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Hi, I bought a new PC about 3 months ago now with some money that i had been saving. Once i had built the machine. With a friend who's built many before (so i wouldn't do anything wrong).
I noticed that sometimes the power LED would flash and the pc would not come on. So i decided to send the PSU back and it was found to be faulty(this information may help when figuring out what is wrong currently).
So i got a replacement PSU from a store while i waited for the RMA and it worked for about 3 weeks until this current fault arrived. Sometimes my monitor will display no input signal and other times my pc will boot perfectly fine. When it does boot i can play games and do everything as normal with no crashes freezes or anything.
I noticed that when my PC isn't working that the green LED on the motherboard does not turn on like it should, so i took it back to the store to see if the technician there could do some tests or something. Anyway he told me it was the motherboard but he didn't charge me anything which was weird to me. So anyway i sent the motherboard back and that also turned out to be fine. Which kind of means he did absolutely no tests and was the reason he didn't charge me.
So i replaced the PSU once again with the new one from the RMA and it worked fine again for about a week. Then it started having the original fault from when i first bought it (the power LED flashing on one). So i changed the PSU once again with the other one i bought previously which fixed it. So i thought i had ANOTHER dead PSU so i sent it back only to find that it wasn't dead :s.
So now i'm still running on my backup PSU waiting for the failed RMA PSU to come back and i have the intermittent no input signal fault still and no clue to what is wrong with it.
During this period i also had another issue where when playing Guild Wars 2 the bottom part of the screen would start to wobble and eventually red screen, but only on my first screen (i have a dual monitor setup) the PC seemed to be running fine as i could still use Chrome on my other monitor. I restarted and the red screen occurred when i tried CS:GO instead. So i decided to take out the 1st SLI card and just use the 2nd one, which did fix it. So i was going to RMA the GFX card when i decided to test it once again this time i updated the drivers first just in case it was a software error and now it runs games fine in SLI again. So i guess that was just a driver error.
Specs:
- MSI GeForce GTX 680 OC Twin Frozr 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card x2
- Gigabyte X79 G1 Assassin 2 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard
- Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor
- Silverstone Strider 1200W Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply
- Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive
- Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive
- Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit
- Noctua NH-D14-2011 Dual Radiator CPU Cooler with PWM Fans (Socket LGA2011)
- OCZ GXS1010 is the backup PSU
- Windows 7 64bit
Some tests I've tried:
- Each GFX card individually
- An 8800GT from my old pc
- Booting with 1 stick of RAM
- Checking all the connections to the MB
- Resetting the CMOS
- Testing the CMOS Battery
- Updating everything to the latest drivers (when working)
- Using a case speaker to see if there are any beep code errors (there are none, only the short single beep when it occasionally does post)
- Reseating the GFX card
- Using each of the different GPU power cables with each of the 2 cards
- Reseating the CPU cooler
- Changing the leads to the HDDs
- Checking the case for anything which could cause a short somewhere
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated as i cannot keep sending parts back and the local technician is completely useless (he installed the PSU i bought off him and the cable management was atrocious, he had also screwed on the CPU cooler far to tight with 2 screws and lose with the other 2 :/ when testing my CPU, cause he thought it was that when the original PSU was dead).
Sorry for the long post, but i have spent a lot of my savings on this PC which i also use for work as i run my own company and it feels like i've just thrown all my money in the bin.
It's probably worth notting that i have not overclocked this machine due to the amount of problems i've had with it.
I noticed that sometimes the power LED would flash and the pc would not come on. So i decided to send the PSU back and it was found to be faulty(this information may help when figuring out what is wrong currently).
So i got a replacement PSU from a store while i waited for the RMA and it worked for about 3 weeks until this current fault arrived. Sometimes my monitor will display no input signal and other times my pc will boot perfectly fine. When it does boot i can play games and do everything as normal with no crashes freezes or anything.
I noticed that when my PC isn't working that the green LED on the motherboard does not turn on like it should, so i took it back to the store to see if the technician there could do some tests or something. Anyway he told me it was the motherboard but he didn't charge me anything which was weird to me. So anyway i sent the motherboard back and that also turned out to be fine. Which kind of means he did absolutely no tests and was the reason he didn't charge me.
So i replaced the PSU once again with the new one from the RMA and it worked fine again for about a week. Then it started having the original fault from when i first bought it (the power LED flashing on one). So i changed the PSU once again with the other one i bought previously which fixed it. So i thought i had ANOTHER dead PSU so i sent it back only to find that it wasn't dead :s.
So now i'm still running on my backup PSU waiting for the failed RMA PSU to come back and i have the intermittent no input signal fault still and no clue to what is wrong with it.
During this period i also had another issue where when playing Guild Wars 2 the bottom part of the screen would start to wobble and eventually red screen, but only on my first screen (i have a dual monitor setup) the PC seemed to be running fine as i could still use Chrome on my other monitor. I restarted and the red screen occurred when i tried CS:GO instead. So i decided to take out the 1st SLI card and just use the 2nd one, which did fix it. So i was going to RMA the GFX card when i decided to test it once again this time i updated the drivers first just in case it was a software error and now it runs games fine in SLI again. So i guess that was just a driver error.
Specs:
- MSI GeForce GTX 680 OC Twin Frozr 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card x2
- Gigabyte X79 G1 Assassin 2 Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard
- Intel Core i7-3820 3.60GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor
- Silverstone Strider 1200W Modular '80 Plus Gold' Power Supply
- Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive
- Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive
- Kingston HyperX Genesis 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual/Quad Channel Kit
- Noctua NH-D14-2011 Dual Radiator CPU Cooler with PWM Fans (Socket LGA2011)
- OCZ GXS1010 is the backup PSU
- Windows 7 64bit
Some tests I've tried:
- Each GFX card individually
- An 8800GT from my old pc
- Booting with 1 stick of RAM
- Checking all the connections to the MB
- Resetting the CMOS
- Testing the CMOS Battery
- Updating everything to the latest drivers (when working)
- Using a case speaker to see if there are any beep code errors (there are none, only the short single beep when it occasionally does post)
- Reseating the GFX card
- Using each of the different GPU power cables with each of the 2 cards
- Reseating the CPU cooler
- Changing the leads to the HDDs
- Checking the case for anything which could cause a short somewhere
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated as i cannot keep sending parts back and the local technician is completely useless (he installed the PSU i bought off him and the cable management was atrocious, he had also screwed on the CPU cooler far to tight with 2 screws and lose with the other 2 :/ when testing my CPU, cause he thought it was that when the original PSU was dead).
Sorry for the long post, but i have spent a lot of my savings on this PC which i also use for work as i run my own company and it feels like i've just thrown all my money in the bin.
It's probably worth notting that i have not overclocked this machine due to the amount of problems i've had with it.
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