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2 years without booting gaming pc, will it work?

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Hey guys,

 

So basically after a few years of not gaming much at all except on my friends Xbox One, I have decided to get back into PC gaming because I miss every aspect of it! I currently have a i5 3570k sitting in a ASRock Z77 Pro 3 motherboard, with a Rosewill Capstone 550w Modular power supply all connected. It has had no RAM or CPU cooler installed on it in 2 years and it hasn't been turned on in 2 years because of this. It has been sitting in a Fractal Define R4 in it's box in my basement during this time period. I recently purchased some DDR3 and the stock intel CPU cooler to see if it will boot, and if it does I will be ordering a RX 480 :)! So bottom line is, do you guys think it will boot? Updates to come this Thursday night!

 

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I'd clean the fans thoroughly first, maybe some WD40 on the bearings too if you can but it should work. If it doesn't boots up is almost certainly the PSU though so you could still try to replace/test with other one first.

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You may need to clear dust out of the RAM slots to make sure it has good contact, but other than that, there's no reason it shouldn't work unless something has happened to damage it. 

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Yeah, if it was working when you put it away and it hasn't been bumped to badly or had too much static charge it should (hopefully) be fine.

 

im not sure if HDDs last in storage

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Why shouldn't it boot? Just clean it a bit before turning it on.

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Just now, Froody129 said:

Yeah, if it was working when you put it away and it hasn't been bumped to badly or had too much static charge it should (hopefully) be fine.

 

im not sure if HDDs last in storage

Hasn't had an HDD either, waiting to see if it boots to order new one!

Intel i5 3570K || Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 8GB FE || 8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport 1600MHz || ASRock Z77 Pro 3 || WD Caviar Blue 1TB || Noctua NH-U12S || Creative Sound Blaster Audigy FX Sound Card || Fractal Define R4 || Gigabyte GC-WB867D-I REV 4.2 Wireless Network Card

ASUS VC239H Monitor || Corsair Strafe Cherry MX Red || Logitech G Pro || Philips SHP9500 w/ V-MODA BoomPro Mic || Reflex Lab Pro 36 Heavy Mouse Pad || Google Nexus 6P 128GB

 

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