My PC is powercycling, what's going wrong?
- by Renai
So here is my sorry story of woe.
My PC has been functioning normally for some time.
Last week I bought a cheapish powered USB hub and plugged it into my home PC, which runs Windows 7.
This weekend I plugged that hub into my home PC. At some stage I hibernated the PC. Then later on I plugged my Kobo eReader into the hub to charge.
Later on I started the PC up. Only thing is, it now won’t start up. It just powercycles on for a second and a half with the fans at full, then powercycles off. Then back on for two seconds, then back off. There’s no display at all and it won’t get to the BIOS screen.
It looks like anything USB is not functioning — the keyboard and mouse are not lighting up etc.
I’ve taken out the BIOS battery and reseated the RAM, reseated the graphics card and so on, but my suspicion is that I have blown the USB section of the motherboard somehow.
Suggestions?
All else failing, where is the best place to take this machine in Sydney to get evaluated? It’s a fairly powerful beast, all up has cost me about $2500 over the years, including upgrades and a recent new graphics card, so can’t just start from scratch.