HELP! Last Thursday (a week ago), my computer spontaneously died without warning while idling.
A home-built overclocked watercooled 4770k that has run rock solid for six years. PSU is fine, but no lights on the Motherboard so I assumed the MoBo just dropped dead and was preparing to replace it.
So for the past week I've been using it's daddy, the PC I built 12 years ago that I replaced 6 years ago. It too has worked fine for 12 years now, and was working fine up until this afternoon.
I shut it down before going out for a few hours and just now tried to turn it back on. It TOO is now dead. No beeps, no fans. No lights. Nothing. Dead. Just like its son.
How do two completely separate PC's that have worked fine for years suddenly drop dead in the space of a week???
They aren't even plugged in in the same location or using the same monitor (though I did have to move two of the drives... one HDD, one SSD) from the newer PC to the old one to retrieve my files, but they showed no signs of trouble.
The newer PC was plugged into a 1200v UPS, so I don't think a power surge is at fault (and this PC was OFF while I was out!)
This is the weirdest damn thing! Any ideas before I spend $200 on a new MoBo just to see it killed off too? HELP!
A home-built overclocked watercooled 4770k that has run rock solid for six years. PSU is fine, but no lights on the Motherboard so I assumed the MoBo just dropped dead and was preparing to replace it.
So for the past week I've been using it's daddy, the PC I built 12 years ago that I replaced 6 years ago. It too has worked fine for 12 years now, and was working fine up until this afternoon.
I shut it down before going out for a few hours and just now tried to turn it back on. It TOO is now dead. No beeps, no fans. No lights. Nothing. Dead. Just like its son.
How do two completely separate PC's that have worked fine for years suddenly drop dead in the space of a week???
They aren't even plugged in in the same location or using the same monitor (though I did have to move two of the drives... one HDD, one SSD) from the newer PC to the old one to retrieve my files, but they showed no signs of trouble.
The newer PC was plugged into a 1200v UPS, so I don't think a power surge is at fault (and this PC was OFF while I was out!)
This is the weirdest damn thing! Any ideas before I spend $200 on a new MoBo just to see it killed off too? HELP!