PC No Longer Booting!

NeilMick · 29 Apr 2012 at 13:51

Ok so I suspected this day may come, pc has been taking 2 or 3 attempts are start up to turn on, however this morning it is refusing to do it at all.

What happens is that when I press the power button everything spins up but there is either a) nothing happening or b) windows is loading however as nothing is happening on the monitor I wouldn't know. The GPU fan spins at full speed unlike normally when it drops to idle after booting.

The PC is a fairly old E6300 with P5N-E Mobo which has no vga out on the mobo so i cant bypass the GFX card.

So either it's the PSU or the GFX in my numpty opinon? Now I am tempted to buy a 8400GS gfx card and swap it for the 8800GTS which is currently in there (dont play any games now so performance isn't really needed).

Anyone else ever had the same problem and want to save me £25 buying a new GFX if it's not likely to be that?

Cheers,

Neil.

beejjacobs · 29 Apr 2012 at 14:01

Try taking out the CMOS batter for a minute to reset the BIOS. Is anything overclocked?

Try another monitor, just in case!

NeilMick · 29 Apr 2012 at 14:04

I took the CMOS battery out this morning as I suspected that it might be causing the dodgy startups, put a new one in and then it didn't boot at all, put the old battery back and it still isn't.

It's not the monitor already tried it on another pc.

T345 · 29 Apr 2012 at 14:05

try a different input on the mobo/ gpu? maybe

NeilMick · 29 Apr 2012 at 14:18

Just tried another output on the PSU to the GFX card and it still just spins up to full speed and wont boot. :mad:

T345 · 29 Apr 2012 at 14:24

, does it display anything?? do the fans all spin???? is there any thing unplugged????

NeilMick · 29 Apr 2012 at 14:28

No display at all, all the fans spin up as normal, however the GFX fan normally spins up full speed then drops, it's not dropping anymore and just carrys on at full wack! Nothing unplugged, same stuff as there has been for the last 5 years..

T345 · 29 Apr 2012 at 14:30

Try cleaning out the dust???
does it even make a beep? or do you not have a speaker on mobo?
u can buy one cheap
also, I unplugged myne from the back leave it for 20 mins then it worked again

beejjacobs · 29 Apr 2012 at 14:56

Do you have another PCIe slot you can try the graphics card in?
What about another PSU to try?

NeilMick · 29 Apr 2012 at 15:10

No beeps at all, it's just like a normal boot apart from it doesn't even get to POST.

No other PSU however I think theres another PCIe slot I can try, if it still doesn't work ill have to buy a new GFX card I guess.

stuntmanSLim · 29 Apr 2012 at 15:14

NeilMick said:
No beeps at all, it's just like a normal boot apart from it doesn't even get to POST.

No other PSU however I think theres another PCIe slot I can try, if it still doesn't work ill have to buy a new GFX card I guess.

i think the diodes have blown on the gfx card. Try another gfx card in the rig & try that one in another PC.

rhodieG · 29 Apr 2012 at 16:00

I have exactly the same problem, at my wits end so changing mb and psu tomorrow. I replaced my ram and hdd, as last one badly corrupted. Hopefully that'll soort it - I needed to upgrade but now hoping its not gfx card.

NeilMick · 3 May 2012 at 18:40

Changed the GFX card and still nothing, going to hazard a guess and say its the MOBO that has gone, although I guess it could be the PSU. Would a slowly failing pc seem to indicate the Mobo or PSU?