Hey guys,
I'm currently having an issue with my PC's bootup that has progressively worsened. The boot failures first occurred a few months ago but, due to work and school, I didn't attempt to repair until yesterday. With everything connected, the components would momentarily come on - fans, HDD, and dvd drives - and then get stuck in a boot loop. As a result, distinguishing the PSU as the issue. I did the paperclip test on the psu and it worked fine. Upon plugging into the motherboard again, the PC booted by shorting the power pins without issue and sat on the windows login screen without issue. I then turned it off with the onscreen shutdown and left it, assuming it was fixed. It was left on standby.
The night after (today), I attempted to bootup but none of the components (leds, gpu or fans) powered up. Motherboard and gpu led's showed power was coming from psu. Another paperclip test showed the psu was working and powering up the non-motherboard related devices. Disconnection of everything bar ram, cpu, and heatsink and no power would boot up. Potentially a broken 24-pin connector following paperclip?
So if you wonderful people could assist in me getting down to the gritty and working out which component is at fault, that would be great. I have looked at other threads on this but none can explain the normal bootup experienced last night.
Thanks
I'm currently having an issue with my PC's bootup that has progressively worsened. The boot failures first occurred a few months ago but, due to work and school, I didn't attempt to repair until yesterday. With everything connected, the components would momentarily come on - fans, HDD, and dvd drives - and then get stuck in a boot loop. As a result, distinguishing the PSU as the issue. I did the paperclip test on the psu and it worked fine. Upon plugging into the motherboard again, the PC booted by shorting the power pins without issue and sat on the windows login screen without issue. I then turned it off with the onscreen shutdown and left it, assuming it was fixed. It was left on standby.
The night after (today), I attempted to bootup but none of the components (leds, gpu or fans) powered up. Motherboard and gpu led's showed power was coming from psu. Another paperclip test showed the psu was working and powering up the non-motherboard related devices. Disconnection of everything bar ram, cpu, and heatsink and no power would boot up. Potentially a broken 24-pin connector following paperclip?
So if you wonderful people could assist in me getting down to the gritty and working out which component is at fault, that would be great. I have looked at other threads on this but none can explain the normal bootup experienced last night.
Thanks