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hardware issue

  1. GanDdplay

    In Progress Pc crashing only in some games

    Hi there! It has been some weeks i had this problem with my pc and after trying all resolutions i found online no one of them fixed the issue so I'm here now. Sometimes, while i play games on my pc, it crashes randomly also when in game stopping the whole pc. What I see once crashed is the last...
  2. Clarkender

    In Progress pc keeps powering on and off and wont properly start up

    pc literally wont boot up. it turns on for 2 seconds then powers off for 5, and repeats. ive turned turned off psu for a bit and turned it back on, same issue. it wont let me attach the 3 second clip here so thats bs
  3. J

    PC windows regularly freeze

    Hey guys, I need a little help with a problem that has been haunting me ever since I built my new PC. Thanks in advance for anyone trying to figure out whats going on :) The problem I have is, that some of my opened programs just freeze ( ____ isnt responding e.g. , or just an absolute freeze...
  4. M

    NVME Drive Will Not Boot

    So strange situation I have. I was upgrading from a GTX 1660 video card to a Radeon RX 6750 XT should have been an easy peasy changeout. But my issue now is that while BIOS detects the hard drive, it will not boot into windows. The computer will only boot to BIOS, I can boot to USB live...
  5. J

    Pc turns on but there is no signal on the monitor and the keyboard isn't working

    Hi! We recently had a power outage at our home. After that I tried to turn on my pc and the cpu fan, all the other system fans and the gpu started spinning but my monitor did not receive any signal and my mouse and keyboard didn't light up. I also had the same issue a few days prior where my pc...
  6. Reef Jackson

    Trouble finding a hardware fault.

    I'm currently trying to diagnose an issue with my computer. I've found that it began bluescreening after I cleaned it (Didn't take it apart, just dusted the thing and switched a fan around). The one consistent BSOD I was getting was a KMODE_EXCEPTION. Which points to it being a RAM issue...
  7. M

    Solved Vertical pink line monitor hardware issue

    Shows as soon as monitor is turned on. I dropped the monitor a while back and had to reattach the plastic surrounding on the front so something may have came loose? 27in benq zomie xlcd. The pink line didn't show up until long after this incident. Once it did show up I could just press around...
  8. Anthony Thomas

    Solved Trying to upgrade but it's not working help?

    Trying to upgrade to a Nvidia 1660 super from a gtx 750 and currently my motherboard is Intel b75 with a CPU i7-2600 and ddr3 8x2-16 power supply is 550w bygears. i put the 1660 in and my computer refused to boot up or when it did it would be extremely slow and almost unusable solutions?
  9. M

    Need help diagnosing my issue. Have been trying for months now.

    Hi, I have a desktop pc: ASUS B-550 F-Gaming, Ryzen 7 3800x, ASUS TUF RTX 3080 12GB, 2x32GB Corsair vengeance 3600Mhz, Kingston A2000 1TB M.2. My issue is that the pc stutters a lot and in pretty much every game I play. In some games it is very random when the stutters occur, but in other...
  10. greng231

    Laptop randomly rebooting

    I have an Acer Aspire 7 that randomly reboots. In the Event Viewer an event with ID 41 shows up every time it happens. The Windows memory test detects no errors. I initially had Windows 10, did a clean install after some time and another clean install to get Windows 11. The problem persisted...
  11. S

    Solved Confirming new CPU as the issue behind lag/stuttering?

    First of all, specs: MOBO: MSI X470 GAMING PLUS MAX CPU: RYZEN 5 2600 (W/ COOLER MASTER HYPER 212 EVO) GPU: GIGABYTE 3070 RAM: 8GB DDR (x2) PSU: EVGA SUPERNOVA 750W STORAGE: SSD (x2) OK, so I decided to upgrade my CPU. I upgraded from the Ryzen 5 2600 to a Ryzen 5 5600g. At the same time...
  12. M

    Solved No HDMI connection from new graphics card

    Hey, So I've got a new graphics card to replace my old one which was broken. My new card is a Geforce GTX 1660, and my motherboard is an AMD 78LMT-USB3. But whenever I connect my new graphics card to my PC the monitors cant display anything, with the message 'No HDMI signal from your device'...
  13. L

    Brother's PC (new build) keeps randomly crashing and restarting under load

    Hi there, Hoping someone here can help me troubleshoot this issue! My brother recently built his first PC, specs are: 5600x CPU + stock cooler B550 Tomahawk Mobo Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4 3200 Corsair CX750F RGB, 80 PLUS Bronze Fully Modular ATX PSU Palit RTX 3060Ti GPU...
  14. Brodie Wagstaff

    Computer making clicking noise and randomly shuts off and restarts.

    Hi there, I have previously had problems with my 3 year old prebuilt desktop, it was randomly shutting of with a clicking noise that it usually makes when shutting down normally, however it would happen randomly and my screen would black out and the pc would restart. This started off happening...
  15. Y

    Random Restarts

    Hello everyone, good day. Firts of all, my specs: http://speccy.piriform.com/results/cKQ4pGqZ18k5DrHZscinwFb This is a problem that I had a few months ago, because of new baby and work my original post closed with no solution (https://pchelpforum.net/t/random-pc-restarts.72921/#post-139905)...
  16. Kristijan Dukic

    My PC freezes after i close every program... or sometimes during me playing a game

    So basically what happens is that my pc freezes if i am in a call with someone they can still hear me... but my screen is in 1 fps. I changed my GPU a month ago. It was a used one it looked fine but now i think it might be broken. I dont see any drop in performance unless these 1 fps moments...
  17. Razorlity

    Solved Won’t display on monitor.

    Tried reinstalling the RAM but didn’t work. Monitor is working fine too.
  18. Democraz

    Pc randomly restarts (Asus anti surge)

    Hey I got a problem here So the problem isn't really about building a PC but more of troubleshooting Around a couplt months ago my PC randomly restarts itself (the power, lights fans goes out too) so I did some cleaning in hopes of getting dusts out, doesn't work, new thermal paste both on the...
  19. K

    Solved My Desktop PC is making weird clicking sounds, what could be the cause?

    This is the link to the weird sound my PC is making: This occurs most often after starting the PC back up from energy saving mode, but (rarely) also happens randomly or after normal booting. It seems to be happening more and more frequently. Sometimes, it just goes away by itsself but most of...
  20. A Random Weeb

    PC not booting/boot looping when a hard drive is connected

    I've recently bought a second hand hard drive off of a local online store and now that I've installed it to my PC, the PC won't start unless I disconnect the drive from SATA. After about 5-8 restarts I got into my PC and HDD Sentinel found the drive and it had about 2300 days of up-time and 93%...