motherboard

Hi! I am helping my friend to build a new PC but something weird is happening. Whenever I put the RAM on the first, second or third slot, it doesn't POST and the amber lights for CPU and DRAM come on and only the fans spin. This shouldn't be happening, right? The motherboard is gigabyte z790 UD...

Hello, I posted several months ago about a ram issue I faced ( https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/ram-being-detected-as-4000mhz-instead-of-6200mhz-on-new-build.3815455/#post-23065224 ) and thought it resolved. I've since had more issues. I got a 4090 and seemingly, for over a month...

I used half of my PSU's 24-pin connector to connect the PSU to my Acer motherboard's 12 pins. (Yes, it fit without forcing.) When it didn't start, I thought maybe I should get a 24 to 12 pin adapter. Now that I'm using the adapter, it still won't start. Could I have fried the motherboard by...

Hey Everyone, Build Components: Ryzen 7 7700X G.Skill 32GB of DDR5 RAM MSI PRO B650-P WIFI Motherboard GTX 1080ti 1tb NVME M.2 I made a new build with the above components but every time I go to boot with the Display port cable plugged into the 1080ti there is no display. If I plug the display...

my brother has given me a gaming pc and he is unavailable for guidance currently. I am trying to upgrade my RAM, I have a b450 gaming plus motherboard allowing DDR4 memory. I have my eyes set on Kingston FURY™ Beast DDR4 RGB, but I was told elsewhere online that my CPU limits it being an AMD...

Hello, I have been dealing with this problem for months and I would really appreciate it if you help me solve it. My PC: RTX 2060S Ryzen 3 3200g A320M-K 16 GB RAM ssd evo 500gb - 1tb hdd Power supply MWE Bronze Series MPE-6501-ACAAB 650W black 100V/240V This problem started 1 month later after...

I recent upgraded to a 5800x3d from a 9600k since i could reuse my ram from my old system, i got a b550 board to go with it. Knowing i needed to flash the bios, i have tried 5-6 usb sticks but have had no luck. It flashes for a few seconds and then goes dark, it never gets to the fast flashing...

So my PC which I've only had for a couple of months now is acting up. Whenever I don't have RAM in the slots the pc is fine just no display. However when I DO have RAM in any of the slots the CPU fan will turn on and off periodically. I haven't tried replacing the RAM with new RAM yet but if it...

Whenever I turn on or restart my PC I am always met with the same screen/message and it always resets the BIOS settings. If I change the settings, F10 to save, then go past that raid configuration pop up screen again and press f8 to bring up bootable drives and boot into my windows drive then I...

Hi guys, i've had this small issue with my pc for quite sometime, it's nothing major so i havent really felt the need to deal with it, if even possible. But maybe you guys could have a clue whats going on with it. So it started like a year ago, when i havent had my computer on for awhile (like...

hi every one i am about to buy new GPU GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Eagle 8G 8GB GDDR6,i have b360m ds3h ddr4 with i5 8400 cpu, gtx 1050 ti and 16gb ram the question if my motherboard will support the rtx 4060 ti

Imgur gallery of blown capacitor Hi all, thank you for reading. I recently turned on my workstation and heard a loud pop and a smell like fireworks, turned off the machine and unplugged everything. Quick visual inspection of the motherboard revealed a capacitor that blew its cap right off. I...

I moved abroad for work/study so, while shifting I lost the stock CPU Socket Retention Mounting Bracket that came with my Motherboard and I can't use the stock wraith cooler that came with the 5600 that I just bought, are there replacement for the retention bracket available? Or should I buy a...

Hello there, Yes, I got a old build (I will go on a new platform if I can), but I want to get out the max power of my computer. In this post: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/should-i-switch-to-i7-4790k-or-would-it-be-better-to-buy-a-new-computer.3822865/, the problem specified by many...

I’m putting together a brand new pc with a 13th gen cpu. However the asus z690 strix motherboard requires a bios update, I made sure I downloaded the right file as well as made the usb fat 32, the only things connected is the 24 pin, the gpu into the socket but not powered as well as the ram...

13th Gen Intel i9-13900K 3.00 GHz ASUS ROG Strix Z790-E Gaming WiFi 6E LGA 1700 EVGA FTW3 3080 5x Samsung 980 pro 2t M.2's raid-0 Intel 900p Optane 480g pcie agility 120g SSD 3x WD 2t HDD raid-0 4 sticks of G.SKILL Trident Z5 RGB 32GB (16GB) 6000MT So the issue is the PC started to have the...

Hi! Bought myself a (at the time) hefty little motherboard. B450m DS3H. Got it and was set on doing everything right. So I built the PC and before even downloading Chrome, installed a new BIOS update. The update did not match my CPU in some weird way and fried the mother out of my board. Luckily...

Looking at the specifications for the MSI X570 A-Pro it tells me there's one M.2 slot supporting PCIe 4.0 and another supporting only PCIe 3.0. I already have a PCIe 3.0 drive connected to the 4.0 slot and I'm planning on buying a 4.0 drive, moving the current drive to the 3.0 slot and...

Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus Problem: Test bench connected to PSU, GPU, and stock cooler (with ram installed) boots up and stays on. Fans are all spinning. No display. CPU EZ Debug LED stays lit the entire time. How it happened: While upgrading the GPU on a computer that had all its...

Hello, so since a couple of days i have had an very interesting problem. The issue startet when i upgraded to windows 11 and started playing a new remastered game of Ark known as Ark survival ascended. The game just came out so i expected some issues and the game did crash a couple of times...

The following lines explain the issue I faced a few months ago, it is very important for the context of the issue I'm facing now : |||||||||||||||| MARCH 2 2023 |||||||||||||||| I have had this PC for almost 2 years now everything was working perfectly fine : CPU : Intel I7-11700k GPU : Zotac...

Hello! I am looking for a motherboard for my AMD 7800x3d processor. I would like the motherboard form factor to be ATX. My financial limit: 300-350 euros What do you think is the best solution? And why? The video card will be a 7900 xtx Thank you

Hello all, I'm looking for a LGA 1151 desktop motherboard that supports Xeon E3-1220 v5 (Skylake) CPUs. Any suggestions or advice on how to know if a motherboard will support this CPU. Thank you.

hi, i bought the PC in 2020 and I've always played games on it without problems, 1 month ago my pc started to randomly restart while playing games, it always restarts in the first 10 minutes after opening the game. It restarts once a day every day and sometimes even twice a day.. i tried a lot...

Hope this is the right forum for this.... It's been many years since I built my last PC. back then my Quad-core, 8GB of RAM and 4GB GPU was the bomb. Fast forward to today and there are more choices for parts than my brain can handle! So.... here's what I'm looking to do and what I've come up...

Hi All, I humbly come to this community today to help me with this totally mind-boggling issue. So I built this PC just before last christmas and the spec is below: Intel Core i9-12900KS ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Founders Edition Corsair Dominator DDR5 Ram 2 x 32gb...

Hi, i have a this old computer system for over a decade now though it was just sitting there collecting dust in my store room for like past 5-6 years. Today i finally decided to take it apart to see what's inside it (it doesn't turn on). i have removed everything very carefully except I can't...

So yesterday I was working on my desktop and testing to see if a new graphics card that I got worked on an Alienware 046MHW motherboard and the graphics card was an asrock Rx 5600 xt challenger D 6G OC. The problem comes when I turn on the pc and no display pops up along with 5 beeps signaling...

Hi I just got the new Asus Dark Hero Z790 motherboard, and the system wont post, it just gets stuck on orange. Ive reseated the ram, checked all the cables. I dont know what to do now. Please help Specs: CPU: 13900kf CPU cooler: Cooler Master 360r Motherboard: Asus Dark Hero z790 Ram: Corsair...

Exactly as the title says - - Will an ATX power supply work with an Micro-ATX motherboard? Motherboard: Gigabyte H410M S2H pcie 3.0 16x 8 GT/s LGA 1200 Pci-express 3.0 Any recommendations to what psu should i buy? would this work...

GPU Performance on PCIe 4.0 vs 5.0 Motherboard I am planning of building a gaming PC with a motherboard that supports PCIe 5.0 16x for the GPU. But, I would like to know if the future RTX 7000 series GPU would have a negligible performance loss on a mother board with PCIe 4.0? If the...

Hey all, posting to confirm my suspicions of a motherboard that needs replaced. I recently upgraded my GPU, CPU, and PSU. When testing in cinebench, I received confusingly low benchmark scores for my GPU. (I will post my CPU scores as well for clarity). I'm wondering if my motherboard is the...

For some background info, I recently sent my old mobo for RMA and got this new motherboard because I kept getting a red q-led. Got this new motherboard and only plugged in my GPU, CPU, and ram. Worked just fine, so I put it in my case and then plugged in everything else. After finishing I turned...

Is it necessary to use a rubber pad under the NVMe drive if the motherboard doesn't have an NVMe heatsink?

I'm upgrading my pc from an old asus ddr3 board and i5 6600 to an MSI A620m-e ddr5 and a 7500f, will i need to reinstall windows? my activation key says it is activated with a digital licence linked to my account. will i lose my data? If so, what will i need to do to keep it? it will be the same...

I want to disassemble this cooler from my motherboard. There are of course 4 pins. I can easily plug out two pins. But the other pins are buried. How can I take that out? I tried to take Part 1 apart from Part 2. But I couldn't do that either.

Hi all! Just a disclaimer: I already asked this question on Reddit and PC FB groups, but I still haven't solved the issue. This has been an issue with my PC for quite a while now, but I'm tired of temporary solutions like undervolting my CPU or GPU. When I first asked about this, people said...

I need an cheap motherboard for an i-6100 and a gtx 750 and have only 30$ you can also tell me abt used motherboards but I want a brand new one as much as possible