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    Pc beeps once after booting

    Hello! Recently i have built a computer, and when i boot it, it works perfectly fine, except that it beeps once. I tried to turn of "Boot Beep" in BIOS, but it didn't work. I am thinking about CMOS Reset or maybe BIOS Update. Any tips whats wrong or what should i do? -Dezs
  2. VDV

    Stuck on Preparing Automatic Repair

    Hello. I have an Acer laptop and yesterday when I boot it up I got this preparing automatic repair screen. I decided to leave it on and wait but by the time I returned it was still on that screen. I kept shutting it down and booting up again an trying to access to boot menu by clicking F12 but...
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    Windows 11 Boot Issues

    I am having issues booting into Windows 11 (see video). After the loading (circle) screen that shows up after the "to enter bios' screen, the display cuts off. Things I have already tried: Fresh installation of Windows 11 Resetting BIOS (CLRTC) Switching SATA cables One thing I noticed is...
  4. M

    Blank screen and long bios/windows boot times after new hardware install

    So my girlfriend just got the 4070 ti super, (Ill leave the full build below) and after installing it we ran into major issues. Prior to install she had been using the system for about 2 months off integrated graphics just fine and was waiting for a GPU. After we installed it on boot we got a...
  5. Joel

    Windows blue screen

    Hi there, Im having weird issues with my pc, every time i startup my pc shuts off immediatly. However when i restart i get the ' blue sreen of death' and i tells me i was unable to startup windows because of some missing/corrupt windows file on my pc. But the weird part is, whenever i shut off...
  6. D

    (sry for my bad english) While switching tabs theres elden ring type music

    After i played Elden Ring (it was still on) my father decided to get my cable to load up his vape, the cable is connected to a power outlet where my pc gets its power from. He accidently pulled the whole cable not the usb c cable so what happened my pc turned off. I turned it back on but...
  7. L

    Solved CPU Red Led, DRAM Orange Led, Freeze Randomly happening on boot.

    The following lines explain the issue I faced a few months ago, it is very important for the context of the issue I'm facing now : |||||||||||||||| MARCH 2 2023 |||||||||||||||| I have had this PC for almost 2 years now everything was working perfectly fine : CPU : Intel I7-11700k GPU : Zotac...
  8. YawgmothWorker

    ASUS ROG Strix B450-F Gaming Motherboard Issues

    Hello, I'm having issues with my motherboard, and here's my incident in detail: I was using my computer as usual, went out to do some errands, and when I returned, my Windows was completely frozen. I performed a hard reset, but it didn't boot up again. The motherboard's VGA LED was lit in...
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    System needed to be troubleshoot

    First kindly note my current machine specifications: Lenovo ThinkCentre M58p Type 7484 Tower Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 2.40GHz/2M/800 RAM: 2*2 GB (4GB) DDR3 Hard Drive: 320 GB Samsung Chipset: Intel Q45/Q43 Express Chipset Windows: Windows 7 Professional 32-bit SP1 Yesterday I started...
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    PC won't boot after sleep mode.

    Hello, I bought a brand new prebuilt PC from iBuyPower. It's been working perfectly for a few days. Last night I put it to sleep and went to bed. Today when I woke up it was still sleeping, but clicking the keyboard or mouse wouldn't wake it up. I decided to power it off by holding the power...
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    Weird issue with ram

    Pc Specs : MB: MSI H61m p-22 (b3) CPU : I5 3470 GPU : GIgabyte GTX 1050 2gb oc Os : Windows 10 Pro I used to run my pc on a 6gb ram ddr3 4gb 1600 MHz+2gb 1333 MHz for almost a year and it was working fine , but recently i brought a gpu And i had no issue with ram until i decided to modify...
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    Black screen after instaling ssd

    I have a Dell XP5 2710, which had an HDD installed. Sometimes the PC would not turn on at all, just a black screen, but the fans would run. Sometimes it would run normally. Today I installed an SSD and plugged in a Windows USB, but now I only get a black screen with the fans running. When I...
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    Custom built PC takes 10 minutes to boot up

    I built a music production rig about 3 years ago. The specs are: Motherboard: MSI B350 Tomahawk Plus. CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws V Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3600 GPU: MSI GT 710 1GD3H LP OS: Windows 10 SSD: SAMSUNG 860 EVO Series 2.5" 1TB SATA III V-NAND...
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    Solved Can't get rid of ubuntu

    Hello, I have a very old Samsung NP300 laptop, on which I wanted to install a clean windows 10 version, upon using my bootable USB drive it wouldn't remove old settings no matter what I did, so I decided to remove it completely via installing Ubuntu as my OS, the removing Ubuntu by reinstalling...
  15. Luger

    Dell latitude e6420 doesn’t recognize Hdd after taking it apart

    After I took my pc apart reassembled it , The motherboard doesn’t recognize my HDD whatsoever , And when I boot my pc up it shows me this message “No bootable device found” although the hdd is connected ,keep in mind that my Hdd worked just fine before i took my pc apart Any ideas what’s...
  16. emgem

    Windows has disappeared from my PC

    Hi. I tried googling around but couldn’t find anyone in anything near my specific situation. Basically I moved 2 years ago and got a new desktop PC, so my old one has been sat at my dad’s gathering dust. I tried booting it up again today only to be greeted by the Gnu grub textbox I’ve now...
  17. ZpQ

    Issue - Bad performance / Random BSOD / Screen flickering

    Hey guys, It has been happening for several months now, I can't seem to find the issue even though I have a pretty good idea where it comes from (Ram or PSU imo) Here are the issues i'm facing : - While playing LoL, black screen flickers (very fast ones) happening every 3-5 minutes - While...
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    Cannot boot my new M.2 SSD with a Flash Drive.

    Hello, a few months ago i changed from my pre build pc to a new one, only the cpu and the m.2 remained. (i didn't even reinstall windows) But the m.2 is generally slow and also has "only" a health of 27% left. So I thought you just buy a new one. Now after I swapped the SSDs I plug in my...
  19. DeDastoss

    Computer Issues

    Hello. My names is Dominik and i didn't know under which tag i should post this. Lately i've been so desperate. My pc started crashing a lot. To the point where it just somehow messed with system and damaged something. For instance i couldn't open settings or when i wanted to watch a video...
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    Solved I lost my windows boot option?!

    I looked into upgrading to Windows 11 from Windows 10 on my custom built pc. The pc health check app from Microsoft told me to enable TPM and safe boot. So I enabled TPM and saved and exited. Then check the pc health app again and it worked saying I only need to enable safe boot. So I went...