People are saying there is a mysterious third invisible prong in europe! I haven't seen this plug end, though it has a contact point to ground. Though bottom line, make sure your computer gear is grounded one way or another!
thanks for the video, maybe is an australian thing but your outlets look kind of sad or surprise not in a good way, more like in the naruto's 1,000 years of death technique hehehehe
I think this is very rare in the places/countries around the world that widely using BS standard Type G(BS1363) socket/outlet like UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, UAE
Thank you for this video, i had changed the graphic card before and it happened again . It ended up being one of the sticks of memory causing the troubles. The old lady fixed her own computer. Thank you.
CMOS Batteries that are old and low on voltage can cause motherboards to freak out and rain havoc. Always measure the old CMOS Battery on voltage, if the voltage is lower than 2.6volts replace it, it needs to be close to 3volts.
@@N0N0111 if possible cld u help me? I swapped my ram from 16 gb at 2133 by defult too 32 gb at 2900 bc my mb said it was rated that when I swapped it now wont post and the mouse n stuff wont light up . I swapped back to original ram and put even 1 stick in all slots to try it and even reset cmos nothing works unless i put a single stick in i get everything working but its not its like it has a glitchy screen that keep’s rebooting it looks liks static on my monitor almost w stretched out words what a day to not work
@@loganboi962 This is a hard one. I would suggest to make a post on popular forums or reddit that has tech support from PC users. And most importantly write down all hardware that is in your PC. Brand name, Model number, and even software version for things as the motherboard bios version. Issues with ram is often related to not compatible model/brand, and even older bios version not having support. So my suggestion is search your bios version in the bios, and google for the latest version on the brands website. GL. 🕵️♂️
I had that problem.. watched your video and followed all the steps and found out that its a ram card not functionning correctly! Thank you so much for this video!
Just used your video to help me get my wife's friend's computer working. Took out the battery for a few minutes and took out all the memory modules except one. Then added them back one at a time. Must have just needed a reset because all the memory seems to work. I'm doing a stress test right now. Thanks man! God blessed you with major talent bro!
UPS Power Unit doesn't help at all if the entire Power Sockets in that person's house isn't Properly Grounded. Yeah sure UPS have Ground Pin, but where the Heqq it supposed to go if the wall socket Ground Pin isn't even working properly?
The first way to fix a black screen can also be done if you have a button on your mbo (I honestly dont know what its called), it will reset the bios, which is what is happening when you take out that bios battery.
@Tech YES City The A-roll camera lens is blurry on the sides and causes chromatic aberration. (watching on 24" IPS monitor in 4K) Overall the image looks blurry and it looks very unsharp for 4K, not sure if you wanted this artistic cheap look but here you go.
Thanks so much! I spent an hour scratching my head and when I came to this video I ended up learning that one of my RAM sticks was faulty😂 Thank you for saving my pc!
I had an issue where my PC failed to boot into desktop and showed a black screen instead with just the mouse cursor working I reinstalled the windows and it has been working perfectly so far
Hey Bryan. The house power issue is more common than you think. Investing in a UPS can solve this issue and creates a barrier between the house power and the pc. The older areas in Aus sometimes have problems with power surges too which a UPS controls. Worth mentioning on your channel. Cheers, Mon from Brisbane.
Countries/towns that have power lines above ground and next to streets have most power issues overall. People in these countries/towns will have power outages when there is a storm most of the times. Invest in quality surge protectors, you don't have to go out and buy expensive UPS stations.
I remember back in the windows 7 days I always had a strange issue were my rig wouldn't display anything or boot properly unless I reseated the ram, use to happen every few months lol
First build and nothing happened so I was pretty sad...not exactly starting with a lot of confidence. Found this page and the CMOS battery trick worked for me. Thanks!!
When I worked as tech support for ISP I happened to experience faulty modem power adapters several times for certain customers. The conclusion was the electricity in homes.
I saw someone do an intersting fix like that, so I'll pass the tip on. ... A PC that did not respond at all to pressing the powerbutton, like the PC was dead. They removed the CMOS battery, and then shorted the positive and negative CMOS battery terminals of the motherboard. (I do not know for sure if the PSU was connected but I think not.) That must have cleared some static electricity or stray electricity from the system somewhere. He put the CMOS battery back in, and the PC booted. (By the way faulty RAM usually gives s POST beep sequence. I noted you did not mention that when describing faulty RAM symptoms.)
TLDR: nothing important Something like that fairness to me last month. After changing some things on the bios for some reason it just wouldn't start. Luckily I have a mobo that shows the post code and also has a led that shows what component may be the problem. It showed the gpu was the problem. As I assumed I didn't burn the gpu right now when gpus are really expensive, then the mobo wasn't recognizing it anymore. As I don't have another gpu with integrated graphics, I just removed the battery to go back to stock settings. Turns out that while changing the config for how the memory is used to get done extra boost in performance, the mobo decided to also change the automatic recognition of dedicated Gpus to only integrated.
He might just have low or bad power. There are a lot of ways this happens a terrible one I saw (lightbulb change/week) was the main incoming fuse was sort of half blown and sparking but still through circuit. Lots of other ways - solar on roof dying, ground faults, appliance faults
A UPS is a great idea for electronics but not all UPS's are created equal, get a UPS which does EMI filtering or a inline UPS, this will filter noise from the AC input effectively cleaning the signal and preventing AC line noise from being amplified down stream in the PC resulting in a cleaner audio and visual signal.
I was experiencing this last weekend. Pulled that battery, used one stick of RAM and managed to get into the Bios. After multiple attempts at getting the PC to boot with all of the RAM, I finally figured out that it was the Corsair AX-860 PSU was dying. I ended up getting an EVGA 80+ Gold 850 watt PSU to replace it. My beloved 9900K is still alive!
Thank you so much. The problem was the little battery. I tought it maybe ran out (my brothers computer) and i took it of, waited a half minute and it booted up. Now it works
To The YES Man, thank you for making videos like this one that share how to diagnose PCs. A part of what I know and apply to my own and my friends' PCs came from your content and they would be surely useful in the future for me
For the RAM could also be a memory slot itself. Got an 775 Gigabyte mobo which does run absolutly fine with slot 1,3 and 4 populated but starts acting up as soon as I put a (no matter which knowingly working) stick in the second slot. I also remember my brothers issues, all GPU´s put in his rig (exact same as mine at the same, accept for the PSU, had to swap my 650W Straight Power 2 years earlier due to failure like many others across the globe had to) were failing putting out black screen but working fine in my PC. I´m pretty sure his Straight Power was failing as well, since even an HD5450 was like all other cards (with power connector) failing after just one week. Obviously there was something wrong with the power delivery and it weren´t the outlets, because other electronics (like the monitors) would have failed as well using the same outlets.
I have a black scrreen with a message on it. Mine says "No boot device available, strike F1 to retry boot". Pressing F1 just redisplays the message. I turned off the PC then rebooted and pressed F12 expecting to see a boot options screen. Instead my PC continued its normal boot and I got my desktop. When I went to my C: drive I noticed the files had been reordered by last update where it is normally ordered by name. PC was working perfectly yesterday, this happened today. Dell Inspiron 570 with Win 10.
Ditto with houses with dodgy power supplies and old 'old' fridges. We lost a VCR and a PC due to power surges when the fridge/ freezer turned on... $200 sealed PSU component replaced due to 5 cent part within it popping...
More people need to know about grounding issues in your home man when I started learning about pcs when I was young the guy that was teaching me made sure I knew to only plug computers in on grounded plugs and to always check with a cheap ground checker he said he'd seen so many pcs get destroyed by even small surges very good video my man TYC always with the good info keep it up man been seeing you get shouted out on a lot of other UA-cam channels bc of what you say and your calls here lately. You've been on point!!
Congrats on 500k by the way......... I always use a surge protector not just on PC's but pretty much any electrical device...... one thing I had before that was weird and I never did get to the bottom except changing the motherboard was the PC would boot fine until you clicked restart and then it would give a black screen. If you switched it off and on again it would work fine but as soon as you restarted it would boot with a black screen just weird.
My first gaming PC shutdown while playing Company of Heroes. It seems that that the game was too much for the no name power supply to handle. From that point on I made sure to buy proper power supplies for my PC. My current PC has a SFX Flex PSU. At one point the monitor keep blacking out mere minutes are booting up Windows. Due to the open nature of the case, messy cable management and constant transport, a single wire from the GPU cable group was torn off. I just taped the weak point and inserted the loose wire back in. That was a year ago and so far the PC is fine.
As soon as I got to the ddr3 😅 removed the last 3 ram no change.. removed the first stick and placed stick 4 so I only had 3 sticks of ram, straight away it booted 😪😂 thank you, I love videos that are helpful!
Certain Security software installed in Windows can cause black screens. If the PC is a prebuilt with a OS preinstalled, might be best to reinstall the OS, or remove any preinstall security software.
Firstly, thanks a lot , Brian, very informative,as usual. Second, that's about the beeps. Some Chinese motherboard have an a usual number of beeps.....
Pro tip:If you have black screen power the pc wait a bit to load windows and press the caps lock or num lock to see if they are working.If they light up on the keyboard then the problem is in the video!
I've also had black screens when booting for the first time and being plugged into a television instead of a monitor. Not sure if it is a codex or just unusual resolution issue. Once I have booted using a monitor and installed graphics drivers the problem is solved.
The corsair CX psu''s always eventually go the way you are describing. They start to degrade until they can't support the wattage required by the computer. I've two right here that pass the tester you have but once load goes on them they fail.
Funny thing, My PC never even connected to my monitor or any other display device. I had this problem for about half a year and then realized a switch on the back that was set to european power. It still doesn't work to this day do to a hard drive issue but I find it kinda funny how 1 little switch was a drawback for 6 months.
FYI, AC always completes a circuit to Earth ground. It does this using the neutral, not the ground. In a home AC configuration, there are 3 wires. 1 hot, 1 neutral and one ground. In fact, really old homes that are not modernized do not even have a ground. The ground is only a fail safe in case the neutral becomes faulted or open. This is to prevent you from becoming the ground. The only other purpose for a ground is to ensure there are no ground "loops" between devices most commonly audio to prevent hum. But that does not apply here. Your customer has a neutral fault, not a ground fault and I suspect is not connected to a 3 wire circuit or the ground has faulted as well.
Heya Bryan! I had a strange issue on my pc where it would freeze constantly when it got to Windows. Without GPU, it would be fine. With a different GPU, it would freeze anyways. Culprit? PSU! And the solution, weirdly enough, was to disable C1 and C6 States! Tested on 2 systems and works flawlessly! So weird! But hey, it works. I changed the PSU on my main rig anyways, since gf prefers to play on something that is reliable ahah. Anyways, thank you Bryan. Good video!
Nice. My Ryzen 2700 recently stopped working after a windows insider update... Fixed it with taking CMOS battery out. Had just put a 3070 in it and petrified it was that!
Omg, I nearly had a panic attack when my computer wouldn't start but taking the battery out of my motherboard fix the issue. Thanks a lot! Is there a name for this kind of problem?
Yes Mr Sprouse, they DO drive them up. Bryan does a video on Aliexpress, 2 hours later, that used part is either up in price or sold out. Same thing with all the american youtubers plugging Ebay deals. Within a few hours of that video, price is up and or supply is gone.
sometimes Im getting a black screen, with all my peripherals getting power and the computer is turning on, fans are spinning but it doesn't boot all the way to windows, just no display.. i have fixed this issue several times by kicking my case slightly then restarting it. everytime it worked well
My friend received a computer with a 10900F, and he had bought a GTX 1650 because was the only thing he could buy. When he tried more intensive games comptuer would shut down. I tried running a prime95 didn't even last a second. Turns out that it had a 500W generic PSU. He bought a new one that I recomended and I instaled it. I don't remember very well but it was a seasonic gold core 750w if im not mistaken.
I have a GTX 1080 that wasn't showing up thru it's display ports till windows was already booted. The fix was a firmware update, for anyone having the same issue.
My friend is having a problem with his Ryzen + RDNA2 build. When it's in power savings (monitors go to sleep) it will randomly blink the LED on GPU, he'll hear a hardware disconnected notification and the monitors will wake up to a black screen.
5:54 i think u have eu hp pc. EU's distrubhtions dufferent power suplys 2b clear. Mają mniejsze oporniki. Ze względu na brak wachań w sieci energetycznej na kontynencie.
Does a UPS with a power trim helps to avoid this issue? I live in a country where electricity just keep suddenly going off for some reason, thats why I have a UPS.
I have a board right now that would not boot, CPU was 5960X then moved ram around [8 slots] finally booted, overclocked to 4.6 even ran stress benchmarks with no issues after that. Moved CPU to another board that had a XEON in it [upgrade] and yes its 2011-3 socket and then boom no workie workie. Put back into the original board no workie workie, waiting on another CPU to come in to test further.
I’m praying this doesn’t happen to me. Sounds like Greg just did a vid on this too. My 1070 is 5 years old now and I am hoping I can get a 3070 before it dies I’ve had to take out the battery in my motherboard many times because some settings in the bios just refuse to let you reset the CMOS
What if i have no extra cpu or ram and i have both no display AND my rgb mouse and keyboard wont power on. I put a brand new unused motherboard in and changed the power supply witg a well known good psu and i still cant get display or peripherals turning on.
But wouldn't resetting the CMOS battery clear the BIOS and then let the onboard video become primary again? 20 years experience tells me that if they have a black screen when plugging in a PC they just bought that they plugged the monitor into the onboard and not the video card. I also have them check to make sure power is connected to the monitor and PC just to be safe.
People are saying there is a mysterious third invisible prong in europe! I haven't seen this plug end, though it has a contact point to ground. Though bottom line, make sure your computer gear is grounded one way or another!
thanks for the video, maybe is an australian thing but your outlets look kind of sad or surprise not in a good way, more like in the naruto's 1,000 years of death technique hehehehe
@@noneofyourbusiness8658 lol, they are just in a transitioning phase, nothing to worry about.
@@techyescity when you say transitioning do you mean from AC to DC or 230v to 120V? either way they look like sad sacks to me hehehehe
I think this is very rare in the places/countries around the world that widely using BS standard Type G(BS1363) socket/outlet like UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, UAE
we have 3 pins ad 2 pins to its depends by port
"Earth Is the Third Prong" is now the name of my prog/trance album I'll be putting on Soundcloud next month
Fixed my issue in 5 minutes when I spent an hour trying to debug my pc on my own. I will tell my future grandkids about your greatness, Bryan.
what one worked for you?
I have a image i got just now of my PC bluescreening while watching you and your image is on it. NO joke, your intro was playing on my bluescreen.
Probably ram issue or hdd test both
@@The_Jack_Doe SSD, Ram is fine. I might have overloaded it as i did have 10 tabs open for 1 hour.
Thank you for this video, i had changed the graphic card before and it happened again . It ended up being one of the sticks of memory causing the troubles. The old lady fixed her own computer. Thank you.
CMOS Batteries that are old and low on voltage can cause motherboards to freak out and rain havoc.
Always measure the old CMOS Battery on voltage, if the voltage is lower than 2.6volts replace it, it needs to be close to 3volts.
can a weak cmos battery cause a computer to not boot at all?
@@ssm840 YES, that could be a scenario. But i think it's a small one. Something like reseating the RAM is more popular for a not booting system.
@@ssm840 i had to replace my cmos battery to get my pc to boot as the old battery was dead
@@N0N0111 if possible cld u help me? I swapped my ram from 16 gb at 2133 by defult too 32 gb at 2900 bc my mb said it was rated that when I swapped it now wont post and the mouse n stuff wont light up . I swapped back to original ram and put even 1 stick in all slots to try it and even reset cmos nothing works unless i put a single stick in i get everything working but its not its like it has a glitchy screen that keep’s rebooting it looks liks static on my monitor almost w stretched out words what a day to not work
@@loganboi962 This is a hard one. I would suggest to make a post on popular forums or reddit that has tech support from PC users. And most importantly write down all hardware that is in your PC. Brand name, Model number, and even software version for things as the motherboard bios version.
Issues with ram is often related to not compatible model/brand, and even older bios version not having support. So my suggestion is search your bios version in the bios, and google for the latest version on the brands website.
GL. 🕵️♂️
Surge Protectors for your whole PC setup are life savers!
Specially for people that have power outages when there is a storm.
Exactly! I would use a PC without UPS anymore.
Taking out the little battery on the MOBO worked. Thanks!
This is exactly what I'm currently experiencing. Thanks for your help.
Videos like this are so helpful even for those of us that are experienced in PC troubleshooting. Great content, Brian!
I had that problem.. watched your video and followed all the steps and found out that its a ram card not functionning correctly! Thank you so much for this video!
Thanks for the battery tip, saved me a trip to the repair shop :)
Just used your video to help me get my wife's friend's computer working. Took out the battery for a few minutes and took out all the memory modules except one. Then added them back one at a time. Must have just needed a reset because all the memory seems to work. I'm doing a stress test right now. Thanks man! God blessed you with major talent bro!
Oh no! all my power plugs don't have that third prong!
Man, I'm glad I live in Europe and we use different ways to ground our gear ;-p
I live in Britain and we have a third prong. Also Swiss and Italians have a third prong.
I live in portugal and we don't a big third pin, it's just a little contact but it's still a 3rd point that serves as ground.
@@brokeandtired Oh, that I know, but then: Britts were always the odd one out ;-p
Tell them to get a backup UPS power unit. Controls power as well.
UPS Power Unit doesn't help at all if the entire Power Sockets in that person's house isn't Properly Grounded.
Yeah sure UPS have Ground Pin, but where the Heqq it supposed to go if the wall socket Ground Pin isn't even working properly?
The first way to fix a black screen can also be done if you have a button on your mbo (I honestly dont know what its called), it will reset the bios, which is what is happening when you take out that bios battery.
@Tech YES City
The A-roll camera lens is blurry on the sides and causes chromatic aberration. (watching on 24" IPS monitor in 4K)
Overall the image looks blurry and it looks very unsharp for 4K, not sure if you wanted this artistic cheap look but here you go.
Thanks so much! I spent an hour scratching my head and when I came to this video I ended up learning that one of my RAM sticks was faulty😂 Thank you for saving my pc!
I had an issue where my PC failed to boot into desktop and showed a black screen instead with just the mouse cursor working
I reinstalled the windows and it has been working perfectly so far
Windows can be a real pain most of the time
Did they end up paying for the GPUs they fried? Seems like suuuuch a waste at the moment.
The first method fixed my problem, thanks a bunch mate 🎉
The first fix solved my issue.
Thank you very much!!
Hey Bryan.
The house power issue is more common than you think.
Investing in a UPS can solve this issue and creates a barrier between the house power and the pc.
The older areas in Aus sometimes have problems with power surges too which a UPS controls.
Worth mentioning on your channel.
Cheers, Mon from Brisbane.
Not only in Aus...
Hey Mon, yeah we had at our place a second electrician go through and double check our electrics as there were some real concerning issues.
@@techyescity a UPS also helps protect against power cuts giving you time to power down your pc without loosing or corrupting data.
Countries/towns that have power lines above ground and next to streets have most power issues overall.
People in these countries/towns will have power outages when there is a storm most of the times.
Invest in quality surge protectors, you don't have to go out and buy expensive UPS stations.
I remember back in the windows 7 days I always had a strange issue were my rig wouldn't display anything or boot properly unless I reseated the ram, use to happen every few months lol
The battery reset fixed the problem!! Thank you very much, sir!
This is very helpful. Taking the button cell out for 1 min and putting it back on worked. Bingo! Thanks much!
First build and nothing happened so I was pretty sad...not exactly starting with a lot of confidence. Found this page and the CMOS battery trick worked for me. Thanks!!
When I worked as tech support for ISP I happened to experience faulty modem power adapters several times for certain customers. The conclusion was the electricity in homes.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!! Issues with black screen solved by remove and install battery. You rock sir!!!
I saw someone do an intersting fix like that, so I'll pass the tip on. ... A PC that did not respond at all to pressing the powerbutton, like the PC was dead. They removed the CMOS battery, and then shorted the positive and negative CMOS battery terminals of the motherboard. (I do not know for sure if the PSU was connected but I think not.) That must have cleared some static electricity or stray electricity from the system somewhere. He put the CMOS battery back in, and the PC booted.
(By the way faulty RAM usually gives s POST beep sequence. I noted you did not mention that when describing faulty RAM symptoms.)
Love the Tech Yes diagnostics. I've learnt a few things tonight thanks to your video :)
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Congrats on 500k! It's been nice Watching the channel grow. 🎊 Cheers to 1Mil
the one around 9 minutes in the video worked for me, thank you so much
TLDR: nothing important
Something like that fairness to me last month. After changing some things on the bios for some reason it just wouldn't start.
Luckily I have a mobo that shows the post code and also has a led that shows what component may be the problem. It showed the gpu was the problem. As I assumed I didn't burn the gpu right now when gpus are really expensive, then the mobo wasn't recognizing it anymore.
As I don't have another gpu with integrated graphics, I just removed the battery to go back to stock settings.
Turns out that while changing the config for how the memory is used to get done extra boost in performance, the mobo decided to also change the automatic recognition of dedicated Gpus to only integrated.
ASRock & Corsair are two of my favorite products in the PC world. =)
He might just have low or bad power. There are a lot of ways this happens a terrible one I saw (lightbulb change/week) was the main incoming fuse was sort of half blown and sparking but still through circuit. Lots of other ways - solar on roof dying, ground faults, appliance faults
Ppl hating on you for being pinchy and cheap
But you have absolute respect from me because you do what we do here Bryan
Flipping used PCs for a living
A UPS is a great idea for electronics but not all UPS's are created equal, get a UPS which does EMI filtering or a inline UPS, this will filter noise from the AC input effectively cleaning the signal and preventing AC line noise from being amplified down stream in the PC resulting in a cleaner audio and visual signal.
I was experiencing this last weekend. Pulled that battery, used one stick of RAM and managed to get into the Bios. After multiple attempts at getting the PC to boot with all of the RAM, I finally figured out that it was the Corsair AX-860 PSU was dying. I ended up getting an EVGA 80+ Gold 850 watt PSU to replace it. My beloved 9900K is still alive!
Learned something new.Thank you sir.
Thank you so much. The problem was the little battery. I tought it maybe ran out (my brothers computer) and i took it of, waited a half minute and it booted up. Now it works
To The YES Man, thank you for making videos like this one that share how to diagnose PCs. A part of what I know and apply to my own and my friends' PCs came from your content and they would be surely useful in the future for me
Love the info here!!
Also congrats on 500k best channel on utube
Love the content a always. Just so I understand, you touch the HDMI from the monitor that's plugged in and powered on? Thanks man.
For the RAM could also be a memory slot itself. Got an 775 Gigabyte mobo which does run absolutly fine with slot 1,3 and 4 populated but starts acting up as soon as I put a (no matter which knowingly working) stick in the second slot. I also remember my brothers issues, all GPU´s put in his rig (exact same as mine at the same, accept for the PSU, had to swap my 650W Straight Power 2 years earlier due to failure like many others across the globe had to) were failing putting out black screen but working fine in my PC. I´m pretty sure his Straight Power was failing as well, since even an HD5450 was like all other cards (with power connector) failing after just one week. Obviously there was something wrong with the power delivery and it weren´t the outlets, because other electronics (like the monitors) would have failed as well using the same outlets.
Nice work Briza, some good tip's there.
Did I recognize a Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard there? (The model from 2004?) Yay. :) BTW, the 2017 edition is also awesome.
Dang. Hearing someone frying video cards these days hurts my soul.
Yeah I told them it is literally the worst time in history to be destroying GPUs lol.
I have a black scrreen with a message on it. Mine says "No boot device available, strike F1 to retry boot". Pressing F1 just redisplays the message. I turned off the PC then rebooted and pressed F12 expecting to see a boot options screen. Instead my PC continued its normal boot and I got my desktop. When I went to my C: drive I noticed the files had been reordered by last update where it is normally ordered by name. PC was working perfectly yesterday, this happened today. Dell Inspiron 570 with Win 10.
Thanks for the tips Linus Tech Dad
Ditto with houses with dodgy power supplies and old 'old' fridges. We lost a VCR and a PC due to power surges when the fridge/ freezer turned on... $200 sealed PSU component replaced due to 5 cent part within it popping...
More people need to know about grounding issues in your home man when I started learning about pcs when I was young the guy that was teaching me made sure I knew to only plug computers in on grounded plugs and to always check with a cheap ground checker he said he'd seen so many pcs get destroyed by even small surges very good video my man TYC always with the good info keep it up man been seeing you get shouted out on a lot of other UA-cam channels bc of what you say and your calls here lately. You've been on point!!
Congrats on 500k by the way......... I always use a surge protector not just on PC's but pretty much any electrical device...... one thing I had before that was weird and I never did get to the bottom except changing the motherboard was the PC would boot fine until you clicked restart and then it would give a black screen. If you switched it off and on again it would work fine but as soon as you restarted it would boot with a black screen just weird.
Dude my issue was so simple! Thank you for saving me
This vid helped alot, i just had to plug my pc out the surge protector and into an outlet directly issue resolved
My first gaming PC shutdown while playing Company of Heroes. It seems that that the game was too much for the no name power supply to handle. From that point on I made sure to buy proper power supplies for my PC.
My current PC has a SFX Flex PSU. At one point the monitor keep blacking out mere minutes are booting up Windows. Due to the open nature of the case, messy cable management and constant transport, a single wire from the GPU cable group was torn off. I just taped the weak point and inserted the loose wire back in. That was a year ago and so far the PC is fine.
The battery thing helped thx
Brilliant! Thanks! By selling used PC's you're keeping hardware out of the bin. Reduce, reuse and recycle.
As soon as I got to the ddr3 😅 removed the last 3 ram no change.. removed the first stick and placed stick 4 so I only had 3 sticks of ram, straight away it booted 😪😂 thank you, I love videos that are helpful!
Certain Security software installed in Windows can cause black screens. If the PC is a prebuilt with a OS preinstalled, might be best to reinstall the OS, or remove any preinstall security software.
youre a life saver mate thank you!!!!!
This is helpful! Thanks!
Firstly, thanks a lot , Brian, very informative,as usual.
Second, that's about the beeps.
Some Chinese motherboard have an a usual number of beeps.....
even if i reset the bios i cant see it because there nothing show on the screen even when i try to open the bios..
Pro tip:If you have black screen power the pc wait a bit to load windows and press the caps lock or num lock to see if they are working.If they light up on the keyboard then the problem is in the video!
Thank you so bluddy much
I've also had black screens when booting for the first time and being plugged into a television instead of a monitor. Not sure if it is a codex or just unusual resolution issue. Once I have booted using a monitor and installed graphics drivers the problem is solved.
The corsair CX psu''s always eventually go the way you are describing. They start to degrade until they can't support the wattage required by the computer. I've two right here that pass the tester you have but once load goes on them they fail.
2:20 that shriek 😂
Funny thing, My PC never even connected to my monitor or any other display device. I had this problem for about half a year and then realized a switch on the back that was set to european power. It still doesn't work to this day do to a hard drive issue but I find it kinda funny how 1 little switch was a drawback for 6 months.
FYI, AC always completes a circuit to Earth ground. It does this using the neutral, not the ground. In a home AC configuration, there are 3 wires. 1 hot, 1 neutral and one ground. In fact, really old homes that are not modernized do not even have a ground. The ground is only a fail safe in case the neutral becomes faulted or open. This is to prevent you from becoming the ground. The only other purpose for a ground is to ensure there are no ground "loops" between devices most commonly audio to prevent hum. But that does not apply here. Your customer has a neutral fault, not a ground fault and I suspect is not connected to a 3 wire circuit or the ground has faulted as well.
Heya Bryan!
I had a strange issue on my pc where it would freeze constantly when it got to Windows.
Without GPU, it would be fine.
With a different GPU, it would freeze anyways.
Culprit? PSU! And the solution, weirdly enough, was to disable C1 and C6 States!
Tested on 2 systems and works flawlessly! So weird! But hey, it works.
I changed the PSU on my main rig anyways, since gf prefers to play on something that is reliable ahah.
Anyways, thank you Bryan. Good video!
Nice. My Ryzen 2700 recently stopped working after a windows insider update... Fixed it with taking CMOS battery out. Had just put a 3070 in it and petrified it was that!
Omg, I nearly had a panic attack when my computer wouldn't start but taking the battery out of my motherboard fix the issue. Thanks a lot! Is there a name for this kind of problem?
first two minites fixed everything. thx
Nice one man.
12:56 Pow patrol. Don, t lose IT reuse IT. Pow patrol.
Yes Mr Sprouse, they DO drive them up. Bryan does a video on Aliexpress, 2 hours later, that used part is either up in price or sold out. Same thing with all the american youtubers plugging Ebay deals. Within a few hours of that video, price is up and or supply is gone.
sometimes Im getting a black screen, with all my peripherals getting power and the computer is turning on, fans are spinning but it doesn't boot all the way to windows, just no display..
i have fixed this issue several times by kicking my case slightly then restarting it. everytime it worked well
Reseat cpu and the cpu cooler if you can also do the motherboard. It could be a power supply but I doubt it
I’ve had this problem for months. Black screen started happening in gaming. Mobo rest worked at first until now. Has happened with 2 different gpus in
I had faulty power supply boots up everything replaced psu and fixed the black screen.
Or you could press the Yellow button on the mother board. Which is the CMOS reset on the HP computer your demo this.
My friend received a computer with a 10900F, and he had bought a GTX 1650 because was the only thing he could buy.
When he tried more intensive games comptuer would shut down.
I tried running a prime95 didn't even last a second.
Turns out that it had a 500W generic PSU.
He bought a new one that I recomended and I instaled it.
I don't remember very well but it was a seasonic gold core 750w if im not mistaken.
best vid) now theres the troubleshooting!
I have a GTX 1080 that wasn't showing up thru it's display ports till windows was already booted. The fix was a firmware update, for anyone having the same issue.
BSOD - black screen of death
it's revolutional...
That's did the battery thing worked perfect 🥰
My friend is having a problem with his Ryzen + RDNA2 build. When it's in power savings (monitors go to sleep) it will randomly blink the LED on GPU, he'll hear a hardware disconnected notification and the monitors will wake up to a black screen.
5:54 i think u have eu hp pc. EU's distrubhtions dufferent power suplys 2b clear. Mają mniejsze oporniki. Ze względu na brak wachań w sieci energetycznej na kontynencie.
Does a UPS with a power trim helps to avoid this issue? I live in a country where electricity just keep suddenly going off for some reason, thats why I have a UPS.
My power supply power cycles when I start my PC, should I replace it?
Holy mackerel that hardware looks 20 years old!
The one issue we found where paraplex weren't fully seated the 2nd was the cpu was actually bad. And that was an Intel 10 8 50 k
I have a board right now that would not boot, CPU was 5960X then moved ram around [8 slots] finally booted, overclocked to 4.6 even ran stress benchmarks with no issues after that. Moved CPU to another board that had a XEON in it [upgrade] and yes its 2011-3 socket and then boom no workie workie. Put back into the original board no workie workie, waiting on another CPU to come in to test further.
I’m praying this doesn’t happen to me. Sounds like Greg just did a vid on this too. My 1070 is 5 years old now and I am hoping I can get a 3070 before it dies
I’ve had to take out the battery in my motherboard many times because some settings in the bios just refuse to let you reset the CMOS
What if i have no extra cpu or ram and i have both no display AND my rgb mouse and keyboard wont power on. I put a brand new unused motherboard in and changed the power supply witg a well known good psu and i still cant get display or peripherals turning on.
I clicked this video so fast as soon as I saw it was a Brian upload
Same
But wouldn't resetting the CMOS battery clear the BIOS and then let the onboard video become primary again? 20 years experience tells me that if they have a black screen when plugging in a PC they just bought that they plugged the monitor into the onboard and not the video card. I also have them check to make sure power is connected to the monitor and PC just to be safe.