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So i finished Building my new clean high end build and installed everything i needed and wanted to Play a game on steam but for some odd reason my steam stopped responding each time i tried to open a game so i was searching for a fix online and one said is hould Change my account to Administrator which it already was but i gave it a shot but when i clicked ,,Change acount type`` it just plain stopped working it didnt stop redponding or anything it just always gave me a buffering Icon when i was hovering above so is tried closing it with the Task Manager and here was where the real Problems beagn because my Task Manager didnt want to open i tried every combination for opening it but None worked please help me P.S: i also couldnt click on anything in the Control panel

I tried delidding 2 CPUs today. Same issue both times, the TIM around the edges came off easy, while it was like concrete on the actual CPU, causing the actual CPUs to rip off with the heat spreader. The Q6600 kinda ripped in half, with silicon particles falling out and pretty severe damage to the CPU, but it made for cool microscope pictures. Any suggestions of how to not have this problem happen? I still have an old Xeon laying around, although it has a lot of modules on top of the PCB I will have to work around. http://imgur.com/a/Tf8G1 is there any way of posting an imgur album link here? EDIT: someone mentioned it could have been because it was Soldered on, which I have heard about but didnt even consider. Is this the case?

I have searched around and found out that it's probably a driver failure of some sort, and the short of it is - I'm stuck at the loginscreen and nothing I do effects the pc (other than power-off/reset/psu-switch). Now this is how it happened: I was playing csgo with some friends, hopped out of the game in lobby. Started Orcs must die 2, to check something ingame(first time opening it on the computer). Messed around in chrome while both still running. I was done so I right clicked and closed OMD2 and continued watching Youtube and whatnot. Then here's when it gets wierd... I noticed OMD2 was still running on my taskbar and I figured it didn't close properly so I left clicked it to go into the game(fullscreen) to close it from inside. The screen went black as usual when entering a fullscreen game, and then I heard the computer just powering down. No warning, nothing. Then I powered it back on and when the loginscreen came up no input devise would work. I've tryed: Power off-on Switching the usb input Other keyboards and mice Putting the SSD in another pc (as that would do anything) Now woile I can't do anything at login, I can enter the bios. so I tryed(from the windows trubbleshooting): Safemode System recovery Both the formating options But I get the same resoult - no change, or "a failure to format the drive..." If it helps here are the specs I can remember: MSI 970A-G43 motherboard AMD 8-core 3,5ghz-ish CPU (watercooled with NZXT 2x140mm) 12GB Corsair RAM (2x4-corsair, 2x2-random green ones) MSI Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 CHIEFTEC 550 PSU? Samsung SSD <---Where I think the wrong is Wester Digital green 2.0TB HDD Windows 10 (upgraded from 7 I've put both of the harddrives in another pc and I can get all my files as if they were just another drive. I have only the OS and some minor stuff on the SSD and I'm starting to think the only way is to put it in another pc and format the whole thing and install a fresh OS, but I don't really wanna spend on a new OS if not completly nesessary. I love the LLT channel on YT and I'm usually watching the WAN show and never miss an upload from you guys. I would love you eaven more is you could find out what's wrong with my system and how to fix it. I'll gladly provide the info you need to the best of my ability. Thanks.

So today I noticed files (specifically music) weren't playing properly from my seagate barracuda 2TB HDD. Long story short, between Google and other forums I discovered my hard drive was getting "bad block" errors, which apparently means it's dying. So, I'm getting a new drive tomorrow before It dies completely and I have to attempt to recover everything. what I was wondering was what are your experiences with drives failing? This one is only 2 years old and is used more as a games/multimedia library, so it's in use only about half the time. It was a 40 C day today but it wasn't under heavy use. Is this normal? Is there any other contributing factors or is it normal for drives to suddenly begin to fail? Im really interested in what you guys have to say. cheers

Im repairing a computer for a friend, and hes wanting me to wipe the hard drive and do a fresh install of windows 8.1. Thing is, the current hard drive has something on it that completely screws it. A screen shows up telling me that windows failed to boot and wants me to put the installation disc in. So I do- and when I turn the system back on it goes straight to the hard drive, even when in the BIOS I set the boot sequence to go from the CD-Drive to hard drive. I am stumped. Other hard drives work in the system The only way I can get it to go into the CD boot is if the hard drive is unplugged.

Hello! I've recently been getting lots of BSOD. At first, I got memory_management. Overtime, the BSODs were either Kernel Security Check Failure or Memory Management. I figured out the memory management; I replaced my motherboard because my old one had some broken DIMM slots. I thought this would also solve Kernel Security Check Failure; however, I just now got a BSOD even after replacing my faulty motherboard. I also still have my old motherboard's drivers installed because I'm not sure the best way to switch motherboard drivers. Thanks for your time! More information below. OS: Windows 10 Home 64-bit 10586.104 CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20 GHz GPU: PowerColor Radeon R9 380 4GB PCS+ Video Card Motherboard: Intel DH67CL BIOS Version: Intel Corp. BLH6710H.86A.0156.2012.0615.1908 Power Supply: Cooler Master VSM 650W Information collected by Sysnative Information collected by PERFMON Update: I woke up this morning, and I planned on doing a MemTest. I turned on my computer, and before windows could load, I got another BSOD that said irql_not_less_or_equal. It would not stop, so I wiped my SSD. I installed Windows 7 Home (I plan on upgrading to Windows 10 again later tonight, but I don't feel like doing it right now). I'll do a MemTest later tonight as well. Oh, and since I wiped my SSD, I went ahead and installed the drivers for my new mobo. FINAL UPDATE: I gave in and purchased a new motherboard. I was not able to RMA because I got no response from asrock.

I have just built a new PC for gaming, after the initial install I decided to run 3D mark, fire strike, as soon as the load bar filled the computer restarted, I tried again and it got through the whole test fine, one day later and I ran the test again, it crashed when the bar loaded, another try and it crashed half way, it has gotten to the point where all stress tests crash it and I can barely load a graphically intense game... I have tested it on valley, fire strike, sky diver, aida64, among several others. Specs: gtx 980ti gigabyte g1 gaming - running in gaming mode, using latest drivers, not OC intel i7-4770 coolermaster v850, 850w power supply asrock h81m-hds motherboard - bios flashed to latest 16gb ddr3 Kingston RAM, 2x8gb kingston 120gb ssd 1tb hard drive Any ideas are much appreciated.

Hey folks, I have a PC that I bought in late 2012, here's the specs: MB: GB z77-D3H CPU: Intel I7-3770 Memory: 8 * 3 GB, Kingston-1600 HX. - that’s 24 GB of memory - Storage 1: 2 * 120 GB, SSD Kingston one of them is hyberX Storage 2: HDD 1TB WD Black Power: Cougar 1000 WCMX GPU: Asus GTX 780 DCU II OC 3GB DDR5 so, that started I guess in late 2014, after I bought another ssd, a hyperx, and attached it to the pc, I installed linux on it. so not I have 3 HDD ( 2 ssd and 1TB WD-Black). the problem now is on windows it freeze, suddenly, then a critical process died error thrown. on linux, same, freeze, then I have to restart it manually, when I boot linux again, it say that it couldn't mount the 1TB HDD that I use for data. on windows it start normally, but it restart suddenly. I've changed the sata controller from IDE to AHCI multiple times, it fix it couple of days then the error get back. I've diagnosed the memory. but it seems that my memory is fine. any hints ? BTW I've tried with removing hards and rams and trying with every single unit without success .

Hi, as for thread's title, my Palit Jetstream GTX 970 doesn't seem to be working as expected. Here is the link of the product (amazon is still selling it so it's not out of commerce) HERE In GeForce Experience there is a LED Visualizer option, which can turn on and off and eventually dim the led on the vga in order to feedback the in-game audio in example. Mine is not working... Any clue on why this happens?

I have a HDD which I've been using for some time now for business files and it's recently ran into problems Now when I plug it in, it says that the partition must be formatted before use, this is something I am NOT willing to do unless I have no option I went on the internet to have a look for a troubleshooting program and something that might be able to recover my files And as the internet does, I was only supplied with some softwares that would run full diagnostics on the drive and it WOULD find the files that are supposed to be on that drive, my problem was that when I would click "recover", although the software was advertised as free, I would need to pay for the recovery tool Can anybody help out with any suggestions upon programs or softwares that're free and will help get my data back Thanks in advance ShadowBrad

I started to do some generic computer repairs and data recovery services to classmates in uni and soon after it became quite a booming side-job. Although it seems most of my work has concentrated to data recovery and such. Currently I get the HDD-s in my to-do pile, Shut off the machine, plug as many as possible into the machine, turn it back on and work on them... usually working on one or two at a time, even though more are connected. (It's amazing though how much windows 10 automatic repair is able to solve the problems). What I have thought is getting 2 hot swap bays. Dual hot swap bay for 2.5 inch drives and one for 3.5 inch drives. I would plug in the drive or two I want to work on and swap them out as I go trough the pile. Without shutting down the machine. Is there any issues with that approach I should be worried about?

So my synology DS215+ had a JBOD array failure. I would be fine, if i was able to backup my data in time. Lets start from the beginning: I ordered a Synology DS215+ and 2X Crucial 240GB SSDs. I put them in a jbod array and had it running for a few weeks with some vms from a proxmox server. I finally decided it was time to transfer my windows user files to the nas. All went well and I was up and running. A few minutes later, I heard beeping coming from the nas. The second drive of the array failed. What I'm wondering is - Since I only had about 170GB on the nas, are all my files on the primary, still running drive? Or did I lose half of my files because it put half of them on one drive and half on the other. The NAS failed before I could do any backups. Thanks, Kyle

Hello, (im new to this forum) i have an pc running lubuntu as a backupserver. I have 2, 1 TB drives in raid 1. Since a few days it has started to act up on me, it has been running 30 days straight with no problems. First it only froze all programms but the mouse was still moveable. now every time i start it up it says it has a critical error in the raid array. I assumed it was a dead drive, but both drives are still spinning up fine and are not making any wierd noises. i was thinking it might be a bad sata calbe but it wasnt that. I noticed that it would only recocnise 1 harddrive. and if i switched the cables it would still only recognise 1 hard drive. even if i only connected 1 out of 2 drives it would still say the same thing. no matter what sata port or what cable i used. i connected the drives to a windows pc and used crystal disk info to see if they had any problems, but both statusus were saying "good". it "boots" into lubuntu when i have one hard drive connected but it would give me wierd errors. if i connected the other hard drive it would give me other wierd errors and after loading completely freezing and giving wierd particals all across the screen. (not one drive made it to the desktop) My question is now, what is going on? is my motherboard dieing? are my harddrives both dead? please help! (if you need more info about the hardware just ask me)

Okay I tried to boot on monday and it freezed at the Ubuntu logo so many times! Also re-install from USB wont work for some reason?!!!

So, my HP Pavilion dv6 laptop stopped working last night. I was doing some writing, and mid-sentence, my keyboard stopped doing anything. The trackpad had stopped working as well. I don't think it was a total lock-up, since the cursor in my word processor was still flashing... If I remember correctly, I could also plug in a flash drive and see a notification pop up... but otherwise, I couldn't do anything. I turned it off with the power button (which is an instant power down, I've done this many times before without breaking anything) and tried restarting... but the screen shows nothing. The power light and keyboard lights come on, and the CPU fan is going, but otherwise nothing seems to be happening. I figured this could be my solid-state drive failing, so I swapped it out with my old hard drive, but that yielded nothing. Next, I tried taking out one of the two RAM modules (2 GB each, hopefully one is enough for boot... if not actually starting Windows 7) in case one of them had failed, but no combination of one or the other in either slot changed anything. At this point, I'm thinking my AMD Phenom II 2.8 GHZ dual-core processor probably finally has gotten some sort of critical damage, probably heat damage. I've kept a close eye on its temperature using Core Temp software, so it wasn't getting hot at the time, nor has it been taxed much lately at all... But it does run at 140-150 F (60-65 C) just about all the time, it's not a particularly cool-running processor, so it may have just been it's time to fry. Any thoughts on any other possible causes for something like this? (EDIT: Oh yeah, I've had the laptop for about 5.2 years at this point, and I used it every day for most of that time... if something broke just from age, I wouldn't be surprised, though I've kept things like the heat sink cleaned and such...)

Hello all Just got this motherboard yesterday, tried to overclock the ram (1600 - 1866) and bam! No post. I've watched a few clear CMOS videos with shorting the battery, but it's not working. I've even replaced the battery! Please help quickly, I just got this motherboard and I want to be able to use it...

My previously working computer suddenly stopped working. When I press power button nothing happens. I've been gooling for 5 days and so far it got me nowhere. Therefore I want to ask you guys if someone can help me troubleshoot this problem. Thank you very much. EDIT: Got it somewhat working Just for the peace of mind I connected that older 20 pin PSU and the computer booted up (I got to the BIOS setup). I had no HDD connected so it could not continue but I am confident that it would work just fine. Computer still does not work with 24 pin PSU. After that I took my multimeter and test it once again (both of them) and here is what I found out: Old 20 pin PSU: 12V ..... 11.87V 5V ..... 5.17V 5V SB ..... 5.10V 3.3V ..... 3.38V -5V ..... -4.31V -12V ..... -10,53V New 24 pin PSU: 12V ..... 11.96V 5V ..... 5.06V 5V SB ..... 5.04V 3.3V ..... 3.42V -5V ..... N/A psu does not have the wire -12V ..... -11,77V The only difference I can see is that the new 24 pin PSU does not have the white -5V wire but since it was working correctly before than it should not be a problem. Using goole I looked up PSU tolerance charts and found that both PSUs are within range. I also found out that -5V is optional (in charts it was marked as "if used"). I still have no idea what is causing this problem and more importantly how to fix it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original content before the breakthrough. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are some of things I have already tried: Checked that power supply cable is connected properly. Checked wall socket that it is working properly. Try to start up using motherboard pins. Verified that power button is working correctly (with multimeter). Checked every power cable is connected properly. Removed CMOS battery. Removed every extra devices like DVD burner, HDDs, extra case fans. Opened power supply to check for some visual signs of damage, everything looked find. With multimeter checked internal power supply switch. Used power supply in other machine with successful boot. However it was old machine with 20pin ATX motherboard so it was not using extra 4 pins of the PSU and the machine I am trying to troubleshoot uses all 24 pins. Removed dedicated GPU (i don't have iGPU) so there was no GPU connected. I don't know if it is necessary or not but I have tried it anyway. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tested PSU using multimeter and looks OK, everything had +- 3.3V, 5V or 12V. I haven't checked SATA connectors since I don't know how but other than that I found nothing out of ordinary. I've even connected molex fan and it was working correctly. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Removed everything from the case and put it on mobo box. Unplugged everything including CMOS battery, CPU fan, left 1 stick of ram in there and 24 pin power + 4 pin 12V additional power. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visually checked motherboard, gpu, ram for any signs of damage. Everything looked fine including no bulked capacitors. What I am going to try next: Use bent paperclip to start PSU by itself with green and black wires and try to check its power output. I have never done this before but using google I found that I just have to check if yellow wires have 12V, orange 3.3V, red 5V and blue -12V (same as 12V but switching multimeter position). Tested using multimeter and looks OK, everything had +- 3.3V, 5V or 12V. I haven't checked SATA connectors since I don't know how but other than that I found nothing out of ordinary. I've even connected molex fan and it was working correctly. Try to put older 20 pin PSU into my 24 pin machine. Haven't tested this since previous test suggested that PSU is fine. I have no idea what else I could try.

Today I was really excited to build my first pc.I was working on it for about three hours and when the time came to test my creation... nothing! I have the Z170 Pro Gaming board which has LEDs on it and they were turned on when I powered the system.The GPU did as well. But no BIOS "beep" and pretty much nothing else other than pretty lights...I can't think of what else could it be, is it the CPU's fault?? I'm really sad right now... Full specs: i7 6700K GTX 970 G1 Gaming Asus Z170 Pro Gaming Kingston HyperX Fury DDR4 @2400Mhz Thermaltake Smart SE 730W

Hello everyone! Sorry to bother everyone here with my issue, I often try to solve things myself but with this one, I simply can't, been suffering with it for 3 days now and i'm getting a bit desperate here. Also sorry for the rather big wall of text. So, a little story first to help make things clear: I build this PC in 2013, recently (about 2 weeks ago) I had issues with my previous motherboard (a Gigabyte 78LMT-S2 v1.0) which forced me to buy a new one (now a Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P), I also had to change my graphics card, from a R9 270X to a R9 380 due to problems caused during a careless attempt to clean it (rusty screw broke and screwdriver hit the back of the card and broke a bunch of caps and small chips). I got my new parts, installed on my PC and imediately started working fine, and it did work for about a week with absolutely no issues at all, I even had a pleasant boost in my games thanks to the new GPU and thanks to the fact that the new motherboard could run my 1866 RAM at proper speed instead of 1333 like the other one did. Now the issue: About a week after I got the new motherboard and graphics card things got weird. 3 days ago I woke up and turned my PC on as usual, instead of normal boot it did one hell of a long "beep" and the pc would not boot (all the fans inside the case started spinning), so I restarted my pc and it booted fine, but then windows failed to boot, it gave me an error and told my kernel was corrupted, I believed it was because I changed the mobo without doing a clean windows install, so I did it and used my pc normally for the entire day, played my games without any problems etc, then turned pc off and went bed. Woke up the next day and turned pc on, nothing. No beeps, no video, fans spinning, so I restarted my PC and it booted, like the day before. Got the same windows error claiming my kernel was corrupt, but I restarted the PC yet again and it booted normally, as if nothing had happened. That got me worried and I expent my entire day searching on my websites what could be the problem and found various possible issues, most people seem to think it could be memory or graphics card related, so I ran Memtest86 for about 9 hours and saw no errors then I ran Furmark in fullscreen @ 1080p for 30 minutes, the graphics card was completely stable with safe temps. I got tired and decided to play some games then went bed. Then I woke up today, turned my PC on, just like yesterday, no beeps, but everything else seemd to go on. I had to restart a few times to get it working, and it got working after about a minute waiting. The two fans on the graphics card would not spin, they would start and stop a few times until they went full speed and the pc booted. Had a BSOD with no errors or anything just a "x24" on screen and then, the pc turned itself off. I opened my case, removed the graphics card, the RAM and the bios battery. I put everything back on and turned the pc on. Everything worked on the first try and windows booted, right after it booted, I opened GPU-Z and CPU-Z to check if everything seemed normal (clocks etc). I ran the rendering test on GPU-Z to see if the clocks were normal when then I got a BSOD that only said "your pc ran into a problem and needs to restart", so I believe this BSOD was something related to the graphics card or the driver because it happened when the rendering test started. I turned the pc off, removed the ram from slot 1 and placed it on slot 2, PC booted with no issues and didn't gave me any BSOD so far as I type this. I have absolutely no idea what is going on, many hours searching online and no answers that were able to help. I can't test other components on my PC since no one around here has something similar. My graphics card, motherboard and PSU are still in the warranty. My full specs are: CPU: AMD FX-6300 (stock speed) Cooled with a Corsair H60 GPU: XFX Radeon R9 380 4GB (previously a Gigabyte R9 270X) Mobo: Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P Rev 2.0 with updated BIOS to FC (previosuly a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2 Rev 1.0) RAM: 1x8GB DDR3 1866 Corsair PSU: EVGA 600B (previously a Corsair CX600) HDD: 500GB Sata3 (that is from 2011, where windows is installed) and 1000gb Sata3 (about 6 months old). I'm really desperate here as most of my parts are new and were pretty expensive for me right now, I couldn't figure out what to do. What do you guys think it could be my issue? Thanks in advance, Felipe. P.S: I can take photos and even make videos it you guys think it may help to understand better what I mean. Also, sorry if I did many typing mistakes, not only english isn't my main language, but i'm rather stressed as I type this so i wouldn't be surprised if there were a few mistakes.

Ok so I just posted something a couple mins ago asking about a HDD warning in Defraggler and someone told me to download Crystal Disk Info to see whats going on. (Thanks for that) Anyway, Crystal Disk Info says the following: Health Status: Caution Everything is fine exept for the Reallocated Sectors Count: ID: 5 Attribute Name: Reallocated Sectors Count Current: 86 Worst: 86 Threshold: 5 Raw Values: 000000000194 What does this mean? <---- (Not Double Rainbow Reference) How long will my drive last? Which HDD's would you recommend? <--- (I've heared Seagates have high failure rates) What temp should my drive be at? I'm running a Hitachi HUA721010KLA330 with 1 TB of storage. Anyway, this is my Steam drive so I'm not THAT worried about backing anything up but I'd still like to know if I should be prepared for a soiled HDD. All help is appreaciated! Thanks!

So I just wanted to ask if Defraggler's drive health statistics were accurate. I have a Hitachi 1 TB HDD that I use as my steam drive and Defraggler shows a message that says Disk Health: WARNING Just want to make sure this is accurate. THX

So I recently got a new Corsair 350D case for my gaming PC and it failed to even boot in that case. I transferred by parts back to my old case and it was sort of working, as it would boot and then stop about 3 seconds later. It would also beep right after I booted the system, which I hadn't heard from my PC before. My system specs: Motherboard: IMP87-MP CPU: Intel i5-4590 Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB (2x8gb) DDR3 PC3-12800 (I believe) GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 750 Ti PSU: Stock HP 300W Cooling: Stock HP air cooling HDD: 1Tb Western Blue OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit Also please note that I'm fairly new to PC building. I know the basics and that's pretty much it.

Hi. I have windows 7 64 bit Pro and I am trying to install some windows updates and it keeps failing. I tried to look up the error and it said to try to reinstall my .NET Framework and that didn't work. I can not seem to figure it out. Please help me figure out why this is not updating! Thanks! http://imgur.com/PDAJUiy

Hello everybody! I have ended the life of a EVGA 04G-P4-3975-KR 970 SSC ACX 2.0+ card & I'm coming to ask you guys for help. Obviously I've done something wrong & I'd like your input so the mistake can be avoided in the future. Hopefully this thread will not only help me out but save some other people from these troubles in the future. To start out I want to say I've been running these amazing bios from over on the Overclock.net forums for three months with constant everyday use. I ran this card at 1532 core & 7906 memory with no problems! I never adjusted the power via sliders or anything else once the modified bios were put in place, I just used EVGA's PrecisionX 16 software to modify the speeds & run a more aggressive fan profile. I had tested this card at higher speeds via AIDA64 Extreme, 3DMark Pro, Cinebench 64, & Valley Benchmark where it did fine. I bumped it down to those speeds for a little bit of safety instead of putting it on the very edge all the time. At absolute worse it would get to 80C with the fans at 100% sounding like a jet was taking off in my office. (though it never downclocked) Skip forward a couple of months & I was really tired of the noise. Specifically when I was doing video editing, the scrubbing would make those fans rev up and down enough to make you pull your hair out. Or even while streaming on Twitch, no matter how good of a audio filter you setup the noise could become a problem at times. Wanting to solve two problems at once I figured I could help protect the long term life of the card & bring it's noise down by installing an AIO water setup on it. I have alot of NZXT products in my build so I figured I would stay with what's worked so far & purchased a Kraken X31, the G10 mounting kit, some Noctua NT-H1 paste, & 16 additional copper heatsinks. I was worried there was a lot of this card that needed cooling that the fan included in the G10 kit wasn't going to adequately take care of. I have a ton of air flow in my case so I thought with some well placed heat sinks I wouldn't have any issues keeping this card nice and quiet while it screamed on those modified bios. So I put everything together & it worked great for a while. I wanted to see how it would handle maximum stress so I fired up every benchmark I could. This card would never get over 55C, it was rock solid & finally silent. I was in heaven for about an hour. I tested some additional overclocks just for grins. The card would bench at 1600mhz core & 8,000mhz memory but after a while would start to stutter. I kinda laughed that even on water that was probably pushing it to far so I backed it down to 1550 on the core & everything was fine. I mean that's only 18mhz faster then I had it running on air for months. I really wasn't concerned one bit since this wasn't about getting it faster. I had a bunch of work to get done so I just let it run endless benchmarks in the background to see how it was going to handle the new setup. About 45 minutes into this I got a business call that took me away from my desk for about 20 mins & being naive or just really dumb I didn't for a second think to turn off my stress tests. I came back to a black screen, the system was still on but there was absolutely no video response. From that moment on this card was officially dead. I tried separate PCI Express slots, I ran completely different cables from different ports off my PSU, I took the card out & put it in another system all together. Then I took an old Quadro FX 3450/4000 SDI card I had laying around & tested everything. My system was fine, I couldn't find any damage to anything but the 970. No matter where I tried to run this card, the systems would never power on for more then a split second. I mean you could push the power button & watch the system fans just twitch once not even really move. That was the fate as I tested it over and over. I removed all my mods off the card completely, reinstalled the default stock cooling system, & well you guessed it, obviously still dead. I got a magnifying glass out just to see if there was any sign of physical abuse on the card, like I nicked something during the mod or I don't know, just if there was any sign of what had happen. Nada, card looks great. I'm truly baffled as to what went wrong. I have speculated that a few of the tiniest chips I couldn't fit additional heatsinks on failed when they overheated. I'm also rolling the idea around in my head that I should have tried to install the X31 on top of the secondary plate that covered all the chipsets / memory instead of putting on all the copper heatsinks myself. I'm really not sure, I've highlighted the spots that didn't get new heatsinks in the pictures below. So I've got another of the exact same card coming. It'll be here Monday. Hopefully with all of your help I can install this X31/G10 on it & not ruin another $350 card. The sticky pads that came on the copper heatsinks have got to be dry by now & I didn't order any permanent bonding compounds yet as I wanted to hear what you all had to say before going down that route again. I watched a bunch of videos of people doing this same mod & clearly I've screwed up somewhere. ALL ADVICE IS WELCOME. Please use my mistakes as an educational grounds to improve your own future builds. Pictures in the spoiler box below: Thanks in advance, 'Gobby

Just finished building my pc and when I turned it on it gave the error "Disk Boot Failure Enter System Disk And Press Enter" I dont know what to do know, i think i enter the disk my mother board came with but i dont have an optical drive can i get some help please?