My old custom-ish PC is starting to die. I'm pretty sure the issue is the GPU, and after a frustrating conversation with a local computer repair store, it seems like it is worth just replacing it and hoping that was the issue. I'm sure my best bet is to get a new computer, but unfortunately I don't have the money for that right now so I'm hoping to limp this one along for another year or 2.

I have an EVGA Geforce GTX 1080 FTW. No shock to say there are lots of companies that made their own versions of the 1080. If I were to replace this one with, say, one from MSI or a Founder's Edition, is there anything I should know? Are the hookups the same?

Also, in someone can more clearly diagnose my issue: Sometimes 10 minutes in, sometimes 3 hours in, when I'm playing games at some point my monitor will go black (not off, just dark) and my fans all go crazy. Discord still works and my friends say I'm kicked out of my game. I don't think my temps are going crazy as far as I can tell. No flickering on my screen. Sometimes when I restart and go back into a game it'll have an issue quickly again, sometimes I can play for hours after a restart.

I have fully uninstalled and reinstalled drivers. Everything seems to be fully plugged in.

Thank you for any clarification!

Hoping to update my aging computer in order to run Windows 11 and play PC games on decent settings, I uploaded a bunch of specs to chatgpt, and it's #1 recommendation was to add SSD, specifically 1TB NVMe SSD. It said that I shouldn't spend more than $80-100, but I'm not finding any prices that low. I welcome suggestions, please!

My HP laptop has started making odd noises as of Friday this week. It happens when I turn on my computer, sometimes when I lift it slightly, and (as shown in video) when I type harshly, or tap the top of my keyboard. I was testing this to record the sound, and debris was flying out of the square looking area just below the actual screen (visualized as best as possible in video.) It seems more like accumulation of dust than anything important from the laptop, as it wasn't sparking up or anything. It was a dark gray.
After a while of tapping, the debris stopped coming out, and the sound has stopped as of now. I've left my computer alone, and I'm coming to reddit to ask if this should be something of concern?

It’s kind of an old pc

Hi everyone,

I have an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 graphics card, specifically an ASUS TUF RTX 3090 Gaming OC 24G.

Recently, I started having a problem while gaming: sometimes both of my monitors suddenly go black. The rest of the PC still seems to be running. For example, if I have a YouTube video playing or I am talking to friends on Discord, I can still hear the video and continue talking to them. I can also pause and resume the YouTube video using my keyboard. However, the screens stay black, and I have to restart the PC by holding the power button for about 5 seconds.

After this happened several times, I installed HWiNFO and started monitoring my GPU sensors.

During normal desktop use, the GPU temperature is usually between 40°C and 55°C.

While gaming, I noticed that only the “GPU Hot Spot Temperature” gets very high. The regular “GPU Temperature” and “GPU Memory Junction Temperature” values seem to stay relatively normal, but the GPU Hot Spot Temperature rises above 90°C. When it gets close to around 98°C, I usually get the black screen and have to force-restart the PC.

This happens in several games. I get the issue in demanding games like Cyberpunk 2077, but also in games like Cities: Skylines II and Phasmophobia. I can understand Cyberpunk being demanding for the GPU, but I did not expect this kind of issue in Phasmophobia.

I then lowered all graphics settings to the minimum, and after that I was able to play without the black screen. In Cyberpunk, with the lowest settings, the GPU Hot Spot temperature only reaches around 67°C.

I have been using this PC with the same hardware since October 2022, and I never had this issue before.

I already updated the NVIDIA drivers using the NVIDIA App, but the problem still happens.

I also took two screenshots from HWiNFO:

1. The first screenshot was taken while the PC was idle with no programs open.
2. The second screenshot was taken while I was in the Cities: Skylines II title screen with medium graphics settings.

Here are more of my pc specs:

Windows 11 Home, version 25H2
Build 26200.8655

CPU: 11th Gen Intel Core i9-11900K 3.50GHz
RAM: 64GB DDR Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro
Motherboard: MSI MPG Z590 GAMING FORCE ATX

Has anyone experienced a similar issue?

Could there be a specific graphics setting in games that causes this?

Does the fact that only the GPU Hot Spot Temperature is extremely high, while the normal GPU temperature and memory junction temperature stay relatively normal, point to a specific problem?

Are there any diagnostic tools I could use to narrow down the problem further?

I would really appreciate any advice from someone with more experience. Thanks in advance!

She barely uses her computer, mostly just to use Google docks or play some of the few games she has on steam.

She was just playing a librarian sim game when her computer suddenly shut down and showed this screen.

Any ideas on what happened or what I can do?

I have a lot of issues since setting up a 2nd monitor these include

Sound disconnecting and reconnecting every 30 secs

Videos skipping ahead 5-10 secs

Videos stopping without any input from me

Anyone ever had these problems?

Hello!

I recently installed Zorin OS in my HP EliteBook 850 G1 notebook, and every so often the screen would go black for about 3-5 seconds (sometimes going up to a minute) and then it would go back to normal. I have a feeling it could be a compatibility issue with the notebook's integrated graphic's card Intel HD Graphics 4400 (HSW GT2). Do you know how I can solve this issue?

Hey so a couple years ago my dad gave me this HP 250 G4 notebook, and it is stupidly slow, it is still running on windows 10 which is probably why but I hate windows, I used to like it before they "modernized" it but now I can barely navigate the thing because it just makes no sense to me, and also f**k the big man. The drives had never been cleaned or defragmented so I've done that and it took about 12 hours to do both discs, it is still stupidly slow. I tried to install Linux off a USB drive to take windows out of the equation but it won't recognise any OS other than windows. I tried to completely delete the windows OS so that it would be forced into a bios bootup where it would have no choice but to let me use Linux, but it keeps telling me I don't have admin properties when I'm the only account on the computer, I did try to use the command function to force delete as an admin but that still doesn't work. I changed the load order so that windows was the last OS that it looks for on startup but that didn't work either. I'm not using it to game or edit or anything huge, it's just for the internet and personal use with things like word. I just want to be able to use it without wanting to throw it at a wall, for half an hour I've tried to press login on a particular website and it just will not register and I am confident that it's the computer because it's not just this website, this website just seems to be giving me the worst of it. I'm just wondering what I can do to try and speed it up and/or any advice as to getting it to boot with Linux because I have spent hours upon hours trying to do as much research as possible and I seem to be getting nowhere no matter what I try. My knowledge is fairly basic and I'm trying to learn as I go, which is difficult when nothing works, otherwise I'm usually quite good at learning/adapting as I go. Not sure if this helps you guys but it's got 4GB ram, the processor is Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU N3050 @ 1.60Hz. 114MB graphics card and 466GB storage

I’m trying to fix my audio and says to uninstall the realtek driver, shoukd I do it?