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Which Part is Causing POST Fail?

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Just to add another update. After turning off my PC last night I also turned off the switch on the PSU.

 

Today before booting I turned the switch back on and it booted fine. Going to mark this as solved as all evidence points to it being a PSU issue

Hi all,

 

I am currently experiencing an issue where my PC powers on, however no I/O (keyboard or mouse lights) or display works. The PC just sits there being on until I turn it off. My current specs are in signature.

 

I have found a workaround to this issue by removing a stick of RAM, turning off the PSU switch, holding down the power on button for 5 seconds, then turning on the PSU switch again. This causes the PC to boot normally.

 

However today, the same thing happened, but when I swap the stick of RAM with the one I took out it works fine.

Once I post this I will try put both sticks of ram back in and try my PSU switch workaround. If I can get the PC to boot by doing that, is there any recommended software I can use to test my RAM to rule out that that is causing the issue?

 

Another thing I forgot to add is that this issue only started occurring after there was a momentary (<5 seconds) loss of power at my house last week. Could this have caused something within the PSU to fail?

 

Thanks in advance

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Just to add another update. After turning off my PC last night I also turned off the switch on the PSU.

 

Today before booting I turned the switch back on and it booted fine. Going to mark this as solved as all evidence points to it being a PSU issue

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