[SOLVED] PC wont post after freeze

[LazerTechX]

So i was playing Rainbow Six Siege when this happened, while in game, the screen froze and audio was gone, so after a few seconds i pressed the hard reset button but after that it would turn on but it would not post. So i proceeded to re seat every component, re slotting a stick of RAM to the 4 different slots, jumping the clear cmos, removing battery, cpu, gpu, removing gpu, but to no avail. Now when i start it, it turns on and then the fans slow down with the hdd activity LED lighting up just like how it would normally boot, but after about a second or so the fans ramp back up again and this happens on and on a few seconds interval in between. The cpu cooler and the VRMs do warm up when i turn the PC on. Any help would be appreciated.

AMD FX 8320
gbyt GA 990FXA UD3
8gb corsair vengeance
DeepCool Gammaxx 300
GTX 660
xigmatex 600w

 

[cin19]

1. Test the PSU with paper clip method: http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=63991
2. Test the gtx660 in other PC to see it works or not, or use other GPU if you had extra one.
3. Try this bench it method: https://forums.tomshardware.com/faq/bench-it-troubleshooting.1442412/

I put them like these steps: Remove the RAM, boot device, or other HDD. Use a GPU, connect the PSU 24pin and the 8pin to MB ( if the PSU works, or other PSU), also the cpu cooler too, clear the CMOS, after that boot the PC to see you will get the display or not. If you still don't get the display when boot the pc, that means either the cpu or MB has problem.

 

[Calvin7]

8gb corsair vengeance

Freezes from memory may be caused by your choice of memory and/or your memory BIOS settings. I suggest you list a part number or link to the memory.

 

[popatim]

Try resetting the cmos.

 

[DavidM012]

gigabyte 990fx Manual

could be a cpu stop in which case it stopped because it somehow died. Should get beep codes on missing cpu on reboot. The manual says LED code 56 on invalid cpu if that means anything to you I guess there is an led digit display on the board to display error code if there is one. On the top right corner above the atx power in.

PSU looks like it has enough watts for an 8370 if it had failed you'd expect the system to simply shut off rather than display frozen img on scrn so it's either CPU or Board. Also psu brand is not a recommended one.

As to what caused CPU failure ? how old is it, what temps were it running at, maybe power supply degrading over time caused some electrical anomalies.

What used to happen in the old days with the old pentiums was the thermal paste dried out on the cpu and the fans got clogged with dust overheating cpu and it would stop like that. Freeze on screen with no mouse pointer movement is a cpu stop.

Newer thermal pastes tend not to degrade over time but who knows maybe if your heat sink fan was running slow and the thermal paste was a bit off it could've been rising temps.

You have not mentioned if you monitor temps or whether it was over clocked? If not that then maybe it's simply a random failure of a component and that's it unless you have another cpu to try on it kinda difficult to say if it's the psu causing electrical anomalies with, board, gpu or cpu but I would think cpu first.

There again it could all be ageing for all we know and decided it had enough.

 

[LazerTechX]

Did the stuff you guys said except replacing the gpu because i dont have an extra one, but to no avail.

CPU is 5 years old along with the motherboard(no LED display)
RAM is CMZ16GX3M2A1600C9(Using half a kit)
All components were running stock speeds
CPU usually goes 59-62C while gaming
Installed a DeepCool Gammaxx 300 Cooler a few weeks back because my corsair h60 died
Power supply is around 2-3 years old and since i live in south east asia, this brand is common here and i tested it on an old pentium system and it worked

 

[DavidM012]

The fx 8320 doesn't have a huge power draw 160watts load at default clock. but 59-62c is kind of near the thermal margin, preferable to keep it below 55c. You can test power supply output with a multimeter for 5% +/- tolerance, but perhaps over time if your corsair was failing maybe it took some heat then and finally went over the hill running close to the margin.

A cpu stop is never good. Once it starts stopping it never stops. It is a pretty reliable sign of not working any more.