I added a new HDD yesterday involving some additional cable management after which I struggled to get my computer to boot up even to bios until I removed and reinserted the ram and reset the cmos. Thought everything was fine but after turning it off I discovered I need to re-insert the ram every time now just to get it started up. When I do that it runs fine even for long periods of time and under heavy stress like gaming. If I don't the PC powers on but no picture comes on screen and the fans keep spinning at full speed.
What should I try to fix it? I have no spare parts to experiment with. Only the HDD is new, the CPU/GPU/mobo/PSU/RAM combo has worked fine for 20 months before this. The PSU should easily have capacity for another HDD and when I tried unplugging both HDDs and just starting up with the SSD it changed nothing.
i7-4790k w/ macho rev b
gigabyte gtx 970 windforce
gigabyte z97 sniper
g.skill ram 2x8gb
xtr xfx something psu
250gb pny ssd + 2x wd red 3tb hdd
What should I try to fix it? I have no spare parts to experiment with. Only the HDD is new, the CPU/GPU/mobo/PSU/RAM combo has worked fine for 20 months before this. The PSU should easily have capacity for another HDD and when I tried unplugging both HDDs and just starting up with the SSD it changed nothing.
i7-4790k w/ macho rev b
gigabyte gtx 970 windforce
gigabyte z97 sniper
g.skill ram 2x8gb
xtr xfx something psu
250gb pny ssd + 2x wd red 3tb hdd