troubleshooting

My pre-built PC has been having a few issues over the last two months. I ordered a new set of ram, 2 sticks of 32gb, which 4x my previous set of ram alongside having faster speeds. It was then, after putting in the new ram, my PC began to have issues. While it's solved now, my CPU began to...

Hi! I built my first PC a few days ago (only had prebuilt before) and afterwards ran into some trouble. Can you help me figure out what is the likely issue? Apologies for the long post, I want to provide as much helpful info as possible and don't what is the most relevant. Hope I posted in the...

I need some help. I'm attempting to put together my new desktop PC (B650 AORUS ELITE AX mobo, Ryzen 7950X3D cpu, RX 7900 XTX gpu, 128GB ram, Corsair RM850X psu). I have it all put together on the motherboard, and when I performed the bios update over USB, it all seemed to turn on. but shorting...

Turned off the computer then went to sleep. When I woke up the PC is on with only the HDD activity LED lit. I pulled the plug then tried turning it on. Without even pressing the power button it turns on by itself for a second, then powers off, only the HDD activity LED is lit again. I opened up...

Hello, I’m working on my first PC build and finally got my graphics card today. After assembling everything the case/CPU fans and lights started but the GPUs did not. I was unable to get an image from HDMI into the GPU but was able to get a picture from MOBO HDMI. Build: Ryzen 7 7700x MSI Trio...

I was gaming today. My pc screens stopped getting signal from gpuand audio cut out. Case light was on so I tried rebooting the power wouldn't comeback on when I press the button one the case. There is rgb lights from gpu still on, I tried to troubleshoot the psu with a paper clip and see if fans...

Recently had a thunderstorm the previous night and upon turning on my computer today only 1 of my 3 monitors would turn on. The orange LED light showing that the monitor is off isn't on either making me believe my monitors are dead. After troubleshooting with them and the rest of my PC for...

Hi guys, I built my PC in 2018. I started having this issue last year. Sometimes during idle, my monitor will randomly go black and my PC fans start spinning at an incredible speed. It sounds like a jet engine. The only way to get out of this is to force-shutdown. It will reboot as normal, and...

I've had the following system for the past two years: ASUS ROG Strix Z590-A Intel I9-10850K 16GB Corsair DDR4 3200 RAM RX6500XT graphics board 4 TB WD SATA disk 1 TB M2 SSD (added later) Generic DVD drive The machine has been on most of the time, plugged into an APC UPS. It was used mostly...

Hello so I'm having some problems with my PC (Specs Below) and I could use some help, I built it about 2 years ago with all new parts, Everything was working fine until the PC was shutdown the other day. I tried to power the PC on the next day and there was no response from the PC except for a...

Hi everyone, this is my first post on Toms Hardware and I have a few questions/concerns. I found that the MSI PRO Z690-A WiFi is the most affordable board I could find with all the features I need. It has a lot of good reviews, but I have heard some bad things too. Users have reported that when...

The cooling on my setup has always been great. I've had all 12 cores at 4.3GHz and never had it exceed ~75C at full load. Idle was probably low 30s. At some point, temperatures suddenly skyrocketed. At base clock, it idles at 55C. Full load floats between 88-93C. Things I've tried...

Spec: i5-12400, ASUS PRIME B660M-A D4 WIFI, Team DELTA TUF 2x8GB 3200MHZ CL16, Team MP33 1TB, ASUS TUF RX 6800 XT OC, MSI A850GF. Brief explanation: PC started to restart randomly but boots right back up just fine, then it gets worse, random reboot keep happening more and more along with...

For context, I have an rtx 2080 and I use an older roku tv as a second monitor to watch videos as I play my games. The TV is hooked in using HDMI, and my main monitor, an ASUS, is hooked in using a display port connection. For a while now, this annoying thing has been happening whenever a game...

Hello - I was wondering if anyone could help? So I just rebuilt my water cooled system, turned it on and it remained on for a little while and then just suddenly turned off… when I reseat things sometimes it comes up cpu fan error (I just need to go into bios and disable cpu fan as I use a...

Hello all, First time here, ill try to give as much detail as possible... So my PC is running an i5 6400, with an MSI GTX 1060 3GB for the graphics card. I recently got a used i7 6700. Originally when I installed the i7, my pc would randomly restart, even if it was just sitting on the...

I couldn't get a shucked white-label WD drive to show up in BIOS and I don't know why. It was working with this exact config before. specs: - pc parts - WD Elements 18TB WDBWLG0180HBK-NESN (WD180EDGZ-11B2DA0) tests: - tested with the original power/microUSB 3.0 controller PCB; shows up in BIOS...

As the title says, a new PC (mostly new - assembled using a mix of new and old parts from my old PC, whose CPU recently died) won't POST. A red CPU light briefly flashes (I'm not sure if that is normal, I'm used to the the LED numerical POST code readout that they used to put on mobos <£400) and...

Hi. I have a strange issue. I have a amd4 motherboard. Cpu does not have integrated graphics. When I boot my system without gpu the led next to the cpu goes on indicating it gets power. Also my numlock is responsive. When I install my GPU the led next to the cpu does not go on. My keyboard is...

RAM upgrade, pc boots, no display. MSI b450i gaming plus ac Ryzen 7 3700x Old Ram: Gskill 2x8 3200mhz New Ram that causes issues: Gskill 2x16 3600mhz I understand that my motherboard wont support 3600mhz but I figured I could tweak the bios to run a different speed. PC wont display even at...

Hi everyone, I've already spent a day troubleshooting this PC and I'm scratching my head, it's quite bizarre and I feel like I'm on the cusp of working it out but there something I'm missing. The PC has been in perfect working order (used only for work, low-intensity office apps - new GPU c...

So i built a new PC pretty recently and have since then had problems with games crashing a little too often. It's mainly newer games on the more demanding side that keeps crashing and at first i thought it was the games themselves that had problems but with the amount of crashes i get i'm...

Hi All, I have today just built my first PC, that being said it doesn’t turn on at all. Everything is plugged in to the best of my knowledge but my knowledge is very very limited as to where certain wires go, piecing the parts together was fine but when I start seeing wires such as Power SW...

Okay so, I have a bit of an odd situation here and I'm looking for some help. I am trying to get a 4GB ASUS Mining RX 470 (never used for mining) to work on an ECS H55H-M V1.1 motherboard for... scientific reasons. The system has a Cooler Master PSU (RS-500-PCAR-A3). When I try to turn it on...

(In this discussion i will be taking about the memory slots numbering them 1-4 where 1 is the closest slot to my CPU socket and 4 is the farthest and the first channel is 1 and 2 and the second one is 3 and 4) I run a 6600k that i occasionally overclock, motherboard MSI z270 s02, ram Corsair...

Hi all, I'm using a Lenovo Y520, and recently it's started doing this thing where when I turn it on, it displays the background image of the lock screen as a missing file that says "Windows sign-in", and when I try to sign in, the screen goes black for an extended amount of time before putting...

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...

My goal was to remove my Rosewill 750 W PSU from an existing build (Build A) and replace it with my Corsair 650 W from another build (Build B). Both builds powered on and ran prior to this (Story spoiler: they don't anymore). I plugged a CPU 8 pin cord from my 750 into my 650, which I later...

Hey I'm new here and this is cross posted to Linus forums, not sure if I needed to disclose that or not lol but I'm just trying to find some fresh faces/ideas. This post is going to be long, I want to include as much information as I can. But a quick TLDR is my PC has been acting INCREDIBLY...

I am having a weird issue i have not experienced before. I have replaced several cpu coolers before, usually without any problems. But this time it is acting weird. I removed the stock cooler, took out the CPU and cleaned the thermal paste from it, remounted the CPU, added new thermal paste...

Just got the parts for my new PC this evening and started building. The build includes the MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk and the 13900K. I tried doing the bios flashback after every component was installed. There was a 16 GB USB stick (seems like USB 2.0 from its black color) included in the...

Hi everyone and thanks in advance. I have the problem that an application (Modern Warfare 2 for steam) does not utilize the gpu properly, which results in low Fps and lags overall. My build: radeon 5700 XT , Ryzen 7 3700X, 32 GB of RAM, and M.2 ssd When the game runs i monitor with GPU_Z...

Sorry for bad english, not my primary langaue So I finally got all my components and I put them together: no output. Parts b660 itx rog strix 12900k 6000mhz fury rgb ddr5 3080 strix (i have done all testing without gpu) 360 aio (phanteks) focus plus platinum 750 jonsplus i100 pro case 1000gb...

So I'm currently using: CPU: Ryzen 3 3200G MOBO: A320M-A PRO M2 GPU: Radeon RX 570 I purchased a Ryzen 5 3600 for an upgrade. I checked the MOBO website ( A320M-A PRO M2 | Motherboard | MSI Global ) and it said it is compatible. I've updated my BIOS to version 7C52v19. However the PC won't...

So I bought a 5700x to replace my 3700x a few days ago and after I removed the cpu cooler I realized I forgot to buy thermal paste. The CPU was stuck to the cooler but I was able to pop it off easily with a screwdriver. After reinstalling the 3700x, the computer would “boot” but my monitor...

Hey Guys, I am trying to install Windows 8, but I cant seem to get the mouse or keyboard to work when the install window loads up. I have tried updating the bios to the latest version (F6), as well as playing with the bios settings, but I can not seem to get it working. I have reset the bios...

When playing games and under heavy load, I lose display signal while everything else keeps running. Im forced to power off the system through the power button. I get a white VGA light on my mobo when i try to reboot.

My Specs � Processor Processor AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core Processor Number of Cores 12 Speed 4.2 GHz Stepping 2 Family 17 Model 08 CPU ID 178BFBFF00800F82 � Memory RAM 16 GB � Video Card Video Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER Chipset NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660...

so i build a pc in this case, i didnt connect the argb controller to my mobo cause the case supports 5v and my mobo is 12v, i only plugged the sata power cable to the leds of the case, so at first glance the case controller works fine, you can change some effects and colors, the problem is that...

Hi, I'm having some trouble with my PC. It's been a while since I turned it on and I've moved twice in that time. None of the hardware has changed since I last used it, so I'm quite confused as to why it's not POSTing now. Here's what's happening: When connected to power, the LEDs on my X570...