Hi,
My PC was working all right, but my main case fan started to get noisy, so I took it out to clean it. After plugging everything back on, my PC doesn't boot at all. I have a Gigabyte GA-PH67A-UD3-B3 motherboard. When I press the boot button, the phase LED light flashes red once, then does nothing. (For that fraction of a second the CPU fan starts too, then stops.) It doesn't do anything until I turn off the electricity, then back on, and try to boot for the first time, then flash, and nothing again until I repeat the whole thing. In the meanwhile the case does get electricity, as my GPU's and my small outer HDD's power LED glow green continuously, even though the system doesn't start.
I cleaned most of the case a few days ago (with compressed air), and afterwards it turned back on without any issue, so I don't think I messed up the reassembly. I tried to Google the issue, and found clues that it may be a faulty PSU or motherboard, but this time I didn't go anywhere near either of those.
I tried to unplug the case fan I cleaned, but it doesn't make a difference, the PC still doesn't boot.
Any idea? It seems weird that something would go randomly faulty at the exact time I open the case, so I guess it happened because something I did.
My PC was working all right, but my main case fan started to get noisy, so I took it out to clean it. After plugging everything back on, my PC doesn't boot at all. I have a Gigabyte GA-PH67A-UD3-B3 motherboard. When I press the boot button, the phase LED light flashes red once, then does nothing. (For that fraction of a second the CPU fan starts too, then stops.) It doesn't do anything until I turn off the electricity, then back on, and try to boot for the first time, then flash, and nothing again until I repeat the whole thing. In the meanwhile the case does get electricity, as my GPU's and my small outer HDD's power LED glow green continuously, even though the system doesn't start.
I cleaned most of the case a few days ago (with compressed air), and afterwards it turned back on without any issue, so I don't think I messed up the reassembly. I tried to Google the issue, and found clues that it may be a faulty PSU or motherboard, but this time I didn't go anywhere near either of those.
I tried to unplug the case fan I cleaned, but it doesn't make a difference, the PC still doesn't boot.
Any idea? It seems weird that something would go randomly faulty at the exact time I open the case, so I guess it happened because something I did.
) . How old the fan was?
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