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Hi! These are my pc specs I5 6600k @ stock Gtx 1070 @ stock 650watt 80+Gold Psu from Fsp (Fsp hydro GE) msi b150 krait gaming mobo 8gb ddr4 corsair value select ram @2133mhz Normal thermaltake cpu air cooler 128gb ssd So this morning i started the computer it was fine and after few hours...

Hi guys and gals I am kinda new to this so I thought I'd ask opinions first, I recently acquired a nivida gpu (I assume palit by the power layout) however I have no idea what the card is Looking at the ram slots I am guessing a 1080 11gb however I am not sure on where to start the repair (if...

my MSI z370 Pro Died after i connected a used bought SilverStone PSU (750 Watt) Silver rating (I know i made a biggest problem buying a used psu) the Guy wont agree to return the psu nor agree that his psu is faulty ... so short story he was a scammer as soon as i connected the psu my sades k14...

So my headphone socket on the front of my computer has been broken for a while now after tripping over a headphone cord. As you can see the mic socket is still intact. I'm not technical at all, so I don't know how the hell I'd go about replacing it. I don't have any tools beyond screwdrivers and...

Hello everyone, Im in a bit of a pickle. I bought a 2nd hand system from a third party and ofcourse as many of these stories go. It went badly. Sometimes the PC doesnt want to boot the first few times. And other times it just randomly crashes. Sometimes when I have not touched the PC for a...

Hello all! My machine sort of died about a month ago and I've been trying to pin down the exact issue. I took the entire thing apart and re-assembled it to eliminate the possibility of loose connections and reseated the CPU. What's happening is when I go to turn on my PC the tower fans and the...

Hey guys, it's my first time posting here. Kind of a despiration post really. So my computer has been having a few issues recently, stuttering on WoW and videos starting to stutter a little bit + windows goes black a few times and the graphics of windows go super basic, I figured ok the game...

I’m seeking insight, I have cracked the gpu chip on my laptop motherboard, I’m going to get the chip replaced using a bga workstation and was wonder what if I used the 1070 chip instead of 1060. Will it work?

Hi there, would love some assistance / guidance on a situation I'm in at the moment with my current rig which failed to start a few days after I installed some RAM. This was the rig before I tried the installation: 1TB SSD & 250 gb SSD (1tb was a recent addition just to be used as a Steam...

Yesterday I plugged the drive in my SSD when I wanted to transfer some important files to the server, but I accidentally turned the connector the wrong way. When I did it, some smoke with terrible smell came out. I disconnected it immediately, but it was too late. It is dead now. Later I opened...

So I've got a faulty NVISION IP24V1 75hz Monitor from a friend. He told me that before his monitor acted unusual, he tried to switch his refresh rate to 75hz[because it was set to 60hz default] from Windows display settings. Everything was okay for a couple of days. But after that, his monitor...

Hey there, so I got this card and I am determined to fix it, I have a little bit of electronics background but I don't know very much about GPUs. I have soldering equipment, hot air station so if the processor is not dead I think is repairable. I've been trying to measure voltage while the card...

I was up till about 6AM playing games on my PC, until I shut it off for the night and went to sleep. I woke up the next morning and tried to turn it on but nothing powered on. I immediately checked the power cable and the wall plug to make sure that wasn’t the issue, and even tried using another...

Hello there, Seemingly overnight my TV developed an issue where the bottom ~1/5th of the TV has really heavy artifacting. This band is present both without an input source and with one, and has been tested with several different inputs (all produced the same error). I've attached a few photos...

yesterday my phone got soaked in hand sanitiser(%70 ethyl alcohol %30 purified water). I immediately took it out but it wasnt damaged screen had a blue- purple vapory thing on it but phone seems fully working .So i got confused and closed the phone it never boot again.I searched online and in...

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...