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I think the issue is with GPU as Monster Hunter World gives the GPU 12 error. Doesn't just crash in MHW but also crashes in god of war, palworld, cyberpunk, Baulders gate , etc. Fixes I have tried include: 1. Reseat RAM 2. Reseat GPU 3. DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller) 4. Check connections 5. Update BIOS 6. Update drivers 7. Fresh install of windows 8. Checked game validity 9. cleared CMOS and updated everything again 10. Removed overclocks (MSI afterburner and turned off XMP) 11. underclocked (Through MSI afterburner) 12. Swapped MB (upgraded, didn't think this was an issue) 13. Swapped CPU (Upgraded didn't think this was an issue) 14. Fans on max rather than 50% (Therefore not temperature related, CPU is in the mid 80s max and GPU is in the 60s to 70s max) I have generally done all the easy stuff that I know of. Feel free to suggest anything not on the list as I may have forgot a simple trick. My setup is as follows which is custom build: 4090 MSI suprim model AMD 7800X3D but issues were also with a 7600X 64GB RAM DDR5 5600MHz Corsair vengeance 2TB SSD crucial (Cant remember model, GEN 3) - OS is installed here 4TB SSD (Cant remember model, GEN 4) - Game files installed here MSI X670E Carbon for motherboard, had a X670E ASUS Prime with the 7600X with the same issue. MSI MEG Ai1300p PSU - 1300 watt 80+ platinum PSU Running dual monitor both using Display port 1. Side panel - a VGA 60hz panel nothing special from Samsung, fairly old 2. Main panel - 32 inch Ultragear+ 4k 144hz IPS panel. Let me know if there is any other info required

HI yall, I have MSI X570 A Pro Motherboard and an AMD Radeon rx570 8gb when I turn turn on pc a red VGA led turn on after 10 sec it boot led flicks on and they both disappear but there is no display. I have tried UEFI but nothing is working

The gpu is only drawing 200w if anyone could give me pointers i would much appreciate it as im unsure what is causing the issue at hand. I have flashed the vbios 3 times to various bios from the zotac trinity which is the model in question. i have also replaced the pads to the stock ones to try see if that would fix my issue but to no avail. Here is also a screenshot attached of the card underload. fewr fgerw

Hello, so as title says, my GPU fans are barely when playing certain games. Quick backstory, I had a GTX 1060ti 6gb before, no issues whatsoever and I made the switch around december of 2022 for a Radeon RX6600XT. At first I had some problems with it, but they mostly got fixed by switching GPU slots on my motherboard and upgrading my power supply. The card was running it a constant 60W of power, which I assumed was because of the lack of available power to draw from. Now that this has been done, the card runs fine, mostly. In certain games, the card runs and spins fine, Warframe maxed out at 1080p, the card runs at 2500-2700rpm and draws 120W with good temps. Meanwhile, other games like MW2 medium settings 1080p run at a choppy 80fps. The card spins at 800-1000rpm and draws around 60W. Anyone know why that is? I got the latest drivers, played with all the in-game settings imaginable and fiddled with the Adrenaline software like forcing the fans to spin, upping power draw, etc. but nothing helps. BTW this issue is not only for MW2, sometimes I have the same issue with other games like Wayfinder, The Witcher and even Warframe, but they generally are fine. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you! Windows 10 Pro AMD Ryzen 5 2600 ASBRock B450 2x8gb DDR4 Radeon RX6600 xt 750W+80 gold

Hi all! I've built myself a new PC a couple of weeks ago (specs at the bottom of the post), and it's honestly been pretty great so far. That is, up until I bought Baldur's Gate III. I'm literally not able to play it for more than an hour before my monitors go black and stop detecting any output from the GPU. At first, I thought that it was a driver issue since it was the most frequent answer to the problem after a quick search, but even with the latest drivers it would still do it. Updated Windows, same thing. Lowered graphics settings, same thing again. I was told that it was potentially an issue with corrupted files, but I quickly ruled that out after it happened with different games (like DiRT Rally 2.0, and even once with Minecraft shaders). At that point, I decided to try to game and check HWinfo as I played, to see if the issue was directly hardware related and not related to a driver or anything like that. Sure enough, by only booting the game, the GPU's temps rose drastically to reach thermal throttling (83°C) after not even a minute of being on the main menu. In addition, the hotspot got to 106°C. I attached a screenshot of the HWinfo report focused on some of the GPU info and the report itself, it's easy to tell when the game was booted. I bought the GPU second-hand, so I don't have a warranty on it. What are my options here? Can I just repaste the GPU, or is the problem potentially worse than that which would make it more worth my money to just get another GPU? SPECS AMD Ryzen 7 5800X ASRock B550M Steel Legend ASUS GeForce RTX 3070 V2 OC 4x8GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB 3600MHz (running at 3200MHz) Samsung 980 Pro 1TB (Boot drive) Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM Fractal Design Ion+ 660W hwinforeport.CSV

I built this PC back in December of 2020. It ran perfectly with no issues that I can recall. Here lately though, whenever a game is run, it opens nicely, runs well with no lagging or tearing, and the clock speeds and alike for the system have all well been within normal operating parameters; suddenly the screens (3 screens connected using display ports) go black and I'm greeted by the boot screen again. (The one you see when you start/restart your computer). There were a few other issues that arise as the crashes stared up to. The SATA ports on my ROG STRIX BF450-F Motherboard all stopped working except for two. Finally found the culprit -> The latest BIOS update auto-enables fast boot and CPU overclocking (auto). With those two disabled, the SATA ports all work again, but haven't fixed the rebooting issue... I've done the driver updates for CPU, GPU, BIOS, Chipsets, USB hubs, Bluetooth, and Reinstalled Windows. I even went as far as to revert back to a 2020 version of bios and all respective drivers for the rig, but nothing worked. (All drivers and BIOS up to date now.) I've cleared all errors in the windows "Event Viewer" and there are no pending critical errors being posted other than EVENT 86 and EVENT 46. Event 86: SCEP Certificate enrollment initialization for WORKGROUP\G-RIG001$ via https://AMD-KeyId-578c545f796951421221a4a578acdb5f682f89c8.microsoftaik.azure.net/templates/Aik/scep failed: GetCACaps... (Windows states that it's an AMD issue) Event 46: Computer yelling at me to stop having the power turn off unexpectedly After pulling my hair out and trying to diagnose this issue myself, I've run a series of tests using Cinebench, Heaven, and MemTest5. So far my conclusions for: 1.) Cinebench - (Monitored with AMD Ryzen Master) Ran with multi-core option ~5 times for 10 mins each time. No crash. No wavy clock speeds, and now dips /raises in CPU temp. - I believe the CPU is fine in this instance. 2.) MemTest5 - Ran tests for all aspects of the 24gb of RAM. No fails detected by program. - I believe the RAM is fine. 3.) Heaven Benchmark 4.0 (Basic Edition) - (Monitored with AMD Software: Adrenaline Edition) Video starts off choppy and slow as each new transition loads in. Noticed the GPU Utilization was ranging from 0% to 80% to 100%, then back down to 0% quite wildly as the sample intervals were set to show every 0.5 seconds. 3.a.) Stopped the Heaven from playing and started it up again after it running for about 7 minuets of the first run. Video loaded smoothly and everything seemed fast and quick. GPU Utilization ranged from 100% to 80% (mainly 100%). This lasted for about 18 minuets and then the system crash -> automatic reboot happened again. 3.b.) Started Heaven again, but had the GPU overclocked through AMD Adrenaline. Same result as "3.a" only there hasn't been a crash in about 2 hours now. (Note - No Overclocking is ever used when playing games or anything on this PC.) 3.c.) Used default settings for GPU again through AMD Adrenaline -> Ran Heaven once more and the system restart/crash happened again while GPU usage was at ~100% and all system heat levels were well within normal ranges. Note - Heaven Settings are: API: DirectX 11 Quality: High Tessellation: Extreme Stero3D: Disabled Multi-Monitor: Disabled Anti-Aliasing: x8 Fullscreen: No Resolution: 1920x1080 As I said before, everything about this Rig had worked well for about a year and a half. Not sure why it would even be having this sort of issue now. I'm attaching some images of the computer build here as well as the PSU since this problem MIGHT be related to another post here: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1214710-help-pc-crashes-when-playing-games-and-on-heaven-benchmark/?tab=comments Specs: MotherBoard: ASUS ROG STRIX B450-F Gaming System Type: x64 Processor: AMD RYZEN 5 1600 Multicore O.S.: Windows 10 Edu Ed. GPU: XFX Radeon RX 570 RS XXX Edition 1286MHz, 8gb GDDR5, DX12 VR Ready... AMD Graphics Card (RX-570P8DFD6) BIOS: American Mega Trends RAM: 24 GB - (XPG z1 DDR4 3200MHz (PC4 25600) 288-Pin CL16-20-20 Memory Modules) PSU: Cooler Master Elite v3 600 Watt ATX Power Supply (See picture for specs -> detailed). (If I missed any spec detail, I hope it'd be in the images provided.) Sorry for the long post, but I'm almost at a loss as to what to do/try. Don't know if the PSU became "not good enough" suddenly or what, but... any and all help is appreciated. Apologies in advance for any rambling.

Hey, My computer kept on crashing when i was playing cs go, specs: CPU: Intel i7 6700 Motherboard: Gigabyte H170-Gaming 3 (rev 1.0) GPU: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 OC 6G PSU: Seasonic SSR-650RT 650W 80 PLUS Gold I did upgrdae my GPU two years ago from ATI Radeon HD 5850. I am not having and BSOD, the computer just turn itself off and on after few seconds. Any help will be appreciated

Hello people, well i recently got a used gtx 760 from Ebay, it is the Gigabyte Windforce with Trio-Fans version. After i pluged it in for the first time it booted up and has shown the screen for 3 seconds and after that there was no signal. Later i managed to try the Heatgun method in order to see better result, and truly it is better now because i could boot up completly normal and everything working fine until i installed the driver and the screen went black and there was no signal. but could hear the operating still running because i was listening to music. another thing i noticed is that the system cannot be rebooted and the pieco peeps three times if i attempt to restart the system. But if i completely turn off my system and turn it on again, everything works fine until the driver installation issue. I also noticed a something like a jumper, which you can see in the pictures below, that is not looking correctly. Iam very thankfull to anyone that can help

Hello I have an ASUS VG248qe monitor and a GTX 1050 Graphics card. I want to know whether the GPU has its own refresh rate of say 100hz or something like that. When I play a game like fortnite I put it on low settings and put on show FPS It is a near constant 144fps but will It show that or will It show 100fps because say my GPU has its own refresh rate of 100hz please this is just confusing me?

Hi. My Zotac RTX 2070 super Amp Extreme is running at PCIe x16 3.0 @ x8 3.0 checked in GPU-Z. I have tried reinstalling the drivers for GPU. I have reinstalled windows as well and updated the bios of the motherboard as well. Last week my GPU started doing wired stuff like green and blue lines in videos on YouTube using hardware acceleration. the video was glitching and was playing frame by frames. My wallpaper engine started glitching as well on hardware acceleration and My local stored 4k, HDR videos started glitching as well and was playing frame by frame. Disabled the Hardware acceleration resolved the issue. Then after 2 days, the GPU stopped working and I was unable to install the driver and the device manager was giving an error in GPU [Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems. (Code 43) ]. Frames were dropping and the games started to crash after every 10 mnts. So I gave the GPU for RMA. Today I got the newly replaced unit of GPU. Youtube, Wallpaper engine is working fine now on hardware acceleration now and my local stored 4k, HDR videos are working fine as well but the GPU is still running at x8 instead of x16. I have stress tested the GPU and CPU as well and checked the wattage usage in HWmonitor if it's fluctuating or not.I have reseated the CPU GPU, reseated all PSU connectors, I have updated the Mob BIOS as well. I have posted the video link below this was happening with the last GPU Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2u3BS426gQ CPU: Ryzen 5 3600 Motherboard: Asus EX A320M ( update to latest BIOS. I have nvme ssd as well I have tried removing that as well it's still running at x8 Please help, Thank you

Besides the info below, I have a ASUS x570-p MB, EVGA 850 G+ PSU So, here is my issue, I am attempting to run a K40c alongside my 2080 ti, just to aid in compute tasks and maybe some video encoding (if that's even possible) but mainly I want to use the K40c to increase my folding production. I had that card in a dedicated folding machine, but I smoked the CPU, anyways, Windows is basically saying you can only use one or the other, and if I 'enable' the K40c by installing the drivers, game's tell me I can't use the Microsoft basic driver to play games. Is there any way to enable both GPU's simultaneously independent of each other. Not looking to SLI, I'm sure it wouldn't work anyhow due to the generational differences. Thanks for any thoughts on this in advance, Tim DxDiag.txt

Hey, Cutting it short, I got an ZOTAC P106-90 3gb GPU which was meant to work with my rtx3060ti. Every time I plug my ZOTAC P106-90 into the second slot of my motherboard, my windows goes into a booting loop or fully gives me the blue death screen when starting up randomly. Yes, the ZOTAC's fans do spin when connected. The ZOTAC P106-90 does not have an output, thus using an rtx3060ti as my output. I have tried to install the "417.22-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe" driver but it does install (+ attached the errors). I even replaced every line %NVIDIA_DEV.1C09% = Section110, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1C09 with %NVIDIA_DEV.1C09% = Section108, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1C09 and line %NVIDIA_DEV.1C09% = Section109, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1C09 with %NVIDIA_DEV.1C09% = Section107, PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_1C09 BUT it did not work. I have windows 64bit NO, I cannot return it. So help me fix it. My system spec: Ryzen 7 3700x rtx 3060ti fe msi b450 carbon ac 850w windows 64bit

had to change my psu the other week and it seems i have broke if one of the fins on one of the fans and now its making my case shake and im sure it cant be good so iv been thinking about getting an after market cooler its a MSI ARMOR GTX 1070TI only one i see anygood is the ARCTIC Accelero Xtreme IV iv been looking for acouple hours and cant find much other there maybe im not looking in the right place ??

Hi! Yesterday I got a concerning issue, my desktop doesn't boot. When booting up i get the bios screen, then the windows loading and then it gets black. The HDD led stops blinking after a little while too. This happened when I didn't have a monitor and no mouse/keyboard connected to it, since I was working with my other computer while this one was supposed to boot up, when I connected my monitor and all it was black. I highly suspect it has something to do with my AMD GPU. I know this from WhoCrashed: There was a crash log directly after but it contained nothing (Like it said "Custom error" or something with 0x0 as Bugcheck code). After I took this image I tried several things along side recover to an earlier date and I lost the logs and such What I have tried so far: * Windows safe mode - Almost worked "flawlessly" (aside from the fact that I couldn't open Windows update and internet issues) * Recovery to earlier date * Windows diagnostics * Remove graphics drivers in safe mode The last point is the most interesting because when I did that I could boot up as ordinary, for 2-3 minutes (with low resolution) and then my computer crashes and I get the black screen after I login on my windows account. Could that be a heating issue? But why don't I have the same time limit on the safe mode? (since I have used it for a much longer time than that). I have no idea how to fix this ----Desktop setup: ---- CPU: AMD Athlon X4 860K 3.7GHz Quad-Core Processor Motherboard: ASRock FM2A88M EXTREME4+ Micro ATX FM2+ Motherboard Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive Video Card: XFX Radeon R9 270 2GB Core Edition Video Card Power Supply: XFX 550W 80+ Windows 8.1, x64 I purchased the OS. Age of system: 6 years Age of OS: 6 years (havent re-installed as I remember) ---- ----- Edit: After a weekend of investigation I have concluded that my GPU is allergic of GPU drivers now... Every attempt to install a AMD driver gave the same result towards a black screen crash.

Hey everyone, I recently got this problem with my PC ever since I moved from New York City to New Jersey and i was hoping someone here could help me. From time to time when I play games like Overwatch, Elden Ring, ect for a couple of mins, my PC would turn off all 3 of my monitors, turn all of my fans on to 100% capacity. What strange is that the game is still running in the background since I could hear it along with other content such as a youtube video or a discord call that is playing in the background. This only started happening AFTER I moved from New York to New Jersey. I have a feeling it has to deal with the power consumption of my PC build but all of my games ran fine for years before I even moved. I ran application like Furmark to stress test my GPU and from time to time it would do the same thing but the results isn't 100% consistent. I'm not sure how to diagnose the issue since I can't see anything due to all the monitors shutting down and only turning on after I restarted my PC. I change my Nvidia driver and the problem still happens. If anyone has any idea of why this is happening I would really appreciate your help! I will try and take a video to demonstrate my issue. Video Demo of the issue: PC Spec: OS: Windows 10 CPU: Intel Core i9 7900X CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X72 GPU: RTX Titan 24GB Motherboard: Asus Prime X299-A Ram: 128GB Vengeance RGB PRO PSU: Corsair AX 860W 80+ Platinum Memory: Samsung 960 Evo 250 GB M.2-2280 Memory: Western Digital Black 4 TB Case: Fractal Design Meshify C ATX Mid Tower

Hey! So I've been recently having issues with my GPU freezing for unknown reasons. Still don't know exactly what is causing this. Some days my PC works fine without issues and sometimes the PC blacks out one of my monitors and freezes the other. I'm pretty sure it's the GPU as so far I haven't seen any issues with my monitors and none of the GPU refresh techniques seemed to work. It also happens randomly and when I check the temp of the GPU it's usually only at 52 C and nothing higher then that.. so I'm a bit confused. PC specs: - RX 6600 - i3 12100F - DDR5 5600mhz RAM - PRO Z690-A MSI motherboard - Corsair 650W Gold PSU

Hello, I have been having this issue for a week or two where my PC restarts mid gaming, Sometimes it restarts as soon as I start a game, sometimes after 2-3 hours. I already tried various things such as swapping my PSU, GPU I also tried Updating my GPU Drivers and Chipset Drivers.. But none of them seem to make a difference. But the thing is when I try stress testing my CPU and GPU everything works perfectly meaning it doesn't reboot or shutdown. I did many times same result. I can't say if this is a software issue or motherboard. SPECS: Core i5 6400 rx560 16GB RAM (forgot the exact name) Thermaltake Litepower 550W PSU Games tested on: Rainbow Six Siege A way out Farcry 4 Farcry 5 Benchmarked on: Benchmark Heaven Cinebench

So if you read the title you figured out that my pc is shutting down, the interesting thing is that isn't by overheating (CPU mantains 56C and GPU 64C) I ran a stress test on the GPU and it shuts down at 10-25 minutes or so. I also checked the CPU, i ran a stress test and nothing happens, i also switched PCI-E slots and cables, it didn't solved as well, checking the event viwer it shows error 41 "the system has rebooted without first cleanly shutting-down. It can be caused if the system stops responding, crashes, or loses power unexpectedly". so with that we can conclude that it maybe is the PSU, GPU or motherboard i'm not asking if you guys can solve this I just want if you guys can point me out if is one of this candidates, but if you can solve this any suggestion will be welcome! Full PC specs: CPU: I7-6700K (stock clocks) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Gigabyte G1 Gaming (I don't know if is Rev. 1.0 or 2.0) Motherboard: MSI Z270 Krait Gaming RAM: 8GB DDR4 Hyperx Fury (2133Mhz, two modules, dual channel) PSU: EVGA 750W 80+ Gold Water cooler: Masterliquid Pro 120

Hi there, I just downloaded some drivers through device manager for my Rx 470 GPU, and now when I restarted the system, the GPU will post the bios screen, but it won't go beyond that. It will simply have a black screen with a never ending losing circle thing. Any advice anyone?? Thanks

So I received a new armor AMD Radeon RX 590 8gb for Christmas and i replaced my old NVIDIA GTX 1060 3gb with it. I installed the AMD drivers and installed the GPU correctly yet when i launch a game the card gets really hot and crashes the game when I get into a match. I did not have these problems with my 1060 and I am unsure whether it is my power supply that is the issue or another part of my PC. Please Help!

Hello, I've recently upgraded my motherboard, CPU and RAM in my PC, and I'm having some difficulty troubleshooting this issue. I was able to change my refresh rate to 144hz before the upgrade, but since I've updated it I haven't been able to. My refresh rate for my 144hz monitor in NVIDIA Control Panel only allows me to go to 100hz, and when I enable 100hz it makes the screen look very pixelated despite being set to 1080p. I've tried updating drivers, reinstalling drivers, reinstalling GeForce Experience, Reseating my GPU, everything I could think of. I tried making a custom resolution and changing the refresh rate there, but the screen would just turn black and eventually go back to the previous set resolution after ~30 seconds. I'd appreciate any help/recommendations for this, thanks. CPU - Ryzen 5 3600 Motherboard - MSI B450 Gaming Plus Max GPU - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 Monitor - ASUS VG248QE

So the gpu seems to not be fully utilized. Looked around and cant seem to find a solid solution. Heres some information on the set up and what shows in task manager. Any help or thoughts would be appreciated. Thank you in advance! Hardware specs in the data.txt file at the bottom. data.txt

Hello, if had this for quite a while and nothing i tried seemed to help. The Problem: whenever im playing games, the gpu usage spikes at random times to 100% even when the usage before that was like 30% and then the game crashes. It's only with some games and its not consistent, sometimes a game works for hours sometimes i cant even start it properly or change settings etc. Benchmarks work fine. sometimes an error message shows up saying the graphics driver has crashed. Tried solutions: Driver/ windows updates, fresh install of both with ddu, enabling disabling g sync, using only one monitor, using lower settings, underclocking, stress test with benchmark to see if the psu is the problem. Specs: GTX 1080ti I7-7700 16gb ram msi z270a pro 2tb hdd 500gb ssd 600w psu windows 10 64 bit

System info: PCPartPicker Part List: PCPartPicker Part List Type Item Price CPU AMD FX-8320 3.5 GHz 8-Core Processor CPU Cooler Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO 82.9 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler $41.99 @ Amazon Canada Motherboard Asus M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard $232.99 @ Amazon Canada Memory G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR3-2133 CL11 Memory Memory G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR3-1333 CL9 Memory $90.99 @ Newegg Canada Storage Corsair Force Series 3 60 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Storage Seagate Barracuda Compute 1 TB 3.5" 5400RPM Internal Hard Drive $67.50 @ Amazon Canada Video Card Gigabyte Radeon RX 5500 XT 4 GB GAMING OC Video Card $281.59 @ Vuugo Case Cooler Master Silencio S600 ATX Mid Tower Case $129.99 @ Memory Express Power Supply EVGA SuperNOVA 750 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply Optical Drive Asus BW-12B1ST/BLK/G/AS Blu-Ray/DVD/CD Writer Wireless Network Adapter TP-Link TL-WN881ND PCIe x1 802.11a/b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter $24.99 @ Amazon Canada Case Fan Noctua NF-P12 redux-1700 PWM 70.75 CFM 120 mm Fan $33.22 @ Amazon Canada Case Fan Noctua NF-P12 redux-1700 PWM 70.75 CFM 120 mm Fan $33.22 @ Amazon Canada Case Fan Noctua NF-P12 redux-1700 PWM 70.75 CFM 120 mm Fan $33.22 @ Amazon Canada Case Fan Noctua NF-P12 redux-1700 PWM 70.75 CFM 120 mm Fan $33.22 @ Amazon Canada Case Fan Noctua NF-P12 redux-1700 PWM 70.75 CFM 120 mm Fan $33.22 @ Amazon Canada Custom Chassis Fan Hub CPU Cooling | 10 Port 12 V Molex to PWM Connector with 4 Pin 3 Pin | Efficient PC-Fan Controller System with Adhesive Tape | Dedicated Supply from PSU to Link Multiple Points Prices include shipping, taxes, rebates, and discounts Total $1036.14 Generated by PCPartPicker 2020-08-27 12:26 EDT-0400 I took an old computer I had made out of leftover parts and plopped it in the living room in March and the thing had been working fine in its mATX sized case. The system was not super useful so I decided to upgrade it last week (the build above). I purchased a Cooler Master S600 Silencio case, 5 noctua fans and a Gigabyte Radeon RX 5500 XT Gaming OC 4G to bump up the living room system. The 2X 8g were added 2 weeks ago in an attempt to improve performance a bit (I had them on hand, so why not) BIOS setup The system posts, sees all the components properly identified on the post check AND in the BIOS which is accessible without problem. The boot order is fine too (Disk drive, SSD (windows), HDD). I **tried resetting everything to default in BIOS** just in case. I **switched between the default fast boot and normal boot** too and I've **messed around with the boot order** to see if it was my SSD that was croaking on me. The issue I'm getting Each time I get past the post screen or the boot menu, I get the little white flashing cursor in the top left corner for a few seconds and instead of saying the "press any key to boot from CD" message or booting to Windows, I get nothing. The screen just stays black and the system just stays like that (I've tried leaving it like that for 1 hour to see if it was just doing something without putting out a message). What I've tried I figured maybe there was an issue with SATA on my MOBO so First I rechecked all the plugs, connectors and devices. Then I've tried moving the drives to different SATA plugs, Then I used a USB stick with Windows 10 on it and set it as the first device to boot At this point I figured SATA was not the issue. Maybe the new graphic card? First I checked the GPU's connectors. Then I plugged the HDMI cable into the motherboard's HDMI instead of the graphic card -> I got no image at all (not even post). I'm not sure what to make of this. At this point I don't know what more I can do to diagnose if it's the GPU, but I'm fairly sure the GPU has nothing to do with booting from a CD or USB... I also looked at booting with the case open to see if anything looked fishy. No dice. A few hypothesis' I have CPU cooler is caput. I might have mishandled my mobo by grabbing it by the cpu cooler to position it in the case. My CPU cooler is fairly old, as well. Too many fans I have 5 case fans +1 the cpu cooler, my mobo has only 2 fan connectors so I'm using a fan extender thingy. I've been using that thing for months now with other fans without issue. Could the noctua be drinking more juice and somehow causing trouble for the mobo? The fan hub has it's own dedicated plug on my PSU however... The GPU is PCIE 4.0 and the Mobo is PCIE 2.0. Somehow that's causing compatibility issues? I don't know. Does not seem likely or plausible. Bad RAM? I recycled the memory sticks from an old rig and added them to this one. They were purchased a year and a half ago. Despite being recognized by the computer, they are causing trouble because they are not the same clock speed. But then why now? I had them in for 2 weeks without issue... I simply caught something with my hand on the mobo while moving it/ was too rough with the SSD while extracting it, touched something I should not have touched Could be, I have big hands. Any ideas about what could cause this? I'm getting desperate....

I’ve had my pc setup for over a year and decided it needed some much needed wire management so I unplugged everything cleaned it put it back together and plugged everything back in but when I went to boot my pc an led on my motherboard said it can’t detect my gpu but the fans on the gpu are still running I tried the other pcie port and checked for damage and both were fine so I’m suspecting it’s the psu but sense it’s worked not even an hr before it might be just the wire that goes from the psu and the gpu my specs are: motherboard: msi b450 gaming gpu: gtx 1660 cpu: ryzen 7 2700 I’m just asking if anything I’m saying sounds off or wrong before I go and buy a new wire and be out of an pc for a few days