So about 5 months ago, I built myself a gaming PC. It hasn't given me any problems at all until today.
I was gaming, and I decided to go to the gas station to get some mtn dew, so I just left my PC on like I always do. I wasn't gone for more than half an hour.
When I got home, I went to wake it up, and it wouldn't do anything at all. There were no lights on the keyboard or mouse, the monitors had no signal, and the CPU fan wasn't spinning. The fan and mobo lights were still on though, along with the fans on my GPUs. I tried pressing the power button to wake it up, and even after I held it down for close to 20 seconds nothing at all happened. I had to toggle the power from my power strip to get it to turn off.
I then rebooted it, and it just sat there. The CPU fan didn't spin up at all, so I started getting afraid that my fan (which I had replaced with a quieter one a few months ago) hadn't burned out, thus causing my CPU to melt.
I removed the heat sink and switched the fan back to the one it had came with, and I plugged everything back in, and turned it on. The fan spun up and the monitor showed the bios screen. I though it was over but nope. I made it all the way to the windows 7 booting screen when the PC just died again. The cpu fan stopped spinning, the mouse and keyboard lights went out, and the monitors stopped showing anything. It was back to exactly how it was when I found it when I gto home. I had to unplug it again to turn it off, and when i rebooted it it did exactly what it had been doing before I switched the fans.
Specs:
AMD FX-6300, not overclocked
Stock heatsink
MSI 970A-G46 motherboard
8gb DDR3-1600 ram from an old HP (barely used though)
Corsair CX600 PSU
(2x) AMD Sapphire Radeon HD 7750 GPU's (the 1gb DDR5 versions), non-crossfire
1tb Seagate Barracuda
Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
Its like my PC has gone into a coma. Please help.
I was gaming, and I decided to go to the gas station to get some mtn dew, so I just left my PC on like I always do. I wasn't gone for more than half an hour.
When I got home, I went to wake it up, and it wouldn't do anything at all. There were no lights on the keyboard or mouse, the monitors had no signal, and the CPU fan wasn't spinning. The fan and mobo lights were still on though, along with the fans on my GPUs. I tried pressing the power button to wake it up, and even after I held it down for close to 20 seconds nothing at all happened. I had to toggle the power from my power strip to get it to turn off.
I then rebooted it, and it just sat there. The CPU fan didn't spin up at all, so I started getting afraid that my fan (which I had replaced with a quieter one a few months ago) hadn't burned out, thus causing my CPU to melt.
I removed the heat sink and switched the fan back to the one it had came with, and I plugged everything back in, and turned it on. The fan spun up and the monitor showed the bios screen. I though it was over but nope. I made it all the way to the windows 7 booting screen when the PC just died again. The cpu fan stopped spinning, the mouse and keyboard lights went out, and the monitors stopped showing anything. It was back to exactly how it was when I found it when I gto home. I had to unplug it again to turn it off, and when i rebooted it it did exactly what it had been doing before I switched the fans.
Specs:
AMD FX-6300, not overclocked
Stock heatsink
MSI 970A-G46 motherboard
8gb DDR3-1600 ram from an old HP (barely used though)
Corsair CX600 PSU
(2x) AMD Sapphire Radeon HD 7750 GPU's (the 1gb DDR5 versions), non-crossfire
1tb Seagate Barracuda
Windows 7 ultimate 64 bit
Its like my PC has gone into a coma. Please help.
Now would be a good time to consider a new power supply like the one I listed in my first post.
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