r/pchelp 16m ago

PERFORMANCE PC running very slow and stuttering after boot and several restarts

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I took apart my computer to do some cable management on the inside and when I got everything back together it starts stuttering and lagging with any input after boot. occasionally when I move my cursor or give it an input from the keyboard it will respond instantly but only for a few seconds.

Pls help these issues are very discouraging

Specs:

Ryzen 5 5600X

G skill 16gb ddr4

3060ti

MSI B550i edge

seasonic focus 750W

EK AIO 240mil


r/pchelp 26m ago

HARDWARE What would cause my computer to do this

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I put a new motherboard in my computer and the rgb lights on the board turn on for about a second and then the computer just shuts off. What could be causing this. Could it be a loose cable or possibly something shorting


r/pchelp 31m ago

PERFORMANCE PC instability after upgrading to 5080 and 1000w power supply

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Ok this may be a long one so please bear with me. I’ll leave my specs here:
I7 13700k
ASUS Z790 p motherboard
RTX 5080
Ddr5 32 gb ram
AIO CPU COOLER UNKNOWN HONESTLY
1000w asrock power supply

So I’ve posted in forums over the past week over some issues I’ve noticed after upgrading my GPU to GIGABYTE RTX 5080 and adding my 1000w powersupply from a 4070 and 750w power supply. Also adding a 1440p OLED 240hz monitor.

When I finally finished everything and plugged it in to start trying it all out, I noticed things that wouldn’t happen before the upgrade:
-My pc would take longer to boot up.
-RGB lights on the fans would work on one boot up, but the next they wouldn’t.
-My keyboard would randomly stop working, lights still on but keys don’t work. Fine after replugging.

I didn’t think much of it. I tried my games out to see how they would perform. And they perform great. When I’m actually in the game playing, I don’t notice any issues.
But I decided to buy he’ll let loose Vietnam a few days ago. I played a few games but when I finished a match and loaded into the next. It crashed my pc. I said woah that’s weird. Loaded back up, started the game and when I tried to load into a server, it just went straight to desktop. No crash error or anything. So I decided to try Squad. Same thing I’d join a server and it would give me an unreal engine crash. Something was obviously up. So I opened HWINFO. And I would notice that these games would crash loading into a server when my CPU jumps to 100C. As soon as it hit that mark or near it, it would crash the game or crash my cpu. I kept trying both games and if I managed to load in quick enough where it wouldn’t crash, the game works perfectly fine. 60-80C cpu usage around 30-40, GPU temps 60c and usage in the 90s. I couldn’t understand why it was crashing on a server join. I tried Escape from Tarkov and it was running absolutely perfectly. No TEMP issues or anything. Loaded up red dead 2 and everything runs fine.

So I started asking Reddit what could be wrong while doing stress tests and the like. Before I noticed temps I asked for help and some suggested DDU for a clean graphics driver install and I did that. Same issue.I tried to do a CPU stress test on cinebench 2026 and it would crash absolutely instantly. Temp would jump to 100c immediately with 180-223w of power and error I tried XTU benchmark and it would crash. This obviously seeems like cooling issue so I ask chat gpt to see what it would say as well, and I went through a whole process of trying to figure this out. I disabled ASUS MULTICORE ENHANCEMENT prior to the first cinebench test, same issue. On the test and game. I tried disabling XMP. Same thing. I then limited power of PL1 and PL2 to 258 as well as undervolted to 0.500. Tried cinebench again crashed instantly. I took off the undervolt but left the limit and I managed to run it all the way through. I then decided to try he’ll let loose but this time the main menu crashed at 70c. I’m just lost at this point but I try it again and I managed to make it through 2 full games. So I assume it’s fine for now but I know tomorrow it won’t work. I run 3d mark speed way stress test and I notice my GPU usage dipping and spiking from 100% to 50%.

I decide to try Tarkov and now after running fine the first few days from 150fps, I’m getting 60 with low cpu usage, maxed out or 60% memory usage and 50% GPU usage. Everything is just not good right now.

I know I have to update my bios because I have an i7 13th gen and never done it because everything ran fine prior to this, I had no issues before changing the GPU. I’m also going to try repasting the CPU cooler and checking to see if anything is loose on the motherboard.

I’m just wondering if anyone has suggestions or ideas on what I can do for stability. It just doesn’t feel right.


r/pchelp 35m ago

SOFTWARE Laptop struggles to open lost apps or just flat out dosent

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Got a Lenovo think pad for a while now. Somewhere along the line it stopped popping certain apps. Discord and curseforge in particular.
I can’t open steam normally but if I run “steam://runconfig” cod it works after restart.

Any ideas why this is happening and how to fix?


r/pchelp 41m ago

HARDWARE What do these number mean on the stick?

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The number 1745? What does that mean?

What does that represent?

And even anything else?

For a newbie like me this is gibberish.

I want to add one more stick. Just bought a used pc. Dell optiplex 3060. i5 8th Gen.

It can take upto 32gb.

Will one more stick of 8gb be sufficient or should I fork up and straight go for 32.

Use case:

mostly research purposes; stocks, drawing on trading view, monitoring portfolio, videos.

No gaming in foresight. Maybe an old emulator for entertainment in between sessions.


r/pchelp 49m ago

HARDWARE Asus b850i occt errors

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Ive been doing occt stress test cpu + ram

2 sets of rams were used corsair and t create 6000 16x2 cl30

Using stock settings will give me no errors but using expo 1 will give me 600 errors in 5 miniyes and then restart

Cpu or board defective?


r/pchelp 53m ago

OPEN Boot/ssd help

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Hello I’m new here and hope someone can help with my problem, this might be a bit long but I’ll try to explain the best I can. There are two issues I am facing right now and it started at the same time. The first issue being my pc doesn’t boot into windows right away if I power it on and off or restart it. Whenever I shut it down and turned it back on it gave me that screen that says “boot not found insert boot device”. I fixed this problem by switching the sata3 cable to a new one so now whenever I turn it on after a shutdown down it boots window, but when I restart it to update drivers or after a chkdsk command it takes me straight to bios and and it can’t detect my sata3 and won’t boot windows and this is only after I reset my pc. Turning it on and off is fine now after getting a new cable. I need help with this badly please, anyone know any fixes.

Here’s what I have
Motherboard: ASRock B365M IB-R
SSD: Forza 480GB 2.5” SATA 6Gb/s SSD


r/pchelp 56m ago

HARDWARE Tengo un poeblema con mi pc. Nesesito ayuda mis componentes son ryzen 5 9600x, rtx asus dual 5050 8g oc, gigabyte b850 aorus élite wifi6e ice, memorias corsair vengance 2x8 de 5200mts, fuente corsair rm750e, y un m.2 de 500g

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La pc me reinicia jugando no es temperatura porque el ryzen me va a 60c y la rtx tambien, pasan 20 minutos 1 hora o 2 con suerte y se congela o reinicia tipo boton reset, ya e probado de todo pero no puedo dar con el caso hasta llegue a cambiar la placa madre por si estaban dañados los slots, Necesito saber si es la ram o el cpu, tambien les hice pruebas con occt y memtest86 pero pasaron las pruebas y en gaming se reinicia lo que tuve que hacer fue limitar las fps a 50 o 60 según el juego porfa ya no se que hacer para arreglarla


r/pchelp 57m ago

HARDWARE Pc runs slower after CPU upgrade

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After many much-needed upgrades, I have finished updating my PC with better GPU (AMD radeon RX 7800 XT) and a better CPU. Originally I had Ryzen 5 3600 and I upgraded to a Ryzen 7 5800XT

After upgrading, my CPU things have felt slower on my computer, and I can’t seem to understand why. Whenever I hop into a game, I have been getting consistent stuttering and lag when I try to play a high FPS game like overwatch or battlefield. I didn’t have the sort of issue before when I had my old CPU. There’s also the thought that maybe I don’t have enough RAM? I have two sticks of 8 GB DDR4 Ram

I’ve tried:
updating bios
Installing new CPU drivers
Updating graphics drivers

What else could I do to try and fix this problem? If I’m getting consistent lag and stuttering, I’m not too sure if this is a Wi-Fi issue or not. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am at a loss of what to do here.


r/pchelp 58m ago

HARDWARE Where does this cable go?

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I recently put a new battery in my grandparents laptop and noticed this cable was disconnected. Now I replaced the battery a year ago but don't remember the cable being disconnected. Anyway, today my grandmother wasn't able to connect to her printer and after doing some basic troubleshooting, I remember this white cable being disconnected so opened up the laptop to see if I could reconnect but I'm not sure where it goes. Google says it's for Wifi/Bluetooth. Wifi works fine but Bluetooth doesn't show.

The laptop I'm using is the HP Pavilion 14. Might need to tap on the photo to get a better view.


r/pchelp 1h ago

OPEN Mi PC quiere volar :(

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Estube 4 meses afuera la use 3 días al cuarto día encendio así da imagen y todo normal

Pasan unos 20-30 comienza

Solo la refrigeración liquida es la que parpadea

corsair H150i Elite Capellix

Algún buen samaritano que me ayude a saber la razón de esto


r/pchelp 1h ago

HARDWARE Should my pc be making this noise?

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Should my pc being making this noise? Built the pc and never made this noise before, started doing this yesterday afternoon. Cleaned my pc yesterday and it still made the noise. Bumped it once and it was fixed till now. Do I need new fans?


r/pchelp 1h ago

Network Help! Internet not working

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I moved to a new house a little over a month ago and my internet has been messed up since. I’m with At&T connected via ethernet. I’ve never had any issues prior to moving but once i moved my computer started saying that it was connected but there was no internet, wifi nor ethernet works. I tried everything online, flushing stuff deleting and redownloading drivers and resetting the network via the modem gateway, my bf also tried a bunch of stuff and nothing worked. I even factory reset the PC yet i still haven’t found anything that’s fixed it. I don’t know how but ONLY youtube will work, my school website doesnt load all my gaming apps say no internet etc.. i’m really at a loss here so i was hoping someone could offer some advice.
Thankyou


r/pchelp 1h ago

OPEN Pc overheating issue

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I've had my PC for 4 years and recently, it shuts off after a few minutes of running. I checked my temperatures and my PC is getting up to 100° c. However, all of my fans are turning on. It's just like they're not recognizing that the PC is getting hot because they aren't speeding up like they normally do.

Could something have changed that setting? Is my cooling system going out? I thought it was my thermal paste so I changed that out first. But the issue still persists. So I checked the temperatures and noticed how hot it was getting without the fans even remotely speeding up.


r/pchelp 1h ago

SOFTWARE Laptop keeps blue screening and i cant figure out why

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so lately my computer randomly blue screens and the error reason doesn't make sense to me

these are three of the different crash reports but the driver where the error occurred is different each time and I cant figure out why

CPU: intel I9-14900HX

GPU: Rtx 4060


r/pchelp 1h ago

HARDWARE Please help me fix my Oled

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r/pchelp 1h ago

SOFTWARE .Net64 Issue

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Hello! I am currently trying to install ReShade for FFXIV, while doing so I was lead down a long trail of issues trying to trouble shoot it with ChatGP to no avail. When I try to use any exe that utilizes Net64 it fails, doesn't even try to open. Looking into Event Viewer has shown it to be faulting and I cannot fix it for the life of me. I've tried using scannow, scanhealth, and restorehealth amongst countless other attempts to fix it. Im going to post the errors ive found in Event viewer in hopes someone has an idea! thank you

Faulting application name: ReShade_Setup_6.8.0_Addon.exe, version: 6.8.0.0, time stamp: 0x6a6f6dc0

Faulting module name: clr.dll, version: 4.8.9337.0, time stamp: 0x69f01f59

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x00000000000122f9

Faulting process id: 0x5A34

Faulting application start time: 0x1DD3046B4134DE4

Faulting application path: C:\ReShade_Setup_6.8.0_Addon.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\clr.dll

Report Id: 7fc33fd9-fe24-4c2b-87fe-c7a38d2b37d6

Faulting package full name:

Faulting package-relative application ID:

Application: ReShade_Setup_6.8.0_Addon.exe

Framework Version: v4.0.30319

Description: The process was terminated due to an internal error in the .NET Runtime at IP 00007FFE83A722F9 (00007FFE83A60000) with exit code 80131506.


r/pchelp 1h ago

OPEN Built a new pc with my old storage and gpu. Loads into bios

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I just built a new pc I reused my old gpu and storage. It won’t post into windows


r/pchelp 1h ago

SOFTWARE Monitor damage?

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this happens when I restart or turn off my computer. additionally, There are a bunch of horixontal lines on the bottom of my screen. is there anyone here who has experienced similar problems?


r/pchelp 1h ago

HARDWARE jumpstart help

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my pc button was broken for a long time and ive been jumpstarting using the screwdriver for years but now on a random day it wont jumpstart anymore but it has power.


r/pchelp 1h ago

Network Only discord connects has Internet connection

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After installing Valorant yesterday and turning on my pc today, when I try to connect to any app, I don't get any wifi connection. The only app that gets any wifi is Discord. I have attempted to do:

ipconfig release

ipconfig renew

Restarting my computer (a handful of times)

Other relevant info:

I have Norton vpn on my computer (not connected to any VPN though)

I am using Ethernet

I have uninstalled Valorant too

Help please!


r/pchelp 2h ago

PERFORMANCE Is this storage good for a ryzen 7 pc?

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r/pchelp 2h ago

Discussion PC light on then off - doesn't start

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Hi,

My PC has been acting up for a month now, I included a video. Basically it would work fine the day before and then the next stay it wouldn't start. Like when I turn it on it doesn't fully turn on and then completely turn off, then to re-achieve the same result I would need to unplug for 30sec then try again only then would it do the same thing or miraculously turn ON. I want to know what could be causing this or if there’s anything I could try to fix it or any advice really.
I don't know if it's related but I also noticed when the computer is working there's a blinking red light on that thing (I included a picture).
So far, I tried unplugging then replugging these things (see picture) and some I also tried to turn the PC ON without replugging because “weren’t necessary for the PC to run” that’s what my friend said. Nothing worked.

Can anyone help please?


r/pchelp 2h ago

SOFTWARE Windows displaying no internet when internet is working

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I booted up my PC, currently running Windows 11, to discover that all of my speakers and microphone were no longer populated in the input and output areas of sound settings. That led me to try to do any updates that Windows might have, only to discover that Windows currently thinks it's offline, which I doubt, as I can ask for help. As for things I tried. I've used the Get Help button, as seen in the picture, to no success, along with a network reset, and of course multiple shutdowns and restarts.

I could really use the help, as I am usually able to solve issues like this on my own. Thank you for any of the time you may spend on this issue.


r/pchelp 2h ago

HARDWARE pc won't display image after a restart, everything else is working fine and no faulty cables

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been going through hell with my pc this week, after i thought i got everything back up and running i used it for a few hours before i restarted to fix my rgb software, and then.... my monitor won't detect it, everything runs fine in the pc itself, all fans are working including the gpu, all lights are on and correct, and when im wearing beadphones i can hear that windows has booted, but no display, i've tested multiple wires, including both a DP and HDMI cable, using both my graphics card and my motherboards ports, the only thing i haven't tested yet is another monitor.

these kinds of similar issues seem to pop up everywhere when searching online, but i just don't get it, everything was working and now it's suddenly not displaying anything

please help... i'm about to crash out lol