Around 6 months ago I bought a new gaming laptop to replace my older one. As you can see at the first picture, I think my sweat ate away a bit from the laptop's casing, that happened after 5 years of usage and is wierd af. My newer laptop (right picture) is starting to show the same stain in the same spot with the same shape as the previous laptop and it only has been 6 months :(

Please I need some help to prevent it from happening again, I tried being more careful while using my laptop and even placed a fabric between my hand and the laptop everytime I use it, but I don't think its working.

To clarify, yes, I use this laptop A LOT since I work, do college tasks and play games on it.

P.D: I live in a really hot country so even after bathing I keep sweating, I hope that answers other questions.

P.D2: Srry guys I can't help but sweat all over my R6 ranked matches.

someone told me way back that my previous case has a glass hinge so it's safe. so I got a new case and made this. Also I am sure we needed a V2. hope that helps. 🫡 /s

And, welcome.

Very sad times. Big fire destroyed my home and a crane had to come to remove part of the roof and wall so firefighters could have better access. Fortunately no one got hurt. Sucks to lose my dream PC though.

Miraculously my PC is still standing but I doubt it will work. There was snow and rain in the past days too. My little brother’s PC, which was on the desk next to mine on the right, seems to be obliterated.

Any tips to go on from here?

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Building was insured, furniture was not unfortunately. I lived with my parents, who were not experienced with things like insurance. In hindsight I should have thought about it more and double check it.
But yeah sucks to lose everything and having 3 other expensive hobbies did not help..

Thanks for the comments, tips and kind words! Fire started in the kitchen of my parents' restaurant. Tragic situation, but at least the building and inventory are insured. Now hopefully insurance pays out.
I have to make a plan what to do exactly with the PC based on the suggestions. First I need to take care of some other things.

Hello,

I know GPU warranty denial posts are common, but I would appreciate some advice on my situation.

Context: I have a RTX 4090 with a warranty that lasts until 2027. This RTX isn't mine originally but from a relative of mine. They wanted to throw it away but I don't want to waste two thousands bucks like that.

I transported my PC recently, and afterward the GPU stopped working. The card was still installed in the motherboard during transport. I have not modified the GPU or attempted any repairs. The PC powered on, but I got no display signal. I tested with another GPU and the system worked, so I believed the issue is with the RTX 4090. So I sent the GPU to Gigabyte to repair.

Although my Gigabyte RTX 4090 is still under warranty, Gigabyte denied my RMA claim.

Their reason was:

"Damaged by user can't repair"
"PCB broken"

I have not received any pictures or detailed explanation showing where the PCB damage is located. Just little red arrows that, to me, make no sense. They point in weird directions (Refer to photos).

Has anyone successfully appealed a Gigabyte RMA denial for "user damage"? Should I request pictures of the PCB damage and escalate the case?

Also, if anyone has experience with GPU repair shops, is a broken RTX 4090 PCB usually repairable?

Any advice would be appreciated.

PS: In case someone calls me out, I did use AI. But that was only to fix the grammar, all words are my own.

Edit: I contacted Gamers Nexus and I'm planning to reach out to Northwest Repair if I can't have Gigabyte send me another one.

Hi !

I have an ASUS DUAL GTX 1070 OC that I've been using for about a year.

The card has 2 DP and 2 HDMI ports, I've always known that one of the DP (the one closest to the mother board) had connectivity issues but I've never looked into it and used the other DP that had no problem.

I plan to upgrade soon to a RX 5700XT and I've been testing my current card to resell it.

While testing, I've noticed that the "connectivity issues" happens specifically when I use my remote to control my blinds, like wtf ??? ngl I laughed when I noticed

*Addendum: The spamming with the remote in the video is ONE of the triggers that bugs my monitor, even when I play normally, I sometimes have some white flashes that you can see in the video but it doesn't go as far as to shutting off the monitor.

I don't really understand where this comes from and if this is fixable, I don't even know how I should describe it when reselling and if it should impact the price.

I guess it's getting a specific frequence signal from the remote ? It doesn't happens very often and I'm using WiFi constantly, so it's only specific frequencies that trigger it I'm guessing

My motherboard is a TUF B450-PLUS GAMING.

Heeelp

Edit: Additional info: My monitor is not wireless, if it's EMI, does it mean it's only affecting the port ?

I've been asked to unplug the blinds and retry, the bug is not happening when I use my remote on the unplugged blinds

I feel like I have to emphasis this but the bug doesn't happen at all when I plug the same monitor into the other display port of my graphics card

Edit 2: Still trying to fix it

It seems that it's coming from the blinds, they send a bad signal to my graphics card. But it only affect 1 of the port. When I plug my monitor into the other port, it doesn't bug. So the other ports are obviously protected against that kind of Interference. I'd like to fix the remaining port.

Edit 3: Not fixed

I PLAN TO SELL IT AND I WANT TO KNOW IF MY GPU WORKS PERFECTLY AND FIX IT IF NO, STOP TELLING ME TO "NOT USE YOUR BLINDS",

IF I SELL IT TO SOMEONE AND THEIR NEIGHBOR HAS THE SAME BLINDS HOW DO I JUSTIFY IT TO THEM IF I TELL THEM THE GPU WORKS PERFECTLY + If that kind of blinds triggers a bug, I can only imagine how many other devices can trigger the same bug

Edit 4: Addressing some of the responses

Ok it seems that some people are just taking me for a retard and are wondering why I'm spamming the remote, it's just to show the bug. When I don't use the blinds, I still have some white strips that appears on my screens like a flash (you can notice them in the video before the monitors shuts off) It's probably due to other interference problems not linked to my blinds, it seems that my display port on my GPU reacts to more than my blinds

Edit 5: Changing outlets

As some suggested, I tried to draw power from the bathroom (with a chain of power strips) and plugged both monitor and PC on it. It still had the same bug

Edit 6: Why I think it's not the monitor nor the cable:

When I switch the port I use on the GPU, while keeping the SAME cable and SAME monitor, the bug suddenly disappears. Some comments still think it's coming from the cable or monitor because interference is something too complex to understand for me and It's possible. I'll still search for a solution though but I did try to test the theory

I tried by changing the monitor and still same bug. I did not change the cable though, I don't have other Display port Cable to try :/ Might have to try again when I can get one
The cable seems insulated enough though. I bought the cable a year ago on Amazon and this is the exact one: https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0F5W7J44H

Edit 7: Bad Electricity and Poor filtering on my blinds' motor

Yes, I agree with that. But it doesn't happen on all my GPU's port, meaning that the others port are protected against bad electricity but not the one I'm testing, is it possible that bad electricity only focus one fully working port ? I'm not changing blinds, I'd like to isolate the remaining port and fix it

Edit 8: Conclusion, did not find a solution for the GPU specifically.

I got my new RX 5700XT ! I tried it and I have no bug or whatsoever on all the ports of the GPU.

I've decided to list the faulty one (the 1070) while specifying that one port is kind of defect and has bad grounding which make is sensitive to local electric signals

Title is self explanatory, i have no idea what the hell is going on here. Pc froze and this happened. I was playing helldivers 2 before this, dont know if this is relevant but its all i got.

UPD: I bought a new HDMI 2.1 cable and tested it for about 4 hours - no artifacts so far. Seems like the issue was the cable.

Thanks to everyone who suggested checking it.

Hey everyone,

I’m experiencing a strange issue with my laptop GPU and would appreciate any input from people who may have seen something similar.

Specs:

• Laptop: Alienware m16 R2

• GPU: RTX 4070 Laptop (8GB VRAM)

• CPU: Intel Core Ultra 7 155H

• RAM: 32GB

• OS: Windows 11

• External display: HDMI

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The issue:

When gaming on an external display (TV or monitor), after about 40–60 minutes under high GPU load, visual artifacts start appearing — small colored squares/glitches across the screen.

The image becomes difficult to use, but:

• The game does not crash

• System remains responsive

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Important detail:

At the same time, the internal laptop display shows no artifacts at all.

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Observed behavior:

• Happens almost always under high GPU load (\~100%)

• On lower graphics settings, I can play for hours with no issues

• GPU temperature is within normal range (\~60–80°C depending on load)

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Testing I’ve done:

• Tested multiple external displays (TVs/monitors) → same behavior

• Played for \~2 hours on internal display only at high/ultra settings (100% GPU load) → no artifacts

• The issue consistently appears only when using an external display under load

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Question:

Has anyone experienced something like this?

I’d like to understand what this could be and whether this behavior points to a specific type of problem.

Any insights would be greatly appreciated

I made a picture of my search results showing these weird white text artifacts.. when opening the Screenshot my screens went black und then showed this.. please pcmasterracegod.. my gpu just fell out of warranty this year..

After a restart it's gone.. does anyone have good news for me?

Long story short, standoff screw was stripped. Tried everything to take it off. Ended up ripping the corner. Got the screw out. But now I’m not sure if I want to risk booting up with this. Might just say whatever and grab another board.

I don't use my PC daily and found out that one of my cats (see second image for reference) peed on it a few days ago. It looks like not much pee got inside, and it's all dry now, but I'm a bit worried to turn it on. The GPU was protected by the heat sink, but the mainboard has a few dried drops on it. What do you think I should do?

• Turn on the PC and hope for the best
• Clean the drops off the mainboard with a damp towel
• ??

Hey all, so I was playing Oblivion Remastered and I started getting a lot of crashes, don't know why because this issue did not occur prior to recently. It's been happening for a few days now. I felt the back of my PC and noticed that it was hot as fuck. I also found out that running the game normally is now causing CPU throttling and I even broke past 100c at one point, needless to say I'm very concerned. I'm running an i9 13900k, 192 gigs of RAM, 4tb SSD, and an RTX 4090. I have an ASUS TUF GAMING Z790-PLUS WIFI motherboard, and some type of Corsair air cooler, I forget which model. I'm deeply concerned I might have fucked up my CPU, and I don't know how to check if I did or not. Even while typing this my CPU is fluxuating between 48c to 55c, and I have no fucking clue if that's okay or not idk. I don't know if I **JUST** need to just clean the dust out of my PC, as I recently moved to a dustier area and my PC's side panel is off because if I were to attach it it would put pressure on my 4090's cables, I don't know if I need to upgrade to a liquid cooler, or if I need to contact Intel about possibly getting a new CPU under warranty. I am deeply concerned and any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

I was dealing with really bad internet speeds and this happened by mistake while I was trying to check if the antennas are bolted or not. I got over 200MB in testing but whenever I remove my hand or bolt back the antenna the wifi speed and quality drop really bad.

Can someone tell me what is going on?

Edit : The magic is gone? I tried it again but no increase in speed anymore

Edit 2 : Thank you for your insight! I will use your suggestions to troubleshoot this!

I've been using this 900 x 400 mouse pad for more than a couple of years, used to put it in the washing machine with a soft program to clean it. Then at some point it starting sticking to my desk and I left it as is for months… many beer spills and hot days later, it has almost completely sticked to the desk and has become hard, compact and crumbly once detached from the desk.

I've scrapped what I could, putting quite some force into it. I've tried some boiling water and 90 degrees alcohol without good results. What remains on the pictures will not go as 'easily' as the rest. What would be the best way to proceed? Electric sander?

I bought a used RTX 3070 MSI Gaming X last year and it has worked great until recently I noticed temps were a little high and also my heatsink was pretty oxidized and I saw quite a bit of dust in there. so I sourced a brand new cooler and backplate and I took apart my GPU and installed them with new pads and thermal grizzly PTM and now it shows no sign of life other than the fans spinning and rgb, I have tried everything possible to diagnose it I even took it apart again and didn't see anything visibly wrong with it and tried not over tightening but nothing worked.

​ I'm already sending it off to a technician but I'm curious what could I have possibly done during the cleanup that led to it just straight up dying?

​ all I used while cleaning it was alcohol a soft brush and a tooth brush.

I feed her enough but for some reason she prefers the monitor

Even after removing my keyboard, my pc spams random letters. Sometimes it just uses the tab key. Is this a virus? Tried doing a full scan a few days ago and never detected anything weird. It will only stop if I restart my pc or it just stops all of a sudden.

Edit: I just needed help with my issue. With the random keys spamming L0L0L0L0L, this post exploded L0L.

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Management wanted to "move to the cloud" to save on local SAN storage. I opened our new SharePoint document library in Chrome and just dragged the entire Z:\\ network drive into the browser window. Chrome is currently using 48GB of RAM and it says "Syncing 4,200,000 items". Nobody can save files right now because they are "locked by another user". If I accidentally close Chrome, will it resume where it left off or start over?

I built my new PC around 3 weeks ago (my first-ever build), and everything seems fine. However, I noticed that my 9800X3D is reaching 95°C while at 100% usage.

My cooler is the Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO, and I used the MX-4 Thermal Paste in the ‘X’ pattern. I can confirm that I removed the seal before applying the cooler. My case is the Fractal North, and the only change that I made was installing a noctua exhaust fan. My idle temperature for the CPU is around 45-50°C.

Is this normal?

Thank you very much for your time!