- Mar 9, 2014
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So I built my PC about a month and a half ago or so now, and i was having a recurring issue where infrequently my computer would randomly turn off (but all the case lights stayed on, and the "accessing hard drive" LED was still blinking) and sometimes turn immediately back on. Other times I would have to manually turn it off. Sometimes I would have no more issues that day, other times it seemed to happen multiple times a day.
Last weekend it was happening a lot (by a lot, I mean when it would happen, it would immediately happen again upon manually rebooting), so I took turned off the switch on my PSU, replugged the cables into it (3 SETA power cords, 1 graphics card power cord, rest are "un-unpluggable), turned the switch back on, and tried to turn on my computer and it would not.
The next day I did the same thing, and it turned on. But about 20 minutes later it did the thing again, so I removed the graphics card from the mother board (I was told that might be the problem) and tried again. Now it won't turn on at all (this was yesterday). Today when I was trying I noticed there was (what I assume to be) a heat sync that was hot, even though the motherboard wouldn't turn on. I flipped off the switch on my PSU to let it cool down, and it is still not turning on.
Does this mean I have a bad motherboard? Bad PSU?
Just in case I am wrong and it's not a heat sync, the "thing" I am referring to is the blue block labeled ASRock on the bottom right of the picture.
http://i.imgur.com/DVRa7tZ.jpg
Last weekend it was happening a lot (by a lot, I mean when it would happen, it would immediately happen again upon manually rebooting), so I took turned off the switch on my PSU, replugged the cables into it (3 SETA power cords, 1 graphics card power cord, rest are "un-unpluggable), turned the switch back on, and tried to turn on my computer and it would not.
The next day I did the same thing, and it turned on. But about 20 minutes later it did the thing again, so I removed the graphics card from the mother board (I was told that might be the problem) and tried again. Now it won't turn on at all (this was yesterday). Today when I was trying I noticed there was (what I assume to be) a heat sync that was hot, even though the motherboard wouldn't turn on. I flipped off the switch on my PSU to let it cool down, and it is still not turning on.
Does this mean I have a bad motherboard? Bad PSU?
Just in case I am wrong and it's not a heat sync, the "thing" I am referring to is the blue block labeled ASRock on the bottom right of the picture.
http://i.imgur.com/DVRa7tZ.jpg
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