Tech advice

hello, I've been having an issue where when I try to play any game my monitors will turn off and display no signal but the pc is still running. I have tried every thing I could think of, like updating drivers and after that didn't work completely uninstalling them. I pretty much tried every fix...

Trying to open a game like cod or halo crashes my displays (they go black) pc stays on. I played valorant and was at 40% gpu usage 70% cpu and 40-55 degrees gpu until the end of a round (where the final kill animation happens) causing graphical stress and the crash happened. I did power and gpu...

Hi, I want to preface my post by stating that I am not particularly knowledgeable at all when it comes to PC hardware and software. I simply bought components and followed a tutorial on youtube to build my PC. I have little or no understanding beyond that. CURRENT SETUP: Ryzen 5900X, RTX 3070...

hello i am upgrading from 500gb nvm m.2 sdd to 2tb nvme m.2 ssd do i need to get into my bios settings on my motherboard which is rog strix b550-e gaming to activate the 2tb nvme m.2 ssd to clone windows from 500gb to the new 2tb nvme m.2 ssd please

hey guys, I've been chasing this issue for a while now where under load after about 5- 10 minutes while playing a game my pc will crash and try to reboot itself, no blue screen or anything just straight to a black screen where it will sit until I hold down the power button and reset, event...

I recently bought a Samsung 980 pro nvme, for some reason it is locked at 3500 MB/s read and write speeds when it should be around the 7000 mark. I also have a samsung 970 pro ssd, that wouldnt fit into my mother board so I purchased a UGREEN NVMe PCIe Adapter, M.2 SSD to PCIe 4.0 X16/X8/X4 Card...

Hey, looking for a bit of advice, recently obtained an Msi z370 GPC, booted up and no post just the rgb, Cpu and dram debug lights flashing alternately. I’ve tried clearing the cmos, tested the dimm slots individually and checked for any bent pins, tried with an 8th and 9th gen Cpu and...

So as weird as this may sound my pc deep fried itself. Was playing destiny 2 today and went to switch to the map when it over saturated and blurred everything while some color was straight blacked out. It was like a deep fried meme really. Second time this has happened. It always crashed my...

Hello everybody. I've been having a bit of PC trouble and I was hoping someone here could point me in the correct direction. Last November I purchased this pre-built from Newegg. A couple weeks ago I started noticing some graphical glitches in certain games. I figured it was just buggy games...

I have a pc, the specs being a Ryzen 7 2700x, 16GB of Corsair Vengeance 3000, 1070 founder's edition, and a wd 1tb SSD as my boot drive. I had no issues for around four months before I started having weird crashing issues. I start a game, and before the game starts up, but after the game...

Having an issue w my new 4080 i got it as a RMA i didnt know its size but now I’m thinking it’s not gonna fit I have a 690 Maximus hero motherboard. Used to have a 3080 TI msi it went bad no I have the 4080 now and I can’t figure out why it won’t fit in the motherboard slot it seems that it’s...

Hi all, I received a stack-based buffer overflow error on my PC yesterday. I am fairly tech savvy, but this isn't an error I have personally received before. I did some googling to see what the error is, how to fix it, and what could have caused it. I only received it once so far, so it's hard...

PC Specs: Prebuilt (outside warranty) MOBO: ASRock Z390 Phantom Gaming CPU: i9-9900k GPU: Gigabyte 2080 Super RAM: 16gb DDR4 PSU: Thermaltake 700w 80+ White Inherited a new system recently with the specs above and it has been fine with playing my normal games (DBD, LoL, Warframe, and Minecraft)...

I was updating the bios on my Aorus b540m from F50 to F63d. I don't know what I did, but now my motherboard is acting funky. Best way to describe what is happening is all my internal components stop communicating with each other for a split second - Games will crash, YouTube/Twitch will crash...

Long Version: My laptop (MSI Stealth GS75 10SE MS-17G3) was suffering from high temp CPU based crashes. So I decided to open it up and reapply the thermal paste. After reassembling it and turning it back on I noticed that not all the keys were not working. Their leds were on but some of them...

Sorry if something is not understandable, english isnt my first language, and this is my first PC Build. Long story short, I tried to install Win11, and was able to but had some issues when opening games, had the "TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot needed" issue. I go into the BIOS and, what do I find...

So I recieved a rig for free from my buddy, I have been upgrading the parts to be able to game, I have been stuck on this problem for about 3 weeks now. I bought a ryzen 5 5600x In replacement for the ryzen 3 2200g, at first I thought it was the motherboard, so I got a replacement motherboard...

The power was shut off while a game was playing and now anything that uses a lot of data or power lags when it formerly didn't. Restarts don't fix this issue. What happened and how do I fix it?

I bought a pre-built on Facebook about 5 months ago and the Pc ran fine. I started having performance drop due to CPU heat issues. So I recently upgraded my CPU Cooler to Corsair H150I and Case to Corsair 4000D When I would push the power button all case fans and RGB light up for half a second...

My prev. Build and my planned build: CPU: i5 650 to i7 870 GPU: igpu (Intel HD graphics family ) to 1660 Super RAM : 8gb DDR3 to 16gb DDR3 ROM : 1tb Seagate Barracuda HDD + 240gb Kingston SSD M.Board : ( I can't gain any info about the model but it's a p55 type ) Stock Coolers I need some...

Hey all! This is an issue that has been plaguing me for two weeks and across two different builds. Basically, how it started is the PC was working fine, months of no issues, then I went and played a VR game for 7 hours or so with friends (again, no issues during this), and the next day while...

I was playing a game when my pc crashed then wouldn’t turn off, so I flipped the psu switch and then a day after I try and turn it on and the fans spin to life but doesn’t display anything on the monitor. I have a r7 and a rx580, with a b350 tomahawk. The ez debug light for boot was on before I...

Hello, a few weeks ago I built my brand new pc, but I have been having this issue of games just randomly closing, this is not BSOD, it just throws me to the desktop. Sometimes is happens after a few minutes sometimes it happens after 30 minutes, sometimes everything seem to work fine. Total...

Hello Hey guys So I'm having this issue ( title ) and I really have no clue what's causing it. Let me start with my Pc specs first: MB: ASUS TUF Z690F D4 PLUS WIFI CPU: Intel Core i7 12700K GPU: Msi 2080TI Gaming X Trio RAM: Corsair Dominator Platinum 32GB DDR4 3200MHZ (2x16GB) PSU: Seasonic...

In April 2021 I acquired the following NVME storage from Aliexpress to Brazil: KingDian M.2 NVME SSD 128GB 256GB 512GB 1TB M.2 2280 PCIe Internal Solid State Drives For Laptop It arrived in good state and was promptly working in my 2016 motherboard desktop build. (GIGABYTE GA-970A-D3P AM3+/AM3...

So I’ve got a brand new Z390-P motherboard and none of the USB ports are working, I’ve tried plugging my keyboard into all of them. I can’t access BIOS. I’ve tried to plug in various other devices like mice and usb drives and again nothing is working. Any suggestions?

So I've gotten this pre-built pc around a year and a half ago, and suddenly I need to download something but my ssd has ran out of space, and remembered I had a 2 TB hard drive I haven't used yet. When I downloaded a few images it was okay but once I started downloading things that were bigger...

So I took out the functioning gpu from a computer that I no longer use, because it won't turn on anymore after a mishap with the power button and case, and I'm thinking of putting it into a tower I have that I've been using by uninstalling the old card that's in the tower. I'm going to remove...

So this has started happening in the past week or so. Has never been an issue before. When booted in the morning it will run smoothly for a couple of hours even when gaming and then if I close one game and then play something else or watch youtube videos etc. the screen freezes and the PC will...

So for a while now, my PC has been having these weird... frame freezes and cuts - It affects everything. Every 1-3 seconds, my mouse freezes for a split second, or an animation in a game with freeze on the last frame of the animation then kick back into the animation, or a video will constantly...

First time poster please be kind :) My son's computer has been crashing/rebooting randomly up to five times a day, for months. It doesn't seem to relate to any particular game or program and has even done it when completely idle. It will usually reboot and display a BSOD with stop code...

I tried many things! Reconnecting keyboard, resetting computer, uninstalling apps, but to no avail! Is there any way to fix this? i ran an app in german called upgrade process, for the K556R keyboard, it looked like mine so i downloaded the program, ran it and now it has the configurations of...

CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 4300G w/ Radeon Graphics Motherboard: HP 87D6 SMVB BIOS Version/Date AMI F.21, 9/17/2021 Ram: 16GB DDR4 Single Channel SSD/HDD: 500GB SSD GPU: 5500 4GB OS: Windows 11 Monitors: Acer V223W I have been having issues on and off with this since I got it. Games that should run...

Ive had this pc for quite a while and it likes to randomly blue screen. sometimes it will go a month without doing it once then do it multiple times in one day. I have the crash dump files here: On Sun 12/12/2021 1:16:09 PM your computer crashed or a problem was reported crash dump file...

Hello everyone, I have recently come into a weird problem with my computer. Normally, if I were to put my computer to sleep I could easily wake it up by either turning on my wireless keyboard or mouse, hitting a key on my keyboard, or clicking on my mouse. It then wakes up to a screen saver...

CPU: Intel i5-10400F CPU @ 2.90GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Radiator: MSI MAG Core Liquid 240r Case: Thermaltake Versa H17 Black Power: Thermaltake Smart BX1 650W RAM: Z-ONE RGB 16 GB (2x8GB) So when I initially built my pc (first build ever), I had zero problems whatsoever. Idling I was...

So as the title says on some games ill occasionally see a random blue dot or on Garrys Mod where there are a bunch of white dots around corners and stuff but my main issue is that on the binding of Isaac ONLY, has not happened on any other game where ill play for a couple of hours and randomly...

Hi! Apologies for any formatting issues, I’m on mobile. I recently cleared out my PC with compressed air, yet my PC is overheating almost constantly. My monitor screen goes black and my fans start running like a jet engine until I turn it off. My motherboard temps fluctuate from 30-50 degrees...

Hi. I have a 3900x with a H100i and I've noticed it's getting up to 90 degrees while gaming. It's in a 280X Corsair case. Is this normal ?

I have this external hard drive that isn't working suddenly today, I think it's most likely related to how when I tried to cancel shutting off my pc everything just went black and I just press the physical power button to shut off my pc yesterday. When I start up my pc today it was starting up...