Hey, guys! I built this rig about 8 months ago and yesterday, while playing, the screen froze, than a sharp noise hit my headphones, followed by the screen changing into artifact images. I didn't have time to react as the PC turned off automatically few seconds later. Then, my PC turned on automatically but there was no boot, no video. All fans turned normally, but the mobo led went orange (which it does) and never changed to white and green, it stayed orange ad infinitum.
After panicking and crying, I unplugged everything, opened it, took out the gpu and cleaned it. took out the ram sticks and cleaned them. Cleaned the fans. Dusted some surfaces. Plugged all back again (except for the gpu and nothing changed), then plugged the gpu and nothing seemed to change, but as I was ready to begin my crying anew, suddenly the PC booted and has been performing normally ever since, after some stress tests and such.
I don't know what happened, but I worry something may be signaling its impeding death. Any ideas?
Specs:
Asus Prime B560M-A
Corsair CX650M - 650W PSU
RTX 3060 EVGA
I5 11600k
16GB Ram
2 Kingstom SSD's
All 8 months old, except for one of the SDD's
After panicking and crying, I unplugged everything, opened it, took out the gpu and cleaned it. took out the ram sticks and cleaned them. Cleaned the fans. Dusted some surfaces. Plugged all back again (except for the gpu and nothing changed), then plugged the gpu and nothing seemed to change, but as I was ready to begin my crying anew, suddenly the PC booted and has been performing normally ever since, after some stress tests and such.
I don't know what happened, but I worry something may be signaling its impeding death. Any ideas?
Specs:
Asus Prime B560M-A
Corsair CX650M - 650W PSU
RTX 3060 EVGA
I5 11600k
16GB Ram
2 Kingstom SSD's
All 8 months old, except for one of the SDD's
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