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So I was trying to clean off this part of the motherboard and accidentally scratched it with my nail. Are there any solutions or products I could buy to fix this? Any suggestions would be appreciated 😊

I have a Dell G3 15 the 3579 model I think and it recently shut off and now whenever I try and turn it on the screen stays dead and the fan turns on at full blast for a few seconds then shuts off. I’ve tried removing ssd and hdd and booting with one or the other. I completely removed the mother...

Specs: R5 AMD processor, EVGA 650 80 plus gold power supply, R9 380 graphics card, 8 GB Ripjaws RAM, ASROCK B450 Gaming K4 motherboard. So I built this computer about a year ago (some of the parts were new, some were from an old build) and it's worked pretty well since then; no real problems. I...

Was playing Mordhau earlier today at high settings when suddenly my screen froze before my frames dropping to around 15 from 60. All my fans kicked up to max speed and my GPU began to make this buzzing sound as if there was something caught in the fan. The fan speed was sustained for about 5...

So someone shipped me a burnt rx 470D (D version on top of that) and i cannot do anything about it, xfx rx 470d45igt to be precise. Removed fans + heatsink and noticed a poped mosfet (m3098m) I only do minor repairs so i own a solderinh iron and a multimeter, card was short from ground to +12v...

I am trying to fix the bad sectors of my HDD using HDD Regenerator, at first it asked me to changed bios from AHCI to IDE so I did not. Midway of scanning it stopped because of that issue. Is there any consequences if I changed the bios to IDE? I am using SSD as my main storage, and it has the...

I’ve had my pc for about two years (can list specs) and never have had a problem with overheating especially my cpu, considering I have a AIO NZXT Kraken cpu cooler, recently my cpu has been heating up to degrees around 90-100 °C when playing cpu and gpu intensive games to the point where I...

So basically, here’s the long story... I’m not sure what’s wrong with my pc but I build it about a year ago and it always was no smooth ride. I’d play a game and it’d crash, but later came to find out it was due to msi afterburner’s overclock. LATER on I came to realize that it was ok to...

first, i'm not nation using english. excuse for my english. my laptop is damaged by overvoltage maybe. it should needs 5V, i connect it 12V. . ofcourse, ampare is different. so, i drived my laptop on high power. at time connected, there was small spark and burnt smell. i took out charging jack...

Hey everyone, I’m trying to recovering data off of an old hard drive. I’ve tried every software solution and while some seem to work it took 24hrs to recover 8GB. I checked online and there seems to be frequent pcb board issues with this particular model. So I removed that and found no burn...

Hey all, I have a Lenovo Yoga 700 14ISK with the i5 and 128gb ssd that I used for college a few years back. My brother is starting college and I'm working on fixing it for him as a gift. I've repaired other laptops in the past but this is my first time inside this one. The main problem with it...

I have bought 2 days ago an SH Gigabyte Superb 720W. Yesterday my PC shutdown and wanted to start again but it didn't ( fans started spinning, leds turned on) but after 3 sec it shutdown again and keept doing that until I shut it down manually. After I've waited for a few minutes I tried to...

Hi everyone! I’m struggling with a huge issue: I have Windows 10 installed on a 500GB SSD, and apparently I screwed something up while messing with partitions and switching hard drives around (among other things) while building a second rig from spare parts. The actual issue I’m facing is that...

I bought a broken asus strix r9 390 for 30 bucks on ebay. The card itself is in great physical shape but doesnt boot when in pc. When there is no pcie power plugged in it boots blind, when the 8 pin pcie connector is plugged in it does the same, But if i plug just the 6-pin pcie connector in the...

Here's the list! the seller claims they're mainly LCD Isues. with an asking price of £500 Lot includes: 1. AOC-GAMEING MONITOR CURVED C32G1 32 INCH X3 - RRP £257 (Total £771) 2. PHILIPS V LINE LCD MONITOR 243V7 24 INCH - X2 RRP £129.99 (Total £259.98) 3. PHILIPS V LINE LCD...

Hey guys, first post here. Joining this forum is long overdue so here it goes! I have my old Gigabyte GTX 670 that is toasted from years ago. I've brought it out to make into a mini project to get going again. I'm looking for any insight on how to repair it given that the damaged MOSFET is the...

Hy there! I have an Acer aspireV15 V591G, I had windows 10 on it and recently when I turned it off the automatic repair was working but I didnt want to wait for it to finish so I shut off the laptop. After all this once I tried to start the laptop, it would start automatic repair and never...

I am looking for some help regarding a damaged external hard drive I have. I ran a chkdsk on it through the terminal and it has returned errors saying I have bad sectors 😭 The in-built repair tool on my Windows laptop does not repair the problem so it must be quite bad. I am just wondering if...

Hi All, I have an Asus s510u that all of a sudden starts cutting out after a few minutes to one hour. (usually during boot up) sometimes it makes it to windows but after a few minutes it cuts out. when this happens the fan is still running and the powerlight shows. only after holding down the...

Problem: Desktop randomly turned off while playing Witcher 3. I tried to switch it back on, but nothing happened. The keyboard is still on, and when I unplug and re-plug in my PC, the light will come on for maybe half a second, as well as the fans, but then nothing whenever I try again...

I was ask to help fixing a laptop that doesn't boot. When in UEFI it goes into Win rescue environment (blue interface) when in Legacy it displays that there is no bootable media. I tried so mann things already. Startup Repair doesn't work, there are no previous backup points. I tried command...

Hey, so my PC has been running pretty badly lately. It often crashes and performs really bad even on games that shouldn't be hard to run. Also stuff like webpages often lag even though I've got ping and download speed. Apparently my specs should actually be decent and shouldn't have any problems...

Hi there guys, i'm new here. So I found an old 3.5 HDD of mine and i know it has a lot of childhood memories on it. For reference, it looks like this: So the thing is, when i plug it into a power supply it does not start spinning. It does not even make a sound, so i guess its not stuck or...

Hey, I'm an idiot and recently dropped my graphics card. It is a Gigabyte GTX 1050ti. It was in a loosely protected box and a component fell off. I believe it is an Inductor Coil, a Magic R22. This looks to be the only physical damage on the board Can this be soldered back on? I also have some...

I have predator helios 300 i7 7700hq gtx 1060 6gb and out of the box it have very bad thermals so I decided to repaste it with Arctic mx4. In the process of cleaning up the previous thermal compound I might have rubbed it too vigorously because the thermal compound was not coming out it got...

So, I found that my TV wouldn't turn on, so naturally I assumed the power supply was broken. So I opened the Tv and found black scorches in one of the areas. So, I feel like I know where the issue is, I'm just wondering, do I need to replace diodes or small capacitors? Circuit board image...

I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E545 laptop running Windows 10 that the screen no longer works on. A couple months ago the left hinge cracked (which I gather is a relatively common issue with Lenovo laptops), so I JB-Welded it back together and it worked fine until recently. Today the screen...

Hey all, I recently built a computer for a friend, the day we put it together it worked absolutely fine. The day after it did too for around 4 hours. While playing Forza horizon 4 suddenly the computer completely shut off. When we tried turning it on it would flash led lights and spin the fans...

PC had small amount of water spilled on it and now it will turn on but will not display to my monitor specs: (if needed) EVGA 1060 3gb G4560 16GB 2133MHz ram

Hi Guys, So as the title says, i managed to fix my Sapphire R9 270x Dual-X graphic card. I've done so much research on the problem that i had finally decided to take matters into my own hands and try to fix it by all means. And wanted to poste my results so it might help others even though...

The plaque on a notebook's usb port broke. Left are 4pins. Utilizing jump wire and a female micro usb port https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71WFZ4QxywL._SL1500_.jpg I want to get a working usb port. The female micro usb part has a ground wire. Is it required to wire the ground...

Hi there, i am in a bit of a tricky situation, and i'll gladly take your help ! I recently purchased a MSI B450 Tomahawk max for my first build, and it worked well for a couple of days, until i had to transport my fresh build by car to my apartment. Unfortunately, the journey was kind of bumpy...

Hi there, I was removing the CPU cooler on my sisters old Lenovo 90BF002DUK motherboard (FM2+ socket) from a Lenovo h50-55 and i accidentally knocked off 2 resistors by the CPU. I am looking into getting the motherboard repaired but I am being told it will cost £90. I can replace the motherboard...

So my Psu was making strange sounds the last couple days. Just yesterday I awake to and endless windows startup repair loop. So I went out and got a new psu thinking that would solve my problem... I thought wrong. Been trying several methods and so far nothing has resolved this... I can't do a...

Hi. It's black Friday and I decided to build my first pc. Then, I got everything ran for a couple days. I noticed that on cinebench r20, my ryzen 7 2700x was running slower than the 1700x. Then, the real problems begin. My computer shutdowned and wouldn't turn on unless I unplugged it...

I have owned a Lenovo Y700 for ~2 years. It only has 256GB of storage and one of the slots comes empty from factory. I tried to connect my SSD to it twice but all cables (or whatever they are called) burnt immediately after power-up. What can I do. I am really low on money is there any cheap...

I'm using A4Tech Bloody G501 headset and due to my glasses it's left cushion (and slightly right) is concave, any tips how to fix it (if it even can be)? I've searched online for cushions but there just aren't the same like the stock.

At this point after buying a new PSU and it still not working I am hesitant to just go buying more parts in a guess that that's the issue. Are there any tests I can do for each individual part? I have access to a friend's PC that I can plug in each part into to see if it is functional. Is it...

Hello, I recently upgraded my PC. When I boot into Windows 7, it says Windows is unable to start. It crashes, I get a quick blue screen, and it sends me to repair windows. When I repair windows, it fails. When I try to checkout other options, I am unable to due to my mouse and keyboard being...

Hi Everyone, i have a problem. My computer freezing anytime and sometimes It appears to me BSOD (unexpected kernel mode trap, critical process died, and more) ( The freezing happens in desktop, games and when i wear MEMTEST86 and Windows memory diagnostic. I have: Intel i5 7500 Asus strix...