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http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1711239/motherbo...
- I thought the issue was resolved with a PSU swap but after buying the unit and installing it, the computer started having the same issues again within 10 minutes of use.
Details below.
Good Day Everyone,
I'm having a problem with my wife's computer and i'm leaning towards the Motherboard going out but I wanted to see if there was any more insight before I drop the money for a new mobo.
Issue: Computer won't boot, or post, regularly.
Symptoms:
- I push the power button and it turns on, hard drive spins, fan spins, cd rom spins, but the system doesn't post(Beep). It just sits in this state and nothing happens
- When I hold down the power button, nothing happens. I have to manually switch of the PSU to turn the computer off again
- Randomly, it does start to boot but after accessing the motherboard bios, the monitor will just go blank and everything will stop responding.
Troubleshooting so far:
1. Re-seated the Ram and PSU; issue persists
2. Unhooked CD rom, harddrive; issue persists
3. Re-set bios: this caused it to work for 30 seconds till the screen went blank(Symptom 3)
4. Replaced monitor to working computer, monitor works fine.
5. Swap out Ram
6. Replace PSU
Parts:
ASUS M4A87TD/USB3 AM3 AMD 870 SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
AMD Athlon II X3 455 Rana 3.3GHz Socket AM3 95W Triple-Core Desktop Processor ADX455WFGMBOX
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL9D-8GBXL
HIS H467QS1GH Radeon HD 4670 1GB 128-bit DDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x1