I had a major issue 2 days ago. Switch pc on all booted well. Left it for an hour (went to pub for Sunday roast) dont have power save/hibernate/ screen stitch off and such. Came back and screens off but pc fans and g/cards still running as normal. Tried wake up from keyboard......nothing.. tried reset button.....nothing... tried hold power off.....nothing. Switched pc off via switch on psu. Switched back on. No post beeps! Fans start (m/board and gpu and case) nothing else. Tried replacing cmos battery, cmos reset using jumper. Still nothing. Having a asus rampage 3 extreme (yeah old i know) luck for me this board has a set of LEDs which light when an issue with start up. Checked, CPU light lite? First thought CPU failed or m/board died. Disheartened (my baby i built 10 years ago, specs below) thinking its had it or needs investment to fix.
Following day i put the build on the operating table for inspection. LOL. First unplugged all power/reset buttons. Nothing. Unplugged all hard drives ssd drives and dvd drive (yes i have a DVD rom drive! Lol. I have physical copies of games) Unplugged GPU. After doing this the Q leds (4 leds on the mother board to indicate an issue with either dram, cpu, vga, boot device) indicated dram an issue. Removed all 4Gb (24Gb initially) sticks except 1 x in the primary slot. Powered up and for the first time i got post beeps and looking at the Led`s stated vga (gpu missing). Put the gpu back in and still got post beeps and was able to get to bios screen for the first time.
From then on in slowly put back in all remaining rams sticks back in 1 by 1 and all is well. System working as it was before the issue.
No idea what the cause was but it is working as it was before.
Would like to know any input to what caused this issue.
Thought i would post this if anyone has a similar issue.
My sad pc specs;
asus rampage 3 extreme
i7 930 2.8Gb o/c @ 4.0Gb (1st gen i7) 4 physical cores)
24Gb ballistic (6 x 4Gb ram) 1600mhz
asus Gtx 1080 Strix
wd 650GB hard drive master drive
Samsung spinpiont 250Gb hard drive
wd 250Gb SSd
850w Corsair AX850 psu
1 x dvd rom drive
Antec 1200 case.
Duel boot win xp 64 and win 7 (main) os
All is well now but a strange issue. hope these steps may help someone else with a similar issue. If someone could point to what may have caused the issue would help.
Ps: i know its old and the cpu is really outdated but its done me very well for 10 years.(only upgraded the GPU from a ASUS 5970 to the ASUS gtx 1080 2 years ago)
GT1uk got a reaction from Ben17 in README: How to respond to a no POST or no power up situation
