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I'm trying to solve an annoying problem, my pc keep crashing while gaming ( it never crashed while doing normal tasks, at least until now ... ) , the screen suddently become black and the pc restarts. I have a dual monitor setup and if both screens are connected to my GPU they stay black and the mobo beeps 5 times, but if during the crash one of the monitor is attached to my motherboard it displays the windows login again and there aren't any beeps, so I supppose it was because there wasn't any diplay signa.l At first I tought it was a faulty psu problem, but I have changed it with a new one and it keeps happenning. I've already tried to test my gpu with 3dmark, furmark, occt and it doesn't crush. I've test my cpu too with occt and cinebench, again no crashes. After all of this I've tried testing my rams for 3 hours and a half with memtest86 without any error. Olso, I've resetted the bios to the default settings, but it didn't solve anything. The only thing that I have done was to enable the xmp profile of my rams, but again it crashes even without it. I'm desperate and I don't know what to do. I've already spent more money than my initial budget. Oh, and I even tried attacching my pc to a different power socket without any result. The only system error in the windows event logger is a generic kernel error 41 there aren't any logs anywhere. My current setup is PSU - MSI MAG A850GL PCIE5 Alimentatore, 850W 80 Plus Gold Mother Board - AsRock b650 pro rs wifi Amd ryzen 5 7600 CORSAIR VENGEANCE DDR5 RAM 32GB (2x16GB) 6000MHz CL30 Intel XMP XFX, SPEEDSTER SWFT 319 RAD, RX6800, 16GB Kingston KC3000 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD 2 tb Thermalright PA120 SE ARGB

Ok so I'm new to this forum but I need some help with a rather odd situation with a new to me prebuilt system. I am trying to eliminate all the things before determining there is a motherboard issue or some other hardware issue going on here. I just received a new PC from Amazon. it's a Skytech Chronos PC with a i5-12400F, Asus B660M-A AC D4 motherboard, Intel Arc A750, 16gb ram, 1tb nvme ssd. Link below to the PC I bought. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BTRWY4GC I bought this PC for a home work station as I don't do any gaming but I wanting something newer than my old i7-2600K with an GTX 760 though it still works fine for my needs. the day it arrived it was all in great shape, no indication of damage with shipping, it was well packed as well as the packing inside the PC case. no issues there. when I first set up the PC everything was as expected and went well. it came with windows 11 home (which I am not a fan of) Windows had to do some updates after setting things up and installing al my usually applications I use like office and a few others. I ran some benchmarks on it an was very impressed compared to my old rig. But here is where the problems started... after about a day playing with it like a kit with a new toy, I got up the next morning as I had left it on overnight. I found it asleep and would not wake up or respond to anything using the keyboard or mouse. I had to force power it off by holding the power button for a couple of seconds and then turn it back on. when I powered it back on, it made it past the bios post and then froze loading windows ( had the Asus logo with the windows rotating circle that just stopped). I left it like this for a few minutes hoping it would come out of it, but that was a negative. I ended up having to force power it off several times trying to get it to boot. I finally left it off for a couple of hours trying to figure out what happened. Came back to it later and powered it on. it booted as if there was nothing wrong. seemed to work flawlessly once again. while it was up and running I decided to look at the windows event viewer to see if it had any logs that might show something. I found a log entry for a hardware failure, but didn't give any clue to what it was (I attached the log I saved). I ran it some and while it was up and running it all seemed as though it never had happened! until I restarted, it did the same thing again freezing at the windows loading screen. once again I force powered it off and back on enough times that windows started up in recovery mode. it apparently did some sort of repair and rebooted into the same windows setup screen as I saw when I first setup the PC. it wiped my entire profile in windows and made me start over! after I went through the setup and got to the desktop, I restarted it again. And again it froze... So I powered it off with the switch on the PSU and thought about it a little while trying to comprehend what just happened. the first thing that came to me was maybe one of the ram chips or the GPU wasn't seated properly. I pulled the front panel off and re-seated both ram chips, the GPU, and checked all the connectors from the PSU. Closed up the case and tried again powering it up. It booted without any issues. tried rebooting and it again froze. Now I'm at a loss here as to what else to try. the only thing I have not done is attempt removing the nvme drive and re-seating it, only because it's under a heatsink, nor have I messed with the CPU. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have reached out to Skytech's support email, but the auto reply is showing about 3-5 days before I hear anything back from them. I am hoping there is something simple that I might have missed here. Fatal Error.txt Fatal Error.evtx

Seriously back up your important data. Many people everyday lose their data for good. People are losing data, drives busting, hackers robbing data... Hacking is a serious problem and the thing is any data can be breached including military systems. If you backup your photo's, work, etc you can relax knowing you have it backed up, many people have not backed up and say yes I need to do that, but then bam! bam! bam! out of the blue two drives you're using fail and die, losing all your data. If you have multiple devices you can then make backups. If one device fails you still got your backup. Ideally though you are better off having an offline backup, because it simply cannot be hacked or fail. If you just have online backups that is okay but not ideal because it can be targeted by hackers and corrupted or the drive can fail, components fail all the time. I would be happy If someone read this and thought ohhh yes! I must backitup!!! At least it would have helped someone. It's truly awful for anyone if you lose a lifetime of photo's, what you cannot ever get back.

Hey everyone, For about the past month and a half, my computer has been nonstop blue screening every 5-30 minutes (with the occasional few hours where it works flawlessly), with random stop codes each time. It all started once I moved into my college dorm, when my PC would randomly crash, and everything I've tried so far to fix it never seems to work. Let me break down what I've done: - I originally tried to see what recent apps and drivers were recently installed, but to no luck with deleting them - Ran chkdsk, sfc, and DISM - Ran Verifier to see what drivers were causing it (told me it was nvrtxvad64v.sys, so I uninstalled both the driver and NVIDIA Broadcast, no luck) - Ran Verifier again to see that it was storport.sys, couldn't figure out how to fix that - Reinstalled multiple drivers (AMD Chipset drivers, NVIDIA drivers, even swapping from Game Ready to Studio) - Did a complete reinstall of Windows (tried stable 10 releases, most recent 10 updates, and even 11 beta and prerelease, and after doing this, my Bluetooth adapter is no longer recognized???) - Ran Memory Diagnostics to no avail - Updated and reflashed BIOS - Turned off overclocks And here's the specs of my PC: AMD Ryzen 9 3950x ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Hero (Wi-Fi) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB Series 32 GB (2 x 16GB) @ 3200MHz ZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER AMP NZXT H710i (Black) (Boot Drive Samsung SSD 970 EVO Plus 1TB SSD (Storage Drive) ST4000DM004-2CV104 HDD EVGA SuperNOVA 1000 G5 Running the prelease Windows 11 (22000.194) Honestly, I have no clue WHAT is going on, and it's been driving me nuts. Even blue screened while writing this. I'm starting to think it may be a hardware issue, but again, I can't be sure. Could someone please help me out? If you need the DUMP files that's cool too, but any and all help is appreciated. If it's software, a way to fix it would be welcome, and if it's hardware, a guide to diagnose what part is malfunctioning would be great. I am open to rerunning any tests and programs that I already have. Thank you for your time. --Huddy

So I just got for a present a Razer Blade 15 Base 2021 second hand. Everything was alright before the factory reset all games were working and it had no issues or alerts but from there everything went downhill. After finishing windows setup I opened Task Manager to see if everything was there except one thing, the RTX 3060. First I thought that there is a driver issue so I updated all of them and tried to start NVidia control panel with no success. GeForce Now downloads the driver and installs it but the prompt for installing it is still there. Next up I opened the device manager to see if it even detects the graphics card and it is there along with the intel HD graphics but it has error code 43. After uninstalling the device and rebooting my computer the error disappears and it says "This device is working properly" but, and there is a big but, at location details it says: "PCI Slot 1 (PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0)". I thought that maybe it was disabled in the bios but after accessing it I couldn't find any option to enable it. I tried to find the solution the last 2 days with little to none success but the end of the semester approaches so I have some exams and I was trying to repair it in one week time in order to get it ready for those. I hope that it is fixable software wise because if it isn't than back to my Pentium laptop. Thank you in advance for your help. PS. I tried contacting razer support but with no response yet.

My computer has a primary SSD and a secondary HDD. It started hanging when trying to access my secondary HDD where windows is not installed. I've had problems where HDDs have died before, so I tried replacing it (twice), so a failing HDD is pretty much out of the question. RAID and CHKDSK all said my HDDs were fine. So I tried replacing my PSU in case it was faulty and maybe not supplying enough energy for the disks to spin properly, but it didn't work either. And now, I've somehow managed to detect my PC failing to access the main SSD. I used a bootable Ubuntu USB and the responses were slow too, so it's probably not Windows failing. The way I detected the particular way the access time was slow was using the "benchmark partition" from the gnome disks utility: when it goes normally, it accesses the drive up to 100 times to check writing and reading speed and all data points are close to each other. However, when accessing my drives, even the new ones, it randomly drops to zero speed for unknown reasons and it stops performing the benchmark for a while. Is it possible for my CPU to be failing? Or is it the motherboard? I've tried replacing the cables and swapped the position of the drives to check if that's the cause of the issue but to no avail. Pictures of the benchmarks using hdtunepro: SSD HDD Computer specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 3100 3.6GHz Motherboard: B450M PRO-VDH MAX (MS-7A38) GPU: AMD RX 5500 XT 8GB SSD: Kingston 500 GB HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB PSU: Cooler Master MasterWatt 650 EU

I'm having few odd issues with my computer every game I try to play crashes after just a few minutes it takes about 3 attempts of launching the game before it becomes stable to play for a few hours. I have tried reinstalling Windows 10 and using DDU to uninstall graphics drivers and install them again using latest version from Nvidia but still get the same crashes. I decide to try AIDA64 System Stability Test to see if it was maybe a hardware issues which it looks as if it could be. Every time i try and run the Stability Test for the system memory I get "Warning : Hardware Failure Detected" and the test stops? I have used MemTest86 to test the memory as well and that came back with no faults found? So at this stage I'm rather confused if there is or isn't an issue with the memory? Could someone shed some light on why I might be getting these hardware failures even though MemTest86 can't see any faults with the memory? PC Specs - CPU - Ryzen 5 1600 (no OC) Mobo - MSI x370 Gaming Pro Carbon Memory - 16GB DDR4 (A-XMP Enabled) GPU - Gigabyte GTX 1660 Super 6GB

I have just gotten an AMD FX 8350 from my grandmother for Christmas and it came out of the box with crashes nonstop. I ran a stability test and it can't get more than a few minutes in without saying "hardware failure detected". Is there any possible fix without sending it back to get a new one? I haven't overclocked it and i even bought a beefier air cooler for it (cryorig H7). Any help or suggestions of what to try?

I just overclocked my CPU to 4.6 GHz and ran a stress test. It went fine for half an hour so I restarted and turned on XMP and turned my DRAM frequency up to 3000 MHz. Now it is showing an error " Warning : Hardware failure detected! Test stopped" every half an hour after I run the test. What is going on? What should I do? Is anything damaged until this point? I turned on the stability test from AIDA64 for only CPU, FPU and cache and ran the same test. I got the error again so I'm pretty sure its the CPU, not the memory. CPU: Intel Core i5-6600K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($306.25 @ Vuugo) CPU Cooler: CRYORIG H7 49.0 CFM CPU Cooler Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($187.95 @ Vuugo) Memory: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory ($138.98 @ DirectCanada) Storage: ADATA Ultimate SU800 256GB 2.5" Solid State Drive ($94.98 @ DirectCanada) Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($59.85 @ Vuugo) Video Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1060 6GB 6GB G1 Gaming Video Card ($365.98 @ NCIX) Case: Thermaltake View 27 ATX Mid Tower Case ($81.99 @ NCIX) Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($99.99 @ NCIX) Case Fan: Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition (2-Pack) 39.9 CFM 120mm Fans ($33.98 @ DirectCanada) Case Fan: Corsair Air Series AF120 Quiet Edition (2-Pack) 39.9 CFM 120mm Fans ($33.98 @ DirectCanada)

Hello, LTT! So for some exposition, for the past few months my computer has been blue screening constantly, and lately it has started freezing, and when I reboot it simply powers off and wont turn back on for a few minutes. This is quite an inconvenience as it has a tendency of happening in the middle of a WoW raid or game of CS:GO. Now I know what you are thinking, must be overheating, right? An amd FX 9590 isn't exactly know for running cool. But when I ran a stress test on the cpu while monitoring the temperature of the cpu, I got this: http://imgur.com/T9ieN7Z The 8th core had failed before I could even take the screenshot, and 2 more cores failed before the computer blue screened and wouldn't turn back on for a few minutes. But the results are still evident, 7 cores at 100 % load don't overheat the cpu (I also ran a gpu stress test, if you need the results of that just ask) So I'm wondering, is my cpu screwed? Am I just overheating? How can I fix this?

Well Guys.. As you have probably read the title.... My computer just stopped working... I started it... Went to get my cup noodles from the kitchen... And when I came back it's just.... Dead... Nothing works... None of the lights... Nothing... I tried changing cables, all of them.... Nothing works. Please help guys... I think it's a PSU failure. My rig is an i3 6100 and a Gigabyte h110ms2 Mobo with a gtx 710 and... Kingston HyperX Fury 240 gig... And a old hdd... And... Oh... I plugged in a blue usb mic the other day... Power supply is Corsair 500 watt. It's just an year old

Just had my first computer hardware failure ever, gpu let out the magic smoke for seemingly no reason, I don't have the original ESD bag that came with it, do I need that or will ASUS deny the warranty claim?

My PC was working perfectly fine until I wanted to help a friend of mine. His PC was not turning on at all. It would only light up for a short period and then turn off again. I offered him my help. We connected his MoBo and with the PSU of my parent´s PC and tried to turn it on. It lit up for a short period and then shut down. Afterwards nothing was turning on. My friend´s and parent´s PC were both dead. My friend´s PC was not turning on anymore not even for a short period. My parent´s PC would turn on but it just has a black screen now. Even the connected M/K do not have power (Numblock and Caps Lock indicator not turning on). I wanted t test if the CPU was dead so I put it in my PC which has the same socket (AM4). The PC would not boot at all, same problem. I forgot that the CPU was a newer generation and the BIOS on my MoBo did not support it yet. Thus putting in my old CPU because I wanted to download a newer BIOS and flash it. But now windows would end up in a BOSD loop. The furthest I got was the login screen. Things I could check quickly if they are showing up in the BIOS correctly are: - right CPU - right CPU clock - right amount of RAM I thought I might have destroyed my Win10 Partition. No big deal everything import is in the cloud or on external drives. I wanted to install Linux and grabbed ubuntu. During the installation I got got his screen. The second screen got me to the live part of the installation but it complety froze. M/K a light up but caps lock is not working. USB Drive is not showing reads or writes. For me as a somewhat noob it looks like a hardware failure but I can not determine which part. And how it lead to two dead PCs.

So I recently bought the Hiraliy F300, which is supposed to be an outstanding mouse for its price, but it doesn't work with my computer. I only replaced my previous mouse - A regular CM Storm mouse - because I thought that it broke, as it would light up for a brief moment when I turn on my PC, then turn off and not function at all. This same process happened to my brand new mouse which probably meant that something was wrong with my computer, so I tested both mice on other computers and they both worked! I had a spare wireless mouse that I used while waiting for my new mouse to come, but I'm not sure how this regular wireless mouse works perfectly on my computer, while both gaming mice turn on for a brief moment then stop working. Is this a hardware issue? A driver issue? I can't seem to fix it.

Hey Guys , I recently build my first own budget gaming system. ( Ryzen 3 1200, 8 gb ram, brand new Gigabyte 1050ti). I installed my OS and everything, (gpu drivers etc.) but even with MSI afterburner I cannot control the gpu fans speed. In fact theyy dont spin at all, which leads to GPU overheating. Also the GIGABYTE RBG logo on top of the card is noot illuminated. Can sbdy help me ?

Hi there quick question I have been running my current rig for a little under a year and Thursday night decided to clean her out, using compressed air at a distance of about a foot. Attempted to reboot the system as per usual and only 2 drives of four are being detected one being the boot drive and the other being a 1tb hybrid drive used for music production. Though strangely the OS is refusing to boot up with the error "reboot and select proper boot device" being shown. I have checked all four drives with an external SATA adapter and they're fully intact so I'm wary of reinstalling Windows 10. The other two drives used for steam and media storage aren't being detected at all within the rig regardless of cables used SATA ports etc. I was wondering whether it was an issue with the bios setup or whether the motherboard was shot all together. I was wondering if anyone could shed any light on this it would be much appreciated as this has taken up nigh on 3 days straight and I'm at a loss as to what to do next. Rig is as follows Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI I5 6600K Crucial 8GB 2133MZ DDR4 X2 MSI Geforce GTX 970 SanDisk SSD Plus 120gb (Boot Drive) WD Blue 1TB HDD WD Green 4TB HDD Seagate 1TB SSHD Hybrid Corsair VS550

Hello , guys My name is Max and i'm a beginner in PC building and a huge fan of Linus Techtips and this community. To start with , here is my component breakdown: GPU: AMD Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC CPU: AMD FX-8350 Black Edition 8-core 4.3 GHz CPU cooling: Gelid Solutions Tranquillo Rev.2 Power Supply : Corsair HX850 Mother board : Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 (Ultra Durable with dual bios ) RAM: Corsair Vengeance LP CML4GX3M2A1600C9 4 GB DD3 1333 MHz Case: Vengeance C70 Mid-Tower Gaming Case (military green) Hard Memory: -125 GB SSD kingston (windows) -2 TB WD Blue Hard drive (storage) I've had this problem for a while and can't seem to find a solution to it on the web... ------1. While streaming music or movie through my Google Chrome browser occasionally * my screen goes blank ( with pixels flashing once before it goes dark) * music plays on the background for 1-2 seconds than glitches for another few until it turns off *Numlock light freezes When i restart the computer everything seems to be back to normal with no issues what so ever. Note: i don't have an overheating problem, but after restart (not every-time) the fans ramp up rapidly that forces me to restart it again. It's worth noting : a)When i first built it i was looking for budget system built , so my first GPU was : Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 FleX 2GB, there seem to have been no problem . Then i decided to upgrade my GPU and bought a second hand R9 290, can't say for sure if the problem's started after i upgraded to my new GPU or not, but as far as i have tested my GPU (temperature and performance ) it seems fine. b)I have Advanced System care taking care of system cleaning and driver updates , so everything is up do date. c)I've updated system BIOS to the latest ver. (thought that would fix it) d)This happens occasionally and so far during my usage of google chrome. e)This also happens often when i try to use my Wifi TP-Link module in Access point mode , for which the drivers are not planned to be compatible with Win 10 and are outdated and not updatable. ( possibly the cause of the following BSoD crash) f)Very rarely the screen doesn't go blank but gives out BSoD that is practically unreadable due to it's squared and distorted pattern , but i still managed to read "Driver not less or equal " error . g) some of my in game performance suffers , it just seems liek i can't squeze all of the potential out of my hardware and i think it's related to that issue. h) sometimes the light pattern on my momitor goes very bright and comes back to normal after , but i'm not sure it's relevant. -----2.This leads me to the following questions that i'm really looking forward to answer with the help of the professionals from this community: 1) Do you think there is a problem with the health of my hardware ? 2) or is it a problem of a compatibility of the components used in my system (bottleneck) ? * maybe the RAM is too slow and small for the other components *My motherboard only supports PCI-e v.2.0 where my GPU card is v. 3.0 *or maybe something else Thanks forward for any suggestions and helpful tips!

Hey up guys BadDragon here. Belive it or not even I'm currently out of my league (and i consider myself with a masters in computing and the fact i build and repair servers and PCs for a living to be pretty good at it.) Here is the issue: I have a server (it is the home network NAS, Teamspeak, web and everything else server for my lot) it has 2x RAID-5 arrays on an intel controller 2x RAID 1 arrays on a marvel controller and assorted other spare drives on a silicon image controller.) I have just installed the new RAID 1 arrays to back the old raid 5s onto (basically the raid-5s were 3x 1.5tb drives each the raid 1s are 2x 6tbs each) However... one of the RAID 5s just failed. Only one drive mind you, thinking it seemed to be a loose power cable i shut off reattached it and just to be sure ran a full disk intensive test on all disks in the array from a dos boot disk (parted magic if your are interested) all came back A-ok. Rebooted. Told it to mend the array (this is where the trouble started) got half way through and died at almost exactly 50%. The array now no longer even shows and says it is unmountable. The controller still sees it as a 3tb raid 5 array, the system in general sees it as partition with a 750gb total drive space and tells me it is uninitialised (occasionally it will change its mind and say it is 3tb when the moon is in the 8th house and one of the angels happens to be doing a handstand). I HAVE to recover the data from this drive but all my raid recovery tools (i have many) still see it as one drive and refuse to let me rebuild it or see it as anything else. I have introduced a spare failover disk to the array and it refuses to rebuild with it. It just tells me the damned thing is inaccessible. I have tried most stuff i can think of. Can anyone help? I'm open to suggestions.

Hi all, So I posted a couple of weeks ago in 'New Builds and Planning' about a new build, but I mentioned about what I believe may be hardware issues. I was recommended to start a new topic here for help. I have been getting quite a few BSOD (ID: 2057). It is when I start to push my system. Far Cry 3 commonly crashes my system with Assassin's Creed IV also doing it occasionally. Running prime95 and kombuster simultaneously can result in a BSOD but not always. I overclocked my CPU about a year ago from 2.8GHz to 3.2GHz (not ground breaking I know but it was my first overclock). Anyway it seemed stable. I had run prime95 for 24 hours no problem. Multiple IntelBurnTest no problem. I had played many games with it and no issue at all. It seemed to be running very stable. However last January my secondary HDD failed and Windows 8 wouldn't boot. It kept going into a repair boot loop (which seems to be a common issue). I just bought a new HDD and started from scratch, reinstalling and staying with Windows 7. At the same time I installed Hackingtosh as well and that was when I first started to suspect something. OS X was never stable. After running a few tests I found that my overclock was no longer stable even in windows and crashed....a lot. I thought it was very strange how my overclock went from being pretty stable for 6 months without a single crash to being very unstable. I'm at university and I had a lot of work and no time so I just returned my BIOS settings to default removing the overclock and it seemed to run fine for a while. Since easter however I found that it was crashing a lot and after running prime95 my computer always gets BSOD (always ID: 2057) or the following errors for both worker #5 & #6: "FATAL ERROR: Rounding was 0.5, expected less than 0.4" "Hardware failure detected, consult stress.txt file" "Worker Stopped" Sometimes this can occur 5 mins after starting or 5 hours. (I am unable to find any stress.txt file as well) I ran two Memtests with 0 errors (4 hours and 12 hours). Anyone have any thoughts as to what it may be? Or any other tests I can perform to help find the problem? Tests and results I have ran so far: Memtest86 - 4 hours (0 errors) - 12 hours (0 errors) Prime95 (blend test) 1. Immediate BSOD after clicking run (performed straight after a 12 hour Memtest) 2. 2hr 25min - no issues 3. 12hr test - @ 5hr 19min, worker #5 stopped - @ 5hr 42min, worker #6 stopped 4. workers #5&6 stopped working after 5 mins My current system is: Intel i7 930 (LGA 1366) Asus Rampage II Gene (X58) OCZ 6GB (3x2GB) 1600MHz DDR3 Intel 520 120GB SSD (OS Drive) Seagate 1TB (contains all my documents, games, etc.) OCZ 600W PSU semi-modular (which I will have to upgrade with I decide to crossfire) CoolIT ECO A.L.C. CPU Cooler (which is rubbish) Thermaltake Armor Revo Gaming Case (looking to buy a Corsair 350D to replace it) MSI HD 7970 Lighting Boosted Edition Thanks in advance for all your help and I hope the above made sense.