plug it every time for it to work otherwise it gets a no signal message (i only use the monitor as output and...