Hi guys,
today my self built PC stopped working. It worked fine yesterday till late in the night and won't boot today. First observation: All fans and lights start, HDD sound like they come online, same for the DVD burner. The latter sounds like it is looking for a CD/DVD to boot from, but it is empty. Both screens stay black with no signal. My backlit keyboad usually blinks on start-up, but it is not doing this now.
The PC started the same yesterday, but after a view "tries" by the DVD burner it started just fine and I did not worry too much about it. It did this slower starting (seemed lke it was looking for a CD/DVD first) for a while now and I thought that it was something with the boot order. Thats the only thing I changed yesterday: put the DVD on a spot behind the SSDs with the bootloader.
I have not changed anything hardwarewise for at least a year.
Te PC was built in November 2014 (except PSU which is older) and worked fine so far. Only changes were a new GPU and some HDD to SSD swaps.
For trouble shooting purposes I installed an old MoBo speaker today.
I have tried almost everything described here: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems without any success inlcuding:
- BIOS reset
- new CMOS battery
- reseating everything
- Changing around both RAM sticks
- disconnecting all the things
and am at the following point:
Only things connected are MoBo, CPU+fan and PSU. Boot - CPU fan comes online, three long beeps (might be short as well as I have not heard anything else beforehand). Systems stays that way.
Add one RAM stick to any slot (tried all four, same result). Boot - CPU fan comes online, no beep, nothing more. System stays that way.
Onboard GPU does not show anything via HDMI/DVI/VGA.
So, what would that be?
- RAM? MoBo? CPU? PSU?
- Am I missing something?
Hardware:
- MoBo: MSI 7930-001R (MSI Z97s SLI Plus)
- CPU: Intel E3-1231V3
- Noctua Cooler
- RAM: Corsair CML16GX3M2A1600C10B (2x8GB)
- PSU: Seasonic SS-650KM3 X650 80 Plus (from 10/2013)
Thanks in advance!
today my self built PC stopped working. It worked fine yesterday till late in the night and won't boot today. First observation: All fans and lights start, HDD sound like they come online, same for the DVD burner. The latter sounds like it is looking for a CD/DVD to boot from, but it is empty. Both screens stay black with no signal. My backlit keyboad usually blinks on start-up, but it is not doing this now.
The PC started the same yesterday, but after a view "tries" by the DVD burner it started just fine and I did not worry too much about it. It did this slower starting (seemed lke it was looking for a CD/DVD first) for a while now and I thought that it was something with the boot order. Thats the only thing I changed yesterday: put the DVD on a spot behind the SSDs with the bootloader.
I have not changed anything hardwarewise for at least a year.
Te PC was built in November 2014 (except PSU which is older) and worked fine so far. Only changes were a new GPU and some HDD to SSD swaps.
For trouble shooting purposes I installed an old MoBo speaker today.
I have tried almost everything described here: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems without any success inlcuding:
- BIOS reset
- new CMOS battery
- reseating everything
- Changing around both RAM sticks
- disconnecting all the things
and am at the following point:
Only things connected are MoBo, CPU+fan and PSU. Boot - CPU fan comes online, three long beeps (might be short as well as I have not heard anything else beforehand). Systems stays that way.
Add one RAM stick to any slot (tried all four, same result). Boot - CPU fan comes online, no beep, nothing more. System stays that way.
Onboard GPU does not show anything via HDMI/DVI/VGA.
So, what would that be?
- RAM? MoBo? CPU? PSU?
- Am I missing something?
Hardware:
- MoBo: MSI 7930-001R (MSI Z97s SLI Plus)
- CPU: Intel E3-1231V3
- Noctua Cooler
- RAM: Corsair CML16GX3M2A1600C10B (2x8GB)
- PSU: Seasonic SS-650KM3 X650 80 Plus (from 10/2013)
Thanks in advance!