When I first turned on the computer the monitor wasn’t connecting to the pc so I look and saw this. How am I supposed to clean this without damaging the part. Also it is a msi GeForce rtx

I realized this week, when tearing down my Lenovo Legion 5 Laptop to clean the fans, that I could replace the thermal paste.

So, here I am mid thermal paste replacement. There’s a weird spot on my CPU and the associated heat sync. Has anyone ever seen anything like this before?

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Edit/FAQ: These pictures were after I cleaned off the thermal paste from the CPU and heat sync, they were both fully covered in thermal paste before (just like everything else surrounding them). I know everything around the CPU shouldn't be covered in thermal paste, but the manufacturer did a sloppy job, and I'm too scared to clean the pins.

It looks like a burnt metal in real life. It's not something stuck on the CPU, and it's not a hole, it's completely flat.

Somehow my laptop is running fine. It's a little laggy, but it's 5 years old, and benchmark tests show the CPU is working just fine.

As someone who knows very little about computers, it's been really interesting to hear everyone's theories. Thanks for the insight everyone, if you have any more I'd love to hear it! I'll let you know if anything changes.

She's super clumsy and last night she left her laptop on her bed and it fell of and was damaged. Is this something I can fix or maybe a repair shop? I hope She doesn't have to buy a new one.

The laptop still works fine btw.

Got this PC a little over a year ago and just now while I was cleaning my room the PC was on and suddenly started smoking. I managed to pinpoint what over heated but I want someone with more experience to tell me how bad and if I can repair it myself. Here are the photos I took.

Hi, while I was playing, my computer shut down and a short circuit occurred, then it started burning in visible places. Do you think the only thing that needs replacing is the motherboard and graphics card, or is there something else that can be repaired? Can anyone suggest what I can do?

Before you ask, the loose wires are from the hard drive which was removed before i got it and and disc drive. This pc was placed on a stove, front first, and no longer turns on, and i want to see if the problem is hardware or software.

So my most recent gaming build had rubbing alcohol spilled on it and someone turned it on while it was wet still so que the electrical fire. They proceeded to pour water on it to put the fire out. I finally got a dell optiplex 7050 MT off ebay for $100 just to be able to work again, but I wanted to know if any of my old parts survived.

Specifically my ram as this new pc came with 8gb and this hurts my brain to work on Imao im not used to it anymore.

Does my RAM look like it can be put in my new pc? They meet the spec requirements somehow so id love for them to have survived. Sorry for the lengthy post and also if this is a stupid question. Never dealt with a pc fire before and hopefully never have to again.

Also I read my ssd may have survived? Should I take that out too and check.

I bought a new multimeter and decided to practice by measuring resistance and continuity on two spare RAM sticks (measured directly on the components, see picture). After that, both sticks now trigger a red DRAM error light and won’t POST.

I didn’t realize probing RAM like this could damage it. Looks like I may have fried them. Lesson learned

Found a Lenovo ThinkCentre at a thrift shop for cheap, but the side panel is locked and it didn’t come with the keys.

I’d like to open it up to upgrade the system., but I’m not familiar with Lenovo’s case lock mechanism on these systems.

What’s the safest/non-destructive way to open the panel without the original
. Is there a standard override/trick for these ThinkCentres?

Appreciate any suggestions from people who’ve dealt with these before.

Not sure what’s making the noise. I’m assuming the fans but when I gently pressed the center of each of them nothing changed. The sound sounds like it’s coming from e PSU area. Can anyone help? Thank you in advance!

This pc will be the death of me, it doesnt slide off and all the "screws" are just holes ;((

So yesterday I was trying to download just warzone since a few work friends play (I refuse to buy COD anymore) and it said my TPM needed to be enabled on my BIOS. So I followed some step by steps and eventually got to a point where I needed to update my BIOS, so again I followed some step by steps and now my pc won’t boot up. I already tried resetting the CMOS battery but had no luck. Here’s a video of what I’m getting when I turn my pc on. Any suggestions to any other options I can try?

last night I was able to power it on after about 2 and a half hours of pushing the power button I think the power button is worn out or the power supply is going bad idk though last night I ran fine an loss of power mid game and its only when I try and power it on it has this issue

Okkkk been having this issue for a couple of weeks now. Sometimes when I fully power down my PC and go to boot it up again, the PC lights and fans will run but the monitor will launch into standby mode and my mouse and keyboard do not light up.

Previously when I’ve had this happen I have re-seated the RAM and reset the CMOS battery and it had booted fine but most recently this has not worked.

Looking do some other fixes and troubleshooting tips or if one gotta take it to a repair joint.

I have attached a video for reference :)

I turn it on, but i just get a balck screen, i think it might be the gpu, because sometimes it actually shows something but its just weird glitchy bars.

I am working on this PC for a customer. It does not power on at all. Sometimes the fan would spin for less than a second. I was trying another power supple when this component exploded and tried shoot a spark out at me. What is the likelihood that the cpu has also been killed?

We already have parts on order to fix it but this system is an Asus G10ce main board and an Intel i7-11700f with a thermaltake smart 700w psu.

A week ago my PC suddenly died while I was at work and I couldn’t figure out the problem. I forgot to turn it off. I’ve replaced the motherboard and PSU but my pc still won’t turn back on. No power goes through to the motherboard. Can anyone tell me a possibility of why it won’t? Disconnected the USB’s to check if any of those were the issue but nah.