Thread of PC Woes, Troubles, Problems, and Issues

So they phoned me this morning with their findings; "no issues found, your PC is working perfectly fine"

/me shrugs
 
BeoTeK said:
I can't explain it. Maybe a little moisture?

From working in that industry I still maintain that computers also like to get out and go for a drive from time to time.
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I can attest to the fact that computers need the warm physical touch of a human on their inner bits every now and then
 
Right, so i'm out of ideas. I'm trying to figure why my brother's cpu keeps maxing out when playing games. Whenever he plays a game all cores shoot up to 100% usage and the games start to stutter. Old thermal compound has been replaced and cooler reseated just in case its a overheating issue but the temps max out at 65-70 when running at 100%. Maybe the cpu/mobo is just borked.
 
Apollo said:
Right, so i'm out of ideas. I'm trying to figure why my brother's cpu keeps maxing out when playing games. Whenever he plays a game all cores shoot up to 100% usage and the games start to stutter. Old thermal compound has been replaced and cooler reseated just in case its a overheating issue but the temps max out at 65-70 when running at 100%. Maybe the cpu/mobo is just borked.
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Windows 7/8/10 ?

Tried updating BIOS?
 
Apollo said:
Right, so i'm out of ideas. I'm trying to figure why my brother's cpu keeps maxing out when playing games. Whenever he plays a game all cores shoot up to 100% usage and the games start to stutter. Old thermal compound has been replaced and cooler reseated just in case its a overheating issue but the temps max out at 65-70 when running at 100%. Maybe the cpu/mobo is just borked.
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CPU make/model? Mobo make/model? What is the BIOS settings? Overclocked?
 
PsychoFish said:
Usually see that with Intel laptop CPUs when they start failing. You can attempt to run some diagnostics, but you'll have a tough time finding replacement parts.
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It's weird, never figured CPU's would just fail like that. The last time something like that happened was when one of my mates tried to overclock his 486 DX100.

I still have a 1090T stashed somewhere which should work on his mobo.

On a different topic. I ended up getting a Samsung S24E390HL on Monday and I'm having a really bad time adjusting to it. Its so bright and glowy. Kinda feel like going back to the older TN panel.
 
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Apollo said:
It's weird, never figured CPU's would just fail like that. The last time something like that happened was when one of my mates tried to overclock his 486 DX100.

I still have a 1090T stashed somewhere which should work on his mobo.

On a different topic. I ended up getting a Samsung S24E390HL on Monday and I'm having a really bad time adjusting to it. Its so bright and glowy. Kinda feel like going back to the older TN panel.
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What i've seen (again Intel based laptops) is when the CPU goes FUBAR speedstep starts throttling the CPU to prevent overheating, as a result you actually see the multipliers, etc scaling back. This usually causes the CPU usage to then start showing 100% utilized and if it's really bad it just dies after a while. According to sources it tends to be either a temperature sensor, voltage regulator, etc ect ...
 
I have a weird issue with my PC these days.

Whenever I do a restart/reset, the screens will remain blank and I can see it boots into Windows 10 due to the HDD lights flashing.

However, if I do a cold boot it starts up fine? I need to hold down the power button to switch it off after a restart/reset otherwise there's no display on the screens.

I did not do anything out of the usual recently so don't understand why it's happening, I did reset all my OC'd settings back to normal as well. Disabled Fast boot in the Bios and in Windows as well as per some suggestions found on tech forums.

Any ideas? My specs is in my sig :)

thanks
 
blaaislaai said:
I have a weird issue with my PC these days.

Whenever I do a restart/reset, the screens will remain blank and I can see it boots into Windows 10 due to the HDD lights flashing.

However, if I do a cold boot it starts up fine? I need to hold down the power button to switch it off after a restart/reset otherwise there's no display on the screens.

I did not do anything out of the usual recently so don't understand why it's happening, I did reset all my OC'd settings back to normal as well. Disabled Fast boot in the Bios and in Windows as well as per some suggestions found on tech forums.

Any ideas? My specs is in my sig :)

thanks
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I had a similar issue, though with shutdown/startup. By doing a routine windows shutdown the machine would start up with a blank screen, but the display would be switched to my onboard. Once hard reset or power off and start up again the issue was resolved. This led me to believe there are some funky power options at play with a Windows 10 system.

My resolution: create a command line shortcut on the desktop (pinned to taskbar in my case) with the following syntax "shutdown /s /f /t 3"


I don't know if this will help at all, but it has with me.


In your case try a "shutdown /r /f /t 3" to see if it makes any difference over a routine Windows restart.
 
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