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My PC fans are really loud on start up for the first like 5 minutes and then after that they go down to normal levels for watching YouTube or whatever.
Possibly related but my computer also just hard shuts off randomly. Usually this happens within the first couple minutes of turning on my computer. Started a month or two ago. Happens once or twice a week. Just hard instant shut off no loud noises or anything.
Windows 11. B650 Motherboard. Ryzen 7800X3D. 4070 Ti Super. 32GB of RAM not sure if anything else is relevant.
What are your CPU temps right after booting and then 5-10 minutes later? Any chance your CPU cooler's fan or pump has died and the case fans are running way harder trying to keep it cool with just the passive fin stack? See if you can find fan RPM readings in BIOS or via software once booted to OS.
Hello, I dont even know how to use reddit but I have an issue with My PC. Like 2 months ago I was playing Marvel rivals with a friend but then the monitor just freezed for like a minute, I started to get scared because I couldnt turn It off from the power button so i just turn It off from the switch of the power supply so My power supply in defense just died. Si yesterday I got My new power supply and i started to connect every single cable, and It worked but for like 10 to 15 seconds then It freezes again, I asked chatgpt and It said It could be something electric from the gpu but My friends said to ask right here on reddit, and i asked another friend and he told me It could be the motherboard too. (It cant be the raam because I changed the position of It 2 Time and tried with one single raam and didnt work) So thats My issue or My question Is,Has anyone from here suffered from the same issue? And how did you make It work?
(Specs: Motherboard B550M PRO-VDH WIFI Cpu Ryzen 5 5600x Gpu Amd Radeon 7600 Power supply Corsair cx750M semi-modular Raam 16gb xpg 3200 mhz (2x8) ) I hope Is not the gpu but thanks for reading this comment.
When you boot the PC, is there anything displayed on the screen? BIOS logo, some text, Windows loading, anything?
Or can you see stuff but then it freezes and stops responding?
At first It was the BIOS but that was because I didnt connect the ssd with Windows, then the PC started running like always but then 10 or 15 seconds later It freezes and cant do more
If you can see the display at any point, it's probably not the graphics card. Unless you also see artifacting, there are many examples if you look it up. Lots of small boxes or line on the screen.
When you replaced your power supply, did you replace all of the cables? If you left some of them in, like the GPU or SATA and just connected the old cables to the new power supply, that could cause damage. Unless both power supplies are the exact same model.
The next step would be to reset the BIOS. Near the bottom left of the motherboard there is a round silver battery, under it there are two small metal pins with the text "JBAT1" next to them (picture reference). What you must do is unplug the PC from mains so it has no power, grab a metal screwdriver, and carefully make it touch both pins at the same time. This resets everything, turn the PC back on.
I've replaced all the cables from the PC, but ill Let you know if the reset works right now im not in home so as soon as i can do It ill Let you know. Thanks for your answers.
Recently I did a fresh windows install of windows 11 and now something weird is happening.
I use a 144Hz monitor, but when I open any game, for some reason, the mouse cursor starts moving at a different refresh rate (seems to be either 30 or 25hz) insted of 144Hz. This never happened before in the many windows instalations I did before in the 4 years I've had this monitor. Literally everywhere else the mouse cursor works fine and moves at 144Hz (I can even open any applications in full screen that the mouse will move without issues, but it goes back to being weird a few seconds later), making the games exclusive full screen seems to fix the issue but many games I play don't have that option and only work on borderless windowed.
I don't think it's relevant, but my pc specs are a Ryzen 5600, RX 6750XT and 32gb of RAM.
Did you install your GPU's drivers manually after the fresh windows, or just let windows update grab what it thought was most recent? Have you checked your display settings to make sure the display is set to 144Hz in windows and/or your GPU software's control panel?
I manually installed the drivers, I checked the display settings and its all in 144hz
Recently got a new pc and I've noticed this really annoying high pitch whistling sound which is more present in games, after some research I think it could be coil whine is this normal for a pc or should I return it? Any help would be greatly appreciated🙏
This is "normal" in the way producers of components are treating this: not manufacturing defect in 99% cases.
And in 1% case of extremely loud they can accept this as valid RMA claim and change to less loud or more loud coil whine component - there is no any norm of this on the factories, so this is pure luck.
Can - not must.
If this is pre-build - you can only ague with the assembler brand you've chosen.
If this is custom build: you can find what component is coil whining.
In 90% cases this is GPU - very easy to test by removing it from slot and booting with integrated GPU.
Then goes the PSU - impossible to test if you don't have the spare PSU.
Then goes VRM of motherboard - easy to test by altering CPU load from idle to 100% all core by CPU stress test like Prime95 or CineBench23/24.