Troubleshoooting

Hello everyone, Today I learned the hard way that you shouldn't use your old modular PSU SATA power cable on your new one and my brand new 2TB BX-500 smells like molten silicon and prevents my pc to POST if it is plugged in. I saw on other posts that someone did the same oopsie and managed to...

Really weird thing that started happening is my PC would restart itself or freeze when playing certain games, but only sometimes (like 80% freeze 20% working split) while other games are fine all the time, thought it might be GPU but even some GPU intensive games don't cause this Games that...

I'm not sure if this is the right spot for this but, I just built a PC for the first time and I'll get power, but no peripherals will work (monitor, mouse, keyboard) The motherboard came with a speaker but I've heard absolutely nothing from it. At this point, I've removed all components. GPU...

So randomly my PC just won't start. The power comes on, the lights come on, the fans spin, but nothing appears on my monitor. It usually takes me a few times of hard shutting down via the power button and turning it back on for it to finally post and boot up. Today this started happening again...

hello, this is my first post here. i’m sorry if this doesn’t belong here, but i don’t know who else to talk to about this because no one knows whats going on. so, two weeks ago i was using my PC, and then it suddenly BSOD on me, and then it wouldnt POST. it kept giving me an orange DRAM led. i...

Hey, been having an issue lately where my GPU crashes completely a few minutes into playing a game. First the game itself would only crash, I could alt-tab into other applications with no issues, but after installing new drivers to try and fix it, my whole GPU will crash (screen goes black, GPU...

so yesterday (10 dec 2022) i turned off the pc since i was going to bed, but before that i installed my new SSD using the sata cables i got, i was using it on a USB case before, the next morning i turned on my pc and there was no video, not even a black screen, just no signal from the cable...

I have 4 separate Minecraft windows running at the same time on the same PC so I can play local multiplayer with my friends. Everything works except for one problem, it seems like when one MC window is highlighted/selected the other 3 windows lag more, but not evenly. My guess is that the other...

I was hoping to find an answer on why certain websites namely the most annoying of them being YouTube run so extremely slow on my PC. I have done all the troubleshooting I can on my end and have found no certain answer. My original theory was that my ISP was throttling me on certain sites...

I've had severe, frequent stutters and FPS drops in most games for ages and cannot find a solution. Severe stutters, dropping from 100-140 to 20-40 fps, then coming right back up. I have hardware capable of running these games, intel i7 10700k, rtx 3080, 32gb RAM. I've uninstalled and updated...

While setting up my PC at my parents house, I keep getting the error: “A Ethernet cable is not properly plugged in or might be broken” I went to Best Buy and got a new cable but still getting the same notification when running network diagnostics. Not sure what to do and really would love some...

Came back from a 2 week holiday a couple weeks ago, and tried to turn on computer only to be met with a black output on my monitor, and the VGA light on my motherboard. Replugged gpu, and reseated it too, and everything worked fine. Fast forward to today, and same issue. Repeat same thing as...

Hey there, my newly built PC won't turn on at all. All the components are brand new. However, when the PSU is turned on, the RGB lights on the mobo do turn on for a few seconds, but pressing the power button does nothing: no fans are spinning nor any other lights are turning on (of course...

Hey guys, I've been having issues on my PC that's irritating the hell out of me. I have a decently beefy system Motherboard: MSI MAG A520M VECTOR WIFI AM4 AMD A520 CPU: AMD Ryzen 5600X GPU: EVGA Geforce RTX 3080 FTW3 Ultra Gaming 10GB Drives: 1 TB WD Black SN770 NVME, Toshiba X300 6TB 7200 RPM...

Specs: OMEN 40L Desktop GT21-0003na Gaming PC - NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3080 Here's a descriptive video of what's exactly in my computer from HP Support. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZNVw2uJVIY&t=627s Processor Model Intel 12th Generation Core i7 Processor Model Number12th Generation...

It may seem like a common issue but no, every single time this happens randomly, and I troubleshoot myself to find the problem it just becomes weirder and weirder. Most of the time it just fixes it self and doesn't happen for a long time Long story short, I have concluded that it's: -Not the...

My specs were: R5 3600x, b550 aorus pro ac, 2x8gb gskill ripjaws 5, msi 2060 ventus oc, cx650 80+ bronze. When i swapped out my 2060 for a evga 3070 ftw3 my computer wouldn’t power on. No fans nothing, even when i switched back to my 2060. I switched my mobo for a msi b550m pro vdh wifi. Then it...

My friend has been running into issues with his pc randomly rebooting. He took it to a shop and it was there for 3 weeks. The motherboard was replaced but when he got it back the issue persist. I have been trying to help him over the internet since I can't go in person to inspect the pc. I had...

My PC has a problem, there are times when it won't turn on unless I disconnect and then connect back the 24-pin to the motherboard. This happened 3 times already. The 2nd time it happened, one of my ram sticks and the ram slot it was installed before doesn't work anymore.

When I came home today I saw that my pc that I left running has shut down and the only thing that was still working was the rgb on the keyboard and nothing else. I held down the power button and the keyboard also went out. Now when I press the start button only thing that happens is the single...

Hi everyone! I am a new member here. My son and I recently finish the build of his first gaming PC. At the nerve racking moment of the first powering up, we were stoked to see that everything was lightning up (RGB galore!) and we reached the bios boot screen. However, it seems there is a...

So, my laptop just decided lower the performance out of nowhere. I had some problems with my laptop before, I was having problems with the mouse lagging and my pc stuttering for aproximately 3 seconds, I tried resseting my Laptop which resolved the stuttering, but the performance lowered so...

My CPU (Ryzen 5 5600g) doesn't boost nicely with stock voltages, (4.168ghz at full load) so I tried undervolting it by offset (-0.036v) and now it can go up to 4.230ghz at full load, I've left everything else on stock and I wanna know if that slight undervolt can damage anything, like my CPU...

Hi there! So, this is a weird and long story. I had to take out all of my pc parts and put them all back into my computer. First I was going to put them into a new case, but the new case got here, and was very not in good shape… thanks, Amazon. Anyways, I figured removing the parts beforehand...

Hello, I have been having this problem for a week now. My computer has been turning off without warning for a week. At first I thought it was the PSU so I replaced it, then I thought it could be the Motherboard and I replaced that too. But it still keeps happening and I'm losing my mind now...

I have been gaming on my computer just fine until earlier today. I see my screen turns off because I'm inactive, so I go to the keyboard and press some keys and wait a minute but nothing turns back on. The computer was still running, so I didn't think anything was wrong. I press my reset...

Hi! I'm running a Ryzen setup on an A320M mobo (to be specific, a Gigabyte A320M-S2H with 2 DIMM slots). Normally, I run 12GB of RAM with a 4GB stick (lets call this one stick A) and a 8GB stick. So a while ago, I was just playing a game on my PC with no issues until the PC froze. I decided to...

I'll just lay out all the facts and then what I'm looking into, let me know what y'all think. I pay for 400 mbps internet. I was getting that a few months ago, no problem. I did a random check again today when I hit a download cap of about 12 MBps which was different from the regular ~30 MBps...

Hello guys! This is my first time posting/asking a question here. Since I'm not super into PC building but I want to maintain and upgrade/build my own rig, I bought a new pair of RAM sticks. My new RAM has a XMP profile which clocks it to 3200mhz, but if I enable XMP it doesn't boot. The...

Hello! This week I built the following PC: - ASUS TUF GAMING B660M-PLUS WIFI D4 - XPG Gammix D45, 8GB, 3200MHz, DDR4 - Intel Core i5-12400 processor - ASUS RX6600XT 8GB The rest of the parts I already had. After assembling it, I turned it on and put a USB to install Windows, then the TUF...

Hello, I recently got a new GPU and updated windows. I don't know if those two changes have anything to do with my problem, but i started encountering intermittent drive errors and freezes. Examples: 1. When playing Elden RIng, the game starts stuttering and the music disappears. This is...

specs- ryzen 7 5800x, rog strix b550-f, 16gbs gskill ripjaws v 3600 , rtx2060. I have been ripping my hair out all day trying to figure out whats wrong with my pc and why it wont post. i have updated bios tried with 1 stick of ram, made sure all connector are plugged in, and still nothing it...

Hi! I was running an asrock h110 btc+, HX1200w corsair psu, 4 gpus: 1x3080 ti (zotac) 1x1660s (asus strix) 1x5700XT(powercolor) 1x3080 (gainward FHR), 4gb ram vengance, running on win 10. Smooth, everything had been up for months. Bought 1x2080 ti evga, 1x2080 ti zotac and had to upgrade PSU...

Recently I've replaced my 660Ti with a used RX 570 4GB, and didn't change anything else in the computer, as I thought the PSU I had would be okay for the 570. The card acts normal, I installed drivers without any issues, idles normally, no artifacts. However, whenever a harder load is put on...

Hi. I went to turn on my PC last night and was greeted with the motherboard splash page, followed by a loading screen that doesn't go away. I have a gigabyte z97x-gaming motherboard. I read that it could be that the windows installed on my SSD could be corrupt. Attempted to format and install...

Update: I also made a post on the Microsoft forum and the person who replied thinks it's because my Windows is buggy. They suggested I run an sfc. I did and it found some corrupted files and fixed them. Hopefully this solves my problem. I'll make an update in a couple days to let everyone know...

I was working on my desktop pc last night while listening to a youtube video and my system froze all of the sudden. I had to hard reset the system and upon restart my ethernet adaptor had no internet connection; when i ran the network troubleshooter the problems found were "Ethernet" doesn't...

I built my PC back in November (specs listed below). Last month, my PC froze and was completely unresponsive. I had to turn off the PSU to turn it off because even the power button didn't work. I went through the troubleshooting process (steps listed below) and ultimately sent it to Asus for...

Hey there, Recently moved my PC into a new case and ever since have been hearing a subtle 'revving' sort of sound coming from the motherboard (B450 Tomahawk Max) Never heard it before I changed case so I'm assuming the two are connected, maybe I knocked the board when moving it over and...

Wrong hardware mb My brother started putting cloth cover to his PC, I have always told him that it could fry his components. Now his complaining his PC wont turn on. Told him instead of crying start troubleshooting it, try to find the problem. So far he has told me PSU clip test worked all the...