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Computer powers up, but doesn't POST. Suggestions?

I have a system that powers up. The CD/DVD drive fires up, I can hear the hard drive spin on, and all the fans spin. However, the monitor doesn't display anything. I have made a checklist of things I ...
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MSI laptop will only turn on once

I am working on an MSI A6200 MS-1681. When you press the power button the lights all flash. The fan comes on. The screen comes on and shows the POST screen for a second and then it dies. I have been ...
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ASUS ROG B450-F motherboard QLED blinks in sequence and won't post

For some odd reason my computer won't post, the QLEDs on my ASUS ROG strix are stuck in a loop flashing in sequence and won't post. All the fans turn on. I removed all peripherals and is currently ...
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Keyboard does not respond at POST screen, but works fine everywhere else?

Mobo: Gigabyte 7TESM OS: Win 10 Pro CPU: Dual Xeon X5650s I’ve been dealing with this problem across two different motherboards. I understand it is an astronomically small possibility this happened ...
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No POST on new built desktop

I just finished building a desktop again and it will not perform a successful POST. No beeps or video either. Since my goal is a successful POST, i removed all irrelevant hardware already and am only ...
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Computer Doesn't Always Turn on when Pressing Power Button

I have a desktop and my case's power button stopped working after a while. I reverted to using a small screw driver or paper clip to turn my computer on by touching the contacts on the motherboard ...
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Supermicro X9SCA-F won't POST anymore

I have about 20y of experience building systems (mostly for myself), but I have never seen a thing like this: Since about 3y, I have a Xeon 1230V2 on a Supermicro X9SCA-F rev 1.01 and 32GiB ECC RAM ...
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BIOS not reaching post

GT70 0NC-012US Issue: BIOS not reaching POST. Backstory: Several days ago my slave HD started to lock up the OS with any related programs running from that disk. In an attempt to fix it, I used ...
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Motherboard prints no POST messages at all, but otherwise works perfectly -- is this normal?

I bought a slot A3+ motherboard (Gigabyte ATX GA990ZA-UD3-R5) with an AMD FX-8320E CPU. It works fine, all eight cores are enabled, dual-channel memory works, as well as everything I could test (audio,...
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Bad motherboard

I have an ECS P4VXASD2+ and it's really frustrating right now to see what is causing it to not POST. Throughout this entire time, there were 2x 512 MB PC-2100 DDR-266 SDRAM, one DVD-ROM, one CD-ROM, a ...
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Computer hangs at POST, sometimes

I had an issue where sometimes the computer would hang at startup, during POST, with either a code 67 or 99 on the motherboard's debug LED (Asrock Z77 extreme4). If it was the former (code 67), the ...
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Motherboard wont boot , PSU tested ok, motherboard light on , system and cpu fans not turning

Hope you can help. I've a motherboard that seems dead. I've changed the processor, psu, memory for known working ones and disconnected all non essential peripherals (drives, USB connections). The ...
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MSI P6N motherboard - Bad CMOS Checksum

Twice in the last month, my computer has failed to boot, or even POST, because of this message: CMOS checksum bad Press F1 for Setup Press F2 for default values When I press F2, the BIOS values ...
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Newly assembled PC build fails to POST

I recently put together a PC, intended to be used as a x86 router running either IPFire or OPNsense, but that's not so relevant yet, since when I try to turn it on, it doesn't even get pass POST. ...
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Medion PC turning on but not booting up

A colleague of my mother has a problem with her pc and asked me to look at it. Now i've tried quite a few things but can't get it to boot up.. It is a medion pc and as soon as I push the power button ...
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