Motherboard broken?

[Skardiaz]

My motherboard is an ASUS Z97-A and I'm quite sure it's broken now.

 

I was playing GTA V last night without any issues. The next morning I turned on the PC and noticed it was taking more time than usual during the POST. It reset itself then turned off completely on its own. I tried turning it on again but nothing happened. No lights, no sound, nothing. I don't think the PSU is dead because the motherboard has a small LED that indicates if it's receiving power and it is turned on. I also have an external drive connected and its LED is on, too.

 

I tried turning it on after removing the GPU but again, nothing happened.

 

Specs:

[PCGuy_5960]

Maybe there was a power surge and the PSU got fried.... The CX units are not the best PSUs in terms of protection... 

[Zero_Hour]

Did you try clearing the cmos?

 

If your motherboard has a button to reset it press that, if not then take the battery out and wait for like 30 sec. 

[Skardiaz]

2 hours ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Maybe there was a power surge and the PSU got fried.... The CX units are not the best PSUs in terms of protection... 

I don't think that's the issue because the PSU is plugged in to a power strip where there are other devices plugged in (cellphone charger, Wii U Gamepad) and those haven't been affected.

2 hours ago, lopj245 said:

Did you try clearing the cmos?

 

If your motherboard has a button to reset it press that, if not then take the battery out and wait for like 30 sec. 

I'll give it a try when I come from work. Thanks.

[Skardiaz]

On 24/8/2016 at 6:51 AM, lopj245 said:

Did you try clearing the cmos?

 

If your motherboard has a button to reset it press that, if not then take the battery out and wait for like 30 sec. 

Ok, that kinda fixed it. It booted up after three attempts so I'm not quite sure what's the issue. Today I turned it on and like yesterday it took three attempts for it to finally boot up the OS.

 

Some things I noticed:

• Often it will try to boot up then turns itself off
• One of the GPU sometimes doesn't turn on
• For some reason, on one occasion it did boot up the OS, the network driver disappeared. After restarting the PC, the network driver was back to normal.

I suspect it's the motherboard, though it could also be the PSU and/or GPU.

 

What do you guys think?

[Zero_Hour]

Have you tried bread boarding your system?

[Skardiaz]

23 hours ago, lopj245 said:

Have you tried bread boarding your system?

No. How do I do that?

[Zero_Hour]

http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2176482/breadboarding-stripping-basics-troubleshooting.html