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Thanks @bmx6454 - Not the exact problem but it helped me find it! it turns out my main CPU power port is damaged - I accidently plugged the 4 pin CPU and left the 8 pin out. Boots like a charm - though not with my 5500XT installed. Tried running on the 8 Pin only and swapping cables but no joy. Only works with the 4pin. Sometimes being a noob does help trouble shoot! So I'm currently running on the 4pin CPU power - There's no overclock on the CPU. I'm going to make a few assumptions moving forwards: My 5500XT isn't going to work on this Mobo (I've got an old card in which just runs on the PCIE slot) I'm expecting playing games/CPU intensive workloads will cause a shut down? I need a new MoBo Thanks again,

The fall was last year and its been working fine until I tried the 2nd USB 3 port (sorry, I said USB C, my mistake) I think it's the port that's damaged and I've disconnected the cable (front IO) if I leave it in it gives me a warning about voltages and auto switches off. So I just leave it unplugged. Its been a problem since i tried the 2nd port last week, and like i say its now disconnecte. I'll try fully disconnecting the PSU and refitting it in the morning when I'm less stressed. Thanks for the advice so far

Hello, A while ago I broke my USB C port (I was foolish and had my tower on the floor, and knocked it over damaging the port. Lesson learnt. Tower on table.) I've made do without having USB C as I didn't recognise that I had a 2nd port - I plugged it in, realised that this port was also not working (So I guessed it was my cable that's damaged damn.) Since then I think I'm having boot problems. The computer lights up and the RGB lights up as if it's got to start, my MoBo error lights don't light up to suggest it's failing to boot but I have no signal to my monitors. Now I know these work as they're also set up for my work laptop, and here's where it gets weird. I turned everything off and unplugged the rear IO, plugged keyboard, mouse and Monitor 1 back in. Computer boots to start, great, I make sure all drivers are up to date and plug second monitor in, monitor turns on, brilliant, reset computer, no post. Unplug everything, plug keyboard, mouse and Monitor 1 back in, no post, remove M1 and put in M2, no post, Swap from DP to HDMI, no post, unplug everything and remove tower, a week later have ago, connect M1, Keyboard and mouse, posts, reset, no post. I swapped my GPU out - one successful post Try swap RAM - two variations work for one post I've also tried HDMI cables as well same issues. I've checked any internal cables to insure they haven't been knocked - at the PSU and MoBo ports I suspect that I've borked my MoBo as that's the only part that I can think is damaged (faulty cable has been disconnected). These monitors work absolutely fine with my work laptop through a docking station, when I try with my personal rig I don't use the docking station as a way to limit possible errors. Is there anything else I should consider? Is continuing to trouble shoot parts likely to cause further damage before I swap the Mobo? Computer Spec: Mobo: MSI MPG x570 Gaming Edge WIFI GPU: MSI Gaming X 5500 XT 8GB CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3600mhz PSU: Corsair RM750 Boot M.2 SSD: Gigabyte M.2 2280 256gb 2nd M.2 SSD: Crucial P1 2280 I'd really appreciate any help or direction as to what to try next. I have access to a spare PSU but I'm not thinking power is the issue here. Thanks!

So theoretically if I buy my PSU early it might fix my current PC issues, and can install that into the new build. Any of testing without forking out for the PSU?

First proper post on this site so thanks for having me and hopefully wont come across as a complete idiot I think I know the answer but I'm hoping that there's some knowledge that might help me keep my desktop running a few more months until the January Sales and I can upgrade with most bang for my buck. Last night I got it's first BSOD on start up which looked like it was related to the graphics (there was some artifacting of the fun retro blocks moving diagonally across the screen and BSOD made reference to video) the card it self is barely a year old (old card stopped producing any images) and had a tiny over clock - removed overclock and it seems to have resolved, though I am having a nightmare loading programs, with points where my computer is freezing for minutes at a time trying to overlay 3 screens at a time. Often when I open a new window it also opens as "Not responding". This isn't new, and has gradually been getting worse over the past couple of years, and I know a new tower is needed. I've done virus scans (Full), I've disabled nearly everything in start up that isn't essential. I'm also slowly removing old programs and software in a vain hope that will help. When idling my computer is using 5% CPU and 40% memory and I've got the following spec (Overclockers UK pre Build): GPU: RX 550 CPU: AMD FX-4100 RAM: 8GB Patriot Viper MoBo: Gigabit GA-78LMT-S2P PSU: Corsair GS600 Storage - can't remember exact models but there's a few HDD - but they're all 5200 RPM - not expecting lightening speeds but at least things to open when I click I'm running Windows 10 64 bit, the only thing I can think of is doing a recovery install but that's the last resort before buying a new computer, as I said, I'm aiming to do that in Jan so I just need 6 weeks or so usable life out of this thing. (Mainly running some old games - i.e. Just Cause 2, some office work and occasional InDesign use). Any help very welcome

Cheers for the response, as said above - it was the GPU driver going missing, re-installed and it's all running back to expected results. >.< TBH it's a second hand desktop from a friend, it's got the lovely stock cooler on which amazes me (and also why I didn't want to look at oc too much with it).

Okay, not only am I a noob, but a forum noob as well - GPU graphics card had been uninstalled - No idea how or why but that appears to have enabled the ability to kill aliens again.. Sorry for the wasted time... I now expect mocking >.<

Hi Everyone, been a fan of the channel for a few months, love the content, and just returning to computer building after 10 year gap. So I'm running an old faithful desktop running a AMD FX 4100 processor, computer has been running fine until the last week or two when suddenly as soon as I load any games (Tomb Raider, Superhot, PC Building Simulator or Crysis) the CPU goes to nearly max load, but the temperatures barely rise. Only noticed because FPS has gone down to 1 on any of those games on low settings. Come out of the game and CPU usage drops back down to around 10% and the temp will drop back down to 11 or so I have done a disk clean, de-frag (Why not) and multiple virus scans, removed any old programs, set GPU overclock back to default (TR worked before overclocking), I haven't really touched the CPU to confidently overclock at them moment. Rest of the Spec: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P MoBo Trident Viper 8 GB DDR3 RAM Radeon RX 550 1TB HDD Corsair GS600 power supply I'm double checking drivers are all up to date for Chipset and GPU. Any other suggestions (I will humour System upgrade - I was hoping to get one later in the year I just need to get a couple more months out of this one) Any suggestions to get a few more months out of this thing will be greatly appreciated as I'm out of ideas. Cheers :)