r/PCRepair

I haven’t used my PC in a couple of months and I know there was power here and there because i’d occasionally hit my keyboard and the backlight glows and my mic mute button flashes red. When i tried pressed the power button no signal from the PC but my accessories are all lit up still.

I tried the Unplugging the power supply method as well as reseating the RAM. I disconnected my GPU cable from the GPU and my GPU printed that red light that nothing is connected.

Help i’m just a girl 😓

I brought it to a repair guy but when he plugged it on it charged so he didn't see any problem thus, didn't even check the internal wiring and thinks I'm just crazy. Now I'm alone with the laptop and it won't charge. I tried plugging it to other outlets and wiggling the charger on the port but to no avail. Idk whether the problem is the laptop or the charger. I'm thinking of looking for a new charger but what if its the laptop that's broken? What can I do to know what is broken if the repair guy thinks I'm just crazy? 😭

My Inspiron 3471 has been in storage for almost 2 years now. Finally moved into a new home and went to set it all back up. Come to find out when booting up, the desktop won’t display on my Samsung monitor. I tried 3 different hdmi cables and still nothing. I tested the monitor with an Xbox and that works fine.

My only concern is that during the move, a magnet (Nighthawk AXE3000 WiFi 6E USB 3.0 Adapter) became stuck to the very bottom of the desktop while in storage.

Anyone have thoughts or troubleshooting ideas?

So far I have;

Replaced button battery in desktop.
Reseated all wires and cards.
3 different hdmi cables and a display port cable.
Reset monitor.
Monitor has no VGA input.
Unable to display BIOS when booting.
Will not display on a second monitor.
Xbox does display so should not be a monitor issue.

My laptop's fan is completely broken, it creates little to no airflow, but makes this horrible screeching and buzzing sound every few seconds and is driving me crazy. I ordered a replacement fan, and it is coming within the next 5-10 days.

My question is is it okay to unplug the fan to prevent damage/get rid of the tedious sounds? Or do I just cope with it or is there a different solution (like leaving the fan with the motor plugged in but removing the blades). Legion 5 pro 16ARX8 btw.

Hi guys, I press f6 in bios it did a optimized default then I saved and restart, now it takes me to blue trouble shoot screen, I press every option there is, still brought me to the same screen, won't let me do a system reset or restore, I even did a cmos battery thing, took off the battery hold the power button for 15 seconds to drain power and waited 15 minutes, nothing still brought me to the same screen, i also did the raid with the storage and back, nothing, check the boot priority it was originally 13 options now it's 7 options.

I have msi pro z790-a max wifi. Please help, thanks so much.

Asus TUF A16 gaming laptop , windows 11, Ryzen 7 w/16gb ddr 5, Radeon 7600 , 512gb ssd, 2tb add on ssd

Tried power cycling and other online advice.

Took to GeekSquad and they said bad mother board , new hinge and frame? Not believing as it’s never been dropped. I just turned it off and it powers on, gives the ASUS logo and won’t wake from the black screen with keyboard lit.

Thoughts or ideas?

Got a 3080 Founders edition and the card was overheating, replaced the thermal pads but today the video is getting hungup.

Can anyone tell me what these burnt.. capacitors? are even if its just burnt solder.

This is the front side, top left of the board near the aux power JB03 J47.

Repaired the card, worked for 8 months and now its just hanging forcing a restart.

https://preview.redd.it/yn5k0fmk9uzg1.png?width=2160&format=png&auto=webp&s=3e6bc65d2c4b2b6f3f0e6041a9c13915ac7166fe

https://preview.redd.it/lx4n1t6m9uzg1.png?width=2160&format=png&auto=webp&s=f420d61e6a78043b2bb9e990166451b6ab4c9bba

Heres the otherside. all lanes look intact.

https://preview.redd.it/sa1ra2p59uzg1.png?width=2160&format=png&auto=webp&s=d09595eaba736f84feba2533512554e7c12006a8

For context I have an ASUS motherboard, Intel i5, Nvidia RTX 3050, can give other info if needed

A week or two ago I cleaned my room and in the process I removed all of the cables out of my PC. After which, when I hooked everything back up the VGA light will not pass no matter what I try. I’ve tried reseating and cleaning my ram and GPU, I’ve checked that the PCLe cord is plugged both into my GPU and power supply firmly and in the correct port. I’ve reset my BIOS settings via removing the CMOS battery, and even replacing the battery all together because i believed it was the issue. I have switched my GPU from the silver PCLe port on my motherboard into the black one beneath it, in which it did not work. There is probably more that I have done but haven’t listed, this was just on the top of my head. I’ve done literally everything I know how to do with very limited computer knowledge, further I’ve also tried a couple videos where they just like turned it off and on a couple times while disconnected from the display cables( did not work). I haven’t even been able to get anything on my monitor since I have started. If anyone has a solution that would be great, thank you for your time.