PC Froze and will no longer turn on

thurius1

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Jan 22, 2018
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Hi all,

components:
MOBO: B75MA-E33 {4 years old}
CPU: i7 3770 {4 years old}
GPU: asus strik 970 {1 year old}
RAM: 16gb hyperx fury (dual kit) [ddr3] {6 months old}
PSU: Antec Edge 650w {1 year old}

-OS on ssd, hdd for space, both a year old-

a few days ago my pc froze up while booting Overwatch (completely, no cntrl alt del, no mouse movement) and after a manual shutdown from the front case switch it refuses to reboot.

when I would attempt to restart nothing would happen at all. However, my gpu has a white light on it (stable, doesn't blink) which i always assumed indicated power. This light usually only comes on when the pc itself is turned on (from memory), however it was turning on as soon as the psu was flipped to on.

I'm not 100% on this, but i may of heard an audible pop on about my fifth attempt to turn the psu on, however this could of just been the switch and i couldn't smell anything or see anything blown on at least the mobo.

any advice would be great, also I'd like to know the risk of putting this gpu into another machine. If I can't get the thing to post it's a good excuse to upgrade some of the old hardware, but I'm concerned that maybe the gpu caused the freeze and i don't want it to fry any new parts. I say this only because of it happening when i booted a game and because of the led. i have attempted to boot without the gpu installed to no joy.

Thanks all in advance! :)
 

thurius1

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Jan 22, 2018
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I've connected displays to mobo and removed my gpu but still doesn't boot, I've also attempted to remove one stick of ram and again no joy.

How do i go about resetting my CMOS?

thanks!
 

thurius1

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Jan 22, 2018
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resetting cmos worked! thank you so much, I'm going to rebuild the machine now as its now all fitted, but all the parts are there.

is the cmos needing to be reset signs of a bigger issue that hasn't reared its head yet or is it something that can happen from time to time?
 

marksavio

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Dec 23, 2017
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well its usually the goto solution for troubleshooting when things like this occurs. its easier to try to fix stuff when the basic/default settings are working fine. it could be a hardware change, a voltage change from your PSU, or a whole lot of other stuff.