Diagnose This!

Modred189

Modred189

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Alright, so this morning I turn on my computer (main rig in sig) and while all of the fans, lights etc are working, there is no HDD activity light, and the bios screen never appears. Additionally, the monitor shows no signal.

I go to Best Buy, get a cheap video card, swap it in for the GTX260, and it works, though I get the "Overclock failed" screen from the asus mobo.

Odd... the graphics card should have nothing to do with the OC... SO I put the gtx260 back in, and now it works fine... Any ideas?

This kind of happened before, but I walked away to have lunch and it worked when I came back..
 
nothing in the sig makes me think you've got some junk hardware causing trouble for everything else

you clear the CMOS at some point inbetween doing all of this?

honestly I'd back the OC down slightly (says you're at 3.12 right now, can you do like, 3.00, or something? not a huge drop honestly), might just not like where its at 110%

the GTX 260 overheating? is it OC'd? (beyond the BFG factory)
 
Could be a corrupt windows file.
Put your windows disc in and reboot and do a repair.
 
obobski said:
nothing in the sig makes me think you've got some junk hardware causing trouble for everything else

you clear the CMOS at some point inbetween doing all of this?

honestly I'd back the OC down slightly (says you're at 3.12 right now, can you do like, 3.00, or something? not a huge drop honestly), might just not like where its at 110%

the GTX 260 overheating? is it OC'd? (beyond the BFG factory)
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Cleared the CMOS several times when it was not working, before replacing the graphics card.
I set the CPU back to stock, see if that solves the problem, but I would be surprised. I mean, I have been running it at 3.1 for ~ a year.

I do not think the GTX260 is overheating, as I have been doing very little gaming recently.
Right now it is idling (after ~2hours of running) at 50 C
 
You kinda did something you shouldn't of had to spend money on. If the system does not boot, pull the memory and gpu out and re-seat it. That fixes stuff 8/10 times. The other 20% is a motherboard, power failure, or gpu failure, and in a rare case, a cpu failure.
 
Yea, I am kind of scared that it is the mobo... but I was hoping that swapping out parts would expose something else as the issue, like the gpu.
I have a 45 day return policy at Best Buy, so I use it as often as possible to ;rent' stuff like this. Sometimes I keep the stuff, other times I return it....
 
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