Here are the parts (purchased 2017/2018 but for reasons we won’t examine not put together until 2020):

• Ryzen 1600X
• MSI Krait Gaming Mobo x370
• TridentZ 3200 DDR4 RAM
• Asus ROG 1070 Ti
• Corsair Obsidian 450D case
• Hyper T2 cooler
  
• M2 hard drive w/Win10 Ed
• Extra SSD
• 750w modular platinum PSU

About a month ago (after several months of working perfectly) the computer just cut off and wouldn’t come back on.

I was in the middle of finals so I mostly ignored it, just periodically trying to turn it back on after trying minor things like reseating RAM. After about a week of not working, it randomly came back on with me not changing anything.

It worked fine. While it was on I tested a handful of things - it was not over heating (confirmed with both software and by physically checking for heat - fwiw I’ve had various computers struggle with overheating and none of them acted like this one.

The computer was on for more than a day. I set it up to do a memory check next time I restarted it. It crashed later while nothing was running except one instance of Word and Discord.

The memory check ran when I turned it back on, found nothing, then didn’t finish booting and went back to never coming on.

I haven’t been able to get it back on.

The light on the video card comes on but doesn’t change from red to the set color of green-white. The caps lock key, etc. are stuck ‘on.’

I’ve tried reseating the RAM. I tried doing a PSU test I found online and that seems to work. Would the lights and mem check have worked if this was the mobo?

I’m just at a loss. Anyone have ideas?

There aren’t really many computer repair options here and I’d prefer to fix it myself, but I’ve lost my passion for building computers and it just seems a massive chore.

 

I bought the mobo before most of those reviews because I trusted the brand but that figures, ugh.

I don’t know anything about changing a mobo battery. I can change the motherboard but honestly I’d probably sell the computer parts and buy a fresh machine from a custom shop at this point if I have to do that. I used to build because I couldn’t afford anything decent if I didn’t.

I’ll look into how to change the battery. Thanks

 

@wordhammer @draykfyre - I reset the CMOS/mobo battery and it came on! Time will tell if it stays on this time, but I'm hopeful. At least I can get a few things off the computer.

I did lose the last rewrite of my comp entry though, which was about 500 words I'd redone, since the auto-save didn't catch it (I was in the middle of writing when the initial crash occurred).

And now my computer-tips-repertoire is one step larger.

 

Well this started up again exactly the same. Resetting the battery didn’t work this go.

I’m not sure what to do other than try replacing the mobo but that’s just so awful to do. Hate reseating CPUs too.

Any other ideas apart from buying a new one? Hah.

 

I’m not over clocking though? The RAM has always been running at its default.

Will try a lot of that - thanks. Reset got it going again but clearly there’s an underlying issue.

 

BIOS was updated in January this year but I’ll double check it and how I have the RAM set up. Thanks again

 

Well now I'm invested in the mystery.