- May 6, 2014
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Some background on my issue: I had been having a lot of slowdowns and random shutdowns on my PC lately, and figured it was the hard drive failing. Since this is as good of a time as any to get an SSD, I ordered one from Amazon and installed it to do a clean Windows install. The install went fine, but the random shutdowns continued and became more frequent, as well as a number of freezes.
The issue itself: I tried several solutions to make the computer stop shutting down randomly, and while rebooting at one point, my system stopped posting. What happens now is all the fans will spin up and my video card will glow, but I won't see anything on my screen, whereas I would normally see my motherboard logo as well as boot and BIOS options. After about 30 seconds, everything will shut off, and then spin/light back up again, only to shut off again 30 seconds later, and the cycle continues endlessly on a loop. I tried everything to get this working again, including unplugging all hard drives, only using one stick of RAM, testing each stick individually, clearing out the CMOS, pulling out the video card and using Intel graphics instead, but still the same thing happens.
Is there anything I'm missing that can get my PC working again? Or is it motherboard failure? Or something else entirely?
Specs:
Intel Core i7-3770
16 GB DDR3-1333 RAM
Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H motherboard
Corsair 650W Power Supply
Crucial 480 GB SSD
NVidia GTX 960 4GB GPU
The issue itself: I tried several solutions to make the computer stop shutting down randomly, and while rebooting at one point, my system stopped posting. What happens now is all the fans will spin up and my video card will glow, but I won't see anything on my screen, whereas I would normally see my motherboard logo as well as boot and BIOS options. After about 30 seconds, everything will shut off, and then spin/light back up again, only to shut off again 30 seconds later, and the cycle continues endlessly on a loop. I tried everything to get this working again, including unplugging all hard drives, only using one stick of RAM, testing each stick individually, clearing out the CMOS, pulling out the video card and using Intel graphics instead, but still the same thing happens.
Is there anything I'm missing that can get my PC working again? Or is it motherboard failure? Or something else entirely?
Specs:
Intel Core i7-3770
16 GB DDR3-1333 RAM
Gigabyte GA-B75M-D3H motherboard
Corsair 650W Power Supply
Crucial 480 GB SSD
NVidia GTX 960 4GB GPU
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