Bottomburp

In the last few days I just researched and chose a QNAP 431+ for my dad as the features and simplicity seemed top draw. I believe they do a 2 bay version as well.

If it still does it with the side of the case removed you can just stop or slow down each fan briefly with your finger until you find the culprit.

4930k for me. More cache and more cores.

I think that was the case afluffehbunneh. I stripped the whole PC down and rebuilt it from the bottom up (after doing a few case mods) and is working fine. I did not do anything different to how I would normally assemble a PC so unless it happens again I will have to put it down as 'one of those things'.

That is my next step Sir. Updates to follow

1st. 'Bricked' is not the right word It certainly sounds like you might have trashed your installation of windows mate. There are always ways of recovering things but that depends on your knowledge with recovering such things. The easiest option for you would be to re-install a fresh copy of windows but that depends on if you have the windows media and if you know how to do that.

Should work and I would be happy to do it. It is not rocket science to suggest that matching SSD's would be better but hey ho... Go for it

Another update. Prior to stripping the whole thing down I thought I would just 'crack' each of the screw securing the motherboard and back them off 1 full turn. AND IT HAS STARTED WORKING! Now I know there are not any wires behind the motherboard so it will NOT be a pinched wire leaving me with A: Something shorting out on the tray or B: Something like a cracked board?

OK well that sucks. A new PSU arrived today (I had nothing big enough to test this PC) and it does exactly the same thing so it IS NOT the PSU. I'll strip it down tomorrow and test the motherboard out of the case. Wish me luck.

Tried taking the mains (240v) supply from the wall rather than the surge protector it was plugged into - No dice Tried one stick of ram - No dice Tried without GPU - No dice :unsure:

Afternoon all. Just thought I would throw this out there before I start taking things apart. Asus X99-A Motherboard i7-5820K 16GB (4x4GB) Corsair LPX Zotac GTX 970 bequiet! Dark Power Pro 850w power supply bequiet! Silent Base 800 case PC non-starting. Wires all wriggled and ram re-seated. Remove power lead for 5 mins and then replace, press the start button and things will light up for half a second only before stopping. No time for any error codes on the motherboard before it all goes dark again. Almost as if the power supply has failed. Any thoughts? Experience of that PSU failing? Things I am missing before I get the screwdrivers out? Cheers

Turn off PXE in the bios settings for the onboard network port Looks like the Pc is waiting for a possible network boot. The bios settings for the network port are normally OFF, ON & On with PXE. Just set it to ON

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No, I would not take it. To risky.

Worked ok for me