Troubleshoooting

I pay for 400mbps download and 20 upload. On my main computer I only get 40mbps download wired and wifi. On my other computer I get about 450mbps wired and about half that on wifi. I do not know why. Any feedback would be appreciated. I already did the basic troubleshooting things like...

Hey! So, the past few days my PC has been freezing. Before today, it was a one off thing and it never happened again. But today it has froze 4+ times. I originally thought it was my boot drive, as when I booted into windows it would occasionally repair C drive. After scanning no issues tho...

Help! My computer will randomly crash during games such as Valorant, Fortnite, GTA V, etc. COD MW can't even startup before restarting my pc after about 13 seconds of clicking the "play" button. I am certain my pc does not overheat and does not have any overclock setting. I have already tried...

Hello everyone, apologise if the format is wrong, quite new around here. I recently just upgraded my pc to a ryzen 7 5800x from a 15-7600. Everything was good pc booted up and i downloaded all the drivers for the MOBO, GPU and ryzen master. Played some games to test the temperature and tried to...

Hi there. So I haven't used bluetooth in a long time and don't know exactly when this issue might have occurred. My bluetooth audio devices connect to my laptop, but within a couple seconds, they go into paired mode (Connected > Paired). I've tried to isolate the issue and it comes down to...

A month ago I installed version 20H2 of Windows (available since October) and after installing, it said that "Something went wrong" but still carried on with the update. Since then, every time I boot up my PC, I'm getting persistent micro-stuttering, both video and audio, on everything I'm...

Some of my games freeze randomly while playing, it can last anywhere between 1 - 10 seconds and may not happen again for 3 minutes or 3 hours. I tried turning on and off V-Sync and disabling hardware acceleration where I could but it hasn't helped. I get occasional freezes playing Days Gone...

Yesterday I play game on my PC while raining. Suddenly thunder strike quite close to my house and I believe I hear an explosion. I think a short circuit just happened. I am sure it disrupting my PC then turn it off. I plug the power cable off the wall. I leave it and back after the rain gone...

I should start off with my specs, Ryzen 2700x, Msi Gaming Gtx 1080, Asus X470-F Mobo, and TridentZ 3200 Ram. I built this PC back in late 2017 /early 2018 and since resolving my 1st problem of a DOA Moba I've had no issues. Today while watching youtube I went to pause the video and once I did...

Hello everyone, so I started having some trouble a while back when I installed a new Nvidia driver my computer started to get heavy FPS drop randomly out of no where so I tried DDU and Nvidia driver uninstaller and the problem continued. The problem is that I will be running about 200 FPS and...

So i have been strugling for 3 months to get my GTX Asus ROG 1080 to work again. One day i installed the latest driver from geforce experience and later used boost mode in GPU Tweak II for better performance in COD Warzone. The next day the screen just went black during normal use...

I built my PC about 5 years ago. About a year and a half ago, things started going haywire. No matter what I am doing, whether it's light browsing, or gaming, here are the issues that occur: Every once in a while when I power on my pc, my monitor won't display any video but my pc otherwise...

So i was cleaning my gpu,cleaned the dust off and changed thermal paste. When I turned on my pc while windows was loading the pc froze with squares of pixels on the screen,tried safe mode and it booted into windows, deleted old drivers and reinstalled newest,when the first monitor flicker...

My build: Ryzen 5 2600 4.0GHz (OC) Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 OC MSI-B450 650w Sharkoon PSU 16 GB RAM Monitor: Acer 1080p60 I have low FPS on normal games, like Destiny 2 and Warframe and even games like LoL have FPS drops if I activate an Overlay. Cyberpunk was running ok with 50 - 60 FPS but...

Hello, I wanted to repaste my laptop (Acer Predator Helios 500 PH-517-51-72EC) since it was getting really hot and it was now out of warranty. I had already sent it back to Acer before to get the fans replaced but it was still getting crazy hot for nothing, CPU throttling on the lightest games...

Please help. I’m happy to answer any questions if I’m missing something from my post. My Build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/xW2wvf I built my pc a few days ago, and it booted up first try showing BIOS. I installed windows and was happy with my build. I go to sleep, and when I wake up I...

Hello All, Full disclosure NOT the first time I have had problems with this PC. Ryzen 7 3700X 2060 Super Corsair H100i RGB Vengeance 32 GB of RAM CX 750 MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE Had a problem early this year late last year where I would BSOD when playing games with a...

I have Windows 10 up to date and this just started this morning. I have the same version of Windows 10 on my laptop but this problem is happening only on my desktop PC. I have included a video of what's going on. Any idea what's causing this? https://streamable.com/tlopru

My network adapter isn't showing up in the device manager. I've tried many things to fix it like showing hidden devices in the device manager, restoring to a restore point when it worked, downloading drivers but it says it can't find the adapter. it's like it's not there but my motherboard a...

There I was, enjoying my new gaming PC. An i-7 9700, RTX 2080 SUPER, 32GB RAM and ITB SSD I had a notification that windows 10 was pending an update. I set the automatic update timer to a future time later in the night. I was delaying it before I finished all my work. And then my power went...

I have been editing for quite a long time now i suppose but im getting a problem when i switched to my new laptop... Im getting freezes while rendering im not really sure why because i have never ever ever got those problems it just freezes at random percentage right now at 81% but i have tried...

So I recently got a new mobo (Gigabyte Auros B450I wifi pro), heatsink (Noctua NH-L12S), fans and case but I ran into a problem of my Noctua A12x15 PWM fan that came with the heatsink will not spin past POST. I did some tweaking to fix: Reseat the connector Reset BIOS swapped fans used UEFI fan...

Hey, I've been recently experiencing random game freezes and slower load-ins into games. The game used to freeze randomly anywhere from 4 - 15 minutes and would force me to exit out of it and restart the game, sometimes even freezing my Start button so I would have to restart the computer to be...

Hi all, I know there are some similar discussions(which I’ve read) to this post. So apologies for that, just wanted to get some extra input on my situation in case anyway had some tips I had not thought of. About a month or two ago, my pc(5+ year old build) finally kicked the bucket during use...

My pc shuts down randomly when I'm playing games. I'm checking temps but my cpu and gpu are only at 60c and 65c. And when it shuts down, the monitor tries to get signal but it cant. Its just showing the hdmi on the monitor then a black screen. But when I unplug the pc and turn it on it goes back...

Hello, My PC completly crashes, only when playing games or running an Emulator(cemu). I have benchmarked every component(CPU,GPU,RAM(without it crashing)) , CHANGED power supply, formated my pc and yet it keeps crashing when gaming. It goes like this: While im playing a game, the screen...

Hello, lately my computer has been freezing at random times. It does not matter what I am doing, it just freezes. I could be idle, playing a game, on a website, etc. it will still freeze on me and the only way to get it back to work is by holding down the power button and turning my pc back on...

A grinding sound is coming from the inside of my desktop case. It isn't noticeably affecting performance, but the sound is annoying and I want to address it in case it actually is a problem besides just the noise. Some suspect it is a fan issue, but I am skeptical from prior experience. This is...

Hello, my old rig finally found it's way to heaven. I don't quite understand what exactly died in there. My case is not equipped with a speaker, and mobo has no digital indicator of a trouble. It simply froze with a static picture and did not react on any of my actions, although there was video...

Hello! I'm in some serious need of help as I don't understand what may be going on with my current setup. I'm usually pretty good at figuring these things out but regardless of what I mess around with in bios/other things, I haven't been able to figure it out. I think my setup is more than...

Hello, i have a 3 month old pc i build myself. When pressing the power botton on the case. Fans start to spin (connected to MOBO and SATA). The blue light around the case’s power botton doesnt light up anymore. However i am not getting any beep or Qled frontera the mobo. Not video image...

I just upgraded my motherboard, CPU, and CPU cooler. When I turn it on it takes about 30 seconds for the monitor to detect input after pressing the power button. It just shows a blank screen when input is detected. The HDMI is connected to the GPU. The peripherals turn on. I've tried both PCIe...

I built a new PC about 3 weeks ago. In the last few days I've been getting a very odd and frustrating problem. During some games (not all) my PC will randomly just power off and will not come back on no matter what I do until I've reseating the power cable for the Motherboard. I've unplugged...

Hi, I have built several systems but this one is really strange. My pc will not start. so I troubleshooted and couldn't identify the problem. When I insert the G3930 cpu the system won't post, so I placed I5 9400f in the same system to see if it would start and it did. I then placed the G3930...

I've got a predicament. I bought a brand new Seagate ST2000DM008 internal 2TB hard drive for my PC that isn't being recognised by the BIOS and therefore anything else. I have already tried a lot of obvious things so please read what I have done before replying. I already have an extra 1TB SSD...

I tried on reddit but unfortunately no one responded. There was some great help here on this forum that I've already tried to no avail. Description below. Type Item CPU Intel Core i7-10700K 3.8 GHz 8-Core Processor CPU Cooler Noctua NH-D15S 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler Motherboard Asus ROG...

Hi there - longtime lurker infrequent poster! I have recently managed to get my hands on a few new parts to upgrade my build, I have put these into my machine but now I'm running into quite an odd error. When the GPU is plugged in with PCI-E chords the PC does not turn on at all, when I take...

I just built another pc and I cannot join any friends that are hosting. doesn't matter what game it is! I can join other games online as long its hosted on a server. I have tried looking at firewall setting everything looks fine, I have even turned firewall off still didn't help. Messed with...

I recently received my ZOTEC Twin Edge OC RTX 3070 and tried installing it already. I spent 7 hours yesterday trying to do so to no avail. The GPU isnt being detected by my system at all. I have made sure the BIOS is the latest version and all drivers are up to date (including to one for the...

Hello, around January 1st, I have noticed during online gaming sessions that I would occasionally, and sometimes frequently, get ping spikes for a few seconds when before going back to normal. For example, in League of Legends, I would get around 17ms-18ms at all times, while now it fluctuates...