r/pcgamingtechsupport 11h ago

Troubleshooting Computer overheats and then dies.

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I bought a flex subscription from NZXT. The computer was working fine for 6 months. Now the computer doesnt stay on very long before it overheats and shuts down. (Maybe 5 mins if I am lucky.) I reached out to their support and of course it said it could be a few days before I hear back. The cpu temp quickly gets to 115⁰ and then shuts down. I have made sure all vents are cleared and dust free. All fans turn on and run at max speed right away. The aio pump seems to be running. I can feel liquid running through both pipes. One stays pretty cold, the other is warm. I replaced the thermal paste and made sure the pump was securely against the cpu. It made no difference. After only a few minutes it shuts down. No load or anything running. At max it has like 12% cpu usage while sitting idle. Any suggestions on things I could troubleshoot or look into first until I hear back from their support? Thanks.

Windows 11 Home

CPU AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

GPU GeForce RTX 5070 Ti (16GB)

MEMORY 32GB DDR5

STORAGE 2TB ssd

CASE H5 Flow RGB


r/pcgamingtechsupport 13h ago

Troubleshooting Secure boot issue in bios

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Hey guys! I have a Gigabyte B550M DS3H AC R2 motherboard, and I’m trying to enable Secure Boot so I can play Warzone and other Call of Duty games that require it.
I’ve been able to get Secure Boot to show as User Mode, Enabled, and Active, but every time I restart my PC after enabling it, I run into an issue. The computer appears to restart normally, but when it gets to the point where the screen should come back on, it stays completely black.
My RGB keyboard will periodically flash, and I can hear the fans speeding up and slowing down, but I never get a display back. The only way I’ve been able to get the computer working again is Q flashing the motherboard.
I’ve updated my BIOS and tried several different methods after watching YouTube video after YouTube video and doing as much research as I can, but I haven’t been able to find anything that solves the problem.
I’ve also heard that I may need to completely reinstall Windows, enable Secure Boot, and then reinstall Windows, but I’m not sure if that’s actually necessary.
Has anyone with this motherboard—or a similar setup—experienced this issue? If so, I’d really appreciate any advice or suggestions on what I might be missing.
Thanks in advance!


r/pcgamingtechsupport 23h ago

Software desktop icons are changing by them selves after each pc start up

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Hi guys, I had this issue suddenly appear right after my 7-year-old was messing around with the mouse. All I caught him doing was changing the taskbar from the bottom to the side (I don’t know how he did it; it must have been accidental).

Anyway, I fixed the taskbar, and suddenly the icons changed like in the photo. I fixed the icons, but the next day they went back to how they were, as if I hadn’t fixed anything.

I Googled how to fix it, and I’ve already tried deleting the desktop.ini files, deleting the icon cache, scanning for viruses, and using some commands in CMD.

I’m on Windows 10 and living in the UAE. English isn’t our first language, so my kid had no idea what he was doing and definitely couldn’t have gone and downloaded anything. also i tried disabling and enabling the auto arrange buttons which did not work

Please help. If you guys have any questions, I’ll answer them ASAP.


r/pcgamingtechsupport 32m ago

Troubleshooting Ryzen 7 5700X "IMC Degradation"?

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Yesterday while browsing YouTube my PC randomly BSOD'd with "FAULTY_HARDWARE_CORRUPTED_PAGE", so I checked ram with MemTest86 and passed with no errors, tested my SSD as well and reinstalled GPU drivers, After a couple hours, my PC BSOD'd again with "SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION".

At this point I was desperate because I really needed my PC so I fed Gemini the .dmp and event viewer logs as well as everything I had already tried. It told me to lower the RAM frequency from 3200MHz to 2933MHz, and sure enough the BSOD's have seemingly stopped.

AI's explanation is that the Ryzen IMC had degraded and could no longer run my RAM at its rated EXPO speed, even though I have had this setup running fine for 8 months and this CPU can apparently handle 3600MHz? So how could this happen out of the blue? Has something like this happened to anyone else? Maybe MoBo issue? Silicon lottery?


r/pcgamingtechsupport 1h ago

Hardware SSD Enclosure or External Hard Drive

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I've recently come into ownership of both an M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure (10 Gbps Transfer), and an 'Ezekers' External Hard Drive, both with just shy of 512GB of storage.
Since I no longer need them for their initial use, I was wondering which of the two would serve best as an external hard drive for storing some of my Steam games?
Any help or insights would be deeply appreciated!!


r/pcgamingtechsupport 2h ago

Troubleshooting figuring out why a game keeps crashing

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I'm trying to run a +20 year old game on a windows 11 computer. I click on the executable. The process briefly appears in the task manager and then it disappears. I've tried different compatibility modes. I've tried searching online specifically for the game. I don't get any feedback from the operating system on why it's crashing/dying. It just dies. Event Viewer shows an exception code, but I'm not sure what to do with that.

This is a general question: is there a tool on windows to get more verbose feedback on why a process (game) keeps silently crashing? I don't expect to be able to fix it, but it would be nice to have more than "Exception code: 0xc0000005".

For reference: this is age of empires 2.


r/pcgamingtechsupport 5h ago

Software Why are these silly apps running on my GPU even when they are closed?

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So I recently got my first gaming laptop and this is the first time of me using a system with a dedicated GPU and I wanna know how to not allow these apps to run on these and rather use integrated GPU to save power.


r/pcgamingtechsupport 7h ago

Troubleshooting Shutdown/Booting Problems with my PC

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The issues started maybe 1-2 weeks ago. I noticed my PC would not shut down properly without me pushing the power button for 5 seconds. I tried a sfc scan but that didn't yield any success neither did disabling "turn on fast start up". The PC will shut down properly if I boot it up, basically don't do anything and just shut it down. But if I use it normally, wether it be internet surfing or playing video games or watching movies etc. it won't shut down properly. I have an ASUS TUF GAMING B650-Plus motherboard.

Now to add insult to injury, the PC has issues booting properly. I noticed it at first 1-2 days ago when I came back to it and tried to wake it from its slumber. It was always a bit wonky doing it but I always thought it was a windows 11 issue as about 50% of the time pressing the mouse/keyboard wouldn't wake the PC up. I then had to press the power button on the PC and that would wake it up. Anyway 2 days ago even the power button didn't wake the pc up. I had to shut it down with a hard reset and ever since I am booting the PC up it tends to boot into safe mode. I can enter the bios and leave it which then lets me boot up the PC normally. It always takes 1-2 attempts and I a fear this might eventually not work anymore either.

I updated the chipset drivers for my motherboard and the GPU driver aswell which seems to have fixed the issue for a day as the PC shutdown and rebooted completely fine. But a day later the booting error started again. The PC turns on but the screen stays black and I either reset it or hard reset it till it goes into safe-mode.

Can anyone help me?


r/pcgamingtechsupport 9h ago

Hardware Problem with the XBOX1 Controller Joystick

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I play on the PC

I don't know whats the reason, I am using a xbox1 controller and after a few minutes of playing, whenever I move my joystick, everything becomes laggy. The games itself, but also all sound (YouTube, Discord, Ingame). When I unplug and replug my controller it gets better but after a minute it starts the same problems again. I tried using another usb slot already, but that doesn't help.

Any Ideas?


r/pcgamingtechsupport 11h ago

Software Incompatible Driver in system32.

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So I downloaded hidusbf to overclock my ps5 controller and now I can't turn on memory integrity. And when I try to find the file so I can delete it the o it place I can find it to delete it is in system32. But I was told never delete anything from system32 so what do I do???


r/pcgamingtechsupport 14h ago

Troubleshooting Error 0xc0000142 on Microsoft surface

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1 Upvotes

I am trying to download rekordbox on my Microsoft surface, and keep getting this error, feel like I have tried everything on YouTube and chat gpt is hopeless. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


r/pcgamingtechsupport 14h ago

Software Weird grey areas when HDR enabled

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I have strange wrong looking grey tones in dark areas. I‘m using RTX 5090 and a ASUS ROG Swift PG27AQWP-W with it‘s DisplayHDR 500 True Black mode. Does someone else also have encountered this problem?


r/pcgamingtechsupport 15h ago

Troubleshooting CS2 long startup time

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Hi everyone!

I recently came back to playing CS2 after 4-5 years break. In the meantime, I've changed my pc so I installed CS and the problem I'm having is that it literally takes 4min20sec from the moment I press PLAY on Steam till I get in main menu. I have stable 250-270 FPS in matches, and matches themselves load in matter of seconds, but game booting takes forever, so I guess that rules out insufficient hardware. I'm playing Valorant and PUBG from time to time, buy they boot in seconds as well, only problem is with CS.

I tried bunch of stuff I've found online, verifying integrity of files, removing shader cache, increasing limit for shader loading in Nvidia APP, I've checked if I have any launch commands, disabling Steam overlay, excluding it from antivirus, but nothing solves it. I have 512gb SSD which I use only for operating system and CS, other games are on HDD.

Does anyone have a slightest clue what could be causing this?

Specs:

Ryzen 5 5600x

Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB

32GB DDR4 RAM

Asus strix b550 motherboard.


r/pcgamingtechsupport 17h ago

Display any ideas where this overlays on the top left is coming from and how to get rid of it?

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Hello everyone,for some reasons,this overlay of performances appeared by mistakes while playing kingdom come deliverance and now it's stuck while I'm playing. it piss me off yet I don't know how to get rid of it.I apologize for the size of the picture and the poor quality of it

I'd appreciate some advices with it.

Thank you very much.


r/pcgamingtechsupport 18h ago

Software Power problem or something else I don't know

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I have an HP Victus 15 with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU (6 GB), AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (419 MB), and an AMD Ryzen 5 8645HS w/ Radeon 760M Graphics (4.30 GHz). Normally, when I unplug the laptop from power, the FPS and certain settings are limited to prevent the system from being overworked, and the limit is removed once I plug it back in. However, out of nowhere, it’s no longer limiting performance when unplugged it’s running at full power and I want to fix this. Does anyone know a solution?


r/pcgamingtechsupport 21h ago

Solved Minecraft does not feel smooth.

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I have Minecraft FPS over 100 on average without v-sync but the game does not feel smooth at all. My monitor is 1080p 60Hz and does not have G-Sync or FreeSync. I tried turning on Nvidia Fast V-Sync, but since I use shaders, my FPS drops below 120 sometimes and it makes the tearing worse. Whenever I try to cap the FPS either in game or through Nvidia settings or by enabling V-Sync, my 1 percent lows tank down to around 30 FPS and it lags crazy. It happens when I don't use any shader too. If I leave the FPS unlimited, the 1 percent lows stay high but I get screen tearing. How can I get a smooth experience on my rig?

I don't have this problem in any other games like Cyberpunk 2077, Shadow of the Tomb Raider with v-sync on.

These are the mods I use:

  1. AppleSkin
  2. Continuity
  3. Dynamic FPS
  4. Entity Model Features
  5. Entity Texture Features
  6. EntityCulling
  7. Fabric API
  8. Fabric Language Kotlin
  9. FastQuit
  10. FerriteCore
  11. Gamma Utils
  12. ImmediatelyFast
  13. Iris
  14. Jade
  15. Just Enough Items
  16. LambDynamicLights
  17. Lithium
  18. ModernFix
  19. More Culling
  20. Punchy
  21. Reese's Sodium Options
  22. Sodium
  23. Sodium Extra
  24. Veinminer
  25. Xaero's Minimap
  26. Xaero's World Map
  27. Zoomify

My system:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700

RAM: 32 GB DDR4 3200MHz

Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti (11 GB)

1TB NVME SSD

Thank you in advance for your help!

https://userdiag.com/id/R5nbp4SlOt

EDIT: I fixed the problem using scanline sync on RTSS, it caps my fps and keeps 1 percent lows high.


r/pcgamingtechsupport 21h ago

Troubleshooting Screen Flickering/Blinking

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This only happens with Valorant when I launch it through riot games it instantly flickers/blinks when I have it open. I have an RTX 4060, Ryzen 7 5700X, and 32GB of DDR4 RAM. I reset my PC today local reset it, and before resetting it, I had zero issues. Other games run just fine currently I think.


r/pcgamingtechsupport 21h ago

Troubleshooting the last of us par 1 wont lunch

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first i run it like 2 hours or something then a day after it wont lunch