Random BSOD/Crashes, now no boot.

[Demonic Donut]

X570 Aorus Elite

R5 3600

16gb 3600mhz RAM (ripjaws)

970 EVO m.2 ssds + other sata drives

Sapphire Pulse 5700xt (now XFX 6700xt)

 

I was having random crashes and partial BSODs. Due to what the screen looked like I thought it was a graphics card issue. (See attached picture, picture not attaching. I'll keep trying) It would also make strange 8 bit sounding static sounds through the speakers. I swapped an old GPU in and the problem went away.

 

I ordered a new GPU and when it arrived I installed it into the system. A few days later I got the same issue. Restart and it was fine, happened once more the next day. Didn't happen for 3 days, now today it happened again.

 

The rub this time is my PC won't boot/post at all now. I don't have any debug LEDs to go by, but I've got no USB power to keyboard/mouse, wifi card has LEDs lit up, and fans are at full speed. Computer powers up with button but won't turn off with long press.

 

I tried swapping PSUs and that didn't change anything.

 

Ever since I started having issues I've been running HWInfo to see if I had any high temps etc and everything looked normal.

 

My next guess is CPU or Motherboard. I really don't want to buy one and have it be the wrong part. Any guesses out there? Anything I could try?

[bezza...]

have you reset cmos?

[filpo]

13 minutes ago, Demonic Donut said:

X570 Aorus Elite

R5 3600

16gb 3600mhz RAM (ripjaws)

970 EVO m.2 ssds + other sata drives

Sapphire Pulse 5700xt (now XFX 6700xt)

 

I was having random crashes and partial BSODs. Due to what the screen looked like I thought it was a graphics card issue. (See attached picture, picture not attaching. I'll keep trying) It would also make strange 8 bit sounding static sounds through the speakers. I swapped an old GPU in and the problem went away.

 

I ordered a new GPU and when it arrived I installed it into the system. A few days later I got the same issue. Restart and it was fine, happened once more the next day. Didn't happen for 3 days, now today it happened again.

 

The rub this time is my PC won't boot/post at all now. I don't have any debug LEDs to go by, but I've got no USB power to keyboard/mouse, wifi card has LEDs lit up, and fans are at full speed. Computer powers up with button but won't turn off with long press.

 

I tried swapping PSUs and that didn't change anything.

 

Ever since I started having issues I've been running HWInfo to see if I had any high temps etc and everything looked normal.

 

My next guess is CPU or Motherboard. I really don't want to buy one and have it be the wrong part. Any guesses out there? Anything I could try?

try reseating your ram/cpu/gpu and try reseating your power connectors too as some of them may have come out

 

Try getting into bios and setting your pcie gen speed manually to gen 3 and turning off/on 4g decoding 

[Demonic Donut]

I've tried two GPUs, two power supplies, four different RAM sticks in all slots and reset CMOS already.

 

I haven't pulled the CPU yet but I don't see it being able to come free under a cooler and never being moved around except for gently here and there for cleaning. I can try it later though.

[Demonic Donut]

12 minutes ago, filpo said:

try reseating your ram/cpu/gpu and try reseating your power connectors too as some of them may have come out

 

Try getting into bios and setting your pcie gen speed manually to gen 3 and turning off/on 4g decoding 

I can't even get into bios. It won't post, doesn't try to do ram training etc

[Whatisthis]

Sounds like your mobo or cpu went out if none of the component swaps have worked. If you can get your hands on another cpu that would be the next rule-out.