- Jan 18, 2015
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The specs:
Dell XPS 8900 (less then 6 months old)
Core I7 6700
Radeon HD 7970 Ghz Edition
550W power supply
16 GB Ram
1 TB Hard Drive
All drivers -updated- and clean OS re-install
The Problem:
I press the power button and the computer starts but has absolutely no video. No bios screen -nothing. I don't hear the video card fan rev up or the hard drive engage. After about 3 minutes, I have to do a hard shut-down (holding the power button until it shuts off). About 3 seconds later, the computer powers on by itself and then shuts off after another 3 seconds. When it does this, if I count 1, 2, 3 and hit the power button -it will start up normally about 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time it will not do anything for about 1-2 minutes and then start up by itself again with no video whatsoever or fan rev up or hard drive engage. Then I must do another hard shut-down and start the process all over again. Occasionally it will go into Windows recovery because it says I am having problems starting up and it says my hard drive is not found. I know my video card is under powered by the 550W PS but we are just talking about OS start-up here, not intensive graphics power during a game. Could it be the PS or is it something else I am missing? Also another problem I am having and not sure if it is related or not is that my clock is never correct on start-up. It is usually several hours off. I was thinking of replacing the motherboard battery.
Dell XPS 8900 (less then 6 months old)
Core I7 6700
Radeon HD 7970 Ghz Edition
550W power supply
16 GB Ram
1 TB Hard Drive
All drivers -updated- and clean OS re-install
The Problem:
I press the power button and the computer starts but has absolutely no video. No bios screen -nothing. I don't hear the video card fan rev up or the hard drive engage. After about 3 minutes, I have to do a hard shut-down (holding the power button until it shuts off). About 3 seconds later, the computer powers on by itself and then shuts off after another 3 seconds. When it does this, if I count 1, 2, 3 and hit the power button -it will start up normally about 75% of the time. The other 25% of the time it will not do anything for about 1-2 minutes and then start up by itself again with no video whatsoever or fan rev up or hard drive engage. Then I must do another hard shut-down and start the process all over again. Occasionally it will go into Windows recovery because it says I am having problems starting up and it says my hard drive is not found. I know my video card is under powered by the 550W PS but we are just talking about OS start-up here, not intensive graphics power during a game. Could it be the PS or is it something else I am missing? Also another problem I am having and not sure if it is related or not is that my clock is never correct on start-up. It is usually several hours off. I was thinking of replacing the motherboard battery.
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