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Motherboard won't post after electrical storm
An electrical storm hit earlier and has taken out my phone line, router and a PC. Both PC and router were plugged into a surge protector.
The PC no longer POSTs. I've swapped out the PSU to no ...
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Motherboard won't power-on until it rests for ~10min with no power plugged in
I have a strange ASUS Rampage Formula motherboard issue.
When the computer is off — I can't power it on: 'Power' button press gives just a short impulse on fans. When I disconnect the power cable and ...
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My PCIe video card does not work in POST, only comes on when Windows loads
I have an ASUS Maximus V Extreme motherboard which has onboard video. There is an Asus GeForce GTX 670 in PCIe slot 1.
In the BIOS, I have PCIe selected as the preferred GPU. I've tried disabling ...
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After working for over 4 years, a custom PC won't POST
Configuration:
CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K
Motherboard: ASUS Z97-A ATX DDR3 2600 LGA 1150
RAM: Crucial Ballistix Sport XT 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR3 1866
PSU: Corsair RM750
When I turn the PC on, the ...
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What are the possible causes of a not-booting motherboard with drdebug 00 code?
I have pursached a new Asrock Z68 Extreme4 motherboard with an i7 2600K and 2x4GB ADATA DDR3. My problem is that it doesn't boot or beep, and the onboard drdebug led constantly displays "00" - which ...
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What does this beep code mean?
When I wanted to start my laptop today (an Acer Aspire 8920G), the laptop started beeping. I know this beeping is a POST error code, but I can not figure out which one it is. The motherboard of the ...
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PC hangs during post when webcam is plugged in
My PC keeps hanging during POST, just before identifying the amount of RAM, anytime I have my webcam plugged in. If I unplug the webcam, it will unhang and continue to boot up just fine. It also ...
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Computer only turns on after many hours off/unplugged
I'm having a problem with my PC.
My computer specs are:
Mobo: Gigabyte GA H81M S2PV
Proc: Intel Pentium G3220
Ram: 2x8GB 1333MHz Kingston (Passed on Mem86+)
PSU: Corsair CX430 III
HDD: Seagate ...
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Can dusty RAM slot fail to POST?
Today after a heavy dusting in my house, I booted the pc (which was covered in a thin layer of dust already), it failed to post. It only worked when I cleaned the RAM slot. This once happened in my ...
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New computer won't boot
I've recently purchased a set of components and set about building my own desktop. It is not booting and I am stuck.
When I hit the power button, the fans spin, but that's all. There is no video. ...
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Is my new Graphic Card cause for my PC hanging?
My Computer Specification
My Motherboard specification
My new Graphic Card
Some days ago I bought a GeForce 8400 GS Graphic card.
My computer satisfied all the minimum system requirements it ...
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ASUS Rampage IV Extreme Debug error code 79 and 5A
While working on Windows 10, my desktop computer suddenly rebooted itself and stops to display a POST screen. Computer was running on low profile and has never been overclocked.
Computer ...
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PC startup: 2 long beeps + 1 short beep; what does it mean?
It's a gigabyte motherboard. When I press the button, nothing comes on the screen and it beeps:
*LONG BEEP*
*LONG BEEP*
*short beep*
What does it mean?
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DELL Optiplex 790 Shows only 3rd LED
My Dell Optiplex 790 Machine is not starting, and only 3rd Diagnostic LED is solid. Sometimes it's starting (After a 100 times restart)
Can anybody tell me what's the real issue ?
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Graphics card causes motherboard to delay power off
Recently a glass of fruit juice was dumped into my tower. I immediately scrapped the motherboard and power supply unit, replacing both, and attempted to salvage both the RAM, GPU, and the CPU. I took ...
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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 ...