My little brother built his first pc around 3 months ago. He's had some strange goings-on which I can't get my head around.
1. He has intermittent boot up times. If he turns the power off at the back of the computer and at the socket, switches it back on, and then boots, he often has a far increased boot up time. Furthermore, it seems to be more affected by the number of USB inputs, which makes no sense to me (it might be coincidence that this happens together).
On re-booting, without turning power off/on etc, the pc boots up fine, but sometimes has issues finding his keyboard.
2. He has altered sound output through HDMI on his videocard, sometimes. It sounds as if the sounds have been slowed to a snails pace and played (almost demon-esque). He's switched to using the DVI output for video and sound through the motherboard. It seems to be going ok currently.
3. When the pc is on the "Balanced" powerplan within windows, he sometimes notices visual distortions. By this I mean that round 3/4 down the page he sees a line of the picture altered, and when he scrolls the line stays put and images move through and are distorted on entry, and normal when they leave.
Putting the settings on "high performance" the distortions stop.
I attempted to recreate the distortion yesterday but with no luck, so i'm unsure if it to do with the powerplan setting (in my head the powerplan shouldn't affect anything visually)
I built my own pc around 2-3 years ago with any issues, so recommended it to my bro.
He's now paranoid that he's buggered the mobo on install, which I doubt as they're fairly robust things. Does this sound like software issues? Hardware issues? Mixed?
Any help is much appreciated.
1. He has intermittent boot up times. If he turns the power off at the back of the computer and at the socket, switches it back on, and then boots, he often has a far increased boot up time. Furthermore, it seems to be more affected by the number of USB inputs, which makes no sense to me (it might be coincidence that this happens together).
On re-booting, without turning power off/on etc, the pc boots up fine, but sometimes has issues finding his keyboard.
2. He has altered sound output through HDMI on his videocard, sometimes. It sounds as if the sounds have been slowed to a snails pace and played (almost demon-esque). He's switched to using the DVI output for video and sound through the motherboard. It seems to be going ok currently.
3. When the pc is on the "Balanced" powerplan within windows, he sometimes notices visual distortions. By this I mean that round 3/4 down the page he sees a line of the picture altered, and when he scrolls the line stays put and images move through and are distorted on entry, and normal when they leave.
Putting the settings on "high performance" the distortions stop.
I attempted to recreate the distortion yesterday but with no luck, so i'm unsure if it to do with the powerplan setting (in my head the powerplan shouldn't affect anything visually)
I built my own pc around 2-3 years ago with any issues, so recommended it to my bro.
He's now paranoid that he's buggered the mobo on install, which I doubt as they're fairly robust things. Does this sound like software issues? Hardware issues? Mixed?
Any help is much appreciated.