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    Question PC turned off randomly and now won't boot

    I could clean and reapply the paste, I've done that before on a different machine, but honestly I doubt it. The tiny bit of power that does get through barely makes the fans rotate even once, so I don't think there's time for it to even begin startup, let alone actually heat up or detect that...
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    Question PC turned off randomly and now won't boot

    Thanks for the reply! All cleaned and I removed and re-seated RAM and GPU, plus wires/cables. Looked for some kind of evidence of damage but didn't see any, tried to smell PSU as well just in case there was something I missed last night. Tried disconnecting everything but RAM and CPU, including...
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    Question PC turned off randomly and now won't boot

    My daughter was sitting at her PC but on her phone not watching the screen when it just turned off. I was in the room so I know she didn't do anything unusual to it. Didn't have a blue screen just seemed to lose power, now it won't boot. When the power button is pressed the fans spin just a tiny...
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    Question RGB Fans not working after windows update (Win10)

    I'll give that a shot, definitely wouldn't have thought of it.
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    Question RGB Fans not working after windows update (Win10)

    Thanks for the reply. the case is a Fractal Design Pop Air RGB. The BIOS was just updated to the most recent version from ASUS' website after this happened (to try and fix it) but I'm not sure what version they were before. I have tried updating drivers through Armory Crate, and the "Unknown...
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    Question RGB Fans not working after windows update (Win10)

    Hello, Last night I went to shut down my kids PC (recently built in Dec.) and Windows wanted to update, so I selected "update and shutdown". When it booted this morning the RGB fans (that came with the case, so I don't know what they are) won't light up. The PC also has G.Skill Trident Z RGB...