Thread of PC Woes, Troubles, Problems, and Issues

Blazzok said:
Does the cpu cooler have a back plate? It should have if it is that huge. What cooler is it?
I used to have a Noctua NH 14D, which is massive, and I never had any issues. I also tried to move my pc as minimally as possible and when I did move it I was always aware of the fact that I have a 6ton cooler hanging off my motherboard, so gently does it.

You can always put your pc on its side so the cooler stands up instead of hanging.
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BeoTeK said:
Could explain it if your board is bending, but yes, as Blazz says, you should have some form of support to stop that happening.
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Cooler Master Hyper D92, with 2x 92mm PWM Fans

I'll check about the backboard thing. Thanks.
 
So my PC seems to start fine but now I got random lag every few minutes in games. So if I play LoL, when there is an ultimate ability used of someone in my screen, I get lag. Sometimes, if I click somewhere on the map, my character will go towards that point and if I change directions, it will still go that point first, and then go to the new direction. I moved the game to my SSD to check if it was the harddrive and still had the issue. Then I thought it might be my internet but ADSL is constant and I tested on Black Mesa without internet and same thing. I get lag(more like a stutter) sometimes when things jump at me in the game. Re-installed windows, re-installed drivers, but same problem. I'm trying to get another graphics card to test. Starting to think it might be the PSU.
 
Are the temperatures constant during play? If you have an Intel CPU, is SpeedStep throttling the CPU? What do the voltages look like? Constant? Need more of the informations.
 
CyberDemon said:
So my PC seems to start fine but now I got random lag every few minutes in games. So if I play LoL, when there is an ultimate ability used of someone in my screen, I get lag. Sometimes, if I click somewhere on the map, my character will go towards that point and if I change directions, it will still go that point first, and then go to the new direction. I moved the game to my SSD to check if it was the harddrive and still had the issue. Then I thought it might be my internet but ADSL is constant and I tested on Black Mesa without internet and same thing. I get lag(more like a stutter) sometimes when things jump at me in the game. Re-installed windows, re-installed drivers, but same problem. I'm trying to get another graphics card to test. Starting to think it might be the PSU.
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I had this problem with my gpu drivers I updated to the latest and it started doing this in games I went back one version and everything worked again.
So ever since I never jump right on new drivers when its releases. Hope this will help you as well.
 
CyberDemon said:
So my PC seems to start fine but now I got random lag every few minutes in games. So if I play LoL, when there is an ultimate ability used of someone in my screen, I get lag. Sometimes, if I click somewhere on the map, my character will go towards that point and if I change directions, it will still go that point first, and then go to the new direction. I moved the game to my SSD to check if it was the harddrive and still had the issue. Then I thought it might be my internet but ADSL is constant and I tested on Black Mesa without internet and same thing. I get lag(more like a stutter) sometimes when things jump at me in the game. Re-installed windows, re-installed drivers, but same problem. I'm trying to get another graphics card to test. Starting to think it might be the PSU.
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Also pull up a trend of CPU usage, GPU usage and Ram usage as well when playing a game, just check if something isn't hitting a ceiling. I had a frustrating issue, similar to this, and it was my CPU running at 100% when gaming (I had damaged something on the CPU socket [probably a pin or 2] when I cleaned the mobo).
 
Blazzok said:
Also pull up a trend of CPU usage, GPU usage and Ram usage as well when playing a game, just check if something isn't hitting a ceiling. I had a frustrating issue, similar to this, and it was my CPU running at 100% when gaming (I had damaged something on the CPU socket [probably a pin or 2] when I cleaned the mobo).
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Yup, had a dirty CPU cooler once (couldn't see that the heat sink was caked with dust), speedstep would throttle the CPU terribly at times, but would just come right after a couple of seconds. Had to take the cooler off and clean the heat sink. Problem solved
 
PsychoFish said:
Are the temperatures constant during play? If you have an Intel CPU, is SpeedStep throttling the CPU? What do the voltages look like? Constant? Need more of the informations.
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Crzwaco said:
I had this problem with my gpu drivers I updated to the latest and it started doing this in games I went back one version and everything worked again.
So ever since I never jump right on new drivers when its releases. Hope this will help you as well.
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PsychoFish said:
Yup, had a dirty CPU cooler once (couldn't see that the heat sink was caked with dust), speedstep would throttle the CPU terribly at times, but would just come right after a couple of seconds. Had to take the cooler off and clean the heat sink. Problem solved
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Could be drivers or the CPU thing. I'll check these. Thanks.
 
My pc is now at a pc repair place. It felt terrible to give them my baby. I really hope it's something small. It doesn't start up at all.
 
Turns out the problem is the PSU. Since it's second hand I will try and do the whole warranty thing by contacting the person who I bought it from. Hopefully everything will work out alright.
 
Solitude said:
Turns out the problem is the PSU. Since it's second hand I will try and do the whole warranty thing by contacting the person who I bought it from. Hopefully everything will work out alright.
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I have one for you if needed, seeing as I bought one and it turned not to be that.
 
BeoTeK said:
I have one for you if needed, seeing as I bought one and it turned not to be that.
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I'm worried that it's the same with mine. Thanks Beo, chatted to you just now. I'm going to buy a power supply from the people that checked my pc. If it's not that then it's their fault.

The warranty is a bit more difficult. Will write about it later.
 
So if all goes well then I'll have a working pc again by tomorrow evening.

It all depends whether the PSU gets delivered and whether the computer shop was correct that the PSU is the problem. I know what [MENTION=4071]BeoTeK[/MENTION] went through. And I've felt this whole time that the problems is with the motherboard. But I'm not an expert and hopefully they know what they are doing.
 
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