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About an hour ago my PC tripped the switch on the fuse board. I got the switch back and everything in my room came back on. However the PC didn't boot up and actually tripped the fuse again. The PC won't POST and there's nothing showing on my display and no beeps through the speaker to indicate anything is wrong.
I took the PC side off and had a look. I noticed that when I turned the PC on there is a line of LEDs glowing orange on the back of the motherboard (Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H) and I thought it was meant to be blue. I checked the manual and there's no mention of any lights being orange other than for the sound connectors.
I then noticed that the second fan on my graphics card (Nvidia 970GTX) wasn't spinning but I now believe that only one spins all the time and the other one kicks in under loads. However I then realised that when I turn the PC on the fans on the Corsair H105 spin up initially but then just stop spinning. I've blown the dust out to see if that was the issue but I kind of knew it wouldn't be. I've turned the PC on after blowing out the dust and the H105 fans spin up and then just stop.
Does this mean that the cooler has failed and needs to be replaced? I have a spare PC with an air cooler on it that I could transfer over but if the H105 fans have failed does this mean the CPU has been cooked and there's no point moving the air cooler over?
I've had this PC since January 2015 when I built it and no hardware has been changed in that time.
I took the PC side off and had a look. I noticed that when I turned the PC on there is a line of LEDs glowing orange on the back of the motherboard (Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H) and I thought it was meant to be blue. I checked the manual and there's no mention of any lights being orange other than for the sound connectors.
I then noticed that the second fan on my graphics card (Nvidia 970GTX) wasn't spinning but I now believe that only one spins all the time and the other one kicks in under loads. However I then realised that when I turn the PC on the fans on the Corsair H105 spin up initially but then just stop spinning. I've blown the dust out to see if that was the issue but I kind of knew it wouldn't be. I've turned the PC on after blowing out the dust and the H105 fans spin up and then just stop.
Does this mean that the cooler has failed and needs to be replaced? I have a spare PC with an air cooler on it that I could transfer over but if the H105 fans have failed does this mean the CPU has been cooked and there's no point moving the air cooler over?
I've had this PC since January 2015 when I built it and no hardware has been changed in that time.