PC takes a long time to turn on after pressing the power button

Covrig Gabriel · Apr 12, 2018

Hello!

As the tittle says, after I press the power button on my PC, absolutely nothing happens(no fans spinning, no lights, nothing being displayed on monitors;basically the pc stays turned off) for a good 2 minutes or more. After that, it boots up normally. I have tried fast and ultra-fast boot to no avail.

Specs:
* SSD: Kingston A400 120GB SATA-III
* HDD: Seagate ST1000DM003
* RAM: HyperX Predator Black 8GB DDR4 3000MHz x2
* Power Supply: Seasonic Focus+, 80+ Gold, 650W
* MB: GIGABYTE Z370P-D3
* GPU: ASUS 1080 Strix
* CPU: i5 8400

Thank you in advance!

PuperHacker · Apr 13, 2018

This points to PSU failure, as it is not able to adjust the voltage to start the PC. Turn the button on the PSU off, and hold the start button for 5 seconds, then set it back to on and see if it helps.

On the coast · Apr 18, 2018

I had this problem on an old IBM laptop. It was the mother board failing. Another brand, it was a bad stick of ram. Took out the bad stick and it started fine. Yet another, it was the power supply not providing enough power to the laptop.

Covrig Gabriel · Apr 19, 2018

PuperHacker :

Tried this with no results.

shknawe · Apr 28, 2018

How dirty is it inside your case? You could have dust goblins shorting out your motherboard. Try opening case and giving everything a good cleaning and see if this helps. If not its 50/50 psu/motherboard. Try using another psu to fire up the motherboard. iIf it fires up then problem solved.

On the coast · Apr 28, 2018

great idea. I forgot how dirty, sticky dust can actually conduct electricity

Covrig Gabriel · Apr 28, 2018

shknawe :

I am keeping the case quite clean, there is barely a very thin layer of dust at any given time. I have also performed a paperclip test with my PSU and it worked fine, so the PSU might actually be fine. As for testing another PSU, that will take me a few days, until I get some free time. I'll keep you guys posted.

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