This Literally makes no sense

bob_68

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Feb 7, 2016
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So this started after i tried overclocking my pc. I tested the stability of my overclock for 15 mins and shut down.The next day, when I would turn my pc on the leds and fans would turn on, but no post/response from monitor or peripherals. I tried removing the motherboard battery, and using the CLR_CMOS pins and it still didn't work. Then I removed the ram and unplugged the motherboard power cable for 5 mins, plugged everything back in but started it with no ram, then with my ram and it booted and I thought I fixed it. The next morning I tried booting and it happened again and I had to repeat what I did before to fix it I also completely reset my pc to see it helped and it didnt.

Now every time I shut down and want to start, I have to d/c the motherboard power cable, remove my ram, start with no ram then start with ram. It's actually the dumbest thing. One thing I've noticed is that when my computer doesn't boot, the gpu fans aren't spinning.

At this point I don't know if it's my motherboard, psu, gpu, or ram.

Specs: Gigabyte-GA-Z97-HD3 (motherboard), i5-4690k (CPU), 16 (4x4) G-SKill DDR-3 1600 (Ram), Rosewill 500 (PSU).
 
Solution

Check which revision your GA-Z97-HD3 motherboard is, rev. 1.0, rev. 2.0 or rev. 2.1. It should be written in the center of the motherboard. Then check which BIOS version you currently have. The last release was F10c.

Check which revision your GA-Z97-HD3 motherboard is, rev. 1.0, rev. 2.0 or rev. 2.1. It should be written in the center of the motherboard. Then check which BIOS version you currently have. The last release was F10c.
 
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