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Update: I just got in a new CPU from Intel. Put it in the PC... same thing. That's new motherboard, new PSU, and new CPU. What else could it be? Checked the power from the wall. It's reading a steady 125v on the multimeter. I feel like somebody is messing with me at this point.

So... I just hooked it up to an old UPS that I had at work. It's not the best long-term solution since I just replaced it because the battery is going. It should clean up the wall power though. I turned it on - same thing. A few seconds then off again. The only thing I can think of is somehow the CPU got fried. It seems that can be a symptom. I guess I can try to find another 1150 socket cpu for cheap. idk. huge pain.

Yeah, I was kinda leaning that way. I pulled the surge protector I had on the wall and tried from the wall. I might move to the other side of the room and see if that's any better. This is a weird one.

I was gaming the other day and my screens went black and I heard a loud buzzing sound. I hard reset after a few seconds and it wouldn't come back on. It would start to boot but die half way through the "recovery" thing. The fans on the gpu would stop working but the cpu fan would keep going. I originally thought Win 10 ate itself because it kept dying during the boot cycle. Then I thought maybe it is my gpu. I pull out my R9 390 and put in an old ATI 1300. It worked. I did a fresh install of Win 10 (hope I didn't need any of those files). I was all ready to buy a new GPU and send my old one in for RMA. Then it started dying with the 1300. Same thing. Won't get though a boot cycle. Then it got to just turn on... turn off... turn on... turn off. I thought maybe PSU - bought a new one. Nope. Motherboard - just installed that. Nope. WTF. I'm too broke to just upgrade everything, RMA everything, and see what gets fixed. Any ideas on what could be happening? I think I'm getting close to the end of youtube by now - I miss gaming. Build: CPU: Xeon E3-1231 v3 Mobo: Asrock H97m Pro4 (Replaced with - ASUS B85M-G R2) Ram: EVGA Superclocked 16GB DDR3 1600 GPU: MSI R9 390 PSU: EVGA 650 GQ (Replaced with - EVGA Supernova 750 G2) Storage: Critical BX200 240GB | Seagate WD Blue 1TB

Yeah, I did that multiple times. It is doing a fresh install right now. Apparently, you have to have nothing attached, including the cord then you can boot into recovery only with esc. Fun times. Hopefully it keeps going and doesn't freeze up on me again. We'll see.

I got a laptop from work (Asus X553M). It's never been used but it's a couple years old I think. I upgraded it to windows 10 and when it did the restart it just went to the Asus splash screen and never went any further. I've power cycled it a few times trying to get into the BIOS. Nope. It will only go to the splash screen. I can't figure out how to fix it if I can't get into recovery or BIOS. Any ideas?

Nevermind, I figured it out. I might have given it brain damage from all the resets (it won't let me back in after I disconnect if from my laptop and hook it up to the internet - I have to reset it and start over). It seems to work though. I imagine it's gonna work a lot better that that POS that comcast gave us. Thanks.

Keith, Firstly, thanks. I got into it but WOW... enterprise stuff is.. in depth. I can't figure out how to change the name and password for the AP. I found the ssid config stuff but I guess I didn't do it right because it is still showing up as Ericsson and open. Any advice?

I'm trying to upgrade the POS wifi router that comcast business sends out. My owner doesn't like to spend money... at all. So I found this Belair 20E AP that used to be used for some kind of xfinity hotspot or something. I reset it and have it connected to the comcast Netgear CG3000DCR modem/router that comcast supplies. It works fine for internet in 2.4 & 5G. I can't figure out how to change the name and set a password. I can't run this thing as open network. I can't figure out how to access the thing to change anything. The gateway IP is coming up as my modem's IP. I'm not the best at network things. I'm pretty sure everything just works on magic but I still need to try to figure this out. Thanks.

I just grabbed a H100 at a thrift store for $14. When I took the fans off there are a couple spots on the rad that had copper colored crusty spots and the back side of the fan had a quarter sized spot on the center of the fan. It flakes off. Is this the Corsair AIO coolant? If so, what are my options? I haven't been able to plug it in to see what works since I'm still at work. Just trying to figure out what I'm looking at. I don't necessarily need water cooling since I can't OC my current CPU but if we only did what we needed to do case LED's and side panel windows wouldn't exist. I'm not wanting to sink a lot of money into this - if it's garbage then meh. What's the best way to test the leak?

Yeah I'm pretty good at dying and yelling "what are you idiots doing?" at my screen as my team runs around like crazy people.

I'd love that keyboard. I've yet to get into the mechanical keyboard game. I want to get a brown switch keyboard whenever I don't have more pressing gear to buy. This would fix that issue. Thanks for making great videos.

I'm building my friends system tomorrow and his case has 4 fans. One in front (intake), two top (exhaust), and one rear (exhaust). I want to move one fan to the front. I'm thinking of moving the rear fan and leaving the top two as exhaust. Is there any reason to do it any other way?

I don't know if this will help but I just added a HDD to my PC (SSD was getting full). It found it in the BIOS but I couldn't find it in disk management. I ran windows Memory Diagnostics tool and boom - there it was. No idea why that worked but it did. Might help you out.

I've been doing that for a week. I guess I'll keep trying. Thanks.