Trying to narrow down what broke

molerat · May 16

So earlier today my computer shut off on me. I was listening to a podcast and playing a light game (binding of isaac, the newer release) when I lost audio (usb through a dac) and video froze.

After a second the monitor lost signal and went to sleep. The lights inside the computer were still on (the HDD LIGHT and one of the debug lights, I have other rgb turned off.) Not sure if it was the debug light that always stays on when it runs, or even which light that is because I never bothered to look close when it was running and didn't think to this time.

So I held in the power button to shut her down and restarted, and it got stuck on the gpu light. (It got past cpu and ram lights)

Shut it down again and disconnected/reconnected GPU. Booted again but this time it never got past the cpu and ram lights.

So I tried musical ram slots with each stick one at a time with no luck. QAlso cleared CMOS and tried with the gpu removed. No dice.

A thing of note. I was recently part of a multi day power outage. While my UPS gave me time to shut down when the initial loss occurred, it was apparently the last hurrah of its battery. First time the power fluctuated after it was restored it wasn't able to switch to battery and everything hard shut down.

That was a little more than a week ago, and a new UPS battery had been installed with everything running fine for a week or so.

I plan on testing the gpu in another computer when I can, but no one I know has a ddr5 system, let alone am5, so I can't test ram or cpu. (Or mobo for that matter)

System is

Ryzen 7800x3d

ASRock B650M PRO RS

G.SKILL Flare X5 Series 2 x 16gb

Evga supernova 750 p5 (750W)

Sapphire pulse radeon ex 7900XT

Samsung 990 pro ssd's

Everything does appear to still be under warranty, so that's good news, but I'd like to try and narrow it down some before I just start having to ship every little piece.

Thanks to all for any suggestions on what I can try next.

Blue4130 · May 16

35 minutes ago, molerat said:

So earlier today my computer shut off on me. I was listening to a podcast and playing a light game (binding of isaac, the newer release) when I lost audio (usb through a dac) and video froze.

After a second the monitor lost signal and went to sleep. The lights inside the computer were still on (the HDD LIGHT and one of the debug lights, I have other rgb turned off.) Not sure if it was the debug light that always stays on when it runs, or even which light that is because I never bothered to look close when it was running and didn't think to this time.

So I held in the power button to shut her down and restarted, and it got stuck on the gpu light. (It got past cpu and ram lights)

Shut it down again and disconnected/reconnected GPU. Booted again but this time it never got past the cpu and ram lights.

So I tried musical ram slots with each stick one at a time with no luck. QAlso cleared CMOS and tried with the gpu removed. No dice.

A thing of note. I was recently part of a multi day power outage. While my UPS gave me time to shut down when the initial loss occurred, it was apparently the last hurrah of its battery. First time the power fluctuated after it was restored it wasn't able to switch to battery and everything hard shut down.

That was a little more than a week ago, and a new UPS battery had been installed with everything running fine for a week or so.

I plan on testing the gpu in another computer when I can, but no one I know has a ddr5 system, let alone am5, so I can't test ram or cpu. (Or mobo for that matter)

System is

Ryzen 7800x3d

ASRock B650M PRO RS

G.SKILL Flare X5 Series 2 x 16gb

Evga supernova 750 p5 (750W)

Sapphire pulse radeon ex 7900XT

Samsung 990 pro ssd's

Everything does appear to still be under warranty, so that's good news, but I'd like to try and narrow it down some before I just start having to ship every little piece.

Thanks to all for any suggestions on what I can try next.