PC issue - major one, struggling

leeboyo

leeboyo

leeboyo

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Hi all,

I've built a few PCs in my time, and have an issue which I need sorting ASAP.

My partners son used one of my PCs and in his infinite wisdom decided to take it to his granny's and basically it was damaged somehow en route.

The issue is that nothing happens when switched on. I have changed the motherboard, swapped the RAM, bought a new PSU, swapped graphics card, it's an i5 3570k processor, 8gb ram, now have installed a GTX 770. Nothing comes up at all on boot, I have swapped monitors and cables etc. I have spent a small fortune so far on it but it doesn't make a difference, it still wont show anything on screens I have used and different combos of leads/components.

Any chance do you think that the CPU has been fried?

Thanks
Lee.
 
doubt its the cpu, try it all out of the case, incase its shorting out.

just to check you are connecting the monitor cable to the 770 and not the onboard gpu port on the motherboard ?
 
Yeah, I've connected it to a GTX 660 and a 770 - tried onboard and no luck. It boots up, fans running, RAM lights going, processor fan going, but that's it.
 
I'll have a go taking it all out of the case - thanks for the suggestions. I'll probably die of being electrocuted - but I will have a go.
 
The screen has nothing on it, it just boots, can hear the hard drive click in but no output to the monitors at all. Its proper winding me up.
 
leeboyo said:
The screen has nothing on it, it just boots, can hear the hard drive click in but no output to the monitors at all. Its proper winding me up.
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Tried a different monitor/cable? Tried pulling the plug on the monitor, sometimes mine go into a sleep limbo state and need power pulled from them.
 
Grandmaster Fap! said:
Changed the HD? Signs that he's dropped the case?
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leeboyo said:
I've not tried that to be honest. Shouldn't it still post though? Thanks
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I got a Lenovo flex 2 last year that had been thrown down a set of stairs ( long story )
it would light up but wouldn't show anything on the screen.
I removed the drive to originally try and recover the lassies data from it to put onto her replacement laptop and after I removed the drive I got a display and could get into bios
( it now spends its life hooked up to a TV via an HDMI cable and a usb mouse and keyboard running Netflix and roblox for my 4 year old )

so yea even try it without any drives attached.
 
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You really need to check every component in your system 1 by 1 in a process of elimination. With the symptoms you describe it could be a few components that are to blame. Here's a video showing a good technique (the guy incidentally has a similar issue to yourself):
 
Thanks for suggestions. I've swapped motherboard, changed cables, different monitors, changed the CPU cooler, new RAM, new PSU (corsair), swapped GPUs, unplugged the hard drive and blu ray drive, it doesn't even go post - it's really winding me up.
 
I have a problem like this with my current gigabyte motherboad
Doesn't matter how barebones the system is the only way to fix the issue is to completely remove the cmos battery for 10-30 mins may be a obvious answer but couldn't hurt to try
 
Good shout from smithy83, failing that do you have the speaker connected to the mobo? I never bothered with them until i built a system that just wouldnt boot, tore my hair out till i connected one and it gave the beeps i needed to find the culprit (ram).
 
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