- Jun 24, 2013
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Good day!
While playing, my pc suddenly goes off the other day. Then when I tried to start it again, there were no beep, post nor video. So I thought it was probably due to heat, so I tried to dust my pc, reseat the heatsink and memory. Then I was able to make it boot again, but suddenly goes off again. And it will now only boot up after I let it rest for a while. I was successful to boot it up another time and did some prime95, I think I was able to do some 30 min - 1 hr test on each of the 3 tests and all displayed no error. Then I tried to restart it so that I can do a memtest but it won't boot again no matter what I do.
After reading a couple dozens of thread with the same symptoms, I believed the culprit was either the motherboard or the PSU. I went to my friends house to try his PSU on my motherboard, and there were no post nor beep, same as before. I tried my PSU on his PC and it worked like a charm.
So the motherboard was the culprit.
Now my problem is, what made my motherboard defective? These are some of the things that could've caused it.
1.) I overclocked my APU's graphics part from 833 mhz to 1013 mhz with no increase in volts.
2.) Maybe defective PSU, I opened it up and found like a coffee stains on its circuits.
3.) It started a couple of months ago, I always felt some electricity when I touch my case (some threads points it to faulty psu)
4.) My monitor is on VGA, but everynow and then, I use our HDTV on HDMI, and sometimes it reports no signal for a 0.5 to 1 second.
EDIT:
5.) There was a lightning storm the night before it broke, and me and my friends played NBA2k15 all night long.
I have no problem buying a new motherboard, but can I rule out all the other components (especially PSU)?
Thanks in advance!
Procie: AMD A10-6800k
Mobo: Gigabyte F2A75M-D3H
Ram: G.skill Ripjaws X (2x4GB) 2133 mhz
PSU: Aerocool Strike-x 500w
While playing, my pc suddenly goes off the other day. Then when I tried to start it again, there were no beep, post nor video. So I thought it was probably due to heat, so I tried to dust my pc, reseat the heatsink and memory. Then I was able to make it boot again, but suddenly goes off again. And it will now only boot up after I let it rest for a while. I was successful to boot it up another time and did some prime95, I think I was able to do some 30 min - 1 hr test on each of the 3 tests and all displayed no error. Then I tried to restart it so that I can do a memtest but it won't boot again no matter what I do.
After reading a couple dozens of thread with the same symptoms, I believed the culprit was either the motherboard or the PSU. I went to my friends house to try his PSU on my motherboard, and there were no post nor beep, same as before. I tried my PSU on his PC and it worked like a charm.
So the motherboard was the culprit.
Now my problem is, what made my motherboard defective? These are some of the things that could've caused it.
1.) I overclocked my APU's graphics part from 833 mhz to 1013 mhz with no increase in volts.
2.) Maybe defective PSU, I opened it up and found like a coffee stains on its circuits.
3.) It started a couple of months ago, I always felt some electricity when I touch my case (some threads points it to faulty psu)
4.) My monitor is on VGA, but everynow and then, I use our HDTV on HDMI, and sometimes it reports no signal for a 0.5 to 1 second.
EDIT:
5.) There was a lightning storm the night before it broke, and me and my friends played NBA2k15 all night long.
I have no problem buying a new motherboard, but can I rule out all the other components (especially PSU)?
Thanks in advance!
Procie: AMD A10-6800k
Mobo: Gigabyte F2A75M-D3H
Ram: G.skill Ripjaws X (2x4GB) 2133 mhz
PSU: Aerocool Strike-x 500w
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