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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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

hello i am desperate for help with my computer. One day i was playing a video game and my screen suddenly turned black but my pc was still running (i could still hear the game sounds) also my screen was on but black so i restarted and it worked for a couple of hours but happened again playing...

My PC is working fine until I remove power cord from wall socket. If power is disconnected then pc does not boot all fans will be spinning but no signal on monitor and when I reset CMOS it will start normally after bios reset. Please help what can be resolve the issue.

For some reason this only happens when I play Call of Duty Warzone. I have tried doing a complete fresh install of Windows and no backup of any sort and the problem still persists. For this reason I am ruling out a software issue, but then again, I could be wrong. I downloaded Afterburner to...

Hey y’all. I recently bought a Ryzen 5 3600xt and it replaced my Ryzen 5 2600 (made sure to update to the proper bios). The initial boot took a little over 10 minutes but I knew that was normal. Though after that, my computer would take 15 - 20 minutes boot and one time (out of like 5 restarts)...

I booted up my PC today and it showed me this error on the signin screen, "The user profile service service failed the sign-in" I tried restarting still the error persisted. Then I turned off the PC and turned it back on after a couple of minutes and it's working fine now. Although I'm still...

I was playing Destiny 2 and my game froze with a loud buzzing in my headphones. Restarted PC and my cpu and case fan lights and my ram went into their startup lighting but nothing further. Monitor is showing no source with DP and HDMI in my gpu and MB. I tried removing the gpu and only using the...

Hi My PC fans make a weird buzzing noise. I just replaced the PSU so I don't think the noise is coming from it. and the cpu cooler is working fine . I cleaned my PC yesterday but the problem still happening. the problem happen in random time the both of the fans make noise on the same time...

Hello, i ran into this issue just today. I have an Asrock HM110-hd motherboard, i5 2.8GHZ, AMD radeon rx480, I needed to update my windows so i did. started up fine, only issue came up that no amd software was found. the application was there tried to run it as admin, same window of it not...

My DP is Accell B142C-007B-2 which is VESA Certified and after 4 months of use it now started causing static screen/GPU artifacts to appear whenever my PC boots or whenever I switch between full screen applications. The static screen appears for only 1 second and GPU artifact stays until I alt...

Hardware: Motherboard: MPG Z390 GAMING PRO CARBON AC RAM: CORSAIR Vengeance RGB PRO 32GB (4x8GB) DDR4 3600MHz CPU: i7-9700K GPU: MSI 2070s ventus oc Cooler: NZXT Kraken 360 PSU: CORSAIR - RM Series 750W ATX12V Storage: Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD, up to 560 MB/s -...

As the title says while I was booting my PC my screen had static white noise which covered the entire width of the screen and its height was around 4-5 inches. I had that white noise screen for 1 sec and then my mouse started lagging after second boot for 1-2 sec as well. I then ran benchmarks...

today I upgraded my cpu from an i5-7400 to an i7-9700k. After installing my new cpu and hooking up my new cooler (cooler master 212 evo) I went to boot up my pc. It will power cycle then turn off instantly. I thought it might have been the cooler so I put my stock Intel cooler back on and I...

Hey guys, I just finished building my first pc and it’s not working. I have it plugged in to power, connected to my monitor, which is also connected to power, but when I press the power button only the LEDs light up. The PC itself isn’t running and the monitor says “no signal”. Please I need...

This is a tough one. I will do my best to explain it clearly.. Firstly, this is my first build by myself. System specs are: AMD Ryzen 3900xt MSI 5700 RX MECH OC EVGA SuerNOVA G3 850w 80gold plus MSI B550-A ProSeries Corsair Vengeance LPX DDr4 2 x 36GB 2400mhz Cooler Master Hyper 212 cpu...