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Flosi

Flosi

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Hello guys and gals, I'm hoping that some of you would be able to give me some suggestions.. I've got a feeling the motherboard is at fault, but want to see if anyone can give any suggestions.

First of all, the machine was bought in April, and has been running fine since. Pretty much the only thing carried over was the hdd, the parts bought were (apologies for formatting, reduced to using iPad):

AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8350 Black Edition 4.00GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £124.99 1 £124.99
**B Grade** Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7850 OC Windforce 2X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card w/ Nexuiz, Sleeping Dogs & Dirt Showd (GX-100-GI) £108.29 1 £108.29
ASRock 990FX Extreme3 AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £75.82 1 £75.82
Akasa Venom 850w '80 Plus Gold' Modular Power Supply £70.82 1 £70.82
GeIL EVO Leggera 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (GEL316GB1600C9DC) £69.99 1 £69.99
Xigmatek Asgard Pro Gaming Case - Black £27.49 1 £27.49
Prolimatech PK-1 Nano Thermal Compound (1g) £1.66 1 £1.66
Phanteks PH-TC12DX CPU Cooler - Black (Socket 775 / 1150 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / 2011 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £37.48 1 £37.48

It was running fine last night with a prolonged X-com session, so not exactly draining on the system. Had it on overnight uploading photos, and turned it off before going to work.

Get home, hit the power switch - nothing.

Open it up and do checks. Only thing I can make happen is - if it has been un plugged, then I plug it in - and I hit the power button, the only thing that happens is the fans spin for a fraction of a second, then wind down and stop. It doesn't even do this if I hit the power button again. No beeps, no lights, nothing.

Just wonder if anyone has had similar issues before I take things apart...
 
Try a CMOS reset just in case, as this can sometimes solve a lot of problems.

Try testing the PSU by linking out pins 13 & 14 on the main ATX connector, but make sure you just have a fan connected to a molex.

Video how to:

 
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I've seen a similar issue at work twice before, was down to hard drives that had died in a strange way. Any PC that the hard drive was put into would do exactly what yours is doing now, we would need to leave them unplugged from the wall for around 10 minutes before being able to attempt to power them on again.

Hopefully that isn't the problem with yours and someone else will hopefully have a better suggestion as to what it could be.
 
take graphics card out and any other bits in to so you only have psu + motherboard and 1 stick ram and use onboard graphics see if any joy getting it started into bios then you can start adding things back hdd first incase it is that till you find the faulty hardware
 
RJC said:
Try a CMOS reset just in case, as this can sometimes solve a lot of problems.

Try testing the PSU by linking out pins 13 & 14 on the main ATX connector, but make sure you just have a fan connected to a molex.

Video how to:

Click to expand...

why wouldnt cosair make a small tool for this test instead of using a paper clip lol...
 
farlow2012 said:
take graphics card out and any other bits in to so you only have psu + motherboard and 1 stick ram and use onboard graphics see if any joy getting it started into bios then you can start adding things back hdd first incase it is that till you find the faulty hardware
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His motherboard does`nt have onboard graphics.
 
Due to being away only just got round to testing it, psu seems to be dead, so at least I know where to start. Thanks!
 
Strangely enough, I'm having the same issue with my PC.

Tested the motherboard, PSU (which I replaced as it was about 3 years old), processor and graphics card... would've tested the RAM but my BF's PC is DDR2 and not DDR3.

Somewhat annoying as I've been without a decent PC for nearly 3 weeks now.

Bummer.
 
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