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Motherboard: Strix B550-f (wifi) RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX cl16 DDR4-3000 CPU: Ryzen 3700x GPU: Asus windforce OC gtx 1060 6gb before switching it out for 2Rx570s in Crossfire for fun Cooler: EK-AIO360 Drgb Storage: Samsung Pro 850 512gb (x3 RAID 0) and Samsung Pro 860 512gb (windows install) Case: Lancool II-W (Non-Mesh) PSU: Corsair Rm850x I was undoing the PCI lock using a screwdriver to reach it and it slipped hitting the top side of this chip on the motherboard (image below) and now the plugging in the PSU a and flipping the switch causes mobo rgb to turn on (as usual) but when pressing the power button the Q-Led indicators do nothing and no display while everything else turns on (fans gpu fans&rgb). When this accident happened I had just switched in and had been using the rx570s and was currently in the process of switching them out. I dont know if this problem is with the mobo or the graphics card but im pretty sure its the mobo as neither the dual rx570s or 1060 display anything from any ports.

Hello! I have a Corsair HS35 and I messed up. I have a mic/audio splitter to well, split the audio and microphone signals and I plugged in the mic into the audio port. Now the mic output is very quiet. Did I just destroy the small elektret mic? Will I have any problems if I just replace it with a similar one?

Long Version: Hello everyone, new to the forums and decided this should be my first post as it is a very interesting but horrible accident that could have easily been avoided. Around April this year a close friend told me if I could clean his Xbox one, I agreed and started the cleaning process. During the cleaning I decided to try and pry the heatsink but it wouldn't budge even after taking the T9? screws out I tried to pry it out by hand but it didn't budge, I tried sliding it off like how you would on a desktop motherboard heatsink but still no luck. So for some dumb reason I used the Ifixit screwdriver with the T9 torx bit but it got stuck, I pondered as to why and took of my yellow filter glasses to see better as to why it was stuck and applied force to get it out. As soon as it got loose with force it flew right into my right eye, everything immediately went blurry and some mucusy fluid came out. Went to the hospital and was told it was a corneal abrasion as they did not have specialist where I live but recommend me into going with one, the following day with my family I do just that and the retina specialist immediately put a hard cover patch on my eye and told me to go to the emergency room ASAP in another town so a longer drive there and I speak to my current retina doctor. She did an MRI scan to see if I had any foreign bodies in my eye which they said I didn't but said I had an Open globe so I was put under and had tiny sutures on my eyeball itself so the wound could close up. The following day she checked my eye and noticed my natural lens was bent backwards, and shattered literally in pieces from the bottom and was cataracted as my body tried to stop it from getting worse, so I had to get a second surgery being put under and getting my cataract removed not by laser but my whole lens leaving me aphakic in my right eye. After a month or two passes going to frequent visits for my eye and trying to apply from some health insurance as my bills piled up "Thanks 'Murica" I get an even worse affliction. My retina was torn because a piece of lens still in my virtuous jelly cut my retina open and I had a black cobweb shadow in my right eyes field of view. I go and get it scanned with ultra sound but the doctors assistant said it might be a floater, I know myself doing research that it's wrong so I went to the first doctor who told me to go to the ER and she found out that my Retina was cut open and detached. Going back to my doctor with the news I she tells me I need a Scleral buckle which I told her multiple times if we could avoid it because I've heard horror stories of being in pain with the buckle, She said she would think consider it depending on the damage but may go for a vitrectomy with silicone in my eye. I go again for another surgery being put under and when I wake up it was a mountain of pain in my right eye and worse vision as the buckle was put in and the silicone didn't help. After a few days the pain lowered but only due to me having a high pain tolerance and she told me to take it easy, a few days pass and my eye is in so much pain and I couldn't even see out of it. I go back to her office due to the pain and couldn't do the normal "Hey can you see these letters on the screen" because I wanted to lay in a certain position to reduce the pain. The Doctor checked me out and my eye pressure in my right eye was 69 (haha funny number) so that was the reason I couldn't see out of it, she also stated the silicone was leaking and the surgery was a failure due to this so she got some nurses to hold my head down and stuck a needle in my eye whilst I was awake to remove some silicone to help ease the pain. A same day I'm again put under to get the silicone out and instead get a gas bubble in my eye which helped relive most of the pain but I had to stay face down for 2 weeks because of how the bubble works. Now we hit today, I'm in constant pain but I tolerate it due to the buckle, I have double (honestly triple) vision because of the buckle and on how I impacted my eye with the screwdriver I gave myself astigmatism so my cornea is warped and has a scar above my iris. Thankfully during the 4th surgery she did put a lens implant but I cannot see far even though I chose the far away lens and sunlight hurts my right eye as the lens did not have the Yellow UV protective coating. I wish to have the buckle removed but my doctor does not want to do so and is sending me somewhere else farther to get that done... Please take care of your eyes, I sure as hell didn't. Shorter Version: Punched?? My right eye with an Ifixit screwdriver trying to clean an Xbox One. Lost my natural lens and cut my eye open because of the sharp edges of the Torx bit thankfully did not puncture as the tip is flat but gave myself astigmatism because of it. Had to get 4 surgeries on my right eye and owe a ton in medical bills. Thankfully I still have my eye and can see but not well out of it, glasses do not assist. Apologies for any misspellings or me forgetting to put words in, typing with one good eye and one double vision bad eye makes text look weird. Also don't take this as a feel bad for me post, I just want you all to hear my story so you can take what happened to me into consideration when your working on anything no matter how small, always protect your eyes. P.S shot in the dark for myself but any Retina or Cornea Specialist out there that can answer my question, after my accident when I look at a certain light or color my eye mini pulsates? Like not my entire eye just a tiny spot in the front of my pulsates or vibrates like a little water drop moving with vibration and goes away after awhile. Image below is just proof of me going into ER blurring out my first name, and the names of the docs for privacy. If for some reason you are interested in more info feel free to ask anything!

Y'all, i messed up BIG TIME and accidentally wiped an 8tb drive with diskparts "clean" command, thinking it would scan the drive and fix errors. it sure as hell didnmt and there was some very important shit on there. WHAT DO I DO? It was a drive i used for plex and home movies and i cannot afford data recovery. HELP PLEASE

ok so i was sitting down, because i was trying to look at something, and when i got up quickly i accidentaly hit my pc while it was on and it showed a bluescreen. the whole computer shook, now btw it opened normally so did something move that caused it to crash or??

Posting to vent, I was so god damn careful pulling a part a friends broken laptop to replace a dead drive. I tip toed around every ribbon cable removal but now there's no touchpad functionality! On a side note, who's great engineering breakthrough was it that decided, "Hey, instead of placing access panels on commonly failing components like EVERY GOD DAMN ONE ELSE, let's make people remove the whole top keyboard assembly to get to the HDD" Thanks Acer. Ugh, I've ordered a replacement cable already but holy crap that's been an ordeal. I need a beer.

I wake up and get ready for a long day of studying put my coffee on my desk and go to grab my pencil, knock over my coffee cup and it all flows into my tower. Everything has been working fine after I dried it with compressed air and a dehumidifier, except my graphics card. It will power on and spin its fans when its just in uts PCIE slot, but when i actually plug it into the power supply, my computer wont power up at all. do you guys have any idea what I can do to fix it, i dont think its dead, it may just be shorting out. Any help is appreciated.

I bought my MSI GS65 last December and I registered the product. Last Thursday a friend spilled coffee all over my keyboard and I thought that I was done for. After doing a little research I found about the Accidental Damage Coverage from MSI. I called MSI and apparently I do apply for the warranty, they gave me an RMA numer and I'm sending it as soon as I can. Has anyone had any experience with the accidental damage coverage from MSI? Did you have to pay anything? I'm just wondering if this is too good to be true, I can't believe that MSI covers for accidents like these...

I don't really need help with this but for the past couple days I was wondering why my wifi wasn't working. I knocked my modem over with my monitor arm and it landed on my wireless charger and i forgot the wireless charger was there so i just left it in case i moved the monitor again. the wifi worked for a bit afterwards, but the next day it was off completely. Then a whole day happens and I decide to stand my modem back up and see the wireless charger and went into the settings and just had to enable the wireless radios again. Interesting how that worked but yeah now i'm just hoping i didn't damage the modem too much. So if you or someone you know has a wireless charger next to a router let them know this happens. Anyone with more knowledge know exactly what might have been happening in this scenario?

Hi there , my pc has just had an accident namely it fell onto my bed and then it got punched 2 times to the sidepanel by my younger brother , the pc specs are the following Ryzen 5 2600X GTX 1070ti asus x470 prime pro 500 gb samsung 970 evo 16gb 3200 mhz ram (after the accident ram went to 2400 mhz but after resetting it to 3200 its fine and stays at 3200) windows 10 64 bit Everything appears to be working correctly , the system does let me into the BIOS UEFI , does boot , all thedata is present , the gpu is correctly identified by the NVidia control panel , in the bios the 2600X is identified correctly same for the ram (except for it going to 2400 mhz but after resetting the profile its at 3200) and it appears to be fine . Is there any way I can further test my pc for hardware failures?Were 2 punches to the metal sidepanel likely to crack my mobo and cause it to fail/give wrong ram speeds?

Yes I was fixing a crack in my gpu shroud and got some near screw I know It is ok if there is no heat there. Gigabyte GTX 1070 G1 8gb from 2016. Sorry using phone to edit.

Yeah so I accidently disabled my dGPU in Windows 10 and i have a black screen. Only way to get video out is by removing the 1060 and plugging the monitor into iGPU. Any way to re enable my 1060 without reinstalling windows 10?

This is a fail on so many levels. When the software detects something is wrong it doesn't alert the driver and the driver is required to monitor messages that appear on a screen at her lap. She shouldn't be required to do something that distracts from driving and even then why put the screen somewhere that requires the driver to look down? When the news initially broke I thought it was the driver's fault for being distracted by at the time what I thought was her cell phone but now I think its uber's fault and she was just doing what they told her to do. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/05/emergency-brakes-were-disabled-by-ubers-self-driving-software-ntsb-says/

So I was replacing the thermal paste on my CPU/GPU for my laptop and I was being a bit dumb, but I was trying to disconnect the battery from the MOBO and it slipped and touched the board gently. I saw a blue/white spark and that was it. I panicked and started looking for burn marks. None visible. I immediately put it back together and it powered up ok. Then I took it back apart, replaced the thermal paste and started it again. I now write this post on here on said laptop after running a full benchmark for BIOSHOCK Infinite. Everything seems okay, but could I be missing something that may affect it later on down the road? Any advice helps. Thanks guys!

Right now, I took out my motherboard (and CPU) from my pc but I noticed that the PSU switch was still on. The pc was definitely turned off but the PSU was switched on and plugged in. Is my motherboard, cpu, and ram okay. I have always made sure to unplug my PSU when removing/adding components. I am just very concerned right now. Any response is appreciated!

Help, please! What should i do? So I was just watching youtube and playing with a magnet. Then accidentally it got under my laptop. When i realesed it from there my laptop froze and sound like cracking glass started. I imediatly shut down the laptop and turned it on. It displaied an error that my pc couldn't boot up. At that point i understood i was f***** up. I need your advise! What should i do?

Firstly, I've had enough internal grief to last a life time, so believe me, consider the lesson learned. Upon water hitting the top of the rig, the PC turned off within seconds. I quickly unplugged it and disconnected all external devices and plugs and leaned it on its side. I made the unwise decision of trying to turn it back on right after it shut itself down, and it seems as though that was the final nail in the coffin. Whenever I try to turn the computer on it turns on for a half second before promptly shutting back down. I tried the paperclip test on the PSU, and sure enough, the power supply is dead. I have a new one on hand, though it's still doing the same thing. I've tested the RAM and graphics card on another rig and they work fine. The only thing I can think of is the PSU shorting the MB, and possibly the processor. My question is, based on how my PC is acting, is my MB protecting itself from breaking by promptly shutting off, or is this a sign of a dead MB? Thanks in advance guys! Been an awful few days, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

I guess this accident was a matter of time to happen. It happened at the closure night of the Festival de Talca here in Chile. It resulted in three lightly injured people. The drone was attacked from the crowd with a “boleadoras” that shut down two of its motors. The operator preferred to bring down the drone in semi controlled way, not deploying the parachutes. Authorities are now discussing who the fault is. That could be the Municipality, National television (TVN, who was broadcasting the event), the company that produced the festival or the company that was operating the drone. The fines could range from one million pesos (around 1,369 USD) to 120 million pesos (around 164,383 USD) I hope this is not a world first, that wouldn’t be very honorific to Chile U_u Source: http://impresa.lasegunda.com/2016/02/15/A/fullpage#slider-18 (in spanish) *I edited the figures of chilean pesos to use a comma, since you use that for the thousands instead of the point.

It has been many years since I have felt the dull agony unique to the destruction of bone and the thoughts that then inevitably follow as one contemplates how one’s body has been irrevocably altered from that point onwards… It was my own stupid fault really. I tripped and fell very badly whilst visiting a zoo with family a week ago on Friday. Despite years of practising and teaching numerous martial arts in my earlier life; the sheer velocity of the fall combined with years of missing practice since family life and career chasing had begun had left me far too slow to react to the calamity in time. Alas I crumpled; in front of so many people, my left hand curling underneath me, my rear end indignantly raised high in the air and my skull taking much of the impact. After the visual lightning storm from the initial impact had subsided and as I skidded along the red tarmac on my face for almost a meter I recall with particular clarity thinking: oh this is really really bad… what have I done to myself… how utterly humiliating. After some time I eventually came to a stop. Rolling over onto my back to face the blazing mid-afternoon sun which was high in the clear blue sky; feeling the heat beating down on my crumpled body and the blood that was trickling from my face; I rested there and listened for a while to the roaring laughter and mocking applauds of my new found crowd. Young couples, old couples, school children, families like my own; they were all united together, doubled over in crippling laughter as a result of my display. I too had to laugh, despite the pain, if only at my own stupidity. Eventually I sat and then got to my feet. That was when I looked down and noticed that something was not quite right with my left hand. More specifically my little finger was sticking out away from my hand almost at a right angle at the second joint (PIP). Then the pain became readily apparent and so did the effects of the concussion as I struggled not to throw up. My first thought was that it was a simple dislocation so I proceeded to attempt to relocate the offending digit. I twisted and pulled to align before pushing and rotating to reseat in the socket but alas I was met only with a protest of dull wet crunches, clicks and pops. Movement to extend and flex offered yet more popping, dislocation and unnatural lateral movement. The reason for this and confirmation of my worst suspicion would come four hours later in a tiny overcrowded and stiflingly hot A&E - there was no socket left to relocate into… Before that however was the 30 minute hobble of shame back to the car. Past all of my fans and those that were too far away to have seen; the staring, the pointing, the sniggering and the comments. To summarize: I fell, gave myself a concussion and destroyed my little finger quite possibly permanently. Specifically a large Volar plate avulsion of the proximal interphalangeal joint. I have an appointment with a specialist hand surgeon this coming Tuesday :rolleyes:

EDIT : Volvo XC60 seems to be a self parking car and not a self driving car, the self driving car that would be released in 2017 is XC90 SUV. i still stand by my original opinion to make 2 variants of f self parking car with a auto brake and non auto brake is not the the right way to go. I don't know what disturbs me here, the fact people intentionally drove into a pedestrian to test the auto brake feature or the fact that they didn't know their car didn't have the functionality or the fact Volvo actually fucking charges extra for safety features that's suppose to save people from harm . In this disturbing video of what it said was a “self-parking car accident.” A group of people stand in a garage watching and filming a grey Volvo XC60 that backs up, stops, and then accelerates toward the group. It smashes into two people, and causes the person filming the video with his phone to drop it and run. It is terrifying. Volvo spokesperson Johan Larsson explained that the video is mislabeled. He said the car is not attempting to self-park. The main issue, said Larsson, is that it appears that the people who bought this Volvo did not pay for the “Pedestrian detection functionality,” which is a feature that costs more money. Keeping the car safe is included as a standard feature, but keeping pedestrians safe isn’t. The pedestrian detection feature, which works using a radar in the car’s grill and a camera located behind the windshield. has been around since the mid 2000s, and even started detecting cyclists in 2011, but it costs approximately $3,000, according to IEEE. But even if it did have the feature, Larsson says the driver would have interfered with it by the way they were driving According to the Dominican blog: Meanwhile, the people in the video seem to ignore their instincts and trust that the car assumed to be endowed with artificial intelligence knows not to hurt them. It is a sign of our incredible faith in the power of technology, but also, it’s a reminder that companies making AI-assisted vehicles need to make safety features standard and communicate clearly when they aren’t., the “two men hit were bruised but are ok.” Source : http://time.com/money/3896931/volvo-self-parking-accident/ http://happyplace.someecards.com/cars/selfdriving-volvo-drives-self-into-onlookers-since-it-lacked-the-pedestrian-detection/

I just accidentally dropped my small, external, mechanical hard drive into some cool water whilst it was still plugged in... R.I.P little man. You served me well.

So I accidentally deleted the project file for a video I've been working on and I don't have a back-up so I'm kinda panicing because it is due in a week. But it was on my external hard drive and since it has no recycle bin it was trashed. I'm running Recuva on the folder in was in right now with deep scan enabled and it says it'll be another half hour or so before I even know if it was recovered or not. Do any of you have a reccomendation for a recovering program in case this doesn't end up working? Your help would be greatly apreciated.

just something I'd like to share, I don't care for the critique or comments about it though.

So short story, I was making a small 12v battery pack as a back-up power for my network since power outages is getting frequent. After finishing the battery pack, my multimeter ran out of battery and decided to grab a of usb cable and charge it. I have 2 usb cable, one is connected to a wall charger and the other one is connected to my gaming/work computer. I grabbed the other micro usb cable to test charge the battery pack and then my computer suddenly turned off. To my surprise, the multimeter is being charged with the wall charger and the battery pack is connected through micro usb going to my computer which is supposed to be connected to the wall charger. I tested my computer components and ram, gpu, ssd were okay but my Ryzen 5 2600 is toasted(not sure but it doesn't work). Im also afraid of testing my motherboard and toast another cpu. So, I'm not sure on how to go to work tonight(working from home) and I don't have enough funds to replace it. How could a usb port do such damage to the cpu and does a motherboard has a protection for such scenario like this? Should manufacturers include this kind of features?