This might be a bit of a long one sorry, but I've been having PC problems recently and can't get to the bottom of it.... ever since I opened it up to upgrade the hard drives a week ago really.
Installed the drives, and had a little vaccuum of some dust around the case (yes, I know, I shouldn't vacuum the internals of my pc). I plug everything back in and then I power the pc on... after 3 seconds it turns off, no signal to monitor, after 3 seconds, back on... and so this loop continued and continued until I pulled the plug.
Thought it could be a new drive causing an issue, so I unplug them, and the same happens.
Remove some ram and it starts but no video. Ram back in and I fiddle around with a load of power connectors, taking out individual components and nothing seemed to give any indication of a fault, all of a sudden the pc starts working again, no issues whatsoever.
A few days later I upgrade my video card to an RTX2070 and the same happens again... Fiddle fiddle fiddle and the pc miraculously starts working again.
I get home from work tonight, and there is no power AT ALL. Having suspected by this point that my power supply may be faulty, I use a case fan and a paperclip to test it, and it's fine. Yet again I mess around for ages and it suddenly starts working. All components in, recognised, and seemingly functioning ok.
However I did notice something weird around the base block of the CPU cooler.. a weird brownish substance that looks slightly sticky, and I suspect whatever it is dripped onto my last video card as I noticed it had some weird substance on it and wondered what on earth it was. Here is a photo, not great one but here. You'll need to zoom in: https://imgur.com/a/VuSj5m9
I'm really confused as to what may be the problem here. I've had the pc under high load and everything has been stable. Temps are ok, but clearly something isn't right. It's not the hard drive, and it's not my new video card. Any ideas? Could whatever I have found on my CPU cooler be linked to this?
Edit; my motherboard seems to provide power to the rear USB even when the PC is turned off or at least has previously, I know this because I have seen the light on my WiFi dongle lit after I've shut down, I noticed earlier today that this was not happening. I don't know if this is relevant but it certainly seems to point towards the mtoherboard?
Installed the drives, and had a little vaccuum of some dust around the case (yes, I know, I shouldn't vacuum the internals of my pc). I plug everything back in and then I power the pc on... after 3 seconds it turns off, no signal to monitor, after 3 seconds, back on... and so this loop continued and continued until I pulled the plug.
Thought it could be a new drive causing an issue, so I unplug them, and the same happens.
Remove some ram and it starts but no video. Ram back in and I fiddle around with a load of power connectors, taking out individual components and nothing seemed to give any indication of a fault, all of a sudden the pc starts working again, no issues whatsoever.
A few days later I upgrade my video card to an RTX2070 and the same happens again... Fiddle fiddle fiddle and the pc miraculously starts working again.
I get home from work tonight, and there is no power AT ALL. Having suspected by this point that my power supply may be faulty, I use a case fan and a paperclip to test it, and it's fine. Yet again I mess around for ages and it suddenly starts working. All components in, recognised, and seemingly functioning ok.
However I did notice something weird around the base block of the CPU cooler.. a weird brownish substance that looks slightly sticky, and I suspect whatever it is dripped onto my last video card as I noticed it had some weird substance on it and wondered what on earth it was. Here is a photo, not great one but here. You'll need to zoom in: https://imgur.com/a/VuSj5m9
I'm really confused as to what may be the problem here. I've had the pc under high load and everything has been stable. Temps are ok, but clearly something isn't right. It's not the hard drive, and it's not my new video card. Any ideas? Could whatever I have found on my CPU cooler be linked to this?
Edit; my motherboard seems to provide power to the rear USB even when the PC is turned off or at least has previously, I know this because I have seen the light on my WiFi dongle lit after I've shut down, I noticed earlier today that this was not happening. I don't know if this is relevant but it certainly seems to point towards the mtoherboard?
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