Hello all,
So over the last two days I've had my computer just run off unexpectedly while playing a video game. A friend suggested it was overheating, but upon viewing temps the CPU remained around 50C and the GPU 90C (which is a bit high). However, I decided it to thoroughly dust it out anyways.
After removing everything carefully and dusting each individual component, I reinstalled everything. After installing everything and trying to turn it back on my PSU made a high pitch noise and nothing else turned on. I unplugged it from everything, connected green/black on 24-pin and it worked fine. I unplugged everything from the mobo and tried just the PSU and mobo, which worked fine. I then plugged in the power cable to the CPU which cause the high-pitch noise and no power up. I tried a different 8-pin power cable from the same CPU and it worked fine so I continued.
I slowly added all the fans and usb to the mobo, and it booted up fine. However, when trying to add the RAM it gave me an error that it couldn't detect the ram. I then unplugged all the RAM and tried one at a time. After plugging in the first stick of RAM, my mobo started flashing a bunch of different errors at me before going black. I tried a different stick in a different slot and it worked and gave me an error that a hard drive wasn't connected. After connecting the hard drive it flashed a bunch of different errors again quickly and went black (without shutting down). It also started to smell like something short circuited.
I removed the stick of RAM and it smelled like it was fried. I'm now afraid to plug any more of my RAM in. This is by far the oddest thing I've ever experience while trouble shooting a computer that isn't working. Any suggestions on whether it was just that one stick of RAM, the MOBO, or the CPU?
Thanks in advanced.
So over the last two days I've had my computer just run off unexpectedly while playing a video game. A friend suggested it was overheating, but upon viewing temps the CPU remained around 50C and the GPU 90C (which is a bit high). However, I decided it to thoroughly dust it out anyways.
After removing everything carefully and dusting each individual component, I reinstalled everything. After installing everything and trying to turn it back on my PSU made a high pitch noise and nothing else turned on. I unplugged it from everything, connected green/black on 24-pin and it worked fine. I unplugged everything from the mobo and tried just the PSU and mobo, which worked fine. I then plugged in the power cable to the CPU which cause the high-pitch noise and no power up. I tried a different 8-pin power cable from the same CPU and it worked fine so I continued.
I slowly added all the fans and usb to the mobo, and it booted up fine. However, when trying to add the RAM it gave me an error that it couldn't detect the ram. I then unplugged all the RAM and tried one at a time. After plugging in the first stick of RAM, my mobo started flashing a bunch of different errors at me before going black. I tried a different stick in a different slot and it worked and gave me an error that a hard drive wasn't connected. After connecting the hard drive it flashed a bunch of different errors again quickly and went black (without shutting down). It also started to smell like something short circuited.
I removed the stick of RAM and it smelled like it was fried. I'm now afraid to plug any more of my RAM in. This is by far the oddest thing I've ever experience while trouble shooting a computer that isn't working. Any suggestions on whether it was just that one stick of RAM, the MOBO, or the CPU?
Thanks in advanced.
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