TLEF316
Footballguy
I've had my current pc for like 7 and a half years. I replaced the motherboard like 6 years ago (unnecessarily it turned out) it was a high end gaming PC when I built it but obviously pretty dated now. Still runs anything on passable settings but obviously way past it's prime.
A couple of months ago, it started shutting down without me doing anything if I left it untouched for several hours (often overnight) when I tried to turn it on, it would try to boot for like 5 seconds (lights on, fans going) and then shut down again. It would usually do this like 5 or 6 times and then work. Then it would work fine for a few weeks and then have problems again. It's been fine for the past month or so but now seems to be totally dead in the water. Tried rebooting dozens of times with no luck. It also seems to struggle to recognize hardware because the lights on my keyboard (sometimes) and mouse (always) fail to turn on now during the 5 second attempts to boot. So now I'm thinking it might be dead for good but want to make sure I'm exhausting all reasonable avenues (for a nearly 8 year old PC) before pulling the plug.
Things I've tried....
Many restarts
Replacing the power supply
Replacing the motherboard battery
Re-seating all the RAM (and testing without each pair of sticks)
MB, RAM and CPU are like 7+years old. Most of the hard drives (including the SSD I use as a boot drive) about the same. (threw in a 2nd ssd a few years ago) Vid card is like 5 years old I think.
I've read some suggestions on the internet that involve trying to update all the BIOS and other software but that's obviously not possible at this point since I can't boot. I'm at the point where Im ready to throw in the towel and get a new MB, CPU and RAM and call it a day unless anyone has other suggestions.
Thanks
A couple of months ago, it started shutting down without me doing anything if I left it untouched for several hours (often overnight) when I tried to turn it on, it would try to boot for like 5 seconds (lights on, fans going) and then shut down again. It would usually do this like 5 or 6 times and then work. Then it would work fine for a few weeks and then have problems again. It's been fine for the past month or so but now seems to be totally dead in the water. Tried rebooting dozens of times with no luck. It also seems to struggle to recognize hardware because the lights on my keyboard (sometimes) and mouse (always) fail to turn on now during the 5 second attempts to boot. So now I'm thinking it might be dead for good but want to make sure I'm exhausting all reasonable avenues (for a nearly 8 year old PC) before pulling the plug.
Things I've tried....
Many restarts
Replacing the power supply
Replacing the motherboard battery
Re-seating all the RAM (and testing without each pair of sticks)
MB, RAM and CPU are like 7+years old. Most of the hard drives (including the SSD I use as a boot drive) about the same. (threw in a 2nd ssd a few years ago) Vid card is like 5 years old I think.
I've read some suggestions on the internet that involve trying to update all the BIOS and other software but that's obviously not possible at this point since I can't boot. I'm at the point where Im ready to throw in the towel and get a new MB, CPU and RAM and call it a day unless anyone has other suggestions.
Thanks