I did the memtest. Figured out 1 out of 4 ram sticks are bad and sent it out on an RMA. Took the whole rig to a local shop and he load tested the PSU. It failed twice. He recommended I replace the PSU then the motherboard if I still had issues. So I replaced the PSU with a new unit, still the exact same issues. So I replaced the motherboard with a used one. Still the exact same issues. I updated the BIOS. Same issues but a new, more red Asus logo (yay).
I still cannot, for the love of AntiChrist, boot the thing. At. All. Not even from a usb. Attempting to fresh install windows and i have zero input from any devices.
I am at my wits end and I need my PC back up and running.
Linux bros blocked immediately.
Does the USB keyboard work before the windows installer ( getting to uefi or boot select Menu)?
Edit: does the tab key work?
This might be basic, but have you checked if the keyboard or keyboard connection is faulty? (I mean trying with a different keyboard or a different set of USB ports.)
I guessed we covered the different ports stuff.
This PC might have had a major electrostatic event, like from a human switching components, or even a shitty PSU (bad design, lightning?) - it would explain RAM & maybe CPU issues occurring at the same time (as well as maybe PSU & mobo). Usually so many components don’t fail like that at one without an event or core problem to trigger it.
Don’t know if they tested other stuff, like disconnecting disks (if they are that faulty they can freeze the system like random overvolting on data lines), bcs booting a full OS from USB (for testing) is either untried or heresy. But if they finally ran MemTest, then they can boot from USB it seems. Afaik so far (from their posts) it’s Windows boots that freeze stuff, but don’t know what works and what not.
– Clear cmos. – Load fail safe settings in bios if you are able to. – Unplug everything you don’t need (like gfx card, if you got an onboard card+usb stuff (mouse etc), non system hdd, only use minimum of ram installed) … still trouble? – Download a live image to USB to check if that boots.
– Clear cmos. – Load fail safe settings in bios if you are able to. – Unplug everything you don’t need (like gfx card, if you got an onboard card+usb stuff (mouse etc), non system hdd, only use minimum of ram installed) … still trouble? – Download a live image to USB to check if that boots.
Done all that. Still the same. Zero input on any usb device if i ever get to the Windows installer. Linux installer just goes to a black screen for hours after selecting to install Linux.
Im thinking the cpu is faulty at this point. No clue how maybe im just unlucky.
I still cannot, for the love of AntiChrist, boot the thing. At. All. Not even from a usb. Attempting to fresh install windows and i have zero input from any devices.
I"m not following.
It sounds like you can get to a BIOS screen. Does “zero input from any devices” mean that you’re trying to use a mouse or keyboard in the BIOS or with the Windows installer up or what?
There is no usb mouse or keyboard that I own (wired or qireless) that is working if i ever make it to a windows installer. As shown in the video.
Have you tried plugging them directly into the USB ports on the PC? I have seen BIOSes that don’t deal well with some USB hubs, and it looks like you’ve got a USB hub integrated with the monitor there.
Have you tried plugging them directly into the USB ports on the PC?
…yes. since the first attempt over a month ago. Front ports. Motherboard ports. And i never plug a mouse or keyboard into my monitor or other usb hub.
I mean, something clearly isn’t working right there, and I can’t think of many things that would cause that.
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The keyboard (and mouse?) do work in the BIOS, just not in the Windows installer? While plugged into the port in question? (I mean, it’s possible to disconnect the cable running from the USB header on the motherboard to the front panel.)
Have you tried, while the PC is on and the Windows installer is active, unplugging the keyboard and mouse and then re-plugging them back in? That’ll reset the device and let the installer handle them. It’s not completely impossible, I guess, that the BIOS talking to them could somehow put them in some kind of wonky state.
EDIT: If the keyboard and mouse aren’t working in the BIOS either, try them on someone else’s computer to rule them out as a source of trouble? I doubt that they are the problem, but might as well get the data point, just to be sure.
Can you boot to USB? Using something other than Windows may also help determine that the hardware is working. If everything seems to work, it could be an issue with the boot entries on your main board, corruption on the disk, or something wrong with the disk physically. If you use Linux, whatever the latest Fedora version is will probably support newer graphics cards such as a 9070xt.
Can you boot to USB? Using something other than Windows may also help determine that the hardware is working. If everything seems to work, it could be an issue with the boot entries on your main board, corruption on the disk, or something wrong with the disk physically. If you use Linux, whatever the latest Fedora version is will probably support newer graphics cards such as a 9070xt.
I still cannot, for the love of AntiChrist, boot the thing. At. All. Not even from a usb.
I tried installing Linux yesterday. Just an eternal black screen for hours and hours after selecting “Install Linux”.
Booting to the pre-install environment was the goal to finger obvious hardware/stability issues. Something that lands you on a desktop. If you want to try installing - whatever distro it was - check a guide for it. Fedora and Ubuntu are good places to start for both of these routes. They should require minimal configuration if you don’t care about secureboot etc.
I have a really hard time believing that both the Windows installer and a Linux installer don’t work without there being at least one hardware problem present. But you did swap out most of the parts that I’d think are likely culprits.
Hmm.
When you were swapping parts on this thing, did you have the system either unplugged (preferably) or powered down at the PSU switch? Not just the motherboard’s power off? I remember once accidentally pulling a video card without cutting the actual PSU power, frying both the motherboard and (though I didn’t realize it at the time) the video card, then plugging the video card (correctly) into a new motherboard and frying that motherboard as well, so that even after I swapped out the video card, I still had problems. That is, a damaged part theoretically can damage other parts. Never heard of anyone else hitting something like that, but…
I could imagine that an underpowered PSU could maybe cause a variety of other failures, but you said that you replaced it, and I’m assuming that you checked that it was rated for the components that you had.
Manually underclock the memory in the BIOS as far as possible? Try running with just two sticks (your motherboard manual will tell you which slots to use if you have only two DIMMs)? If the memory’s marginal with your hardware, that will help. Not saying that that’s a fix, but it’d isolate the issue.
EDIT: Maybe vacuum the thing? I guess if you have metal shavings or a screw or something like that rolling around in your case shorting stuff, it could cause issues.
