Wrrrrrp! PC won't boot...

Ole

Ole

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Morning gents

As the title says, I have a problem...

I'm not sure if this part is relevant, but it seems it might be. My Windows 7 system had an annoying habit of going to sleep when left and then not waking when I moved the mouse/mashed the keyboard. Each time it happened I had to re-boot the system, which was pretty annoying. I have looked for a solution to this for a while, and last night I tried some more things, including turning off "hybrid sleep" and never allowing hibernation.

I left it on over night to test it... a test it failed. I went to the system, it didn't wake, and then when I pressed the reset button it starting making a "wrrrrppp" sound every 6-7 seconds and not booting. I'm not sure whether these two things are connected, or whether the hard drive has just gone? Specs are below:

Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail
Sapphire HD 7850 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card
Samsung SH-S222ABBEBE 22x DVD±RW SATA ReWriter (Black) - OEM
Crucial RealSSD M4 128GB 2.5" SATA 6Gbs Solid State Hard Drive
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Gelid Tranquillo CPU Cooler
Corsair VX 450W ATX PSU

Can anyone offer any help?

Cheers
 
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That's quite a low wattage do you have your gpu overclocked or your cpu? If you do take the oc off and give it a try.
 
borley said:
That's quite a low wattage do you have your gpu overclocked or your cpu? If you do take the oc off and give it a try.
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I have the CPU overclocked and a mild overclock on the GPU too. All worked fine like that up till now.

I don't even get to the boot screen though, so I don't think I can get into BIOS to take the overclock off the CPU?
 
I have exactly the same problem and have a Gigabyte mobo, UD5H.

I am running overclocks on GPU and CPU so I guess it could be that.
 
Tobes said:
I have exactly the same problem and have a Gigabyte mobo, UD5H.

I am running overclocks on GPU and CPU so I guess it could be that.
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Do you mean the same issue with it going to sleep? Or has your system also "died"?
 
I think it's going to sleep but not waking up correctly. My fans speed up but no output on display. I then have to hold the power switch to turn it off and on.

Hibernation is off but sleep is on after 30 minutes. I'm thinking it might be a bios setting if not then I might go to stock clocks just to see if it happens then.
 
Unfortunately I can't even get to the BIOS, I'm seeing nothing on the screen.

What's the best next step in this situation?
 
30 mins? You don't need to even remove the battery, clear CMOS should be ample and for the times it's not, 5 seconds battery removal should be sufficient(if you're concerned about leftover charge in the mobo, hit the power button(on the case) with the PSU turnt off - that should remove any remaining power/charge).
 
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another m4,id be looking at the firmware on it first,seen many have the 5400hour bug

if its not waking from sleep its usually a bios issue or memory/voltage/setting related
 
Thanks chaps. I'll whip the battery out tonight and let you know how I get on. Fingers crossed that will do the job.

If it does I'll be sure to update the M4 firmware - cheers for the tip.
 
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