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New build giving me watchdog timeouts during windows installation
Hello sorry for the long post, I'm kind of at my wits end with my new build. Everything is stock, no OCs that I have set myself. Intel I9 12900k H150i elite lcd AIO Corsair vengeance rgb pro 32gig ddr4 Strix nvidia GeForce 1080 (temporary) TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS WIFI D4 Asus rog Thor 1200w psu 10 ql 120 corsair rgb fans…
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Computer overheating Intel i7- 10700K suddenly running very hot.
We built a PC a year ago. Purchased all the parts at our local Micro Center. The build had an MPG Z490 Gaming Edge Wifi board, an Intel Core i7-10700k LGA1200 processor, and Lian li Galahad AIO 240 water cooler and an EVGA 850 super nova power supply (Gskill ram and Samsung NVMe) running Windows 10 . Everything worked like…
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PC won't start with HDD connected
I recently but together a new PC however I've run into quite the snag. When I try and connect any HDD (I've tried a few) the PC won't boot. I cannot even get the the BIOS as the PC locks up refusing to respond to anything forcing me to power cycle it. I suspect the MB might be faulty but I bought this board a long time ago…
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How to delink my ssd and harddrive
When I was given the option to link them I thought it would be fine but when my 2 tb ssd fills it doesn't start using the harddrive, so how do I delink them?
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BIOS update on Tomahawk B350
So I've been a bit slack updating the BIOS on my motherboard, so my question is; do I have to install all the missed updates or just the latest one
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What does the red light mean on the bottom right corner of my mother board
I have a b450 Aorus pro Wi-Fi and when I went to turn it on the first time a red light in the bottom right corner of the mother board appeared. The red light is above the words CPU but I don’t know if something is wrong with the CPU or the DRAM because it blinks between two lights if that makes sense.
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Can Micro Center help me RMA my motherboard?
When I looked up RMA procedures in regard to my Gigabyte z690 motherboard, the Gigabyte website said that I should reach out to whomever I purchased it from. It has a 3 year warranty and I got it 8 months ago. Is this something they can help with if I show up with my motherboard?
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Boot issues on 2 year old build...Any further suggestions?
Helping my son with his two year old gaming pc build. He recently got a ...\efi\microsoft\boot\cipolicies...\.cip (I left off a lot of the text in the filename) is corrupt. Several reinstalls of Windows, including a complete hard drive wipe and fresh install and the problem came back. This time however I didn't try and go…
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RMA Proof of Purchase
Sorry to bother everyone, but I was wondering if it is possible for me to retrieve a proof of purchase for an AMD cpu I bought in august of 2019 (within 3 years of today) since I have the box but not the receipt. Unfortunately, I did not make an account however I gave them my email, and in turn, received some emails asking…
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Release dates for new Intel and AMD HEDT cpus???
Anybody heard about a release date for Intel's Sapphire Rapids or AMD's new version of Threadripper?
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Do I need to reinstall windows?
So I have i7 9700k and I want to swap over to Ryzen, I want a 5900x, I was just wondering if I need to reinstall windows 10 when swapping platforms or am I okay to just swap without having to reinstall anything
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i5-11600KF temperature
How hot should my 11600kf temperature get with my case panel on It gets to around 100celcius and without it it gets to around 60-70 celcius and with the panel on it often crashed my game and turned off the computer so I want to know if its an overheating issue with the CPU.
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Is my motherboard fried??
Havent played in a couple days. Turned on my pc today. It strts up. The cpu and ram both light up. But there is no power in the usb ports or to the dvi. I reset my ram and my cmos battery. Should i try a new cmos or is the motherboard done for?
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Bad mobo or processor? Can't detect any storage and slow to reach BIOS
Specs: i5-12400 Corsair 2 x 16GB DDR4-3200 MSI PRO B660M-A WIFI EVGA 650GT 80+G 128 GB NVMe M.2 2280 1 TB SATA HDD Issues: Assembled everything carefully last night. Plugged in, switched on, lights came on and fans spun up. Started celebrating. Then noticed the display (connected via HDMI) showed just an underscore, then…
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Power Button doesn't light up
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I have a Corsair 4000D Airflow case, and its power button boots the PC just fine, but the power button on the case doesn't light up, even after I tried switching the connectors on the pins. Here's a photo of my motherboard (Asus Prime B660M-A Wifi D4) manual along with some photos of…
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I just got a Ryzen 7 5700g yesterday opened the box and to find bent pins can i get a replacement
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CPU overheating, from 60C to 90C while rendering
Hi everyone! Still fairly new to building PC. I built my first one in 2020. AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Matisse 3.5GHz 16-Core AM4 NZXT Kraken M22 120mm RGB Water Cooling Kit Corsair XTM50 High Performance Thermal Compound Paste I mainly use it for animation work. More recently, the CPU temperature has been jumping to 90C while I'm…
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What BIOS F10?
Seriously, I am trying to purchase the parts for my new computer and the System Builder has given me the following warning: The Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2 ATX AM4 Motherboard supports the AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 3.4 GHz 16-Core Processor with BIOS version F10. If the motherboard is using an older BIOS version, upgrading the…
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Did I just get a bad CPU?
Hello All! I am having a problem with a recent build and am beginning to wonder if I simply have a bad processor. I recently bought a MSI B550 Tomahawk motherboard and an AMD Ryzen 5 5600 G processor to go with it. (Both at Microcenter of course) I set up the build and connected power. While all the fans went on and spun,…
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Need some help lowering CPU temperatures
I recently upgraded my PC to a 3080TI, an MSI Mag Z590 Tomahawk WiFi motherboard and an Intel i7- 11700KF. Everything went smoothly with the build except I am hitting high temps during both idle and load. I upgraded from a 2060 super with a 9700KF with a Noctua nh-d15. I carried this cooler over to the new build and…
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Which part is broken (CPU or motherboard)
I'm trying to figure out which part of my girlfriend's computer is broken. My girlfriend was playing games on her PC when randomly there was "an exploshion or spark from the computer, then everything shut down". When I went to troubleshoot I found the computer fans, RGB, and GPU fans would turn on when I unplugged the CPU…
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What should i do
So starting about 6 months ago my mouse started randomly disconnecting for a second or two and reconnecting and it was annoying, but I thought nothing of it until it started getting worse and worse until all my USB devices would randomly disconnect and the game I was playing would crash. So I tried a friend's mouse to see…
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My Rog Strix B550F doesn't play well with the Inland Platinum M.2 NVME SSD.
it only mounts the drive 20% of the time. i have tried reseating the drive, updating the drive's firmware, updating the mobo's chipset firmware, and clearing the CMOS I am using it as the boot drive. Suggestions?
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Need help picking an AMD CPU and Mobo
Hi. I'm someone just working on her first PC build and know literally nothing about what I'm doing. I recently bought a B450 Tomahawk motherboard from B&H photo. However, I visited Micro Center today and learned that they don't have the CPU to work with it. I'd have to upgrade to a B550. Problem is, the Houston store has…
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Ryzen 7 5800x
I want to get a Ryzen 7 5800x but the motherboards I am looking at all need a bios update and I am too scared to do a bios update because this is going to be my first PC Is there any motherboards that don't need a bios update to work with Ryzen 7 5800x
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G434 with Z390 Phantom 4s/ac - Where is the C port?
My specs show that I have an NVIDEA USB Type-C port policy controller. However, the port that's supposed to be a Type-C looks like a USB 2.0 or 3.0. It's still the fastest port on my G434 at up to 170mb/s. Is the Z390 Phantom Gaming 4S/AC a hybrid that replaces the typical Type-C port? Would a typical Type-C yield faster…
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ASUS B660-I Availability
Hey, I've been waiting on B660 motherboard availability, specifically the ASUS B660-i. It seems like Microcenter has started stocking B660 boards, but the B660-I page remains a stub. Is there any word if Microcenter will stock this item? Newegg got them in stock a couple weeks ago but I'd much rather not give Newegg money…
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New parts build, not sure what to do next
Have a build of all-new parts(not my first build, either): MSI Meg Z690i mobo i5-12600k 2 x 16gb Gskill Ripjaws DDR5 m.2 Firecuda 2TB EVGA 3080TI Corsair SFX 750 Put it all together, got a white mobo led. Tried reseating RAM, CPU, CPU cooler and cables, now have a red LED. Where do I go from here?
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Motherboard help
Hi- In the process of a new build and ran into an issue. My Rogstrix B550A motherboard will not recognize my rkroyal kludge keyboard and I’m not sure why. Would anyone know or have heard of this issue before? Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you
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Adding M.2 PCIe storage to Powerspec 748 Desktop....what do I need?
My new pc has 1 drive with 1TB of memory. I would like to add another M.2 SSD for storage.....what should I buy / make and model? Thanks G
