Need help with my computer.

[lgr2]

Hi guys,

 

About a week ago I was on my computer playing a game, and suddenly my monitor shut off. I was confused why it abruptly shut off, but the pc kept running. The monitor was saying, "no video signal", so I tried a different monitor, it did not work. After I tried a functioning monitor with my computer, I decided to try a different vga cable. The vga cable did not seem to fix the problem, after that I replaced the DVI/VGA adapter, and that did not work. I decided that i would remove the RAM, and the CMOS battery, for about ten minutes before placing it back in. After I placed them back in, I connected my pc with my monitor, unfortunately I encountered another problem. My computer kept turning on/off, this was not happening before. What did I do wrong? Could it be that one of the RAM sticks isn't pushed all the way in? Could it be the CMOS battery?  

 

edit: forgot to post specs 

i5-4690k

gtx 970 zotac

ASRock - H97M PRO4 Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard

Kingston - HyperX Fury Black 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3-1866 Memory

Toshiba - Product Series:DT01ACA 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive

EVGA - SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply

[nfolenius]

I personally wouldn't have done any of this. What I would have done first is check if the fans on the GPU were on. Your GPU could have fried, and that would have just saved you a ton of money.

[lgr2]

3 minutes ago, nfolenius said:

I personally wouldn't have done any of this. What I would have done first is check if the fans on the GPU were on. Your GPU could have fried, and that would have just saved you a ton of money.

Forgot to mention that, the fans were spinning prior of me touching anything else. The monitor shut off, but my gpu fans continued to spin. After my monitor shut off, I pressed caps locks to see the keyboard light, it was working, it can't be my mobo right?

[nfolenius]

If your mobo was fried, nothing would work. It might be the battery.

[RadiatingLight]

I have a link to a thread explaining basic troubleshooting steps in my sig. have you done all those? if not, do them.

[lgr2]

9 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

I have a link to a thread explaining basic troubleshooting steps in my sig. have you done all those? if not, do them.

I'll give it a look, hopefully it fixes the problem.

 

15 minutes ago, nfolenius said:

If your mobo was fried, nothing would work. It might be the battery.

I took out the battery, and placed it back in. Do I have to buy a new battery?

[LienusLateTips]

17 minutes ago, nfolenius said:

If your mobo was fried, nothing would work. It might be the battery.

Batteries don't fry motherboards

[nfolenius]

1 minute ago, lgr2 said:

I'll give it a look, hopefully it fixes the problem.

 

I took out the battery, and placed it back in. Do I have to buy a new battery?

I hate to have nothing to offer, but I'm pretty sure that's the problem and that's what ur gonna have to do.

[nfolenius]

1 minute ago, JDE said:

Batteries don't fry motherboards

He said he could turn it on, but it turned back off, you need a motherboard to even turn it on, I was saying the battery might be fault and shorts out.

[lgr2]

15 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

I have a link to a thread explaining basic troubleshooting steps in my sig. have you done all those? if not, do them.

Not sure if you will see this, anyone is open to answer my stupid question. I was reading the troubleshooting link, and it said

> If you have both a dedicated GPU and an iGPU, try your monitor on both the outputs on the graphics cards as well as on the motherboard.

I do not have to remove the gpu, to plug in the vga cable into my igpu, right?

[RadiatingLight]

4 minutes ago, lgr2 said:

Not sure if you will see this, anyone is open to answer my stupid question. I was reading the troubleshooting link, and it said

> If you have both a dedicated GPU and an iGPU, try your monitor on both the outputs on the graphics cards as well as on the motherboard.

I do not have to remove the gpu, to plug in the vga cable into my igpu, right?

no, you don't, but I would recommend you do it anyway if possible, just to eliminate any possible sources of error.

[lgr2]

10 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

no, you don't, but I would recommend you do it anyway if possible, just to eliminate any possible sources of error.

It doesn't mention it, but replacing the ram in different slots, and checking and replacing the cmos battery will fix the on/off problem right? 

[RadiatingLight]

1 minute ago, lgr2 said:

It doesn't mention it, but replacing the ram in different slots, and checking and replacing the cmos battery will fix the on/off problem right? 

maybe.

depends what your problem is.

[TheRandomness]

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