Possible Bad Motherboard ?

OrangeCoffee

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Unsure if I'm wrongly diagnosing this problem. So the issues; ASUS anti surge tripping on startup. Tried a new psu, same problem. Moved power sockets and even installed a surge protector so PSU is good, I've checked the wiring and all is good.

Secondly. It has started hanging on the windows start screen (The little spinning circle before lock screen) when its restarted but not from powering on. It does eventually get to the lock screen and works fine but takes about two minutes which is wrong for a PC of this spec.

Thirdly, every once in a while when starting up my second screen shows no image but is being detected and wont show anything until I restart. All the wiring is fine, there seems to be no rhyme or reason to when it happens. So my thinking is now that it has to be the motherboard as its the connecting link to all these problems ? Although if someone could prove me wrong I would be delighted. Thanks so much guys !

I7 6700K Standard Clock
Quadro K620 GPU
ASUS Z170 A Mobo
8GB Corsair Vengeance Ram
Corsair CX500M PSU
One SSD and Two HDD's
CM Hyper Evo 212 Cooler
 

OrangeCoffee

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Full Specs ;
I7 6700K Standard Clock
Quadro K620 GPU
ASUS Z170 A Mobo
8GB Corsair Vengeance Ram
Corsair CX500M PSU
One SSD and Two HDD's
CM Hyper Evo 212 Cooler

Thanks !

 

OrangeCoffee

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Haven't tried loading defaults yet as not sure how to on my board, just looking at the manual. What does Clearing CMOS actually do ? As I'm always fairly nervous when poking near the BIOS


 

kfarris

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Lol, :). Fear not it simply resets the bios settings. If you don't know how to jumper the pin on the motherboard simply unplug the computer from the outlet and remove the battery that's on the motherboard wait a min or two put it back in and power on. That will also clear (reset) the bios. Simply load defaults and you may have to select which boot option for you os to boot normally.


Update it's basically like when you play a game and turn the settings up and it runs like crap cuss usually your GPU can't handle it so you return them to stock so the game runs smoothly. Basically what we are doing to the motherboard.