I have a problem with a 9 year old system which i built and used for 3D graphics for a few years. Now it's being used by my wife.
The other day, in the evening i shut the pc off. The next morning the power button didn't do a thing. I tested the power supply with a power supply tester and all voltages look normal. I took apart everything except the CPU, cleaned the dust and reseated everything. It is still not doing anything. The motherboard has a power button directly on it so it eliminates the case button faulty.
I noticed that when i didn't have the ram and GPU installed when i was plugging the 24pin connector, the fans would start to spin and the LED's on the fan would light up shortly. I don't know if this is relevant for anything. When i have the GPU and RAM installed it doesn't do that.
System specs:
Intel 2600K
ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3
Corsair Vengeance LP 4 x 4Gb 1600mhz DDR3
nVidia GeForce GTX680
Corsair CX750M
120Gb Sandisk SSD
Cooler Master HAF 932
At this point, the mobo is not Fatal1ty anymore, but probably more like Faulty, lol. Is there a way i can be sure it is the motherboard? So i don't just run out to buy a replacement for nothing. It's old gen hardware, so i don't have components to swap out and test.
The system did this before. A few years ago, it would not start. I started to swap out things and in the end it started and ran with it's day 1 components . So i'm thinking it could be acting up again, but i don't know what can be triggering it and how to get it back to normal. Any ideas?
The other day, in the evening i shut the pc off. The next morning the power button didn't do a thing. I tested the power supply with a power supply tester and all voltages look normal. I took apart everything except the CPU, cleaned the dust and reseated everything. It is still not doing anything. The motherboard has a power button directly on it so it eliminates the case button faulty.
I noticed that when i didn't have the ram and GPU installed when i was plugging the 24pin connector, the fans would start to spin and the LED's on the fan would light up shortly. I don't know if this is relevant for anything. When i have the GPU and RAM installed it doesn't do that.
System specs:
Intel 2600K
ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3
Corsair Vengeance LP 4 x 4Gb 1600mhz DDR3
nVidia GeForce GTX680
Corsair CX750M
120Gb Sandisk SSD
Cooler Master HAF 932
At this point, the mobo is not Fatal1ty anymore, but probably more like Faulty, lol. Is there a way i can be sure it is the motherboard? So i don't just run out to buy a replacement for nothing. It's old gen hardware, so i don't have components to swap out and test.
The system did this before. A few years ago, it would not start. I started to swap out things and in the end it started and ran with it's day 1 components . So i'm thinking it could be acting up again, but i don't know what can be triggering it and how to get it back to normal. Any ideas?