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System was running fine until I was looking at my system properties and saw my RAM reading that said: 8GB (3.79 Available). I thought that was weird since it used to say 7.4GB available, so I turned off my pc and decided to take out both Ram sticks and install them again and now my pc powers but doesn't post (yes I have read the pinned topic). Tried using only 1 ram stick on both slots with both ram sticks, still nothing. I would also like to note that after a few moments (40 seconds or so) the fans and lights stop and go for a split second as if I reset the machine, this continuously happens. Any help would be very appreciated. System Specs: Athlon X4 860k (Stock Cooler) Radeon R9 380 Western digital 2TB Seagate 3TB 8GB Ram (4GB Kingston 1600hz) (4GB Ballistic 2300hz) Corsair 450 Watt Windows 7 Starter edition 64 bit
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I bought this just over a year ago on Black Friday 2018 and I didn’t know what to buy or what different parts did what do I bought a terrible pc for around 1000 usd from Lenovo. I have a core i5-8400, a 1060 gpu, 8gb ram (16 max), only exhaust airflow, very lame case with >*[RED]*< as the only lighting option... I also have a monitor from Lenovo for around 200 usd which is 1080p and supposedly 60hz but it reaches 75hz. The only good things about my system is: 1. It has a robust handle. 2. Cable management. Worst part of all is the lack of upgrading available. Oh, also... the newer model has an i5-9400 with an RTX 2060 for like 1100 usd. It was around 850 usd on Black Friday. I regret not building my own or doing research... thank you for coming to my half past 11 ted talk
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I recently purchased a I9 9900K, Asus Z390-H, water cooler thermaltakewater 30. 120 ARGB, 16 gb ram 3600 mhz on a Kingston 240 sdd, and when i open a game it will start fine but on the loading screen the game will automatically close all of a sudden, I have tried update all drivers checked the temps while opening the game and no thermal throttle, and advise on what it could be?
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Hiya peeps! I have posted regarding this topic previously (previous topic: ) Soo it's back... It all starts with a random shutdown and after that whenever I press the power button, it starts the booting sequence. Everything powers up for maybe half a second (computer does send a video signal to the monitor) but then the boot fails and refuses to react to the power button again. This to me seems peculiar as why it wouldn't react to power button again. Only way to make the power button react is to remove the power cable from the wall that the pc is completely removed from all power, flicking the power supply button isn't enough. At one point this made the os corrupt and had to go to a backup. After re-installing it worked for a while, but it was a short fix. So far I have tried the following: -powering down normally and restarting -disconnecting all the cables -removing the power cable and turning the power button off at the back of the power supply (this resets the whole situation and at that point power button works once again) -removing and re-installing the graphics card -dusting the computer -re-seating all the ram -removing the CMOS battery Somehow this seems like a short circuit somewhere but I have no idea how to diagnose it. I'll try diagnosing it tomorrow afternoon as soon as I get home from work. Any suggestions would be greatly helpful.
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HI! So for the last few days i have been having problems with my PC not starting properly. The fans spin but the PC doesn't start, and i have to shut it down and turn it on again. Also today i tried to play R6S with friends and my Pc suddenly crashed. First i thought it overheated, but as i had recently cleaned it i was skeptical and monitoring the temperatures in game they seemed normal CPU around 50 and GPU around 75 Celsius. Afterwards i ran a stress on both the GPU and CPU seperatly and everything worked fine. Than i decided to try to test both at the same time in AIDA 64 and after a second or 2 my PC crashed. I tried it again with the same results. Now i believe that indicates that my PSU is falling. IT is a few years old at this point. It is a no thrills Cooler master 600W 80 plus bronze one. But i just wanted to hear your opinions if it might be something else worth checking out before buying a new PSU since i do not have a spare one to test it. Thanks in advance. PC SPECS: CPU: Ryzen 1600 MOBO:Gigabyte b350m gaming 3 Ram Kingston 16gb 2666hz cl16 GPU: RX 580 SSD: Crucial MX500 500gb
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Attempted to get my brother into overclocking his PC. I have done it on the past, but while testing multiple setups the PC stopped booting. Here are the specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700x GPU: NVIDIA Geforce RTX 2070 MOBO: Gygabyte x470 Aorus Ultra RAM: Ballixtics DDR4 2400 Mhz (Base Speed) SSD: ADATA SU630 The main problem is that the PC turns on, but there's never signal of it getting into the BIOS or the OS. This is what I have attempted so far: 1. Clear the BIOS - By using the CLR_CMOS jumper and Removing the BIOS Battery. 2. Removed Graphics Card since it is not an essential item for the pc to boot 3. Removed secondary RAM Stick Here is the MOBO Manual : Aorus x470 Ultra Gaming When attempting to boot the machine the Status LEDs go all the way up to boot, but then it stays there. Nothing happens. (Status LEDs) information found in MOBO manual page 21 Any recomendations?
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Hello, me and my brother use the same pc, he plays League of Legends and we all know how that game can be frustrating. He got mad today and smacked the Desk hard with his hands, and at the same moment, the PC turned off on its own. It's been a hour and I'm trying to turn it on again but the HDD just won't start up. It makes a weird noise when starting up. Can this even cause a HDD to fail? Audio recording 2019-08-09 21-29-42.aac
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Hello People, I had this server for a long time when we moved to our new house i put it in storage remove the HDD/SSD (i don't have the original SSD/HDD) any more everything worked fine before, few months later wanted to use it again for a school project been trying for few weeks to get some kind of a post or video out of that thing without success, It turns on all the fans run and slow down at some point,all light blink green or stay green. hope you guys can help me further System information IBM System X3650 M2 2x XEON X5570 2,93GHZ 24GB of ram 6x 4gb IBM pc3 - 10600R MT 7947 Model 96G P-ID 794796G MFG date 2010-2-26 i can't tell what bios version is on it it use to run with vmware esxi the original drive i don't have anymore What have you tried? i remove everything that is not used (like external cards network adapters etc) no post/video all cables are in the right place that they should be fully original as it came no post/video tried switch ram modules around running it with 1 ram module swap that around no post/video running it with 1 power supply or 2 no post/video switch them around no post/video Also got no access to IMM no fault codes on power supplies no fault codes on LPD only - - or 1.2 if believe that is normal 1.2 with 1 ram module Video port front or in the back no output (no signal) tried 3 different monitors from lcd panel the the old school stuff switch monitor cables a lot no post/video PS i added a blank SSD noting on. it get a error code if i remove it no drive detected i came to a point that i dont know anymore hope anyone can send me in the right direction if you need anymore information please let me know.
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hello all, this is my first time asking question here on linustechtips :) i have a question about hdd grinding noises... i have two hdds stacked together with a usb non power hub connected to my macbook when i copy files between them, those two hdds will make HUGE grinding noises and will copy slowly. but then it will stop copying and disconnect a while later.. if i take out one hdd from it, it wont make any grinding noises and work well like nothing ever happened... i bought the usb hub because i needed more ports for work(you know macbook has only two usb ports haha) my first guess is limited current making hdds spin slower therefore heads crashing to the disk... and then eventually fail? im so dumb why did i do this....i shouldve just connected two hdds separately(and maybe all the other peripherals on one side).... im now worried about the hdd that might have been damaged by many MANY head crashes... im currently copying files that has been failed before to see if anything got damaged, .... nothing bad so far... should i be worried? thanks for any replies :)
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Some of these values look kind of worrying and I don't want to lose very important data on my drive. (Read Error Rate and Seek Error Rate)
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So my pc doesn't boot, and i heard sparks. The HDD was pretty old(6+ years) so i thought that died and got a ssd. Turns out hdd was fine and pc still not booting up. Its either psu or mobo can someone help? I5 2400 8 gigs ddr3 Cheapo chinese psu, 350w(6+years old) update: PC boots but dosent go past BIOS splash screen and i hit delete and bios setting literally popped up like a minute later. it was like a gameboy running windows 10. is the mobo toast? or PSU fried and low power delivery issues? or is it RAM related? Help me obi wan, you're my only hope
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i booted up a PC a week ago and saw an error that DIMM 3 contained a memory error before the OS booted when i pressed F1 to continue and opened task manager i saw i was runing at 6GB which means i only have one pair in dual channel(i have 4 sticks of 2GB DDR3) and the games i played werent runing well i tried rebooting with the same issue next day when i boot up the BIOS tells me that my memory size is different and when i log in it says that i am back to 8GB so i think nothing of it and start playing but my game(Assasins Creed Syndicate) freezes and my whole PC freezes i have to force reboot(i pulled the plug) this would happen again and again whenever my PC told me i was at 8GB and i think the RAM in DIMM 3 is the one causing the problem i have tried switching its slots and cleaning the RAM(using an eraser on the gold contacts) but the same happens i posted this to rule out any software issue that might be causing this??? PLS HELP!!!!!!!
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Recently ive been having issues with my nvidia drivers remaining installed on my pc. I figured that reinstalling the drivers would solve this issue but it didn't. Every time i get to the end of the installation it says restart this PC, and once i do nvidia is not installed neither are any of the graphics drivers that are meant to go with it. It was working perfectly fine this morning which is dubious, so if anyone can help me out.
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Heyo, my HD suddenly stopped detecting since last night and I can't figure out why. Connections looked good, it shows up in disk management but is not allocated and gives me an I/O error. After a quick shut down and reseating the connections, it shows back up again no problem. It randomly just stops detecting when I'm in the middle of doing something. Has anyone else had this issue before?
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Hi, Got myself into a bit of pickle and would appreciate any input. Are there any issues/pitfalls with physically transferring a primary boot HDD from one PC to be a secondary HDD of another? Can the act of installing the HDD into another PC cause damage, specially resulting in the HDD partitions not being recognized in Disk Management and the whole thing coming up as 'RAW'? Please note i'm not trying to boot from the transplanted HDD and the PC booted as normal from its HDD using Win 7. The reason for asking is my mates 12 year old Vista PC finally died last week. He'd mentioned some issues with the monitor and once I got to look at it I instantly diagnosed it being a graphic card failure. It had all trademark signs, at least to me, after being on for about 5 minutes it exhibited pixel corruption that progressively got worse. Some odd pixels but thinking about it now more like memory corruption of Vista render elements, e.g. explorer, windows, popups etc. In fact I suspect the GPU completely failed as I was there as the monitor went black/turned off completely for no good reason. Although that could have been a sign of something worse, maybe a PSU failure? Anyway while he could look for a replacement GPU ( second hand ) I suggest that he instead take my old Win 7 PC which was a few years younger than his and more powerful. I figured this would be the easier solution especially for the future since not even browsers actively support Vista any more and so moving to a Win 7 machine would give a few more years of application support. With this in mind I grabbed his two internal HDD's ( both 160GB SATA) and took them home to install into my old WIN 7 system. I didn't know which of the two drives were the old boot drive so I just picked one at random. My Win 7 machine had a spare power connector ( its one of those wires that have an end connector but then two others 'spliced' into the line or daisy chained - don't know correct terminology ) and then I hooked up the SATA cable to a spare connector on the motherboard. Booted the Win 7 machine and to my horror a dialog popped up saying to format the transplanted drive! I think this happened after Win 7 automatically installed drivers for the new HDD and auto-assigned a drive letter to it. Did some digging online and discovered the transplanted HDD was coming up as 'RAW' file system under disk management. As far as I could tell looking at device manager the HDD was recognized and drivers installed and claimed to be working. I had been using the Win 7 machine for a day before trying to install the HDD and from what I can tell its in perfect working order. No hardware issues, not temperature issues, no power issues. My Questions: The main question I have is that I have a second drive of my mates ( presumably the non-boot data drive from his old machine ). I really want to try installing that into the Win 7 machine as that is probably the more important one with all of his data on it. However now i'm concerned that the act of installing it might corrupt it? Do you think its safe to install this other drive or should I not touch it? I'm now wondering with the fact that both drives are the same make/model and 160GB if perhaps it was set up in a RAID configuration. Could that explain the issues I was seeing? With regard to the corrupted HDD my questions are; 1. Have I just been really unlucky and normally you can simply plug & play with modern HDD and OS? 2. Are there any issues normally with transplanting a HDD from one machine to another? Is there anything that the act of installing the drive that could have cause the file system to become corrupt? 3. Does the transplanted drive being a boot drive present any issues as long as i'm not trying to boot from it? 4. I assume if the HDD has a SATA connection and a typical power connector then can you simply just plug and play into a motherboard? No issues with different SATA connector types, which SATA connectors to use or Power consumption/watts/amps etc? I.e. anything on the physical or electrical side of things? 5. Are there any bios settings or set up either on my mates old machine or my new machine that might have caused this issue? I looked through my Win 7 bios and could't find anything useful in there that might help. It says SATA is set to IDE mode, the alternatives are ACHD or RAID. 6. Could my mates drives have been set up in RAID configuration? Is there any way to tell? If they are RAID how the heck do I get them working in my system considering I don't want to boot from them as its a different machine? 7. Any advice on what to do next with this HDD? Thanks for any help you can give. General Hardware Information: Testdisk.exe report for damaged drive - Seagate ST3160812S Current partition structure: 1 P Dell Utility 0 1 1 5 254 63 96327 Invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot 2 * HPFS - NTFS 6 30 25 19128 110 54 307200000 2 * HPFS - NTFS 6 30 25 19128 110 54 307200000 Invalid NTFS or EXFAT boot 3 P HPFS - NTFS 19128 110 55 38903 181 62 317689856 3 P HPFS - NTFS 19128 110 55 38903 181 62 317689856 Disk /dev/sdb - 160 GB / 149 GiB - CHS 19452 255 63 Check the harddisk size: HD jumpers settings, BIOS detection... The harddisk (160 GB / 149 GiB) seems too small! (< 241 GB / 224 GiB) The Windows 7 PC Intel Core i7-920 ASUS P6T DELUXE Intel AMT Support: Not Supported SATA RAID 0/1/5/10: Supported It has 6 SATA points - 3 of them are difficult to access, but two of those are already used for the original win 7 HDD and a CD_ROM. Another two are easy to access facing vertically upwards on the MB and its one of these that I used - I assume all SATA connections are standard and the same? Existing HDD - Serial ATA 3Gb/s - Seagate ST3500418AS
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Hi I have bought a Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F a couple a weeks ago and now I tried to boot ist up but the on indicator led blinks for maybe 0.2 sec and the fans spin up but turn off also after a 1 sec or so until now I tried other ram thats known to work with supermicro boards. Any idea what could be the problem? Thanks in advance EDIT: Mainboard: Supermicro X9DRi-LN4F+ Rev.1.20A (Dual Socket) CPU: 1x Intel Xeon E5-2670v2 (10 Core, 2.5GHz-3.30GHz) RAM: 64GB (8x8GB) MICRON PC3L-10600R ECC MT36KSF1G72PZ
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Hi, I got a pc that since a week ago start failing, it haves sudden reboots or shutdowns, when it turn off the monitor after no use, I move the mouse to get it back again, the monitor turn on but only a black screen comes up, so I need to reboot it manually. Also the mouse and the keyboard fails here an then, I need to unplug and plug it again to get them to work again. Dont know whats going on.. My rig is an Asrock extreme 4 z87 mobo, a msi armor gtx 1080 gpu, i7 4770k, 32 gb ram team dark 1333, a psu evga 750 gq, os installed in ssd sandisk 480 gb. The mobo, core and memory ram are 5 years old, the ssd and psu are 1 year old, and the gtx is one month old. I think is the mobo, however I need any input i can get to be sure whats going. Thanks in advance for your help.
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Hello! I have had some weird issues with my computer lately, I believe it could've been a power surge (I have an EVGA 500W 80plus) since my monitor suffered a weird color flickering and couldn't get my PC to boot. Piece by piece I started discarding issues and I got to the WD HDD which was responsible for the system not booting. I immediately removed it and tried to use an external 3.5 SATA enclosure to try to recover the data and this is where my post really begins. The drive shows up in Disk Manager, however, it appears as unallocated space and not initialized. As I try to initialize it says it's write protected. In this state I have tried to run Data Lifeguard Diagnostic for Windows which approves all test on the hard drive but immediately says "Too many bad sectors" when checking the data. I have tried to initialize the drive with ThumbScrew and manually insterting the DWORD value in regedit to try to change the readonly attribute with no effect. I have also tried to use DiskPart to clear this readonly attribute but it fails with no more information. Recuva is useless since the drive has to already have a volume (such as C: or D:, which it doesn't, I have tried looking for the volume in DiskPart but it's not there, only the disk shows any information) EaseUS recovery doesn't let me hit "Proceed" even though it has a "Search in Unallocated Space" option, it asks me to give it a partition, which is not there. Scanning for files just gives me 0 files on LostPartition-RAW. I have tried HDDRegenerator but when I try to fix the bad sectors it just tells me the drive must be installed internally, which I can't do because I'm on a Mac at the moment and soon I'll be getting an SSD for my PC and then try that option. TL:DR: I have an HDD with unallocated space, a hell of a lot of bad sectors, not initialized and write protected. Anything else I should try? Where I'm from it will not only be expensive, but hard to find a trustworthy data recovery centre. I will miss this data, but it's not the end of the world for me, apart from party footage with family and friends, graphic animations I have designed and just quitting Fallout 4 and Skyrim since I will never go back without my savegames. Specially Fallout since, well, 76 is sht. Thanks a lot and I hope I'm doing something wrong or there's a way around the issue
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Motherboard has power (2 Amber light by graphics card, 1 white light on graphics card) I've tried the green to black wire on psu I've tried reseting the cmos INFORMATION Intel H270 chipset Intel core i7 Asus 5x Protection lll UEFI BIOS ASUS EPU M.2 Windows 10 64bit 1.2v 8Gx8 ram(I have 2) 500w power supply (Allied) iBUYPOWER i-Series 504 120Gb SATA (WD GREEN) 1TB HARD DRIVE SATA/64MB Cache (WD BLUE) 1Cpu fan 1 Fan 1psu fan ATX form factor
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Hello there. I would be glad if someone could help me. I bought a 3TB Toshiba HDD around 2 months ago and 2 days ago I got a message from HD Sentinel which said the health state is critical (29%), and it detected 85 uncorrectable sector failures. I was freaked out, so I performed a retest to make sure it's not a mistake, and the error is mystically disappeared, the health state is 100% since then, but the performance is..well.. crap... I think this is the best word. None of the programs I used has detected any error, but the write speed drops to constant 1.5-2.5 MB/s from the original 110-140/s in a few seconds after the operation starts. The read speed looks kinda okay, but it also decreased from constant 170/s to an unstable number between 55 and 160 MBps. Btw it's an archive drive, so in theory, it shouldn't be impacted by any windows background operation. Model: Toshiba HDWD130 ( https://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Desktop-7200rpm-Internal-Drive/dp/B013JPLOQQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1540637010&sr=8-1&keywords=Toshiba+HDWD130&dpID=41X-19gBXYL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch Could it be a simple software failure or it is the drive which closes to the end? Thanks for the help!
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Ok, so I have been having an issue with Windows update (big surprise, I know) for the entire month of October. So, after the whole debacle with data deletion and what have you, I'm seeing an influx of posts around the web of people running the 1809 update, but mine keeps refusing to install! It shows up, it "downloads", it restarts my pc and then just says a restart is required. Then I looked at the update history, and it is just a string of "failed to install" messages (picture posted below). So, after literally spending ACTUAL HOURS trying to find someone with this issue, I simply cannot. It took quite a while to even figure out that error code 0xc19001e1 means "MOSETUP_E_PROCESS_SUSPENDED, or The installation process was suspended. (Link to where I found this https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/windows-itpro-docs/blob/master/windows/deployment/upgrade/resolution-procedures.md) Does anyone know what is causing this? Any help would be appreciated, as I am currently pulling my hair out between this and several other projects... THINGS I'VE TRIED Installing windows from boot media (Downloaded from MS website) Disabling Malwarebytes Disabling antivirus Updating drivers Sfc scan command Playing with insider preview settings Probably other things I can't remember.
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I went to turn on my laptop when plugged in and i get a message from the Bios saying that my battery has experienced permanent failure and needs to be replaced. And underneath that it says warning, the battery cannot be identified and cannot be charged. This is strange becasue the battery was working earlier today just fine. And when the laptop is turned on with the laptop plugged in, I can see the percentage the battery is at, but it says it is not charging.
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Specs: i5-6500 Asus B250 M-A (Only some months new) Patriot 8GB Ram PSU is from some workstation, like 700w. Phoenix Pro SSD I bought a brand new EVGA GTX 1050 from amazon, (replacing my old HD 5970). It just fails under load, sometimes even just browsing internet. I can't play games; I can't run Kombustor (stress test it). -The screen will cut to black or just lose signal. -I've tried DDU a couple of times, reinstalling the drivers. -I've even completely uninstalled windows and reinstalled it, resetting everything. -I've ordered a replacement GPU and it does the same exact thing -BIOS is updated (1205) -Messing with the GPU clock settings doesn't do anything
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My hard drive makes clicking sounds while the laptop boots and booting takes too long (the OS is on a SSD). And for some reasons it fails(ie game just crashes and the hard drive restarts) while playing only FIFA 19. Any ideas what's going on and any solution?
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Recently everytime i star to play a game my gpu its 90c. It only comes down when i open msi afterburner. Even on hot summers day it didnt get this hot, the max temp was 80c. I don't know if the problem is related to the drivers or is the gpu. The gpu is the MSI RX480 (https://www.msi.com/Graphics-card/Radeon-RX-480-GAMING-X-8G.html).