Gibs960

Motherboard was fucked, swapped to an older (read: not as good) motherboard and it's booting fine. Thanks for all your help! @DoctorNick @PDifolco

Yeah, HDD unplugged worked once and then after it refused to boot again, so I'm guessing it was just coincidence. Completely baffled by what it could be.

Yeah, the trouble is that it isn't getting into OS most of the time. Replacing CMOS battery hasn't fixed the issue. I'm completely at a loss as to what it is at this point.

I have cleared the CMOS before, but I've just read online that someone solved their issue by replacing the CMOS battery so I will try this and report back.

I disconnected the power and sata cable of the HDD and it booted the first time. I restarted the computer to get into the BIOS and now the EZ Debug Light is staying on CPU.

It's been in my system for years, only overclocking I've ever done has been auto-overclocking, nothing crazy. No bent pins, and weirdly it boots occasionally. I do have a spare board so I could try that.

Hiya, so for the past few months, my computer has refused to boot. It was absolutely fine, playing games and then it just crashed and the problem has persisted since. During different troubleshooting methods, the CPU, VGA, and DRAM lights have all remained lit even when all connected. I can't find it now but I found a forum post somewhere that suggested this meant the problem lies with the PSU. I've rebuilt the system, updated BIOS, reapplied thermal paste, and tested different RAM configurations, and nothing has worked. I'm thinking it's the PSU, but I'm unsure and don't want to spend money on a new PSU if the problem is something else. Specs: CPU Ryzen 7 3700x Motherboard MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus RAM Corsair Vengeance RGB PRO 16GB 3600MHz DDR4 GPU MSI Radeon RX 5700 GAMING X Storage ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 1TB M.2 Seagate BarraCuda 4 TB HDD PSU EVGA Supernova 850W G2

I think everything I get out of a games console I get from having last gen (Xbox One) and my gaming PC. I do very little gaming on my xbox anymore because I've made a conscious effort to make use of the hundreds/thousands of pounds I've spent on my PC and not buy Xbox games for probably about a year.

It's one of them things, I usually just build next to my radiator and touch the pipe that goes into the ground. I have used straps before but I find them so irritating and as someone has pointed out, unless you're being silly, you shouldn't need to be grounded at all times.

The most worrying part is not that people submitted their ID for verification purposes, but the fact that that's legal without any sort of guarantee of safety. Surely to be able to store someone's ID you must have to have strict measures in place to make sure that doesn't get in the wrong hands?

I wouldn't worry about them breaking, as someone has already pointed out, the fans will be the last thing to die! Only reason I'd suggest to have fans running all the time is to prevent that jarring increase in noise when you get in to a game or possibly just to increase airflow generally in the case.

A password manager is probably a safer bet than storing passwords as plain text or just encrypting the whole drive if you really need to have them written down.

I had that same problem with my new cable, at least it didn't break!

5 years into PC building and I made the stupidest mistake I've ever made. Changing my case on Christmas Day, went to turn it on and there was nothing... so I thought it was my PSU cable because it had come loose, so I changed and still nothing... so I concluded it was the motherboard but then when I got the new motherboard it still wasn't working. I was so confused, it wasn't even turning on when I was shorting the pins on the mobo. It turns out I'd got the serial port and front panel port mixed up - both motherboards are fine, both cables are fine... Time to flip that old motherboard on eBay (my new one has Wi-Fi and Bluetooth built in and is a better motherboard)... So, what's the dumbest PC mistake you've made?

Hi guys, I've managed to break my 24-pin mobo cabe for my PSU when transferring to a new case but I'm finding it near impossible to get a replacement cable (or even set of cables) in the UK. EU store for EVGA says I can't get them, US store says I can't ship to UK. I'd be forever grateful if someone had a reliable source for these cables! NOTE: I've already emailed EVGA support, but if I'm honest, I'm not hopeful for a response.