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Computer won't boot after 1+ year. Please help :(

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JBacon

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Hey guys,

Having the most confusing computer issue Ive ever experienced.

I noticed my gpu fans werent spinning on my sandy bridge build so I took it out to clean it. Couldn't get them working when I put it back in, and now there was what I thought at the time no signal to the monitor so I thought the gpu had died.

Order new card and put it in, still nothing on the screen. That's when I noticed the dram light was red on my asus p8p67 pro. Took all the ram out and tried all combinations of sticks and still nothing. So I figured the motherboard was at fault as there was no way all my ram sticks could have died at the same time.

Order new motherboard and hook everything up and still nothing. This time I'm using an as rock z77 and the error on the motherboard is 55 for "no memory installed" so I figure it was the ram all along. Go out and buy 8gb of new ram, and still getting error 55.

So I'm left with either the CPU or psu. All the fans spin up so i assume the psu is fine. I've read bent pins can mess with the memory modual so that is one possibility, but that means the pins on the first board got bent after the CPU was seated over a year, and then I bent the same pins on the new board?

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. This is driving me nuts.
 
Just because your fans spin up doesn't mean the PSU is good. You need to jumper the PSU and use a digital volt meter to check your voltages. I highly suspect a bad PSU.

p.s. You posted in the wrong sub-forum. Ask a mod to send this to the general hardware area.
 
FUCK sorry. One of the problems trying to browse the Internet on an iPhone while your computer is dead. Mods feel free to move.

So a faulty psu would give me a ram error on both motherboards.
 
You replaced the board and the ram so I think that eliminates those variables. CPUs rarely just up and die so I think a bad PSU is the most likely possibility.
 
When it seems like you have a lot of bad parts, you can usually trace it back to the one thing powering them all. Check your psu, if readings are bad, head to the psu section for suggestions. Good luck :)
 
PSUs have died on me before, but its always been just completely dead.

How much do meters cost? Conflicted if I should buy one first or just buy a new psu. I'm not sure if I'd know how to read the meter anyway...
 
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