Hi folks,
Bit of a strange one this...here goes.
At the start of the week, I got some more RAM for my computer, putting it up to 32gb from 16gb, and things were going fine for a couple of days. Then yesterday, I booted my machine up, and after about 30 minutes or so, it shut itself down, and I noticed a funny burning smell.
Initially thinking it was the PSU, I opened the case up and tried booting again, and noticed a small plume of smoke coming from the OS hard drive (I have 2 drives in the computer). So, I disconnected it, and tried booting again, and almost cause a fire as the SATA cable coming from the motherboard was touching the bottom of the case, needless to say everything was powered down immediately! The connection on the cable melted slightly by the looks of it as well, so that's out the window obviously.
So, trying to figure out what has caused this, I done some searching on here and started going through some procedures. Firstly, I disconnected all the drives and removed the flawed cable, and tried booting to see if I could get into the BIOS...and got nothing. At this stage, the computer was attempting to switch on, stayed on for about 5 seconds, then shut down, then tried to reboot itself, only to shut down again e.t.c. I removed the new ram modules I inserted and got the same issue. So then I removed the original 2 ram modules, and it began to stay on, but still no BIOS. I then decided to put in the 2 new ram modules I got back in, and got the same result.
Then I removed the 3rd party graphics card I use, and all of a sudden I get into my BIOS! So I tried rebooting with my OS hard drive, and the system doesn't seem to recognize it being connected, only giving me the option to boot from a USB multicard reader.
The only beep I'm getting throughout this whole process as well is when I have the OS hard drive connected and it tries to boot.
This has me very stumped to say the least, as I'm really unsure if the problem is with the motherboard, the ram, the hard drive, or the graphics card (and what the hell actually caused this in the first place!)
Some more info on what I'm using :
Motherboard : - ASROCK B75 ProM-3
Original RAM : DDR3 1333MHZ 8GB x2
New RAM : DDR3 1600MHZ 8GB x2
Graphics Card : Sapphire Radeon HD5450 1GB
Hard Drives : 2x Seagate Barracuda Green 1TB
Only realized after all this commotion happened the difference in the MHZ in the RAM modules, although from reading on here this shouldn't be much of an issue?
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated, before I end up taking a 2x4 to the lot lol
Bit of a strange one this...here goes.
At the start of the week, I got some more RAM for my computer, putting it up to 32gb from 16gb, and things were going fine for a couple of days. Then yesterday, I booted my machine up, and after about 30 minutes or so, it shut itself down, and I noticed a funny burning smell.
Initially thinking it was the PSU, I opened the case up and tried booting again, and noticed a small plume of smoke coming from the OS hard drive (I have 2 drives in the computer). So, I disconnected it, and tried booting again, and almost cause a fire as the SATA cable coming from the motherboard was touching the bottom of the case, needless to say everything was powered down immediately! The connection on the cable melted slightly by the looks of it as well, so that's out the window obviously.
So, trying to figure out what has caused this, I done some searching on here and started going through some procedures. Firstly, I disconnected all the drives and removed the flawed cable, and tried booting to see if I could get into the BIOS...and got nothing. At this stage, the computer was attempting to switch on, stayed on for about 5 seconds, then shut down, then tried to reboot itself, only to shut down again e.t.c. I removed the new ram modules I inserted and got the same issue. So then I removed the original 2 ram modules, and it began to stay on, but still no BIOS. I then decided to put in the 2 new ram modules I got back in, and got the same result.
Then I removed the 3rd party graphics card I use, and all of a sudden I get into my BIOS! So I tried rebooting with my OS hard drive, and the system doesn't seem to recognize it being connected, only giving me the option to boot from a USB multicard reader.
The only beep I'm getting throughout this whole process as well is when I have the OS hard drive connected and it tries to boot.
This has me very stumped to say the least, as I'm really unsure if the problem is with the motherboard, the ram, the hard drive, or the graphics card (and what the hell actually caused this in the first place!)
Some more info on what I'm using :
Motherboard : - ASROCK B75 ProM-3
Original RAM : DDR3 1333MHZ 8GB x2
New RAM : DDR3 1600MHZ 8GB x2
Graphics Card : Sapphire Radeon HD5450 1GB
Hard Drives : 2x Seagate Barracuda Green 1TB
Only realized after all this commotion happened the difference in the MHZ in the RAM modules, although from reading on here this shouldn't be much of an issue?
Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated, before I end up taking a 2x4 to the lot lol
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