I was up until 2 am last night, clicked shut down (windows 10) .
Woke up around noon, I hit power button, logged in with my password.
10 secounds later I thought my mouse batteries died but mouse light was good, realized it was actually the computer that froze , for about 1 minute, it shut off and restarted by itself.

It keeps restarting, and no display. I took all ram cards out, it turns on, and stays on, no display... weird....
I put 1 ram card in out of 4... it also stays on and does not restart.
No display.

I took my gtx 1080 video card out...
And plugged hdmi into motherboard spot...
No display still ( might be based off of bios settings)
Is it possible and safe to reset bios? And how?
I also noticed a very tiny orange mark next to that watch battery looking thing. Possibly something had burnt?


I plugged hdmi into xbox.. signal shows instantly, so I know it's not the screen or cable


Using biostar b75mu3+ motherboard.

Possibly reset bios, in homes to get default settings to try onboarding video?

Or could it possibly be the motherboard/cpu?
I5 3570k

I pretty much rather try onboard video before I replace my motherboard... because i dont feel safe trying to apply new thermal paste lol so then i would have to get a new cpu... mind as well get a whole new pc at that point..

Any ideas?

Plugged in a speaker beeper, it beepedonce, then like 10 sec later it beeped like 6 to 8 times.

Does that help determine the problem?

1 long, and 8 short beeps.
Display test failure .

Any ideas what todo now?

This post was edited by conetopia on Nov 19 2018 09:22pm

Try on board graphics and/or a different GPU?

I took graphics card out already, still getting 8 beeps
Which means either bios diesnt have the integrated graphics enabled / auto, or the board is bad.

I see a burn mark by watch battery, by ram, and by video card slot.
Very faint and tiny.

Probably bad motherboard, most/all recent motherboard should default to integrated graphics when there is no GPU present.

Buy a used motherboard or new PC.

In bios they have auto, but i had it specified as pci-e only .
So i cant even be sure it's a bad motherboard at this point.

Reset cmos and hope for the best? Otherwise it's bricked unless you can go in blind on the bios, assuming that is the issue.

You can Google the beep codes for that motherboard.

Also a picture of the suspected burn mark would help.

Pmed

Problem solved , dirty battery area, cleaned around it, and found a pile of moldy looking dust under battery, so wiped it good.

Computer started right up