This morning after waking my computer from sleep, it refused to show signal to the monitor.
At first there was just no signal which has happened once or twice in the past and usually fixed from a hard restart.
After restarting my PC, it went into a restart loop where I'd stay on for a second and then restart.
I took out the motherboard battery for about an hour and tried it again. After that it does one of two things now;
1. It'll stay powered on (Still no signal or sound to the monitor/ headset)
2. It'll start go into a restart loop where it will stay on for 10-20 seconds, and restart.
I dont own a system sound beeper but plan on picking one up to help narrow the problem in the near future.
Things I've tried;
Disconnecting and reconnecting every cord with only the bare minimum connected
Switching to a known working GPU, and the onboard graphics
Switching to a known working PSU
Trying 1 RAM stick at a time to see if one of the 4 would work
re-applying the thermal paste on the cpu and heatsink
Switching to a known working Monitor
My Specs;
CPU: I5-4690k (about 2 years old, recently overclocked to 4.4ghz with the new heatsink purchase)
Heatsink/cooler; Cryorig h7 (About 2 months old)
Motherboard: Z97 Gigabyte gaming 5
GPU: EVGA SSC GTX 1080 (About 2 months old)
RAM: 4x4 DDR3
PSU: Corsair 500 (dont know the exact model but dont think its the issue since i've tried a 550w that works. Could provide the model if needed)
SSD: 1x128gb, 1x256gb
Monitor: Benq zowie xl2411
At this point I believe either the motherboard or CPU is probably dead? Any input would be helpful.
EDIT: After another try at the minimal boot, it restarted once and actually connected to the monitor and went into bios
(CPU+Cooler, Motherboard, PSU, Graphics card, SSD, 1 stick of RAM)
I checked all the temps and everything looked perfect. Loaded into windows and slowly connected my keyboard, mouse, ethernet cable and checked temps inside windows. Everything looked fine.
I restarted the PC and put in the rest of the ram. Wouldnt start up after that, just the restart loop.
Tried the same minimal boot as previously worked, and it did the restart loop again. So i cant get back into the bios again.
Im thinking maybe its time for a new motherboard + cpu? This must be the issue somewhere right? some kind of short circuit?
At first there was just no signal which has happened once or twice in the past and usually fixed from a hard restart.
After restarting my PC, it went into a restart loop where I'd stay on for a second and then restart.
I took out the motherboard battery for about an hour and tried it again. After that it does one of two things now;
1. It'll stay powered on (Still no signal or sound to the monitor/ headset)
2. It'll start go into a restart loop where it will stay on for 10-20 seconds, and restart.
I dont own a system sound beeper but plan on picking one up to help narrow the problem in the near future.
Things I've tried;
Disconnecting and reconnecting every cord with only the bare minimum connected
Switching to a known working GPU, and the onboard graphics
Switching to a known working PSU
Trying 1 RAM stick at a time to see if one of the 4 would work
re-applying the thermal paste on the cpu and heatsink
Switching to a known working Monitor
My Specs;
CPU: I5-4690k (about 2 years old, recently overclocked to 4.4ghz with the new heatsink purchase)
Heatsink/cooler; Cryorig h7 (About 2 months old)
Motherboard: Z97 Gigabyte gaming 5
GPU: EVGA SSC GTX 1080 (About 2 months old)
RAM: 4x4 DDR3
PSU: Corsair 500 (dont know the exact model but dont think its the issue since i've tried a 550w that works. Could provide the model if needed)
SSD: 1x128gb, 1x256gb
Monitor: Benq zowie xl2411
At this point I believe either the motherboard or CPU is probably dead? Any input would be helpful.
EDIT: After another try at the minimal boot, it restarted once and actually connected to the monitor and went into bios
(CPU+Cooler, Motherboard, PSU, Graphics card, SSD, 1 stick of RAM)
I checked all the temps and everything looked perfect. Loaded into windows and slowly connected my keyboard, mouse, ethernet cable and checked temps inside windows. Everything looked fine.
I restarted the PC and put in the rest of the ram. Wouldnt start up after that, just the restart loop.
Tried the same minimal boot as previously worked, and it did the restart loop again. So i cant get back into the bios again.
Im thinking maybe its time for a new motherboard + cpu? This must be the issue somewhere right? some kind of short circuit?
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