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I bought a iCUE LINK H150i RGB and it seems one of the little plastic bags that contain the screws got torn. The screws & washers (aka spacers) got out, and the iCUE LINK system has got magnets all over so they got stuck to various things. I recovered everything except a single washer that's still missing. The washers are for the smaller screws that mount the AIO to the case (in my instance, a 5000D). I don't want to put in the screw without the washer so I figured I'll just make do with 11 mounting screws instead of 12...one less screw in the middle shouldn't be an issue right? But the bigger question I have is that I suspect the 12th washer is still in there somewhere, stuck to something. I looked everywhere around the AIO, even took out the pre-installed fans. Just can't find it. I don't think it fell into the radiator fins (there's no magnets in there so it should've made some noise when I shook it ). Assuming it's stuck somewhere it shouldn't be, am I risking a short? Should I seek to return the AIO & get a replacement?

Hello everyone, I have a recurring problem hope someone has an answer to it, I have built a pc a while ago with 2 sticks of ddr5 ram and after a shutdown 1 of the sticks completely stops working, I changed that ram and same problem, it is only happening with shutdowns not reboots. My pc specs : CPU : Core i5-13600k GPU : 4070 ti RAM : G.Skill Ripjaws S5 DDR5 6400mhz 2x16 GB Cooler : Noctua NH-D15S Motherboard: MSI MAG Z790 TOMAHAWK WIFI PSU : MSI A1000G PCIE5 1000 W Case: 5000D Airflow As you can see in the image (sorry it's blurry) this cable is touching the motherboard just where the RAM slots are located, could it have shorted the RAM sticks ? If it doesn't resolve the problem I'm lost since I changed the motherboard already to test things out. Thank you for your time

I have had my pc for a little over a year and today I had it on for about 10 minutes and I unplugged my headphones from the front io then a spark happened on the motherboard at the JAud1 plug and caused a burn mark. I contacted Microcenter to start a claim and they said they won't warranty it because of physical damage even though I purchased their 2 year replacement plan

I bought a 5v 3 pin argb splitter on amazon to connect 2 fans and the liquid artic freezer to synchronize the colors with the x470 taichi motherboard. When I connected it, all the fans were synchronized but the power supply turned off and on after 15 seconds (without turning on the PC). When I turned on the PC, the power supply no longer turned off and the lights were synchronized, but when I turned off the PC the power supply stopped. It turns off and turns on after approximately 15 seconds. Remove the argb splitter and connect each fan individually to the 5v 3 pin argb port on the motherboard and now the same process occurs when the PC is turned off. The fountain turns on and off every 15 seconds. Has the 5v 3 pin port on the board broken? Can something be done? What seems strange to me is that when the PC is turned on the short circuit no longer occurs. Please help

So I dropped a screw inside my graphics card... no way I can get it out, its one of those thumbscrews. It's to heavy for any magnetic screwdriver. anyone think it will be an issue?

I'm going to feel like a real idiot here because I KNEW BETTER. I was troubleshooting an issue with Asus tech sport. We were trying to figure out why a new cpu wouldn't allow my pc to fully boot up. The motherboard wouldn't boot past the dram q-led indicating there was a ram issue. Not sure why because I didn't touch the ram, only the cpu. So they instructed me to turn off the pc, remove all the ram except for the B2 slot and power back on. Still no change. THEN they said to put a ram card into the A2 slot. I asked if I should turn the pc off and they said no. I asked again to clarify just in case their were any misunderstandings. Again they said with the pc on, insert the next ram card. Well, I think we all know what happened next. Pc instantly shuts off, and now even with the old cpu reinstalled I cant get past the dram error on my motherboard. Everything powers on and lights up, it just wont complete the boot process. I have tried one at a time swapping my ram cards into only the B2 slot, shutting it off each time. Tried power cycling. Have not tried resetting bios yet but I don't know if that will fix anything if my ram slots are shot. Honestly I don't know what else to try at this point. So here are my questions: 1) Is there anything else I can do to troubleshoot and possibly fix the problem? 2) If I shorted out my ram slots, could I have also shorted the ram cards? If so, how can I tell/test them? 3) Could I have shorted out any other components (gpu, wifi card, m.2 cards)? For reference, here is my setup: Asus X470-F motherboard AMD Ryzen 2700X cpu G.Skill Trident-Z DDR4 ram, 4 x 8GB Corsair RX850 psu Sapphire RX 7900 XT gpu If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it. Really do not want to have to build a whole new pc because of this. Thanks in advance.

need help diagnosing how bad this problem is and what need to be replaced. Got a 3070 and updated my PSU to a 750w. When I did the install I thought I had a bad PSU so I returned it. When installing the PSU I realized my actual problem was I mixed up the cables for the power supply. got everything installed, correct cables, and power up. No screens turn on. plug screens into the motherboard. Still nothing on the monitors. Plug a monitor into my laptop and it turns on. When I did get everything powered I heard a spark and smelled that dreaded smell. I think i fired somthing. But how to I tell what is fired and what isn't.

So my sons computers graphics card died , it was Evga 1060 6gb B-stock. I was able to get an rma. My question is: is it posible to test the pcie on the power supply to make sure that it was a faulty card and not faulty power that caused the card to go up in smoke , or am i stuck buying a new Power supply to be sure . Thank you gigabite z270 mobo i5 6500 evga 500 pw 1060 6rg ( now rma with 1660ti) 16 gig of generic Hynix ram

I have a pc i just built but don't know what pins I need to short to start it. pls help. thanks.

Hey, so i am putting together my PC components in a Zalman N3 case I have put everything together, except for the Fan power (interestingly this case has a molex connector for all 3 fans and is labeled as 'Fan Controller power'). After that i just need to turn it on This is my first time building a PC from scratch and being a student on limited budget, i can't really purchase any replacements if something goes wrong. Enclosing pictures of the inside of the case and also the cable management compartment. Please see if there is any dangerous wiring and any possibility of shorting anything please, please point it out. I would be grateful P.S : feeling really nervous right now

Just built a new PC, everything was running fine until I decided to set the Corsair h100 aio pump and fan speed to extreme to test. I reboot the pc and it shorts out, dead. I swapped the psu and the mobo leds lit up, pressed power and everything started sparking and sizzling, I shut off power from the psu At this point I smelled burning from the aio and commander pro controller. I replaced the aio and tested with just the 24 pin mobo connector, cpu and gpu pcie and it works fine. So I plugged in the sata connectors and the same thing, sparks and sizzling sounds. I’ve isolated the issue of to the sata connection cable to the psu as the culprit, but how do I fix this? My fans and hdd can’t run without it. Do I need to rma the mobo? specs ROG Crosshair viii dark hero mobo ryzen 5900x RTX 3080 founder edition Samsung 980 pro ssd corsair rm850x lian li 24pin and 8 pin vga strimer cable lian li uni fan 120 x3 asia horse matrix 360 fans lian li led strip

Hey guys, so today when I turned on my computer, the system turned on, my ram lit up fans turned on etc, but no display, was working earlier that day so confused I press the power button on the case to reset and I seen sparks fly from the case. I quickly unplugged everything, after investigating I found the damage as you can see in the picture. So I guess what my question is, is there anything that can be done for the card and what might have caused this to happen, just a bad card or could there be a problem with my system?. I'm picking up a 3070 tomorrow hopefully and don't want there to be a problem when I try to put it into my system. A little info on the system, b550 aorus master motherboard Ryzen 9 3900x Aorus gtx 1080ti Hx1000i platinum power supply I've had the system for over 2 years with no problems and recently upgraded the motherboard and cpu, about 4 months ago with what's listed above, haven't had any troubles before this. I powered on the system without the graphics card to make sure it's still working, everything seemed fine, no error codes in the read out on the board but won't know till I get a replacement card Cheers in advance

So my laptop is Acer Nitro 5 An515-43. I usually remove battery and do the stuff. But yesterday I forgot to takeout the battery. And while removing the screws of fans that I was about to clean.. A screw fell on the smd capacitor and a tiny spark came. the capacitor was near to the bios. I immediately connected the battery and turned on but only keyboard light and fans are working. And display is not working. No output via hdmi too. What could have gone wrong? When I gave to sc he said that gpu is gone. But I don't think so.. please anyone guide me regarding this?

Here is my Build: Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 3800X (NEW) Motherboard: B450-A PRO (NEW) Graphics Card: nVidia GTX 1060 6 GB (1 Year old) Case: RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WB RAM: G.SKILL Aegis 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) Desktop Memory Model F4-3000C16D-16GISB (NEW) Power Supply: CORSAIR TXM Series, TX750M, 750 Watt, 80+ Gold Certified, Semi Modular Power Supply (1 year old) Cooler: Ryzen Stock Cooler (Wraith Prism) (NEW) Hard Drive: ST3320620AS SSD: PNY CS1311 240 GB Here is my problem, my computer shuts itself off. I ruled out thermal issues through looking at the temperatures through BIOS and other monitors and the fan is still spinning consistently. I took apart the PC in an attempt to try and fix the issue, because I had the idea that the motherboard was causing an electrical short with the plate on the back of the case. I have never overclocked any part of my system. And for a time it seemed as if my issue was solved by removing the back plate entirely from the computer case. Until these last few days when the computer has, once again, begun to shut itself down. Without being under load a significant load. There are no cable changes occurring, no vibrations occurring in the surrounding space, and things seem to be going fine, until the computer shuts itself down. In an effort to try and cause a BSOD to tell some kind of information and rule out certain possibilities, I disabled the automatic restart that occurs, but the shutoffs are still occurring without displaying any sort of information. There did not seem to be anything wrong with the way the motherboard was mounted on the case, and now that there is no back plate on the case where the USBs are plugged in, there should not be a short there. Another little tidbit of information that might lead to the conclusion of a power distribution failure is that VERY RARELY (twice in the last month) when I try and run certain games, the monitors will go black, as if they were no longer connected to the computer, and then they would come back on. Only once did the monitors not come back on, but while that was happening, the sound was still playing through my headphones. I was monitoring the temperatures in the bios when shutdowns were occurring, for the CPU and the GPU (The computer once or twice shut off while I was staring at the temperatures in the bios). I recently got into checking the reliability monitor tool, but it doesn't display any helpful information. When I look in the event viewer it doesn't have any recent hardware events at the shut off time, only the critical message when I reboot the pc saying that the shutoff that occurred at a given time was unexpected. Nothing is out of the ordinary there. If at all possible I would like to save doing a reinstall of windows as a last resort. The CPU, MB, and RAM were all new, but the case I have is not a new case, it is the same case that I have had for the past decade, so one idea is that the new MB is occasionally making contact with the case and that is causing the short. NOT SURE ABOUT THAT ONE. I did not reinstall the OS, the HDD and SSD are still the same as before. This particular type of issue is exclusive to since I upgraded the MB, Processor, ram. If it were a software issue causing my crashes, wouldnt that cause a BSOD? I believe that either there is still a short somewhere, or there has been irreparable damage done to the power supply (be it because of the shorting or because of another type of failure within that part. What seems to be the cause of the problem and how do you recommend I approach solving it?

so im thinking of building a pc soon and the case that i liked was the cooler master q500l but apon talking to some people and reviews i have heard that it is just not good for airflow and i wanna try look for another case but i reall like the smallness of the q500l with it only being as tall as the atx motherboard. so my question is does anyone have any recommendations on similar cases to that one but are not that one

Define R5 Cooler Master v1000W / Antec earthwatts 750W i7 5930K + Corsair GTX H100i cooler ASrock X99 extreme6/3.1 Geforce GTX 570 Samsung 950 Pro M.2 512gb Corsair Vengence LPX 8gb 3x 120case fans Windows 10 x64 ver.1607 So first time putting together my own PC. Worked great for about 6-8 weeks, then started not powering up at all, no fans, no light nothing. Come back many hours later and it would be on. Started trouble shooting, eventually worked out that unpluggging PSU then plugging back in would get it going. Changed to old Antec 750W PSU, pc powers on with this PSU for 1 second, then powers off for 3, then turn on and is fine. Looking over case for totally unrelated reason, found that rear i/o panel tab was sticking into my usb type c female plug, i assume shorting it out. Fixed this, Cooler Master PSU still does not power on at all when asked, Antec still powers on/off/o. Powered both PSU on with paper clip and both come on fine. When Cooler Master PSU installed, green wire has correct 5V, then drops to .7-.9V and does not power on, although does seem to make a very slight wine from PSU. Checked same thing with Antec PSU and it has the same 5v, then drops to .8, then gets 5V again, then looses it again, I assume Antec PSU is fine. SO..... Why would motherboard be telling Antec PSU to turn on, then off, then on again? Would the short in usb type C socket fry CPU? I have tried reseating GPU, CPU and RAM to no avail. Have run bench on CPU-Z to test CPU scores 1661 single thread and 10359 multi-thread which seems passable from what i can gather. Can CPU score well, work well and still be damaged? Thanks in advance CPU Name Intel® Core™ i7-5930K CPU @ 3.50GHz Threading 1 CPU - 6 Core - 12 Threads Frequency 3597.87 MHz (36 * 99.94 MHz) - Uncore: 2998.2 MHz Multiplier Current: 36 / Min: 12 / Max: 37 Architecture Haswell-E/EP / R2-Step (22 nm) Cpuid / Ext. 6.F.2 / 6.3F IA Extensions MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EM64T, VT-x, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3 Caches L1D : 32 KB / L2 : 256 KB / L3 : 15360 KB Caches Assoc. L1D : 8-way / L2 : 8-way / L3 : 20-way Microcode Rev. 0x0000036 TDP / Vcore 140 Watts / 1.037 Volts Temperature 34 °C / 93 °F Type Retail (Stock Frequency : 3500 MHz) Motherboard Model ASRock X99 Extreme6/3.1 Socket Socket 2011 LGA North Bridge Intel Haswell-E rev 02 South Bridge Intel X99 rev 05 BIOS American Megatrends Inc. P3.00 (03/24/2016) Memory (RAM) Total Size 8192 MB Type Single Channel (64 bit) DDR4-SDRAM Frequency 1066.1 MHz - Ratio 1:16 Timings 15-15-15-36-2 (tCAS-tRC-tRP-tRAS-tCR) Slot #1 Module Corsair 8192 MB (DDR4-2137) - XMP 2.0 - P/N: CMK32GX4M4B3333C16 Graphic Card (GPU) GPU Type NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 (GF110) @ 780 MHz GPU Brand GIGABYTE Technology GPU VRAM 1280 MB @ 1900 MHz Storage (HDD/SSD) Model #1 Seagate ST3320620AS Capacity #1 320 GB Model #2 Samsung SSD 950 PRO 512GB Capacity #2 512 GB Display Screen #1 FP222W (BNQ76F1) Screen #1 Spec 22 inches (55.9 cm) / 1680 x 1050 pixels @ 56-76 Hz Miscellaneous Windows Version Microsoft Windows 10 (10.0) Home 64-bit Windows Subver. Build 14393 CPU-Z Version 1.78.1 (64 bit)

I accidentally touched the motherboard in my PC (pre-built lenovo Thinkstation, working perfectly before) with a measure and it immediately turned off. Now when I try to turn it on not all fans start spinning(the one on the cpu does) and the monitor doesn't show anything. There is no burnt spots. Any ideas what to do?

Hello there, Tech Tippers. GPU we are talking about: EVGA GTX1080 Hybrid PSU: EVGA SuperNova 850G2 Mobo: ASUS Z170-Deluxe So a few hours ago as I was booting up my PC and logging on to Steam, something weird happened. My rig completely shut off, in a split-second with no errors, driver-failures, freezes or BSODs. I thought none of it and proceeded to reboot, but was only left with a slight "tick" coming from the PSU. I soon figured out that this is probably a short happening somewhere within the internals. I started troubleshooting, by running the PSU seperately, which worked, then proceeded to Clear CMOS and reset BIOS on the motherboard itself which didn't solve anything. I continued tinkering and disassembling my hardware, part for part and module for module, untill I had to remove the GPU. As soon as I removed the GPU and connected my monitor to the mobo, It posted! So I was left with either a damaged PCI-E socket, GPU or some kind of disturbance in the PSU itself or the cable linking PSU->GPU. I proceeded to switch the PCI-E Lane, cables etc. but none worked so I eventually installed a GPU from another rig and it booted off it. Same PCI-e lane & cables as the 1080. I've already sent an RMA' request in, since I believe it's truly dead. Zero extreme overclocking, zero slave-switch or stress testing and most sad part is that the GPU was only 7 months old. If the RMA' case works out, would there be anything to do, to assure it won't happen again? Cause this event was super-sketchy. Any response is much appreciated ~ TaroC

Hi everyone. I want to know if the P600-ATX 800W PSU worth it for my budget gaming pc? Because I have been shocked of this PSU cause it has no 4 pin cpu connector that my mobo can support. Here is the pic of the available connectors and damn I am so pissed for my 45dollars here in the Philippines. And one person quoted me that the 4 pin is only meant for a 4 pin connector and not for a 6 pin.

Hello! I found out that my 24 pin cable for my Corsair AX860i is shorted. While using the selftest button on the unit with the 24 pin cable only plugged in on the PSU end it shorts out. The other circuits are okey though, it only happens with the 24 pin cable. Sadly it took down my motherboard with it and I want to know if anyone knows anything about warranties and what can/will/could be covered. The PSU has a 10 year warranty, I bought it about 4 years ago. Thanks for the answers in advance

Alright, so this is my first time posting, let me know if there's a better place to ask this question. I have a laptop which i bought used, it had a bios password set, didn't realize I needed a UEFI partition in my boot sector so in order to enable legacy boot mode, I shorted the EEPROM for a second, got into the bios, set my boot order and restarted, mission accomplished. A month later I'm trying to load an OS through usb and need to change boot order again so as I repeat my steps I hold my screw driver on the chip too long and short it out. Right now I get a power button light, charging indicator light and front power light, no fan and no screen. Does this sound like I need to check for other motherboard damage or can I just buy a new bios chip and solder it on? Thanks in advance. Edit: apparently I posted once before, sue me

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I have watercooled my 1080 Ti using the EK waterblock and backplate. When I touch it with my hand and move around I can feel this kind of ``vibrating'' feeling, which reminds me of the tingly feeling when touching something that has a slight electification to it. When I touch the case and feel the backplate this sensation isn't there. Could my backplate be electrified somehow? I don't have a multimeter to check it quickly so I thought I'd ask here first.

Specs Asus Sabertooth X79 with latest bios Intel i7 3930k G.Skill Ripjaws Z 1600 (4x8GB) Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Noctua NH-D15 Rosewill Photon 650w 80+ GOLD The Problem My computer will not post after a forced shutdown. Everything powers up, fans spinning, CPU and RAM checks pass, then I'm stuck at VGA_LED with no beeps, until I force shut down again. I had this same issue about 6 months ago, using the same CPU, motherboard, and RAM. When I bought some new parts to rebuild this machine last week it posted and booted with no problems. I've been using it all week, and it's been shutdown, rebooted, and forced power off plenty of times, without issue (until now). Diagnostics I've pulled everything from the case and am currently breadboarding with the mobo on it's cardboard box (not on the anti static sleeve). I have the bare minimum connected, just CPU, heatsink, single RAM module, GPU, and the motherboard speaker. With only CPU & heatsink connected, I get 1 long + 2 short beeps (no ram), as expected. Once a single ram module is installed in the recommended slot, I get NO beeps, and the vga_led is solid red. Both with and without the GPU installed. I have reset CMOS both by pulling the battery, and with the jumper. Tried all 4 RAM modules. Removed, cleaned, and reseated all components, including CPU. No bent pins or visible issues with PCI-E slots or motherboard. Discharged motherboard by shorting power pins for 30 seconds, with PSU unplugged. And discharged PSU by powering it on while unplugged (these are both things I read online, not sure if they actually do anything but didn't seem like it would hurt). Tried 2 different power outlets. Tried both PCI-E slots for GPU, despite the manual saying it should always be the first one for single GPU. Other Thoughts When I force power off after a failed post, and then power off the PSU, the green motherboard power light turns off as expected. But then it comes back on after about 10 seconds, with no interaction, PSU still switched off. Then it turns itself off again after about 15 or 20s. It seems like there might be some power issue/short with the GPU or the PCI-E slot. From what I have read I should be expecting 1 long beep followed by three short beeps with no GPU installed, but all I get is silence, spinning fans, and the VGA_LED stuck red. Is there any possibility the CPU is the issue? What should I try next?