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Image 1 — I can’t get logged into my second hand PC.
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I can’t get logged into my second hand PC.

Hello, I’ll be perfectly honest here— I’ve had this PC for a year now, and I’ve not been able to really use it once because of this problem, and I’ve been procrastinating getting any help for some reason.

Last year, I got this PC for free off of Facebook Marketplace, and when I got home I discovered I couldn’t get logged in— I had the pin and everything, but it only gave me an error code and tried to get me to login to the previous owners account.

I contacted the previous owner, and they never responded.

Therefore, this entire time I’ve had this setup rotting away in storage.. but now I wanna use it, and I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything I could think to try (I’m very new to PC’s, so I could’ve missed something) and I’m completely stumped.

Is there anything I can do, or should I just bite the bullet and get a new monitor?

Would that even work?

Any help / Advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

Images are the pages I’ve ran into whilst trying to get logged in, but everything there has been a dead end.

u/CoralineBeast123 — 4 days ago

Help me pls

What should I do if my PC doesn't detect the HDMI connection? I tried connecting the PC to the TV, but neither the mouse nor the keyboard is turning on.

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u/FirmFly6305 — 5 days ago

New pc build wont turn on

Hiii just to be clear im not native english speaker so some wording may look a little off, me and my bf just started to build my pc but when we set power to it nothing happened. Not even a little spin from the fans. The only form of life is my little mouse stand for my wireless mouse that has rgb we have plugged in the back, nothing else.

We tried talking to some other stranger that guided us through taking the gpu/cpu/ram/ssd out and trying to jump start it without those things but still nothing each time. We also checked the wires multiple times. Also we got a little confused on the wires for the turn on button but since we cant jump start it thats not the issue we r looking for.

Everything is brought brand new exept the cpu i brought second hand from a verified retailer, so im pretty sure it had the tests it needed. We also got a little cooling paste on the cpu pins when we took it out by accident but got the most of it off.

We talked about buying a thing were we can check if the motherboard/psu even gets power just to make sure. Also saw someone say u should check it out of the case so that wil probably be our next move.

Motherboard: asus x870 max gaming wifi 7
Psu: asus prime gold 750w

u/Eli1501 — 4 days ago
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No signal on monitor

My pc has been running fine the last couple says and I wake up today turn it on and it keeps saying no signal on my monitor.
LIST OF THINGS IVE DONE AND ITS NOT WORKED
Removed ram
Checked for any damage on hdmi cable and ports they are fine
Unplugged my pc
Removed the metal coin thing forgot what it was called and plugged it back in and it didn’t work
If anyone knows what the issue could be pls let me know

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u/BeginningParking3420 — 5 days ago
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PC issue; power strip accident.

Okay my fiancé had his PC plugged into a power strip, our son took the end of a charger and plugged it the wrong way into one of the sockets in the strip. After he did that the computer shut off and everything. When he tried turning it back on the lights worked but I’m not sure if something got fried in the process. His monitors didn’t turn on or the fan etc. just looking for some advice on what could’ve happened or what we can check to see if it’ll be an easy fix?! T.I.A 😮‍💨

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u/Disastrous_Eyes — 4 days ago

Good for 3080?

I found this power supply without its cables for a fairly good price. ($40) is it good for 3080?

شو رأيكم

u/DirectionOk7839 — 5 days ago
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Is my mobo dead

So i have a dell optiplex 3040 with an i3 6100 and its a MT model like the big one and today when i try to turn it on its try to post at first take like 5 seconds then it turns off immediately and when i press the power button again to turn it on it like turn on and off immediately like in the same moment and after it the power button start blinking orange in the sequence of 2 blinks pause and 2 blinks again and i looked that code up and it says that its either bad power supply or bad power supply cabling or bad motherboard and i know that the psu is fine cuz i swapped in a known good one so maybe its the mobo but is there is anyway i can revive it i really need this pc and i tryed to unplugging it and removing the cmos ram and holding the power button for like 30 seconds then turning it back on but it didnt fix it so does anyone know anything that can help

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u/EffectiveImage6952 — 5 days ago

Pc problem

So i have a problem with my pc and been trying to fix it for the past few days and still couldn’t find the issue, but suspecting an issue. So whenever my pc is on idle or playing games, my pc suddenly goes black screen with a no signal sign and its random so i tried fixing it on bios and gpu setting and still didn’t fix it so i was suspecting thE AVR then i tried plugging the pc directly to an outlet in the house and guess what the problem still didn’t fixed. So i was thinking, is it due to electricity fluctuation in our home? Cause i noticed that some of our appliances like air conditioners are making sounds like its getting choked by low power and sometimes issues in our area is that the electricity spikes a lot, so guys pls doo tell me if its the issue if not im cooked. But if its is the electricity spikes or fluctuations then maybe an UPS may fix this issue?

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u/PuzzleheadedRock5426 — 5 days ago
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Going from am4 to am5 in the big 2026

Hi, it's my first time using reddit (I often just watch videos on youtube from various known tech youtubers and learn from there) but I need more oppinions on this matter because I'm having a hard time picking out my cpu.

In this thread I wanna ask what's more worth for a first buy going from am4 to am5~

For context I'll mainly use it for gaming and mostly for rust (for those who dont know about it, rust is a heavy cpu dependent game known for its horrible optimization and need of a really strong cpu). I wanna pair it up with my RTX 4070 super and 32 gb's of ddr5 cl30 and use it to play in 1440p
I first thought about buying a 9800x3d but later found out about the 9850x3d (roughly 6% better performance, slightly lower temp and basically same power usage) for only 25-30 ish dollar difference, now what I want to ask about is if its even worth going for the 9800 x3d series or should i just buy a 7800x3d. I didn't really want to go for the 7800x3d because I didn't want to cheap out on the cpu and think "oh I would've had way better performance on a 9800 if i paid a little more" (not that big of a price difference between them considering you are building a crazy fast pc with a lot of really expensive parts).

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u/bigmancroc — 12 days ago
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PC that restarts in a loop

My pc froze suddenly and since then it only restarts it tests on the cpu on the vram then when it’s time for the vga led the pc turns off by itself restarts in a loop so I tried to remove the graphics card to start on the hdmi socket of the motherboard the error is the same restart in loop can you help me please I removed the battery to reinstall the bios it doesn’t work I also tried the trains one by one the problem remains the same thanks for ur help

The first image is that the led light of the cpu fan turns on then turns off then the moment of checking the ram the led turns off then the moment of the vga led the led turns on and the pc turns off and restarts

u/Novel_Two2245 — 13 days ago
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My pc turns off once a day and is fine the other but the problems have increased

So i had my pc off for like a year i have now started playing valorant on it again its been like 5 months since ive been playing and everday i start the game it turns on and after 1min the pc crashes and when i turn it on again it gets fine and doesnt shut off again Chat gpt told me it my be temp throttling so I removed my side panel but from 2 days the issuses have been increased it crashes doesnt stop crashes on bootup too and my pc has been lagging very much it crashed just now i restarted it and touched the gpu and it crashed again….. is it a gpu problem

[Sorry for bad english] thank you

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u/Asleep-Contact3271 — 14 days ago

WIndows Black Screen

Its not dead screen issue

It happens randomly while watching youtube or anything on browser (brave,chrome).

Event that might have lead to this, I started using brave, didnot use it as default, started using it to watch adless youtube when after a week this black screen stuff started to happen, then i didnt know why it was happening so i just ignored it, then i saw it was majorly happening while using youtube on brave, so i shifted to chrome because after a week on brave the black screen was inevitable as soon as 5 seconds of opening in brave. Then i switched to chrome, it solved it but not totally, now it happens randomly , not many times but few, not annoying.

Clues:-

  1. I can access taskbar apps previews, even hover over to the preview and watch the preview at maximum screen size but clicking brings the black screen.
  2. I can use windows start button to shutdown restart, whats surprising is , i can see the small interface which we get after clicking on start button while the screen for rest of every thing is black.
  3. Theres a small, tiny sneak peek line in the right side of the screen clicking upon which i can right click my mouse and refresh and stuff, even open apps that are placed on that side of screen.
  4. turns back normal just after restarting.
  5. Also, sliding gesture on touchpad helps to bring the taskbar and taskbar apps.
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u/Big-Maybe-2228 — 14 days ago
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PC Keeps restarting randomly

My PC keeps restarting randomly, and doesnt seem to have a consistent trigger. Sometimes its five minutes sometimes 30, but it just powers off and immediately starts again.

But then sometimes the screen freezes and the pc stays on, and turning my monitor on and off, as well as unplugging it does nothing.

Ive also had issues with the wifi, and i think the wifi adapter is partially broken, like not connected/rattles around

I highly suspect its a motherboard or psu issue but i want to be sure before i buy a new part

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u/Valuable_Election476 — 13 days ago
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No video input

Hey I already checked google and asked AI and did not find any answer.
Just finished building my first PC and first time it booted to bios fine, then it showed no video input, I restarted few times and it showed bios again. After I came from work again no vido input.
It’s just randomly doing this, any ideas what it can be ?
Sorry if this is bad questions, I’m really new into this.
First time I had to move my RAM to a2 slot and that helped. But I have no idea why is it random.

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u/Zyro88 — 14 days ago