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    Question SSD Spiking to 100% Usage while playing games.

    Screen Grab of Hardware Usage So I have been playing Escape from Tarkov recently, and have been getting a lot of 1-3 second freezes & a hand full of stutters. When I pulled up Task Manager real quick, I saw that one of my SSD's was maxing at 100% usage, leading me to believe this is causing...
  2. Alvesss154

    [SOLVED] High vcore and vids Ryzen 5 5600g

    Today I noticed that my vcore and vids voltages are pretty high, I'm running everything at auto because my bobo is an a520 and overclock's disabled. The voltages(core vid) are reaching 1.463v on idle, I took a look on the internet and that's normal. Butt things change when CPU is on full load, I...
  3. janos

    [SOLVED] Crash for good after adding a 3080Ti and testing it? How to check what's gone rogue?

    Greetings guys, long story short, a friend I sometimes help with plugging in hardware stuff into his PC just bought a new graphics card. I did unplug and remove the old one and added the newer one. Everything ran like a charm, as usual, he even did a view tests with a mid-end graphics game...
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    Question really weird pc stuff going on

    so basically a couple of weeks ago I swapped my old pc into a new case so I could fit my 3080 I got right, everything was fine and it was working great! a day or two goes by and I start getting random blue screens due to access violation basically right so I figured my ram was going and I was...
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    Question PC shuts off during gaming but RAM lights stay on, only reboots after flipping PSU switch off/on ?

    Hey guys, so I have an interesting problem that just started happening the past few weeks. It has happened three times as of today. My PC will shut off during gaming (playing escape from tarkov), but the RAM and IO lights will stay on. Almost like its in sleep mode. Both monitors will lose...
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    Question Red Cpu light and shutting down

    I’ve been having a problem with my pc as of this morning, everything was working fine yesterday. I first noticed the pc was turning off unexpectedly, and the cpu light has gone red on the motherboard. The pc will turn on fine but after 5-10 minutes it will turn off again and the fans and lights...
  7. Lyzedits

    Question After installing Windows 11, stuck on VGA LED after shutdown or reboot, but turning it off and on makes it work!?

    Whenever my PC turns on (either from being powered off or from rebooting) it gets stuck in the VGA LED light from my Motherboard. I then have to press the power on button twice manually for it to actually post and boot onto Windows, where all works perfectly fine. This has happened since I...
  8. Niftybox

    Question Got a new 3080 but I get no signal

    So I Switched out my 3060 ti with a gigabyte 3080 and I switched out my seasonic gold 650w psu with a 1000w g6 evga gold psu. When I booted it on my 3080 lit up, my fans were spinning, and the psu was running, but I had no signal on my monitor :/ I put my 3060 back in and it started running...
  9. xiphonz

    [SOLVED] Everytime I open Something as Admin I get an Error

    "There is not enough free memory to run this program exitone or more programs then try again" yet i can run discord my browser and even valorant this happened shortly after i installed minecraft dungeons, i uninstalled all of minecraft i have 16gb of ram ddr3 an intel core i7 4790k 4.00ghz and a...
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    Question Computer saying there's less space on a drive than there actually is

    I'm in a bit of a pickle with my computer and idk if anybody else had this problem so I figured I'd ask. So my D drive (which is my storage) just suddenly started saying it has 100kb free despite me not adding anything to it, and last night it had like 40 or 50gb free. I tried deleting something...
  11. IamSkeez

    Question Red CPU LED is always on, how to fix ?

    Hey everyone, I built this pc 11 hours ago and I’m still troubleshooting it. At the beginning I thought that my b550 is not updated to the latest bios, so I did but my 5600x is still not working and the red light is on. I also thought that the cpu cable was malfunctioning so I tried the two...
  12. Alvesss154

    [SOLVED] Io shield

    When I was installing my Io shield I bent the little metal flaps outward (i cut my finger doing that lol) and I discovered later that they serve the purpose of grounding the ports. I tried bending them back, didn't work. I'd need to remove the motherboard from the case to do so and since I'm a...
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    Question Simple Hard Drive swap stops windows 10 from booting

    I had a 140gb SSD in my PC set aside for my other PC until got anotger SSD. Same brand and everything I swapped the drives. Mind you the 140gb was formatted but it was completely empty. I have my windows 10 installed on my 1tb nvme drive. After the swap my computer booted right to bios and...
  14. Alvesss154

    [SOLVED] What is power throttling?

    I've recently built a computer and my GPU (Ryzen 5 5600g integrated graphics) has started to power throttle. Is it bad? Can It damage the components? There's a little bit of thermal paste on green part of cpu, is this problem related to it? Please help! Is my PC going to break? Here's a pic of...
  15. Alvesss154

    [SOLVED] Is there any problem by leaving some thermal paste on green part of cpu?

    I accidentally got some thermal paste on the side (green part) of my processor (ryzen 5 5600g), it was the stock thermal paste that came with the stock cooler and I couldn't clean it all off. Booted of my system and it has been working fine for 8 days. I'm afraid of cleaning it because i'm not...
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    Question MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus Motherboard not detecting second NVMe SSD

    I'll cut to the chase, I've got a new SSD that's faster (gen 4 instead of gen3) and larger (2TB instead of 1TB) My motherboard is not detecting either SSD card in the second M2 slot. (according to the visualization and list in the BIOS) The first M2 slot detects both SSD cards, so the cards...
  17. Alvesss154

    [SOLVED] Microphone problem

    Hello, I've recenly built a new computer and everything worked fine for some days, but yesterday a problem appeared. When I connected my headset to the front panel jack the audio was fine, but there was a weird noise going on my microfone, like a buzzing or something like that. Other people...
  18. Kallenqw

    [SOLVED] Display turns off but pc still stays on

    Hi guys, i've ran into a problem and could really use some help, today i was playing tf2 and csgo, with both games this happened twice, my monitor turns off but my pc is still on and everything i checked event viewer and it's marked as power kernel 41, ive tried reinstalling windows, used ddu to...
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    [SOLVED] WiFi connection consistently ping spiking every few seconds ?

    I have recently swapped to WIFI since my apartment that I moved to has terrible powerline accessibility, (powerline light is red with slow connections and sometimes connection drops entirely almost 24/7) works perfectly with the red light about 40-50% of the time What I got and where I got it...
  20. jjdrummer720

    Question Why is my computer turning on but peripherals and monitors are unresponsive?

    I had just powered down my system after using it like normal. The next day, I try powering on the system but only the PC turns on (LED lights turn on and fans spin). I have double checked the monitors, unplugged everything from the PC, reseated the memory, and tried resetting the CMOS battery...
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    [SOLVED] Awful stuttering/freezing throughout use of PC, I'm completely stumped with diagnostics and would really appreciate any help/advice. Troubleshooting

    The Problem: For about 6 months, I've been experiencing periodic (once every 4-5 hours) freezing and stuttering. These stutters are very jarring and freaky, like a snippet of audio gets looped and the framerate chugs, it actually sounds like it's about to BSOD but never does. This isn't a minor...
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    Question Is this really possible?

    4 years ago I bought 2 sets of 16 GB Corsair Vengeance RGB ram, that have the XMP profile to OC to 3000Mhz. But since I've bought those sticks, and 4 years later, I've had an issue with a random Black screen where the Screens go down, USB keyboard/mice lights go dark but the case fans, and...
  23. r3ddr4g0n

    [SOLVED] SSD single disk within RAID array not detected by Windows ?

    Hi all, having the darndest time trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong with my RAID array and a new SSD drive. I bought a new SSD drive to add to my home-built system. Everything has been working fine and continues to work fine, but I can't get the new SSD to be detected in Windows as a...
  24. thororo

    Question Pc wont turn on after sleep

    Hi. So i recently upgraded my motherboard and CPU, and everything worked perfectly until yesterday when i when to dinner, and when i came back i though the computer was in sleep mode, because there was light in the keyboard and mouse, but no fan spinning. So i turned it off with a long press on...
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    Question Strange GPU noise? Coil Whine or fan related?

    Hi all, I'm hearing strange noises from my RTX 3060 I believe, at first I thought it might be coil whine but I couldn't confirm it. Changing fan speed doesn't seem to affect it either and it emits the winding, high pitched noise (last 6 seconds of the video below) every minute or so. What do...
  26. J

    [SOLVED] Computer shutting off after POST, Windows completely reset

    Hi everyone, first time poster here. I'd like to apologize for the length of the post but I think it's important I clarify everything. My computer over the last few months has had this issue where, under load, the monitor and all of the USB ports would disconnect. The computer, however, was...
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    [SOLVED] PC won't power on after sleep mode

    Hi, my PC has randomly stopped powering on after sleep mode on windows 10. During the sleep mode to wake it up I tried pressing the keys on the keyboard, clicking my mouse and pressing the power button. I noticed when I clicked my mouse the LEDs lit up but nothing else. Those didn't work so I...
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    [SOLVED] New motherboard and CPU not booting with original boot drive and not reading other storage devices?

    A friend of mine just upgraded from an i7-6700k to an i7-12700k and MSI Z690A motherboard. Can't seem to figure out why it won't even read the drives but through the pictures it seems to be detecting them. I wanna assume that the reason being is because of the new motherboard, he has to...
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    Question Graphically demanding video games keep crashing on my new computer

    I recently made this custom build: CPU | Intel Core i7-12700K 3.6 GHz 12-Core Processor CPU Cooler | Noctua NH-D15S 82.52 CFM CPU Cooler Motherboard | Asus TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS D4 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard Memory | Kingston Fury Renegade 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3600 CL16 Memory Storage | Samsung...
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    [SOLVED] Boot Loop : MSI B550A PRO, Ryzen 3800x , Giga RTX3070 will not boot. Once Login is about to show, hard reboot.

    I was playing a game, and all of a sudden, boom, hard restart. Just D3, nothing too crazy on Graphics. Using M.2 for Win10. Another M.2 for storage GIgabyte RTX3080. 32GB G.SKILL 3600 CAS18 ram 850W PSU Ryzen 7 3800x MSI B550A PRO mobo Now, it POSTs OK, tries to start windows, and as soon as...
  31. TyKim

    [SOLVED] Really loud sound when turned on - ruled out power supply, hard drive, fans (video included)

    Video here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11WUbT6DnrtldbRL3U8GB8ghucXBo8mWA/view?usp=sharing Hey! I'm not a huge computer person so I'm sorry if this is a trivial question. Recently, my computer has started making this really loud, low pitched whirring noise whenever it starts up, without...
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    Question 12V on power supply goes under 11.600 when gaming

    So I've been having this issues for the past couple of months that the pc just would have blue screens and stutters and the blue screens have stopped (except last week it happened again when I changed something in the bios, but I turned the setting off and it didn't happen again) and then, 3...
  33. R

    Question fixing what looks like "lag"

    I rarely post anywhere and just looking for help to try and figure out why things are the way they are Been playing a lot of infinite recently and have been experiencing alot of deaths around corners or, my favorite hiting someone with the scewer and watching them walk away after killing me...
  34. Blank999

    Question PC wont boot; been 5 months trying

    Hello, unsure if im doing this right as its my first post here. My PC hasnt been posting since i built it (5 months ago) and ive tried many things before Heres a part list : B550 aorus elite ax v2 Ryzen 5 5600x RTX 3060TI 16 gb vengance 3600mhz C16 RAM Kraken Z73 AIO 6 total rgb corsair ql fans...
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    [SOLVED] My computer is underperforming for some reason?

    I have a RTX 3080 GPU and an i7-10700k CPU, and my computer can't reach 240 fps on any game. Valorant is 170 fps, Halo is 120, and Overwatch is 200. I'm unsure if games are incorrectly using my integrated GPU still, even after changing my settings so that wouldn't happen anymore. My gpu...
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    Question Need help troubleshooting CPU_LED after weird crash.

    Today I encountered a problem with my PC, and I don't know if this will help but I will write down exactly what happened just incase it makes it easier to solve for someone. So first I've had this same computer since 2015; Asus z97-a Intel i7 4790k Msi gtx 970 gaming 4G , Corsair 16gb 2x8GBcl9...
  37. Granster3160

    Question PC crashing issue after getting 3070 ti

    I recently won a 3070 ti from the newegg shuffle, and I was very excited to install it into my computer. When it arrived, I installed it and the drivers onto my computer (I did make sure to clip on an anti-shock bracelet onto myself and the computer) and it started up perfectly fine. Everything...