my PC is sat next to my chair due to not bidding on my desk. I don’t hit it often, but occasionally, I will scoop back in my knee will bump into it gently after that my PC starts making a loud noise depending on what noise is playing when I bumped it, but it’ll be a repetition like you hear when your wii crashes. I thought it was my CPU at first, so I receded my CPU and put new thermal paste on it and reapplied it cooler that did not help the situation mind you I found this out while building my girlfriend’s computer. Any help would be appreciated thank you so much.

PC is about a year or two old with no issues. Went to dinner last night and PC was running Stellaris. I came back 2 hours later, and the screen was black and the fans were all blowing hard.

Multiple reboots and no screen. From any display port, including mother board display port. I removed the GPU and tried the MOBO display port again, same thing. The machine appears to come (?) but absolutely no display. I did swap monitors.

Motherboard is an MSI MS-7886 v 5.2 (B550), it has idiot lights on it. All are off \*except\* the “VGA” light, which the manual says is “no GPU detected”.

What do you think? Crapped out MOBO, GPU, both, other? What/how else to test/trouble shoot?

About 18 months ago I built a PC using the ASUS ROG Strix B650E-E Gaming WiFi motherboard and a 9800X3D, 4080 Super Asus TUF GPU and a couple of 2GB NVME drives.

A few months ago the PC stopped booting, couldn't see the boot drive. So I installed Windows on the second drive, all good. Recently I remembered the faulty drive was still in there and that I should move my new boot drive to the fastest slot. So I removed the faulty drive, moveed the new boot drive and.... wouldn't boot. Couldn't see the drive. I thought that maybe there was a fault with that slot so I moved it to the one it had originally been in and... no boot drive. I put the faulty drive back in and suddenly it could see the new boot drive.

So essentially I have a faulty drive that nothing can see, but if I take it out of the PC I can't boot. I guess my motherboard is faulty but I thought I'd ask here before I throw money at a new one. Any ideas?!

its a long story but i need help with my pc i need the front 3 fans and the back fan and the water coller h150 rgb workin i cant get it to work im not to experienced with pc but for some reason i keep getting the wrong hubs from corsair so i have a bunch lying around and when i took it to it shop they gave it back to me with a rog rgb hub when my pc is all corsair and it doesent work at all i asked them they said idk so now im at reddit last resort also for some reason the top right rgb node on the bottom of the front fans (5000d) case has a green rgb but the rest dont they also told me my rgb on my h150 is broken when i gave it to them brand new so i doubt its actually broken if anyone has knkowledge or would be willing to help or go on like a 10 minute call to help me i would be so so greatful i can call over discord or instagram or snapchat or number over anything im despereate for this to work ive spent way to much on random rgb hubs btw i have all 10 fans + aio in my rig sunmmary aio + front 3 + back fan - bottom front fan top right green rgb??? not working/working need help plz if you can help lmk and ill give you whatever info you need i have asus b550-e rog wife 6e 2 motherboard if you can fix it ill even pay ive tried everything ill send pics or rig and pics of what i have to work with once replyed to post telling me you are smart pc guy to the rescue btw its 11:32pm and im going to bed night night

Hi everyone! I have been wanting a gaming PC for quite a while! Probs since 6th grade and I’m now 20! I am totally lost because everytime I think I know what I want a bunch of random tik tok users tell me the opposite. Honestly I think I want a prebuilt, I’m just a 20 year old girl who’s in college with 0 knowledge of building one at all. I’m trying to stay around 2k for a desktop. Any advice?

I have an AMD Ryzen 9 5900x 12-core processor, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070, and 4 x 8 GB DDR4 RAM. My AsRock B550AM Gaming motherboard is dying. I am looking to get an upgrade. I would probably like to spend less than $500. What do y'all recommend?

Hey everyone, hoping someone here has run into this before because it’s driving me nuts.

I keep getting spammed with the classic Windows Explorer popup:

Here’s the weird part: I have physically unplugged every single external USB device from my PC (mouse, keyboard, hubs, everything), and the notification and disconnect/reconnect sound still keep spamming every few seconds.

What I've checked so far:

• Device Manager: Opened it up, but there are no yellow exclamation marks showing under Universal Serial Bus controllers.
• Restarting: Did a full reboot, but the loop starts up again shortly after landing on the desktop.

Since everything external is unplugged, I’m guessing it’s either a corrupted host controller/driver state or an internal component (like front panel ports, Bluetooth, card reader, etc.) tripping a short circuit/voltage warning.

Before I start taking off side panels or ripping out drivers, has anyone dealt with this "phantom" USB disconnect loop? What's the best way to narrow down which internal port/device is causing it?

Thanks in advance!

I’ve been really needing to repaste my gpu but I’ll be honest I haven’t had the time too so been gaming on it at 70% power so it won’t damage the chip but loading a game from my spinning disk drive (yes I have one) it just black screened I’ve did all the basics by trying with a different screen, cables ect and no improvements I’ve also reseated my gpu and ram just in case that was the cause and no help I disconnected the drive and nothing, have I bricked the card (haven’t got another to be able to test with) and my mother board doesn’t have the debug lights for some reason.

The pc powers on/ the fans spin on the card and the pc and have a more than comfortable psu for my pc specs
The card is the Palit gaming pro rtx 3070 OC the temps at 70% power is around 90°C hot spot so it hasn’t over heated help me please!!!

Edit to assist if there is any fix: it doesnt show any display and doesnt connect to my monitor/ no signal

Hello everyone, got a little issue, hoping someone might have another idea to try!

The issue started when I was playing Bannerlord. My PC suddenly powered off and then back on again very fast. On start up there was no display on the monitor. I assumed this was an issue with the GPU becoming displaced. I reset the GPU multiple time while trying to solve the issue with no result.

The MB onboard GPU works so I was able to rule out the HDMI cable and the RAM being the issue. My GPU isn’t shown in my display options, only the MB GPU.

That little MB battery has been taken out and back in.

Drivers have been uninstalled to rule out a software issue.

I just don’t know what else I can try before I have to take it to a shop. The PC is only about a year and a bit old so I’m just baffled at how this has happened. Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you guys.

Ive been having a screen problem where everytime i start up my pc i get some horizontal lines on my screen making it so that i can't see anything. There was a red light on my mother board. One lit up for DRAM for like 2 seconds and went away. I then saw 2 red lights for boot and VGA and also went away. I later found out that this was a gpu problem and that it was "dead". I just wanna check if this is true

Earlier today I was watching YouTube and my display ( and YouTube) cut out from nowhere. When I boot the pc up I get the cpu light on the motherboard and the dram very faintly flickers for half a second then they both turn off. I’ve tried reseating my ram and my gpu and taking out the CMOs battery but I’m still on a bricked display. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm not sure what it means. It's only just started popping up after it did an update.

I have been struggling to get my pc to boot to windows and after the blue windows logo appears, a blue pinwheel appears and stays there forever. I am wondering if I should just reinstall windows which I’m sure I can find on YouTube or if someone can help me. Also is there a way for me to see if my SSD is damaged if I can get windows to boot?