PC is bRoKEn?

[Killervolt]

Hey, so I'm having like 4 major problems with my PC (all at the same time yay!) It is quite old now but I'm not sure why this is occurring, any help would be greatly appreciated!

POST

PC just does not post. I hit the button, the fans spin but the motherboard does not beep to post. Alternatively, I hear the beep but then the BIOS screen does not flash up and my PC sits there like a brick. Pretty sure the motherboard is the issue here since I changed out the PSU today and the problem is even worse . . . Only way to fix it (sometimes) is to turn off the power at the wall, wait a couple minutes and then turn it back on. 

 

FATAL ERROR

Sometimes when I boot up, I get a fatal error: Chassis intrusion and don't know why. I have to go to the solution above (turning off power at the wall) and just spamming reboot until it (maybe) boots into windows

 

WINDOWS

Very inconsistent loading times into windows- I have w10 on an SSD and sometimes it takes 10 seconds and other times it takes 2 minutes to boot. Not such a big issue but annoying nevertheless.

 

GPU Fans

Running very loud and will not respond to any custom fan curve software. A reboot fixes it (read above though . . .) but when I stress it in a game the fans spin up again and don't go back down. Only good thing is that my GPU is now at 20 degrees Celcius! Model is Gigabyte GTX 980 Ti G1. (I bought it used last week, so maybe got done with a bad card but even that would respond to fan curve software right?) I've tried afterburner and the gigabyte software.

 

THINGS I'VE TRIED

New power supply.

Fresh install of windows

Resetting CMOS (pulling out motherboard battery and putting it back in)

Changing the motherboard battery

 

At this point I'm pretty sure the first three things are motherboard related, but no idea about the fans. Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

[CoopNubbit]

Big oof. But i can help you.

1. Reseat your cpu.

2. Turn on your PC and go into the BIOS and turn off Chassis Intrusion.

3. Go to the BIOS again and make sure “Sata operation” is set to AHCI

4. Make sure Cables are plugged in SSD all the way and go to Disk Defragmentation in Windows and optimize your SSD.

5. Update your drivers on your GPU. If that doesn’t work, your GPU is bad.

 

Get back to me if you are having trouble and ill walk you through it.

[Killervolt]

17 hours ago, CoopNubbit said:

Big oof. But i can help you.

1. Reseat your cpu.

2. Turn on your PC and go into the BIOS and turn off Chassis Intrusion.

3. Go to the BIOS again and make sure “Sata operation” is set to AHCI

4. Make sure Cables are plugged in SSD all the way and go to Disk Defragmentation in Windows and optimize your SSD.

5. Update your drivers on your GPU. If that doesn’t work, your GPU is bad.

 

Get back to me if you are having trouble and ill walk you through it.

Hi mate, thanks so much for your help. I have just reseated the CPU, and it seems to have fixed the booting issue . . . you are a genius! 

The windows loading issue still seems to be present- It was on AHCI by default and I tried disk defrag but same boot times haven't changed.

GPU fans are still incredibly loud and refuse to listen to any software even after reinstall of graphics drivers. I asked the previous owner and he said that the fans are not the OEM fans and so they don't listen to the software? This doesn't seem right but if they don't get better by themselves I'll probably try what Linus did a couple years back and stick two case fans on them.

Thanks so much for your help! Seems to be pretty stable now but we'll see how it goes

[CoopNubbit]

10 hours ago, Killervolt said:

Hi mate, thanks so much for your help. I have just reseated the CPU, and it seems to have fixed the booting issue . . . you are a genius! 

The windows loading issue still seems to be present- It was on AHCI by default and I tried disk defrag but same boot times haven't changed.

GPU fans are still incredibly loud and refuse to listen to any software even after reinstall of graphics drivers. I asked the previous owner and he said that the fans are not the OEM fans and so they don't listen to the software? This doesn't seem right but if they don't get better by themselves I'll probably try what Linus did a couple years back and stick two case fans on them.

Thanks so much for your help! Seems to be pretty stable now but we'll see how it goes

Yeah a new gpu is the only way to fix it, he probably broke the pins that control the speed, But that’s okay, the fans will just wear out quicker but you’ll prolly get a new gpu by that time anyways.

 

about the Windows load times, try making sure the SATA cables are plugged in all the way maybe. I can definitely solve that problem im

pretty sure, come back if it didn’t help.

[Killervolt]

22 hours ago, CoopNubbit said:

Yeah a new gpu is the only way to fix it, he probably broke the pins that control the speed, But that’s okay, the fans will just wear out quicker but you’ll prolly get a new gpu by that time anyways.

 

about the Windows load times, try making sure the SATA cables are plugged in all the way maybe. I can definitely solve that problem im

pretty sure, come back if it didn’t help.

Ok, thanks . . . now I booted it up this morning, and I'm having the same problem as 2 days ago- the first time I booted it up the display was funky and GPU-Z couldn't recognise the card so the I tried re-installing the Nvidia drivers. I got an error saying it could not detect the hardware. I then restarted and got the same problem as two days ago,  either the chassis intrude or nothing at all. When I remove the GPU it all boots normally (except for the slow windows load time), so I'm guessing my GPU is causing the issue? Previously, I would occasionally get the chassis intrude error but the new GPU seems to have exacerbated the problem. Should I return it? Thanks!

 

EDIT: So after leaving it for 6 hours, I have noticed the following things. When I first turn the PC on, it posts but nothing happens apart from the fans spinning. I then hit the reset button on the case, causing it to think for about 30 seconds and then posting and booting normally (with or without the weird windows load times). Any idea what could be causing this? I'll try again tomorrow morning (local time) and see how it goes. Thanks!

[CoopNubbit]

16 hours ago, Killervolt said:

Ok, thanks . . . now I booted it up this morning, and I'm having the same problem as 2 days ago- the first time I booted it up the display was funky and GPU-Z couldn't recognise the card so the I tried re-installing the Nvidia drivers. I got an error saying it could not detect the hardware. I then restarted and got the same problem as two days ago,  either the chassis intrude or nothing at all. When I remove the GPU it all boots normally (except for the slow windows load time), so I'm guessing my GPU is causing the issue? Previously, I would occasionally get the chassis intrude error but the new GPU seems to have exacerbated the problem. Should I return it? Thanks!

 

EDIT: So after leaving it for 6 hours, I have noticed the following things. When I first turn the PC on, it posts but nothing happens apart from the fans spinning. I then hit the reset button on the case, causing it to think for about 30 seconds and then posting and booting normally (with or without the weird windows load times). Any idea what could be causing this? I'll try again tomorrow morning (local time) and see how it goes. Thanks!

Lookup NVIDIA GRAPHICS DRIVERS and manually look for your graphics card and get the drivers that way.