The system fails to fully restart and displays a black screen once more?
The system fails to fully restart and displays a black screen once more?
Hello once more, thank you for your earlier assistance. This is the same matter we discussed previously, around December 2022. It came up tonight with a blank screen and the VGA debug light still on, and I’m not sure what to do next. I’ve carried out all the troubleshooting steps mentioned before, tried resetting the CMOS and re-flashing the BIOS, but those fixes didn’t work anymore, leaving me without solutions. The PSU seems to be supplying power, as the replacement graphics card from earlier would have shown an error when powered off, yet it displayed a message asking for power connection. When I connected the new card fully powered on, it blinked a blue LED at the SDA0 location. Since I haven’t used that old card recently, I’m uncertain if this behavior is typical or what it means. I don’t have any other replacement cards to test or secondary systems to evaluate. My current setup remains unchanged—still using the same specs from the link on PCPartPicker, with Windows 10 installed on the latest stable version. I’m still wondering if the motherboard itself might be the problem again, as was my initial concern. Please let me know if you can help.
The PSU is the same age as the initial build around November of 2020. According to what I've looked up it's apparently a good and reliable model which is why I picked it in the first place, though I don't know the average lifespan of "reliable" PSUs as I've had stock ones in pre-built machines last many more years than that. I'm not exactly sure what's meant by "reliably built" here other than that, so with the potential that it has gone bad in some particular way, are there any recommended replacement paths other than "same brand but higher peak wattage"?
I'm not sure who I'm going to be asking to borrow a PSU from at this point so I'd potentially end up buying one just to test this approach. If there are any other ideas I could try without having to buy or borrow extra parts like those, I'd also like to hear those suggestions, even if a PSU isn't the most expensive part on average, so I could if I had to.
I've located another PSU with higher wattage to test, and it seems to function correctly. However, after putting in all the effort—replacing every power cable with the original ones—I'm still encountering the same issue: the VGA light stays on and the display remains blank. I've also verified that the graphics card is properly connected. I'm uncertain about the next steps unless I need to search for additional PSUs or different graphics cards, as my current options are limited.