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I fucked up bad, My pc was suddenly boot looping giving me a different blue screen every time I tried desperately to fix it including completely wiping my boot drive and updating my bios. Now I can’t install windows from a USB, it still bluescreens every time! Is there a way to salvage this? I am desperate. Please help! I have no important files I just need it to reinstall windows
Now sending it back to get the OC Strix 4090 instead because the Aero was TOO simple and clean.
So, i'm looking to upgrade my current build from an intel core i5 10600K to an amd 7800x3d. My current motherboard is a mag z590 tomahawk, gpu nvidia 3060ti, and power supply RM750 gold. I guess i'm wondering if these parts would be compatible to do this. Also would this be the best upgrade path to start with?
Ordered a 3090 off of eBay. Description said everything was working fine and that it was only slightly used. I ran stress tests and did some heavy video editing and everything ran like a charm, I was very excited to game on it. I booted up Helldivers 2 and once I actually deployed off the main ship the game started juddering then the whole system crashed. I tried again, but with Spider-Man and same thing happened. It creates these little green artifacts you can see them on the screen. Drivers and bios are up to date. Specs: i9 9900KF RTX 3090 32GB of Ram 850W Gold PSU
Basically the title. If I were to use my current pc’s SSD and get new parts for basically everything (Graphics, Motherboard, Case,etc) Would that serve as an upgrade WITHOUT having to reinstall any programs, as well as keep any files and such?
All of the parts for a pc
Hello Pcmasters! I want to surprise my grandson with a graduation gift. Honestly I don’t know much about PC specs. I’m looking at this prebuilt one. $2600AUD (roughly $1700USD) is this a good price for the specs? I see him mostly play World of Warcraft and Fortnite. Appreciate any input!
What are some good budget 4k monitors? Preferably Curved/32 inches/240hz/1ms/ IPS. Any recommendations are appreciated.
Hello. I bough the TUF TF 120 ARGB fans and i have connected everything properly. My issue is when i want to control my fans RGB colors i cant. I tried through RGBfusion app as i have a GIGABYTE B550 GAMING X V2 motherboard and i even downloaded the asus app thats supposed to be able to control them, nothing works at all. I can only change them through the buttons on the controller they’re connected to. Should i use a different controller that’d be compatible with a gigabyte motherboard?
Hello everyone
I have my pc hooked up to a ksm switch so i can get hdmi signal and usb control to a tv on the other end of the house.
It has been working for months now and today I tried hooking it up to a projector and it worked. The projector isnt 4K so I had to change the resolution in display settings. I then unplugged the hdmi to the projector when I was done and plugged it back into the tv.
The tv was showing 1080 resolution I think. So I change it to 4K and the screen went green. I assumed just sit and wait for it to revert back but it didn’t.
Here is where it doesn’t make sense.
No matter what I do I can’t get it to not display a green screen on the tv unless I have the monitor at my pc turned on as well?
I tried plugging it back into the projector to see if maybe it’s getting crossed with a setting I turned on when using the projector and it connects right away. And from what I see there’s no settings that I left on.
It also right away switches to 1080 on the projector settings when I plug it in.
I tried plugging it into a tv that’s next to the tv in question and it comes right on even without the monitor on as well.
Hi! While playing game, I alt+tab for task manager and for first I noticed that my CPU usage is not the same as in MSIafterburner. So I turned on AMDadrenaline software metrics aswell, and I noticed that both of them show totally different numbers, and that MSIafterburner also doesnt show correct GPU usage as in task manager, but AMDadrenaline does it well. And some times like CPU temperature difference is in 15c.
Can somebody answer me, who I can trust for CPU temperature, because I dont want to kill my CPU. Like now playing dragons dogma 2, my cpu goes to 100% and it is Ryzen 7 5800X3D paired with Asus 7900XT OC edition, but both undervolted, because without undervolting processors get 5c-10c hotter.
Sorry for grammar.
In task manager at that same moment:
CPU 16%
RAM 15.9GB/31.9GB
GPU 34% 46c
Hello, Currently I am building my first gaming desktop with below config:
ASUS TUF gaming z690-plus CPU: 20 C 12th gen intel i7-12700K Memory:64gb Storage: 2TB (nvme) GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 3090 (24gb memory)
I don’t have much experience with gaming. I have ps4 and played some fifa/call of duty.
Can the experts please advise on:
what OS should I install (I have used Linux (Ubuntu) and windows, so comfortable with both) ?
what are the bios setting I should go for optimal performance..any doc or YouTube video ?
Suggestion on some games to get going once it’s ready…(maybe something online-server base with real time opponents)
4)any accessories I need apart from monitor/keyboard/mouse to make the gaming experience awesome
Thank you in advance !!
I assume I should go with the 4060 as they are the same price and the 4060 is newer, and I am upgrading from an amd gpu. I mostly do gaming and animation, but what are your thoughts. (I need the dual fan version)
My cpu, i7 13700, ive had for about a year now, has thermal paste and my cooler is a Hyper 212 Black Edition. Its always idled at 40c for a long time, and now maybe just starting of last week it idles at 60c. Is this a problem? Should i be concerned? if i should what steps should i take to fix this?
Hi, I would be grateful with any kind of help. After an adrenaline update on my graphics card, I encountered a problem. Seconds after starting the PC, it would freeze, it was impossible to open any other application or even click on the taskbar. Ctrl alt del as well as ctrl shift esc did not work. The PC itself worked perfectly in safe mode, but repeatedly had the same problem if I started it normally. Therefore, I reinstalled Windows and the computer worked normally again, for a long time. Today, my windows installed an update and after that, I encountered the same problems again. As before, the programs clicked on did not start and the taskbar did not accept any type of click and the commands already mentioned did not work either. Reinstalling windows did not solve the problem.
I was wondering if any of you have any idea about the problem and how to solve it.
Hardware
amd ryzen 5600g
msi a520m-a
SSD kingston nv2 1 TB
Radeon RX7700XT 12GB
I first noticed them after an update last fall. Now and then I wonder if they were always there with Windows 11, and I just happened to notice them for the first time after the update. Anybody else notice them for the first time in the, IDK, past six months or so? I should have asked when it first happened, but I was sure they must be new back then.
I have an issue with a few different games I’m playing, where the PC shuts off entirely and always on a nearly identical spot. What will happen is on a few games specifically, Days Gone and Cyberpunk on Steam, I’ll be playing on mid-high settings with good performance no problem but after ~15 minutes if I open the map or inventory then re-enter the game, the computer immediately black screens. It’s strange because it’s an identical issue on both games, where it seems that the pausing of the game and then unpausing it causes the whole computer to crash and I’m totally mystified. I’ve done everything from restarting to reinstalling the games and drivers and scoured many different forms and really just cannot find what the issue is. Any ideas?
I’m looking to upgrade my PC but I don’t know where to start. This is what I have at the moment. Any help would be much appreciated
He had to clean it out it was overheating
I have two monitors and a PC that has two 4090s. I was a complete doofalbingus, and I thought that two 4090s would do anything, but no, they don't; my curiosity made me plug one of my two monitors (the second one) into the second GPU, and the video signal works. I can use it just fine, and every time I switch from monitor 1 to monitor 2, in response, one of the two GPU usages goes up in load. This is weird because Google told me that my second GPU is technically a paperweight, but now It works. I'm using the ROG z790 Maximus; please tell me why this worked, and if I shouldn't do this, please warn me or something.
every time i open my pc it’s always show this blue screen
This is a really weird issue that I can’t solve.
For other context, it’s only been happening recently within the last 3-4 days or so, but has happened 5ish times.
I’ve been using my computer more frequently than I usually do, if that would affect anything. Just having youtube videos playing and playing games.