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No video, no keyboard, no post beeps, exhausted my knowledge
Kamar
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So, I'm going to be as thorough as I can here and hope someone can help me figure out a fix or what's broken.
First, background. My computer has been iffy about booting for a while now...it loves to take about a dozen tries to get started. I think it has trouble detecting my main HD for some reason? But I don't think this has anything to do with this particular issue, unless it's indicative of a mobo problem.
So, I got a new stick of ram today as a birthday present. Exact match to my existing stick, a 8gb Gskill stick. Shut down, pop it in, boot up ready for the song and dance. Get a 'memory changed, do setup or accept defaults' prompt, choose to enter setup. While I'm in there, I decide hey, let's turn on MSI fast boot, that sounds handy. Restart.
No video. No keyboard. Mouse has its led light going but eh. Fans going, stuff moving and chuffing and clicking, though. Restart. restart restart restart.
Okay.
Shuffle SATA cables, that helps sometimes!
No change. Hm.
Play with every conceivable combination and single and slot choice for RAM.
Nada. Getting worried now.
CMOS reset with jumper thingie.
Nothing. Okay, pop out the video card and pop the battery, then jumper again, put it back in.
STILL no video, no keyboard. I thus have no clue if it's POSTing and getting hung up by my normal boot bullshit or if something different is afoot.
Pop out both sticks of RAM and boot it. BEEEEEP BEEEEEEP BEEEEEEP. Okay, getting post error codes. Ram back in, boots completely silent.
No video, no keyboard.
Unplug everything, take out everything, dust everything, and plug in just one HD. Nothing. Try another HD. Nothing. Another HD, no HD, all the same result. Pull everything and check the CPU, looks fine, put it all back in.
When I power it back up, I notice the ethernet port light flickers for a split of a split second in the back, not sure if that should be steady or not.
Mouse has enough power for LED, but nothign else plugged in seems to be getting any signal or power.
I'm thinking something has gone awry with my motherboard or PSU, but I'm not sure which and I'm super broke so replacing either or both means borrowing money which I'd rather not do.
Any thoughts?
edit: Found another video card to try, tried with DVI and VGA, none of it did anything different.
Also worth noting that it keeps running indefinitely--or at least, it keeps the fans spinning and occassionally sounds. If I had to guess, I'd maybe guess it's booting to an error message or prompt that I can't interact with as I can't see it and have no input.
First, background. My computer has been iffy about booting for a while now...it loves to take about a dozen tries to get started. I think it has trouble detecting my main HD for some reason? But I don't think this has anything to do with this particular issue, unless it's indicative of a mobo problem.
So, I got a new stick of ram today as a birthday present. Exact match to my existing stick, a 8gb Gskill stick. Shut down, pop it in, boot up ready for the song and dance. Get a 'memory changed, do setup or accept defaults' prompt, choose to enter setup. While I'm in there, I decide hey, let's turn on MSI fast boot, that sounds handy. Restart.
No video. No keyboard. Mouse has its led light going but eh. Fans going, stuff moving and chuffing and clicking, though. Restart. restart restart restart.
Okay.
Shuffle SATA cables, that helps sometimes!
No change. Hm.
Play with every conceivable combination and single and slot choice for RAM.
Nada. Getting worried now.
CMOS reset with jumper thingie.
Nothing. Okay, pop out the video card and pop the battery, then jumper again, put it back in.
STILL no video, no keyboard. I thus have no clue if it's POSTing and getting hung up by my normal boot bullshit or if something different is afoot.
Pop out both sticks of RAM and boot it. BEEEEEP BEEEEEEP BEEEEEEP. Okay, getting post error codes. Ram back in, boots completely silent.
No video, no keyboard.
Unplug everything, take out everything, dust everything, and plug in just one HD. Nothing. Try another HD. Nothing. Another HD, no HD, all the same result. Pull everything and check the CPU, looks fine, put it all back in.
When I power it back up, I notice the ethernet port light flickers for a split of a split second in the back, not sure if that should be steady or not.
Mouse has enough power for LED, but nothign else plugged in seems to be getting any signal or power.
I'm thinking something has gone awry with my motherboard or PSU, but I'm not sure which and I'm super broke so replacing either or both means borrowing money which I'd rather not do.
Any thoughts?
edit: Found another video card to try, tried with DVI and VGA, none of it did anything different.
Also worth noting that it keeps running indefinitely--or at least, it keeps the fans spinning and occassionally sounds. If I had to guess, I'd maybe guess it's booting to an error message or prompt that I can't interact with as I can't see it and have no input.
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I'd suspect the new RAM as DOA, but that's about where my troubleshooting skills end. Good luck!
Also worth noting that it keeps running indefinitely--or at least, it keeps the fans spinning and occasionally makes basic computer whirring clicking sounds. If I had to guess, I'd maybe guess it's booting to an error message or prompt that I can't interact with as I can't see it and have no input.
If you get beeps. Add things back one by one. Your power supply may be going, which can explain boot up wonkiness.
Edit: unplug all your USB devices as well.
You can't give someone a pirate ship in one game, and then take it back in the next game. It's rude.
No extra power supplies around or I'd definitely have tried that by this stage.
Guess it's looking like 'buy a new mobo and PSU' if I want it up and running sooner than later?
I guess I'll pull the whole thing out and make sure nothing hinky is shorting it before I buy a new one.
And look at that, whoever got you that stick of RAM really got you a new computer. I hope you said thank you.
This. Try this before ordering a MB. Take out the battery and disconnect all power. It will reset any saved options in the bios.
I'm having the same exact problem. Exact! I just removed the CMOS battery and I guess I'll wait for a few hours.