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Dram light alway turn on but pc not boot (PLEASE HELP ME!!!)

Today i got my new ram , i install it and it work perfectly. After that, i set the new ram at his full speed , i play games about 1 hour and my pc start crashing, i restart my pc back but it won't turn on and dram light just stuck like that , pleasee help me huhu

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u/pikajoy_ — 1 day ago

Having issues with this HP Compaq Elite 8300 Small Form Factor

Is anyone here good with computers? I'm having an issue with this desktop I found last year. It randomly goes to sleep and I have to keep waking it up. Any idea as to what it could be?

It's running windows 10 Pro 22H2

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u/bustergundam4 — 2 days ago

Pc Randomly crashes while in certain games

Useful title, i know, but it's going to be a lengthy description so brace yourselves. Also, "Hardware" flair is just guesswork on my part.

So, my PC tend to crash (got it for five months, been doing that for that long) when I'm playing certain games. List of games where I've noticed crashes is located at the bottom of this post.

The crash itself appear simple, my screen freezes, no sound, no mouse feedback, no keyboard functions (Maj key doesn't light up the LED, integrated RGB no longer react to input). Only way to get my pc to respond is to manually power off and on again. Weirdly, the RGB lights in my keyboard and PC are still running, so are my fans.

Monitoring doesn't register the crash other than a "Windows powered-down unexpectedly" and "Windows didn't power-down cleanly".

Basic troobleshooting made me check my drivers, make sure everything was up to date, including flashing the firmware on my motherboard to the most recent version (which it wasn't for some reason).

I've been trying to solve that problem for five months now, and reddit is my last solution. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with a Kernel crash, but I can't get any logs and I'm not savy enough to go further.

Component's list :
- Motherboard is Tuf Gaming B450M Plus by Asus (Latest firmware)
- Graphic card is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8 Go) (Tried both latest Game ready and studio updates, no changes).
- Processor is AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor (3.40 GHz)
- Ram is 2X16GB
- PSU is an MSI MAG A650BNL of 650W
On paper, everything should work.

List of games (and conditions) includes :
- Rimworld (Game can run for hours in menus, or in game proper so long as time is paused, but crashes in-game when time is running after a couple of minutes at best).
- Raid Shadow Legends (Yeah, I know, anyway game crashes when I'm going for long battles, more than 10 minutes, including consecutives battles)
- Stellaris (Often crashes in Empire creation menu which is...weird ? I mean it's the only place in the game where it doesn't draw on your processor...also crashes randomly during gameplay)
- Total War (All of them but Warhammer 3, game crashes after a new game starts, basically a couple of minutes)
- Baldur's Gate 3 (Crashes either in menus or during gameplay at random intervals, sometimes I can get an hour, sometimes i can barely load a game.)
- Cyberpunk 2077 (Crashes in the menu, never in-game, I can play as long as I want but if I linger too long (read more than a few seconds) on the main menu ? Crash)
- Space engineers (Never crashes in menus, always crash after five to eight minutes of gameplay, even in an empty world in which I didn't move or construct anything.)

If anyone can give me any advice (other than change your PC), I would thank you very much.

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u/Competitive-Raise-82 — 3 days ago
▲ 4 r/pctroubleshooting+1 crossposts

Laptop stutters every 5-10 minutes

What the title says, I have a Victus Laptop, everything works perfectly, but a month ago it started stuttering out of the blue, every few minutes or so it would completely freeze for 1-2 seconds. Tried to use AI to try and find out why this started happening and still, after a month I can't find the culprit. I've uninstalled drivers, made clean reboots, changed settings, installed monitors, I've done so many things that resulted in nothing. My temperatures are fine, and I got this computer only 1 year ago brand new.

Has anyone ran into a similar problem? And if so how did Y'all fix it?

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u/yulyyyy — 3 days ago

AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition context menu icon showing as blank

Hey everyone, having a weird issue where the AMD Software entry in my Windows 11 right click context menu shows a blank/white page icon instead of the actual AMD icon. Already tried reinstalling Adrenalin Edition but the problem persists. Icon cache rebuild didn't help either.

Anyone know how to fix this?

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u/Content_Perception_8 — 4 days ago
▲ 5 r/pctroubleshooting+2 crossposts

Windows blue screen after using MSI M-Flash to update BIOS

MSI Z97 Guard Pro
Intel i5-4460
EVGA 1080

Bought a second-hand PC a few months ago which worked fine until it started crashing during certain games (all fans went to max during crash). Anyways, other reddit threads suggested updating BIOS before buying a new psu. Used M-Flash to update the BIOS, but windows wont boot now. I remember having to reformat my hard drive in the past in order to enable UEFI & secure boot. After updating, I noticed that the BIOS was set to Legacy + UEFI instead of UEFI. In my BIOS theres also something about windows 8/10 compatibility that was disabled after I updated. Am i missing something?

I was thinking of booting from a USB but then what?

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u/morequeso_ — 6 days ago
▲ 2 r/pctroubleshooting+1 crossposts

PC randomly shuts down when CPU usage gets high

TUF B650 Plus Wifi motherboard
Lian Li SP850 PSU
Ryzen 5 7600X3D

My build is well over a year old (built Jan 2025) and I had never had any issues until now.
So far this has happened five times; 3 times my PC had completely shut down when the shaders are downloading for Marvel Rivals when I am on the lobby screen for the game; 1 time it just shut down at the beginning of a rivals match (I had been playing for well over 2 hours already with no issues); 1 final time it happened when I tested it with Fortnite, I don’t play often and it was on the initialization stage/shaders on the launcher and it shut off. When I tested it with Fortnite the CPU usage hit 100% and then turned off. For the times I know rivals will download shaders I watched the CPU temps and they don’t go above 84C, but usage is really high as well. GPU drivers are updated and the temps are great.
Clearly some sort of protective measure is being triggered to cause a complete shut down, but i’m not sure which especially because this problem started out of nowhere.

  1. Failing PSU, I have no way to test this, Id have to buy a test one which would be super annoying because the cables for the one I have fit really tight…
  2. CPU overheating (never got into the 90’s but not great temps, this is unlikely though)
  3. BIOS is not updated at all, on version 3042 from 2024

Any help is appreciate, thanks!

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u/NinesViper — 6 days ago

Micro-stuttering in games on a high FPS PC – can’t find the cause

Hi everyone, I’ve been having micro-stuttering issues in CS2 and I can’t figure out what’s causing it.

The game runs at high FPS, but I still get random small freezes/stutters while playing. It makes the game feel laggy and inconsistent even though the FPS looks fine.

should I change the RAM with 6000 cl30?
**PC Specs:**
CPU:Ryzen 5 9600x
GPU:rtx 5060
RAM:16gb ddr5 5600mhz cl40
Motherboard:asrock b650i
SSD/HDD: kingston gen3
PSU: msi mag a650gl gold 80+ full modular
Monitor + refresh rate: Acer nitro 240hz

**Things I already tried:**

Updating/reinstalling drivers
Fresh Windows install
XMP on/off
Checked temperatures
Tested V-Sync/G-Sync on and off
BIOS update
Different power settings

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u/CraftyCountry2054 — 7 days ago

Laptop randomly freezes after being idle. Hard shutdown required.

My Dell XPS 13 from 2022 (Windows 11; latest updates) is now randomly freezing occasionally after being idle. Sometimes when I go away to do something for a few minutes or more I'll come back to my PC and everything will be frozen (cursor doesn't even move). The only way to fix the issue is to do a hard shutdown by holding the power button for 15-20 seconds. I haven't noticed a pattern of when it happens and when it doesn't other than noticing that when I am active on the laptop and doing stuff, it doesn't happen. I ran some basic diagnostic tests and everything came up clear (ckdsk, Dell Support Assist etc.)

Any thoughts?

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u/sirkit — 8 days ago

Audio and screen stutters and pc reboots without me doing anything

Heyhey, like you saw in the title my pc does some weird shit.

The audio and screen stutter while i'm just doing things like watching youtube.

And sometimes my pc just shuts down and restart automatically.

Also when i'm watching youtube or when i'm gaming.

I checked all the cables and everything was inserted properly.

My gpu and cpu are relatively old (rtx 3060ti and amd ryzen 7 5800x)

Also some updates don't install...

Any ideas what could be wrong?

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u/true_arisen — 8 days ago

Sapphire nitro RX 7700 XT RGB Bar won't turn on after pc reformat.

As the title says above, I needed to reformat my pc after a malware issue, and now after all of it, I downloaded TriXx and the latest AMD gpu drivers, then it still won't work. I did a ddu solution and still no avail, I did a power drain and still no avail. Prior to the reformat the Rgb Bar is working with the TriXx software. Any solutions?

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u/asuka_11 — 9 days ago

RTX 5070 worked for 20 seconds then black screen, the replacement won't "POST" at all

Hey everyone,

Specs:

  • Ryzen 7 9800X3D
  • RTX 5070
  • 32GB DDR5 6000MHz
  • MSI B850M Gaming Plus WiFi 6E

The story:

I just built my PC like 1-2 weeks ago. First RTX 5070 worked fine at first. Installed drivers, tested Minecraft. When I uncapped FPS, it hit around 2000fps or something, however the PC sounded like a jet engine, then after ~20 seconds → black screen. No video signal, but I could still hear game audio. PC seemed otherwise normal.

Tried a GPU benchmark → same thing, but instant.

Tested my old RTX 3070 → worked perfectly.

So I returned the 5070 (thought it was faulty) and bought the exact same model on Amazon. Used the iGPU while waiting, I played Minecraft and Geometry Dash.

Today: New 5070 arrived.

PC turns on. RGB lights up. Fans spin (including GPU fans). But no display signal and keyboard/mouse don't light up (they normally do when Windows loads or when I'm in the BIOS).

It's like the PC is on but won't POST or boot into Windows.

Tried basic troubleshooting, tried HDMI instead of DP...

Any ideas? Could it be a BIOS/PCIe compatibility issue? Bad luck with two faulty cards? Something else? Something seems really fishy, the first one could at least let me go in windows.

Thanks for any help.

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u/Unfair_Roll5153 — 10 days ago

Can't update BIOS

Motherboard: ASROCK B550M Pro4

Current UEFI BIOS version: B550M PRO4 L3.41

I have no idea why but when I update with Instant flash (i wanted to update to 3.90) the update works fine, but after reboot, the BIOS version is the same. How do I solve this issue?

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u/infy420 — 13 days ago