Hi,
My brother has had some issues with his PC lately, for around a month now his PC will either go into sleep mode after not using it but then when you wake the PC up, the PC powers up as usual but the monitor then showed "No signal" and wouldn't come back on. He then reported that sometimes this would happen without going into sleep mode.
I had a look at it yesterday but realised that he wasn't using his SSD at all and had his OS on his hard drive which was causing the PC to start up extremely slow. I did a fresh install of Windows 10 on his SSD, updated all drivers and downloaded all updates then turned his PC off, put his HDD back in and started to transfer over his old files (Uni work and whatnot) over to my external hard drive.
I'd then went to bed but he seems to think that when the file copying screen finally discovered all items and began copying them, it gave an estimated time of 1 day to finish.
He'd left his PC on overnight but then the next day, couldn't wake it up.
When I'd came home, I'd turned it off by the power switch on the front as I couldn't seem to turn it off using the keyboard (blindly).
I'd then removed the CMOS battery and left it for a while until I attempted to reboot, but then we were faced with the "USB device over current status detected".
I then powered the PC back off, removed all USB devices (including the front panel USBs and USB 3.0 from the motherboard itself), but still had the same issue.
I've now left it powered off with everything unplugged to let it "rest" for a few days to see if that makes a difference (wishful thinking, I know).
I'm starting to think maybe the GPU is on it's way out and now, somehow, the motherboard is too? Never had this issue before so unsure where to go from here.
His specs are as follows (apologies, I don't have them to hand so naming the main specs);
CPU - Intel i7-4790K (Not overclocked)
MB - MSI Gaming Z97 Gaming 5
GPU - MSI Radeon R9 290 Gaming 4G ( I think?)
RAM - Corsair Vengeance 16GB.
PSU - EVGA 750w (Supernova, maybe?)
Apologies for not having the exact info and if the above is a bit long-winded!
Thanks in advance.
-Rhys.
My brother has had some issues with his PC lately, for around a month now his PC will either go into sleep mode after not using it but then when you wake the PC up, the PC powers up as usual but the monitor then showed "No signal" and wouldn't come back on. He then reported that sometimes this would happen without going into sleep mode.
I had a look at it yesterday but realised that he wasn't using his SSD at all and had his OS on his hard drive which was causing the PC to start up extremely slow. I did a fresh install of Windows 10 on his SSD, updated all drivers and downloaded all updates then turned his PC off, put his HDD back in and started to transfer over his old files (Uni work and whatnot) over to my external hard drive.
I'd then went to bed but he seems to think that when the file copying screen finally discovered all items and began copying them, it gave an estimated time of 1 day to finish.
He'd left his PC on overnight but then the next day, couldn't wake it up.
When I'd came home, I'd turned it off by the power switch on the front as I couldn't seem to turn it off using the keyboard (blindly).
I'd then removed the CMOS battery and left it for a while until I attempted to reboot, but then we were faced with the "USB device over current status detected".
I then powered the PC back off, removed all USB devices (including the front panel USBs and USB 3.0 from the motherboard itself), but still had the same issue.
I've now left it powered off with everything unplugged to let it "rest" for a few days to see if that makes a difference (wishful thinking, I know).
I'm starting to think maybe the GPU is on it's way out and now, somehow, the motherboard is too? Never had this issue before so unsure where to go from here.
His specs are as follows (apologies, I don't have them to hand so naming the main specs);
CPU - Intel i7-4790K (Not overclocked)
MB - MSI Gaming Z97 Gaming 5
GPU - MSI Radeon R9 290 Gaming 4G ( I think?)
RAM - Corsair Vengeance 16GB.
PSU - EVGA 750w (Supernova, maybe?)
Apologies for not having the exact info and if the above is a bit long-winded!
Thanks in advance.
-Rhys.