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Hey all, Recently switched out my PSU on my build after getting a noisy fan on my previous one. On my old PSU i never had any issues regarding power related controls. For context, I had Windows 10 set up so that pressing the power button while the system is on would shut down the system, I LOVED having this. However recently I swapped my PSU out for a Be Quiet! Straight Power 11 750W and the power button does absolutely nothing when the machine is on. I've also noticed both posting and powering down the machine takes longer (sometimes taking up to 5 minutes to power down after windows has already finished it's power down sequence). It's also hangs from time to time on the display letting you know the hot keys for opening the bios, selecting boot device, etc. I should also mention that I've had issues with my motherboard not acknowledging expansion cards on some slots (every so often it swaps which pcie slot it likes to recognize). Any ideas on what could be causing this issue? Is it possible the PSU has nothing to do with this and it's a mobo issue? (Side note: Yes, I have double checked to make sure Windows still has the power button press set to shut down)

In my opinion, this is a super weird problem and i tried everything to fix it. While gaming, the PC turns off randomly and just boots after like 5 seconds like normal automatically. I am not sure what's wrong. OC is disabled and drivers are up-to-date Specs: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/CMtpcb (Empty = Unknown) Temps: CPU 75*C, Everything else around 50*C BIOS Version: Intel Corp. BGP6710J.86A.2209.2012.0717.2302, 17/7/2012 (I don't know how to update) I really only play 3 games (FIFA 23, Fortnite, Rocket League) but it only shuts off in FIFA 23 and rarely in Fortnite. If i'm lucky, it won't turn off at all.

I recently upgraded my Ryzen 5 4650g to a 5950x. Ever since the PC has been turning off when under heavy CPU load, but not perfectly consistently (not a problem before). When it turns off, the rgb and the fans stay on. Sometimes it reboots, but most times nothing helps but turning the PSU off and back on again (not holding the power button, nor the hard reset button). My specs are: Asrock B550m Pro 4 Ryzen 9 5950x Cooler Master 212 Evo MSI 3070 Suprim X 2x16GB@3200 & 2x8GB@3600 Crutial Ballistix Corsair RM750 I am aware of the fact that the 212 Evo is not really enough to properly cool the 5950x, and an upgrade is planned. However, this doesn’t seem to be the problem. The PC also crashes when the CPU is not overclocked, running at ~3800mhz under all core load, with <70°C. Interestingly, when I first installed the new CPU, it used to run @~4500mhz under all core load, eventually throttling down to ~4000mhz, but always running at the 90°C thermal limit, and using ~150W. It used to crash there as well, but not too regularly, I managed to run a 10 minute Cinebench run just fine. Since then I have updated my bios to the latest version, installed new chipset drivers and Ryzen Master. I am not sure what of these made the difference, but now the CPU is immediately throttling to 3800mhz as soon as there is an all core workload, even though it then hovers around 62°C, with an average power draw of 120W. Like this it also doesn't crash during a Cinebench run, but still during gaming like previously (I like playing BeamNG.drive, that does stress all CPU cores). I have been playing around with Ryzen master, and what I noticed that both AutoOC and manual overlocking cause a quicker crash. For AutoOC lowering the power draw limit seems to make it more stable, but at 150W it is still crashing during Cinebench unlike before. Manual overclocking has similar effects, even just a constant frequency of 4100mhz causes a crash during Cinebench. A quick conclusion over what I've tried without any success: Clear bios Update bios Update chipset drivers Windows (11) is up to date Run with only one type of RAM So I wonder: what could be the problem? I thought maybe its the PSU, but then everything should power off at once, right? Like I said, the fans keep spinning, as does the RGB stay on, and besides, even if the GPU was to draw 400W and the CPU 250W, which is not even remotely the case, the 750W PSU should be fine. My last two guesses are either a CPU failure itself, or maybe the mainboard? I am not very familiar with power phases and that stuff, however, based on OpenHardwareMonitor the mainboard components never pass 65°C, even when forcing a power draw of >170W using manual overclocking. However, it is only a B550, so if there is a realistic chance that that is the point of failure, I will replace it with an X570. However, I can't really affort spending money on multiple components right now, that would mean the AIO had to wait. Edit: Just wanted to include this, in the Windows event viewer there is a critical error 'Kernel-Power' with id 41.

I need some help, I just built a pc and it won’t power on. I have tried everything, even a new power supply. I just really need help from someone

Hi i have a Zalman N3 PC case, which has 3 fans ( 1 exhaust fan in the back, 2 intake fans at front ) Ryzen 1500x RX 580 8 GB sapphire nitro 16 GB ram (XPG single stick) Seagate BarraCuda ST1000DM010 1TB SATA Hard Drive Corsair TX 550 M Gold PSU When i was in Istanbul, the case fans worked just fine ( i basically built the pc from the components when i was a student in Istanbul ) i carried the case and all the components with me when i traveled to my home country ( Pakistan ) Now i am in Karachi (Pakistan), i did the EXACT same setup with the PC However, the case fans do not turn on ! I am at a loss on what to do, since all the connections and everything is the exact same The only difference is the electrical voltages; In Pakistan : The standard voltage is 230 V and the frequency is 50 Hz. In Turkey : The standard voltage is 220 V and the frequency is 50 Hz. I purchased the case in Turkey and used in there, i never used it in Karachi before today (10 Feb 2023) Please note, I did not connect any wire to the PSU, for the fans, when i used the case in Turkey. The fans still powered up and work there for the 21 months in lived in the country. I found a female connector in the case, it is labelled : Fan Controller Power i have attached a picture of it. Please advise on how can I get the case fans working.

Hi All, Important Note: Everything listed is plugged into a powerboard that has a surge protector. What's plugged into the 8 socket powerboard: Computer, 3 monitors and a Standing/Sitting Desk. I want to flip my room around but I will have to use an extension cable to connect from the walls PowerPoint to the powerboard. Main Question: Is this safe to run a extension cable to a powerboard with all these things connected? I just don't want to break anything. Thanks in advance.

I don’t know if troubleshooting is the right section for this post, as the PC is now working properly. But I would like to understand what happened to know if I need to take further action to make sure that the problem is solved. So.. this is the story: The PC was working, but one day as I was replacing a panel of the case I heard a suspicious noise. I then immediately began to move the PC in every possible direction in an attempt to drop what seemed, from the noise, to be a screw. The problem is that even though I tried everything, I couldn’t hear any sound and after a while I started to believe that the noise wasn’t a screw (don't make my same mistake). When I finished what I was doing and I closed the case, attached the cables and turned on the PC, the motherboard started to fail the POST phase while remaining powered on, but the CPU debug led was also on (CPU not detected or faulty). I tried to reboot the PC several times, remove the graphics card and even reset the BIOS, but nothing, it didn’t want to have a successful POST. I then decided to remove the heatsink and reseat the CPU, and it is at that moment that I noticed the screw (photo attached), perfectly stuck between an IC and the heatsink of the m2 slots. I removed the screw (checking that there was no sign of physical damage to the motherboard, both front and back, and there wasn't.), reseated the CPU, reassembled everything and then... the PC was perfectly working again. After that, I started to check that everything was working, I tried all the USB ports, audio jacks, wi-fi antenna.. I ran stress tests with OCCT of CPU, RAM, GPU, VRAM, PSU and checked the functionality of the SSD in the bios (nvme device self test). Everything is perfect, no errors are detected in any of the components, watts, volts, everything looks perfectly normal; as if nothing had happened. You can see from the pictures the position of the screw, and then how it was after I removed it (also the back side). The darker stains on the motherboard were already there before and are present everywhere, I think it’s part of the painting. Any chance this wasn’t even a short circuit? Could it be that moving the PC a lot and beating it (to try to bring out the "hypothetical" screw) has moved the CPU in the socket causing the problem? (I reseated the CPU and removed the screw at the same time, so I can’t know directly what solved the problem) The PC stayed on until I shut it down, it stayed on even for minutes. As far as I know if there is a short circuit the PC tends to turn off almost immediately, right? What do you think? Maybe some of you can deduce from the photos why nothing was fried . I’d like to have your opinion on this, and I’d like to know if there’s anything else I should do. Thanks for your attention to this post

So, to set context. You know when you set your pc to sleep or hibernate and if you click and key on your keyboard or mouse it turns on. It's that only my room fan/light switch can turn it on when they are not connected whatsoever. I have no idea how or why this happens it makes no sense. Only thing I can think of is some sort of power surge triggering my pc to wake. But how the hell do I fix it. did that all make sense?

I use to have this one ASUS Laptop that has a weird issue that I am curious about. For anyone wondering about the model it is "ASUS X556UAK". Now, I highlight ASUS because brands tend to create special features for laptops, or use the same audio drivers or all the ASUS Software that comes along by default. Or "Splendid Utility", because ASUS Laptop monitors by default emit a lot of blue light compared to other monitors or phone monitors. I encountered an issue on that laptop once, that I am curious to find the actual detailed problem and fix of. Incase you don't like reading, here is a summarized version with not enough informations: Not hardware or temperature limit related. But entire device would lag for a second (all games get FPS drops, Google Chrome lags, all UI lags), while fan speed would go down during that moment. Then fan speed go up again. Would get fixed by re-installing Intel Graphic Driver or BIOS Updates. Can re-occur by Blue Screen (irrelevant to issue) or restarts by Windows Updates. Can be fixed with the same methods again. Can not be fixed if the problem changed ("anomalies"). I can not figure out the exact location of the problem. I assume Regedit. I do not know why re-installing Graphic Driver or BIOS Updates even fixed the issue. Does it do something in Regedit? Does Windows adapt and initialize power related stuff from Regedit which will control this behaviour? With "anomalies" I mean issues by the same category that are different from the "global lag for a few seconds". And often with that I mean, issues that don't get easily fixed by re-installing Graphic Driver and BIOS Updates. What does re-installing graphic driver, then restart. And or also re-doing BIOS Update. What does that even trigger that fixes the "global lag for a few seconds"? Figuring that out, can maybe help everyone to find a fix for all issues related to this category. Issue is most likely highly related to all sorts of settings related to power saving or power. Just everything related to power especially when defined in Regedit. Anomaly I don't know a fix of: Regardless of graphic setting set in the game or how less graphic performance is required. It can turn 60 FPS into something low, it stutters and lags temporarily. This is not normal. But I can't find the cause. It gotta be something related to power, be it in Regedit. TO UNDERSTAND THAT, I need answers regarding why BIOS Update and etc. even fixes the main issue, whenever it gets triggered. Not sure why it gets triggered. If you know all the detailed steps that occur when "Restart" gets caused like as if you would know its "function()" then you maybe can help telling what actually happens? There's no third party app causing issues. Important specification notes: It has no NVIDIA or any special graphic card It only uses intel integrated graphics, Intel HD Graphics 620 It has a Battery and there's a sticker that says "Extended Battery Lifespan", "2.5x" CPU not much important, even if it comes with integrated graphics. But it's Intel Core i7-7500U for this example. The problem explained: This can be a general issue, amongst all ASUS Notebooks that were not made for gaming and use Intel and a Battery. This means should someone find this thread through Google, that I hope that we can find a solution so that anyone can figure the issue out and solve it. It is a bit complicated to explain. The issue can appear in many different ways. The first time I noticed it was a big noticeable difference on how the entire laptop was behaving. I don't remember when it happend, but I think a Blue Screen that is unrelated to the issue, caused it. It might shutdown the system and then messed up settings at a bad time? But whenever a blue screen occurs it returns to the UEFI BIOS. Another thing I remember which could have triggered those issues. One time I forgot to turn the power socket on, which means the battery wasn't charging while using the laptop. I noticed that when Windows 10 gave me a popup notification, saying that my Battery would be in a "critical power mode" or something. So it was trying to save power. And the way it saves power, is the thing to look at. It saves power by doing various of things, but I don't know all of them. But you could imagine on what it can do, like reduce GPU and etc. "critical power mode" is something that is actually configurable in the Advanced Power Settings. What the problem in its major form causes: I could specify the problems into different levels. But the main problem caused by the issue. Is the following The entire Laptop will lag for a few seconds The fan speed (that you can hear) will go down while it occurs This lag is not for a single application only, but everything, including explorer.exe, google chrome, and I think the Cursor too. That's what the problem causes. This also means while you have a game open, the game will stutter and the frame rates will drop. However, once this "phase" ends, it all goes up again. How I tried troubleshooting the problem, until fixing it: I've managed to fix the major issue and return the laptop to how it was working before, without any other issues. (That means there can still be other issues that can occur) What I do not know, is why the issue was fixed. I need help figuring that out. Removing certain Windows Updates (don't believe those caused any issues, maybe the way it restarted could of) I've re-installed the Chipset Driver from ASUS Support Downloads link for the involved model. I've re-installed the Intel Graphic Driver from ASUS Support Downloads link for the involved model. Tested around with "Balanced" and "High performance" (none made a difference) and were irrelevant to the issue. Tested around with the power mode. I've went into the Advanced Power Settings, to fool the Laptop to think that 100% should trigger critical power mode. Then I've set it back to whatever it was previously set to. Reset BIOS I've re-installed BIOS using the BIOS Update download from ASUS Support Downloads link for the involved model. One of those steps I mentioned, could have fixed the problem. The problem was gone. All games would constantly have their normal FPS and it would never stutter and there was no lag anymore. This fix would last for months. There were things that can re-trigger the exact same issue again. Mostly a Blue Screen. (Don't worry about Blue Screen though, not point of this thread) Whenever the issue re-triggered, I could easily fix it again. Fixes that makes the problem disappear: Re-installing the Intel Graphic Driver Reseting BIOS to default and then BIOS Update it again Normal restart incase BIOS Update didn't fix the issue. This successfully would fix the issue. Where later I figured out that updating the BIOS again, would be sufficient enough. Any followed normal restarts would not re-trigger the issue. If a Blue Screen always caused the issue, is unknown. There was one time were I would encounter "anomalies" of the issue. One time I used one of those fixes to fix the issue. However, something remained. A game application would lag and only the game application. The thing that happend to the game application, was that it was loading assets and froze for a few seconds (caused by game itself). While that happend the fan speed went down (because that was the only application running too) and the frame rates dropped temporarily. All other applications were unaffected by the lag, I think at least. But I fixed that issue with the other steps again. But then I found this other "anomaly" that I have not figured out how to fix. All games or maybe "Graphic taking applications" would temporarily lag, but stuff like explorer.exe will not lag. I tried checking if any application was influenced by "Power throttling" but in the Task-Manager it was deactivated. And I've only tried the steps that I noted down to fix it, incase it would re-trigger. The major issue explained problem is fixed but it doesn't fix that issue. I do not know why the things I tried fixed the major issue in the first place. And I do not know why it re-occured on special shutdowns or restarts. Figuring this out, can maybe help to find the solution to the "anomaly" issue. Hints: Before I even used this laptop. It seemed to have the Power Mode set to "Balanced" by default. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-the-power-mode-for-your-windows-pc-c2aff038-22c9-f46d-5ca0-78696fdf2de8 This is what I mean by Power Mode. It's this window that shows up when you click on the Battery Icon. I can't tell however, if it ever made a change to the system, or if it was ignored for some reason. Sometimes, after some restart updates by Windows. The Power settings was set to "High performance" while I haven't even done anything. (Maybe changed something else?) This is something that I call "hint" a hint on what could lead to identifying the problem or to find the fix. (As example, Regedit) Is unrelated to the problem: It's not a hardware issue. There are no settings in the BIOS that are related to the "power" Not a temperature limit related problem (doesn't even reach that level) How to control the behaviour completly? (How to fix it directly?) Re-installing Intel Graphics driver, BIOS Update usually fixed the major issue without any traces. But why? Since I ever noticed about the FPS drops that occur only in games, which I couldn't fix with these methods, I don't know where exactly to look at to fix the issue. I've searched around the internet, while I found TTS YouTube videos that mentioned "Power Throttling" and came with Regedit properties. I started thinking that this could be solved in Regedit. I don't know if "Power Throttling" is the issue. But if this is Power Throttling https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/change-the-power-mode-for-your-windows-pc-c2aff038-22c9-f46d-5ca0-78696fdf2de8 You need to know that when there were no issues at all, that it was always on Balanced mode, and that I never found a difference between any of it. The only time I noticed a difference was in Minecraft. However, whatever is controlling how much performance an app should get, seems to cause the FPS drops on games, while the laptop could theoretically avoid it. It's not even a temperature issue or a graphic issue. It's like you run a game that you have on 60 FPS all the times, but the issue will make it drop for a few seconds to a very low amount, temporarily. This thing seems to ignore "High performance" and "Balanced". But I believe that the "thing" has to look at something. And I believe it could be something inside of Regedit. But I do not know. So I am trying to ask here, if anyone knows or is familiar with this issue. Or knows about Power and settings related to it in Regedit. Like, I don't know how to explain. Just note that BIOS Update and Intel Graphic re-installs fixed the issues. And whenever I start up the laptop from a restart, you can notice whetever the issue is going to appear again or not, just listening by the fan speed. If the fan speed works a lot before the login screen. Then I would know that the issue would not occur (except for that one anomaly). But the BIOS Update, doesn't always fix the issues, nor do I know why. I don't know the exact details of what happens when a Laptop reboots. But if one part has to do with Regedit to initialize power configurations on how everything should perform. Then to fix the issue, the answer could be in Regedit somewhere. Now, what doesn't make sense is why the issue gets fixed sometimes and sometimes not. So there has to be something that is getting modified in the Regedit settings by the system? I don't really know. That's what I am looking to figure out.

I'm just wonderimg that if my GPU needs 3 pcie connectors. My 1000 watt semi modular power supply only has two pcie cables. Is it necessary to have all 3 cables for the gpu? If yes is it ok if I buy one pcie cable and connect it to the psu and gpu which makes it all 3.

My computer has been randomly shutting off and I'm scared! It's happened on start, rarely in a game, just randomly browsing, and has no consistency. It doesn't seem to be due to high heat or power draw because my temps are fine and my psu fan is going. I have updated windows, installed drivers custom where they wipe the old one, done a scan with Aura for viruses, and have changed the power plug to go directly into the wall and not into my Anker Power Strip Surge Protector. (My friend said it could be affecting, but I don't think it is) Oh! And now one on my rgb fans strobes on start up until I boot into windows. My life is falling apart please help. Thanks for the help in advance you are awesome. My Build: Intel i5 12600k Be Quiet Dark Rock Pro Asus ROG STRIX Z690-A GAMING WIFI D4 G.Skill Ripjaws V 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 Gigabyte AORUS MASTER GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 8 GB Video Card Corsair RM750x (2021) 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Tried to attach video but file too large

Hi all Planning on upgrading my rig, I currently have a rtx 3070ti fe gpu. would my 750 watt Seasonic psu be enough to power my i5 13600kf and a rtx 4080 fe? I have a nvme and sata ssd, as well as liquid aio and 5 lian li uni fans. I play triple A games on my 4k tv and would like to do a little a bit of over locking as well. Cheers guys

Recently I got a new PC and it started crashing under heavy load, I thought it's not a big deal. Now, issues are a lot bigger, my games crash after playing them for around 10 minutes, the CPU temps reach 77C and GPU ones reach around 68C. I installed 3 additional fans but it didn't resolve the issue.I've ran 2 OCCT's power tests and got blue screens after around 5 minutes, the first test showed that something was wrong with the CPU, the second one just straight up crashed my PC. I've ran the cmd commands but it didn't work minidump folder: https://www.mediafire.com/file/n2g65k6kmbd79ch/Minidump.zip/file pc specs: Intel core i7 11700KF Be quiet! Dark rock 4 135mm SilentumPC supremo FM2 750W 80 plus gold Gigabyte Z590 D SilentumPC armis AR6 TG Crucial 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe P2 (x2) Thermal grizzly kryonaut 1g Palit GeForce GTX 3060 Ti Dual LHR 8GB GDDR6GOODRAM 32GB (2x16GB) 3200MHz CL22 Windows 10 home in last 7 days I've gotten 5 kernel-power 41 errors, 34 Kernel-EventTracing 2 errors and 21 Kernel-EventTracing 28 errors.

I have two pc's and the power supply in one of them blew, so I decided to transfer the working PSU to the computer with the blown PSU. The supply in question is a thermaltake 850w 80+gold and I tested it before hand. I transferred it, plugged in all necessary cables, turned on the power and... Nothing. No lights on the PSU or motherboard (the motherboard(Asus z490-plus) usually lights up even if the computer is off, as long as there is power), no fans, not even the PSU fan. I triple checked all the connections tried a different power cable and tried a different socket and still nothing Pls help.

Hi, Im not sure if this is a PSU issue but I'm having issues with it not powering on. I recently started having a strange problem where if I don't use my PC for a while when I go to turn it back on it lights up the boot order lights get to VGA then the PC shuts off, the strange part is it wont fully power on until I physically take the PC to another room and power it on there then it just works even when I take it back to my room... once it has powered back on I have no issues playing games or anything and turning it off and on again until I leave it off for almost a day. I have tried unplugging all unnecessary cables leaving just the main power and CPU power plugged in and have tried removing the GPU, it just wont start until I take the PC to another room... there is probably something more to it then just taking it to another room that I'm just not picking up on, so any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. PC specs: Mobo: ASUS TUFF GAMING Z490-PLUS GPU: 1080ti Aorus Xtreme RAM: Corsair Vengeance 4x8GB (32GB) @3600Mhz CPU: Intel i9-10850k CPU cooler: Noctua NH-D15 PSU: Corsair RM1000x 1000w (less then a year old)

So I had a pc i was moving to a new case as it was being superseded, and it was being put in a "lesser" case to serve as a backup PC. The issue is that while the components booted before, they don't now. Now i get a cycle of tries to turn on for a few seconds, then stops, and tries again. No Display at all, and i have no speaker for a POST beep, but i have some on order. The things that have changed are the case and CPU cooler, plus losing a load of hard drives. The CPU cooler is where i messed up. It went from an aging AIO to a Hyper 212X, and while i was installing the 212X I released i had goofed and had over-tightened the cooler onto the socket as i missed out some spacers on the standoffs thus making them too low for the screws and I'd "Compensated". I fixed this but fear the damage has been done. I've tested with a known good PSU and without the GPU and SSD, with a mixture of ram configurations - aiming to just get a display and POST - but still the fan-spin then stop cycling persists. Is there anything else i can try to find the culprit? As i don't have a CPU or motherboard i can swap, and I've ruled out the PSU and GPU. Components: CPU - Intel 7700K Cooler - Hyper 212X motherboard - Gigabyte Z170 Gaming GPU - Nvidia GTX 1080 PSU - Seasonic Evo II PSU

I have this scenario whenever the fridge automatically turns off and on, the power fluctuates affecting the 650va ups, nothings wrong with the ups, it does the job well (can be heard clicking every time the power fluctuates), the problem is the PC's attached usb devices, keyboard, mouse, and game controller are disconnected and connected back every time the power fluctuates. What would be a good fix for this? I know that one of the factors is where I am located, when I was on my mother in law this pc don't experience this problem, but now I'm back in the mountain It happens.

I've got both a Raspberry Pi 2B and a 3B+. They've sat for a while without being powered on (climate-controlled, low humidity). When I last used them, both worked fine. When I tried turning them on recently, they either don't finish boot or don't put out a display. With the 3B+ at least, I can hear the attached fan powering on and varying speed a bit. The red LED lights up, but no activity light, and nothing on the ethernet port. I have tried both with multiple power supplies (both at 5V 2.5A max output) at multiple outlets, tried with multiple HDMI cables and multiple displays both TV and computer monitor. To coincide with the lack of activity on the ethernet port, I also do not see a new device on the network nor one of the Pis' configured device names. I'm not sure how both of these can go bad suddenly, so I must be doing something wrong, or I have tremendously bad luck. Any ideas? The one thing I have not yet tried is checking the microSD cards in either of them, which have remained in their respective Pis' card slots. They are fully-inserted. UPDATE: Well, nevermind. I solved my problem. Took the microSD card out to check the boot partition, found it was fine. Forced HDMI though it wasn't necessary before and I wanted to say I had done something. Put the card back in and no issues with starting it up...I imagine it was just reseating the card considering before it wasn't even starting the network stack and no activity lights. These weren't stored in a high-humidity or hot environment so I'm not sure why reseating it worked. Then again I suppose I'm not sure sometimes why power cycling somethings works as often as it does, even though I've been in tech support in some fashion for decades >_>

Hi everyone, Im hoping someone can help me out with this problem; I’ve recently built a PC but after connecting everything and powering it on the system immediately turns off. It seems like it’s trying to POST, it gives a beep code but it sounds like it’s being cut off as it’s completely irregular; my next theory was potential shorting but I couldn’t find anything on inspection. Does anyone have an idea what could be causing it? or know what to look for to see if something has been damaged which could be causing a short? The specs are: mobo: ASUS prime H310M-K R.02 Ram: 2x8GB(16GB) G.skill trident Z GPU: Nvidia Geforce GTX 760 CPU: Intel core i7 6700k

My CPU is a low TDP CPU with only 65W, I know it uses one CPU power cable because it is kind of an old Cpu at this point but the high end motherboard I'm using has two power connectors, should I still plug in both cables?

Hi, so i recently upgraded my cpu from 2700x to 5900x on asus crosshair vii hero, before installing new cpu i installed lastest bios 4901 and ran my 2700x for few days after buying the 5900x and installing it i couldn't boot the pc with docp/xmp on for my 3200mhz gkill ram the system will go through the bios screen and just shutdown and i need to restart my psu to start the pc, even though my pc started without xmp/docp it would run fine on all stess test like prime86 cinebench (15mins) but as i open any game it would shutdown, so i thought i bought a faulty cpu so i returned that one and bought a new a new one directly from retail shop but was facing same issue, then i tried to downgrade my bios thinking there might be something wrong with the voltage regulation with the bios and tried 7 older bios and went to 4007 and got a stable system and could also run xmp/docp. ran all stress test and played new world and few other games games it ran fine. but recently (20 days later) i started playing call of duty warzone 2 and that started to cause the issue again (*i have noticed mostly when i use google chrome(watch twitch) ). so i started going to other forum for help and someone told me to disable c-state so i did and that lowered the amount of shutdown i had but not solve it, recently i was playing dota while using 2 tabs of twitch and i had the crash again which was very suprising to me cause i never had shutdowns while playing dota on the new 5900x system. i also want to add that i never had this issue when i had my 2700x, i used the 2700x again for 3 days after using the 5900x (which i returned) and i had to issues so i think psu is not the issue here, i could be but im not a genius in this matter but this is my findings. i also did my memory test for all 4 rams with memtest86 and got no error. specs- 5900x asus crosshair vii hero (4007) gskill trident z 3200mhz (4x8gb) msi gaming z 2060 cooler master 750 gold fully modular psu 1 hdd and 1 nvme 500 gb samsung 960 something i serious need some advice, ask me anything if i didnt mention.

Hi My computer didn't turn on one morning and I noticed that the HDD led is blinking. I tried to clear the CMOS but it didn't work. I checked all the cables. I tried unplugging everything and it still wouldn't post.I tried other rams but nothing happened. I took the cooler off the processor and the processor got warm. Anyone have any ideas? Specifications of the machine: Asus B85M-E I7-4790k Asus Rog Strix 1070 ti 8Gb Psu (brand new) 500w 1tb hdd 500gb Kingston SSD

Hello guys ! This post is following this one resolved : So am playing GTA V actually to tweak some configuration and see the evolution of my perfs (All i'm witing here, is in the order of my tweaks, and benchs pictures is respectively the order of my comment) i put GTA in Full Low Quality, still in 2K, and my first picture attached show the perfs. As you can see i've got like 1500MHz used, with a lil bit more than 0.800V in average for 35% usage generally. I just drop it like thius, in 3620x2036 DSR, nothing changes in terms of FPS (may be around 2 FPS less but it's almost like an error margin) Then i will just put maximum quality in the ones making me restart the game (I forgot i was in DST 3620x2036, so i changed for 2K, i gained 6Fps, but nothing changes in terme of perfs), : - Textures - Shaders - Particles - Grass This time, i have just a lil bit lower FPS, but nothing awful ahah, and the power consumption of my card is low, and the frequency as before is really high (voltage too) Now, i'm gonna tweak the settings to maximum of : - Shadow - Reflection - MSAA Reflection - Water Quality So i have some loss FPS, exactly the same, as if i putted the DSR Resolution, and i have a bit lowerage Frequency, for a higher Watt usage I will now put to the maximum the FXAA and see that i have like 4 FPS loss, and again lose frequency dropping from 1544 to 1430MHz, and voltage from beyond 800mV to 780mV If i put MSAA + TXAA, i'm now in a range of 1266MHz and 1316MHz generally and a voltage of 731mV for around 74 and 82W of usage Then i will use the settings i didn't upgraded and stop MSAA + TXAA + FXAA : - Post FX + Motion Blur Strenght And i'm in a range of 1367MHz up to 1481MHz, and a voltage between 762mV to 800mV If i put together MSAA + TXAA + FXAA : Average to 56 Fps, in a range of 1291MHz, 80W, and 731mV Now i disable again MSAA TXAA and FXAA, then up to the maximum quality : - Soft Shadow Nvidia PCSS - Anisotropic Filtering - Ambient Occlusion - Tessellation And my average MHz is 1315MHz, with 750mV, at 80W Now finally i will put max MSAA TXAA and FXAA and see final frequency, wattage, voltage : And i'm at the same results than before So, putting MSAA TXAA and FXAA downvolt and down frequency Putting Soft Shadow, anisotropic etc.. Downvolt and down frequency too But Putting these two together doesn't double lower the Volt and Frequency, this is absolutely physically not logical, if i can't catch and rise a weight of 100Kg, but i can do it with 50Kg, if i put 50Kg + 50Kg, i should not have the strenght to rise it, cause it is accumulation of weight making 100Kg... The last bench screen is with maximum advanced settings adding more quality to shadow, plus more quality in the range of view with shadows, so it should destroy performances, but not really that much... PS: i didn't do any tweak with In Game Scaling Resolution. EDIT : i add the bar of VRAM Used In Game with full maximum Settings, at 2K with Scaling Resolution.

My specs are as follows CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x GPU: FE RTX 3070 Ti Ram: 4x8 Corsair Vengeance Pro 3200 C16 Mobo: MSI B550 Gaming Plus Storage: Samsung 970 Pro 1tb NVME M.2 and WD_Black SN750 1tb NVME M.2 Cooling: Corsair H150i Elite Cappelix 360mm AIO PSU: Corsair RM1000X 1000W OS: 64bit Windows 11 Pro Bios Version: Unknown Please note that I started all this with a different motherboard than I now currently have. I started with the Asus ROG Strix B550F Gaming. I recently got a new PC Case (Hyte Y60) and transferred all my components from my old case (Corsair 4000D Airflow) to the new one. However when I went to see if it POSTed, I got absolutely nothing, not a fan spinning, not a single light on the motherboard, absolutely nothing except for a single click from the power supply. I double checked all the power supply connections, including unplugging them and plugging them back in. I tried using a different power supply (Corsair RM850x) as well as all different power supply cables and had the exact same result. I tested my GPU and Ram in a friends PC and they both worked fine. I have not tested my CPU in another rig yet but I don’t think a bad cpu would completely stop power from getting to every component in the PC, but I don’t know for sure so that’s why I am here. Next I swapped my motherboard out for the now current one in my system, an MSI B550 Gaming Plus. Still having the exact same issue. Even tried the other power supply and cables with the new motherboard and still nothing. I will be testing my CPU in my friends rig tomorrow but until then, does anyone have any ideas as to what is happening with my PC?

It has an i5 6400 using the stock cooler, h110 motherboard, 16gb of ram reused, 400w evga powersupply, one of my SSDs I don't use and a very cheap case that I don't know its name. I just want to have a low power consuming pc for Hurricane season.