Hello everyone,
I'm a first time poster so if I've accidently placed this post in the wrong portion of the forums feel free to remove it or migrate it elsewhere if possible.
So, I built my first mini itx gaming pc recently and all has been phenomenal! Until last night when I was watching a simple twitch stream of the csgo esl majors with my friends and my pc just randomly froze for the first time ever and I had to force shut down. Upon attempting to turn it back on my monitor read "no signal" (asus monitor 144hz that is connected to DVI-I of my gtx 970 msi card), my keyboard lights (razer blackwidow chroma + zowie ec1b) do not come on. Screen remains black and no signal message appears. no bios screen. no windows screen.
I thought maybe its overheating, but my room is pretty cold at night and when I woke up in the morning I tried to turn it on again and it did the same thing so that kind of rules out overheating of any sort. I also touched the case the night this happened and it really wasn't hot at all and all the fans were spinning regularly.
The only tweaks I did was set my ram frequency to 3000mhz and its 3200mhz ram. Everything else is normal operation including the cpu. no overclocking of any kind.
I read some other similar posts and did some research and I found that reseating the RAM and/or GPU can solve this, however I have a strong gut feeling that's not going to fix my case so I thought posting about it here could help. I also don't think anything is wrong with my monitor as its only 5-6 months old and shows no signs of dying at all prior to this incident.
Here are my specs and I would GREATLY appreciate any help/insight into this issue:
Motherboard (Mini-ITX): GIGABYTE GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI (AMD/Ryzen AM4/B350/RGB Fusion/HDMI/DP/M.2/SATA/USB 3.1 Type-A/Wifi/Mini ITX/DDR4 Motherboard)
Ram: G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 3200MHz for Intel Z170 Platform / Intel X99 Platform Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C16D-8GVKB
SSD: SanDisk SSD PLUS 120GB Solid State Drive - SDSSDA-120G-G27 & I also took out the SSD that came in my Playstation 4 slim and use that as a secondary storage SSD. I installed window 10 on the sandisk though.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G Processor with Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
PSU: EVGA 500 B1, 80+ BRONZE 500W Power Supply, 3 Year Warranty, Includes FREE Power On Self Tester 100-B1-0500-KR
Case: Thermaltake Core V1 Black Edition SPCC Mini ITX Cube Computer Chassis CA-1B8-00S1WN-00
GPU: MSI NVIDIA GTX 970 Gaming 4G Graphics Card
tl;dr no signal on monitor after freeze & reboot. mouse/keyboard lights are off. no access to os. all components inside the case are on and running. fans working and everything seems to be working except for aforementioned mouse/keyboard and nosignal on monitor. please help?
I'm a first time poster so if I've accidently placed this post in the wrong portion of the forums feel free to remove it or migrate it elsewhere if possible.
So, I built my first mini itx gaming pc recently and all has been phenomenal! Until last night when I was watching a simple twitch stream of the csgo esl majors with my friends and my pc just randomly froze for the first time ever and I had to force shut down. Upon attempting to turn it back on my monitor read "no signal" (asus monitor 144hz that is connected to DVI-I of my gtx 970 msi card), my keyboard lights (razer blackwidow chroma + zowie ec1b) do not come on. Screen remains black and no signal message appears. no bios screen. no windows screen.
I thought maybe its overheating, but my room is pretty cold at night and when I woke up in the morning I tried to turn it on again and it did the same thing so that kind of rules out overheating of any sort. I also touched the case the night this happened and it really wasn't hot at all and all the fans were spinning regularly.
The only tweaks I did was set my ram frequency to 3000mhz and its 3200mhz ram. Everything else is normal operation including the cpu. no overclocking of any kind.
I read some other similar posts and did some research and I found that reseating the RAM and/or GPU can solve this, however I have a strong gut feeling that's not going to fix my case so I thought posting about it here could help. I also don't think anything is wrong with my monitor as its only 5-6 months old and shows no signs of dying at all prior to this incident.
Here are my specs and I would GREATLY appreciate any help/insight into this issue:
Motherboard (Mini-ITX): GIGABYTE GA-AB350N-Gaming WIFI (AMD/Ryzen AM4/B350/RGB Fusion/HDMI/DP/M.2/SATA/USB 3.1 Type-A/Wifi/Mini ITX/DDR4 Motherboard)
Ram: G.SKILL 8GB (2 x 4GB) Ripjaws V Series DDR4 PC4-25600 3200MHz for Intel Z170 Platform / Intel X99 Platform Desktop Memory Model F4-3200C16D-8GVKB
SSD: SanDisk SSD PLUS 120GB Solid State Drive - SDSSDA-120G-G27 & I also took out the SSD that came in my Playstation 4 slim and use that as a secondary storage SSD. I installed window 10 on the sandisk though.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G Processor with Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
PSU: EVGA 500 B1, 80+ BRONZE 500W Power Supply, 3 Year Warranty, Includes FREE Power On Self Tester 100-B1-0500-KR
Case: Thermaltake Core V1 Black Edition SPCC Mini ITX Cube Computer Chassis CA-1B8-00S1WN-00
GPU: MSI NVIDIA GTX 970 Gaming 4G Graphics Card
tl;dr no signal on monitor after freeze & reboot. mouse/keyboard lights are off. no access to os. all components inside the case are on and running. fans working and everything seems to be working except for aforementioned mouse/keyboard and nosignal on monitor. please help?
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