Did I Brick My PC While Trying to Install Linux Mint?
I was trying to install Linux Mint and opened the advanced startup or boot menu using a USB drive. I accidentally selected an option above the one I…
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Genshin Impact Shows a Black or Transparent Screen on CachyOS After GOverlay Changes
I'm running CachyOS with an AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, B550 motherboard, Intel Arc B570 GPU, KDE Plasma, and KWin Wayland. Genshin Impact worked normally for several weeks through…
Windows 11 ISO Boots to a Black Screen from Ventoy on Ubuntu
I'm currently running Ubuntu and want to replace it with Windows 11. I installed Ventoy on a USB drive, copied the official Windows 11 ISO from Microsoft onto…
PC randomly loses display while fans ramp to full speed
My two-year-old PC has been intermittently losing video output. Both monitors suddenly go black while the case fans spin at maximum speed. Sometimes audio continues, such as a…
Beer Spill Caused a Black Screen and DRAM Error—What Should I Replace?
My desktop stopped booting after I accidentally spilled beer over the top of it while gaming. I unplugged the power almost immediately, but the screen had already gone…
Laptop Clock Was Wrong, and Now It Powers On to a Black Screen
My laptop's clock was incorrect, so I suspected the CMOS battery. The next morning, the power light was still on even though I had shut the laptop down,…
Windows 11 ISO Shows a Black Screen When Booted with Ventoy
I'm running Ubuntu and want to replace it with Windows 11. I installed Ventoy on a USB drive, copied the official Windows 11 ISO to it, and selected…
PC randomly loses video and ramps fans to full speed
My roughly two-year-old PC has been shutting down or losing video unexpectedly for the past month, and I'm running out of things to test. Both monitors suddenly go…
RTX 5070 loses display and ramps fans to 100% during games—what should I test next?
My gaming PC began crashing about a week ago in Valorant, Counter-Strike, and Red Dead Redemption 2, sometimes while loading. The monitor loses signal, audio becomes distorted or…
Why isn’t my GTX 1660 Super being detected or outputting video?
My GTX 1660 Super powers on and its fans spin, but it produces no display and doesn't appear in Windows Device Manager, so the driver installer says no…
RTX 4090 Black Screens With PCIe Completion Timeouts—How Can I Isolate the Fault?
I'm troubleshooting an increasingly frequent black-screen and hard-lock problem with an ASUS TUF RTX 4090 OC. During games, the monitor suddenly loses signal while audio, fans, and system…
What could be causing RTX 4090 black screens and thousands of PCIe timeout errors?
I'm troubleshooting an intermittent black-screen and hard-lock problem with an ASUS TUF RTX 4090 OC. During games, the monitor suddenly loses signal while audio, fans, and lighting may…
Why does my new DDR4 kit crash at 3200 MHz on a Ryzen 7 2700?
I upgraded from a 32GB DDR4 kit to a larger-capacity kit with the same advertised speed and model family. My previous dual-stick kit ran at 3200 MHz without…
Monitor Loses Signal and PC Fans Suddenly Run at Full Speed
My computer occasionally loses the monitor signal, while the system unit becomes unresponsive and all the cooling fans ramp up to maximum speed. I haven't noticed any overheating.…
ASUS TUF FX505 briefly lights up but won’t start
My ASUS TUF FX505 suddenly stopped booting. When I press the power button, the keyboard or display backlight comes on for about a second and then shuts off.…
Why does my PC screen randomly go black for a few seconds?
My monitor occasionally goes black for several seconds and then comes back. I've already tried updating and downgrading the graphics drivers, checking the display cables, and resetting the…
RX 5700 XT Causes Black Screens, Freezes, and Restarts Under Load
I recently built a PC with a Ryzen 5 7500F, Yeston RX 5700 XT, Gigabyte B840M GAMING PLUS WIFI6E motherboard, 32 GB of second-hand Corsair DDR5-5200 CL40, a…
Monitor Loses Signal and GPU Fans Suddenly Run at Full Speed
My computer intermittently loses the monitor signal: the display turns off, the system stops responding, and the graphics card or case fans ramp up to maximum speed. I…
PC loses video output while fans ramp up and shows “Thread Stuck in Device Driver”
Whenever I play a game or leave my computer running, the monitor suddenly loses signal while the system itself appears to stay on. I can still hear Discord…
Why does this older PC black-screen and restart after installing an RTX 5060?
My sister has an older PC with an Intel i5-9400F, MAG B365M Mortar motherboard, and 16 GB of RAM. Her previous graphics card began showing artifacts, so she…