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  1. This is a follow-up post to an older one. Specs: i5-6500 Asus H110M-D iGPU (HD 530) 8GB DDR4 RAM WD 2TB HDD Zebronics 450W PSU When I power on the PC, CPU fan turns on and LED in the Motherboard turns on, other than that there is no output to any peripherals (Monitor, Keyboard, Mouse). I think the HDD also is getting power as restarting the PC gives a sound from the HDD. For some odd reason, the Chassis fan powered directly by the PSU is not working. Might be it died as it was running noisy for months. Things I have tried Cleared CMOS data by removing the battery and using the clear CMOS jumper. Also replaced the CMOS battery. Swapped to a new PSU. Checked the 24 pin ATX connector power output and it is all in check. Turned on with nothing other than just the RAM. Tried powering on even without the RAM (by mistake) and there was no beep sound at all (the speaker wire to motherboard is connected) Cleaned and swapped the RAM to the other slot. Cleaned the CPU socket and reapplied thermal compound for the CPU fan. Nothing seems to help. Is the motherboard dead? Is there any other thing I could do to confirm or troubleshoot the problem? The problem started 2 weeks ago when the PC randomly started rebooting without any blue screen. I tried to run RAM test using a software from USB directly from BIOS and it was rebooting even in that setup. I tried to startup in safe mode to test all components (CPU GPU stress test, RAM test, HDD S.M.A.R.T. test) and the PC didn't reboot even once in 2 hrs. Booted back to Windows and miraculously everything stayed stable for 1 week. Last week, when I turned the PC back on from 2 hrs of hibernation, the fan turned on but no other output. I let it be for a while and later checked it again and the issue persisted. I tried reinstalling the RAM and replacing the CMOS battery but nothing solved the issue. After 2 days of being away from the PC, it booted to a screen showing all parts Installed and asked Me to continue to BIOS to setup but no action from the keyboard worked (the LED on the keyboard was on). Restarting again made no progress as no keyboard action worked. Third restart took the PC back to the same issue of no output. I checked the Voltage output in all points of the 24 pin connector and it seems to be in the right range. I tried to clear BIOS, drain any excess charge, turn on without any non-essential components. Nothing worked. So I bought a new PSU the result was still the same. Opened the PC and removed the CPU and cleaned the socket. Reinserted it with new thermal compound on the fan yet nothing.
  2. The problem is that there is no output in the Monitor or the Keyboard or the Mouse so can't even know if the windows is booting, let alone do stress test. It all started a couple weeks ago, when there was random reboota without any blue screen of death. After continuous non-reliable reebots, I tried stress test in safe mode after which surprisingly the PC worked fine for a week. Suddenly, it wouldn't give any output in any peripheral parts. I don't have a spare PSU to test but had a multimeter that I used to check outputs in the 24 pin. Either I buy a new PSU or have to submit the whole PC for a check-up.
  3. My PC turns on and has CPU fan and Motherboard LED on but no output in Monitor, Keyboard or Mouse. I measured the output from the 24 pin ATX connector and it is fine. Could the PSU still be the culprit, failing in load?
  4. When I turn on the PC, the CPU fan runs and the LED on the motherboard turns on. Other than that, nothing else happens. No output in the monitor, no LED lights up in the keyboard or mouse and the Chassis fan also doesn't run (I don't know if it has failed). If I keep it running, it sometimes restarts after a few minutes (didn't test that enough). I tested the output from the 24 pin atx connector and all outputs seem to be normal under no load. Specs: i5-6500, iGPU (HD530) Asus H110M-D 8GB DDR4 2TB HDD 450W Zebronics PSU The problem started 2 weeks ago when the PC randomly started rebooting without any blue screen. I tried to run RAM test using a software from USB directly from BIOS and it was rebooting even in that setup. I tried to startup in safe mode to test all components (CPU GPU stress test, RAM test, HDD S.M.A.R.T. test) and the PC didn't reboot even once in 2 hrs. Booted back to Windows and miraculously everything stayed stable for 1 week. Last week, when I turned the PC back on from 2 hrs of hibernation, the fan turned on but no other output. I let it be for a while and later checked it again and the issue persisted. I tried reinstalling the RAM and replacing the CMOS battery but nothing solved the issue. After 2 days of being away from the PC, it booted to a screen showing all parts Installed and asked Me to continue to BIOS to setup but no action from the keyboard worked (the LED on the keyboard was on). Restarting again made no progress as no keyboard action worked. Third restart took the PC back to the same issue of no output. I checked the Voltage output in all points of the 24 pin connector and it seems to be in the right range. I tried to clear BIOS, drain any excess charge, turn on without any non-essential components. Nothing worked. Could the PSU have gone bad? Can the PSU give the right output without load and fail when at load? Or could it be any other issue. All components are atleast 6 years old and the PSU is a cheap one that I bought 2 years ago.
  5. The issue for Me is that the HDD is not being detected at all and it is My boot drive. So can't boot to windows to backup anything. Even tried other methods like flashing backup software into a USB but even then the HDD is not being detected. It has some very important data in it so I am not risking unless someone quotes a perfectly working method. Planning to take it to a data recovery center.
  6. How probable is it that the data is recoverable? It would definitely be very costly, but I am willing to wait to save enough to recover it. I just want to know if I can keep the hopes up that I can recover may be like 90% of the data or is it that the sounds say something of completely damaged platter (is that what They call the shiny disk in which the data is stored?)
  7. 3 days ago, My PC started shutting down after freezing for a few seconds. It used to start normally at times but the rest of the attempts used to go to BIOS where there will be no HDD to boot into. After a couple more days of such unreliable start-up, I decided to backup everything to an external hard drive but now the HDD is never being detected. Can't boot into Windows. Tried USB Linux, can't detect it there as well. Clonezilla also doesn't seem to detect the HDD. I have recorded and attached how it sounds when I start the HDD up. Is there any hopes of recovering files in it? What could be the problem. Can I fix it myself or take it to an technical expert? YouCut_20220319_084724643.mp4
  8. Is it on to try turning on the PC without reconnecting it?
  9. I took My PC for a cleanup as I hadn't cleaned in it for years. While I was half way up I suddenly found one wire (white) of that 24 pin connector from the PSU cut in almost two equal halves. I don't remember if it was like that always. May be it was too brittle and snapped into two while I was cleaning. I just turned on the power to the PSU and the power on sound from the PSU did turn on but no power indication on the motherboard was on. Is it supposed to be like that (I am sure it's not). How should I fix it? Should I just connect both ends after stripping the insulator and tape it? Or should I replace the PSU (which would take a really long time to do as lockdown is on)?
  10. Well then i5 6400 vs i5 6500??? Price difference is 7%...
  11. That's tooooooooo long to wait seriously... Will that be worth the wait???
  12. Its likely in My case as I got to use Integrated graphics until I can save up enough money to get a good one (may be a few months)... In case of integrated graphics what should I go for???
  13. Has it been announced or quoted anywhere about that 1 yr???
  14. Mainly coz of budget issues... If Pascal doesn't come out by about 6 months, Ill go for the Better one at that time wid the money I can save till then...
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