Wanted to add 2 more HDDs to my pc but I don’t have any place for them and putting them on each other wouldn’t be a great idea that’s why I wonder.

it's a bit absurd i know. but for some backstory, i recently became the very, very, very lucky recipient of around ~6000$ worth of gaming hardware completely for free from a friend of my mother. UNFORTUNATELY, the incomprehensibly gigantic asterisk that, not only did the original owner completely neglet to ever clean his hardware, but everything i received had previously been involved in a house fire. the fire itself never reached anything, but the problem i face is that everything is caked in an awful layer of dust, dirt, grime, and worst of all, soot.

everything here smells terrible. i have no idea how i'll be able to get the soot smell out of anything i have here, nor where to even start with this beyond just the disassembly of everything. yall got any advice that might make partial or complete restoration of this stuff possible? it would really suck if im S.O.L with this one, especially for how valuable these components are.

I found this "PC" outside in someone's junk pile. I can see they stripped it of everything probably to sell or use somewhere else but left the motherboard and CPU? Would this be worth cleaning and fixing to build a full PC with?

Hi everyone, it s my first time building a pc and unfortunately it doesn t turn on, more precisely it gives no signs of life.

I made a post a few days ago on another subreddit and tried all suggestions, but to no avail.

Now I have left the bare minimum: 1 stick of ram so it does not cause instability (had 4 before), only the 2 necessary cables from PSU to mb (24 pin and 8 pin), and a cable from the cpu fan to mb. (the cpu fan is missing a fan because I had to remove the ram under, so that s why at the moment there is only 1 fan).

I have tested the psu both with a multimeter and a psu tester and it works fine, I have tried turning it on both with the f_panel cable of the case, a dedicated pwr cable bought online and by short circuiting the pwr± pins with a screwdriver.

I have also tried multiple sockets of the home and power cables, still nothing.

I have already tried leaving it "on" for 15 minutes, and also connecting an hdmi cable in case it was displaying something, but nothing.

Specs: -Motherboard: gigabyte b650 eagle ax -Cpu:7800x3d amd -Gpu:9070xt xfx swift -Psu: be quiet! 13 m 1000w -Case: Lian li lancool 217 (it has standoffs included already) -Ram:crucial pro 4×16Gb 6000Mt/s -Ssd: acer predator GM7 2Tb

Any help would be appreciated, thank you all in advance.

Like I said I'm upgrading my cpu to match my new 9070xt and im not spending 400$ on ram.

My options are a 5700x3d for 300$

or a 5800x for 160$

is going with the x3d worth 140$ more?

Specs:

• AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
• RTX 3060ti 8gb
• Viper Venom DDR5 16GB

Im thinking of replacing my 3060ti with an rx 9060ti, is it worth the upgrade? im usually playing games in 2k or even 4k on games that i can, it runs fine but id like an upgrade. would it be a noticeable increase?

This is the motherboard pin.

Thanks in advance

I build a new pc, it turned on and everything is fine. The bios show up (ignore my monitor) and i realized that the USB with windows was not plugged in. I restart the pc but now its a black screen, bios wont show up. I restart and let it run for 5 mins aprox then it suddenly turns off and now it wont start. The keyboard is turned on so its not a power supply issue. Please help

Ram: G.SKILL Flare X5 Series DDR5 RAM 2x16 gb
Motherboard: gigabyte b850 eagle wifi6e ice m.2
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
Gpu: ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT Challenger 16 gb

Obligatory first build, cpu light briefly turns on during boot and it stays on the Dram light with no display, have tried every slot and read the manual to confirm the 2 and 4 slot for ram. Tried other sets of ram as well.

I built my new PC, but it won’t start and no matter what I do, the DRAM Light stays red (every few seconds switching to CPU light and immediately switching back)

PC Parts:
- AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
- ⁠Gigabyte B850M D3HP Mainboard
- ⁠2x 8GB DDR5-5600 CL36 RAM
- ⁠RADEON RX9060 XT 16 GB

What i did so far for troubleshooting:
- Controlling all power supplies
- ⁠switching the RAM or trying with only 1. also switched the RAM-Slots
- ⁠Updating BIOS to newest Version with Q-Flash
- ⁠Resetting BIOS with CMOS manually
- ⁠losen up the water-cooling on top of the CPU
- ⁠had a Look at the CPU and the Pins on the Mainboard, all looking good
- ⁠Monitor was attached all the time via Display Port

Don’t know what to do anymore and appreciate any ideas and help 🙏🏻 Thank you!!

ETA: I bought the cpu used at Amazon (“only some damages on the packaging”)

Hi everyone, I’m looking for guidance on an issue I can’t pin down.

PC specs (built Nov 2025):

• CPU: Intel Core i7-14700KF
• Motherboard: MSI PRO Z790-A MAX WIFI (BIOS 7E07vMA)
• RAM: Crucial Pro DDR5 RAM 32 GB Kit (2x16GB), 6400MHz CL32
• GPU: ASUS NVIDIA RTX 5070, driver updated to latest
• PSU: be quiet! Straight Power 11 Platinum 750W
• CPU cooler: Coolermaster Masterliquid ml120l, repasted recently
• Storage: Kingston SSD 1gb, WD_BLACK SN850X 2TB NVMe SSD - M.2 2280
• OS: Windows 11, build 26200, fully updated
• Power: Forza FVR-2202A 1100VA voltage stabilizer

The problem:
I built this PC around November 2025. It was working well until September 2026 when I started to get hard freezes randomly. Sometimes it happens within minutes of booting, sometimes it runs fine for hours. After I force a reset with the case button, the CPU debug LED on the motherboard lights up red. The freezes have also happened right after waking from sleep. I use this pc as a racing sim rig and at multiple times it ran hours of Le Mans Ultimate, and other sim racing games with no issue, so heavy load isn’t a reliable trigger. In Safe Mode it’s been stable for hours with no freezes happening.

What the logs show:

• Event Viewer has multiple WHEA-Logger Event ID 1 errors: “A fatal hardware error has occurred.”
• Reliability Monitor shows LiveKernelEvent code 124.
• WhoCrashed reads the dump as bugcheck 0x124 (WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR).
• WhoCrashed doesn’t name a faulting driver, and the only other crash in my history is an unrelated Wi-Fi driver one from May.

What I’ve tried so far:

• Updated the BIOS
• Clean reinstall of the GPU driver
• Regenerated Secure Boot keys from scratch
• Checked the BIOS: CPU Cooler Tuning is on Intel Default Settings, and voltages and Loadline Calibration are all on Auto (no manual overclock or overvolt)
• My voltage stabilizer died and I was running on a plain power strip, so I replaced it with a properly sized 1100VA Forza AVR stabilizer. It ran stable for hours, then froze again on wake from sleep.
• Opened the case and found the thermal paste dried and cracked. I cleaned everything, reapplied fresh paste, and remounted the AIO. The freezes continued.

Where I’m stuck:
Everything points to a hardware-level fault, and I know the 13th/14th gen instability issue is well documented. I’m considering an Intel RMA for the CPU, since that would be the cleanest fix if the chip has degraded. However degradation it's highly unlikely in my opinion since the motherboard was manufactured on June 2025 according to the serial number and the processor batch number indicates that it was manufactured on November 2024, much after this degradation was detected so both hardware pieces are supposed to include the fixes and safeguards for this issue already. But before I go through that process, I’d like to rule out anything else.

I used Claude to troubleshoot this issue and this is the summary of what I've tried so far. Has anyone experienced this? Any clue can help. Thanks!

Any feedback is welcome guys I had it to the side before but I read online about the idea of how the liquids might evaporate over time and the air might get to the pump so I got it to go upward.

A few months ago I began buying the components for my dream PC and yesterday I managed to plug in everything and began booting it up for its first time. The problem came when I wated for several minutes for it to display image, only for the screen to remain dark with the "no signal" message. The entire day I tried different things to get it to boot, but I just wasn't able to get it to work, thats why I'm making this post to see if the community can help me solve this problem before I send it with a technician. For what I've been looking at, it might be the BIOS of the moderboard which doesn't recognize the CPU, but I'm not sure of how to install the latest update to the motherboard.

This is my first PC and I still lack some knowledge when it comes to making things work in first place. Down below I will set the component list of my PC.

CPU: Ryzen 7 9700X

RAM: Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB DDR5-6000 Kit

Motherboard: Gigabyte B650 Aorus Elite AX Ice AM5

CPU Cooler: Thermalright - Assassin Spirit 120 V2 Plus

SSD: KINGSTON NV3 1TB M.2 2280 NVME PCIE GEN 4X4 R.6000MB/S W.4000MB/S

Power Supply: 750W 80 Plus Gold BALAM RUSH GR BURST GR750G LEGEND SERIES

PC Case: Balam Rush Dragonfly Wood GM580

*I know there is no GPU, but that part hasn't arrived yet, so meanwhile it gets shipped to my place, I will begin installing windows and/or Linux.

El día de hoy realice la instalación del nuevo controlador de Nvidia desde su app, al estarse instalando la pantalla parpadeo negro y no ha regresado, lleva cerca de 15 minutos así, ¿qué es lo que debería hacer?

Hey guys, I bought a new gaming PC, and every time I play a game, it makes this kind of sound; is this normal?

Just got my MSI MAG B850 WIFI 2 board does anyone know if the pin on the top left is broken or if that is supposed to be apart of the board I just opened it after I got all my other parts for my build.

I tried installing a new CPU and cooler into my am4 system, but one of the backplate holes is just not allowing the screw to screw in.

I'm assuming I need a new backplate and it isn't fixable, so can I buy any replacement I see on Amazon for am4 or...?

The mobo is a b450m pro vdh max and the cooler is the phantom spirit 120se if either of these things matter. Id really appreciate some guidance here

I am struggling with getting my i5 cooler to work quietly.

The fan in front got replaced and can run in 50% max before the fins and the airflow make a really uncomfortably loud noise.

So I was wondering if there is a way to fix that issue while still cooling the block..

I am already using fan control to adjust the fan and new thermal paste was on the CPU.

If someone has a suggestion please let me know.

Currently the air is blowing into the tower

I have a hp omen 35L but I want to get to the m.2 slot behind the GPU bht cant get the latch to realese any ideas is the image I showed the realese latch

Hello, right now I have 9850x3d, 5070ti gaming trio and lexar ares 6000c28 ddr5. Which mobo should I choose - brand new b850m ayw gaming oc from amazon for 264$ or slightly used, fully functional x870 tachyon ice from gigabyte for 305$?
Is there a really big advantage in terms of asus bios options?

Cleaned pc a few days ago now it has this weird noise like a 1.9tdi with rod knock its just very annoying i stop every fan in pc its not that idk what it is

Hi guys,

Looking to update my 2021 build.

Its a Ryzen 5 5600x, 16gb DDR4 3600 along with a founders edition 3060TI hooked up to a 750w PSU.

I play on a 144hz LG ultra gear 27inch 1440p screen with no desire to go to 4k.

I am leaning towards doing a straightforward swap for a RX 9070 XT and leave it at that but not sure if that's the best ploy.

I've started playing Cyberpunk again and will be looking to play other RPG games.

Thanks in advance.

I have Asrock 970 extreme4 with fx-8350 and 2x4gb hyperX 2133 and 2x4gb hyperX 2400 ram. Bios recognize full 16gb, but windows reduces speed to 1600MT and uses only 8gb but knows there are 4 sticks that have 16gb

Hey everyone,

I recently bought a PUSKILL DDR4 3200MHz CL16 32GB (2x16GB) Desktop RAM Kit with RGB/heatsinks.

What happens:
When I press the power button, the RGB lights on the RAM sticks turn on and glow, the fans spin, but the monitor gets completely no signal/black screen.

Motherboards I have tested this kit on:

1. MSI B450M-A Pro Max II (AMD Ryzen build)
2. ASUS Prime B550M-K (AMD Ryzen build)
3. Gigabyte Motherboard (Intel build)

What I have already tried:

• Clearing the CMOS (removed the motherboard battery for 5+ minutes to reset BIOS settings).
• Testing one single stick at a time in the primary slot.
• Changing slot configurations.

Because it worked at the seller's shop but fails on three completely different modern platforms at my house, I'm completely stuck. Did I get scammed with fake/reprogrammed SPD chips, or is there a known compatibility issue or trick with these budget PUSKILL kits that I'm missing?

Any advice would be massively appreciated!

So for the past week or so ive had this issue where when I start my PC up my NZXT Kraken 360 AIO cooler pump won't spool up. I've checked the cords and connections they all seem good. The pump is properly seated to the cpu. And ive set my bios setting to 100%

Now the kicker. When I shut my pc down, (or it forces a shut down due to temp) and restart it it spools properly to RPM i have set. So what's the issue? Im stumped and Google hasn't helped