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Yesterday my pc would turn on but my monitor wasn't displaying anything. After looking online I found the cmos reset fix and that did the trick.

However it seems the problem has happened again but this time the reset isn't doing anything. Does this mean my MB is fried or what?.

Could buying a new little watch battery thing fix this?

I've been having heat issues the past couple of weeks but it never got higher than 60 C, but I had just downloaded the Asrock extreme tuning utility to try and fix the problem. I determined there wasn't anything I couldn't do there so I reset everything to default. I didn't uninstall it though, could this be the issue?

Are there any other problems that this may be related to?

Crazy update: after trying the cmos resets multiple other times the monitor still wasn't displaying. After one reset I turned the pc on then about five seconds later it turned itself off. I unplugged the power cord(connected to the back of the pc) then plugged it back in, turned it on and it's working again. What the heck does this mean.
 
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Crazy update: after trying the cmos resets multiple other times the monitor still wasn't displaying. After one reset I turned the pc on then about five seconds later it turned itself off. I unplugged the power cord(connected to the back of the pc) then plugged it back in, turned it on and it's working again. What the heck does this mean.
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When you reset the PC by the CMOS, you need to unplug the power core.

And we need more detail about your problem.
1) Can you list your PC sepcificatiions? because if your PC has onboard iGPU, try remove the GPU, use onboard iGPU to boot the PC.
2) Do you oc the cpu, RAM, GPU? If you oc the cpu or RAM, sometime the utility software will oc them, try reset it or uninstall that utility software, then boot the PC again to see what happens.
3) May use MemTest86 to test the RAM, one by one, if you had more than one stick. https://www.memtest86.com/download.htm
 
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Well the problem stopped for a bit but it came back in full force today. Writing this from my phone because the computer crashes "randomly" on boot up while also sometimes having the no display issue from before. I am trying to hold out on buying new parts for as long as I can. So here is what you asked

Specifications:
CPU - AMD fx-8320
RAM - 6GB single channel DDR3 @ 665mhz (yes it's very old, does my problem sound like a RAM issue?)
Mother Board - ASRock970M pro3
Graphics card: AMD Radeon r9 200 sapphire


I do not overclock, but I did notice when I downloaded the utility software that some of the setting seemed a bit high, after uninstalling the software last week I went into the bios on boot up and set everything to default. So unless the default is over locked or there is some remaining issue then it should be normal. If I go into the boot up menu to check if it's oc'd what should I look for? I've never done anything with oc'ing so I don't really know what the proper settings are.

I haven't run Memtest yet because of the instability of the PC at the moment but right now it seems to be working, I'll try to get the test done as I've been meaning to replace that ram since I intitally built the pc. Those sticks are probably 6-7 years old.

 
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1) What excatly GPU do you have?
2) What PSU do you have?

Because your PC may have some issues, 1) The MB has only 4+1 Power Phase, it is not good for ocing the fx 8 series cpu. Fortunately you did uninstall the asrock utility software, because it may oc the cpu automatically. 2) If you had either r9 280 or 290, you will have to have a good PSU for your PC, otherwise you may get problem. Or if you have other GPU, then try it.

For the RAM, they maybe fine, 665mhz that meaning they run at 665x2=1330mhz, it depends on what RAM you had.
 
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I'm pretty confident it's not a power supply issue, when I built it I went overboard on the power supply, but I don't know the specific make. I do know it's a gold filament one though or whatever.

The gpu is a 280x
 
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Well I've been trying to run men test all day today since I didn't have any work to do. But after turning off my pc to boot off the flash drive I haven't been able to get the display to turn back on. I've tried removing each of my ram sticks( one is 4 and the other is 2) one at a time but no luck. I'll keep trying and see if I can get anything accomplished
 
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I ran memtest and it one pass resulted in 0 errors. So now I'm confused. I'll instal the chipset you linked.

Since I no longer have any idea what could be happening maybe I can provide some more issues that my be symptoms of something. My copy of Windows 10 hasn't been able to properly update since January 10th. Any time I try to update it says it fails. Is that any indication of a problem?
 
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Ok so I updated my chipset and the issue is still occurring, I don't know anybody in imeadiate range that I can plug my graphics card into their computer. So I can't really test that right now.

But I did notice a common issue that keeps happening every time the display won't turn on.

So typically what will happen is I will get it running for a day or so then it will randomly crash, usually pretty quickly after it wakes up or turns on. If it runs for an hour or so it hasn't crashed until after I've put it to sleep.

But what seems to happen everyone it crashes is that all of my USB devices will still be lit up as if the pc is on while it's off. I don't know why but if that helps identify the problem then here you go.
 
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But what seems to happen everyone it crashes is that all of my USB devices will still be lit up as if the pc is on while it's off. I don't know why but if that helps identify the problem then here you go.
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You need to test the GPU(r9 280x) or try other one. The temp is fine, because you said the temp never got higher than 60C.
Or may try use DDU to uninstall the GPU driver, then reinstall the driver again, or try old version gpu driver.
DDU http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

Also check the +3.3V, 5V, +12V in the BIOS, something like in the "PC health monitor" or "hardware monitor" section. You want to see those voltages are within +/- 5% range, like the +3.3V, it should be within 3.1V to 3.45V range. If one of those voltage is out off range, the PSU has problem.
 
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All of my voltages were in range. the +3.3 one was at 3.45 which seemed a bit high but that's still fine, right?

Also, I've been trying to go through the troubleshooter for the windows updater for a while now. I used it back in February when I first noticed my system hadn't been updating. I ended up just pausing updates and check back every couple of weeks to see if they worked but nothing ever did. At the moment I'm getting unnervingly close to the perform a clean install of windows option which I would like to avoid.

But I have noticed something while I've been frequently restarting the pc to attempt updates. When I restart it with the update prompt, the one that says an update needs a restart to finish installing, my computer will power down like a normal restart but then when it tries to come back on the display won't turn back on. But If I just restart it from the start menu it seems fine.

Also it seems that simply unplugging my pc for about 30 seconds after the display won't show then plugging it back in and starting it back up "fixes" it. I don't remove the cmos battery or anything, just unplug it. Does that mean anything?

A bit more info on my update issues. Even if it seems like an update installed properly my os build never changes. I'm stuck at 16299.125
 
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Well, its been a couple of days of me trying to get an update to happen and the results are weird. I used to be stuck on update KB4090914 and after running through the windows update support options I have moved to a new update as if this one has installed, but when I look at installed updates it says my last installed one was January 22, 2018, which was KB4058702.Well now I'm stuck on update KB4093112 every time I restart it says unable to install the update. I've done every step on the update troubleshooter except the last two, as I don't really want to wipe my computer because other forums are saying that doing so still didn't fix their issue.

I am still on build 16299.125 and version 1709 my edition is windows 10 pro if that adds any useful information.

The weird thing is though, my display issues have seemed to stop. I can restart my computer, turn it off, all of that and I have yet to get the display issue since I got past the KB4090914 update loop. BUT now I have a different issue that I had months ago where the computer will not stay asleep or in hibernate mode. After about 30 minutes to an hour, it will wake itself up or restart itself. I don't know why it stopped in the first place, it seemed pretty out of nowhere as it had been a while between my trying to fix it and the issue stopping. But now it's back to that issue.
 
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I have a hard disk and an SSD, as well as an external hard drive that I use for work, but while originally researching my issue I found multiple posts of people with the same issue as me claiming that a clean install didn't solve the problem, all it did was eat up a day of effort.

In a week or two, I will certainly have the time to attempt this if you think this has a chance of working. I do have one question though. In the link you provided it doesn't really go into detail about backing up all of my programs and files. I'm assuming for files I just copy everything to another drive, but as far as installing programs go how would I go about backing those up? Would I just have to take note of everything I want and reinstall it all after the install?
 
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I am slightly insulted that you don't think I've tried that, but not really. Trust me, I tried for 6 months straight to figure out why my computer wouldn't stay alseep and nothing helped. My issues aren't an "Oh I just don't know much about computers so this common problem keeps happening." But yeah I've tried everything both of those links suggest multiple times with no luck, it's a mystery.
 
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