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Afternoon All,
System:
Gigabyte Designare EX x399
1950x [was a 1920x] [CM ML360R TR4 AIO]
XPG D50 3600mhz 32gb(4x8)
HOF 2080ti
Seasonic titanium PSU (Although this was an SF_1000 SE platinum for most of this time, which was cleared by Woot's RMA process as all good)
1-2 29" UW LG monitors connected to the system.
~5tb of storage
All the fans.
Had this issue pretty much since day 1, it originally came about where randomly PC would not come on at all even if it had just been turned off. I had turned the eco switch for the psu on since the PC wasn't under continuous load & upon restart, entirely dead in the water, thought it was PSU but RMA proved it wasn't & whilst that was in I tested with another, while testing after about a week of leaving it I saw the eco switch on the psu was on, switch it off & boom, pc booted like nothing ever happened. I'll post a vid or two to show was seems like a shorting issue, when in standby as soon as you flip the psu switch there is a shorting sound along with the chipset LED flickering (obviously made me shit my nutsack out my anus) so I switch off.
Pretty much the only way to get this resolved is clear CMOS, psu off & drain the remaining electricity in the system, remove CMOS & wait like 5 minutes. This shebang would happen at random, but mostly after some time unplugged from any socket completely.
This entire the problem this brings is that my BIOS does not hold its profile & reset each & every time you start the PC, so any profile/OC is reset each time, have to load into BIOS & reload a profile. I then replaced CMOS battery thinking it's that is the issue as I took a multimeter to the board & all the points I could find were at their rated/supposed voltages so I couldn't find anything to give direction. The first replaced CMOS lasted about 1-2 weeks of absolutely nothing wrong & all working fine (Which I thought this was the problem the entire time), I was wrong, did the above once again, identically. Replaced CMOS & ignored xD
Same thing, CMOS battery lasts a week, the only resolve to getting the 'dead in the water' issue resolved is remove CMOS & drain remaining electricity for about 15 minutes & 20 tries of getting the board/system to power on again. Sometime it resets the system time, other times it doesn't. I haven't had this for a week or two now, but the BIOS will reset itself as soon as their isn't any power to the system for like 30 minutes, so loadshedding or any time it's unplugged from wall socket which is every night.
On top of this the system freezes from time to time & the most common BSOD I get is DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION. I'll probably get a bsod once/twice every 2 weeks, with or without MXP enabled as I don't bother switching it on half the time anymore given the BIOS resetting all the time.
I have gone through every thinkable solution I know of(& don't know of) to find a fix, my assumption is that:
1. The CMOS itself is fucked/shorting/grounding.
2. There is maybe a bent pin in the socket?
3. A trace on the board is faulty/fucked & there is actually nothing I can do about it xD.
At this point if I don't get the CMOS socket checked or replaced entirely I'm very much leaning on the faulty tracer as the issue, as there is no visible damage to the board at all, none of the NVME slots, no bulged caps, nix. ultimately it isn't a major issue[unless of course it causes system harm tot he rest of my components], it's just highly annoying that I cannot run OC's because it'll just be reset.
Any ideas/suggestions are welcomed because 'm tired of thinking what might be the issue xD
& TIA in advance huumans
Imgur doesn't play sound, so here is an example of what was happening to the chipset LED, as soon as I switched PSU on this would happen. As soon as you pressed the power button the system would shut off/lose all power.
System:
Gigabyte Designare EX x399
1950x [was a 1920x] [CM ML360R TR4 AIO]
XPG D50 3600mhz 32gb(4x8)
HOF 2080ti
Seasonic titanium PSU (Although this was an SF_1000 SE platinum for most of this time, which was cleared by Woot's RMA process as all good)
1-2 29" UW LG monitors connected to the system.
~5tb of storage
All the fans.
Had this issue pretty much since day 1, it originally came about where randomly PC would not come on at all even if it had just been turned off. I had turned the eco switch for the psu on since the PC wasn't under continuous load & upon restart, entirely dead in the water, thought it was PSU but RMA proved it wasn't & whilst that was in I tested with another, while testing after about a week of leaving it I saw the eco switch on the psu was on, switch it off & boom, pc booted like nothing ever happened. I'll post a vid or two to show was seems like a shorting issue, when in standby as soon as you flip the psu switch there is a shorting sound along with the chipset LED flickering (obviously made me shit my nutsack out my anus) so I switch off.
Pretty much the only way to get this resolved is clear CMOS, psu off & drain the remaining electricity in the system, remove CMOS & wait like 5 minutes. This shebang would happen at random, but mostly after some time unplugged from any socket completely.
This entire the problem this brings is that my BIOS does not hold its profile & reset each & every time you start the PC, so any profile/OC is reset each time, have to load into BIOS & reload a profile. I then replaced CMOS battery thinking it's that is the issue as I took a multimeter to the board & all the points I could find were at their rated/supposed voltages so I couldn't find anything to give direction. The first replaced CMOS lasted about 1-2 weeks of absolutely nothing wrong & all working fine (Which I thought this was the problem the entire time), I was wrong, did the above once again, identically. Replaced CMOS & ignored xD
Same thing, CMOS battery lasts a week, the only resolve to getting the 'dead in the water' issue resolved is remove CMOS & drain remaining electricity for about 15 minutes & 20 tries of getting the board/system to power on again. Sometime it resets the system time, other times it doesn't. I haven't had this for a week or two now, but the BIOS will reset itself as soon as their isn't any power to the system for like 30 minutes, so loadshedding or any time it's unplugged from wall socket which is every night.
On top of this the system freezes from time to time & the most common BSOD I get is DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION. I'll probably get a bsod once/twice every 2 weeks, with or without MXP enabled as I don't bother switching it on half the time anymore given the BIOS resetting all the time.
I have gone through every thinkable solution I know of(& don't know of) to find a fix, my assumption is that:
1. The CMOS itself is fucked/shorting/grounding.
2. There is maybe a bent pin in the socket?
3. A trace on the board is faulty/fucked & there is actually nothing I can do about it xD.
At this point if I don't get the CMOS socket checked or replaced entirely I'm very much leaning on the faulty tracer as the issue, as there is no visible damage to the board at all, none of the NVME slots, no bulged caps, nix. ultimately it isn't a major issue[unless of course it causes system harm tot he rest of my components], it's just highly annoying that I cannot run OC's because it'll just be reset.
Any ideas/suggestions are welcomed because 'm tired of thinking what might be the issue xD
& TIA in advance huumans
Imgur doesn't play sound, so here is an example of what was happening to the chipset LED, as soon as I switched PSU on this would happen. As soon as you pressed the power button the system would shut off/lose all power.
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