My pc recently started spontaneously restarting (as in as if the reset switch had been pressed), seemingly at random in the last few days, until eventually while I was trying different possible solutions it stopped displaying the motherboard splashscreen at all and is now completely unresponsive. No beeps either, but it never did beep on startup.
I don't suppose this could be something simple like needing to replace the CMOS battery, could it?
While it was restarting I tried various power setting suggestions in windows, and also disconnected the power and reset switches in case they were responsible. Then when it no longer booted up at all I tried unplugging all non-essential usb devices, reseating the memory and graphics card, and even resetting CMOS.
The next thing I will do is get hold of an adaptor to allow me to view my main hard disc from my laptop and at least recover the last few days' worth of work that I did between this failure and my last backup, but before I resort to buying a new motherboard and/or anything else, I would welcome any suggestions. Thanks!
My PC spec is as follows:
Gigabyte motherboard 970A-DS3P
AMD FX 8350 CPU
Sound Blaster Audigy Rx sound card
NVIDA GeForce GTX 1050Ti graphics card
32GB Ram
Windows 10
700W Power Supply
I don't suppose this could be something simple like needing to replace the CMOS battery, could it?
While it was restarting I tried various power setting suggestions in windows, and also disconnected the power and reset switches in case they were responsible. Then when it no longer booted up at all I tried unplugging all non-essential usb devices, reseating the memory and graphics card, and even resetting CMOS.
The next thing I will do is get hold of an adaptor to allow me to view my main hard disc from my laptop and at least recover the last few days' worth of work that I did between this failure and my last backup, but before I resort to buying a new motherboard and/or anything else, I would welcome any suggestions. Thanks!
My PC spec is as follows:
Gigabyte motherboard 970A-DS3P
AMD FX 8350 CPU
Sound Blaster Audigy Rx sound card
NVIDA GeForce GTX 1050Ti graphics card
32GB Ram
Windows 10
700W Power Supply