- Dec 23, 2017
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Hi all, here goes:
Upon turning on my PC over the past couple of months I found that it gets as far as the "Press F2" screen (not sure what it's called) but it won't boot the OS from the hard drive. Repeated restarts (sometimes 1, sometimes 3 or more) got it to boot properly.
I ran the hard drive error check but that brought back nothing of concern.
THEN...
Over the last week I've had 3 crashes - no blue screen, nothing in the Windows Reliability report thing, just complete seize-ups. The sound goes to a constant tone and the screen stays on, frozen on the last thing I was doing before the crash, and I had to power it off and on to get it working, which resulted in some more of the above issue.
Now, after the 3rd crash, it won't boot the OS at all, no matter how many times I restart it, nor will it allow me to press F2 or Delete to get into the motherboard settings.
While I built this PC myself, with plenty of advice from others, I'm in no way an expert, and in particular I've little experience with troubleshooting - this is my first real problem in the 3 years I've had it. Despite that, I've played it safe and gone into the guts of the thing and tried the following:
Detached and reattached all cables
Swapped cables for spares/Tried cables in different slots (I don't know what they're called - the ones that connect the hard drive to the motherboard and the power cables mainly)
Powered on with nothing plugged in
None of that changed the outcome.
THEN...
Almost ready to give up, I noticed that one of the two fans on my graphics card wasn't spinning. I've tried different power cables to it, but no change.
So my question is this:
Does this sound like the graphics card's fan problem is causing all these issues? Or is that irrelevent? Could it be the motherboard or the hard drive or something else entirely?
Like I say, I'm no expert, so I'd really appreciate some expert advice on what the issue is, and how I'd go about fixing it.
Thank you so much in advance, I'd be scuppered without this site and you wonderful people.
Ok, here are the specs, as best as I can detail:
Motherboard: ASUS M5 A97 R2.0
CPU: AMD FX 6300
Memory: 2x 4GB Corsair Vengeance LP
Graphics Card: Sapphire HD 7870 GHz Edition
HDD: WD Caviar Blue 500GB
OS: Windows 10 Pro x64
PSU: XFX Pro 550w
Upon turning on my PC over the past couple of months I found that it gets as far as the "Press F2" screen (not sure what it's called) but it won't boot the OS from the hard drive. Repeated restarts (sometimes 1, sometimes 3 or more) got it to boot properly.
I ran the hard drive error check but that brought back nothing of concern.
THEN...
Over the last week I've had 3 crashes - no blue screen, nothing in the Windows Reliability report thing, just complete seize-ups. The sound goes to a constant tone and the screen stays on, frozen on the last thing I was doing before the crash, and I had to power it off and on to get it working, which resulted in some more of the above issue.
Now, after the 3rd crash, it won't boot the OS at all, no matter how many times I restart it, nor will it allow me to press F2 or Delete to get into the motherboard settings.
While I built this PC myself, with plenty of advice from others, I'm in no way an expert, and in particular I've little experience with troubleshooting - this is my first real problem in the 3 years I've had it. Despite that, I've played it safe and gone into the guts of the thing and tried the following:
Detached and reattached all cables
Swapped cables for spares/Tried cables in different slots (I don't know what they're called - the ones that connect the hard drive to the motherboard and the power cables mainly)
Powered on with nothing plugged in
None of that changed the outcome.
THEN...
Almost ready to give up, I noticed that one of the two fans on my graphics card wasn't spinning. I've tried different power cables to it, but no change.
So my question is this:
Does this sound like the graphics card's fan problem is causing all these issues? Or is that irrelevent? Could it be the motherboard or the hard drive or something else entirely?
Like I say, I'm no expert, so I'd really appreciate some expert advice on what the issue is, and how I'd go about fixing it.
Thank you so much in advance, I'd be scuppered without this site and you wonderful people.
Ok, here are the specs, as best as I can detail:
Motherboard: ASUS M5 A97 R2.0
CPU: AMD FX 6300
Memory: 2x 4GB Corsair Vengeance LP
Graphics Card: Sapphire HD 7870 GHz Edition
HDD: WD Caviar Blue 500GB
OS: Windows 10 Pro x64
PSU: XFX Pro 550w
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