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I am trying to diagnose a issue with my PC. I removed all the hard drives and graphics card. Just left 1 RAM module, CPU and MB. Also reset the CMOS by removing the battery from the MB and putting it after 30 minutes. Power comes on (fans, lights on) but blank screen. Should it not boot to BIOS just using integrated graphics chip on the MB/CPU?
Here is the long story,
Windows 10 blue screened and was writing core dump and I got annoyed and turned off the power. After that I started the PC and it will just go into reboot loop. It will not even go bios screen and just reboot itself after power coming on for 4 or 5 seconds.
I removed my graphics card, all the hard drives and the memory modules and started the PC again with just the CPU and MB. It did the reboot loop thing again. Then I took off the CMOS battery from the MB and after 30 minutes put it back in. This time it did not go back into the reboot loop and power stayed on. So I just added 1 RAM module and graphics card. This time it did 3 reboot loop but booted to BIOS the 4th time. I loaded the default BIOS setting (CPU was OC before) and it was fine. So added just the SSD with windows and it was happy to boot into windows.
Once in Windows, I ran memory test, stress the CPU and graphics card for 60 minutes etc and it was fine. No sign of things overheating etc. CPU, graphics card and MB all well below 50C - 60C under load.
Then after a while I restarted the PC and it won't even go to BIOS screen. However this time around it didn't do the reboot loop. So I removed the graphics card and SSD and reset the CMOS by removing the battery. However it will not boot to BIOS using the integrated graphics chip on the CPU/MB. Only thing I have now in the PC are MB, CPU and 1 RAM module but blank screen. Should it not boot to BIOS just using integrated graphics chip if all is well?
Here is the long story,
Windows 10 blue screened and was writing core dump and I got annoyed and turned off the power. After that I started the PC and it will just go into reboot loop. It will not even go bios screen and just reboot itself after power coming on for 4 or 5 seconds.
I removed my graphics card, all the hard drives and the memory modules and started the PC again with just the CPU and MB. It did the reboot loop thing again. Then I took off the CMOS battery from the MB and after 30 minutes put it back in. This time it did not go back into the reboot loop and power stayed on. So I just added 1 RAM module and graphics card. This time it did 3 reboot loop but booted to BIOS the 4th time. I loaded the default BIOS setting (CPU was OC before) and it was fine. So added just the SSD with windows and it was happy to boot into windows.
Once in Windows, I ran memory test, stress the CPU and graphics card for 60 minutes etc and it was fine. No sign of things overheating etc. CPU, graphics card and MB all well below 50C - 60C under load.
Then after a while I restarted the PC and it won't even go to BIOS screen. However this time around it didn't do the reboot loop. So I removed the graphics card and SSD and reset the CMOS by removing the battery. However it will not boot to BIOS using the integrated graphics chip on the CPU/MB. Only thing I have now in the PC are MB, CPU and 1 RAM module but blank screen. Should it not boot to BIOS just using integrated graphics chip if all is well?