Can you get into windows startup repair during boot and try that?

If not, create a bootable usb win 11 media through the microsoft site, boot with that, and you can run a repair option. If that fails, go into the bios and reset to factory or default settings. If that doesn’t work, youll have to clear cmos probably using the jumper. If you get to this point youll probably have to youtube a video of how to clear cmos on your brand of laptop.

The CPU will have its lifespan reduced SIGNIFICANTLY, it could even melt part of the motherboard. Explode/catch on fire? HIGHLY unlikely, but not completely impossible.

I don’t see another m.2 slot in that picture. I can see the one with the card in it already, that one is clearly 2230

edit- I saw the other pic you posted of the free slot, thats also 2230

Looking at your specifications, it looks like your motherboard should have another m.2 slot that is an m.2 2280. Take a picture of your other m.2 slot to be completely sure. It might even have 3 m.2 slots, as it says different XPS 8950 configurations can have different slots. But the M.2 configuration should have at least ONE 2280 m.2 slot.

Only when playing games? Does it happen when just sitting at the desktop doing nothing? Or both.

See if you are able to boot into safe mode. If you can, disable the screen saver from there and restart

No those are not designed for gaming

Check the usb serial bus drivers in the device manager and see if there are any yellow lights next to them. But in either case click on them all and then attempt to update the drivers.

IF that doesnt do anything, there could be a short somewhere on one of the wires or connections. Your’e going to have to open the case and make sure everything is throughly connected properly not touching anything that may cause a short.

The fact that the main board graphics don’t work is concerning, there’s no guarantee it will work with adding a gpu as the board itself could already be shot. If the processor was bad it wouldnt turn on at all like that. But the graphics are on the board, not the cpu. Could also be bad PSU or RAM. Back in the day when those onboard graphics would fail, usually it was the board. I’m sorry I can’t help you find a GPU, but just beware there’s a good chance it still wont work.

When it turns black, is the computer still running? like fans and lights. In that case try connecting it to an external monitor. But first, you can try pressing the windows key, control. shift, and B keys all at the same time, this might reset the monitor connection

When you want to try connecting to an external monitor plug monitor in start computer keep pressing the Fn key and either f5 or f8, cant remember which key it was until you get a display on the external monitor

If you cant get a display on external monitor either its likely a more serious issue. You can unplug it, take it apart, and pull cmos battery for a minute and put it back in. Beyond that, I have no suggestions besides taking it in

Where did you buy the phone? Directly from the same company you had before? I have tracfone and when I buy a new tracfone compatible phone, all I need to do is insert SIM and I can transfer service to that phone right on their website in a few minutes. Is there no option to do that on their website?

Or you bought a phone thats locked to another network or not compatible with your current provider it wont work

As was said already most modern monitors should have an audio output jack that you could use to play PC speakers or anything that can play audio off a 3.5mm jack

So he punched the monitor of your computer and you got a new monitor. Why are you connecting it with an ancient VGA cable? I didnt even think they made monitors anymore with VGA connections. And if your computer has a GPU HDMI it connection will be the bottom of the computer towads the middle you should see an hdmi port, you should plug it in that port with hdmi cable. Or if your computer is really old and has no hdmi, see if there is a VGA port to plug into the graphics card, not the motherboard plug which is near the top of the computer with all the other connections.

That was definitely not enough time to let it dry. You needed to have given it a bare minimum 24 hours.

Now its fried completely.

I’m not sure what you mean here. You have the main 24 pin plugged in, and 2 8 pins plugged into the GPU?

If this is the case, did you plug in the 8 pin connector for the CPU as well?

First of all is your signal strength strong? Is this your personal home network, or are you connecting at a business/school? Are you using a firewall or just a regular router? A firewall with the wrong settings can cause this kind of DNS issue or some other thing, that kind of networking is beyond my knowledge.

That’s weird. Usually it will give you a reason why it can’t install the drivers. Anyway first trying what the others have said is definitely the first thing to do.

Ehh, playing a game online uses such a small amount of data though.

Older/cheaper smart connect devices are less efficient. If you are on a newer, powerful broadcasting signal gaming type router, it’s far more effective.

But I agree about splitting them. I have a cheap router and have them split into two seperate SSID’s

If you can boot into safe mode with networking, download DDU to clean out gpu drivers and then redownload them.

But these blue screen issues can be caused by a dead or dying CMOS battery as well, so you should replace that if reinstalling drivers doesn’t fix. After 5.5 years its possible its going out. Since it worked normally when you first took it out but then went back to not working, its probably on its last legs in terms of a charge.