- Oct 4, 2018
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I recently completed a build and I had been using it for about 2 weeks before the problems began. It started out as games randomly crashing at any given point and Windows would restart, but then random resets had become more persistent, even when opening non-demanding tasks. I initially suspected that the drivers were out of date and updating was the fix, but boy was I wrong. It came to the point where simply loading Windows 10 would result in the computer crashing, think of this as a decline of health, resets became consistent and occurring more often over a small span of time. So.... today I booted into the BIOS to check on everything and everything appeared fine. I changed the values of the DRAM voltage to 1.5 volts because I thought a lack of power to RAM might be the issue. I saved changes, but this time Windows wouldn't even load. I go to turn the power off and it wouldn't turn off as normal, so I had to "hold" the power supply button for a fee seconds so it would turn off. I go back to the BIOS and fix the values back to normal and the next time I turned on my PC I got no post and eventually the USB ports stopped working altogether. Below I will make note of the many problems I discovered after evualating the situation.
1. I didn't have the standoffs correctly installed onto the motherboard (short circuit?)
2. While I was in the BIOS, I may have changed the boot option to something I shouldn't have.Although I noticed something odd, there were multiple options to boot from, most were duplucates of the same option.
3. Fans power on and graphics card fans spin up (by default they will not spin if there is no display being attempted) for my particular card.
4. I had taken off my CPU stock cooler multiple times while fixing past problems. I didn't reapply thermal paste like a noob.
5. I have tried replacing RAM/booting with one stick.
6. I already fixed the standoff problem
7. No burnt/discoloration on the back of the motherboard
Please help me.... I'm literally panicking. Any help is Appreciated.
I recently completed a build and I had been using it for about 2 weeks before the problems began. It started out as games randomly crashing at any given point and Windows would restart, but then random resets had become more persistent, even when opening non-demanding tasks. I initially suspected that the drivers were out of date and updating was the fix, but boy was I wrong. It came to the point where simply loading Windows 10 would result in the computer crashing, think of this as a decline of health, resets became consistent and occurring more often over a small span of time. So.... today I booted into the BIOS to check on everything and everything appeared fine. I changed the values of the DRAM voltage to 1.5 volts because I thought a lack of power to RAM might be the issue. I saved changes, but this time Windows wouldn't even load. I go to turn the power off and it wouldn't turn off as normal, so I had to "hold" the power supply button for a fee seconds so it would turn off. I go back to the BIOS and fix the values back to normal and the next time I turned on my PC I got no post and eventually the USB ports stopped working altogether. Below I will make note of the many problems I discovered after evualating the situation.
1. I didn't have the standoffs correctly installed onto the motherboard (short circuit?)
2. While I was in the BIOS, I may have changed the boot option to something I shouldn't have.Although I noticed something odd, there were multiple options to boot from, most were duplucates of the same option.
3. Fans power on and graphics card fans spin up (by default they will not spin if there is no display being attempted) for my particular card.
4. I had taken off my CPU stock cooler multiple times while fixing past problems. I didn't reapply thermal paste like a noob.
5. I have tried replacing RAM/booting with one stick.
6. I already fixed the standoff problem
7. No burnt/discoloration on the back of the motherboard
Please help me.... I'm literally panicking. Any help is Appreciated.
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