Windows 10: Lost Power, now PC won't boot. Powers on and clicks.

I lost power today and now my machine will not boot up, or even post for that matter.

Probably not the best forum to post in, but I've got a little history here in this community so I figure I will appeal to whatever help I can get.

It's not the hard drive. I makes a sort of a hollow click every few seconds. All fans come on, motherboard lights up, but nothing outputs to the screen and I never get the beep that the machine has actually posted. Strange. I have tried pulling all power from the machine, discharging any latent power, and turning it back on. No good.

This is a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H with an I5 processor. 16gb of ram, 512 gb SSD.. GTX 960 graphics card. It is maybe a year old.

It seems like it is trying to post, but not making it. No error codes that I can hear or see.

I tried unhooking everything, including all the internal drives, but I still can hear the click sound, and no output to the screen.

Any help appreciated!!

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Windows 10 appears to shutdown my computer but when I try to power it back up, it won't boot up. "Restart" won't fix it and "power off" button won't fix it either. I have to un-plug and re-plug the power cord and then the power on button will start the
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PC won't boot after failed checkdisk

Hello,

My Desktop PC was getting a little slow the last few weeks, so I decided to clean it up using CCleaner and AVG PC tuneup.

After this I wanted to run a checkdisk. This however stalled at 10% and wouldn't complete.

I had to power the PC down using the power button.

Now when I try to start the PC it won't boot. It powers on, but doesn't connect with the screen or the keyboard.

All I know is that is has power.

Any idea's on how to fix this?

Thanks

Abe

 

Reset the RAM modules by reconnecting the RAM modules.

 

Just pull them out and put them back in??

 

Sounds like it is the hard drive, if not Power Supply.

Solid State Drive for Operating System ?

 

Pulling and replacing Ram did not help. Thanks though!

SSD is for OS. Typically, there are 3 other internal hard drives in this thing. I have pulled connection and power to all internal drives, yet I still hear the clicking. Given that I get zero screen output, I am pretty positive it's not a drive. It could be power supply. It is hard to tell exactly where the clicking is coming from though I think it is from the board. The board lights up, and all the fans come on, just doesn't make it any further. Troubleshooting guide for the board is not helpful either. Thanks for the help so far!

 

Have Onboard Graphics card (built into motherboard) ? If so pull the other Graphics card out and plug into the onboard card.
Your Welcome !

 

If you disconnected all the hard disk drives and still hearing a clicking noise then it could be one of the fans.

 

I don't think it's a fan. I am leaning toward power, but unfortunately I don't have another power supply powerful enough to test. The current power supply is only slated at 500w, which is a lower than what I thought I remembered putting in this thing. I will try the video card suggestion. There are onboard graphics.

 

Let me make sure i have all this correct, the PC powers on all fans run but no picture and one click sounds or several ?

 

Yep. Correct. It clicks every few seconds. Like maybe every 3 seconds. Its a mellow click.

 

https://www.lifewire.com/how-to-manu...imeter-2626158

At the least, I suggest disconnecting the PSU, shorting pins 15 and 16 (see link) so that you can turn on the PSU without having it connected to a motherboard. If you get the clicks with the PSU live (but disconnected from a system), that would suggest that it has a problem.

I've never used one of those inexpensive PSU testers (Newegg has a number of them, starting at around $12US), but I suppose it might be worth trying.

 

Remove the cmos battery for 30 secs then have another try.

 

unplug the HDD and see if it posts after, if not then the hdd isnt the issue. worth ruling out piece by piece. with the hdd not connected it should post and say os not found or similar.