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Fair enough. However, it will POST... just not all the time. Which indicates a failing PSU.
I see the same thing at least twice a week, every week. It wont turn on, fans spin up but nothing on monitor. You take the plug out, leave it for 5 mins. Come back and it works, when it's on it's fine. Same thing the next day. It's a sign of a failing PSU.
Not always. Suggesting it could be the PSU isn't a bad thing, but straight up telling the OP it is without any real diagnosis/testing done is a bit misleading, is it not?
Same happened to me a long time ago back on my first few systems, was told PSU straight off the bat, turned out to be toasty VRMs on the graphics card and I'd just wasted another £40 I could throw at a new one

Another time was a bad northbridge on my motherboard which corrupted PCI data.
Just my two cents.
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