Vincent
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Do you have access to another monitor or screen, what sort of connection are you using, DVI, HDMI or DisplayPort? You need to rule things out and try using the onboard, no point spending money when you may be spending it in the wrong direction.
I need a Serial port, but I don't own any screens with that, nor adapters. And it's so outdated it's hard to find here..
I'd honestly disconnect and unplug all power from the unit for about three or so minutes. There maybe residual power floating on the board with instructions to kill the board to protect it.
Done that, nothing happens.
That's not a very good board, predates MSI's recent catch up with other motherboard makers (they are still not great)
I would say it is the primary suspect, but I'm not certain
So basically a new motherboard would be the most plausible solution? Goodbye savings
I have tried disconnecting everything one by one, but the problem persists..
I haven't moved my PC or anything. It's possible that something just snapped or something, but I don't know what or why.
Remove ALL but 1 stick of ram (make sure you check the manual to see which slot to use with 1 stick)
Remove ALL HDD/DVD EXCEPT the primary boot drive
Remove ALL USB devices EXCEPT keyboard and mouse
Remove ALL PCI devices INCLUDING your graphics card
You said you don't have the right connection, bring your PC to another screen or being another screen to your PC its your choice but this is a step you need to do.
There's no point attempting to skip any steps.
I have done all that and the problem persists..
Usually it wouldn't, it would start booting and halt, but not power down if a memory problem. But said test it because I don't know if maybe some motherboards are designed to power down with it, you have nothing to lose testing it. But do agree, usually from my experience it wouldn't and just halt during boot-up with a bad memory stick detected.
Sounds like motherboard or CPU, I wouldn't rule out the CPU being at fault, not if messing around in the case. And his symptoms of starting for 3 seconds and shutting down is exactly what mine kept doing and was the CPU.
There are reports of the 3 second problem being a faulty PS so that doesn't prove much