Occasional Boot Problems

[FRIENDLYYY]

Sometimes, I'll turn on my PC, and it will just sit and display a black screen. No bios, nothing. I'll manually turn off the PC and turn it back on, and whoosh it works perfectly. Anyone know what might be causing this? And furthemore, why does a simple reset make such a difference when I'm not physically changing anything.

[Gung Pow Chicken]

What kind of machine, laptop, desktop, aio, tablet...

 

When you say turn off do you mean sleep mode, hibernate or any other features like this, or do you fully shut down the machine? This just seems like a wake issue to me, typically don't see machines do that from a completely powered down state. 

[Cody040]

I have this same issue. I have a desktop with the following specs:

 

Gigabyte fm2+  F2A88X-D3HP

AMD Athlon x4 860k

Sapphire Nitro rx460 4gb

kingston ssd, evga psu, 8gb corsair ram.

 

Like Friendlyyy said, when I turn my computer on sometimes it just displays a black screen. I simply hit the restart button and it usually just boots properly. It has done it twice in a row before. I would say this happens maybe 1/20 power on's. And has been happening for a few months. 

 

Another thing to note is that my peripherals light up and all of the fans in my pc are spinning when it fails to startup. 

 

Interested to see if anyone can solve this one. Thanks!

[FRIENDLYYY]

@Icuw1pc I have an Alienware x51 r2, I'm not sure if you need the specs but here they are anyways.

 

i7 4790 3.6 GHz

GTX 1060 6GB

16 GB DDR3

250GB SSD (boot drive)

2TB SATA

 

And by turn off, I mean truly turn off the PC with the power button, I don't really have any other options as I'm stuck on a screen with the Alienware logo and nothing else, or occasionally just a black screen. It's a full turn off, turn back on.

 

[Gung Pow Chicken]

16 hours ago, FRIENDLYYY said:

@Icuw1pc I have an Alienware x51 r2, I'm not sure if you need the specs but here they are anyways.

 

i7 4790 3.6 GHz

GTX 1060 6GB

16 GB DDR3

250GB SSD (boot drive)

2TB SATA

 

And by turn off, I mean truly turn off the PC with the power button, I don't really have any other options as I'm stuck on a screen with the Alienware logo and nothing else, or occasionally just a black screen. It's a full turn off, turn back on.

 

Have you checked status's on BIOS revisions for your rig? It could be a firmware bug

[SilverSoul]

Do a BIOS update!

[ElSeniorTaco]

Ran into this a few times, most of the time it ended up being a dieing component on the board

Might not be the case (hopefully)

 

I do remember some of them eventually dieing

The one I can remember well, turned out to be a dead board, it just sort of died slowly

 

But could be a number of things,

Maybe your psu has trouble getting it up ( bom chicka wa wa) with the initial power up sometimes, because its just not doing so well 

Maybe a bios flash will fix it

Maybe a capacitor has popped on the motherboard ( look for bulging or bursted capacitors)

 

How often does it happen?

Can you reliably recreate the scenario, so we can try to come up with some tests?

 

[ElSeniorTaco]

delete me

double post

[Cody040]

First of all, I can reproduce it. It i were to turn my computer on and off, it happens around every 1/20 or 1/30 boots.

 

I made sure bios and everything was updated. All of my parts are still relatively new, just over a year old and the capacitors on the motherboard look fine. Also, the EVGA psu has more than enough juice to power the system (550w gold) and I spent a little extra on it just because I do intend to use it for a future build.

 

It would be unfortunate if parts did fail, I'm hoping it lasts a another year or so. Or at least until RAM prices come down because I would need a mobo, cpu and ram combo...

 

Well anyways, if it's not a simple fix ill probably just keep running it as is. It's only a minor inconvenience and if anything goes wrong, I have a laptop at least.

 

[Watashi]

Does your boot drive have first priority? and are your RAM sticks in the recommended slots?

[Cody040]

Yes, I only have a single ssd as a boot drive and the ram is in the proper slots (only 2 slots and i have a 2x4 kit populating them).