Earlier this year, I built my second desktop computer. Everything is new, except for the re-use of my PSU which was purchased in 2012. (The PSU was expensive, and I thought I could save some money if I used it again.)
Anyway, something is wrong now, and I’m asking for help to try to figure out what it is and what to do next.
The issue I’m having is that my computer will no longer boot up. The problem began about 5 months ago when I noticed my computer would not boot up on the first press of the “ON” button. It did boot up on the second press. After that, all seemed well for about a month, then it happened again. That time, it took about 7 presses of the ON button to get it to boot up.
Since then, it would boot up inconsistently – sometimes with one press – other times with multiple presses. As time went on, I would get the occasional 1-press boot up, but the multi-press boot ups were becoming more frequent and increasing to about 30+ presses of the ON button before it would start. About a month ago, I reached the point of no return, and it will no longer boot up.
From the beginning, I noticed a couple of minor issues related to my motherboard. They seemed minor enough to me that I simply let them be. The first involved onboard LEDs that would not go off after shut down (they remained on constantly). The other was a BIOS setting that was supposed to let the fans run for about 2 minutes after shutdown – this never worked – the fans always stopped immediately at shutdown.
Does anyone have any thoughts on whether this is a PSU or a motherboard issue – or both? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth Z170 S
Processor: Intel i7 6700K 4.00 GHz
SSD: Samsung NVMe SM951 128GB M.2 PCIe 3.0
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 SDRAM 2400
PSU: OCZ – ZX1250W (purchased 2012)
GPU: On processor (no separate card)
OS: WIN 10
Anyway, something is wrong now, and I’m asking for help to try to figure out what it is and what to do next.
The issue I’m having is that my computer will no longer boot up. The problem began about 5 months ago when I noticed my computer would not boot up on the first press of the “ON” button. It did boot up on the second press. After that, all seemed well for about a month, then it happened again. That time, it took about 7 presses of the ON button to get it to boot up.
Since then, it would boot up inconsistently – sometimes with one press – other times with multiple presses. As time went on, I would get the occasional 1-press boot up, but the multi-press boot ups were becoming more frequent and increasing to about 30+ presses of the ON button before it would start. About a month ago, I reached the point of no return, and it will no longer boot up.
From the beginning, I noticed a couple of minor issues related to my motherboard. They seemed minor enough to me that I simply let them be. The first involved onboard LEDs that would not go off after shut down (they remained on constantly). The other was a BIOS setting that was supposed to let the fans run for about 2 minutes after shutdown – this never worked – the fans always stopped immediately at shutdown.
Does anyone have any thoughts on whether this is a PSU or a motherboard issue – or both? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth Z170 S
Processor: Intel i7 6700K 4.00 GHz
SSD: Samsung NVMe SM951 128GB M.2 PCIe 3.0
Memory: G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 SDRAM 2400
PSU: OCZ – ZX1250W (purchased 2012)
GPU: On processor (no separate card)
OS: WIN 10
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