Broken PCs are "FUN"... | PC Troubleshooting Guide
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- Is your PC not booting? Try these helpful tips and lean the methods I use when troubleshooting PCs.
- Just to add something here; I also recommend purchasing a small PC speaker that plugs directly into your motherboard if yours doesn't sport Dr. Debug or troubleshooting LEDs. The beeps codes can come in very handy in the event your computer refuses to POST.
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before you start to troubleshoot your pc you will want to get a drink.
whisky, vodka, rum, gin, whatever, you will need a drink.
100% agree
I've found I've had better success troubleshooting pc issues with red wine than beer or hard liquor.
I tried to troubleshoot my PC when drunk once.
The pins fell out of a molex connector, i put them back but got the 5V and 12V lines crossed...
Impressively loud bang that shot the CD drive tray open and literally exploded the CDROM controller chip on the drive. (luckily no damage to the rest of the PC)
Ever since i don't recommend PC troubleshooting + alcohol ;)
A good beer works best.
Thats where im at right now😥
Have you tried turning it off and back on again?
Also unplug the power cord, leave it unplugged for a minute or two, then plug it back in and try again. I've found that worked when the PC has been dead after a power outage.
It's always worth trying the simple, easy to do, things first.
Christopher Henderson - geek squad worker 2017
Hahaah none of them got the joke
no, mom, i haven’t
IT Crowd, anyone?
I prefer to shoot my troubles with my RGB ram sticks
No, but they're boneless
Toxicclay 🅱️oneless 🅱️amsticks
Dedotaded *_WAM_*?!
Toxicclay degradation is Not a Thing, Linus tech Tips Made a Video about it
if u can afford ones :)
Did you... Step on it?
or... drop it?
oops wrong channel
lol, that was linus break tips
he did step on 1 of his x99 motherboard n the pin bend
Foo Rui Fung ty captain obvious
No, he fried it by messing up molex connectors.
I managed to plug the 4 pin CPU power plug in backwards once, double check cable orientation and DON'T FORCE ANYTHING
LOL ouch
Spencer Reynolds I've done that too ur not alone
I managed to miss the PCIe slot when installing a GPU once lmao.
Vhox what did you plug it into lol?
Spencer Reynolds Me 2
Had a friend once dismantle his entire PC when it was just the power button the whole time
In my recent build my resetpins in the front of the case were connecting causing the PC to boot loop without getting into POST....
@@Psyche-D I once plugged the power button into the reset header and the reset button into the power button header
@@BenCos2018 LOL I hate those reset and power pins, they are literally identical and so easy to mess up if you aren't paying attention.
I believe this might be the same thing happeneding to my PC
How do you fix that tho? I know I’ve wired everything correctly but nothings working. Nothing turns on.
I would add, that while a computer would likely POST with no cooler, most mobos will not post unless they detect something plugged into the CPU_FAN header.
I'll give ya a LIKE for the thumbnail alone.
I didn't even have to force the tears.
They truly are tragic times. We've all been there. (staged for videos or not ha)
Science Studio sometime is just the output Cable some monitors r set to VGA or Dp and if u plug in HDMI it won't post...u have to set ur monitor to HDMI or whatever default port it supports for the time and ur good to go. I had the same issue and I was just about to return my gtx 1070 and my mobo, but I just tried that solution randomly as I was exhausted troubleshooting each and every part and it worked. Lol.
missed the first thing clean the pc of all dust etc that could be the reason the ram slot does not work
Don Marr thanks man for tip 👏🏾
Lmao thx
Actually, removing any peripherals beyond the essential is a must. On my first build, I had mistaken a Floppy drive plug for a fan one. Somehow it must have shorted something, and wouldn't even turn on. When I unpluged the fan, everything booted up fine. So unplug everything that's on ur mobo, except cpu power, mobo power and gpu.
UNDEFINED_// ILLUMINATI do u need a graphics card for the pc to work? Cuz I’m currently building a pc and I don’t have a monitor yet but I wanted to test if everything is working but when I press the power button it turns on for a second and the cpu and system fan comes on then it shuts off and no I don’t have a graphics card in yet, but I don’t wanna continue spending money on parts if I know it’s not gonna work :(
@@castashin u need a GPU for the PC to post
Ben C this depends entirely on the cpu. If you’ve got an iGPU (integrated gpu) in the cpu, you can use the DisplayPorts/HDMI-ports/vga whatever you have on your mobo to post and even boot. However if that works then most likely the gpu is at fault. Could also be the pcie lane
AMD didn't give you an R3 sample? Guess that using a 7350k as a box opener isn't enough intel hate.
Its because he openly trashes companies/products on their flaws, because remember, if youre a big company and make a shitty product people arent aloud to call it bad
It probably because he is honest
Hey Greg!
Just to let you know, it can also be a faulty CPU, i've seen one that caused 2 RAM slots not to work, while the other 2 slots were fine. :) Another thing to note is that shorted USB will cause the computer not to turn on at all, happens to me much more ofter than i'd like to.
me when my pc doesnt boot for the first time:
this aint the first time my pc didnt boot.
DBEPIC wait
If your motherboard heat sinks aren't getting warm on boot, it's likely dead (i concluded this on my broken motherboard)
I went through the troubleshoot up to where I should bypass my video card and connect my screen straight to my motherboard but there was no where to connect my cables so i was unable to illuminate that. This might be my next clue. Thanks
I'll share a PC troubleshooting nightmare story. Long story short, motherboard w/ bad socket fried the CPU. Shortly after installing Windows, random BSODs would happen with different error codes. Swapped the motherboard not knowing that the CPU was already fried from the first one. Had to take it to a professional who diagnosed the bad socket on mobo #1 and that the CPU was now dead. It was a friends build that I helped put together and troubleshoot the issue. He ended up eating the cost of the diagnosis and dead CPU, BECAUSE HE THREW AWAY THE BOX RIGHT AFTER HE GOT THE THING! NEVER DO THIS! KEEP THAT SHIET FOR AT LEAST 30 DAYS! That's the moral :)
Or keep the box forever is the best thing
I once had a PC (Back in the pentium 4 days) it wouldn't post as long as 1 specific USB port was in use...
if i used other USB ports (or none) it was fine.. This meant, coz i used a USB mouse and not a PS/2, the troubleshooter in the store spend 3 weeks fixing it, coz he didn't use usb peripherals...
eventually it the issue was found and i got a new mobo.
Learning by failing, i guess. Just leaving that "tip" here. test things without having usb and other peripherals plugged in. then you can always plug them in, if it posts and see how/if that works
Mikkel H wow! This is a pro tip. Really wish I could up vote you more!
To expand on your advice, I'd say it's a good idea to see test your PC with everything removed that can be removed. Remove Fans, graphics cards, all pcie cards, sata connectors, use one USB port at a time, use one ramstick at a time (test your 1 ramstick in a different computer that is working). See if it POSTS.
Then start re-adding each component one at a time.
Look it up with peripherals to see to show it can power all the crap it needs to power.
When your one of the only big youtubers that uses ryzen personally but you dont get a ryzen 3 sample
Robin Clarijs you mean 7700k?
Robin Clarijs Well, if you have the intel laying around and it has better performance than the r7 1800X (like the i7 7820X does outperform it, and the previous 10 core intel CPU's probably did too), than why not use the best CPU you have at your disposal instead of the CPU that is currently popular in the community? That is like having a gtx 1080 or 1080Ti having around and than use the rx 580 (which performs between a gtx1060 6gb and a gtx1070) just for the sake of pleasing the nvidia- bashers...
Brecht Schatteman the cpu is not popular, did you not see his video on why he is using it? It's so he does what he preaches, if he's gonna praise the 1700 for it's value and that everyone should buy it, why doesn't he use it, of course Intel offers better but at a much higher price, and while he might be able to afford it, the majority that watch his channel can't.
FruitCakeTech And because most people are watching his channel can't afford a intel X-series CPU, he has to use the r7 1700? I bet even most people can't effort that, so maybe he should stick to the 1600 which is preached as the best bang for your buck available now. The 'do as you preach thing' has more to do with belief than with scenario's like this, I would link such a saying more to fanboyism than a real tech channel. Why? A tech channel does not only have to think about what the viewers would use in their case of content creation. A tech channel would also look at what gives the best performance for the use case that they have available. I am not saying that he has to go buy a 7820X or 7900X, but look at what they have available. I don't know if R7 does outperform the 6th gen 10 core CPU, but if it doesn't and you have that 10 core CPU laying around, why not use that instead of go out and buy a R7 for content creation. Of course he can still preach that the ryzen lineup for the moment is the best bang for your buck available, it doesn't make him have to use it. How many car guys preach about BMW superior handling but still don't use a BMW as their daily driver? I for the moment am pro android but I have an iPhone 6 which does work just fine, but because I am advising people to go buy a new android if they ask me what they should buy, that doesn't make me have to buy an android. Of course it could prove my point and I could try to get TH-cam views with titles like "why I switched to android and why iPhone sucks" but that is all not necessary to prove my point. I don't know this channel enough to know what he used before the R7, if that setup needed a replacement or the R7 is a big upgrade than it definitely is a great way to show 'do as you preach'. But if the R7 only performs on par or worse than his previous setup, than it is not showing 'do as you preach' but more showing either enough money to throw out of the window or a certain degree of fanboyism. I know this channel enough to know that he would try to avoid fanboyism though, their are other channels that don't try to avoid a bias. The reason I started following this channel a month ago was because he tries to be unbiased and can admit it when he is wrong.
Brecht Schatteman your right, but it basically does on par with those cpus with a little overclock, and watch one of his videos, I forgot which one it was, he explains why he's doing it. So even if it's not the smartest thing, I applaud him for making a bold move.
One additional thing is a improperly installed riser stud grounding out the board!
yes! that was my problem.
MyWasteOfTime is a riser stud the little metal part in on of my places that were I'm supposed to screw in but I can't because there is a tiny metal thing with my board
Vix i dont know what you mean but there is one that you cant screw in
Elite Gaming oh well dude my PC won't turn on and it's newly built :-;
Please explain
Don't forget to unplug the front panel LEDs, sometimes they can short out and cause a PC not to POST.
Did u experience this? Did it fry all the components on the mobo?
@@heyitsdazy Never had it kill anything and usually the PC will post fine with a dead LED hence why people don't even check, but it will brick some boards until you unplug it 🤷♂
My pc hasn’t been working for a while now. Looked around for a while. Still nothing. I was about to buy a new cpu when I watched this and turns out my gpu slot had died. You saved me a lot of money.
Where the fuck is Ryzen 3 coverage?
Didn't receive a Ryzen 3 kit.
Jason Rufener How dare you mention Ryzen, I am an Intel shill and Ryzen is one of my trigger words, please be considerate to us Intel shills please. Thank you for understanding
Science Studio Lemme guess, either AMD does not like you or you arent big enough
Much smaller channels receive samples, so it must just be that AMD doesn't like me ;-)
Science Studio damn amd, want your honest review on ryzen.
To troubleshoot your PC, use a Mac...
Said no one ever
And neither did I.
I Love how you distinctly pointed out that you didn't due to it being that big of a cardinal sin in the pc community.
@volkswagenginetta Only the children of the PC community think that
well yes but they are generally the loudest and an outsider might think that represents us all for a quick glance
I made a hackintosh after my computer broke
This video saved my friend and I hours of disassembly and testing and reassembling. Very helpful
the suggestion for trying each ram really helped me out, for some reason my pc refused to run dual channel. I had to update the bios to get it working
I've had it as simple as the HDMI chord was not all the way into my graphics card
Wow man... I was building my first gaming PC. I didn't know my graphics card had a slot for the HDMI because it had rubber plugs in it which I didn't even know it was removable. So I saw your comment and wondered (wait... An HDMI can plug directly into a graphics card..?). Sure enough I took the rubbery things out and plug an HDMI in and there it went, it finally turned on after 2 days working on it. I'm not surprised it was so stupidly simple that I feel like dumbass. Thanks a bunch!!
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So a couple things. First, you can grab a power supply tester off of Amazon for less than 20$ with a digital display that is very easy to use to make sure your power supply is working properly. No need to buy a whole new PSU just to troubleshoot a POST issue(if it were turning off under load that would be a different story). Second, a faulty hard drive controller or other ICs on the drive (BIOS chip for example) can absolutely prevent a PC from POSTing, It's happened to me more than once with shit seagate drives. There have even been recalls and class actions over this for drives with especially high failure rates.
Most of this was pretty good, generally speaking, you want to start with the quickest and easiest eliminations with troubleshooting and work your way to the more time consuming procedures. One thing I would add is to check any AIO cooler or open loop pumps and ensure they are working still, high temp states on that initial power surge can trip protection features that can also prevent POST. Also, start with unplugging any non-essential USB devices.
What really happen was the i5 shit itself when Ryzen 3 released
Jobu jishuko those two aren’t even competitors. More accurate would be Ryzen 5. Ryzen 3 is an i3 competitor in both price and performance.
IN performance a r3 is equal to i5 4460 or 4440
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
that was the best thumbnail I have ever seen
I always turn on subtitles(auto-generated) everytime I watch your videos. Damn you speak faster than jay or linus:D
JayzThreeCents Studio speaks normal
I respect the fact you have a Mac. Best of both worlds. Colleges tend to lean towards the Mac side of things, if you even use it for college. It is the only reason why I got my Macbook Pro
I had such bad expierience with AsRock boards. Literally every board i bought failed after 1-3 years...
Tell me about it, I think mine just went dead that’s why I’m here. H81 Pro BTC 2.0, checked everything else other then board and PSU
Joseph Kay Damn. Mine’s just over a year old. Hope it doesn’t die🤞
@@iambicpotato2198 I can actually give you an update after 3 years. The new ASRock Boards don't suck as much anymore in my experience. The only AM4 boards that were failing me were from MSI
Indy Thank goodness! Which board are you using now?
@@iambicpotato2198 An AsRock X470 Gaming K4 for my gaming rig and an AsRock X399 Taichi for my Server
One could also power drain the system. Sometimes rogue current enters the system and cause the safety system to trip.
Unplug the PC from the mains power. Unplug all external peripherals (Keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc). Then press the CPU power button for 30s or more to drain the CPU of the rogue current. Then try booting it.
About to build my first PC here soon, perfect timing lol
Same here, have literally every part except the CPU, hopefully newegg is fast :P
Bruce Austin appreciate it, haven't gamed since cs 1.5-1.6 but battlegrounds got me interested again.. figured perfect time to build one finally
Also just make sure if you have a Kaby Lake Cpu you aren't putting it into a Sky Lake Mobo without having already updated the bios. If you don't have a Skylake Cpu (unless the mobo has some sort of quick flash) your only option is to just buy a cheap Skylake CPU, use it to update the bios, and then return it.
You wouldn't believe it but animal urine does a good job of killing computers too. Those random moments where you just have no idea what killed the machine , or kids spilling water that quickly evaporated before you realized too.
Yanku Marrah hoho I don't believe it buddy. A liquid? Destroying a computer? No way.
that toms post saved me back in the day
"Can't trouble shoot my PC cause I don't have one"
2 years later still using this video as a guide. I believe after all the troubleshooting I think the cpu was DOA. The new ram was able to light up, cpu cooler and case fans turned on, and graphics card fans were on. I just was getting a black screen
This can also be a mobo problem tho, depends on other symptoms
If debug LED's are off and you get no display, well, after you double-check everything, it's probably the mobo
If the CPU debug light is on, your BIOS supports the CPU, and your 4/8 pin is plugged in, you can be fairly sure it's the CPU
Note that CPUs generally not break, bent pins can happen though
I just changed my cpu and it would put me in a boot cycle but there was this thing on the back that say 150 and 250 so I flipped it to 250 and it would just keep running. And I reset cmos but I only have 2 pins on mine and no jumper
Im so happy I came across this video today, I built my PC 2 years ago and since 6 weeks or more i have experienced hangs and a number total unresponsive freezes, after surfing the web for quite a while everything i could get was that it could be heat related so new thermal paste and it went 5degrees down so heat shouldn't be te issue. I was broken tired and irritated because it was getting no power at all. I was about to give up and then today I watched this video and guess what a dead RAM slot moved it up one slot and it booted up no problem
It could be as simple as (finish the line):
Your display is set to the wrong input.
Don't ask how I know that can be a problem.
- Gnomes
- Cosmic rays
- The magic blue smoke is not secured properly
Seagull 78
You’re hitting the reset button
Stop trying to use the USB port to turn it on
Dude, it’s not even plugged in
Is your power strip on?
Is your power supply on?
You installed the power supply, but didn’t plug anything in... dumbass
You have a ryzen cpu but non ryzen compatible ram
Arctic Line Loool that happened to me too😂
I once had a case with a dead power switch so check if your PC posts if you connect the two pins on your motherboard.
After 8 months, I decided enough is enough and disassembled my PC and tried to clean it thoroughly!!! After an hour-long Deep Clean, When I put together my rig again, I was started getting boot loops.
Oh boy, I could not pick a better time to screw up my PC as my area being COVID 19 hot zone is completely locked down with 2 hours allowed for shopping essentials and I said to my self what a wonderful world!!!
This video proved to be a great help as I followed your step by step approach and able to fix the issue after reinstalling CPU as well as fixing a few missed wiring!!! Thanks a lot for this great video and TOM'S HARDWARE link!!!
The RAM not being pushed far enough happens to me all the time. It's the first thing I check now every time I get no post. Also the CPU swap in and out thing happened a couple of times.
A few months ago I built a PC for my friend, and it just wouldn't give any signal to the monitor (monitor only had a HDMI port) and I searched up a bit and I found something simple that fixed the problem:
Unplug PSU from wall, turn the PSU switch off and then press the power on button on your case/mobo and hold it for 1+ min and voila it got fixed.
Never understood wth was that and why it happened but I was glad it was that easy to fix
Bruce Austin Oh I see, thanks for letting me know
Thanks
I saw all the likes from science studio and said "wow this must be an old video" then I realized wait he is actually looks at comments
In bed with a fever watching this aha trouble shoot me!
BigPaco213 hope you get well soon : ) .
Check your cables too! I did everything in this video and got nothing. I was very fortunate enough to have a spare motherboard and psu to just double check for piece of mind. I swapped my psu alone and didn’t get anything. But when I used the new psu AND a new power cable for psu my pc finally turned on! I was very discouraged on diagnosing the issue with my pc and almost gave up!
When Greg said to drink caffeine, he definitely wasn't kidding. I used to live off of coffee when I was working as a computer tech in a small repair shop.
Oh my god I know this is late but your giving me ptsd. I worked at a computer shop when I was 15 I loved it and hated it. I used to get treated like shit because I was young and would often find myself getting yelled at by customers. Alot of the time it was the people that thought they knew everything about pcs but made a very simple and minor error that anyone that's ever built a pc wouldn't make. Like forgetting mobo power/cpu power. It was great because I was broke and was gaming on a shitty pc so I loved benchmarking customers pcs
So I turn my PC on, no signal to monitor, no lights for usb devices. Worked fine the day before. Unplug the power cord, drained the power, restarted PC, works. Weird. 5 minutes later no signal on monitor, usb devices have no lights. Restart pc. Nothing. Tried draining the power, nothing. Take PC apart. Try RAM in different slots, one at a time. Nothing. Tried no GPU, nothing. Took the CMOS battery out, let it sit for several hours. No bueno. Best I get is fans working, motherboard lights on, but usb devices and monitor get no power. Ok. I have a second PC I built from old parts, I turn that on, works fine. Swap the PSU's. My second PC still works fine, so not a PSU problem. Fk. So it must be a motherboard problem. Luckily I had wanted to get a new cpu, which meant a new motherboard anyway... but I was in no rush...
who ever is on a IT course would love greg to be your tutor 1000%
have been watching jay and linus for years and u just say things different and more professional
My issue was that I downloaded the wrong RAM speed and once I fixed that I was able to POST but I was getting the BSOD often because my keyboard had too high of an OC.
That feeling when this video confirms your board is dead on arrival *sobs*
wibblemu9 😰
I think i managed to get 2 dead parts
Mobo turns on, power supply is powering on the pc and all its fans and gpu. Butt still no display. Is it the mobo thats defective at this point?
Who else remembers the stuff that happened with the NZXT hue+... Just me... Okay then
Thank you, you are a saint. You saved me soooo much time and work over the simplest thing.
Hey so what Cooler do you recommend for a ryzen 1600 to get it to 4.0 as quiet as possible. Love your channel. Thanks
Agosto D'Andrea noctua nhd15
Agosto D'Andrea any 120+ AIO or the Cryorig H7 and and any higher tier Cryorig
Agosto D'Andrea Kraken X61 if you're going for an AIO and Noctua NH D15 for air cooling
Water cooling will get you the most silent cooling....
Matthew Mirchandani depending on what you mean, custom water cooling yes, aio no. Take for instance my skylake build, 6700k with corsair h110i, the pump can be surprisingly loud, louder than a 3.5" hard drive.
Professor Fike has sent me here
Mac the dead meme of computers
I got the cheapest B360 mobo (mistake no.1), the MSI B360-F PRO for a mobo+cpu+ram swap
After putting it together, it posted, but no display on the screen, EZDebug LED's only said no boot device was present (there was a drive without an OS, but yea)
Turns out, even though these board SHOULD support 9th gen Intel, the don't support the ones without an iGPU (i3-9100F) (yes i had new bios), looking through forums it turns out this is quite common
Returned the board and bought myself a ASUS Prime board, my system now works fine :)
Not enough RGB, disliked
GG me
Hey! So i have a B450m steel legend and a r5 3600 2 sticks of corsair lpx 3200mhz 16gb ram and a crucial p1. I don't have a gpu yet. Maybe that's causing the pc to not turn on?
I have checked other forums and such with no luck... but does anyone have an idea what would cause my pc to take like 30 seconds to post?
Maybe you had too much software installed that will activate when the PC boots? Try disabling them.
Or install CCleaner to clean your pc.
An old HDD
Try unplugging components one by one. Ormaybe it's just old. or try checking the bios.
I just built it a few months ago. It has a Ryzen five 1500X and a SSD in it. As for the store for, I'll check, but it doesn't have too much on it. It has a black screen for about 30 seconds then the bios screen, then the boot screen.
Probably just a flaw in motherboard manufacturing. But it doesn't sound like an issue. Cant possibly be a hard drive as that doesnt matter with posting
Hey! So i have a B450m steel legend and a r5 3600 2 sticks of corsair lpx 3200mhz 16gb ram and a crucial p1. I don't have a gpu yet. Maybe that's causing the pc to not turn on?
Now I`m scared of building my new Pc :(
Don’t be! Just take your time with it. Greg has some great videos on building, as does JayzTwoCents. Give them a watch until you could just about narrate them yourself and then give it a go!
@@Just_Call_Me_Tim Thanks for the late answer :D.
Just built a pc a few month back myself, so yeah ;)
One more tip: If you are using an SSD and it occasionally decides to die and come back to life after unplugging and plugging back in, it's actually the PSU that's bad and a fluctuation on the 5V rail puts the SSD in power surge protection. I know this because I changed an SSD and a motherboard just because of this weird symptom.
Never buying a overclockable processor again.
I fryed it. :(
I have had nearly all of these problems all within my first build. At least I didn't have anything to do on those two days it took me to troubleshoot
I still remember when my pc shut down again and again, change the ram, power supply and graphics card and in the end the problem was the sata cable from my hard drive.
After a night of gaming and my pc working for 2 and a half years this morning I was using it for less then 5 mins when bang my PC just shut off like a power out, little did I know it was not a power out. Basically it turns of for 0.5 of a second fans start up and everything but with no display showing and it turning straight back off again. First I thought it was dust inside the case/psu so but have since cleaned all that up. Then I went to the nearest IT store and they told me it was a shortage in one of the components of the PC so I have pulled everything out from drives to gpus and ram. None of that worked. Can someone please tell me if it’s either the psu or mother board because I have deffinitly narrowed it down to just that thanks.
If it boots, and everything turns on, it seems like motherboard works fine, check the ram slots for dirt, try another psu, try to unplug graphicscard and use motherboard for screen plug-in to check if its the gpu that is broken.
Try to use one ram slot only, try some new ram cards. I had an issue with ram slots. So if u have issue with ram card, there will be no display, and pc will reboot it self
I have tried plugging in my post speaker it boots no beep lights and everything else is on taken out my gpu and ram same thing no beep tried turning it the other way same thing it is in right pins still got no black screen what the hell is it my best guess is doa motherboard
I once had a case shorting problem. The + power was short with the case, wouldn't boot all. I never found where it was shorting, I just changed the case.
Can't remember if you mentioned it (and i'm too lazy to go back to the beginning of the video) but the battery in the motherboard is also a problem with not getting a post sometimes. I remember reading that in a reddit thread, and I also think @paulshardware had a similar issue.
Very thorough. Thanks!
One quick thing to try: pull out all RAM and expansion cards and re-insert. Sometimes oxidization on the copper pins causes problems and the heating/cooling/heating/cooling of a PC over time cause things to become un-seated. Re-inserting cards and RAM can 'scrub' oxidization off the copper and forces a re-seat.
Heh, there’s no POST, and then there’s no response from the PSU at all. Going to test it directly tomorrow and hope that is all that’s gone bust. Fully modular, and I can get another to swap easily enough.
Dead laptop. I plugged a different adapter into an external usb, wow, it’s dead. What a drag.
greetings :) your video is over 2 years in the past but though, in case the speaker gives warning beeps if all Ram´s are build out, does that give a conclusion if either the board or the cpu is still alive?
I got a new flare x kit for my r7 awhile back and messed up the ram and was so worried it was dead until I plugged it into a mother slot
Had a similar computer with the same issue. Turned out to be that the CPU had somehow lost it's ability to run with quad channel memory... Replaced motherboard, CPU, and then the RAM as well. I'm seeing this issue a lot more lately with the Intel Core i5/i7's from 6th gen on Z170 boards
I just got my motherboard and it’s not powering on
Yesterday I replaced the stock cooler on my fx-8300 and once I turned on my pc it would freeze at the login screen whenever I typed the password and it would never bring me to the desktop.
I reinstalled it made sure everything was screwed in well, but this time nothing boots (cpu fan spins, gpu , but not the exhaust fan. At this point I'm thinking I just wasted 1000$+ just by replacing a STOCK COOLER.
Oof my pc just turned off last night and wont turn on I'm guessing power supply went poops
One time after applying new thermal paste I was having boot issues and took the CPU out, and turns out somehow one of he pins was bent and bent it back.
My PC will post but when booting windows it will shut down immediately then it will turn back on and repeat. I've tested everything you said, I have also tried to reinstall windows and it won't even boot into that. I've also tried 3 hard drives and tried installing windows into that and still hasn't worked
I was playing VR went back to the home screen and left it on TH-cam and came back to it billowing out smoke and my wife scared for her life now it's at the shop and I'm hoping it's not all gone.
So one time, I had to go somewhere and I put my PC to sleep for like more than 2 hours when I was gone. And when I come back and tried to turn on my PC, it wouldn't post. I have Corsair RGB stuff so when I turn off my PC, I hit the space bar and the RGB lights were on, my mouse wasn't on, no display on the monitor. So I trouble shoot the thing. I did research on what happened, I talked to my dad to see what he think is the problem. He told me to reset the CMOS, which I did but didn't do anything. I reinstalled the ram and it still didn't work. I took out my GPU to see if it's the GPU, but it wasn't. So it leads me to the 2 choices, The Mobo or the PSU. I tested the PSU first with a Paper Clip and hook it up to the 2 black wires. turn it on and the fan was spinning. So it's the Mobo. I RMAed it. It kinda took me a while despite that I lost the CPU Socket cover and I heard that if you RMA the Mobo without the Cover, the warranty will be voided. Good thing I found those things on eBay as well for a package for my CPU. Took me like 5 days, then after that. I packaged up the Motherboard and send it off to them. Took me a couple of weeks and checking back to the website that it was a Bios error or replacing chips. So when it was done and I got it back, I bought the Cryorig M9 CPU Cooler to upgrade my stock CPU Cooler and it is running quietly. So after I done all those rebuilding and I kinda snapped a pin on the USB 3.0, it was fixed. I booted it up and I was happy. I got straight to light gaming to see that it's getting low frames or frames drops. I realized that my Drivers wasn't working so I reinstalled it. Did that and it was complete, but Nvidia shadowplay wasn't working. It was a big deal but will be when a new game comes out and I want to record it when it was launched and maybe gets some views on it. Anyways, that's kinda my story how I troubleshoot and fixed my PC
The Motherboard was gigabyte and my PC was in the 400-500, but what can I expect?
My PC Specs
Intel Core i3 6100
Cryroig M9 CPU cooler
Gigabyte GA-H110M-A
Crucial Ballistic Sports 8gb single dmm
Geforce GTX 1050
WD blue 1tb
EVGA 430w
and a mini tower micro ATX case
I remember i managed to get a old pentium machine to post from unplugging the 4 pin from the 24 pin on the board. It posted with 20 pin, but i managed to fix it and get it up and going.
Watching this while drinking my 3rd cup of coffee trying to figure out why my hdd boots some times and doesn't get recognized the other time.
What would you expect to see if your cpu is fried? No response at all when pressing the power button?
Great video!
Anyone help?
Computer randomly power cycles during gaming
Cpu is stable on overclock stress testing, gpu also stable. Aida 64 says voltages are fine and so are my temps.
I’m building a brand new computer but every time I turn it on everything turns on, the fans the cpu fan everything but there’s never any signal, I replace my ram 3 time and I’m starting to thing the mother boards ram slot is broken
I'm having an issue that my PC sometimes does not switch on at all . sometime it does and sometime it does not for whatever reason .
I can see that there is power going on from power supply (MB lights are on, HUE+ light on ...) . I did Memtest and it gave no error and Bios reads the correct amount of RAM installed .
i suspected that the case power button is faulty , but even the MB power button does not work .
The only way i can switch the PC on (and this only work from time to time) is pressing CMOS button multiple times until it powers on by itself .
I have noticed that, after clearing CMOS -to bring the PC on- my Bios clock is couple of minutes off the correct time , does CMOS stops bios clock ? does fault/dead MB battery affect POST ? MB debug screen does not show any unusual code .
Now my PC is on 24/7 because of this , afraid that it won't be back on again .
Any suggestions/advice ?
Yo, I have an MSI mobo, which when powered on, show the top red led meaning that there is a fault with the cpu, then proceeds to turn off. I have now ordered a new cpu so let's hope that works!
12:04 I did that exact same thing one time. I was looking for the problem for about 3 hours and got so frustrated with myself until my brother came over and pressed the reset button which turned on the PC and I felt stupid. At least I will never make that mistake again
Had one that would shut off half way into Windows boot. Opened up the PC to see if there was something going on in there and sure enough.... There's the CPU cooler hanging half way off the socket. Stupid AM3 retention brackets. That happened twice to the same Gateway computer. About every 2 to 3 years. I guess the plastic would dry out and it caused the little part the metal latch hooks on to snap off.
Yeah, only machine I've experienced the issue with. I've used the clamp style for a long time. This is the only machine ever to have the thing break. After the last time and ordering the same kind as before - I saved the good half so I didn't need to buy a whole new retention module next time. lol
I recently had some issues with my PC. It would bsod randomly while gaming or while at the desktop, and the bsods were always kernel security check failure. After days investigating it turns out my CPU just needed more voltage........ And I didn't even overclock it.
had a dead motherboard the other day, oh the pain i went through to finally figure out it was the board, literally spent a good 4 hours trying to figure it out ;-----;
End twist spent 6 hours yaerday
6 hours...lucky ...I’m going on day 2
Jeffrey Bengry it was my second day and I gave up and put my old one back together
I used to work at a PC parts/repair shop and this is some sound advice. Almost exactly what we did in the back when a system wouldn't POST.