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.