Heya,
I hope this is the right forum for this question.
A few days ago, my computer stopped booting. Well, it's a bit more complicated. If I hit the power button, one of these 3 things happens:
Things I've tried: Disconnected all drives, Booting with minimal configuration, Booting outside the case on cardboard, Resetting CMOS (jumper), different RAM slots, different RAM modules, different GPU.
Things I can't try because I don't have spare parts: Swapping PSU, CPU, Mainboard.
Components:
Asus Sabertooth Z77
Intel i7 2600k
2x 4GB Corsair Vengeance (swapped with 2x 4GB Kingston HyperX for testing)
nVidia GTX 960 (swapped with GTX 560 Ti for testing)
BeQuiet StraightPower 680W
Does anyone have an idea if it's the CPU, the mainboard or the PSU? I feel like if it was the PSU it would never boot properly. But then again, it would also be strange if a broken CPU/mainboard would boot perfectly fine sometimes and other times not work at all... :-/
I hope this is the right forum for this question.
A few days ago, my computer stopped booting. Well, it's a bit more complicated. If I hit the power button, one of these 3 things happens:
- PC goes into some kind of boot loop. Fans turn on, off, fans turn on, off, .... No BIOS POST or anything like that.
- No boot loop, BIOS beeps "No VGA detected" (<- I think) once and screen stays black (still no BIOS POST)
- Rarely: Computer boots up perfectly normal and I'm able to use for hours without any problems on Windows 7 and Ubuntu (until I turn it off and want to start it again). I think this happens mainly after I change my RAM installation (remove a module, put a new one in, change slots, ....)
Things I've tried: Disconnected all drives, Booting with minimal configuration, Booting outside the case on cardboard, Resetting CMOS (jumper), different RAM slots, different RAM modules, different GPU.
Things I can't try because I don't have spare parts: Swapping PSU, CPU, Mainboard.
Components:
Asus Sabertooth Z77
Intel i7 2600k
2x 4GB Corsair Vengeance (swapped with 2x 4GB Kingston HyperX for testing)
nVidia GTX 960 (swapped with GTX 560 Ti for testing)
BeQuiet StraightPower 680W
Does anyone have an idea if it's the CPU, the mainboard or the PSU? I feel like if it was the PSU it would never boot properly. But then again, it would also be strange if a broken CPU/mainboard would boot perfectly fine sometimes and other times not work at all... :-/
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