hardware testing

Here's the short version: when I attempt to power up (using the power switch on the power supply) the computer powers up for only an instance and then powers off. Here's the long version: on Friday I attempted to upgrade to Windows 11. I got an error message early in the installation, so I...

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Lenovo ideapad 330 Windows 10 Vers 21H2 Asus USB external DVD-RW My laptop has recently stopped being able to access the USB DVD drive through File Explorer. The drive shows up in explorer but I cannot write to, or read from, it. I cannot transfer data files to it as I used to or Format it...

ok, so i have a Z87M MSI board with 16gb of gddr 3 ram with a 4690k cpu. i also have tested with different cpu, ram and gpu with exact same results. Anytime i hit restart via the windows menu, it never restarts. it goes black and just sits there. the onboard troubleshot number says 00 and there...

Hi my pc: 108500K stock 4800mhz 2x16 GB DDR4 GSKILL 3200mhz XMP Seasonic Tx-850 Ultra Titanium Gigabyte Rtx 3090 Gaming OC Aorus Z490 Pro Gaming 1 TB SSD I have updated Windows 10 to H20,the newest version. I installed windows 10 month ago with new pc. So far so good,games not crashing all...

Hey, all. I need some help. I just got a new hard drive for my laptop to replace an old one that went bad. Unfortunately, Windows will not install to the laptop (or work, on the one occasion I've succeeded). Every time I've tried to install Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit), it tells me that it...

Hi, I have been getting BSOD at random for the past 2 months. Sometimes with an interval of days sometimes with an interval of seconds rendering my PC useless. Please find the BSOD Error log towards the end of this post. My OS us up to date with Automatic Windows update. I have removed the...

DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL: Got this problem after building a new computer (from scratch) and finished installing all the drivers, programs and related stuff. Began to play around with it (overclocking, overvolting, etc.) and found stables for everything. After this: Ran it through Prime95...

Hello everyone! I'm new here. Sry for my english, but I'm only an average austrian boy! For some time now, I've big troubles with BSoDs. It began in the end of November. From that on, they appeared from time to time - around one time a day. With only one exception, they all were 0x124. (I'm...

Hi all, I am new to the forums and I'm here out of desperation. I bought my wife a Dell Inspiron Zino HD with Windows 7 Home Premium preinstalled about 3 years ago. It has been working well since, with a few hiccups here and there. Three days ago it started behaving really badly: it would boot...

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I have built a computer almost exactly to the one that they had built for Jeff on Tested.com. Everything seemed to install fine and run smoothly. Recently, I have been getting BSODs and they seem to be somewhat random. Usually when I am watching movies/streaming online/listening to music in Zune...

I get random BSOD-errors (pfn-list corrupt, memory management etc.) everytime I shutdown my computer and start it again. I have Windows 7 64bit Home Premium and I have re-installed it several times, I also tried the 32bit version. Now I have had to put the computer to sleep-mode for night and as...

Hello forum, I recently put together a computer for my brother and I've been getting many blue screens over the last couple of days. I've been trying to corner the problem myself the last two days but I'm still not confident that I know what the problem is in its entirety. I have installed...

Hi guys I am hoping I can get some assistance troubleshooting a new computer build and windows 7 install The system specs are as follows: P55 mobo Gigabyte P55A-UD3P i7 1156 2.8GHZ 8GB Kingston DDR3 10600 2 x 1TB WD Green Drives 7200rpm Heres my problem I go to install Windows which albeit...