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Morning,
Last night I turned my pc on, and played some Skyrim...no issue there, then decided to play some SimCity. Within a minute or two the game crashed, odd I thought, then started the game again... and it crashed again. Very odd. Decided to reboot and the pc wouldn't turn on. Very annoying.
I took the side off the case, and pressed the power button, fans spun once and died. The pc kept doing this several times. No beep, no nothing. Ok, turn off leave try again. This time fans spun once.
Everything, apart from my case fans and water-cooling pump are less than a year old . The most recent component is an MSI R7950 Twin Frozr 3GDS, which is only a month - 6 weeks old perhaps.... at most.
I'm thinking it's either the power supply or the motherboard was my first thought. I decided to leave it til this morning to work it out.
This morning, I dig out an old motherboard and stick a few bits together and test my gpu and PSU. All boots first time. Well, almost first time... I forgot to plug the power cable into the spare HDD I had. Once that had power, everything worked as expected.
Put original pc back together to check. And it starts up. I go into the BIOS and see it's only registering 8 of my 16GB of ram.
This seems like the motherboard. Shutdown. I take out two sticks of ram. Power up. All good. Shutdown. Swap memory sticks. Power up. Still all good. Play Simcity for an hour. (Just to test y'know).
Turn pc off. Doesn't shutdown properly. Windows closes, fans keep spinning.
Convinced it is the motherboard.
Any other suggestions on things I can check before contacting OCUK about the board and asking for an RMA code?
Oh full spec is:
Intel 3770K
Asus PZ77-V LX
16Gb Samsung Low Profile Green Ram
MSI R7950 Twin Frozr 3GDS
Samsung 830 256GB SSD
500Gb SATA3 Western Digital Drive
Corsair TX750M psu
Window8 Pro 64 bit
Thanks
Last night I turned my pc on, and played some Skyrim...no issue there, then decided to play some SimCity. Within a minute or two the game crashed, odd I thought, then started the game again... and it crashed again. Very odd. Decided to reboot and the pc wouldn't turn on. Very annoying.
I took the side off the case, and pressed the power button, fans spun once and died. The pc kept doing this several times. No beep, no nothing. Ok, turn off leave try again. This time fans spun once.
Everything, apart from my case fans and water-cooling pump are less than a year old . The most recent component is an MSI R7950 Twin Frozr 3GDS, which is only a month - 6 weeks old perhaps.... at most.
I'm thinking it's either the power supply or the motherboard was my first thought. I decided to leave it til this morning to work it out.
This morning, I dig out an old motherboard and stick a few bits together and test my gpu and PSU. All boots first time. Well, almost first time... I forgot to plug the power cable into the spare HDD I had. Once that had power, everything worked as expected.
Put original pc back together to check. And it starts up. I go into the BIOS and see it's only registering 8 of my 16GB of ram.
This seems like the motherboard. Shutdown. I take out two sticks of ram. Power up. All good. Shutdown. Swap memory sticks. Power up. Still all good. Play Simcity for an hour. (Just to test y'know).
Turn pc off. Doesn't shutdown properly. Windows closes, fans keep spinning.
Convinced it is the motherboard.
Any other suggestions on things I can check before contacting OCUK about the board and asking for an RMA code?
Oh full spec is:
Intel 3770K
Asus PZ77-V LX
16Gb Samsung Low Profile Green Ram
MSI R7950 Twin Frozr 3GDS
Samsung 830 256GB SSD
500Gb SATA3 Western Digital Drive
Corsair TX750M psu
Window8 Pro 64 bit
Thanks
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