A family member has moved away and has left his pc with us, he said the pc only turns on sometimes... which is weird.
We have started testing things to find the problem.
Specs are:
Cpu- amd ryzen 5 3600
Mobo - Asus Prime A320M-A
Gpu - gigabyte 1060 3gb
Psu - some corsair 650w
Mem - hyperx 1x16gb
First thing we have tried is swapping the case as maybe the case hardware was faulty and also we wanted to swap the case as his one was super bulky and we wanted the pc to be in something lighter and smaller. No change
We had a spare am4 mobo sitting around and tried putting that in the pc with the cpu, memory, cooler etc. No change
We tried testing the psu by putting my working psu into the system. Note that even though the pc wont start, with both psu the mobo leds light up but you cannot power the fans or any post.
We also have tested memory by putting my ddr4 memory in. No change
We are also using a brand new ssd in the pc
My partner randomly swapped some power cables around and the pc managed to turn on.. out of nowhere, and it had worked turning it off and on for 3 days. Now out of nowhere we woke up this morning and its not working again. We haddnt moved any of the parts or anything
I suspect maybe its the Cpu but i havent heard of a fried cpu behaving like this before, we only have intel cpus with us so we cant test the cpu. We just want to get some opinions and other peoples experiences with a similar situation before we spend the money on a new cpu, would hate to waste the money if its not the problem.
Thanks!
A family member has moved away and has left his pc with us, he said the pc only turns on sometimes... which is weird. We have started testing things to find the problem. Specs are: Cpu- amd ryzen 5 3600 Mobo - Asus Prime A320M-A Gpu - gigabyte 1060 3gb Psu - some corsair 650w Mem - hyperx 1x16gb First thing we have tried is swapping the case as maybe the case hardware was faulty and also we wanted to swap the case as his one was super bulky and we wanted the pc to be in something lighter and smaller. No change We had a spare am4 mobo sitting around and tried putting that in the pc with the cpu, memory, cooler etc. No change We tried testing the psu by putting my working psu into the system. Note that even though the pc wont start, with both psu the mobo leds light up but you cannot power the fans or any post. We also have tested memory by putting my ddr4 memory in. No change We are also using a brand new ssd in the pc My partner randomly swapped some power cables around and the pc managed to turn on.. out of nowhere, and it had worked turning it off and on for 3 days. Now out of nowhere we woke up this morning and its not working again. We haddnt moved any of the parts or anything I suspect maybe its the Cpu but i havent heard of a fried cpu behaving like this before, we only have intel cpus with us so we cant test the cpu. We just want to get some opinions and other peoples experiences with a similar situation before we spend the money on a new cpu, would hate to waste the money if its not the problem. Thanks!