Hello. Well, I'm finally asking it here since neither discord nor reddit worked, I figured I could go straight to the point here.
I bought a second hand PC. It worked flawlessly and ran everything I had installed on ultra for four days, after putting it in sleep mode for two hours, it accidentally got turned off, and since then it does not want to boot up.
Specs:
Intel i7 920 2.66 Ghz
ATI HD 5850
10GB RAM DRR3
2TB Hard disk space.
The story:
The PC seemed to have never been used for heavy gaming use. I bought it off of a guy which did not know much about computers and was willing to sell it for a rather low price.
I bring it home and plug it all in and voilà, everything powers on and starts up, the fans stop for a second, which scares me but promptly turn back on and everything boots up, the fan thing goes on every time it turned on. The PC didn't have an activated Win10 version- It's all fine, I have one if I feel the need to replace the hard drive. I didn't feel like tempering with it yet.
I benchmark some games, which, ran fantastically, no slowdowns, no lag, no stuttering. I think this is an amazing for such an old piece of hardware to do, especially since I've always gamed on very low end PCs (Which, I am using again right now, the irony, am I right?)
It goes on for four days, nothing alarmed me. I go take a two hour nap whilst it was in sleep mode. I try to turn it back on. It.. Does? Kind of. Except I hear no beep, and my screen shows "no signal" and my power button does not light up. However, my fans still ran and I'm pretty sure that everything else worked fine, since I even heard the disk drives run. The keyboard and mouse lights DID turn on though!
Here's the following things I did to attempt to troubleshoot it:
- Remove each and everything plugged into the USB slots and whatnot.
- Reinitiate CMOS by removing the battery and put the CMOS switch to the other side- This time the computer wouldn't turn on. Weird.
We put a brand new CMOS battery in, got the switch back on, obviously.
- Switch, remove, add the RAM. Powers on, doesn't boot, still.
- Remove Graphics card, still no boot.
- Remove, replace the disk drives, still no booting up.
- Plug, unplug, switch pins on the motherboard, same story.
- Grabbing a PSU cable from my previous PC. (Which obviously works fine normally) - Still no boot, beep, or changes.
What's weird is that I don't even think it is a motherboard issue, everything seems to communicate with it, even my keyboard & mouse lights.
What could have caused this? I decided to bring it to a repair shop for a diagnosis, which, they told me that they'd let me pick it up by Wednesday and tell me what's wrong with it. I'm almost sure they'll try to sell me something and telling me that a lot of things don't work or that they should be replaced because they're "too old". Problem is that I cannot "Just buy another PC".
I bought a second hand PC. It worked flawlessly and ran everything I had installed on ultra for four days, after putting it in sleep mode for two hours, it accidentally got turned off, and since then it does not want to boot up.
Specs:
Intel i7 920 2.66 Ghz
ATI HD 5850
10GB RAM DRR3
2TB Hard disk space.
The story:
The PC seemed to have never been used for heavy gaming use. I bought it off of a guy which did not know much about computers and was willing to sell it for a rather low price.
I bring it home and plug it all in and voilà, everything powers on and starts up, the fans stop for a second, which scares me but promptly turn back on and everything boots up, the fan thing goes on every time it turned on. The PC didn't have an activated Win10 version- It's all fine, I have one if I feel the need to replace the hard drive. I didn't feel like tempering with it yet.
I benchmark some games, which, ran fantastically, no slowdowns, no lag, no stuttering. I think this is an amazing for such an old piece of hardware to do, especially since I've always gamed on very low end PCs (Which, I am using again right now, the irony, am I right?)
It goes on for four days, nothing alarmed me. I go take a two hour nap whilst it was in sleep mode. I try to turn it back on. It.. Does? Kind of. Except I hear no beep, and my screen shows "no signal" and my power button does not light up. However, my fans still ran and I'm pretty sure that everything else worked fine, since I even heard the disk drives run. The keyboard and mouse lights DID turn on though!
Here's the following things I did to attempt to troubleshoot it:
- Remove each and everything plugged into the USB slots and whatnot.
- Reinitiate CMOS by removing the battery and put the CMOS switch to the other side- This time the computer wouldn't turn on. Weird.
We put a brand new CMOS battery in, got the switch back on, obviously.
- Switch, remove, add the RAM. Powers on, doesn't boot, still.
- Remove Graphics card, still no boot.
- Remove, replace the disk drives, still no booting up.
- Plug, unplug, switch pins on the motherboard, same story.
- Grabbing a PSU cable from my previous PC. (Which obviously works fine normally) - Still no boot, beep, or changes.
What's weird is that I don't even think it is a motherboard issue, everything seems to communicate with it, even my keyboard & mouse lights.
What could have caused this? I decided to bring it to a repair shop for a diagnosis, which, they told me that they'd let me pick it up by Wednesday and tell me what's wrong with it. I'm almost sure they'll try to sell me something and telling me that a lot of things don't work or that they should be replaced because they're "too old". Problem is that I cannot "Just buy another PC".