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Damn, looks like i did well to get a PSU with 5 year warranty then thanks for your help anyway!

The whining is more a high pitched noise, than the classic PSU wine. My computer doesn't start/boot at all now, the lights and the fans (even the PSU fan) don't spin at all. The screen isn't receiving any signals either. Had a look in my PSU anyway, nothing out of the ordinary, doubt anything fell in, and there is even a plastic sheet over the coils inside the PSU to protect it. So yeah, I can't boot into windows, bios, or anything without the computer turning on.... :'((((( This post was a copy and paste from /r/techsupport from like 5 days back, so I reckon the phone call was just a coincidence.

Windows 7 Ultimate CPU: Intel Core i7 3770K @3.5Ghz. 4.22 GHz Motherboard: MSI Z77 MPower RAM: Corsair Vengeance CML8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 GPU: ASUS GTX 980 STRIX Storage: Samsung 840 EVO Series 250GB SSD 2x Western Digital WD Green 2TB PSU: NZXT Hale90 V2 850W 80 Plus Gold Computer shut down by itself while I was watching a movie. Tried turning it back on, stuck on BIOS screen(https://imgur.com/c2bZprt), and wouldn't respond to any inputs. Went to live chat for some help, and guy said to pull out my harddrive connections, and SSD connections. Did that, stuck on same BIOS screen. So he said pull out the CMOS battery for a few seconds to reset the CMOS. Did that, and the BIOS screen could take inputs now and was asking "F1 for continue F2 for stepup", tried both options, but they both froze for upwards of 10 minutes. He said to try plugging my drives back in, same thing with the f1 f2 with freeze. He said try taking the ram out and seeing if any combination of one stick or swapping them will work. Took one ram stick out, and tried powering back on, the fans and leds on the mobo power on for 1 second, then shuts back down. Replug the ram, check the connections to my PSU and everything, shuts down again without even getting to the BIOS. It got pretty late, so I thanked him and went to sleep. Next day I tried the CMOS battery thing again, checked all my connections, and even cleaned them, pressed the ON button on my mobo, PSU just whines with a high pitch sound now. I'm too scared to do anything else with it. Also I did power down every time I messed with anything inside btw. Is it a mobo, psu issue? or is it something else? Should I just replace them. Side note - Apparently someone is calling my home phone saying that I have a problem with my computer, but I didn't contact anyone aside from this sub's live chat. Not sure if that has anything to do with it, but I thought it would be worth mentioning.

I want this so bad

Also, its a msi z77 mpower mobo. Manual pdf download: http://www.nodevice.com/download/user_manual/msi+z77-mpower/332920.html

I think its option 1), as I have issues starting up sometimes (http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/148650-computer-lagging-on-first-startup-fine-on-second/). The button on my IO is a clear cmos button, should I press that?

What does the CL_CMOS light on the IO of my motherboard mean? Can i turn it off? What will happen if I turn it off? This light is really annoying, as my PC is in my bedroom and its only on when I turn my computer off.

Do you want me to try reformatting the SSD that my OS is installed on?

I tend not to trust someone who says "For giggles.." at the start, that and idno what halt on any errors would do to my system. Razor Lycaso? I know its shit, but im upgrading soon. I don't get your sense of humour?

Any solution? I did have issues when installing AMD's drivers, but I doubt its the GPU as audio is also screwed.

Its already on normal boot.

Hey, So I have built my first PC a few months ago, and I have had this issue everytime I startup my PC or wake it up from sleep mode. When I power up my PC and it goes through the MoBo logo at normal speed, then it starts getting weird; the windows logo startup screen with the animation lags up and takes FOREVER (over 5 minutes) then black screens for ages then proceeds to the login screen. At the desktop after the first startup, programs load at normal speed, but when dragging windows around it lags up (like it has capped frame rate of around 5 fps). Its not only visual, but the audio cuts in and out constantly like its lagging too. When I try play games, the framerate goes to about 10, and video watching is the same. However I've found that restarting the computer, not through the "Start Menu" ---> "Restart", but physically pressing the restart button on my computer fixes everything. I've tried googling the issue with no avail, as it hard to google something that I have no idea what the source could be. Any advice is great. This has gone on for too long. THANKS MY SPECS: Case: NZXT Phantom 630 CPU: Intel Core i7 3770K @ 3.5GHz, 4.20 GHz CPU Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14PE CPU Cooler Blue Edition Motherboard: MSI Z77 MPower RAM: Corsair Vengeance CML8GX3M2A1600C9 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 GPU: Gigabyte Radeon R9 290 4GB Storage: Samsung 840 EVO Series 250GB SSD Western Digital WD Green 2TB PSU: NZXT Hale90 V2 850W 80 Plus Gold OS: Windows 7 64 bit

Dimensions are 25m x 15m approx. And does powerline rely on the internal wiring in the house being straight from one place to the other? Since my house extension was built way after the left side of the house( left of room 6 and 11), may not even connect to each other as the left and right side may be completely separate and only lead into the power board outside.

http://tinypic.com/r/2vnluzk/5 Sorry for the quick paint job Dimensions of 25m x 15m. VERY approx Green boxes: doorways Red boxes: powerpoints Blue box: modem and cable connection At the moment I have a wifi signal of 58% from room 2 to room 9 (where my gaming pc is) at a solid 4 mb/s... I live in Australia so my cable (not adsl/through the telephone wire, but cable) connection through ethernet is at 150mb/s in room 2. Is it possible to get an ethernet connection without severely long ethernet cables and expensive routering (aka through the whole house; inside walls and roof). I also want to have at least speeds of 20 - 50 mb/s. Although the modem must stay in room 2 as two old computers have no wifi adapters and need ethernet connections. Suggestions for solutions under 150$ AU would be appreciated. So far i've looked at solutions such as powerline adapters, although I have no idea how much speed would be achieved through them. http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=200_1348. If these are a solution, which should i get? Will an wifi extender half way get the speeds i want? at point 13 then ethernet wired through room 8 and drilled into my room (9)[there is also a powerpoint opposite the door on the the same wall as room 9 in room 8 i forgot to draw in that may support another extender]. Thanks for any help you manage to give me!