System Freezes & hangs - possible broken motherboard?

A bit rambly, I apologize, but there's a TLDR blurb at the end. ***** A bit under two weeks I got on my computer in the morning and it was acting semi-frozen. I was able to swap between one or two windows before everything stopped responding. Throughout this I had full control of the mouse,...

Hello, I bought a new case about a week ago and tried it's USB ports.. All worked but one of the USB3 headers didn't.. So I checked the cables, checked everything.. Decided to remove the USB3 plug from the MOBO and what do I see? 2 Pins are missing! I have no idea how or when.. I tried to...

So I finally went away and upgraded my hardware from FM1 to FM2, the performance is great as stock. However, since I got an unlocked chip, I want to overclock it. Before this I wanted to stress the CPU to be sure it would be stable in it's stock core with it's turbo functions and such. ...

Hi everyone, A while ago, my grandparents gave me an old HP desktop. They thought it would be fun for me to screw around with it. I learnt a bit more about building.computers and decided I would just upgrade this old pc. I bought new CPUs and RAM and a new graphics card with the money i got from...

When either left by itself downloading files over an extended period or a small amount of time playing games 20 seconds to 4 minutes the screen will go either blue or blank with no system message. Though I've unchecked the auto restart and told it to make minidump files, and recreated the crash...