A couple of days ago my PC started taking a little while to POST, so I thought i'd just unplug it and replug it in to see if that fixed it...it did not. Now it won't POST at all.
It's a 980x on an Asus Rampage 3 Extreme, i've had it for almost 5 years now so 1) it's a bit long in the tooth and 2) nothing has really changed recently that would have caused this. I put a 980gtx and swapped an SSD a couple of months ago but there's been nothing else, and it was working fine until the last couple of days.
It gets stuck with the VGA led lit up, but I can connect it to ROG Connect and it says it gets stuck on Check CPU (the sequence is CPU Init, Detect Memory, Check CPU), which makes me think it's not really the graphics card at all. I have two cards in in any case, the 980 and an old 480 and it won't post with either of them (you can disable the slots with switches on the motherboard). it had 24G of RAM in it, i've removed all but one stick and i have the same problem. I've tried clearing CMOS, reflashed latest BIOS (which it was already using, it's from 2011) using Remote USB BIOS Flashback, replaced the CMOS battery, reseated the CPU, nothing seems to work, same error.
any ideas? has the CPU (or mobo) just decided to give up the ghost after 5 years?
It's a 980x on an Asus Rampage 3 Extreme, i've had it for almost 5 years now so 1) it's a bit long in the tooth and 2) nothing has really changed recently that would have caused this. I put a 980gtx and swapped an SSD a couple of months ago but there's been nothing else, and it was working fine until the last couple of days.
It gets stuck with the VGA led lit up, but I can connect it to ROG Connect and it says it gets stuck on Check CPU (the sequence is CPU Init, Detect Memory, Check CPU), which makes me think it's not really the graphics card at all. I have two cards in in any case, the 980 and an old 480 and it won't post with either of them (you can disable the slots with switches on the motherboard). it had 24G of RAM in it, i've removed all but one stick and i have the same problem. I've tried clearing CMOS, reflashed latest BIOS (which it was already using, it's from 2011) using Remote USB BIOS Flashback, replaced the CMOS battery, reseated the CPU, nothing seems to work, same error.
any ideas? has the CPU (or mobo) just decided to give up the ghost after 5 years?
