troubleshooting cpu

Forum discussion tagged with troubleshooting cpu.
  1. Zenthora

    Question High voltage spikes on Ryzen 7 7800X3D ?

    This is the voltages of my CPU, which randomly spikes to those numbers. I'm not sure why they go to that, or if they are safe to run daily. Some information is that I have expo enabled, running at 6000mhz and the curve optimizer is at all core -30. here are the specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7...
  2. Slimpickins11

    Question Old 425w Dell Alienware power supply 4 pin not enough anymore?

    Rebuilding a PC for a CO worker of my girlfriend. The Power supply is from an alienware computer CPU: upgraded to an I7-9700k from a i5 8th gen something Motherboard: upgraded to ASRock B365 Phantom Gaming 4 from the Dell board in the old case Ram: upgraded to Corsair Vengeance Pro 2x8GB from...
  3. V

    Question Windows 11 PC Bricked after driver updates

    Hello, Recently I tried updating a 2-year-old PC after some time away, downloaded all the Windows 11 updates as well as updating the GPU drivers and installing the latest support for my CPU. I might have gotten a bit ambitious flashing the bios to the latest version, because after I did so...
  4. D

    Question Need help diagnosing my pc

    PC Specs: CPU: Intel I5 4460 (3.20 ghz) Motherboard: Biostar TB85 GPU:MSI RX Radeon 570 Armor OC 4GB Ram: (2x)4gb Team Group Elite 1600mhz DDR3 OS: Windows 10 Storage: Samsung Evo 500 gb SSD PSU: EVGA 600W Power Supply...
  5. V

    [SOLVED] How to remove?

    Quick question, quick answers (preferably) guys. How would you go about removing this: PIC - it’s not mine but it shows what happened pretty well View: https://imgur.com/a/EZNnmPg Some BACKSTORY for a better idea of why and what the goal for this is - so, for a while I’ve been trying to...
  6. alexrossman13

    Question My PC is totally dead, here is what I have tried. Help!!

    Hello, so I have recently built a new PC. From the start I couldn't get it to power on at all. A lot of troubleshooting later, and finally I get the CPU and GPU fans to spin for... half a second. After this small success my PC went back to dead, no indication of any power at all. So next I...
  7. Karan1024

    [SOLVED] My pc is not POSTing anything

    I have acer veriton M20 series pc with 4gb ddr3 ram and third gen i5 processor with 1gb AMD 5450 grapics built for my educational purposes... Yesterday when i turned it on there was no POST, no beep. A thing i noticed was that the hdd light was glowing very very dim constantly but still not...
  8. S

    [SOLVED] Is my CPU Faulty?

    I built a pc with AMD Ryzen 3200g and an Asus B450plus motherboard. I updated the bios to the newest version with an older amd chip. But it still won’t boot.
  9. Nerdasaurus

    [SOLVED] Thermal Paste in AM4 Socket - Computer Won't Post

    Hi guys, My friend has recently attempted to build his first gaming PC, only to get a small amount of thermal paste stuck in his CPU socket and on his CPU. After a BIOS update, he managed to get his computer to post long enough to install Windows and a couple of programs, only for the computer...
  10. The Android

    Question Computer Hard Freezes Forcing me to Restart During Heavy Gaming

    Hey, so. about 3 weeks ago when playing AAA titles, my PC would reset out of nowhere with no bios error or beep codes, so I decided to reinstall windows in case of a faulty driver, yet that sort of fixed my problem, yet let another to arise, because now when i try to play any AAA title, my...
  11. S

    Question Desktop PC Suddenly Shut Down Now Refuses To Power On At All

    Went for a quick toilet break, and when I came back my computer was off and now wont start. I have done most of the troubleshooting that I can, but no matter what i do it just wont start. No fans start spinning, no nothing, but the GPU light turns on and USB connected devices seem to get powerd...
  12. Lennygenneret

    [SOLVED] Fans starts for a second and then shut off

    So, okay iam pretty new to building computers and i wanted to upgrade my pc with a new motherboard extra ram a better psu and a new gpu but now when i just install the cpu a ram stick i know that works and psu works as well the fans start spinning and shut off like a second after i am really...