Here's the situation. Was on the computer just surfing the web, when the computer froze. No BSOD or anything, just a frozen cursor and unresponsive. Held down the power switch to shut it down, counted to 15 and then powered it up again. Machine turns on, but nothing on the screen and the HDD light is on full time. No blinking, no beeps, nothing. Shut it down again via the power switch and tried again, same thing. Tried shutting off the system by flipping the PSU's power. This time I get a message on the screen that overclocking has failed and that defaults would be enabled. (I do not OC and this is a MSI feature after powering the system on/off 3 times in succession.) I press a key to continue but nothing.
I powered the system down and open it up. First thing I noticed was a plastic pushpin laying on top the GPU. I look around and find that the standoff is from the Nvidia C72P heatsink (I believe this is the Northbridge chip for the MSI P7N SLI Platinum). I check around for a spring, but can't seem to find any floating around the case. Jiggled the case around but I don't here anything moving around inside. So I checked all my cable connections. Everything seems fine. Tried swapping out the GPU with another card (from the machine I'm typing this out from) and still nothing. Tried reseating the RAM, no change.
So I'm at a loss. I don't want to assume anything, but is the standoff from the Nvidia C72P chip the issue here? Is there anything I can do about it? Or am I dealing with something entirely different. I mean the PC is getting power and there are no beeps to tell me that something is wrong. Everything was fine until today. No hiccups, BSODs or anything that would have signaled a problem. Anyone have any ideas? Any assistance would be appreciated.
I powered the system down and open it up. First thing I noticed was a plastic pushpin laying on top the GPU. I look around and find that the standoff is from the Nvidia C72P heatsink (I believe this is the Northbridge chip for the MSI P7N SLI Platinum). I check around for a spring, but can't seem to find any floating around the case. Jiggled the case around but I don't here anything moving around inside. So I checked all my cable connections. Everything seems fine. Tried swapping out the GPU with another card (from the machine I'm typing this out from) and still nothing. Tried reseating the RAM, no change.
So I'm at a loss. I don't want to assume anything, but is the standoff from the Nvidia C72P chip the issue here? Is there anything I can do about it? Or am I dealing with something entirely different. I mean the PC is getting power and there are no beeps to tell me that something is wrong. Everything was fine until today. No hiccups, BSODs or anything that would have signaled a problem. Anyone have any ideas? Any assistance would be appreciated.
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