I posted this the other day on reddit's techsupport sub without any help, Tom's Hardware has never let me down so I'm hoping to get some guidance here:
I was using my computer no issue last Friday night, and shut it down as usual. Saturday morning it suddenly had issues for no apparent reason; after trying to turn it on it displayed the motherboard screen as usual, but then went to a black screen with flashing grey underscore before starting up BIOS, and it wouldn't proceed beyond that, no matter how long I let it run (I let sit for about 45 minutes at one point, still no dice). Here's picture of what I'm talking about: http://imgur.com/BPqrSSG
Pushing the F1 through F12 buttons on my keyboard does nothing but make a beep come from the motherboard itself, there aren't any beeps coming from the mobo during start-up besides that. I've also removed all USB devices, but nothing changed. I've removed the CMOS battery, which allowed me to start up BIOS once, but after trying to boot again from BIOS it went back to the black screen with flashing underscore. Now restarting with the CMOS battery in or out does nothing either, it goes back to that same black screen after flashing the motherboard model.
My system is about 5/6 years old, custom built, running:
Windows 7
EVGA P55V motherboard 120-LF-E651-TR
Intel i7-875k CPU
EVGA 470 GPU (forget the exact model and can't find it in my newegg order history)
Western Digital Blue WD6400AAKS
The PSU is 700 Watts (I think), more than enough to power everything
There are four sticks of ram, two with 4gb, the other two with 2gb each. I tried booting with one of the 4gb only, then the other, then only the two 2gb sticks, nothing changed.
At this point I'm guessing it's the mobo, although hopefully it's something simple to replace, i.e. the psu or gpu. Anyone else have any advice or tips? Looks pretty bleak for me to repair it on my own at this point. I've been looking at just building a new system, but I'd rather not spend the money right now so hopefully it won't come to that.
I was using my computer no issue last Friday night, and shut it down as usual. Saturday morning it suddenly had issues for no apparent reason; after trying to turn it on it displayed the motherboard screen as usual, but then went to a black screen with flashing grey underscore before starting up BIOS, and it wouldn't proceed beyond that, no matter how long I let it run (I let sit for about 45 minutes at one point, still no dice). Here's picture of what I'm talking about: http://imgur.com/BPqrSSG
Pushing the F1 through F12 buttons on my keyboard does nothing but make a beep come from the motherboard itself, there aren't any beeps coming from the mobo during start-up besides that. I've also removed all USB devices, but nothing changed. I've removed the CMOS battery, which allowed me to start up BIOS once, but after trying to boot again from BIOS it went back to the black screen with flashing underscore. Now restarting with the CMOS battery in or out does nothing either, it goes back to that same black screen after flashing the motherboard model.
My system is about 5/6 years old, custom built, running:
Windows 7
EVGA P55V motherboard 120-LF-E651-TR
Intel i7-875k CPU
EVGA 470 GPU (forget the exact model and can't find it in my newegg order history)
Western Digital Blue WD6400AAKS
The PSU is 700 Watts (I think), more than enough to power everything
There are four sticks of ram, two with 4gb, the other two with 2gb each. I tried booting with one of the 4gb only, then the other, then only the two 2gb sticks, nothing changed.
At this point I'm guessing it's the mobo, although hopefully it's something simple to replace, i.e. the psu or gpu. Anyone else have any advice or tips? Looks pretty bleak for me to repair it on my own at this point. I've been looking at just building a new system, but I'd rather not spend the money right now so hopefully it won't come to that.
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