Hey,
The past 4 months my PC was constantly restarting, powering off, and sometimes bluescreening, at first I thought it was just an overheating problem because with speedfan on I noticed my temps sometimes getting up to 100°c so i cleaned it out got rid of all the dust, and for a couple weeks my PC was working fine, no interruptions but then it started happening again, until last week it bluescreened (I don't remember the error code and was too frustrated to record it at the time) and didn't turn back on.
Now my PC powers on but nothing happens, the fans turn on the lights turn on, keyboard and mouse DON'T get power, it doesn't let me turn off the PC from the power button I have to switch it off on the PSU. I've tried taking out the RAM but theres no beeping when I turn it on so it i'm assuming it doesn't get to POST.
What I've tried to do:
Removing the ram and booting it up - no results
Removing the cmos battery for 60 seconds and reseating it - no results
Checking all the connections to make sure nothing got lose - no results
The paper clip trick for my PSU - PSU fan did spin
I can't remove my graphics card because my motherboard doesn't have onboard graphics, I've tried unplugging unnecessary components like the CD drives and lights.
PC Specs:
MB: Gigabyte 990fxa - UD3 - Rev 1
CPU: AMD FX-9370 8 Core Black edition (not overclocked)
CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H55
GPU: XFX Radeon R9 280x (nto overclocked
RAM: 4x Kingston DDR3 ValueRAM 4GB
PSU: Cougar CMX850 850W
HDD: Western Digital WD Black 1TB
Case: NZXT Switch 810
The CPU, GPU, and PSU are 1.5 years old
The harddrive and RAM are about 4 years old
And the motherboard is 5 years old
Anyone have any ideas? I have an assumption that it's the motherboard but I want to be 100% sure that it is before I go spending $150+ on a new one to find out it was the wrong thing to replace.
Thanks in advance
The past 4 months my PC was constantly restarting, powering off, and sometimes bluescreening, at first I thought it was just an overheating problem because with speedfan on I noticed my temps sometimes getting up to 100°c so i cleaned it out got rid of all the dust, and for a couple weeks my PC was working fine, no interruptions but then it started happening again, until last week it bluescreened (I don't remember the error code and was too frustrated to record it at the time) and didn't turn back on.
Now my PC powers on but nothing happens, the fans turn on the lights turn on, keyboard and mouse DON'T get power, it doesn't let me turn off the PC from the power button I have to switch it off on the PSU. I've tried taking out the RAM but theres no beeping when I turn it on so it i'm assuming it doesn't get to POST.
What I've tried to do:
Removing the ram and booting it up - no results
Removing the cmos battery for 60 seconds and reseating it - no results
Checking all the connections to make sure nothing got lose - no results
The paper clip trick for my PSU - PSU fan did spin
I can't remove my graphics card because my motherboard doesn't have onboard graphics, I've tried unplugging unnecessary components like the CD drives and lights.
PC Specs:
MB: Gigabyte 990fxa - UD3 - Rev 1
CPU: AMD FX-9370 8 Core Black edition (not overclocked)
CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro Series H55
GPU: XFX Radeon R9 280x (nto overclocked
RAM: 4x Kingston DDR3 ValueRAM 4GB
PSU: Cougar CMX850 850W
HDD: Western Digital WD Black 1TB
Case: NZXT Switch 810
The CPU, GPU, and PSU are 1.5 years old
The harddrive and RAM are about 4 years old
And the motherboard is 5 years old
Anyone have any ideas? I have an assumption that it's the motherboard but I want to be 100% sure that it is before I go spending $150+ on a new one to find out it was the wrong thing to replace.
Thanks in advance
