My PC Died :(

[Ibreakthings]

I was watching youtube and my screen just turned off but the audio played so i had to hard reset my computer. When it turned back on there was no screen and my fans were spinning at maxiumum. Tried to clear CMOS/Re-seated everything but to no avail. So i bought a new 700w EVGA PSU to replace my 500w because i learned it was 115 watts over-powered so i thought it fried. It is still the same problem is it the motherboard?

 

[dangus]

it wouldnt get "fried" for being over powered. worst thing a PSU could do is not reach its max efficiency if it were "too powerful". no way would it "fry" any components.

what you need to do is take all the components out of the case, hook up only the motherboard, cpu, 1 stick of ram and GPU (if the processor doesnt have integrated graphics) and power it on. do all this on top of a cardboard box (since it isnt conductive). if it works doing that, get back to us on here and we can work from there.

 

[Ibreakthings]

Nope did all that and its still the same problem

 

[dangus]

try the old PSU and see if it boots up. sounds like it could be the video card. if you have integrated graphics on your CPU, try that (dunno what CPU we're talking about). otherwise you could try a different known-working GPU if you have a friend who has one...or an old one lying around.

 

[TheCod3r]

The problem seems linked to either your graphics (GPU) or your system RAM (memory).

Try replacing your GPU or if you use an on board GPU try plugging in an external GPU card. If that does not work try replacing the RAM and see if that works 👍

Thanks

 

[3DnTechNut]

It could also be related to a failing hard drive either internal or external. Do you have any USB external Hard disks connected? If so, unplug it and try restarting your computer. If you don't then open file explorer and double click the drives to open their main folder and see if it takes a long time to open or if it hangs.

 

[TheCod3r]

It could also be related to a failing hard drive either internal or external. Do you have any USB external Hard disks connected? If so, unplug it and try restarting your computer. If you don't then open file explorer and double click the drives to open their main folder and see if it takes a long time to open or if it hangs.

No that wouldn't cause a blank screen, just a failed boot. It would never be the hard drive in this scenario

 

[3DnTechNut]

It could also be related to a failing hard drive either internal or external. Do you have any USB external Hard disks connected? If so, unplug it and try restarting your computer. If you don't then open file explorer and double click the drives to open their main folder and see if it takes a long time to open or if it hangs.

No that wouldn't cause a blank screen, just a failed boot. It would never be the hard drive in this scenario

It can cause a black screen, it happened to me a few weeks ago with my i5 rig, I was transferring some gaming videos to my external Seagate 4TB Backup Plus Drive and the drive failed, the screen suddenly went black and my mouse disappeared but I could still hear audio for awhile, when I rebooted the system it eventually got to the login screen but it took an hour and it froze on the login. It doesn't have to be the OS drive that fails, if a secondary drive fails it causes issues as described above. It took me hours to figure out what it was because I thought the same thing, "it has to be the graphics card", "it has to be the RAM", "it has to be the PSU." It "was" the USB external drive, after unplugging it and restarting the PC it booted right up. I wasted 4 hours going through everything, even my KVM, and all I needed to do was unplug my USB peripheral. Oh, and I lost 2.5TB of video and other data.

 

[dangus]

It could also be related to a failing hard drive either internal or external. Do you have any USB external Hard disks connected? If so, unplug it and try restarting your computer. If you don't then open file explorer and double click the drives to open their main folder and see if it takes a long time to open or if it hangs.

No that wouldn't cause a blank screen, just a failed boot. It would never be the hard drive in this scenario

this is true. really not likely it would be the hard drive. plus if he says he hooked up just MB, CPU, RAM and PSU only with no HDD attached...and it still didnt work....then it wouldnt be a bad drive.