First off, I'd like to express my gratitude to this forum for the years of assistance it's provided me in my lurking. This is the first time I've experienced what seems to be an unidentifiable (for me, at least) hardware issue but I'm assuming the error lies with the motherboard or its close relatives. I'll jump into the specs and a little bit of history before explaining the issue.
Specs:
CPU: i7 2600k, purchased in 2011, has spent the majority of its uptime at a stable overclock of 4.6 GHz.
Cooling: Corsair H60 water cooling unit (as far as I recall)
Power Supply: Corsair AX750
Memory: 16GB Corsair DDR3, given to me by a friend during his upgrade back in 2013.
GPU: MSI GTX 970, installed as an upgrade around the time it came out last year.
Mobo: Asus P8P67 EVO
Now onto the issue, which is a complete absence of any power when I attempt to turn the machine on. A couple of nights ago, everything was running great like usual, I shut it down for the night but then decided to quickly boot it back up to access my girlfriend's email for her but there were no signs of life whatsoever. Not a failure to boot but a lack of power like I had forgotten to plug it in or was using a bad outlet.
The next morning the issue persisted and I decided to reinstall the RAM and GPU to no effect. I tried, to my limited knowledge, ensuring that no leads on the motherboard had been jostled out of place and that the power supply wasn't missing any connections. Nothing seemed out of place so this didn't work either. The following morning I plugged in the machine and it booted fine. I left it running all day for fear the issue might return, which it did last night when I powered down and checked to see if it would be able to power back on: it didn't.
I have neither cleaned, opened, nor moved this machine since it's moved to my new apartment within the last 6 months or so which is why I struggle to believe the the internal connections have been affected. Until now, the machine's been running great and although I haven't been running programs to monitor its temperatures, I have no reason to believe anything's being overheated.
My limited knowledge leads me to the assumption that this could possibly be as simple as the cmos battery failing. That's what I hope at least. Any help or opinions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Specs:
CPU: i7 2600k, purchased in 2011, has spent the majority of its uptime at a stable overclock of 4.6 GHz.
Cooling: Corsair H60 water cooling unit (as far as I recall)
Power Supply: Corsair AX750
Memory: 16GB Corsair DDR3, given to me by a friend during his upgrade back in 2013.
GPU: MSI GTX 970, installed as an upgrade around the time it came out last year.
Mobo: Asus P8P67 EVO
Now onto the issue, which is a complete absence of any power when I attempt to turn the machine on. A couple of nights ago, everything was running great like usual, I shut it down for the night but then decided to quickly boot it back up to access my girlfriend's email for her but there were no signs of life whatsoever. Not a failure to boot but a lack of power like I had forgotten to plug it in or was using a bad outlet.
The next morning the issue persisted and I decided to reinstall the RAM and GPU to no effect. I tried, to my limited knowledge, ensuring that no leads on the motherboard had been jostled out of place and that the power supply wasn't missing any connections. Nothing seemed out of place so this didn't work either. The following morning I plugged in the machine and it booted fine. I left it running all day for fear the issue might return, which it did last night when I powered down and checked to see if it would be able to power back on: it didn't.
I have neither cleaned, opened, nor moved this machine since it's moved to my new apartment within the last 6 months or so which is why I struggle to believe the the internal connections have been affected. Until now, the machine's been running great and although I haven't been running programs to monitor its temperatures, I have no reason to believe anything's being overheated.
My limited knowledge leads me to the assumption that this could possibly be as simple as the cmos battery failing. That's what I hope at least. Any help or opinions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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