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if you don’t want to know the background and issues and skip to the question just go to the bottom. For some background I built a sfx build about 2 years ago with a 5900x and a 7900 xt. I have had pretty consistent issues with stability ever since I have built it. But mostly has never been a real issue. In the past month however I have had one to two stability related issues a week. I recently got a Bambu x1c 3d printer which has a weird power demand, it’s very spiky with enough draw to flicker my lights in the circuit it’s plugged into. Unfortunately my pc, which has already had stability issues is part of this same circuit. the stability issues I have noticed: the motherboard lighting fails and or pump lighting/control fails (requires a restart) early on, gpu would fail on startup, required manual selection of pcie gen 3 gpu would display incorrect resolution/framerate on startup (requires a monitor restart) gpu will soft crash under load (3d rendering disables itself and frame rate seems to be 5 fps) (requires restart) (mostly fixed this by increasing voltage by .005 volts) Gpu fails to load drivers/drivers break (requires uninstall and reinstall) computer randomly shuts off when under moderate to high load on either gpu or cpu crashing under long cpu loads crashing under large gpu draws (limiting frame rate fixes this) foldingathome software when run instantaneously crashes computer when 3d printer is running, pc crashes randomly/is a lot more likely too crash any amount of static discharge from myself touching anywhere on the pc immediately crashes pc. the big issues as to why I’m asking help now running Bambu studio sending a print, computer shuts off with no warning and or sigh of doing so. Fine, shut power supply off, spam power button, flip power supply on. Hit power button, instead of the usual click I get from the system/psu. I get a brief arcing noise with no click, with system booting, about every brain cell in me goes “thats not a good sound and I should shut this thing off” and I did so my question is should I risk turning my system back on since it did technically boot, or should I rma the psu to play it safe or another thing? I don’t know, I’ve never had power supply issues and I don’t really know how to diagnose such things. is there other things wrong with my System? I would really like some help with this

Recently finished building my computer, It booted into the bios, code Ab, so I plugged in my mouse and keyboard and the motherboard code b4 came up and even after unplugging them b4 still hung, I looked in the manual and its for "usb hot plug". I re plugged in my usb connectors (3.2 gen 1 and 2) and got the code again, plugged them into my motherboard usb rather than my case usb and still got it. Even with the b4 error code the mouse an keyboard still work fine. I've been sitting on an msi support ticket for 3 days with the only answer being "what's your bios version" (which I already provided), tried the live chat and just got redirected to the forums (0 results) I asked reddit, and got nothing Is there a fix? should I just ignore it? is this normal? I've had my pc build for the last 4 days. 20240104_182943.mp4

If I could get some advice would be greatly appreciated. Long story short my PC was rebooting while gaming anytime I had a ram stick in my 2nd slot. At first I thought bad ram so I bought new ram sticks then it would crash games a lot. PC would work just fine with 1 stick in 4th slot. Sent ASUS motherboard after talking to rep said warranty would cover. Now they have denied warranty coverage. So I went out and bought a MSI tomahawk motherboard. Now I can’t get PC to boot with Red CPU light on. I have tried calling MSI and going through trouble shooting. Updated bios. Checked connections. Re seated CPU checked CPU pins. They are suggesting I take motherboard back. Could this truly be my issue here or is there something else going on I am at a loss

Today I came back home to find my AOC 24G2Z is having problems with artifacting. Everytime I turned it on, it will display the AOC logo with an artifact that to be honest isn't really important as it doesn't effect general use but this just makes me worried since I've been using it for a year without any problems before this. I've tried turning it on and off, unplugging every single HDMI and DP cables but nothing changes. Is this normal for AOC monitors in general? WhatsApp Video 2024-01-03 at 3.30.29 PM.mp4

Just began building my PC yesterday and eventually came across the issue of my NZXT Kraken Elite 360mm not operating as it should be. The three RGB fans are not spinning yet they are connected to SATA power from my PSU. This specific Radiator comes with an RGB controller with which the fans are connected to and plugged into a USB 2.0 Y connector that is also used by the Pump to share a single USB 2.0 header on the bottom of my Asus Maximus Z790 Hero motherboard. The RGB for the fans DOES WORK. However they don’t spin on startup when receiving power like most videos and guides show. The LCD Display has never once turned on despite switching around the SATA connector and 3-pin pump connector to either AIO_PUMP or CPU_FAN. (The manual for the AIO said either could be used, but I’d just have to fix the CPU fan speed error in the bios.) One of my troubleshooting methods was to connect the three Cooler fans into a different fan splitter that was being used by my case’s three front-panel fans. Which allowed them to actually work. This helped me narrow it down to the connection being the issue. Not the fans themselves. Im assuming my LCD has a dead backlight, and my breakout cable is defective. Since this cable specifically has my three fans, the pump connector, SATA for power and the USB 2.0 connector for the motherboard all in one place.

I am trying to reimage an SRNC-17 G2 HP Miltope but the bios is locked due to a previous user putting on a password then promptly forgetting it. Is there any way for me to reset the bios password on this system without sending it back to the manufacturer? I have attempted removing the CMOS battery (which did nothing).

I just wanna know if this PCIE slot is beyond saving and if I should try inserting my GPU still

Hey everybody, i have just built my first pc and it would randomly freeze when playing games. So i tried stress testing it in Prime95 and Intel Extreme Tuning Utility. It freezes usually about 1-5 min into the test. All the lights in my pc are still on and fans are spinning when it freezes but i cannot do anything. I have not done any overclocking btw only xmp in bios turned on. My Specs: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/WqwTFs CPU: Intel Core i9-14900K 3.2 GHz 24-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Lian Li Galahad II Trinity Performance 108.29 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler Motherboard: Gigabyte Z790 AORUS ELITE X WIFI7 ATX LGA1700 Motherboard Memory: G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR5-7200 CL34 Memory Storage: Western Digital Black SN850X 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive GPU: Gigabyte GAMING OC GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8 GB Video Card PSU: MSI A1000G PCIE5 1000 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply CPU temp at time of freeze: 75-85 C Idle Temps are 35-45 C

i need help im building a new pc and got everything installed but when i turn on the pc the vga led lights up red, i dont have a gpu installed and im not getting a display via the motherboard. components: gigabyte x670 gaming x ax Ryzen 9 7900x lexar 32GB 6000Mhz ram corsair RM850e

I have this build which I started 3y ago but changed basically everything of it to this point, besides the CPU. Currently, it has this very weird problem of turning off when I punch my desk and sometimes it doesnt want to turn on again with all my RAM sticks connected, I have to remove 2 of them to make it work. The computer is completely usable without it as I have 64gb of Corsair Dominator on it, the 64gb was mostly to play Cities Skylines as it is a very intensive game. I am starting to think it is a problem with the CPU, as I had a similar problem, but not to this extent, with my previous mobo, a B550 from ASUS. Current setup (yes, I am aware the bottleneck of this build is my cpu but I was meant to sell it to a friend to get a 5800X3D but he backed off) * Asus prime X570 * AMD 5600X * MSI 4070ti * Corsair PSU 750w gold * 4x16gb Corsair Dominator 3600 DDR4 (this is another problem as well as I have never managed to get them to work at 3600, 3200 was the only semi stable speed I could put them on) * Noctua NH-US12 Chromax Most of the cables are less than 9 mo old, inc PSU, case cables and fan cables, but doubt those would short circuit something that would restart my pc. Do you guys think this is a problem with the CPU (ive seen some reddit topics that this CPU has some issues with memory, but couldnt pinpoint anything)?

my pc didn't had any problems since i got it and only started having those problems after I opened my case to change sata cables and switch my current ssd to an older hd I had in my room for years that was on my older pc to check my old files and feel nostalgic or smth; after switching storages, I needed to change some options in the bios like disabling secure boot and I started my pc regularly; I tried some games and found that anything that used my gpu was lagging like crazy and the gpu fans were running at their maximum speed, but I didn't thought anything as the hd was very slow and my settings/drivers weren't as optimized as in my ssd; later, when I felt nostalgic enough and bored of my checking my old files I returned to my ssd, doing everything in reverse order (switching ssd to hd and their cables) and noticed that the pc still weirdly laggy and my gpu had its 3D and video encode in the 90+% while copy and video decode were below 5% in task manager; unlike having a crypto miner in your pc, that makes your gpu 100% all of the time, my gpu runs normally at ~1% until starting any program that requires graphics, then it skyrockets to ~90% usage, always because of high 3d and video encode usage; all that makes me think like my gpu is being limited by some obscure software setting/problem or that something physical is preventing it of achieving its normal performance my thoughts are either that: ● old hd had some malicious files/background program/anything really that spread to my gpu driver or something like that and then spread to my ssd later; ● while touching my pc parts without a glove, static and/or hand oils may have fried my gpu or mobo; ● changing to my old sata cable did something to my mobo I will list everything that I have tried after recognizing that, not necessarily in order tho: - software related -> using windows defender and malwarebytes to check for anything: -> formatting (resetting) pc with the same version of my OS (windows 10 pro); -> formatting pc to other version of windows (windows 10); -> formatting pc to a custom debloated version of windows (ggOS); -> formatting pc to a custom debloated version of windows using ntlite (windows 10 pro but custom debloated); -> resetting all my drivers and installing new ones using snappy driver installer origin, then later drivereasy and some others manually; -> uninstalling my gpu drivers with and without ddu and installing the same version again; -> uninstalling my gpu drivers with and without ddu and installing an older version; -> uninstalling my gpu drivers with and without ddu and installing a custom debloated version using nvcleanstall; -> disabling or enabling hardware accelerated GPU scheduling; -> tweaking nvidia control panel options, specifically 3d options, and geforce experience settings; -> tweaking bios settings and later resetting them to fabric; and most importantly i think: -> used tronscript as a last measure, which does a ton of things automatically that you can check here https://github.com/bmrf/tron/blob/master/README.md - hardware related -> checked my cables and unplugged and plugged all of them again; -> checked my ram sticks and gpu and made sure they were all connected steady; -> did some cleaning, removed some dust and organized cables; -> tried using each sata port separately; -> tried resetting cmos battery memory after those methods listed i had no results, everything stayed the same and my gpu still feels like it is limited to 5% of its power gpu: gtx 1060 6gb pc is a prebuilt from a local company, searching its model name doesnt help much cpu: i7-7700 3.6ghz ram: 2x 8gb ddr4 2400mhz mobo: GA-H110M-H (i think, name is changed in cpuz) psu: local company 500W generic psu ssd: ST500LM012 HN-M500MBB (500GB) old hd: ST1000DM010-2EP102 (1TB) misc info: playing minecraft with some mods i used to get 400fps+ easily, now im getting less than 60fps playing dead by daylight i used to get stable 120fps, now it runs at a stable 7 fps weirdly enough just doing chores with discord, spotify and thorium browser open, gpu is at 30% usage process hacker shows both microsoft's basic display driver and nvidia's drivers in the system information tab (??) at top right while a gpu intensive game is open in the background tl;dr - plugged old hd into pc, gpu now looks like it has a limiter (like those energy settings in windows that you can limit your cpu) and anything remotely graphic intensive uses 100% of 3d and at least 80% of video encode

I've been using an old pc ad a minecraft server on and off for the past 3years the pc contains an a10-6700 apu 16gb of ddr3 ram and a gt620 (all the parts are from an old prebuilt the acer tc-130). (I'm gonna call it a server for a large part of this even tho technically it is just a regular desktop) The pc has been working for the last 3yrs, as the nature as a second older pc I've cycled alot of components in and out including multiple harddrives and os (windows 8.1 , windows 10, 11(even tho it's unsupported I goy it working) and ubuntu server) The server was working last week when I decided to switch out the mechanical harddtive into my main pc to speed up chunk loading, the drive ended up dying a day in probably unrelated but gor detail. So I decided to use my 500gb crucial sata ssd to have the minecraft server on with ubuntu server as the os (same as the harddrive) point is i finish rendering the world and went to put the ssd into the server and was met with a reboot or insert proper boot media. Since I've attempted to use 4 different drives a harddrive with Windows 11 on a harddrive with ubuntu server on and my ssd i plan to use with ubuntu server and even tried to use a blank drive and install ubuntu server onto it with boot media which worked whilst installing but after restarting as part of the install process (the part when removing the usb stick) it can't detect a boot device. Since I've tried 5 different ram sticks, a range of different sata cables. I've some what attempted tk change bios settings but have a limited knowledge do a fix to the issue is likely to be seated there if there is one. The only other thing I could suspect is the powersupply howrver the harddrives spin to life on power on so this doesn't seem to be an issue any input is appreciated there's 2 links showing below. (Don't judge me for being on carpet and using motherboard boxes to keep of it ik it's risky but I don't rlly have many other option available at the momment) Boot without keyboard: https://youtube.com/shorts/LdTeL4OqOGM?si=-YN1-Oj4UObUbapt Bios and boot with keyboard: https://youtu.be/zn2lzjh9ZkY?si=9L89AV98_yAI7V8n

Hello I've encountered a problem while building an old computer that is using an I3 540 and an H55M-D2H from Gigabyte. The system only boots to Windows successfully if you have less than 8GB of RAM in it, PC posts with +8gb but fails to boot into Windows, even though the motherboard seems absolutely OK with it, since it goes to BIOS no problem, just can't boot to Windows. Tried to: -Update BIOS -Reseat CPU (checked for bent pins too, no bent pins) -Swap Memory with this results: 2*2gb Ok 2*4gb POST Ok Shutdown/BSOD Windows 2*8gb POST Ok Shutdown/BSOD Windows My bet here is that the IMC of the chip is damaged by age and it doesn't like to work with more memory but I could be completely wrong. I have an X3450 on the mail arriving but want to get some opinions cause if it's the motherboard I'm kind of screwed. Any Ideas?

Hey there, I recently made a pretty substantial upgrade to my gaming rig. New ROG Strix 3070 ti, Corsair H150i Capellix AIO, new power supply and new case. I felt like a kid on Christmas opening everything up and installing it into my machine. It was all good until...I go to boot up my new command center. The dreaded solid orange DRAM light. My RGB, fans, AIO and GPU light up and come to life, but nothing comes of it. I've tried reseating my ram, tightening and un-tightening the AIO cooling block, unplugging and replugging fans, replugging in EVERYTHING and resetting my CMOS, all for nothing. Any, ANY help would be much appreciated.

I recently got into overclocking on my PC: CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 (@ Stock settings while overclocking RAM) RAM: 1x Lexar Co. 16GB rated for 3200 MT/s @ 1.2V (No info about clocks on stick itself or anywhere else) GPU: RTX 3060 12G MoBo: Asus Prime B450M-K PSU: Asus ROG Strix 750W So I decided to take on this challenge and try to overclock this by myself. This would be the first time I'm overclocking RAM so I decided after some research that following this guide by integralfx posted would be a good start. Everything started off fine and I got pretty reasonable results granting me +10% performance over stock settings. After extensive testing with all the methods recommended by the guide linked above, I ended up sticking with the following settings: Frequency: 3266 MHz with FCLK @ 1633 Mhz VDDCR CPU Voltage @ Auto DRAM Voltage @ 1.35 V VDDCR SOC Voltage @ 1.15 V VDDG CCD @ 1.0 V VDDG IOD @ 1.05 V CLDO VDDP @ 1.0 V Timings were pretty optimized all while being as stable as possible. So everything's okay I'm really happy with my OC, and after running OCCT AVX2 90% Memory test for ~20mins I decide I want to try to tighten some more timings. So I go ahead and restart my PC and ready to mash that dlt key so I can get into BIOS, but that screen doesn't show up and instead I get a slightly unusually long black screen and immediately get thrown into windows. Even after several reboot attempts and also trying to boot into UEFI from windows' recovery settings, I'm not able to get into BIOS while running any sort of overclock. I reset the CMOS countless times undo-ing the timing changes one by one and still can't get it to show me the BIOS screen no matter what. I tried to boot with no settings changed and I can do so, but the second I touch anything, I can't see the BIOS screen and boot into windows even though it is super stable even after booting with no error whatsoever. So I would really like to know what could have caused this issue. It might be the RAM not being able to handle the high voltage anymore due to degredation. If so, I would have to go through the whole process again with a lower DRAM voltage. Some extra info that might help: Recently updated my BIOS from V4202 to V4401 If any more information is needed I can provide them! Thank you for any help!

Hi there, I need help identifying a persistent and challenging issue. We are offering a $100 USD reward for its resolution. So I work for a Minecraft server, and we average a few hundred daily players, however the last 2.5 months or so we've been facing a network issue, every few minutes, we have a random player get disconnected. This problem randomly started happening out of nowhere, the Minecraft server is a Prison server, and we have seasons that last around a month, and this issue popped up mid-season, and mid-seasons we don't change anything major, or update any plugins except for our own plugin when releasing patches for the gamemode, and we did not push anything that would cause the issue we are facing, it quite literally seems like it started out of no where. For quite some time, we were running on a dedicated server provided by Hetzner and we had 0 issues, and like I had previously stated, we then started facing issues out of no where, and at the time, we were using a game DDoS protection service named TCPShield, we then began to go back and forth with their support team as we had figured it was a problem on their end, and after a while we weren't able to come to a solution, so as a troubleshooting step, we switched to two other providers, one being Papyrus, another DDoS protection service, and another named Pufferfish, which we bought a VPS through, and began proxying our Hetzner machine through that ourselves using HAProxy, however none of these things fixed our issue, we still had players disconnecting every few minutes or so, and we had no idea as to what the reason was. After trying different DDoS protection methods, thinking that was where our problem was, none of them resolved our issue, so we decided to switch hosting providers from Hetzner to OVH, that way we eliminate the extra DDoS protection layer we were using, and we used raw OVH as our DDoS protection, that way we could also rule out the dedicated server we previously had as the issue. So now, we had a new dedicated server on a completely different host, an entirely different network, no extra layers of DDoS prot, and we still faced the issue. Our Minecraft server setup consists of a proxy running Bungeecord, 5 hub servers, and the main gamemode server, Prison. When players are disconnected, they aren't disconnected from the server they are on and sent just to a hub, they are kicked entirely from the proxy, and we tried switching the software the proxy used from Bungeecord to Velocity, which still did not fix the issue, we had the exact same error. No matter the server you were on, whether that be a Hub server, or the main Prison gamemode, players were still being kicked, so we decided to look into our plugins to see which plugins we had in common between these servers, in-case it was a faulty one. We found quite a number of shared plugins, however these plugins were all up-to-date, and ones that we didn't believe would cause the issue, such as things like LuckPerms (permission management), LiteBans (punishments), and a few other of believed innocents. We tried disabling plugins that were interacting with networking, such as ProtocolLib (a packet handler which provides an API to devs), and a few other non-required plugins, which again, did not solve our issue. Current Setup: - A dedicated server on OVH running Ubuntu 22.04, with a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU, 128gb of RAM, and gigabit networking - Pterodactyl game panel (baremetal) - Docker, which runs our databases (MongoDB, MariaDB, and phpMyAdmin), metrics software (Grafana, Prometheus, and InfluxDB), as well as houses containers the Pterodactyl panel hosts - Game server proxy running Velocity - 5 Hub servers, and a Prison server (running a 1.8.9 PaperSpigot fork) We Tried: - Switching dedicated server hosts (Hetzner -> OVH) - Switching DDoS protection services - Switching game server proxy software (Bungeecord -> Velocity) - Switching software on the 5 hubs, and Prison server (Custom PaperSpigot fork -> VortexSpigot, another Paper fork, and vanilla Paper) - Ensuring our fireware was properly configured (no rate limits, or bad rules) - Disabling plugins we believed to be at fault, or were interacting with things at a deep level that could potentially cause our issue We Know: - It isn't our dedicated server hardware, or host/DDoS prot (could be something on the machine its self, software wise?) - It isn't the machine being bottlenecked - It isn't the software the proxy, or other servers are running - The issue isn't region based, many players we checked were very far distances from one another The Error (Only shown in proxy logs): [15:36:12] [Netty epoll Worker #44/INFO] [com.velocitypowered.proxy.connection.client.ConnectedPlayer]: [connected player] xxx (/xxx:11576) has disconnected: An internal error occurred in your connection. [15:36:12] [Netty epoll Worker #44/ERROR] [com.velocitypowered.proxy.connection.MinecraftConnection]: [connected player] xxx (/xxx:11576): exception encountered in com.velocitypowered.proxy.connection.client.ClientPlaySessionHandler@38e34ed5 io.netty.channel.unix.Errors$NativeIoException: recvAddress(..) failed: Connection reset by peer [15:36:12] [Netty epoll Worker #44/INFO] [com.velocitypowered.proxy.connection.MinecraftConnection]: [server connection] xxx -> Prison has disconnected With everything we have tried, nothing has fixed the issue we are facing, and we're running out of things to try, which is why we are making this post in hopes someone can help us resolve this issue.

Hey there, PC building beginner here. Ok... so, I really need help troubleshooting this mess because I honestly don't know where to begin. My PC is a Frankenstein's monster with a mix of older and newer parts. I left it off for some months since I wasn't home and now I went to turn it on and got some weird behavior. It worked and performed fine before. The computer always turns on (fans start to spin, LED on), but 50% of the time I get no video and no current to the keyboard or the audio interface. The other 50% of the time it turns on and appears to work fine, but some of the fans randomly decide to ramp up or slow down for no apparent reason (not really sure which fans, I have 1 on cpu, 2 on gpu, one on chassis and one on PSU). Just before I wrote this post it did turn on but it froze on the home screen, unable to read any input from mouse/keyboard. Haven't really done any gaming or resource-intensive task since the problem started. Looking inside the case, nothing appears to be obviously on fire or at risk of exploding. Not really sure what to do. Could someone give me some pointers about stuff to try out to zero in on the issue? Here are my specs: ASRock B450M-HDV (2018 with 2023 BIOS) Ryzen 5 5500 (2023) 16GB Kingston FURY Beast 3200 (2023) Samsung 970 EVO Plus (2020) EVGA 450W 80+Bronze PSU (2020) Gigabyte RTX 2060 6GB (Bought used in 2023 but should be as good as new)

I've been trying to use my Sony A5100 (ILCE-5100) Camera as a Webcam since it's much better than my cheap 10$ webcam. To use the camera, I must first need to download their app, Imaging Edge Webcam. After I tried to install it, nothing happens. No apps, nothing. Tried reinstalling it and it brought me to a dialogue that says something among the lines of "It's already installed, please uninstall first to install the application again.". I then ventured unto my C: drive, in it there's a Sony folder that has the Imaging Edge Webcam application located. Whenever I try to launch the app, this dialogue shows: Not long after I just decided to put the whole folder in the bin and installed it again since there's no Uninstall.exe in the folders. Still nothing shows up, and the folder is made again in the same directory. Launching the .exe still puts the dialogue above. I am completely lost. I have 0 idea how to fix this, Googling and using the fixes provided does nothing. Is there something wrong with my Windows installation? Or is that completely unrelated? I do remember using a debloat software about a year ago to lighten up Windows' CPU usage, but that's it. I've never encountered this at all before this particular app. Like... never.

Hi, I bought a refurbished HP Pro/EliteDesk 600 G3 SFF from Amazon for 120. Then a RX 550 4G LP for 35. Budget build. ISSUE: The GPU keeps overheating and causing games to crash. I tried adjusting fan settings and it is still happening. Gets to like 92 or 93 Celsius then crashes. Took it apart and thermal paste seemed fine but maybe I could redo that? ANY OTHER TIPS? I know these things have poor airflow but I have seen many videos of dudes online with similar set-ups. Also card only draws 35-40 watts with a max of 50. One small fan. Please give me some options or just tell me this was a failed experiment. Thanks!

One of my friends is having an issue with her PC. Here's the specs before I continue on: CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 GPU: RTX 3080 FE on vertical mount w/ PCIe 4.0 compatible riser cable Mobo: ASRock B550m Pro 4 RAM: 48GB (x2 8gb x2 16gb) don't know brand but will update when I find out, I know all sticks are the same brand Storage: 1TB Samsung 980 m.2 SSD PSU: 750w pretty sure its Corsair 80+ Gold full modular The issue she's having is that after a period of time, which seems to be completely random, her PC crashes straight to black screen. For a while we thought it was the CPU since for some reason it was pinned to its maximum clock speed at all times unless Task Manager was open. PC is still crashing from time to time though. Crashes happen regardless of the application from web browsing to heavy games regardless of settings. Tried running it without the riser cable and it still crashes. The fact it crashes directly to black screen makes me think it could be a faulty PSU? Biggest issue is she's in another country so manually troubleshooting is impossible and bringing my extra parts to test against hers isn't possible. EDIT: Tested each RAM stick individually, still crashes out to blackscreen. So either all four ram sticks are busted or its not a ram problem. If anyone has a suggestion regarding the CPU issue with it being pinned to max clock speed all the time. Already manually set the power settings to minimum 5% and max of 99%

I just recently upgraded from AM4 to AM5 CPU (thanks Newegg BF sales), which required a whole new mobo and CPU. Got a Ryzen 7 7800X3D based on GN reviews of it and capitalized on a pretty good deal. One thing I'm running into is keeping this hot li'l guy cool along with my EVGA 3080. I moved to a Gigabyte B650 Gaming X AX board and I'm noticing that it is not keeping the tower cool enough, particularly because the temperature in the case does not kick on the case fans due to the "System1" temperature. Which I can only imagine is a temperature based on sensors on the board, not CPU or GPU. With that, my ambient temp in chassis only stays about 25-26 C, even under load, so the intake fans & exhaust fans on the case hardly ever kick on because of barely any change in ambient temps. Also, I tested some fan curves in the BIOS based on the CPU temps, but then that doesn't account for when my GPU is under load. I mostly game at 1440P, so there's a heavy load on the GPU when gaming and, even if the CPU is not getting too hot, I want the case fans to cool off the whole machine. What do you recommend I do to accommodate for controlling case fan speed (intake and exhaust) when the ambient temperature sensors aren't reporting much change? Here's my PCPartpicker list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/NYZzFs Thanks for your thoughts! -Grey

Ok so basically i got my rx 6700 xt from my uncle he told me that he couldnt get it to work after doing a little troubleshooting he didnt really have a need for it so he gave it to me the Problem is that there is no display AT ALL when i insert the hdmi cable screen turns fully black and then gives the no input signal box onscreen saying that there is nothing plugged in basically fans are spinning and there is no led that gives any errors i have swapped it out for my own powercolor rx 6600 and that works perfectly The rig consists of: Cpu: i5 10400f Mobo: Z490 a Pro 16GB Ram Cv 550 corsair psu ( i know its to weak for the graphics card but it should atleast give me some kind of display right?)

hey guys, just upgraded to a 7800 XT from a 1080TI. got everything going, all drivers installed etc. Now i randomly get black screen freezing with a buzzing sound coming from speakers/headphones, that goes away if i unplug monitor from GPU. the crashes/freezing i cant replicate. it has happened in Rimworld, exiting full screen from Youtube, and if I idle for awhile in a browser or game. but I cant replicate, it happens when it feels like it. I searched the web and it seems like a common issue. any advice or ideas? Prime Z270-A MB I7-7700k 32gig ram @2933 750Watt Corsair PSU

Greetings! So I'm halfway through my first ever PC build (everything besides GPU & PSU installed into case so far), and I've stumbled upon this whole 12V2x6 GPU power cable vs 12VHPWR and I have some questions. I'm using this GPU and this PSU, and I noticed the PSU includes a connector for a 12V2x6 cable, but my GPU only has the outdated(?) 12VHPWR connector. Although I did test the GPU outside of the case and everything powers on perfectly fine with normal temperatures with this PSU, from the small bit of research I've done, it seems like there may be a potential risk of cables melting due to PSU overvoltage because of this 12VHPWR connector. I've done my best to understand this potential problem but honestly I'm a little confused, so here I am! So I guess what I'm asking is: should I expect to encounter any problems related to this connector, or am I just being overly cautious? Any information would be greatly appreciated, as I'm not sure if I should try to return the graphics card while I still can and grab a new one that utilizes the updated 12V2x6 connector, or just go ahead and complete my build. Thanks!

Hi While repasting my Strix Vega 56 I damaged the screws of the retention bracket, I've search online for the screws but couldn't find them, since I don't know the exact size or type of the screws would like to know if some of you can help me find the screws or the type they are, I'm from Europe, so the listing has to ship here. Any help will be appreciated Thank you!