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Ok so really needing help on this one. The school I teach computers at just ordered 5 prebuilt computers from ABS (Newegg company) so I can also teach video production this summer and next school year as the computers we had before this were from 2011. They are all the same 3600, GTX 1660 Super, 16GB Ram. The computers arrived an hour before I leave for the day so I got them upstairs to my classroom and opened one to get it setup and established on our network. I unpack everything, check for loose cables, ensure cards and sticks are all in nice and snug, and turn it on. The fans light up and spin and no display. I press the power button and the machine will not turn off. The light just blinks. so I flick the PSU switch to power everything down and check again. Everything is good. Turn it back on and still nothing. I pull another computer out to check that one and see if I just so happened to open the unlucky one. Do all the same checks and hook it up to a known good monitor and HDMI cable. No video. This one at least the power button works. I am beside myself. I am scared to open the others in case I need to send them all back. I do not have time to do RMAs as our video production camp starts June 7th. I am beside myself right now. I am calling them at 8am PST today to find out what is going on. Edit: Also when my class is over I will upload a video to show what is going on. UPDATE: Checked another one and it popped up with Windows setup and had display. I talked with ABS and they are going to be next day shipping 2 new pcs and giving me 30 days to return the current ones I have. They were awesome for customer service and told me if the others have any issue to just call and they will ship out replacements next day as well. I think they should be in the next Secret Shopper video as this was a terrible thing but hey customer service was at least good.
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Hi Guys and Girls, I build the occasional PC for friend, family and colleague. Been doing this for over 15 years or so. Had very bad experiences with Gigabyte motherboards in the past, unlisted compatibility issues, doa's and boards simply failing within a year. After a long time of buying any other brand than Gigabyte, last year, I thought: 'how bad can it still be'. So I ordered one (a B450 aorus m) for my uncle. Everything went great untill it failed last week. Also last week I received an B550 aorus pro, because I had no problems with the last gigabyte board right?... The new one seems to have a problem with the memory, I have 2 different DDR4 sets, listed as compatible. But they just don't work. Is this just bad luck, two times in a row? Or is this a Gigabyte thing? Seeing mixed opinions on Google. Was just wondering how things are seen here at LTT.
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So i tried to update the bios for a motherboard, with the steps told in the manual, renamed the file to MSI.ROM, and everything goes as it should except for the fact that it never ends. I have probably left it going for about 30-40 minutes and never ends. Might the motherboard be dead? The motherboard is the msi b550 gaming plus. Also after seeing that something was wrong i decided to try with a different version, first i tried agesa 1.1.0, and later agesa 1.0.8.1 but neither of them worked.
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So I used to have a Ryzen 3 1300x with a MSI B350m Gaming Pro motherboard but I recently got a decent amount of money and decided that it's been too long since I have upgraded my pc. So I bought a Ryzen 5 3600, ** Asrock B450m-HDV R4.0, and an RTX 2060. Knowing that I would potentially have to update my bios when the new Mobo and CPU came in I already went ahead and prepared a FlashDrive with the file. Before I updated it I wanted to see if it would post, so I turned it on went into the bios and saw my 3600 and 8gb of 3200 ram with my ssd so everything seemed fine. I exit the bios and enter windows. It gave me a blue screen and instantly reboots I was like ok I'll try it a few more times see if anything is wrong. Blue screens agian the next two time giving two different errors SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED(gives this error twice) (one time it says What failed: spaceport.sys) IQRL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL Now I have no idea what this mean and quite frankly the Microsoft page didn't help too much. I did manage to actually get to my desktop once but it just bluescreened as soon as I did anything. Never been able to get back. I then updated my bios and nothing changed, still getting those errors. I said ok maybe there is a way I can try to boot into a fresh copy of windows because maybe it was windows that was the issue, get my Windows FlashDrive get a fresh HDD on the windows setup screen it bluescreens on a fresh HDD. Now I notice that sometimes when it reboots it puts me straight into the bios and occasionally it won't recognize my ram. I restart the PC and it still does the same thing. I have absolutely no idea what is wrong I am prepared to buy a new motherboard I just want to know if it's the motherboard or something else.
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Hey I built my first PC and when it didn't post i notice this red led so i checked the mobo manual and its the led light for the CPU so i double checked i installed it right double checked all cables and standoffs and still didn't work then tried with single dimm in all 4 lots am i missing anything or is my CPU DOA. also all case fans work and the CPU fan works and the psu works fine and the GPU lights up and appears to work im running ryzen 7 1700 stock cooler gigabyte ax370 k3 g-skill rip-jaws 16gb kit intel 600p 512gb ssd 2tb barracuda evga sc2 1080ti evga g2 750w psu
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So, my PSU has arrived. I do not have any other component as I am waiting for Intel coffee lake CPUs to be available. Can I plug in and power on to check if my PSU is working, is there any other way to check if its not DOA and working? Thanks!
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I just built a new gaming PC and it posts and everything. I went into the BIOS and only my hard drive was showing up. I tried different cables for power and data and even tried using the cables from the working hard drive and it still won't show up in the BIOS. Should I try doing anything else before I RMA it?
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Hi Guys, First time building a PC with Ryzen processors. Build is : Ryzen 5 2600 DDR4-3000 Corsair Vengeance LPX 16Gb RAM M.2 WD Blue SN500 500Gb drive. All seated in a Gigabyte UD-DS3H B450M mATX mobo PSU is BeQuiet 500W purePower11 Plugged everything in simple enough, put it in the case, pressed the power button fans spin up fine, mobo led lights up but no display. No POST beep. Took all the RAM out and still no display, but mainly for this test ZERO Beeps from the Motherboard. Im pretty sure what I've got is a mobo DOA. I've reseated all the components. Cleared CMOS by removing the battery and also by shorting the CLR_CMOS pins on the mobo. Took the mobo out of the case and plugged just the PSU and CPU w/ cooler in and still no POST or No Ram Beep error codes as I would expect. I have attached a picture of the current setup incase that helps. I'm in the process of returning the mobo but still, I'd appreciate any feedback as I know broken mobos can be the hardest thing to detect. Ps: got a multimeter out and checked all PSU pins. All produce the correct voltage as expected.
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Ok so recently my computer has started doing this thing where when I attempt to boot the CPU led lights up white for a split second and then about 2 seconds later the white VGA light comes on and stays on solid white with no signal on my main monitor and a black screen on the second one. The GPU is under warranty so I can return it and get my money back (it was second hand) but I just want to make sure it's definitely a GPU problem and not a mobo problem. This never happened before and only just started happening in the last week, I unplugged and replugged everything and it still kept happening. Also when the white VGA led comes on the fans stop spinning on the GPU. I haven't seen many people with this similar issue and I just want to be certain before I spend £200+ on another one. Can anyone help? Cheers, Jay.
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Working on a new build for a friend and we got Windows 10 fully installed and everything seemed fine....until the system crashed. The system will start up and run for up to 10ish minutes max (sometimes much shorter) and then abruptly crash. The system will remain in this weird powered on state with the fans on the GPU spinning at high seed but nothing showing on screen until we shut the power off. I removed XMP so it wasn't that, tried older set of drivers and that didn't fix the issue. Then we took out the GPU and put it into my personal system and got identical crashes. So clearly this is something GPU related. I don't believe it's an issue of not enough power as my personal system has plenty of headroom (and his should be fine too). Is this just a case of a card being DOA? Are there any final steps I can try before contacting the manufacturer/Amazon for a return/refund/replacement? CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO CPU Cooler Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO AC ATX AM4 Motherboard Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory Storage: Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card Power Supply: Corsair CXM 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply
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Recently started a new build for a friend and everything went fine until I got windows installed. Then after a brief period (sometimes up to ten minutes) the whole system would crash and the fans on the GPU (RTX 2070 Super) would suddenly be spinning at high speed. The system wouldn't lose power during the crash and the GPU fans would run perpetually on high until I shut down the system and restarted. I tried running Heaven at one point and that seemed to work well as a trigger for the crash so it definitely is GPU related. I turned off XMP to ensure that wasn't the issue, updated the drivers to the latest, then removed those drivers and tried using older ones after that didn't work, and then I took the card out of the new system and put it into my old and got identical crashes (I used DDU before swapping to ensure we had a clean start and I updated drivers in the second PC as well). It seems to me that possibly the card is just DOA? I'm willing to try any other suggestions at this point. Is there anything else else I can try and if not what do I need to do to confirm this 100%? And if it is DOA where do I go from here? Do I just return it to Amazon, or contact the manufacturer? Not sure which of those two is the better option in this scenario as I've never had dead hardware show up before. I'm planning on putting my old GPU into the new system later today to make sure it works, but based on what's happened so far I assume it will. The build giving me problems: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 3.6 GHz 6-Core Processor CPU Cooler: ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO CPU Cooler Motherboard: Gigabyte B550 AORUS PRO AC ATX AM4 Motherboard Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory Storage: Western Digital Blue SN550 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER 8 GB WINDFORCE OC 3X Video Card Case: Corsair Air 540 ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply: Corsair CXM 650 W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply The old build I used to test the GPU: CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K 4 GHz Quad-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Extreme3 ATX LGA1150 Motherboard Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR3-1333 CL9 Memory Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR3-1333 CL9 Memory Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR3-1333 CL9 Memory Memory: Kingston HyperX Fury Black 8 GB (1 x 8 GB) DDR3-1333 CL9 Memory Storage: Crucial M4 128 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 580 8 GB NITRO+ Video Card Case: Zalman Z9 Plus ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
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So... I've been lucky enough to never order a DOA gpu, until today? Originally, I ordered the EVGA 1080ti SC black edition, pulled heatsink off, replaced thermal paste with conductonaut, threw it back together and installed. Runs great, caps at ~60c at 2100mhz with ~55% fan speed. However, literally 2 days after I purchased above Amazon listed the FTW3 back in stock and it was only $760 ($10 more than I paid for SC black), so I had to order that and return SC black (somewhere in the wild there will soon be a nice "modded" sc black). So I get the FTW3 in, marvel at its giant cooler compared to SC, and proceed to pull heatsink off and replace stock thermal paste with conductonaut as I do to every single cpu and gpu I touch, not a single one broken to date. I've refined my method to be practically fool proof, I use hydronaut (pcb safe, non capacitive, non conductive thermal paste) to cover all of the nearby electronics. I also replaced stock thermal pads on VRAM with Arctic thermal pads (non capacitive, non conductive and much higher performance than stock). The only part of teardown I had "trouble" with was the fan connectors, they were extremely stubborn, on a couple I pulled the entire plug off the board just leaving the 4 prongs, but slid back on easily enough and yes all of the fans worked fine when done. Results: So at this point I pull SC black out and replace her with FTW3, and yes, separate 8 pin PCIE power for each plug coming from an EVGA supernova P2 850w power supply. Boots up fine, proceed to install drivers (previously cleaned with DDU), driver install goes fine, I run precision X OC, it updates fan firmware fine. Proceed to launch Assasins Creed Origins, hangs up practically immediately when game starts despite temps still being below 50c across the board. Fired up shadow of war, ran for about 10 seconds then some multicolored spots started popping up everywhere, almost looked like fire works, then it hangs up as well. I was able to force the programs closed and computer was still working. So I proceed to the basics, pull gpu, reseat ram, reseat gpu, reseat power to gpu. Download furmark, ran on lowest intensity possible, no crashing but artifacts like crazy. Step up to 1080p benchmarks, hangs up after about 10 seconds. So then I reinstalled drivers, still same problems.... So I keep running fur mark trying to notice at what point it crashes, but unfortunately I didn't get much further. PC blue screened with internal video schedule error, booted back up but was driverless. Tried to reinstall drivers but resulted in black screen that I couldn't remedy. Reboot PC VGA led on, reboot again get into windows (still driverless) but black screen after trying to install drivers. Never smelled anything burning, but at this point I'm thinking WOW, I broke my 1080ti like an idiot, I must have seated the card poorly and either peeled off thermal pads or somehow got liquid metal to short something out despite covering nearby electronics with hydronaut. So today I pulled the card back apart to see that everything was perfect, liquid metal sitting squarely on gpu die with no run off, and thermal pads seated properly.... I can obviously get Amazon to send me a replacement, but I'm curious if anyone has run into these kind of symptoms and if they ever found the root of the problem, kills me I took the time to do all of this for nothing, but in the future I will definitely test cards before pulling cooler off. Thanks for any input. Edit: Forgot to add that the S/N sticker you can see through box has some lines going through it, almost like a couple of X's, I'll try and get a pic but I boxed it up wrong when I get home I can snap one.
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So in my parts list (which I registered on my profile here[haven't built it yet] check it out) i have a gtx 1080, with 8gigs of ram. I know my cpu won't bottleneck it neither the graphics card bottleneck it either, but what about the ram is 8 enough for a 1080? Here's the parts list: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/4bq4sZ
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I recently upgraded my Asus ROG strix z390-e to a Asus Maximus xi hero. Everything was working fine 100% on the strix but when I set up the hero I got the logo and press f2 or del to enter bios like usual but after that it boots to a black screen. If I turn the PC off and back on again it will be stuck on preparing automatic repair. No dots are displayed on screen it's just stuck there with the rog logo and text. Is this a doa Mobo or am I missing something here? Windows 10 is already installed on the ssd and if I try the old motherboard everything works perfectly. This is my fifth PC build so I'm fairly certain Ive installed everything correctly. Thanks for your help.
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Hello everybody, Recently I purchased an ASUS Z170-A from Amazon, and I installed all the other components and when it was time to turn the thing on, nothing happened. The other parts that I bought were an i5 6600k, 16gb hyperx fury, 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs, a corsair 650 psu, a EVGA GTX 970, and the cooler that I am using is a hyper 212. So here is what I did so far to troubleshoot... Tested to see if it would boot without gpu, nothing. Tested to see if it would boot without RAM sticks, nothing. Tested without the frickin CPU in, nothing. The only thing that I can visually see from this is that the little green LED that indicates pwr is constantly blinking no matter which component is. Ontop of that, the PSU fans dont spin, the CPU coolers fans dont spin, and the PSU works perfectly fine in my other build, and I tested the MOBO with a different PSU, so i ruled out it being a power supply related issue. What do you think? Any advice is welcome.
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hi guys, i've finished to build my first ever gaming pc, but there's something really wrong in what's happening now: when i turn on the pc, the leds light up, the fans work, the gpu logo is lighted up too, but no signal on monitor..how much should i be worried?? I've read that could be a DOA Mobo, could this be the case?
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I'm just curious. I know several people who have done tons of upgrades without ever hitting a DOA. I also know people who have had horrible luck, having to RMA multiple parts from one haul. I just wanna hear your experiences and stories with DOA parts! EDIT: Poll added. http://strawpoll.me/6665369
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So for the last three weeks I've been looking left and right for the best deals on a build I had planned. I ordered my GPU wednesday, a r9 390 from sapphire which is coming by ground delivery with Purolator from Vancouver. I live in Quebec. (Plot-twist, I'm FRENCH) So, my question is, what are the chances that the card will be DOA? I've read so many stories of DOA turning into disasters lately... Thx m8's
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Hello everyone, After much deliberation, I finally chose a new graphics card for my system, a MSI R9 390X, in addition to a new power supply, an RM750 from corsair. When I proceeded to install it in my system however, I found that the system would not boot up. No post either. Hard Drive activity LED does not illuminate. All system and graphics card fans and lights turn on, but my monitor displays no signal. The new card seems fully seated in the slot and all relevant power connectors (6 and 8 pin) are connected. Nvidia drivers were uninstalled before removing old card. If I install my previous card in the system with the new power supply, ( Asus GTX660) everything works as normal. The machine works fine with the motherboard graphics as well. System Specifications: CPU:Intel core i5 2320 Motherboard: Dell 0Y2MRG H67 PSU: Corsair RM750 Boot SSD: Kingston HyperX 3K OS: Windows 10 pro
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Hi guys! This swedish fellow bought a rebranded version of the Monoprice AMP/DAC about a year ago (http://www.tradera.com/item/120305/237288538/horlursforstarkare-med-dac-20hz-20khz-16-600ohm-usb-rca-6-3mm-sv). When I got it home i noticed that there was only audio coming from my left can, I thought that my earphones was broken, but it turns out that it was the AMP/DAC. I talked to the company that sold it to me and they sent a new one, but they didn't want the faulty one back. So one year later: I want to fix the broken one. I started my teardown and immediately saw the problem (I think?), the right channel connector was broken. By the looks of it, it's attached to this plastic holder. Do you guys know if I can find this part and resolder it?
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Hey, I got a MSI 970 mobo from Ebuyer and it's DOA (Confirmed DOA) and I'm wondering if Ebuyer is anygood with returns. Specifically replacements. Have you guys had any good or bad experiences with them?
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I have all my files stored on an SSD so I recently bought a WD Green to keep all my mass storage files. I installed the HDD easily then went to device manager, and tried to create a new simple volume. I went through all the options then clicked create, I then sat there for about 5 minutes while my computer did nothing but load, then eventually an error came up just saying it had failed. So I decided to restart my computer, on the logging off screen I sat there for about 10 minutes before I had to just hold down the power button. I then turned my PC back on where I sat at the Windows loading screen for about 15 minutes. Again I had to give up and hold down the power button. I unplugged the new HDD then turn back on my computer with only the SSD and my system booted in seconds as expected. So I reinstalled the HDD, went to create a new simple volume again and then I got this terrible screaming and scratching noise from the new HDD, then again it came up with an error. Is this a bad hard drive? I have attached a screen shot below. Also, can anyone explain the unallocated space in the screen shot? Thank you so much! Grant
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I bought a evga 750w psu a few days ago, and I used the jumper to test if its working since I don't have a desktop. right after I plug in the power cable and switch it on, there was a spark right under the psu fan and its dead. I made an RMA and they are going to refund the money. Now that I give the same psu another try (since its $10 cheaper the other day I checked) I was wonder could anyone here figure out if I did anything wrong? or it is just another defective unit?
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Just wondering. I've never had any DOA parts... yet.
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I recently bought a seasonic PSU and want to test if it is DOA. I know the shorting trick but none of my cables are green and are all black. I am not sure if it is my mobo or PSU. Any help would be appriciated