My mom's computer worked fine for almost 5 years now, but one day it just suddenly turned off. When we tried powering it on again, we got this message:
After that, when booting to Windows, the PC would stay on for about 10 minutes before powering off again.
Then, pressing the power button...
I've had a Silicon Power 32GB flash drive for about 4 years now, and it has worked flawlessly. One day I brought it to school to move some files over. It worked without any problems, but I do remember putting it in and out of the computer multiple times.
When I get back home and I try to connect...
Nevermind, you were correct! Last time I forgot to connect the GPU's power to the PSU. Indeed, the motherboard itself would not produce any output, and I had to connect HDMI to the GPU to see anything.
And I was also testing all of this without RAM, which prevented it from passing POST.
Also...
That doesn't seem to be it, unfortunately. I plugged in the GPU, its fans started spinning, but the exact same thing happened to the motherboard.
Besides, I don't see how the lack of integrated graphics could cause this anyway.
I recently got a bunch of components for a new PC. I built all the parts together (except for the GPU), turned it on, but the monitor didn't display anything. In fact, it didn't even get into POST. So I started removing components one by one, and eventually got to breadboarding just the...