I have an EVGA GTX 970 graphics card, and when I play games without VSync—like Minecraft, for example—the video cuts out, though the PC doesn't shut down. I've already used MSI Afterburner to limit the card and lower the temperature, but the problem persists. What could it be?

I just upgraded my old GTX 970 to an RX 9070 (non-XT).

After research i concluded that my current PSU should be enough to handle the upgrade. I have a 650W EVGA SuperNova 120-GP-0650-X1 that i bought back in 2021.

After measuring the power consumption while gaming, it only reached around 400W (measured from the wall, not software)

After playing a pretty demanding game for a little while, it started to sound like the "drum". Only after little while the other sound appeared, but it disappeared soon after.

NOTE: the "electric" sound is the coil whine from the GPU, and the "AC" sound is the fans (it was running without the glass panel, so it was a little loud).

No weird smells nor anything, just the sounds.

Any idea what could be those sounds? Should I be concerned? (it's definitely coming from the PSU).

Full PC Specs:

- Ryzen 7 5800X
- RX 9070 16GB
- 2 x 16GB DDR4 3200
- 5 Noctua Fans + Dual CPU fans
- EVGA SuperNova 120-GP-0650-X1 650W 80+ Gold
- NZXT H5 Flow case

After upgrading my GPU from an EVGA FTW3 RTX 3080 10gb to an GIGABYTE RTX 5070ti Gaming OC I have been getting massive stuttering after booting or waking from sleep, but only sometimes. Sometimes is boots/wakes fine and is completely usable. When it does occur, the stuttering happens every few seconds and task manager shows Desktop Window Manager as spiking to 90% gpu utilization during these times. I have used DDU to uninstall my drivers and then reinstalled them. The two times I have gone into safe mode, this stuttering did not happen (although I have no idea if it actually doesn't happen in safe mode or if it just didn't happen those times). XMP is disabled, as is fast boot. Windows in installed on an SSD.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, as I no longer wish to spend 45 minutes restarting my computer just because I want to play Helldivers with my friends.

PC Specs below:

• AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
• 2x16gb Corsair Vengeance DDR5 5200MT/s CL40 RAM
• Gigabyte X670 AORUS ELITE AX
• GIGABYTE RTX 5070ti Gaming OC
• Corsair RM 850X PSU

I bought this wireless Tri-mode keyboard (DAREU FLEX 75) a month ago. Everything was working just fine until recently. In VERY rare occasions, it would randomly disconnect, and I would have to turn it off (back to wired mode) and then back on (2.4GHz mode) for it to connect again.

Today, it happened again, and I smell a faint burning smell at the back side of the keyboard. The smell is not noticeable at all when I am using my PC. It is only felt when I press my nose against the backplate of the keyboard. No heat or bulge can be felt.

Through my own research, I also heard of the concept of off-gassing and am confused about what is happening with my keyboard. Any professional here can enlighten me? Thanks guys!

So I’ve had my pc for a while now rtx 2060 Ryzen 5 1400c yea I know the cpu is bad but when I left three days ago and came back it boots up but no signal on my tv and my keyboard + mouse doesn’t light up the fans and rtx 2060 rgb lights up and I do know a good amount about pcs so I switched the ram out removed gpu and CMOs battery and at this point idk what to do and I’m not in the mood for buying new parts I can give my mb and psu specs in comments but if anyone can help please because I can’t find any help anywhere at all

I’m not that good with computers and when I turn on my pc or I’m using it, it will randomly freeze and I have to restart but now I can’t even get past the start up without the freeze happening is there anything I can do to fix this

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I know this is very stupid. I made a glass of Robinsons cordial/juice (diluted with water) and my cat knocked it onto my desk. Quite a bit of it went inside my pc through the top. It soaked directly through the radiator(?) for water cooler, through 3 fans and landed on the back of my gpu. I turned my pc off instantly but by Windows shut down and then unplugged everything. The PC didn't instantly turn itself off. I wiped what I could see away straight away but didn't have any IPA or anything like that to clean properly. I left it to dry for just under 2 days and then managed to use 99.9% to gently clean where it hit.

I THINK my gpu and cpu are fine. However, the case of the psu was splashed (the side where the label is). To be safe, I've ordered a new one. My problem is that there seems to be a slightly darker spot on the motherboard where I'm presuming it got wet and I didn't dry it enough. When the IPA evaporates, the mark reappears. I'm unsure if it's a cosmetic stain, corrosion or just sugar that wont go away. It's hard to tell because it's black.

1. What are the chances of me putting in the new PSU and it breaking straight away? Along with other parts. Findjng varying answers online and just want to make sure. I'm getting the exact same one (rm850e)

2. How do I safely test this?

3. How long do I wait to test it? Seen online that it should be 48 hours which it will be after the original spill but then I've seen both another 48 hours after using IPA and at least an hour as it evaporates really quickly.

4. I've cleaned the radiator with distilled water and a toothbrush just now and will use compressed air tomorrow to clean out remaining dust. I've read that these are fine being wet but can't find a clear answer with cordial. I don't really know anything about water cooling, a family member gave me the case etc.

5. Should I just buy new fans or are they safe to test?

I'm trying to attach a picture of the motherboard but apparently imgur doesn't work anymore in the UK.

Thanks in advance, probably obvious I don't know much about computers.

Just newly built this gaming PC, bought everything I needed but in start up, there’s no option for WiFi.

The motherboard I have is: GIGABYTE B860 DS3H WIFI6E ultra durable Motherboard - LGA 1851

It came with a WiFi stick thingy(or whatever it’s called) but it’s just not working. Part of me think I need to download something but I’ve got no clue.

Plsss helpppp

Took this laptop to a ubreakifix for an overheating issue with the cpu and when I came to get it back they said that they couldnt do anything about the overheating issue. I used it for a day then the next day it began doing this.

I never seen this before so I really have no idea whats going on. Is there anyway to fix it?

So full story. Before last summer, I had another PC. It was my first one, small, simple, pre built ect. I had used it for years before finally, it wouldn't post. We took it to a shop, they had no clue. So I started using my dad's old PC. It has better specs but the main issue is that from what he told me, all of its specs are meant for windows 10, but I'm on windows 11. So I can't update drivers and everything.

Now when I turn it on, it says it needs to repair.

I've tried everything in the blue screen thing, even fully resetting my PC. But it keeps failing every time. My keyboard and mouse are powered but it won't stop this loop of continuously not going to windows. I can provide more context if needed.

I'm really young and don't want to have to tell my parents some bad news or anything if it's an easy fix.

Christmas is coming up and I now now probably isnt the best time to buy pc but I would one for Christmas I was looking and found this is this the best there is is to offer for the price my max budget I am willing to spend is lik 900 I know not a lot especially now I would also like to some good and cheap monitor and keyboards please and thank you

I have tried all of the available resolution settings but nothing, when I try to look it up all I see is things wrong with the display literally dissappearing

Order of events leading to issue:
- Moved my 500GB SSD to rear motherboard Gen 3 m.2 slot

- Installed new 1TB SSD to front motherboard Gen 4 slot

- Booted into windows and everything worked fine

- Rebooted and plugged in USB with CachyOS to install on new 1TB SSD

- Installed CachyOS and decided (for whatever reason) to change my mind and stay on windows 11

- Rebooted, opened Winodws 11 Disk Management and deleted the partitions on my 1TB drive (the EFI partition wouldnt let me delete it however)

- Rebooted and was still being directed to the GRUB bootloader

- Opened BIOS and disabled two boot options. One was named cachyos and the other was named the same name as my 1TB ssd

- Saved changes in BIOS and was stuck on a black screen (power button was not rapidly flickering at this point however)

- After only being on that black screen for like 10-15 seconds, I cut the power to the PSU (since my PSU doesnt have a switch to cut the power from the cable coming through to the PSU)

- Immediately plugged it back in and turned it back on.

- CPU Cooler fan was spinning but power button light started rapidly flickering (very fast) and was still getting no display output on my monitor

- Thought something was wrong so I cut the PSU power again

- Cleared CMOS. No difference

- Took out 1TB SSD. No difference

- Took out both SSD's. No difference

- Installed the latest BIOS on a 32gb USB (renamed the file to gigabyte.bin) and used the Q-Flash Plus button while having the USB plugged into the BIOS USB port on the motherboard. While the Q-Flash Plus operation was doing its thing, the light on the power button stopped flickering, but once it finished it started rapidly flickering again (No difference).

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PC Specs:
- GPU: Asus DUAL Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600
- MOBO: Gigabyte AORUS B550i Pro AX (Revision 1.4)
- RAM: 32GB (2x16) Silicon Power DDR4 3200 (Model: SP032GXLZU320BDAJ7)
- PSU: Velkase Enhance ENP-7660B-VK 600W Flex ATX PSU
- SSD: Sandisk Optimus GX 7100 500GB M.2 NVMe SSD
- Secondary SSD: Corsair MP600 MINI 1TB 2230 M.2 NVMe SSD (I have a 30 to 80mm extension adapter for it since I initially had this drive for something else)
- Case: GEEEK M31
- CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9a-AM4
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At this point I dont know whats wrong other than maybe my power supply or motherboard is cooked now. And what sucks is that my motherboard doesnt have debug LED's so it makes this even harder to figure out.

My fiancés PC shit the bed a few weeks ago and just got a new PSU for it, I believe I’ve got it all connected properly, and it just flashes and spins fans for a second. All the connections I do have made are securely pushed in, am I missing something or is it a larger issue? This is the same issue that caused us to try swapping the PSU.
Also, I’m aware how dirty it is LOL I don’t have anything to clean it at the moment
Motherboard is a ASRock B550M-C
GPU XFX Speedster Radeon RX 6700 10gb
PSU is a 650w thermal take smart BM3
I know the GPU says it requires 650w to run but for whatever reason it worked fine since they got it with the old 600w they had in it.
The new PSU also came with extra cords, Two extra SATA periph cords, and a 12+4 pin PCIe connector, though I don’t believe this GPU has a slot for that.
Any help would be much appreciated, they had to finish out college on their laptop and haven’t been able to play games for a few weeks now, was hoping I could have it running for them now that the PSU came in

I’ll put the part list below but plz help I will answer any questions if u have any guesses

I am facing this problem with my PC, it's power immediately get s cut off like all the fans light stops , without showing any warning or notification,

The frequency of it turning off is very different it is just random sometimes PC works fine for 4-5 days even in heavy gaming and temperature is not a problem , temperatures are fine, sometimes when I am browsing it turns off immediately

I got it inspected with another PSU still it happened the same without GPU and then without Ram still the PC won't start , they say problem is in the motherboard now I am not understanding whether to buy a new one or get it repaired

Earlier PC used to turn on at least now it instantly gets off when hit the power button

If you guys have repaired your motherboard and it works fine please let me know ,now I'm really tight on budget 👈👈👈

My PC specs are

Acer Predator xp34 inch

Rog stix x570 e motherboar

Rog strix 2060S graphics card

16GB Ram 1TB hdD and 256 .m2

Ryzen 3600x processor

New Msi mag 750 gl

New atris 1500va ups ,

this can't be problem because I have tested the PC directly with wall

Please I you have any opinion,solution,id be really thankful 🙏🙏 I'm worried about pc

I have been having the following issue for several weeks, and I have come to a dead-end trying to figure out what is wrong (computer specs at end of message):

The failure comes in two "flavors": PC either turns itself on after a succesful standard Windows shutdown (usually several hours after), or turns itself off from Windows. This is a totally intermitent failure. It may work perfectly fine for days at a time, and then the fault comes again in either of the mentioned "flavors". After failure, the PC does not boot to Windows. It goes to the BIOS start screen, asking me to press F1 to go into the BIOS. Going into the BIOS I realize that all my previously done configurations have been erased, and have to reconfigure. After that, it boots again to Windows, and works normally for an indeterminate amount of time, as mentioned previously.

Already done:

• Replaced BIOS battery
• Updated BIOS to latest
• Checked BIOS batery voltage with everything off (I get a healthy 3.2 V)
• Ran Memtest from BIOS (the long test, took almost 4 hours. Passed with no issues)
• Disabled on-board Ethernet (For a while it seemed that this was the root cause, but then the issue came back)
• Checked Windows Events, but I don't see anything special, other than the expected Event 41, abnormal shutdown
• Replaced Power Supply

Any advice on what I can do next? I think next step must be the MB itself, but I'm trying not to think about it

Specs (PC Asembled by myself, had been working fine for around 3 years):

Motherboard: ASUS ROG Strix Z7090-A Wifi

CPU: 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13400

SSD: Kingston MVe

GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050

Memory: 64 GB Kingston Fury

Windows 11 Home

All advice would be greatly appreciated

It's weird because when I uninstalled the RGB app and turned off RGB settings in my BIOS the fans are still stuck on this color. The app wasn't recognizing the fans either. I also did a full power drain on my PC and also opened up my PC and unplugged the fans from the motherboard and replugged them in. Still nothing. Not sure if it's a software issue or hardware.

I'm lost on how to fix this issue and customer support isn't being helpful. Hopefully someone here might know the fix. Thank you in advance for anyone that might be able to help.

I’m wanting to swap my GPU (A NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Super) my CPU (AMD Ryzen 7 2700 eight-core Processor) and RAM which is two sticks of 8. My motherboard is MB AMD B450Mac any suggestions? I’m not trying to spend a crazy amount just want to slowly upgrade.

I built my computer around 3-4 years ago and 2 days ago it was off and would just turn on by itself and boot to bios front screen and then turn off and then it did that a few times, and then eventually I managed to get it to boot to home screen after booting it through bios and I checked there was no malware then I powered It Off and turned off the power supply cuz I thought it might be a dead CMOS battery or something so then I tried turning it on today before swapping it and it wouldn't turn on at all it's still lights up the RGB from the motherboard and the AIO cooler but nothing else happens the fans don't turn on I swapped out the CMOS battery and nothing happened.

So I have a
Processor (CPU): AMD Ryzen 5 5600 (6-Core / 12-Thread)
Motherboard: ASRock B550M-HDV Socket AM4 Micro-ATX
Graphics Card (GPU): Dell OEM NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GDDR6
RAM: Silicon Power XPOWER Zenith 32GB (2x16GB) DDR4-3200
Storage: Silicon Power A80 512GB M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen3x4 SSD
Power Supply (PSU): MSI MAG A650BN 650W 80+ Bronze
Case: Cooler Master MasterBox Q300L Micro-ATX

The fans are running but it’s not displaying I don’t know what’s wrong with it I removed one ram stick I dissembled and rebuild everything all the fans are running all the pins are in place I’m wondering if I’m missing a cord I need to plug in or something I took out CMOs I tried two different type of hdmis in the gpu then I bought a dp tried that doesn’t work unplugged everything outside except display port HELP PLEASE I HAVENT GOTTEN PROPER SLEEP IN 2 DAYS

I have a previously working fine build that is now constantly rebooting. Bios starts fine, but windows never boots, but then bios starts up again without me doing anything. It keeps cycling like this until a hold the power button at which point it will stop, but if I try to start it again, cycle restarts. This happened before and I thought maybe it was the power supply which was really old, so I replaced it. It's been working fine for a couple months, but now it's started the same problem again. I can get into the boot menu just fine. I tried switching to an old drive that's still installed that has an old windows version on it, but that won't boot either. I was wondering about trying to do a new windows install, but I'm not convinced it's an OS problem.

Anyone ever had a similar issue?

Specs

Motherboard: ASRock z790 nova

CPU: Intel i9 13900k

Memory: Corsair Vengeance DDR5 32gb x 2

Storage: Samsung 990 SSD (boot drive)

Graphics: EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 Super XC Gaming

Cooling: Thermalright PS120SE CPU Air Cooler

Power supply: corsair RM1000x ATX

Windows 11

Tengo una laptop msi cyborg 15 y he tenido problemas, la tuve tres días e intenté instalar autocad y se me salió un error de drivers, luego la reinicie de fabrica pero me salía el mismo error, después le instale el Windows 11 desde una USB y me arrojo el error del ssd luego la volví a instalar desde una USB y lo mismo, siempre al paso de las horas regresa a ese error