Pc is dead. Boots for a second and then shuts down
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Built my pc about 4 months ago. Though the psu is like 2 years old
Asus maximus Vii hero
Intel 4790k
Corsair vengeance 1600 2x8 + 2x4
Gtx 970
Antec cp 850 psu
It was all running fine until this morning. Randomly rebooted and showed an error upon booting about a power surge. Then I managed to log in and use it for about 20 minutes before it shut down and since then it powers up for a second and then shuts down. After that it won't turn on again until I reset the psu power switch or press the clear cmos button.
Right now I've got it plugged straight into the wall socket with 1 stick of ram and no gpu but it's still not working. If anyone has any ideas that would be much appreciated. :poly122:
Asus maximus Vii hero
Intel 4790k
Corsair vengeance 1600 2x8 + 2x4
Gtx 970
Antec cp 850 psu
It was all running fine until this morning. Randomly rebooted and showed an error upon booting about a power surge. Then I managed to log in and use it for about 20 minutes before it shut down and since then it powers up for a second and then shuts down. After that it won't turn on again until I reset the psu power switch or press the clear cmos button.
Right now I've got it plugged straight into the wall socket with 1 stick of ram and no gpu but it's still not working. If anyone has any ideas that would be much appreciated. :poly122:
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Testing in another electric socket can be helpful just to be sure. Might want to try removing the video card and booting as a quick test; or even removing anything that you don't need to boot with.
I've taken out all the non essentials, aside from taking the motherboard out of the case.
I did smell a very vague burnt plastic smell at the time but I might have imagined it.
I'll try a different socket.
I got a PSU Tester from a friend, so I'm hoping that it's just the PSU that's broken and not my new expensive motherboard and/or cpu/ram :poly122::'(
Bad caps are pretty common. They're cheap and weak and often they fail and you don't know it. They are often the little cylinder tower parts you see sticking up off the surface. there are usually quite a few of them and if one fails that componant might can keep going putting more strain on the others but then they fail or overload tripping a sensor and the whole thing shuts down to preserve what you have. Prior to load sensors you typically had a fire and lost your house, heh.
Bad caps can be hard to track down without a multimeter. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimeter
But sometimes you can't tell without testing them. Other times they burst and it's pretty clear.
Since power supplies get pretty hot and heat is usually what causes capacitors to weaken and fail, I would start there, crack it open and see if you see any busted caps. That doesn't mean they are fine, but the damage may be internal.
Caps are pretty easy to fix and they're cheap but you do need to have some idea of what you're doing. Still if you're interested in playing doctor, it's best to practice on the dead, heh.
Some people are plug-n-play people and would rather cough up a huge chunk of dough to replace an entire component instead of fix the one inexpensive piece that failed. To each their own but I've repaired caps for pennies and salvaged expensive monitors, mainboards and power supplies.
It's like changing the oil filter in your car, it's probably scary and complex the first time you do it but if you do it on your own you save a ton of money and find out it's not that difficult and it opens the door for more independence. They want you to be scared to crack the case so you buy an whole new PC, or a whole new PSU.
Anyway, I bet that smell was a cap (or two) that blew and now there is too much power flowing through the others. Check for any visible signs of cap leakage, it might help you narrow down the bad component. Good luck!
I've ordered this one, which I think is a pretty good choice? [ame="http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00FG9FWF8/ref=gno_cart_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE"]Corsair CP-9020054-UK RM Series RM650 80 Plus Gold 650W ATX/EPS Fully Modular Power Supply Unit: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories[/ame] hopefully that will fix it.
Do you guys think it's worth getting a UPS as well? Not really worried about losing work but it might be safer for my pc?
Right now I've got a European power strip (with surge protection) connected to my UK wall socket through an adapter. Not sure if that's very safe. Might just buy some new power cables to switch everything over.
edit: Just got some surge protectors and UK power cables. Don't think I need a UPS.
On the right side is the 24-pin conector for the psu ? Why can't you connect it ?
Although check the layout of the pins (square and rounded holes), if you have a cable which could be take apart (20+4?), check if you have connected them in the right order.
Here are the connectors.
The one on the left side, you can see that it are two connectors 4+20 which are plugged together