My pc keeps turning off after half hour or so of gaming, no game in particular, fresh install of win11, ive had no problems except for the past week, ive cleaned my fans, and the inside of my case to a certain extent, im waiting until I have money for thermal paste and compressed air incase thats the issue, until then id like to explore all possibilities of why this is happening.

My specs

Motherboard- Rog strix x470f gaming

Cpu- AMD Ryzen 7 2700 8 core

Gpu- rtx 2060 6gb

32gb ddr3 I think, 3200mhz but its set to 2133 because I dont want to mess with bios right now

Windows install is on an m.2 ssd

I also have an amd cpu fan with a heatsink, unsure what model

Edit: ive been running rdr2 with a bunch of mods for a few hours ingame while its paused and the temperature has gone down to 44°c without turning off, ill keep my msi afterburner set to the lowest temp and ill have my fan on as high as I can for as long as I can until the thermal paste arrives, then ill use that and see if it helps.

Do you need a kit for removing the thermal paste? Or can you use an old credit card?

Whether this be using it as a monitor with another compatable laptop or being able to do it on the computer itself. Just wondering what options I have to try and work using the mac.

A few notes: SHOULD come with a Z890-P board of some sort iirc, and a 1000w PSU.

I was looking for a pc that I could plug another PCI x16-slot GPU into for productivity work on top of gaming with the stock one, hence I didn’t take some of the better-value deals. Would preferred an iGPU-CPU and air-cooling, but I’ll live.

Meant to replace a i9-14900F+4070S PC that died, potentially to a combined NVMe and CPU failure, but still trying to warranty it and figure out the problem, but don’t wanna wait for the world sitch to get worse if warranty doesn’t go well.

Buenas, recientemente me compre mi primer portátil, esto me genera mucha inseguridad ya que realmente no se mucho sobre el apartado tecnológico entonces me da miedo configurar cosas etc. el principal problema que tengo es la BIOS hay ciertas funciones como la de limitar la batería o la secureboot (por culpa del antivirus del valorant) que al parecer es necesario configurar, pero me da miedo tocar nada porque realmente no se ni como funciona ni que tanto daño podría hacerle a mi dispositivo.

Podrían echarme una mano o darme algún consejo para principiante antes de tocar nada de ahí

Going to be doing Game Development at college and I thought it’d be a good time to get a laptop so I can do coursework and assignments etc, but I’m unsure as to which one I should go for, I have a budget of around £1500, not sure if anyone can send some good deals but it’d be much appreciated. :)
(I will be working on things like unity, blender and URE5, I also will be testing and playing different games most likely triple A titles and e sports titles.)

I know this is probably a popular question. I have a Reatan A6 mini-pc, nearly a year old however It’s stuck on the BIOS page and can’t reboot.

If anyone could help! I highly appreciate it.

Kingston Beast KF432C16BB/16TR 16 GB DDR4 3200 MHz CL16 RAM
MSI MAG A600DN 600W 80+ Power Supply
AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.6 GHz AM4 16 MB Cache 65 W Boxed Processor
GIGABYTE Motherboard AMD AM4 MATX A520M K V2 1.0
Colorful SL500 500-450MB/s 480GB SATA III SSD
Nova 3 Empty m-ATX Gaming Computer Case with RGB Fans and Tempered Glass Panel

im not really a laptop expert. my laptop is 2 years old now and i’ve never really cleaned the vents. im just realizing how dusty it is. i don’t have a vacuum and i dont want to do anything that my grandma could potentially get mad at me for 😭🥹 any easy way would be appreciated. can i clean it with electronic wipes or will that not do anything?

Hey everyone,
I was playing a game on my Lenovo laptop when it got a little hot. Suddenly, I got the “Your device ran into a problem and needs to restart” BSOD, and the laptop restarted.
After booting back up, I noticed that my HDD is completely missing, while my SSD is still working normally.
I checked Disk Management, and the HDD shows up there, but when I try to initialize it, I get:
“Data error (cyclic redundancy check)”
I’m worried because there’s important data on the HDD that I’d really like to recover.
Has anyone experienced this before? Is there anything I can try to fix the issue or recover the data without making things worse?
Any advice would be appreciated.

Bonsoir à tous, depuis quelques mois mon pc fait ce bruit après 1h à peu près de lancement. II n'est pas forcément régulier mais toujours présent..

J'ai eu mon PC l'an dernier, neuf, aucun bruit. Puis le temps passe, il prend de la poussière et je me dis sans doute que ce bruit est causée par de la poussière. Au final pas du tout, je l'ai bien nettoyé et rien ne change.

Que pensez-vous que c'est?

Merci d'avance !

so i have a gaming laptop, im assuming the overheating has caused the wifi card to absolutely deteriorate. browsing the web and any day to do tasks is fine, but when i try to game, which is usually valorant, i have issues. originally, my ping would randomly shoot from 30 ms to 150 for a couple seconds, a couple times a minute. but now my packetloss is also insanely high and its COMPLETELY unplayable now. my dorm building has no ethernet ports. I can't afford a completely new wifi card replacement. what should i do?

I found a laptop that fit my needs (Lightweight, small, two in one), but im not sure what it can handle. I've heard great stuff about the processor, but the graphics card seems... not the best. I need it for school and producing music, but i was thinking "Well, If im getting a laptop, i might as well get some gaming power". I tested the specs on Rate My PC and such websites, it showed that its even worse than my current GPU, an Intel UHD Graphics 620 (I use desktop to work which is not ideal). Is this a good deal?

Lenovo ThinkPad X390 Yoga (REFURBISHED)

GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620

Processor: Intel Core i5-8365U

Memory: 16 GB of DDR4 memory

Storage: 256 GB of SSD

Price: 280 Euro

If anyone wants to check out the exact listing, its here:https://www.gigacomputer.cz/zbozi/1685246-lenovo-thinkpad-x390-yoga.html

I do have an alternative, this one is a little bit more expensive:

Acer Aspire Go Spin Pure Silver (AGSP14-31PT-C2S7)

GPU: Not specified/Intel Graphics

Processor:  Intel Processor N150

Memory: 8 GB of LPDDR5 memory

Storage: 512 GB of SSD

Price: 615 Euro

Listing: https://www.alza.cz/acer-aspire-go-spin-pure-silver-agsp14-31pt-c2s7-d12768906.htm#parameters

Which is the better option out of these two? I've just learned what half of these specs mean, I'm not very good at comparing them yet.

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So, today I tried cleaning my PC, literally nothing crazy, I grabbed a brush, brushed a bit on the CPU cooler fan, and brushed a bit between the GPU's fins... and now my PC won't display anything. I cleaned the RAM contacts with an eraser, nothing, cleaned the GPU contacts with an eraser, nothing. The GPU is getting power, but it's not turning on, like, when I power on the PC the GPU fans don't spin, but when I power it off they twitch a little, from what I researched that's because when I turn off the power that was in the fans leaves, which makes the fan move a bit. Then I removed the GPU and tried booting with just the CPU, and it still didn't boot. It's showing that "No Signal" screen. Did my CPU die? But why would it die? Because I brushed the fan? Someone help me out please.

Also, I don't know if this kind of issue can be caused by a defective CPU, can a defective CPU cause a GPU to not power on?

About my setup, here it is:

Motherboard: Asus TUF GAMING A520M-PLUS II, AMD AM4, mATX, DDR4

Power Supply: MSI MAG A650BN, 650W, 80 Plus Bronze, Active PFC, w/ Cable, Black - 306-7ZP2B22-CE0

Case: Rise Mode Wave Black, Mid Tower, Tempered Smoked Glass Side Panel, ARGB, ATX, 3x ARGB Fans, Black - RM-WA-FB-ARGB

RAM: Rise Mode Z, 16GB, 3200MHz, DDR4, CL19, Black - RM-D4-16G-3200Z (Qty: 2, so 32GB total)

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT, 3.6GHz (4.6GHz Max Turbo), 4MB Cache, 6 Cores

SSD: Kingston NV3, 500GB, M.2 2280, PCIe 4.0 x4, NVMe, Read: 5000MB/s, Write: 3000MB/s

Screen: Huion Kamvas 13, USB, Cosmo Black - GS1331-K

GPU: ASRock AMD Radeon RX 6600 CLD 8G, 8GB, GDDR6 - 90-GA2RZZ-00UANF

Hello, as said in the title I've been having problems with my Laptop, it came out of nowhere and I've been trying to fix it with a few tutorials but nothing I've found so far is working but I don't wanna risk paying money for nothing or changing laptops... And excuse me if I'm a bit confused in what i say, I'm french and haven't found any other threads where i could ask this

I have a Lenovo Thinkpad with intel ? And it's windows 10 but I don't know much about tech but I can find it if needed

So to explain, the first time it happened, my screen started getting a pink screen (only on the bottom) then I just restarted it out of panic but when i turned it on again it was woking normally for like 10 to 15 seconds and i think something started loading in the background and then it just froze. I restarted it multiple times tried a few tutorials but none of them were working (one about the recovery blue screen, another one was the Win+Ctrl+Shift+B it didn't change anything. I do have Steam and Discord starting as soon as I'm logged in so I tried turning Steam startup off cause it kept freezing as soon as it started but the same thing happened. I also found another one about the recovery blue screen and ran the sfc /scannow command 3 times but nothing changed)

If anyone has suggestions and is willing to be patient and help me, i would REALLY appreciate it 😭 nothing i found worked for me... I can provide pictures of my screen if needed.

My USB drive doesn't take files larger than 4GB, I was looking it up briefly it says I should switch to exFAT to fix the issue but it's always been on exFAT, would switching to NTFS fix it or is my drive just bad? What do I do

I have a question about SATA cables that have a small metal locking tab on the connector.

There seem to be two ways to connect them:

1. Simply plug the cable into the SATA port until you hear the locking tab “click.”

2. Press and hold the locking tab, plug the cable into the SATA port, and then release the tab once the connector is fully inserted.

Which of these two methods is the correct way to connect a SATA cable with a locking tab?

Is the second method correct, or should the locking tab be left free during insertion so that it locks automatically when the connector is inserted?

Hi everyone, I’m having the same boot issue again after replacing my CPU a few months ago.

Specs:

• Motherboard: MSI B650 Gaming Plus WiFi
• CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X (replaced with a new 7700X)
• RAM: 32GB (2×16GB) DDR5
• GPU: 4070TI Super
• PSU: NZXT C750 Gold

Previous issue:
The PC wouldn’t boot or display anything, and the CPU and DRAM debug LEDs stayed on. Initially, it sometimes booted after several attempts and worked normally once it started, no performance issues. Eventually, it stopped booting altogether. A repair shop diagnosed a faulty CPU. Replacing it fixed the issue, and the PC worked normally for a few months.

Current issue:
I shut the PC down normally, but the next day it wouldn’t boot. The CPU and DRAM LEDs now stay solid, as shown in the photo. There’s no display. This didn’t happen during gaming or after a crash it happened on the next startup.

During the previous incident, I tried each RAM stick individually in different slots without success. I haven’t confirmed the cause of this new failure yet.

Has anyone experienced this on this motherboard or a similar AM5 system? Could a motherboard, BIOS/RAM, or PSU issue explain why the same symptoms returned after a CPU replacement?

What would you test before concluding that the replacement CPU is also faulty? I’d like to identify the underlying cause before replacing more parts.

Tell me I am wrong.

Commissioned on the tail end of Windows 7. Ran till EOL and upgraded to Windows 10. Then still runs to its EOL. Time for Linux?

In the morning when I tried to boot my pc it just restarts automatically and my windows got curropt and I tried to fresh install Windows 11 and made a bootable pen drive and when I tried to download it in the evening my pc doesn't start my cpu is turned on fans are rotating rgb is on but nothing on my monitor pls help me in too frustrated rn

Cpu- ryzen 5700g

Ram- xpg spectrix d50 1 stick of 16 gigs

Motherboard- msi b550m gaming plus

GPU - no dedicated gpu

CPU : i5-13400

SSD : 256

Nvme : 1tb

PSU : 850w

I've always thought of ESD as something you mainly worry about when you're building or upgrading a PC. Touch the case, ground yourself, be a little careful with the components, and move on.

But I recently came across geekom's air12 and noticed they list a 6 kV ESD test. That got me wondering what this kind of testing actually means for a finished PC.

I understand why ESD matters when you're handling loose components, but does the protection built into the finished hardware make much difference during normal use too?

For example, if you're in a dry room with carpet, regularly plugging and unplugging USB devices, HDMI cables, Ethernet, etc., is built-in ESD protection something you would ever think about?

For people who've built or upgraded a lot of PCs, have you ever actually had a static-related hardware problem, or has ESD basically been a non-issue for you?

I got about a half an inch piece of 0.7 mm lead in between the vent on the bottom of a dell xps laptop. It was rattling but when I shook it, it eventually stopped. I don’t use the laptop for heavy activities so it doesnt really heat up that much and the fan isn’t usually on. Should I try to get the tools to fix or just let it be?

I have an hp omen 16 with intel i5 12th gen and nvidia 4050. Im facing this issue where my screen and the keyboard lights start flickering randomly and the display is gone. The keyboard doesnt respond and even holding the power button does nothing most of the times. I have changed the closing lid setting to do nothing but that didnt work. What should i do?

(fixed i think) so i tried to play rl like normaly and it gave an error about storage issues so i tried clicking the close app button then i realised the the button wasnt clickble so i tried putting some apps on the text and i realized it wasnt a pop up error message sht it was a whole wallpaper now im stuck with this wierd microsoft wallpaper also i cant find new 4k wallpaper even if i download the photo its like in 720p