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PC won't start (motherboard lights up)

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No fan spin and no beeping at all, just motherboard lights up 

That means it isn't even attempting to post

 

Bad PSU

PC SPECS:
Asus A88X-Pro
8GB kingston hyper fury Ram
EVEA 750w G2 Supernova 80+ gold
HD 6970 2GB GPU

AMD APU 10 7850K CPU (water cooled corsair)

Back story leading up to complete failure:
Before upgrading from windows 7 Pro to 10 there were no problems, The problems began with long start up times , after every new start up windows would load but would then BSOD e.g: No page data error. however after this it would work fine until you shut it off manually where it would repeat this cycle of one failed start up and then a successful one.

This happened for about a month before the problems worsened, the pc would randomly turn of when playing games like Empire total war and CS:GO ( not too intensive games), then the problems recently increased to the PC not turning on, I would have to turn of the the power supply via it's button, this fixed the problem and it would turn on fine. If however I left the pc and didn't move the mouse or input anything the PC would show a power surge protection error in black and white writing and only allowed you to be taken to the BIOS section, it didn't however provide any information as to what was wrong. Very recently the pc wouldn't turn on at ALL even with the PSU power button trick and even turning the power off by the socket HOWEVER the motherboard does light up and there's a click after the pc tower on button is pressed.  this ASUS motherboard does provide the beeping information however none is heard when we try to power on the PC.

 

Please help and ask questions :)

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Do the fans spin up a little than stop?

 

and what is the Beeping pattern of the motherboard

RyanTheCanadian

Network Administration / Systems Management and Security / White Hat

 

My computer is the definition of scrapyard wars.

 

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No fan spin and no beeping at all, just motherboard lights up 

That means it isn't even attempting to post

 

Bad PSU

RyanTheCanadian

Network Administration / Systems Management and Security / White Hat

 

My computer is the definition of scrapyard wars.

 

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thanks, I thought it might have been the motherboard and it's surge protection was being too sensitive :) 

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Just tested another weaker PSU on my build I can confirm the PSU is faulty as everything starts up fine in the build i.e Fans, lights and even the number thing on my motherboard. So thanks again for the help :D 

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Just tested another weaker PSU on my build I can confirm the PSU is faulty as everything starts up fine in the build i.e Fans, lights and even the number thing on my motherboard. So thanks again for the help :D

No problem~ Glad you could get it working again

RyanTheCanadian

Network Administration / Systems Management and Security / White Hat

 

My computer is the definition of scrapyard wars.

 

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