[UPDATE] Unsure as to the cause of this problem
Hi there,
So last week my PC unexpectedly shut down for no apparent reason, and all efforts to make it start again failed. I believed the problem lay in the motherboard as the PSU was still apparently working fine; when switching the PSU on, power would flash through the system and then die completely. However, when I installed the new motherboard (exactly the same model as before) the problem persisted. After plugging in the power cables again, one at a time, the system booted up, but then crashed after a few seconds, restarted itself, crashed, and repeated that cycle until it would just hang, power on, but before the POST test. Since then, I removed the power and cables for the secondary HDD, SDD and optical drive (the boot drive is a RevoDrive), but that didn't change anything.
Now I'm thoroughly stumped, and I'd appreciate any advice that could point me in the right direction.
Many thanks.
ASUS P6X58D-E -- Intel i7 930 @ 2.3 GHz -- NVIDIA GTX 570 -- 6x2GB OCZ 1.5GHz -- Corsair 1200W PSU -- RevoDrive 50GB (Win7 64bit Ultimate) / Crucial 64GB SSD / Samsung 7,200 RPM 1.5TB -- Antec 900
Hi there,
So last week my PC unexpectedly shut down for no apparent reason, and all efforts to make it start again failed. I believed the problem lay in the motherboard as the PSU was still apparently working fine; when switching the PSU on, power would flash through the system and then die completely. However, when I installed the new motherboard (exactly the same model as before) the problem persisted. After plugging in the power cables again, one at a time, the system booted up, but then crashed after a few seconds, restarted itself, crashed, and repeated that cycle until it would just hang, power on, but before the POST test. Since then, I removed the power and cables for the secondary HDD, SDD and optical drive (the boot drive is a RevoDrive), but that didn't change anything.
Now I'm thoroughly stumped, and I'd appreciate any advice that could point me in the right direction.
Many thanks.
ASUS P6X58D-E -- Intel i7 930 @ 2.3 GHz -- NVIDIA GTX 570 -- 6x2GB OCZ 1.5GHz -- Corsair 1200W PSU -- RevoDrive 50GB (Win7 64bit Ultimate) / Crucial 64GB SSD / Samsung 7,200 RPM 1.5TB -- Antec 900