Funny situation here, I have had no apparent issues with my PC for a long time now and yet I could not get my PC to boot up this morning, was fine when shutdown.
So I did the usual, checked connections, things are in correctly, no dust in my pc I keep it very clean but made sure to blow out all slots etc.
Only thing I have not checked is CPU but when PC is on no issues.
So if I turn it on, it displays NO SIGNAL, no keyboard or mouse lights, all fans are on, NO POST BEEP, NO BIOS
So after 10 seconds it goes off for a split second and repeats this cycle, left it for a while and never gets POST.
So I swapped in a known good PSU and no difference.
Swapped CMOS Battery for new one, no difference.
Tried with only HDD with OS, no diff.
Tried on board graphics, no diff.
Took out a slot of ram, AHA! Back to working, ran it for the whole day no issues ran games, did rendering, lots of stress and did not blink it was perfect (minus 4gb RAM)
Finally shut her down and reboot.
Guess what? Yep. Back to square one
I took out another slot of RAM and it booted. Again all perfect no issues once it booted.
Shut her down again and would not start again, always the same issues, NO POST, NO SIGNAL etc.
I only have 3 sticks of ram so if i take the last one out it will not run anyway and I am fairly sure there is no fault with my RAM I have ran Mem Diag Tool with nothing found when all 3 RAM were installed.
So I put one of the two I took out back in and yep, she works again,
So I now have to either remove or replace some RAM to get my PC to boot but there is no problems once it boots but boy am I getting a sore neck doing it every few hours when I turn it off (I don't like having it on unless i am using it, so i won't leave it booted)
I am thinking it is the Motherboard as all the other hardware seems to work fine, I am fairly sure my CPU is seated as otherwise I don't think it would run so smooth but there is no signs of visual damage on anything (i.e. swollen parts, burnt parts etc.) and as the ram is acknowledged once I swap it around the slots I don't think the slots themselves are faulty but I have limited knowledge of the intricacy of them to be honest so I am now left bowing down to those whom have more knowledge than I.
If you are one of those then I await the response!
Thanks!
So I did the usual, checked connections, things are in correctly, no dust in my pc I keep it very clean but made sure to blow out all slots etc.
Only thing I have not checked is CPU but when PC is on no issues.
So if I turn it on, it displays NO SIGNAL, no keyboard or mouse lights, all fans are on, NO POST BEEP, NO BIOS
So after 10 seconds it goes off for a split second and repeats this cycle, left it for a while and never gets POST.
So I swapped in a known good PSU and no difference.
Swapped CMOS Battery for new one, no difference.
Tried with only HDD with OS, no diff.
Tried on board graphics, no diff.
Took out a slot of ram, AHA! Back to working, ran it for the whole day no issues ran games, did rendering, lots of stress and did not blink it was perfect (minus 4gb RAM)
Finally shut her down and reboot.
Guess what? Yep. Back to square one
I took out another slot of RAM and it booted. Again all perfect no issues once it booted.
Shut her down again and would not start again, always the same issues, NO POST, NO SIGNAL etc.
I only have 3 sticks of ram so if i take the last one out it will not run anyway and I am fairly sure there is no fault with my RAM I have ran Mem Diag Tool with nothing found when all 3 RAM were installed.
So I put one of the two I took out back in and yep, she works again,
So I now have to either remove or replace some RAM to get my PC to boot but there is no problems once it boots but boy am I getting a sore neck doing it every few hours when I turn it off (I don't like having it on unless i am using it, so i won't leave it booted)
I am thinking it is the Motherboard as all the other hardware seems to work fine, I am fairly sure my CPU is seated as otherwise I don't think it would run so smooth but there is no signs of visual damage on anything (i.e. swollen parts, burnt parts etc.) and as the ram is acknowledged once I swap it around the slots I don't think the slots themselves are faulty but I have limited knowledge of the intricacy of them to be honest so I am now left bowing down to those whom have more knowledge than I.
If you are one of those then I await the response!
Thanks!
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