Soaring Spoon

Was a PIA year sub for a few years and canceled the auto renew for 2022. Like got an email confirming and double checked defiantly canceled the auto renew. Months later they hit my PayPal for a new charge. Reach out to cancel and hear nothing back from them. They take so long that I go through PayPal to cancel and refund everything. PayPal opens an inquiry asking for their input. Well they go beyond the respond deadline for PayPal and with my emails about the confirmation they refund me and kill my sub. Never heard anything from them even after. Can't imagine my experience is the norm but good god would I never recommend them to anyone. If people are here looking for good people check out Mullvad real privacy and refuse to buy ads has been good to me since the PIA fuck up.

Draining the battery did nothing. Removing the battery did nothing. Reseating the ram or removing the non sodered on one did nothing. And finally removing the SSD did nothing. Going to take a leap and guess it has something to do with the CPU fuck me wish my first dead PC component was from my tower and not my 3K laptop. Year old paperweight I guess fuck me

I was jumping into VR to play some BeatSaber and the computer complety froze. So I held down the power button to do a hard restart. When I tried to turn it on it had no fan noise or screen. The keyboard shows the red color swipe boot animation on loop. Tried powering it down and trying to turn it on again just yeilds the same result. Figure letting it run out of power is a thing to try but wondering if anyone has some ideas. The battery still shows a charging indicator if its plugged in and it goes away if it's disconnected from the charger. During the color loop both the lightbulb and storage lights turn on and off. Of course the machine has to possibly shit the bead a month out of warranty lol ahh Video included of the loop it's doing. Any help would be much appreciated thank you 20200718_163703.mp4

With Alyx's minimum specs being Core i5-7500 / Ryzen 5 1600 I don't see why it wouldn't be find to run with.

No an Oculus GO wont do the job your looking for sadly. Cheapest I would say is a Vive/CV1 at this moment. Personally if 400$ was my max I would go for a Rift S. It is priced at 400$ and skips the need for base stations. But more than that the Rift S/Index and Cosmos where decent steps up in resolution in the screens. And for Oculus/Valve the lenses where much better than what came before. For someone who came from a CV1/Vive to a Rift S/Index the visual step up was fantastic removing things like the screen door effect. Problem with purchasing any VR right now is the supply chain is strained to hell with the peroni virus and increased demand. If you need need it right now looks like the Vive is the only way to go on Ebay headsets are going for 200-300$ alone. You'll just need a pair of base stations to be complete. While the Rift S is being sold for stupid markups. The Rift S have been coming back in waves to retailers like Best Buy if you keep yourself signed up to inventory trackers you could snag a Rift S at the 400$ price point. Or if you wait China is still coming back up but in a few months or less I would imagine the supply drought will be lesser than it is currently.

Ahhh yeah its pretty old so there is no refunds or RMA's he just got it sent here so I would guess travel damage.

Forgot to mention the R9 390 has artifacts when it is displaying. Its some random squares and a vertical line down the left middle of the screen with artifacts inside of the line.

I am trying to get a friends computer working. I think I have narrowed the issue down to the GPU, R9 390, driver causing the issue. The issue is every time I try install the AMD drivers the screen turns black and the card fans stop spinning. Although the monitor does not say no input so I don't know if the card itself is crashing but every time the fans stop. After rebooting the system it will continue to crash to a black screen. I have to boot windows in safe mode and either disable the AMD display driver or use DDU to remove AMD's drivers. If the driver is removed or disabled the card will work fine until I try and install any AMD drivers regardless of how old. I have installed a Nividia 1080ti and installed the drivers for the card. This issue does not happen with the 1080ti. I have also reinstalled windows and updated it all the way. I have also installed the newest bios version, 7984vBE. OS - Windows 10 64 bit CPU - i5 6600K GPU - AMD R9 390 Sapphire Mobo - MSI Z170 Krait Gaming BIOS - 7984vBE Memory - G.Skill Ripjaw V series DDR4 PSU - EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold

So for whatever reason physically removing the ram did the trick. I always though just shutting down the PC and turning the psu off was enough. But hey it worked and I was able to use Ubuntu to backup my files before reinstalling. @limegorilla @kb5zue Thank you peeps so much for your help. LTT community is one of the best, so quick to help out ?✌

I tried Ubuntu but sadly all I got was a black screen on all the options Trying Media Creation now fingers crossed

Thanks giving that a try

So I stupidly used Easy Driver to check and see if I was missing some drivers. I was so I installed them and immediately got a BSOD with the error whea_uncorrectable_error. I then tried and reinstall Win 10 but after loading files from the usb it flashed a command prompt then went to a blue screen for a few seconds and then BSOD with the same error. I can't boot in safe mode it's BSOD on me as well. When I use memory diagnostics off the Win 10 usb stick I get this error. \Efi\microsoft\boot\memtest.efi Status 0xc0000359 Info: The application or operating system couldn't be loaded because a required files missing or contains errors. I have removed the boot ssd and left the other hard drive to install Win 10 on bit still the same error. I have taken out the gpu, network card and USB hub. I've let it run in bios and it's not a cooling issue. I reinstalled the bios to the newest version 7a. The memory and all drives are shown in bios. I have also removed my overclock and that doesn't fix it. I don't know what to do to fix this, I can't even reinstall Windows or repair Windows. If anyone could help me that would be much appreciated. Specs - Bios:7a CPU: Intel - Core i7-7700K 4.2GHz Quad-Core Processor Motherboard: Gigabyte - GA-Z270X-Gaming 7 ATX LGA1151 Motherboard Memory: G.Skill - Trident Z RGB 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3200 Memory Storage: Crucial - BX200 240GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Storage: Seagate - Barracuda 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Video Card: Gigabyte - GeForce GTX 1080 Ti 11GB Gaming OC 11G Video Card Power Supply: EVGA - 750W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply Operating System: Microsoft - Windows 10 Home OEM 64-bit Wireless Network Adapter: Rosewill - N900PCE PCI-Express x1 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter