john.varghese.5099
Broken In
I just bought a monitor yesterday. It's my first full HD display so I wanted to see how good my games looked. 5 minutes into farcry 3 my PC shut itself down. I tried to restart it mutiple times to no avail. After about 5 minutes I could switch it on but there was no display. So I switched to my onboard hdmi port but still there was no display. My CPU and graphics card fans were spinning but no lights on keyboard or mouse. So I did the following:
1) Took out the RAM, no beeps
2) Switched RAM slots and started with just 1 RAM stick. Still no display
3) Removed the graphics card to reduce power consumption. No display
4) started with just cpu, RAM, no HDD or DVD drive connected. Still nothing
When all are connected the HDD & DVD drive spins, cpu fan spin, graphics card fans spin but no lights on mobo, keyboard and mouse. The case fan doesn't spin, but when I switched connectors, it does but only on 1 out of 3 connectors (pins).
On a side note, when i was troubleshooting the pc yesterday I switched it on without connecting the power connectors of the graphics card meaning the card was drawing power directly from the board and it seemed like both its fans were spinning at full speed. This was a surprise because I thought 1 fan had died since it hadnt been running since 2 years. Also the previous monitor had shown artefacts about 10 days ago which didn't go away after switching vga cables or connecting it to the onboard vga port. It still showed black lines with just the power cord connected which it's when I decided to buy a new monitor. But since the last 5 days my old monitor had been working fine.
I had also recently cleaned the PC and reapplied thermal paste.
Don't know if it's the psu or mobo that gave up.
Specs:
1) i5 4460
2) Gigabyte GA B85M D3H
3) Seasonic s12II 520
4) Corsair vengeance 4 gb ddr3 x 2
5) Zotac gtx 760 amp
6) WD blue 1 tb x 2
7) lg DVD drive
1) Took out the RAM, no beeps
2) Switched RAM slots and started with just 1 RAM stick. Still no display
3) Removed the graphics card to reduce power consumption. No display
4) started with just cpu, RAM, no HDD or DVD drive connected. Still nothing
When all are connected the HDD & DVD drive spins, cpu fan spin, graphics card fans spin but no lights on mobo, keyboard and mouse. The case fan doesn't spin, but when I switched connectors, it does but only on 1 out of 3 connectors (pins).
On a side note, when i was troubleshooting the pc yesterday I switched it on without connecting the power connectors of the graphics card meaning the card was drawing power directly from the board and it seemed like both its fans were spinning at full speed. This was a surprise because I thought 1 fan had died since it hadnt been running since 2 years. Also the previous monitor had shown artefacts about 10 days ago which didn't go away after switching vga cables or connecting it to the onboard vga port. It still showed black lines with just the power cord connected which it's when I decided to buy a new monitor. But since the last 5 days my old monitor had been working fine.
I had also recently cleaned the PC and reapplied thermal paste.
Don't know if it's the psu or mobo that gave up.
Specs:
1) i5 4460
2) Gigabyte GA B85M D3H
3) Seasonic s12II 520
4) Corsair vengeance 4 gb ddr3 x 2
5) Zotac gtx 760 amp
6) WD blue 1 tb x 2
7) lg DVD drive
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