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PC in a reboot loop

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October 15, 2014 4:19:50 AM

After having my PC for over 18 months now, it has decided to go into a reboot loop.

Upon pressing the power button, everything appears normal; fans spin up, lights come on, and it sounds like the disk spins up too. But after about 5/6 seconds, after nothing appears on the monitor, the system crashes and reboots.

Firstly, it isn't software, i've tried several other drives with operating systems on, and the problem continues.

My motherboard gives me an error code of 55, which apparently relates to RAM. However not only have i tried another set of ram sticks, but i have also tried varying the order the sticks go into the slots, and the problem still continues.

Has anyone come across this before?

(I chose the category of motherboards for this thread as that is what i think the problem most likely is)

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a b V Motherboard
October 15, 2014 4:27:24 AM

If you can, try reapplying thermal paste on the cpu.

The boot cycle can also be caused by the cpu trying to protect itself from overheating..

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October 15, 2014 4:34:01 AM

plaintuts said:
If you can, try reapplying thermal paste on the cpu.

The boot cycle can also be caused by the cpu trying to protect itself from overheating..



Does it make a difference that i have an all in one water cooled cpu cooler? Or is it still worth applying some paste?
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a b V Motherboard
October 15, 2014 4:41:13 AM

Especially if you overclock.. Paste dries up and hardens after sometime.
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October 15, 2014 7:38:48 AM

Try this first:

Unplug the power cable from the PSU/wall outlet, open the case up and disconnect all power connectors that come from the PSU to all different components (mobo, drives, GPU, etc), once that is all disconnected press the power button about 10 times and on the 11th time hold it down for about 30 seconds. After letting go, hook all cables back up and try to boot
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