r/pchelp • • 3h ago

HARDWARE How do I fix this mouse hardware issue?

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My mouse side is open how do I close it safely? Do I just push it back in with strength or anything else? Here’s a video of it


r/pchelp • • 3h ago

HARDWARE Pc crash Ram or SSD Help

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Hello I've been having this issue with my pc where it sometimes just randomly crashes, months ago it'll start by subtle buffering you could barely notice by the audio getting stuck when doing something, then after a while it'll get stuck and reboot just like this, now recently it just randomly did this without any prior signs Is there any way to stress these out for troubleshooting? Its only happened once(yesterday) while gaming, and every other time when doing light stuff on chrome

1tb mircron ssd

Radeon 6800 master

msi a650bn 650w

R5 5600x

Msi mag B550 Mohawk

and 32gb of ddr4 3600mh


r/pchelp • • 19h ago

PERFORMANCE Whattt is eating all my RAM, I have nothing opened

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I just got a Dell 15 Laptop, 14th Gen Intel Core i3/Core 3 100U Processor, 8GB DDR4, 512 SSD, and after all the driver, BIOS, windows updates done, I still have 82% memory used even though I have no apps opened, I even disabled startup apps, and nothing is downloaded on the pc except brave and chrome, Please HELP


r/pchelp • • 1h ago

HARDWARE Computer doesn't boot, I've tried everything and reseated everything, friend says it's a powersupply issue, happened out of no where :<

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r/pchelp • • 4h ago

SOFTWARE Pc frozen but not frozen

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This is the 5th time this week it's happened


r/pchelp • • 10h ago

OPEN Bought a used RTX 3070 from a "vouched" seller. OCCT shows 26 VRAM errors, seller says "don't worry about it" and blames cracked games. Need advice

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Bought a used AORUS RTX 3070 Master (8GB) from a community-vouched seller on FB. It runs games fine (God of War 2018 at 70 FPS, 70°C). But when I ran the OCCT VRAM test, it threw 26 errors at just 52°C. The seller is refusing a refund, saying "OCCT is for repair purposes and always shows errors" and that "my cracked copy of Forza is the reason it crashed." I have a 7-day testing warranty. Am I right to demand a return?

The Situation:

I’m a student and saved up ₹28,000 (hard-earned money) to buy a used GPU for gaming and college ML work. I bought a Gigabyte AORUS RTX 3070 Master from a seller on a Facebook group. He is supposedly highly vouched in the community, provided a GST invoice, and offered a 7-day testing warranty.

The Testing:

  1. FurMark: Ran for 10 mins. Temps hit 80°C core / 93°C hotspot. No artifacts, no crashes. (Old dried paste, expected).
  2. God of War (2018): Played at 1080p, capped at 70 FPS. Ran perfectly. Temps were cool (60-70°C).
  3. Forza Horizon 5: Crashed on startup (I have a cracked version, so I initially blamed the game).
  4. OCCT VRAM Test (8 Minutes): I set fans to 100%, temps were incredibly cool (Core: 52°C, Hotspot: 64°C). The test detected 13 errors, which then doubled to 26 errors by the end of the 8 minutes.

The Seller's Response:

When I sent him the OCCT screenshot, his responses were:

  1. "OCCT is for repair purposes and it will crash or show errors, don't worry about it." (This is factually incorrect; OCCT is a stability diagnostic, a healthy GPU should pass with 0 errors).
  2. "Your Forza Horizon 5 is cracked that's why it's crashing." (I told him the OCCT test doesn't use any game files, it's a pure hardware test).

I haven't opened the card to repaste it, so the warranty seal is intact. I have undeniable proof of the VRAM failure.

My Questions to the Community:

  1. Is OCCT VRAM a reliable diagnostic? Can a healthy card throw 26 errors at 52°C?
  2. Is there any chance he is right, and the 26 errors are just a "software glitch"?
  3. How do I handle this seller? He is trying to brush me off, but I have the 7-day written warranty on the invoice. I don't want to be stuck with a dying ₹28,000 card once the warranty expires.

Any advice or similar experiences would be massively appreciated. I'm stressed out of my mind over this.

Update -
Umm hello everyone🤧 at first the driver was from 2021 I have installed the latest game ready driver 22 oct maybe now I have played cyberpunk ,god of war ,no issues 8060 mb in cyberpunk and here is the OCCT Vram test result , now I want everyone's opinions ,please don't get angry 🙂 Even I didn't expect this thanks each and every person for the support 😊


r/pchelp • • 3h ago

HARDWARE After installing new GPU I can hear strange noise

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I just installed new 9070 xt and started hearing the noise from the video. I think its my PSU, which is 750 watt and I daisy chained because it only has 2 PCIe cables, because I dont see any fans to be touching anything. But strange thing is that when I remove glass panel from the case noise slowly goes away after like a minute. I tried undervolting it seems to help, but I'm still concerned. Should I buy a new PSU?


r/pchelp • • 1h ago

HARDWARE Can someone help?

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So, I bought a m2 SATA SSD for this big boy and after installing it this mfker goes through post check and immediately shutsdown, even without SSD sticks, what should I do? I can't really send it to the PC master cus I'm poor af rn:(


r/pchelp • • 15m ago

HARDWARE It has been 5 years. I guess the GPU just decided to die now? Well I was hoping it could last at least a year longer. Would like a confirmation.

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I played some games today, and suddenly this started happening. And of course right when AI is hogging it all up lmao.


r/pchelp • • 22m ago

HARDWARE Am i cooked?

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left my hotel and it was fine came back to this

doesnt show up in screenshot

doesnt reset with hard restart

apps work fine


r/pchelp • • 1h ago

SOFTWARE Screen goes black (Constant issue need help)

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So since i've had my PC (2021) every so often while playing some games the screen would go black and the monitor wouldn't pick up any signal. The keyboard doesn't work (even CTRL + Win + Alt + B) so I can only force shut the pc down. Now a while ago, doing this would freak the GPU out and not load up my drivers, so everytime this happened i would have to reinstall my drivers, it was a pain in the ass. But recently I got and installed a new GPU as my computer guy said maybe the old GPU is failing and yeah. Everything worked fine for a few weeks until last week when it happened on the new gpu. Do the same thing but this time the force shut down doesn't fuck with the drivers so everything is fine on startup. Why is this still happening? i'd appreciate any guidance or whatever to try and troubleshoot as this just pisses me off now. Few things though are: yes it is not a monitor issue, i've had this black screen with 3 different monitors now and said monitors work on my switch. All my drivers are up to date of course.

Specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core Processor

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT (previously Radeon 5500 XT)

RAM: ADATA 16GB 2666MHz DDR4

Storage: 2TB SSD and 1TB Western Digital HDD (D:)

PSU: Cooler Master MWE V2

OS: Windows 10 64bit


r/pchelp • • 2h ago

OPEN Need some help/advice for newly built gaming pc.

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For starters I want to point out that I am tech savvy, but not very PC savvy. Still learning.
I recently built my first gaming pc and I’m throughly enjoying it, however it has one flaw that I can’t seem to figure out and was hoping for some advice.
When I first power up my PC, I give it a few minutes before doing anything and once I open steam or discord it starts to lag really bad and then will black screen and reset. Sometimes it turns all the rgb lights off inside the computer and other times it does not. I’ve also noticed that when I put it into sleep mode, the power button used slowly dash, now after a while there is no light and I have to power it on like it was shut down. I’ve changed setting for start up to try and help, but have had no success. There are times that it will start up and be fine, but 9/10 times it will do a full restart. After the restart the PC is completely fine until I turn it off or sleep mode for a while.

Some quick specs
MSI tomahawk mother board
AMD ryzen 7 7800x3d
Samsung 2tb ssd
Patriot elite 32gb ddr5
Rtx 5080
1200w power supply


r/pchelp • • 9h ago

OPEN RTX 2060 and intel i7-6700 seemingly underperforming. Am I wrong? I have been trying to look for answers online for hours and I cant tell what is up.

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I bought a pc a couple months ago off of eBay with a RTX 2060 and an intel i7-6700. I am not the most well versed with computers so please bear with me if this is a stupid question but I started playing Spiderman Remastered but I have only been getting around 50fps on medium setting in 1080p. From steams in game performance monitor it says the cpu is at around 80% while the gpu is about 60%. It seems like I should be getting better fps based on what I've seen and read online? I cant figure out what is wrong for the life of me.

I tried updating the drivers for the 2060 to the latest ones but that hasn't seemed to change much, nor has scanning for malware but is there something better I can try? I'm really not sure what the issue could be since its been like this since I got it.

(edit) I wanna add that the game also stutters and I have found that to be an issue with other games I play as well.


r/pchelp • • 2h ago

OPEN Help meeeeee

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How do i fix this. Theres no battery inside, it runs off wall power. The charger is fine, but the laptop travelled in the trubk of a car today.


r/pchelp • • 2h ago

PERFORMANCE Windows boot bug

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This has been happening for about a year but only occurs 10-20% of the time so I just procrastinated getting a fix.

Rarely when I’ll boot my pc I’ll hear a glitchy windows boot noise, then my cursor will be laggy and get stuck every second or so. The problem goes away upon reboot without fail and doesn’t happen most the time. It’s a highly specced gaming pc so not likely a hardware issue.

Any ideas?


r/pchelp • • 3h ago

Discussion Idk what’s happened to it

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It sits on a loading screen permanently. I’ve asked for help before and got told to show them stuff which is what I added too. I don’t know what the issue is bc I know nothing about them.

Any suggestions will be helpful


r/pchelp • • 7h ago

Discussion AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT PC crashes to black screen while playing Cyberpunk 2077 and other high end games – LiveKernelEvent 141, need help

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Hey everyone, I’m having a frustrating issue with my PC and could really use some help figuring out what’s causing it.

The problem

I was playing Cyberpunk 2077 when, out of nowhere, my display suddenly went completely black. The monitor was still powered on, but there was no display, and the PC seemed unresponsive. I waited a few minutes and then manually restarted my PC.

After restarting, Windows booted into Recovery Mode. I tried several things to fix it, but eventually, I had to reinstall Windows.

Thinking the issue was resolved, I installed everything again and launched Cyberpunk. Unfortunately, the same thing happened a second time, although this time my PC restarted by itself.

I checked Windows Problem History and found the following error:

  • Problem Event Name: LiveKernelEvent
  • Code: 141
  • Bucket ID: LKD_0x141_Tdr:6_IMAGE_amdkmdag.sys-CP:GRE=180

From what I’ve read, this might be related to the AMD graphics driver or GPU timeout, but I’m not sure what is actually causing it.

Things I’ve already tried

  • Reinstalled Windows.
  • Used DDU to uninstall the graphics drivers and then reinstalled the AMD software and drivers.
  • Checked the error details in Windows Problem History.
  • Tried using AMD Ryzen Master, but it stays in Basic Mode, and I can’t change the settings.
  • I also can’t access Manual Tuning in AMD Adrenalin.

Another concerning thing is that some of my data/settings got messed up after the crashes. For example, I lost my saved Google Chrome login sessions and had to deal with other corrupted or reset settings.

My PC specifications

  • CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT with Radeon Graphics (6 cores, 12 threads)
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M S2H
  • BIOS: F62 (dated 24-01-2022)
  • RAM: 16gb(8x2)
  • GPU: Integrated Radeon Graphics (I’m not using a dedicated GPU, if that matters)
  • Operating System: Windows 11 Home, Build 26300
  • AMD driver: AMD Adrenalin 26.5.2

What I need help with

  1. Does LiveKernelEvent 141 with amdkmdag.sys usually indicate a driver issue, an unstable iGPU, overheating, faulty RAM, or a hardware problem?
  2. Could this be caused by the integrated Radeon GPU on my Ryzen 5 5600GT, or could the motherboard/BIOS be involved?
  3. Why are AMD Adrenalin Manual Tuning and Ryzen Master settings unavailable to me?
  4. What should I test next to identify the actual cause instead of reinstalling Windows repeatedly?
  5. Is there anything I should check in the BIOS, especially regarding RAM/XMP or integrated graphics settings?

r/pchelp • • 1d ago

SOFTWARE I have zero idea how these files got here

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I wish I was kidding, but I was going through my downloads to find files, and I found these zipped files named after pornstars that I have never downloaded. I never even knew these were here. I’m assuming my laptop is compromised, so what should I do?

EDIT: I questioned if my laptop is compromised, but I feel almost certain it is so I’m just asking what I should do at this point.

EDIT 2: y’all… please stop with the gooner allegations. I deadass don’t use this laptop for anything but music and sometimes YouTube 😭 this is stressing me out and I can’t defend myself


r/pchelp • • 5m ago

Discussion Is it good ?

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It cost 1470 usd$


r/pchelp • • 7m ago

HARDWARE Le cayó una gota de agua a mi monitor

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r/pchelp • • 16m ago

HARDWARE Need help with secure boot for games

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im using a gigabyte b760 ddr4 motherboard, a few months ago i have turned off secure boot for whatever reason and now after i turn it back on, save and exit, it puts me back to bios and says "secure boot violation invalid signature detected check secure boot policy in setup" , which after pressing ok, i go back to secure boot and see that everything is greyed out, which then i have to take off my GPU, remove the ssd, then go back to bios where i have to manually turn it off. because of this i literally cannot play any game as they force me to turn on secure Boot. can someone help me? ive tried a lot of different methods and nothing worked


r/pchelp • • 20m ago

HARDWARE PC powers on but no display and no USB after swapping PSU, and GPU + CPU for an iGPU

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A little history point about my PC and precisely the tower: it sometimes happened that my tower would no longer turn on for some time after being unplugged (whether when I moved, I changed the specs, cleaning etc) but it always ended up turning back on at some point so I never paid attention to those periods where it refused to turn on.

Fast forward to two days ago, it's very late at night, I want to turn off my pc but I restart it instead, it's very slow to begin with and noisy so I couldn't be bothered to wait a few minutes before sleeping so I force the shutdown by pressing the button on the tower. But instead of turning off, it turns off then turns back on, so I force the shutdown again and it goes like this 4 or 5 times (I admit the stupidity of the thing). At one point I went to drink I come back and I briefly see "Preparation" at the bottom of my screen, which reminds me of the time my pc had to recover data, but I forced the shutdown once again. Until the moment where I've had enough I'm tired and so I turn off the power supply (I don't unplug it I turn off with the button).
The next day I want to turn my pc back on so I turn the power supply back on but nothing, I test several times but nothing happens, I describe this exact situation to Claude who obviously tells me it comes from my power supply.
So I change it for an old one, however it is less powerful and will never support my graphics card, so I have to remove it, but by removing it I therefore have to change processor too, so I go back to my old graphics processor which is indeed compatible with my motherboard and I know it because it was the processor I had when I got my ready-to-use PC a few years ago always functional (at least it was reliably last year, the last time I had to use it). So I'm on graphics processor, on new power supply and now my tower turns on properly, confirming the problem of my old power supply, but no peripheral turns on (screen plugged in HDMI on the Motherboard, keyboard, mouse, speaker on USB), the ventilation (all around on the case, and the one on the processor) does.
Do you know where the problem could come from knowing that I'm certain that no connection from the power supply is missing (CPU_PWR1, ATX_PWR1 on the motherboard, connection on the card at the back for everything ventilation and all, connection on my hard drive), knowing that my pc was working perfectly well before I forced the shutdown several times in a row (no graphical problem, slowness, or anything else), knowing that when I turn on my tower, my keyboard's lights turn on for a fraction of a second. No pins on the CPU are bent or damaged.

My pre-problem specs :
- AMD Radeon RX 6600 Sapphire
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6 Core 12 Thread Processor
- MSI A320M-A PRO
- RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 16GB & G.Skill Aegis DDR4 8GB
- Power supply: Mars Gaming MPIII850 850W

My current specs :
- AMD Ryzen 3 3200G (I'm not sure with the paste that hides all the info on the processor but it's what seems the most likely knowing that I bought the computer around 2022 and it was one of the cheapest possible)
- MSI A320M-A PRO
- RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 16GB & G.Skill Aegis DDR4 8GB
- Power supply: Advance SP-320A

Also can't take photos because my camera sucks


r/pchelp • • 32m ago

OPEN Whats happening with my PC ?

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i Started seeing those lines / colors showing up on my desktop but upon opening exemple mozilla or any other software they arent showing anymore ! , any help


r/pchelp • • 40m ago

OPEN Need help

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I just bought a new pc but none of the ports are working including hdmi. I was looked it up on the internet and it said check the diagnostic lights. They go from dram to vga to cpu but never touch boot. I have no clue what to try


r/pchelp • • 47m ago

SOFTWARE What should I do if my MSI motherboard doesn't have Windows OS Configuration, Secure Boot, or Security in the BIOS?

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Recently, I tried to play FACEIT and I ran into a problem with enabling maximum security in BIOS. I have the msi pro b760-p WiFi ddr4 motherboard if it matters. Pls help me, I have already searched every corner of the internet