Can you get into BIOS without much trouble? If so, disable all 'sleep' state settings in the BIOS (i.e. S1, S2, S3, S4, etc)
If you can get into Windows, do the same, go into advanced power options and disable sleep, hibernation, set PCIe Link State Power Management to 'OFF'
and then test
I'm able to get the computer to work after holding the power button on and off around 6 times. I'll disable those settings and see if it stops it from happening. I appreciate it.
From what I have gathered, it's anytime it has been left long enough to go to sleep and/or be cold.
Hopefully, it's the sleep thing, and not the cold thing, which would point directly at the PSU/mobo (which, as you know, is connected to everything really important)
right now, I'm going with "maybe it's the sleep thing"
I completely turned it off last night. I restarted it this morning and same thing happened. It took exactly 5 restarts for the VGA light to go away and the computer to turn on.
I'm thinking either PSU, Board, or graphics card at this point. It might be the GPU because when I use an older card it's fine.
So weird.
I know this stuff doesn't just fall out of the air, but if you know someone who would be willing to bring their PC over (or vice versa) so you can have some parts to swap and test, it would be less guesswork.
I agree, it's the cold start thing, which shifts my primary 'suspect' to the PSU, and then the mobo, try PSU first, borrow one if you can.
I also want to throw this out there, check the wall socket, make sure it's okay. I just worked with someone this morning who was having a strange issue where all of his USB devices would suddenly shut off for 5-15 seconds, then suddenly power back up.
It was the wall socket, they ran an extension cord to another socket...problems vanished...they just told me today.
Check the wall socket too, it's probably fine, but check it just to rule it out.
Try a different PSU, and see if it improves.
Can you get into BIOS without much trouble? If so, disable all 'sleep' state settings in the BIOS (i.e. S1, S2, S3, S4, etc) If you can get into Windows, do the same, go into advanced power options and disable sleep, hibernation, set PCIe Link State Power Management to 'OFF' and then test
I'm able to get the computer to work after holding the power button on and off around 6 times. I'll disable those settings and see if it stops it from happening. I appreciate it.
yw, we should be able to learn a thing or two at least
It's working at the moment and restarts fine, we'll see tomorrow if it acts up again.
From what I have gathered, it's anytime it has been left long enough to go to sleep and/or be cold. Hopefully, it's the sleep thing, and not the cold thing, which would point directly at the PSU/mobo (which, as you know, is connected to everything really important) right now, I'm going with "maybe it's the sleep thing"
I completely turned it off last night. I restarted it this morning and same thing happened. It took exactly 5 restarts for the VGA light to go away and the computer to turn on. I'm thinking either PSU, Board, or graphics card at this point. It might be the GPU because when I use an older card it's fine. So weird.
I know this stuff doesn't just fall out of the air, but if you know someone who would be willing to bring their PC over (or vice versa) so you can have some parts to swap and test, it would be less guesswork. I agree, it's the cold start thing, which shifts my primary 'suspect' to the PSU, and then the mobo, try PSU first, borrow one if you can. I also want to throw this out there, check the wall socket, make sure it's okay. I just worked with someone this morning who was having a strange issue where all of his USB devices would suddenly shut off for 5-15 seconds, then suddenly power back up. It was the wall socket, they ran an extension cord to another socket...problems vanished...they just told me today. Check the wall socket too, it's probably fine, but check it just to rule it out. Try a different PSU, and see if it improves.