Computer crashed and new computer doesnt boot.

[SelenaGomez]

Ok so my computer crashed after 4 years with no warning signs or anything. Temps/speeds/voltages were always fine as I monitored them regularily. I as in the middle of a game and just shut off and never turned on again. I would turn off the PSU and then turn it on and push power and it would jsut be a split second click and nothing would happen. The led light on my mobo was green and on meaning there was some power to the board. So I bought a new PSU. Installed it and same problem. Just a split second click and nothign happens. So I went and bought a new cpu and mother board ram and heatsink. INstall everything and same problem happens. Split second click and led flash on the cpu heatsink (H100i v2) and nothign happens. I am at a lose here. I also used the power button the mother board so it could bypass the case power button to make sure its not the case fault. I also used the wall plug directly instead of a surge protector jsut to check. Everythign is plugged in properly and set up properly. I have built numerous computers over the past 10 yearss so i am experienced. Its jsut seems very werid that the exact same problem exists after buying all new stuff

 

[UsandThem]

I'm not sure of your exact hardware, but try using your onboard graphics (change it to IGP in your BIOS), and remove your video card. I have seen several posts over the last several months where the video card was the culprit.

edit

It's late, and my mind is half asleep.

So since you can't even get into your BIOS, remove your video card first. The only reason I said to change it to IGP first, is most motherboards will automatically default to an add-in video card if it detects one, but I had old motherboard that would stick with whatever you had it set to. I ended up having to just clear CMOS to get it back to defaults, which IGP graphics was part of. It was years ago, and I don't know if all modern motherboards would auto-detect or make you manually switch it.

 

[SelenaGomez]

Ill try, but having a faulty GPU wouldnt cause the system to not power up.

 

[Billb2]

What motherboard?
What components did you reuse? Memory, etc.

Do you have a motherboard speaker hooked up?
If so does it issue any beep codes?

And no GPU will not post.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Ill try, but having a faulty GPU wouldnt cause the system to not power up.

It can...

 

[UsandThem]

Ill try, but having a faulty GPU wouldnt cause the system to not power up.

Oh really........

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/wont-turn-on-dead-psu-or-motherboard.2476976/#post-38296238

So, I took out my video card and the thing powered up just fine. Tried the other 2 PCIE slots just to make sure it wasn't a bad slot but that didn't help. I can get my hands on another video card tomorrow to verify that my current card is dead.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers...turns-immediatly-graphics-card-installed.html

i just bough a 7770 and its doing the same problem when i bought the card i bough a corsair 1000 watt psu and i did try the video card on a diffrent psu and its dose the same thing i plug the video card in the pcie slot and plug the 6 pin on the video card and the psu wont even start but if i unplug the video card it boots no problem could this because of a bad gpu or ? it aint the psu !

it was the defected video card xfx sent me a new one

 

[SelenaGomez]

The components i reused from my old build are the optical drive and the SDD. My mother board is the asus z170-a.

I will try removing the video card in the morning. I just dont feel like its th card at all.

 

[UsandThem]

The components i reused from my old build are the optical drive and the SDD. My mother board is the asus z170-a.

I will try removing the video card in the morning. I just dont feel like its th card at all.

When troubleshooting, you do a process of elimination. Until you test it as working, you don't rule it out.

You had a computer that suddenly stopped working. You replaced the PSU, motherboard, CPU, and RAM. You still have the same problem. You only reused a SSD, optical drive, and video card.

You need the hard drive. The optical drive and video card are not needed for your system to post, and would be the first things to rule out.

 

[SelenaGomez]

Going to try a few things in the morning. Remove my gpu and try to boot. Put my ram in the 2nd and 4th slot instead of 1st and 3rd slots. The SSD i removed since you dont need an SSD or HDD for the computer to power/have the fans spin etc.Hopefully i can pin point my problem before i have to take it in and waste money

 

[SelenaGomez]

Ok i eat my words. I removed the GPU and the comptuer started up....... Thank you for pointing this out to me as I have no idea why a faulty gpu would prevent a computer from powering up at all. Damn EVGA gtx 1070. Going to take weeks to RMA from Canada. Sigh. Spend $600 on a gpu that lasts 2 months.

 

[UsandThem]

Ok i eat my words. I removed the GPU and the comptuer started up....... Thank you for pointing this out to me as I have no idea why a faulty gpu would prevent a computer from powering up at all. Damn EVGA gtx 1070. Going to take weeks to RMA from Canada. Sigh. Spend $600 on a gpu that lasts 2 months.

I am usually not one for taking a slow victory trot after hitting the game-winning home run....

Seriously though, you aren't the only one with a EVGA GTX 1070 / 1080 problem. They had a design flaw on their cooling, and are replacing all their current cards if a person requests. Seems like after a few months some people's cards are dying, and this is likely how yours died as well.

https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...vrms-overheating.2490217/page-6#post-38559946

 

[SelenaGomez]

Now it is going to cost me about $50 to ship it back to them and probably a 3 week wait. Insane that they dont cover shipping on defective prodcuts. This is my first gpu problem ever and will probably not buy evga anymore because of this shipping policy so they lost a customer for life.

 

[UsandThem]

Now it is going to cost me about $50 to ship it back to them and probably a 3 week wait. Insane that they dont cover shipping on defective prodcuts. This is my first gpu problem ever and will probably not buy evga anymore because of this shipping policy so they lost a customer for life.

Almost all component manufacturers require the user to be responsible for return shipping on a RMA.

However, with the bad publicity EVGA received over this, I'd think it would be in their best interest to issue prepaid shipping label for those affected by this. Have you sent them an email explaining what happened and ask for a shipping concession?

 

[coercitiv]

On the bright side, the OP now has not one, but two functioning PCs - both the old parts and the new parts are likely in working condition, with the exception of the dreaded EVGA card.

 

[SelenaGomez]

EVGA has given me free cross shipping advanced RMA. However they are taking their sweet time approving my RMA and shipping it out. I got my RMA number on Nov 10. 5 days later the GPU is still not shipped. I am not pleased about this considering this is their fault and I am getting nothing out of this except frustration and wasted time. I paid for this. I still cant get over how a faulty graphics card will make a computer have no power at all. I can see it powering on and acting weird but not just a completey dead no power situation. Anyways..

 

[UsandThem]

EVGA has given me free cross shipping advanced RMA. However they are taking their sweet time approving my RMA and shipping it out. I got my RMA number on Nov 10. 5 days later the GPU is still not shipped. I am not pleased about this considering this is their fault and I am getting nothing out of this except frustration and wasted time. I paid for this. I still cant get over how a faulty graphics card will make a computer have no power at all. I can see it powering on and acting weird but not just a completey dead no power situation. Anyways..

They are probably short on replacement cards. I'd imagine most people want the new "fixed" cards.

Power supplies and motherboards are designed to immediately power off when they detect a power anomaly that is 'critical'. A dying power supply, a motherboard not properly grounded, a video card with an area that has literally burned in a spot will do that, which usually seems to be a VRM with the EVGAs.