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Hi guys,
Wondering if you can give me a little bit of a hand. Have self built machine just over a yr now, working perfectly up till now. Without me making any changes hardware wise (possible windows update) it now has started to not boot or post.
Symthoms :
Machine turns on, chasis, CPU and GPU fans startup.......... no beep and then chasis and I believe CPU fan increase RPMs and machine sits there.
Things Ive noticed :
My RAM which has LEDs will, after the fans initially startup, light up and LEDs will display load through RAM. - This is not happening.
I could stop and restart the machine 50 times and it may come to post and boot one out of the 50 if I am lucky.
If I leave the machine plugged out for a long period (12 - 18 hours) the machine seems to post and boot 1st time 98% of the time.
Troubleshooting steps taken:
This is not in a particular order but..
Mobo swapped out
RAM swapped out
GPU Swapped out
All peripherals inc HDDs plugged out
All chasis fans plugged out
PCI Wireless Card out
Comment:
You'll see from my spec below that Ive a ASUS P5E which I know has had some issues with RAM voltage etc and I am wondering if anyone can explain this to me and if there are settings in my BIOS I can look at to figure this out. Everything in there is set to auto at the moment. Also attached are the screenies of BIOS.
I am thinking its PSU but before I go off and buy a new one I just want to make sure as will spend a good bit of money on a decent PSU.
SPEC:
ASUS P5E Socket 775
Intel Q6600 2.4GHz Go Step
Ballistix Tracer 240-pin DIMM (with LEDs), DDR2 PC2-6400 memory module
BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC 512MB PCIe 2.0
2 500gb sata
3 x 2.0 USB Devices
5 Case fans
Linksys WMP600n
Wondering if you can give me a little bit of a hand. Have self built machine just over a yr now, working perfectly up till now. Without me making any changes hardware wise (possible windows update) it now has started to not boot or post.
Symthoms :
Machine turns on, chasis, CPU and GPU fans startup.......... no beep and then chasis and I believe CPU fan increase RPMs and machine sits there.
Things Ive noticed :
My RAM which has LEDs will, after the fans initially startup, light up and LEDs will display load through RAM. - This is not happening.
I could stop and restart the machine 50 times and it may come to post and boot one out of the 50 if I am lucky.
If I leave the machine plugged out for a long period (12 - 18 hours) the machine seems to post and boot 1st time 98% of the time.
Troubleshooting steps taken:
This is not in a particular order but..
Mobo swapped out
RAM swapped out
GPU Swapped out
All peripherals inc HDDs plugged out
All chasis fans plugged out
PCI Wireless Card out
Comment:
You'll see from my spec below that Ive a ASUS P5E which I know has had some issues with RAM voltage etc and I am wondering if anyone can explain this to me and if there are settings in my BIOS I can look at to figure this out. Everything in there is set to auto at the moment. Also attached are the screenies of BIOS.
I am thinking its PSU but before I go off and buy a new one I just want to make sure as will spend a good bit of money on a decent PSU.
SPEC:
ASUS P5E Socket 775
Intel Q6600 2.4GHz Go Step
Ballistix Tracer 240-pin DIMM (with LEDs), DDR2 PC2-6400 memory module
BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC 512MB PCIe 2.0
2 500gb sata
3 x 2.0 USB Devices
5 Case fans
Linksys WMP600n
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