Constant reboots / resets after POST
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Topic: Constant reboots / resets after POST
Posted By: monkeywrench
Subject: Constant reboots / resets after POST
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2021 at 6:07pm
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So, I bought a new computer - been using laptops only in work for last 7 years, so I splurged a bit. Specs: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X ASUS ROG STRIX GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB OC <- only Graphics Card I could find, right now... Corsair RM750X V2 / 750W / 80+ Gold Crucial MX500 2TB SATA G.SKill Trident Z Neo RGB 32GB (2x16GB) / 3600MHz / DDR4 / CL16 Noctua NH-D15 chromax.black ASRock X570 PG Velocita Chassi is Define S. So. Apparently they add an extra power cable to something every time I build a PC, but after that little thing, everything was working fine. I am using Ubuntu for work, so I installed 20.10 on the HDD, everything worked fine. Everything. No crashes, no problems. But I also wanted to play some games. So I used my old 500GB SSD to install Windows 10. A legitimate copy of Win10, bought a key and everything. Fine. Installed some games. Loaded up my old BF4, haven't played it on PC for many years. Everything worked perfect. Latest drivers, everything is nice. All settings on Ultra, the fans didn't even accelerate, so great! Then I took a break. I had realized I made one error - Win 10 had become the default boot option and to boot Ubuntu I had to press F11 for boot menu, which worked, but was annoying. It didn't cross my mind to change the order in the UEFI settings in BIOS, but that's (probably) neither here nor there. So I installed reFind Bootloader, which simply manages your different boots and is nice and has worked perfectly for me before. And it did this time as well, simple install from inside Ubuntu and I could now go back to playing some more BF4. So I did. I must have played between 12-18 hours in shifts of perhaps 2 hours at a time during this first running of the PC, everything was very nice. Then the PC all of a sudden crashed. Just black screen, hard reset, inte middle of a game. When it restarted it got stuck in a boot-repair-reboot loop. Over and over again. I've been struggling with this for hours now. I need some angles, insights and tips on this. Did I burn the CPU to a crips? They're supposed to have overheating protection and the computer starts and I have managed to enter a Windows repair console once - then it did a reset again when I did bootrec /scanos - it did manage to do some other things before that, but they didn't give any indication of what might be wrong. Things I've done: reassembled everything, checked every screw, every riser, every power cable, tried reseating the CPU two times. Tested the computer with an oooold graphics card - same behavior. Tried booting the windows install again, came to the partition selection thing, using a mechanical 2.5" 500 GB HDD I had lying around. It crashed when I had selected the partition and pressed Next to move on to the next step. Tried booting a live USB of Ubuntu. No dice, crashes. Currently I have removed the CMOS battery (I have used the clear CMOS button 100 times during the last 8 hours, I have no idea why this would make a difference, but some people claim it does, I certainly hope so). So, right now, I am so bummed. Nothing works, not one single boot option works ( will set up a command-line only ubuntu as some kind of effort, but I don't get what could have happened to the GFX card). Any advice on where to being would be appreciated. I have sh*t Internet, so downloading all the games and stuff took a lot of time, but who cares? I haven't lost any data or anything, since I was just getting started... but I want to use this beautiful machine, not poke around in it like a madman. //TomTom |
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Posted By: muziqaz
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2021 at 8:31pm
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It is possible that PSU gave out. CPUs do not die that easily these days. You would have felt overheating CPU in your gameplay before it would switch itself off. In BIOS go to Monitoring tab, and check what each voltage sensor is reporting (12V, 3.3V, etc). ------------- folding@home |
Posted By: monkeywrench
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2021 at 8:44pm
| But I can start the computer. Are you basically saying that perhaps at the moment the graphics card or CPU starts to load the PSU with more demand for power, it gives out, perhaps? |
Posted By: muziqaz
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2021 at 8:59pm
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PSU failures (not catastrophic ones) manifest themselves under certain loads. If GPU is too powerful for PSU (not your case, just an example), PC will start, get into Windows, and will crash if you start doing anything 3D intensive. In your case, GPU will never be able to kill your PSU, however faulty PSUs happen, and in those instances failures can manifest in various ways. When you start installing windows, or start booting windows, CPU is loaded quite a bit, so that might trigger a reboot. In BIOS if you could report voltage sensor data, it might reveal PSU issues (or not) ;) ------------- folding@home |
Posted By: monkeywrench
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2021 at 11:10pm
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So, I've tested with another Corsair 750W PSU I hade lying around - same issue. Can't boot. Gaah. |
Posted By: muziqaz
Date Posted: 22 Feb 2021 at 11:22pm
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Take it, BIOS is the latest? Have you tried booting and doing something with single stick of ram placed in second from the left RAM slot? Maybe try booting into Memtest86+ USB stick and see if you can run your RAM through memory test? ------------- folding@home |
Posted By: DemonAk
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2021 at 12:01am
| Try to disable in BIOS (AMD-CBS-CPU Configuration) Core performance Boost and test, if post and boot fine then probably your CPU defective and you need to replace it |
Posted By: monkeywrench
Date Posted: 23 Feb 2021 at 6:30pm
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So, hello there, everyone. Status right now is: I have tried booting memtest - and it passed all green with both memory modules in. Tried booting from USB with linuxstress to do some tests on the CPU - and it just resets as it is trying to boot. Tried disabling the Core Performance Boost, no dice, just weird and slow behavior and actually hanging when booting anything. So I wanted to order a cheap graphics card to test if it works and a cheap cpu - unfortunately the AMD Athlon 3000G is out of stock everywhere, so I had to order another Ryzen 7 - a 3800X, but it seems easier than to send away the computer for diagnostics elsewhere... So, I'll be back in a few days, swearing. Or cheering. Thanks for all the ideas and support, everyone. |
Posted By: monkeywrench
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2021 at 12:54am
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As stated, ordered new cpu and gpu that arrived today. It was the cpu all along. What could've caused it? Overheating, poorly applied thermal paste? Or just a dud? I'm going to contact my vendor to see if I could get a replacement or something. Thanks for the assistance, everyone. |
Posted By: muziqaz
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2021 at 3:01pm
If going through AMD directly, they replace faulty CPUs without much of the fuss :) Depending on your retailer, it might be quicker going through retailer though :) ------------- folding@home |
monkeywrench wrote:Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2021 at 6:57pm
Likely just a dud CPU, it happens a lot more these days than it used to due to the larger dies and smaller manufacture process. The IMC (Integrated Memory Controller) tends to be the most common fail point. ------------- 
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