trobleshooting

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    Question (Help) My volume mixer's audio slider and mute button has no affect on applications.

    I've had this issue for about half a year now and I can not find any fixes online whatsoever. My issue is when I right click my audio button that's next to the time in the bottom right then click "open volume mixer" adjusting the sliders for applications has no effect on the applications at all...
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    Question My Pc isn’t working and I don’t know why.

    I just built a custom pc And whenever I turn it on it doesn’t work. The motherboard light turns on but then shuts off after two seconds. I have replaced my psu three times and it still doesn’t work. So I reinstalled my ram and gpu still doesn’t work. I have been troubleshooting for a minute and...
  3. Ananazzo

    Question Very random crashes on my PC ?

    Hi. Im experiencing very random crashes with my pc. This usually happens like once a week, sometimes more sometimes less. Symptoms: Displays suddenly go black (sometimes one green and one black) and sounds stop (sometimes sound just starts to loop), cant do anything but to restart pc with reset...
  4. noahl097

    Question PC won't boot ?

    So my PC will not spin to life at all. I took it apart to clean it and put it all together but won't turn on. I tried the screwdriver method and everything. But I treated the PSU and it spins to life and when I click the flash bios button on the motherboard the red light turns on to indicate...
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    [SOLVED] EZ Debug Led CPU flashing after moving to a new case

    Hello, I hate to make threads like this and coming to ask for help, but I'm really lost and have no clue what to do anymore. So I picked up few parts to upgrade my PC - mainly case, and GPU. Before, my setup was: CPU - Ryzen 7 2700x Motherboard - MSI B350 TOMAHAWK GPU - Zotac Geforce 1070 RAM...
  6. joaogaviolir

    Question RTX 3070 running very below average performance

    I ran some benchmarks (UserBenchmark and PassMark) and they both tell me that my pc is running below its capacity, compared to other similar PCs. More specifically, the problem seems to be with the graphics card. I have a Ryzen 5 5500 with a RTX 3070 (I know there is bottleneck in this...
  7. FliMoMi

    Question Flickering in Windows: Monitor or GPU?

    Hello everyone!!! First of all, I apologize for my bad English and if in case I have wrong forum section. Recently it happens that both in game and on the desktop (usually when I have any window open) the image on the screen glitches/flickers for an instant (further on I linked a video I...
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    Question Ethernet adapter went bad on 2 boards

    I recently built a new pc and for the 2nd time in 2 weeks the motherboards Ethernet port/lan adapter has gone bad. Initially I returned the first motherboard and installed the second thinking it was just a bad board but now that the second has also gone bad I’m questioning if I just got really...
  9. Elmec

    Question PC turns off after between 10-15 minutes

    Hello! So for the last 6 months I have had a problem with my pc. My PC randomly shuts down. The PC usually shut down when i was playing more demanding games however, it also shut down when it was idle. In the last 2 months it has been impossible to use the PC. I would start the PC and after...
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    Question No Monitor Signal after cleaning my PC ?

    Hi all, was looking for some advice after my PC stopped sending a monitor signal after cleaning it. Here's all the noteworthy/relevant info: My PC was *very* dusty when cleaning it – I haven't really done a proper clean since I got it a bit less than a decade ago. I cleaned it with compressed...
  11. Orbezz

    Question My laptop's CPU clock speed stuck at 0,39 GHz while gaming or using it's dedicated GPU

    I'm using an Acer Aspire 5 A514-53G-50LY laptop with an Intel core i5-1035G1 processor and Nvidia MX350 GPU. when the game first launched there was no sign of slowing down until 1 minute of gameplay the game started to become laggy and when I checked the CPU clock using MSI afterburner the CPU...
  12. henry9731

    Question 4080 stuttering and abnormal power draw ?

    Screen shots I have been using it for almost a year now, and recently, I’ve been having lots of stuttering even when playing light-loaded games like league of legends. At one point, my PC crashes even when idle. I have had this "Windows has restarted your GPU driver due to a problem," and have...
  13. Rivdil

    Question New build crashes when gaming ?

    Hello, I just finished building my first pc, these are the components: \-AMD ryzen 5 7600x \-Corsair vengance 2x16 ram \-MAG tomahawk b650 WIFI \-AMD XFX 6800 \-Corsair RM850x All games are closing like I press alt + f4 sometimes I get a bsod after a stress test Things I tried: -...
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    Question No display to monitor, tested with two GPUs ?

    On my original post , I had tested my 4090 on my new PC build. No display to monitor, LED lights turned on. I have just tested a 4070TI and same problem, LED come on but no display despite have trying both DP and HDMI. I checked device manager and everything seems to be working. Could this be...
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    Question GPU not sending signal to monitor.

    Hello! Current Specs Mobo - MSI Z790 Gaming Pro Wifi GPU - Gigabyte AERO OC 24gb 4090 CPU - 13900 I built this yesterday and everything was going good until the display boot up. With the GPU installed, and a HDMI and or a DP cable connected to monitor there is no connection between the two. I...
  16. Bootstrap11

    Question Shift key acts like it is being held down, whether or not a keyboard is plugged in ?

    In addition to the title, I tried the issue on multiple keyboards, same deal. When I open on-screen keyboard shift is being held down and I can not unclick it. When a keyboard is plugged in, Every key on the row where shift exists on; "zxcvbnm"and the keys on the same row where numberpad is...
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    Question AM5 bent pins, Are these severe?

    Hey guys I got an Asus rog strix b650e-e motherboard for a great discount I didn't want to pass on, I'm yet to receive my 7800x3d. When I took a look at the pins some of them seems to be somewhat misaligned, this is my first time working with this socket, can you tell of it's fine or not...
  18. Tozzy365

    Question Issue with ddr4 F4-3200C16D-16GTZRX

    Ok so to get started my computer was not stable in the first place. Back in 2020 I built it with DDR4 trident z ram (F4-3200C16D-16GTZRX) a ryzen 7 2700x , and a b450-f asus rog motherboard and a rx 5700xt somehow or another I was able to get it stable but forgot to save a bios profile so I...
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    Question My pc was restarting on its own and now it's working with only one ram channel

    So my pc was restarting randomly for the past two days and today it restarted again but didn't boot up again. I tried to remove my ram sticks and I noticed my two ram sticks work fine but only in A1 and A2. B1 and B2 don't work. my CPU temp is fine I looked for damaged pins everything is fine...
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    Question I don't know what is wrong with my computer HELP

    System: CPU: Ryzen 9 3900X CPU cooler: Asus Ryujin 240 Motherboard: Asus X570 Crosshair VIII Hero Wi-Fi RAM: Corsair Vengeance Pro 2 x 16 DDR4-3200 Storage: 2 x Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2 GPU: EVGA XC 2070 super 8gb Case: Asus Helios PSU: Asus THOR 1200 W 80+ Platinum Recently the mini...
  21. KreWin

    Question Is it possible to force SLI on MSI B450 Tomahawk Max?

    Hi everyone, as you can well understand from the title of the post, I have two identical Asus Strix GTX 970 4GB and I would like to enable the SLI option for my motherboard which unfortunately only supports Crossfire . Some time ago the HyperSLI tool existed which allowed you to modify the...
  22. MagicDoxxed

    Question PC Misbehaving,overheating,random shutdowns

    Okay so long story short: -I got a pc in early february -Was working fine for 2 or 3 weeks or so -Then suddenly one day it just shut off and it wouldnt turn on -I called the guy who sold me it,and he "fixed it" -Once i got it back,he told me he "replaced" my 580 8gb for a 480 (witch is shady but...