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Hello Tom's HARDWARE community, I'm reaching out for help regarding an Intermittent issue I've been experiencing with my PC. Here are the details of my system: PC Specs: Phanteks Evolv Shift Air CASE Ryzen 1800x CPU AMD 6750xt GPU (with Phantkes riser cable) DeepCool PM850D, 80 PLUS Gold...

My current build: ASUS TUF B550M-PLUS Wifi https://pcpartpicker.com/product/pnqBD3/asus-tuf-gaming-b550-plus-atx-am4-motherboard-tuf-gaming-b550-plus Ryzen 5 5600x 2x 8GB RAM 3000MHz 750W PSU...

Building a new PC and have plugged power into the 24-pin connector, cpu-fan (from cooler), and the cpu power. Was hoping to get at least some LEDs as a sign of life, but not sure why it isn't getting power. I actually tried this psu on another board and it get power to it. Not trying to turn the...

I'm trying to solve an annoying problem, my pc keep crashing while gaming ( it never crashed while doing normal tasks, at least until now ... ) , the screen suddently become black and the pc restarts. I have a dual monitor setup and if both screens are connected to my GPU they stay black and the...

I wanted to upgrade from my old MacBook to something that could actually run actual games. I spent a lengthy amount of time researching components and to my knowledge they are all compatible. I got all of the components and started my build following multiple tutorials to make sure I was doing...

Complete noob to pcs. I got my first build up and running and after a game armoury crate told my my gpu driver was out of date so I went ahead and ran the update now my red cpu light and orange dram light are on. windows won't boot and I just get a black screen unless I boot into bios. I have no...

Computer Type: Desktop GPU: AMD RX 7900 XTX CPU: Intel i7-13700k Motherboard: Z-790 Asus Prime wifi-p RAM: 32 gb ddr5 PSU: Corsair RM850X Operating System & Version: WINDOWS 11 CASE: Corsair 5000D I have an RX 7900 XTX that shows no display out. I plugged it into my PC with an i7-13700k and...

My desktop suddenly won't turn on. The GPU has the red light on, when I plug a ethernet cable, I see the internet lights on but nothing happens when I press the power button or when I try to jump start it from the motherboard. I tested the PSU and it worked on its own. I have a asus 4090, an...

Specs: Core i5-11400 / Asus Prime H510M-E / 32 GB RAM @ 3200mhz (16x2) / 1TB NVME SSD / Corsair 650W PSU I replaced my RX 5600XT with a brand new 6700 (non-XT), but the new card started artifacting and the screen would occasionally flicker. DDU and a clean windows install didn't help so I...

First post. Sorry if I'm not the best at providing context Current specs: CPU: Intel Core i5-12400F 2.5 GHz 6-Core Processor Cooler: Thermalright Silver Soul 135 82 CFM CPU Cooler Mobo: MSI MAG B660M MORTAR WIFI DDR4 Micro ATX LGA1700 RAM: V-Color SKYWALKER PLUS 32 GB (2 x 16 GB)...

Hello everyone, I wanted to discuss a persistent issue I've been facing with the service host state repository service on my PC for the past few months. This problem has consistently slowed down my computer to the point of it becoming almost unusable. Today, I want to share some valuable...

Specs are: Gigabyte b450 aorus pro wifi itx Ryzen 3600 Rtx 2060s 16gb & 3200mhz It’s an ssf build and I wanted to update bios to try to get rid of bsod’s I was getting lately. Used the utility called Aorus app center, checked my current version (it showed 42g) and downloaded the...

I recently bought a used Gigabyte RTX 2070 and when I installed it, the system wouldn't boot or post . My keyboard will light up and the "boot" LED on the motherboard stays on. I reinstalled my 2060 Super and the system runs fine.

CPU Ryzen 5 2600 Motherboard B450m mortar max RAM 2x8 3200mah GPU Palit 1650 super Storage 250gb ssd kingston + 1tb hdd PSU corsair 750w 80+ bronze My pc will lag for couple of seconds it always occurs when I'm working on premiere pro, even if the work is not that complicated there is still...

About a year ago, my pc crashed while playing halo and wouldn’t post after I restarted. CPU debug light was stuck on and no peripherals or monitor would turn on. I wasn’t able to deal with it at the time and didn’t touch it for this past year except to check it every couple months. Yesterday, I...

I went over to the guys house, plugged it in and it booted up perfectly. I got home, swapped out the graphics card went to plug it in and nothing. No fan spin, no motherboard lights nothing. I then uninstalled the graphics card and got the same result. I switched out the power cords, I switched...

I gave my friend an old prebuilt with ram and an ssd. He put in some old ram and bought a new ssd. Once he tried to turn it on, the motherboard lights turned on but none of the fans (gpu, cpu, and case) spun. He also had no display. I've had the pc for 2 years without having this problem. Anyone...

Hi all, my friend whom I built a PC for used it smoothly for about a year. A few months ago he began experiencing very frequent crashes and BSODs. These would occur during both light tasks and gaming with and without streaming. We clean reinstalled Windows and that fixed it for a time but he...

Old: asrock b550 phantom gaming 4 New: MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK AM4 AMD AMD Ryzen™ 5 4500 6-Core nVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Silicon Power Value Gaming DDR4 RAM 16GB (2x8GB) Apevia ATX-PR800W This computer is brand new, I got all the parts 7 days ago from today and everything was working fine. I was...

Hello, I'm new to the forum and could'nt find a better place to post this. I started encountering pc shut downs or restarts on a regular base about 2 weeks ago. This only occurs while gaming. The error is a kernel power 41 - There was no additional information to pinpoint its origin So I...

Im refreshing my old build with a new cpu, mobo, ram and ssd. I got everything and put it together, but it now wont boot (even to just bios) with my 2 new sticks of ram. it runs fine with 1 though. It gives me a red led labeled cpu when i try 2 sticks. I confirmed that its not the actual ram...

I am troubleshooting instability with crashes when xmp is enabled. I downloaded and installed the latest chipset drivers from Gigabyte, it installed fine but it's been half an hour since I clicked restart and the screen has stayed black. The mouse and keyboard lights also went off however the...

I recently built a computer and found that after a while, the game freezes but I still have audio. Usually, the entire screen freezes then the audio cuts about 1 minute later. Moments after that, the text on the screen turns red. I can’t move in game and my keyboard and mouse are completely...

In these times of great confusion, once again I come to you guys for help. A couple of days ago, my dad was doing something and he turned off a fuse and back on a couple of times (twice, I think, turned it off and then on, off and on again). Meanwhile the pc was working in the other room when...

Was working fine, went out for 3 hours came back to my pc not booting... Got it to boot by re-seating both sticks but only 1 is recognized. Tried clearing CMOS, reseating, changing slots, a different stick (that one got recognized so i guess its not the motherboard), and memtest86 gave no...

Specs: ASRock a320m-hdv r4.0; Ryzen 3 2200g; RX 580 4gb GIGABYTE; 8gb RAM Corsair Vengeance; 8gb RAM TEAMGROUP T-FORCE Vulcan(yes); 500w PSU; 128GB nvme m.2; 2x240gb SSD SATA; Só I bought a new case to this PC and after moving everything to this one it won't boot. During the swap the only...

Hello, I need help with my CPU: i5 13600kf on an Asus Z790 Strix Gaming H For some reason it does not properly downclock and it is stuck at 5.1 ghz for the p cores and 3.9 ghz for the e cores almost all of the time. Very rarely some of the cores would shortly clock down to 800 mhz but go up...

I recently cleaned and wired up my pc but then it started acting up by randomly shutting off, so i redid the wiring making sure everything was properly connected but it was still acting up by randomly shutting down whenever it was idle (yes i checked the power plan) today i decided to look back...

Hello, I've recently moved to i9 13900k platform with the follow components: i9 13900k MAG Z790 TOMAHAWK WIFI DDR4 F4-3200C16-16GTRS x 4 dimms Gigabyte rtx2070 super When I got into bios to enable XMP the system restarted and locked without sending any signal but the memory fail led was on...

I have been having issues with the display drivers crashing and not recovering. The screen will freeze but the system continues to operate in the background. Windows plays the chime you hear when unplugging a USB device when the driver fails. I was able to save a screenshot and capture a crash...

I stupidly plugged in a 6 pin to SATA power adapter to my PSU with the PC off and realized it wasn’t the right and unplugged it. PSU was still switched on, but PC wasn’t turned on before taking the adapter out. I left and came back a few hours and found out that the breaker had tripped. I...

I built a pc 3 weeks ago and have been using it since, then in the middle of playing games a few days ago my pc shut off and now is stuck in a bootloop where it will power on for a few seconds, power off, then try to power on again. I can’t get a display on screen, and i cant boot into the bios...

Hi, Recently was wondering why I had bad performance on one specific map in CS:GO, someone mentioned having a similar issue to me and that changing the GPU slot made it run in the correct bandwidth fixing some of their issues. I checked on GPU-Z wondering if my GPU was also running in the...

Hi all, My PC suddenly shut down after 6 months of non-intensive use. I was not doing any software/hardware update before it append. When I tried to turn it back on, I heard some "click" sound and saw that the PC was stuck in a loop of turning on and off iteratively. Then it stopped and I'm now...

Hey all, Recently switched my CPU from AMD to Intel, along with a MOBO and GPU upgrade. Everything was working fine and the transition was seamless until a crash while playing a game. Ever since then, my PC shuts off and restarts randomly and intermittently with no blue screen of death. I...

Hello everyone. Id first like to start this by listing my specs: 12700kf 4070 Ti 32GB RAM 3600Mhz MSI H610m-D Pro mobo, x850W Corsair 80 Gold PSU 970 EVO 1TB SSD a nice airflow case. My problem is this. While playing any games, my gpu usage is nearly at 40-60%. As well as the same for my...

I've had a weird stutter since building my pc. I have tried everything I could possibly think of wether it be Reseating and replugging everything, uninstalling drivers and reinstalling windows. Someone please help as I am going insane. Specs - ● RTX 4090 Gigabyte 24gb gaming OC ●I9-13900k ●2x...

Hi im new here and my English its not very good, sorry if i make some mistakes!! my pc has been shutting down randomly, or under heavy load or stress test with OCCT. No warning, instant loss of video output, no peripheral power, cpu fan stays on, case fans are connected to a fan hub but also...

Hi all, In recent months I've been having an issue where my PC reboots should it get knocked ever so slightly. I just sort of deal with this as I don't really have the time to set aside troubleshooting and it isn't a major issue as I rarely knock it. However I've just returned home from uni...

I recently built a gaming PC and I am having issues when gaming where it randomly gives me a backscreen and freezes. The black screen only occurs when playing intense games such as MW2 or Doom Eternal. It plays fine until sometimes a few mins in and sometimes 30 mins in when the screen just...