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Mr Sparkle

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  • Birthday Mar 07, 1988

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  • Gender
    Male
  • Location
    Melbourne, Australia

System

  • CPU
    AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
  • Motherboard
    MSI X570-A Pro
  • RAM
    Corsair Vengeance 16GB
  • GPU
    MSI Radeon 5700 XT
  • Case
    Cooler Master Silencio S600 Black
  • Storage
    Samsung 860 EVO 1TB M.2
  • PSU
    Cooler Master MWE Gold 650W
  • Cooling
    Cooler Master MasterLiquid ML240R
  • Operating System
    Windows 10 64bit
  • Laptop
    MacBook Pro 15" 2017, 2.9 GHz i7
  • Phone
    iPhone 8

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  1. I'm wondering if booting using something like Ultimate Boot CD might help. Does anyone have any experience with this or recommendations?
  2. Hey, I am helping out a friend who got locked out of their old Windows 8 machine. I wasn't able to reset the password to help get back in, so I'm doing the next best thing and pulling all the data off the HDD before reformatting (with Windows 10 of course). I have pulled the HDD out and connected it up to another Windows machine. The drive shows up fine and I can see the bulk of the contents, however most/all of the the x:\Users\username folders are hidden and I presume I don't have the permission to see them. I'm trying to take ownership of the entire drive just so I can pull everything off but getting errors like A device which does not exist was specified. I've tried a couple other file/folder ownership tools but not getting anywhere. Has anyone got any suggestions for me? Thanks
  3. I am still waiting for the Cooler Master replacement, so I went ahead and bought a new Corsair RM650 in the meantime. Connected it all up yesterday and haven't had a single issue with the PC since. That seems fairly conclusive that the issue was with the PSU. Hopefully this helps someone else one day.
  4. Unfortunately the stress test only lasted about 1:15 hours last night before shutting down. I'm moving forward with the warranty replacement. Stay tuned if that resolves this issue or not...
  5. You may not have that one - there was probably another audio connector for the audio ports. Yes - I’ve been operating under the assumption that your got a power cable connected to the PSU and the switch is ON on the back of the PSU?
  6. If your computer is booting up, you could also try the following:
  7. Memtest came back with zero faults (4 passes), and the machine has been stable the whole time... I'll boot it back into windows tonight and leave a stress test running to see if it holds up overnight.
  8. I'm assuming you've already checked that this all lines up, but I'll add it in here anyways. Case connectors Motherboard It could also be the ram, but considering you've got 2 sticks, they'd both probably have to be faulty for it to be not powering on.
  9. If thats the case, then its either a faulty component (PSU, motherboard, CPU) or the case power button isn't correctly connected (refer to the image I sent through earlier). If anyone else has any ideas, go for it.
  10. Does the CPU fan spin at all? Do any lights come on anywhere?
  11. Probably not until the load/temperature is high enough.
  12. From what I can tell in the picture, the front panel connectors aren't connected in the bottom right corner (correct me if I'm wrong).
  13. Any chance you're able to send through a better picture (more light would be helpful)?
  14. You're picture is a bit dark and blurry, so it'd hard to tell - but can you confirm you've got the 8-pin power connected in the top left corner of the motherboard?
  15. So I managed to reload Windows, update it, install all latest drivers, run SSD check, run GPU & CPU stress test with no issues. I then was rebooting to run memtest86 and had the shutdown happen. I've got it up again and it's been running memtest for the past 30mins with no errors. It does appear to be either Motherboard or PSU at this stage. Does anyone know any checks/tests I can run to help narrow it down?
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