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System: core i7 7700k 4.9 ghz 1.275V Rog gtx 1080 strix, base clock 32gb corsair Vengence 3000mhz ram 256gb Samsung evo ssd 4tb backup drive 1000watt 80+ gold psu Asus rog maximus hero XI I built this system 4 years ago, it has always ran everything I wanted, vr( valve index), the witcher 3...

System 1 CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X MOBO: ASUS B450M-A PRIME RAM: CORSAIR VENGEANCE RGB PRO 8GBX2 3200MHZ GRAPHICS: ASUS STRIX GTX 960 System 2 CPU: Intel i5 6500 MOBO: ASUS B150M-K RAM: CORSAIR LPX VENGEANCE 3200MHZ GRAPHICS: ASUS GT730 What is happening???? System 1 was functioning properly, but...

Bought this little guy for $25 CAD has CPU ram no GPU power supply cooler master RS-460-PSAT-JS along with a gigabyte motherboard GA-MA785GM-US2H. No hard drive however I put in a 1TB Seagate. Beeps 5 times last beep is a short-beep rest are long beeps. Continues to beep until it reaches 12-14...

❌ No swearing please --- not allowed on these forums! I did the “oven tactic” as a last resort to try to recover my sisters water damaged graphics card I fixed her computer 2 months ago and I don’t want this card to go to waste. Turns out after the oven tactic I assembled it again reapplies...

Specs: Motherboard: MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Edge AC GPU: MSI Geforce RTX 2070 Gaming Z 8GB GDDR6 CPU: Intel I7900K 3.6GHz 8 Core This is the second time this has happened both occasions I was away from my PC and I come back to this. If I just restart it it's fine I've built this PC a month ago and...

I recently upgraded my motherboard and cpu on my computer, but I can’t get any display to show, so far I’ve checked the cpu pins, all other pins to my knowledge, and nothing works, my gpu boots up (the fan) then turns off after a bit, GTX 1060 ROG Z-390-e I7-9700K DDR4 Corsair vengeance 2x8 LPX...

After upgrading my GPU from a 1060 3gig (https://pcpartpicker.com/product/pKX2FT/evga-geforce-gtx-1060-3gb-sc-gaming-video-card-03g-p4-6162) to a certified refurbished 2070 from Zotac (https://pcpartpicker.com/product/bF97YJ/zotac-geforce-rtx-2070-8-gb-video-card-zt-t20700a-10p) my EZ Debug...

I just moved my PC to a new case, double checked everything and turned it on. Fans spin, my USB headset turns on, my USB expansion slot turns on, my motherboard led turns on, graphics card shows positive but the monitor doesn’t work, keyboard and mouse not working. It was all working perfectly...

Hey guys, after Reddit failed me, I now am desperate to find an answer. The main problem I can't find to solve is that my BenQ Zowie XL2411Z won't work with my mainboard/onboard Graphics correclty and won't display 120/144Hz with ANY cable I used. After trying the DVI-D cable, the HDMI (which...

Specs: Intel Core i7-3770 processor ASUS P8Z77-V LX motherboard 4 x G.Skill Trident X 8gb ram Geforce GTX 1060 6gb GFX 2 x 256GB Samsung Evo SSD 1 x 2TB Samgung Evo SSD 1 x 1TB Western Digital HDD Windows 10 Home After shutting down the PC, I took out the 2tb SSD and left everything else...

So the other day I tried using my computer , which was working fine the last time I used it. When I turned it on, it did get past the Windows logo but beyond that, it just got stuck at a black screen and mouse pointer (it still detects the mouse but won't boot for some reason). I haven't changed...

I have a problem in my new PC i have bought. I want to know where's the best area to post about PC hardware problems.

Hi, I just delided my i5-8600k and the whole process went smoothly. But when I try to start my PC the ez debug light flash once then turned off. I am really confused and I’ve checked for bent pins(there were non) tried using one stick ram, reseted bios, booting with intergrated graphics, and...

Hi all, I need help figuring out an old computer my brother is using. It stopped working today, and it would only boot to the screen shown below. There are LEDs lit on the motherboard, and I have no idea what they mean. I've tried going into BIOs, or Boot Menu, but none of the options open...

So i want to install freenas on an old pc but i cant seem to install it. I've tried installing it on hdd and on an ssd (tested and working fine). The freenas image is on a cd becouse the board wont boot from usb. The strange thing that happens is the install steps start 1of 4 and the system...

Problem: This only started to happen recently (a week or so, ago). My computer (internet is cable connected) would randomly disconnect within a few hours of being turned on. It appears to happen when I allow my computer to idle for a short while (seemingly). The weird thing is, the connection...

So my pc keeps on freezing and sometimes restarts randomly and it it froze I have to use the restart button to restart it, i'm clueless I asked in many places ppl cant seem to help me or they just stop responding maybe because they are clueless like me. The freezing happens randomly 1.while...

Good day, I have had issues with my computer's ability to connect to game servers and other messaging services. Loading pages on Chrome, Opera, and Firefox often lead to connection failures. When playing games my ping if often between 50-70, and when displayed packet loss is below 5%. However...

Hello, I'm not sure if this is a silly question but is it possible to use my D-Link DIR-882 as a "wireless card" for my pc that has no wireless card in it?

Hey, as the title suggests, I can't seem to get ANY distro to play nice with my laptop. Of course, as highlighted in the title, it's an Alienware 15R3 - i7-7700HQ, 24GB DDR4, GTX 1060 6GB (switchable with Intel HD 620 onboard), NVMe 240GB SSD and 2TB platter drive. Seems like every distro I try...

I know this might be a hardware issue, but it started happening out of nowhere. The first time it happened, I fixed it by factory resetting my PC, but I must have done something because now it's back again and this time worse. Before it only happened in games but now it happens in chrome, games...

Recently, While I was playing a game called Ark: Survival Evolved, my APC UPS made the noise that it makes while there is no electricity for 2-3 seconds, and it returned to normal but my PC shut down and restarted. Once more after that, I started Discord and the game. And after a few minutes...

Hi I just built a new pc. Build below: PCPartPicker Part List CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 1600 3.2 GHz 6-Core Processor ($119.89 @ OutletPC) Motherboard: ASRock - B450M PRO4 Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard ($75.61 @ OutletPC) Memory: ADATA - XPG GAMMIX D10 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($78.99 @...

I have an i5 7400 and gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H motherboard which is showing my cpu temp at 100c in the bios and around 54c in HWmonitor? Using a stock intel cooler and it's properly mounted as I've checked twice plus nothing feels very hot when touching the cooler

My computer does not start up from sleep or comes up when booting If I put my computer to sleep, my computer has a chance to either start back up properly or the RGB on my ram would turn on as well as the RGB on keyboard and mouse, however the fans in the computer will not start. However, once...

PC Specs CPU: Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700k (4.0GHz) 8MB Cache RAM: 16GB HyperX IMPACT 2133MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 8GB) GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 980M - 8.0GB DDR5 Video RAM, DirectX® 12, G-SYNC SSD: 512GB SANDISK X400 M.2 2280 (up to 540MB/R, 520MB/W) HDD: 1TB SERIAL ATA II 2.5" HARD...

Hi, posting for a friend here. I've been messaging him trying to figure out the issue. the issue is that the PC only boots up when it is in the mood to. most boot attempts result in the fans spinning at max speed as they tend to at the start, but staying at max speed and not going into POST and...

I'm having a problem with turning on my PC. When I woke up today the power went out for about 10 minutes and then came back on. I went to school and back and my PC just refuses to turn on. I opened the case, reseated every component (except the HDD and the mobo) and tried turning it on again and...

So I've been having a problem with my motherboard overheating recently I have a MSI ME-7641 AMD-FX 4300 Radeon Rx 550 4 fans Randomly my pc will spike to over 80 degrees at random mainly while I play a game I have installed a new power supply, new fans, changed bios, set GPU fans to high...

I built a PC in September and it was working just fine until this February. Then the problems started. Every game and program started to crash randomly. I thought a format would solve the problem, but it did not. Then I started troubleshooting the hardware. I tried different PSU, RAM and GPU...

IM VERY scared becous i think my back plate broke and my pc not work anymore please help me trouple shoot it :( i have laptop so i cant just replace it i was adding storage but the back plate fell from my hands and now the laptop wont boot up how to fix Sorry for bad english

I have a GA-A55-S3P motherboard, AMD Athlon II 641 CPU, Nvidia GTX 650 1GB graphics card Here's what I've tried: 1:Clearing BIOS 2:Removing all ram (no post/beep) 3:Removing the graphics card (no post/beep) 4:Removing the Hard Drive (no post/beep) 5:Removing the CPU (no post/beep) when I...

So i have 2 pc's in my room. One of them is my girlfriend's PC. So we gonna call them PC1 and PC2. So for a long time now, PC1 microphone just doesn't work. I tried to connect it in the back or in the front panel of the PC but it doesn't work. I tried to reinstall realtek drivers, i tried to...

I recently built a system with ryzen 5 1600 MSI x370 gaming pro carbon RTX2070 16gb Corsair Vengeance RGB 3600 and an EVGA 650 G3 The other morning the system wouldn't output to the monitor, tried the monitor on my switch and it worked, tried a different cable, and nothing happened, reseated...

I recently replaced the motherboard and cpu in a computer. The ram from the old combo worked fine in the new combo. Then I tried upgrading the ram from 1x8gb 2400mhz vengeance lpx to a 2x8gb 3000mhz vengeance lpx kit. The computer wouldn't post with both sticks. I tried one stick and it didn't...

ORIGINAL POST https://pcpartpicker.com/forums/topic/311121-first-build-motherboard-has-red-light-and-pc-will-not-boot: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Zxdpkd This is my first build. After I set everything up it would not boot. The CPU cooler fan spins for a few seconds then shuts off then...

Hello, Hope the community can help answer some questions about repairing or at least recovering from my laptop. I have an MSI Stealth GS70 2QE 097 (https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.newegg.com/amp/products/N82E16834152682). I was using my laptop just a few days ago studying. I was finished so I...

When i go to chrome://plugins to disable the chrome flash player there are no other flash players and i have installed the *other software* flash player but its not showing any idea what might be the cause. I am using the Version 42.0.2311.50 beta-m (64-bit) of chrome.