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  1. L

    [SOLVED] GPU Usage drops to 0! Help would be kindly appreciated!!

    I've been having this problem with my AMD GPU to which I've been trying to find a solution to all over the internet to no avail. I know this is a long read but I would be grateful if you have the time to read this to the end and perhaps assist me! So right off the bat, I have an old laptop...
  2. Yyoshe

    [SOLVED] Is my GPU dying?

    Is my GPU dying? For the past few months my PC has been having weird errors. In the middle of games I will have my screen full of vertical lines and my PC becomes unresponsive. This morning I turned it on and got a black screen with a single red pixel. Before I make a purchase for a new GPU I...
  3. H

    [SOLVED] PC has been crashing lately due to kernel?

    Hello, My PC has been crashing lately and while I have the knowledge of building and setting up PC's, I have zero knowledge in diagnosing issues pertaining to Windows 10 like stop codes, etc etc. I was wondering if I could get some help analyzing the most recent dump file. Also, I'm not sure if...
  4. K

    [SOLVED] All USB ports disconnecting and reconnecting at once.

    I need help. I built my first pc back in January. It runs fine. Noticed a few issues at first, one of them being that all the USB’s would disconnect the computer would freeze and I would have to hard restart it. This stopped for a while. One issue that has been consistent is that when I boot...
  5. SquishyChs

    [SOLVED] How would I know if my motherboard is dead?

    The lights on the board are lit so I am thinking it is getting power (could still be an issue with power but all the cables are seated well and its lit), and power seems to be coming through my USB ports. However when I boot my PC up, it whirrs and lights up but my display remains black. The...
  6. Jamathascooking

    Question PC's monitors randomly go black and fans spin crazy.

    Hi, so I've been having this issue for almost 4 months now where randomly, usually not even gaming or nothing, my pc will lose input to to the monitors and make the fans go crazy fast. I've tried many things to fix this, including sending my whole gpu back, getting the replacement three months...
  7. Biks141

    Question PC Starts normally 5% of the time and slow 95% of the time (with hanging) when booted up

    Specifications: CPU - AMD FX 4100 ,3600 ghz Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2TP, AM3+ SOCKET,(second hand) RAM - GSkill 4 gb ddr3 1600 mhz and HyperX Fury 8GB DDR3 1866MHz System - Windows 8.1 64-bit OS, x-64 based processor Hard Drive - WD Green 1 TB (WDC WD 10EARX-00N0YB0 1000.2 GB) GPU...
  8. L

    Question High end PC wont stop stuttering in games

    Making a post about this issue was my last resort. I built this near the end of December 2020. Here are the specs: PSU: DeepCool DQ 850W CPU: Intel i9-10850K GPU: Asus TUF Gaming GeForce RTX™ 3070 MOBO: Asus Prime Z490P RAM: T-Force Delta 2x16GB DDR4 3200MHz SSD: Crucical 1TB P2 NVMe M.2...
  9. Whale332

    [SOLVED] Problem with GPU in PCIe x16 slot ?

    GPU beeping on startup on PCIe x16 slot, but in PCIe x4 slot it works fine ? Gigabyte b450m ds3h v2 ryzen 5 2600 msi aero itx ocv1 gtx 1650 16gb 3200mhz RAM 2 x SATA SSD (120gb & 240gb) 1 x HDD (1TB) i cant seem to get the gpu to work in pciex16 wich is the slot it is supposed to work in, the...
  10. R

    Question PC suddenly turned off and won't display or give usb power

    I built my PC and after a year it suddenly turned off after lagging for a while in a game. It turned back on for a while and then turned off again. When I turned it back on it wouldn't give me display or power to the usb devices plugged in even though all the fans work and lights are on. I...
  11. PCproblem1234

    Question Computer making horizontal lines all across screen after driver update

    Hey guys. Today I played some Valorant and a message popped up telling me that my driver (version 388.13) "has known issuse" I tried updating to the recommended version 441.20. After this i experienced a BSOD with various error codes, in short now my GPU (I think) is causing problems. I get...
  12. TheKerangMan

    [SOLVED] PC Sparked (seeking for advice..)

    This morning when i turn ON my pc there's a 'sparked' sound and entire house went blackout! Since i have an opened air case.i had a glimpse that it came from the hard disk area.. Turn ON the house power main board and we have our lighting back. I plugged out and in back my pc power socket at the...
  13. Solid_Snake3

    [SOLVED] Random Memory Management BSODs often accompanied with boot loops until RAM is reseated

    So the title pretty much says all of it. I've gotten random BSODs since the day I built this PC 7 years ago, although the code has changed over time. The most frustrating one is the one I'm consistently getting today, especially because I'm in college now. It's a Memory Management BSOD, and the...
  14. W

    [SOLVED] PC randomly black-screens & CPU light turns on ?

    Hi all, I built this PC around 6-8 years ago and have been continually upgrading it through the years. Over the last few months I had an issue where a Windows update would cause my taskbar to flicker and there would be a black screen until my desktop would load a few minutes later. That issue...
  15. G

    Question "Reboot and select proper boot device" on MSI gaming setup

    I have a custom built gaming PC from a couple years ago. It's running MSI Z97 Gaming 5, windows 10. I am getting the infamous "reboot and select proper boot device" error, and I know there are a million things it could be, but I think someone with a little more experience may be able to narrow...
  16. H

    [SOLVED] Stuttering (Youtube, Netflix, etc.) and no audio anywhere. Any known solutions?

    My computer was working fine last evening. Woke up the next day and logged on and now any streaming service is super choppy (frame by frame slowness) and I have no audio on my computer. I was thinking it was some sort of driver issue, but I don't really know what else to look for.
  17. JaydenGannon

    [SOLVED] pc cant boot from any devices before a bootloop

    Hello, im having a bit of an issue with my new build, for the first two days everything ran fine no issues what so ever then all of a sudden after a game crash i loaded the game back up and the whole pc crashed sending me into a constant boot cycle where my pc cant actually now boot from any...
  18. Kinnavari

    Question No display, no BIOS.

    My PC was working fine for the pas 2 weeks. I was playing yesterday just fine. But earlier this day when I woke up and booted up my PC it was working fine until suddenly it went to BSOD with a stopcode of IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL. When it restarted, suddenly there's no signal on my monitor. No...
  19. Skelebruh

    [SOLVED] Frequent crashes to desktop on older (but still capable) system ?

    My specs are as follows: Intel 2600 (Early 2011) MSI P67A-GD65 (Early 2011, updated to last BIOS) 14GB DDR3 (1333 mHz) Gigabyte RX 570 4GB "Gaming OC" (bought Q3 2018) Antec HCG850 Bronze (850W Bronze) Windows 10 Pro (latest) My problem: Over the course of the last one...
  20. MasonK

    [SOLVED] B450 Tomahawk max

    https://pcpartpicker.com/list/wcyNW3 Red CPU light comes on. Reseated already to make sure it was done right the first time. Tried resetting cmos/ hard bios reset tried ram stick swap outs replaced psu because original one was absolutely DOA, powered everything for 1 sec then everything would...
  21. C

    [SOLVED] Recently upgraded motherboard and cpu but having problems with computer not turning on properly

    Hey guys so recently i upgraded my pc's mobo and cpu, but im having trouble with a couple things. First when i turn on my PC it turns on for about 1 second, turns off, then turns on again after a second or two. it will do this maybe once or twice before finally stabilizing and staying on. All...
  22. Mk782001

    [SOLVED] Problems I can face on an Old Laptop?

    Hey Guys, Sorry if the title is vague, didn't knew what to right. Soo, here is the problem. My friend has an old Dell Vostro 1550 (2gb variant), it was his old man's, now he wanna use it for college work and college work alone. He's willing to get a 240gb ssd to replace his old hdd and add 4gb...
  23. JohnP314

    Question Gpu Broken? RX5700xt

    Has anyone experienced these crashes before with an Rx5700xt? This a brand new built pc and I have been trying everything. I rolled back/updated drivers, updated bios, set bios to default settings, ran cpu stress test to check if its a cpu problem, and even reapplied thermal paste on both my cpu...
  24. O

    [SOLVED] Black screen after swapping graphics cards (Nvidia and AMD), why is that?

    Hello everyone, I have been scratching my head on a problem for some days now and I resort to turn to you for help. Here is a short description of the problem: I have installed a new graphics card (Sapphire Nitro+ 5700 XT SE) and I get a black screen (no POST, no Windows login screen) at...
  25. G

    Question My newly built PC boots up, then clicks off ten seconds after, and repeats.

    Hey all, this will be a sort of long post but I have nowhere else to ask. My specs will be at the bottom. I’m new to PC building and have almost completed my first PC. Following several tutorials and hours of building I managed to put together a decent looking mid range gaming PC. However...
  26. redhammer

    [SOLVED] HELP - PC Wont POST

    I have been going nuts trying to figure out why I can't get my PC to POST. I have slowly swapped out part after part thinking it would fix it to only to find that it still won't POST after replacing every part.. What am I missing? I've built multiple computers before so this isn't my first...
  27. C

    [SOLVED] NVME.M2 SSD Disk Management

    Hi, I am a novice on pc build. Just finished and seems everything is fine (hardware part). Now, I have two M.2 SSD---1. Samsung 970EVO PLUS 2TB (Locate as M.2_1); 2. SABRENT ROCKET Q4 NVMe 4.0 4TB (Locate as M.2_3). My motherboard is ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XII HERO(WI-FI). I already installed Windows...
  28. darren37uk

    Question Toddler pressed On/Off multiple times, bricked my PC

    Hi, I built my unit in 2011 it was a powerful rig for gaming back then. Since I've settled had 2 kids and PCs took more of a back seat in my life unfortunately I'm demoted to a low end Acer laptop. My PC was broken by my son before we moved homes and has been sitting dormant in my garage for a...
  29. A

    [SOLVED] GPU not being detected windows 10 - dell 7559 laptop

    Hey guys! I've been running my dell inpiron 15 7559 for almost 3 years. for most of this time it has been a good companion, but lately i've been running into various issues, supposedly due to a virus, so i decided to do a fresh install of windows 10. Now, my laptop is running a i7 6700HQ and a...
  30. B

    Question samsung odyssey g7 and rtx 3070 came today 10 bit color is broken

    so i got this new monitor i was very excited i also saw that it has 10 bpc so my problem is when i have 10 bit enabled throu nvidia control panel my monitor breaks what i mean is every now and then when 10 bit is enabled monitor sometimes turns off and on on its own really fast for example when...
  31. I

    [SOLVED] Does removing 2 pin connector from IEM while the cable is connected to 3.5mm source will damage IEM?

    As the title says, I removed 2 pin connector of my IEM after noticing that I connected left side to right iem and right to left. I then removed 2 pin connector of my IEM without noticing they were still connected to my laptop. I'm afraid that I might've damaged them because they were connected...
  32. fawkesMC

    Question ACP_INDEX_MISMATCH / Random crashes to desktop when gaming

    So I've assembled a PC for a friend, when was testing it was totally fine I'd say tho there were the same issues(BSOD once and mostly exit to) but I kinda thought it was because of the bad game porting (on my PC the game only exited to desktop). I checked memory trough windows built-in tool and...
  33. millertime51

    [SOLVED] [SOLVED] SSD shows up in BIOS, not in Disk Manager

    I have 2 M.2 SSDs installed. For the sake of this post, SSD A will be my old one that has windows installed, as well as most of my programs. SSD B is my new one that I will use for games and such. Both SSDs show up fine in the BIOS, it seems as if everything is good. When booting Windows from...
  34. M

    [SOLVED] How to find the source of frequent time outs and 3000ms

    Recently I am getting frequent time outs and my connection will go from 12 ms to 300ms for several seconds. How can I troubleshoot this? Steps I have already taken: Ran Kapersky Free Anti-Virus Ran CCleaner Ran Verizon FiOS connection tool to test PC to router speeds Ran Verizon connection...
  35. Hasseia

    Question Ryzen 5 5600X won't BOOT

    Help. Freshly upgraded PC won't boot. Specs: GPU: NVIDIA RTX 3070 PROCESSOR: Ryzen 5 5600x RAM: Ripjaws V 16gb (dual) ddr4 3200 Motherboard: MSI MPG X570 GAMING PLUS Symptoms: EZ_DEBUG LED, lit on Boot Black Screen on Boot Sometimes boot to BIOS then black screen upon exiting Tried the...
  36. S

    Question Ive recently send an HP Pavilion 21-h010 TouchSmart All-in-One Desktop to some of my family and its having some problems

    So I called my family members to see if they liked the computer that i had used before, they were excited to get an old computer since they had never owned one, but there was a problem, after they turned on the computer it would turn off after a few seconds. Can anyone try to help me...
  37. B

    [SOLVED] Newly built PC freezes in weird ways.

    Please excuse me, I'm really not good at this kind of stuff. This issue has really been frustrating me. I bought all my parts brand new and built my PC in late October. I've had this problem since the beginning, I thought I'd eventually sort it out but I haven't yet. My specs are: CPU- AMD...
  38. Bartig11258

    [SOLVED] Terrible FPS in Warzone. Please help

    Long story short I think I should be getting much better FPS. Here's my build: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X Motherboard: ASRock B450 Steel Legend CPU Cooler: Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 4 GPU: MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Super RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3600 C18 2x8GB SSD: Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2...
  39. Q

    [SOLVED] PC hard freezes under load

    I've been having this issue for months where my PC would hard freeze under load. It used to be that it would freeze infrequently, then once a day, then multiple times each day. Now any game is unplayable. My machine was 5 years old at that point and I just figured it was a dying component, so I...
  40. J

    [SOLVED] Is the Problem my Motherboard, CPU, or RAM?

    I am building a new pc with a 3rd gen ryzen 5 5600X cpu on an Asus Tuf Gaming X570 plus (wifi) motherboard. My rgb and fans are running, but I am unable to post bios. I am getting an led warning on my motherboard for the DRAM, but as far as I can tell it is all fine, with multiple tests...