Hmm, I'll definitely check the internals. And yeah, I tried pressing a couple of times and also holding the power button with the cable unplugged, maybe I didn't press it for long enough, I thought it kinda all drained almost instantly; I'll be sure to try that as well if it happens again.
Yes well in normal circumstances the PSU CAPS should discharge really quickly but form a few shocks I have had and from dealing with cleaning PSU's these components can stay charged for up to two weeks. So in essence the larger the cap the longer it takes.
While you are doing that just watch for any LED visible to see how long they take to die away, but you still need to be careful because there other caps besides those inside the PSU that can still hold a charge but not as dangerous as the voltage inverter circuit uses. In simple terms the mains voltage is raised to a higher frequency at a low current and then converted back to low voltages at a higher current hence the incoming mains at say 2.4 amps is converted to 12 volts at 24 amps. That is a very simplistic way of describing it.
So I always hold the power switch longer than probably is necessary but at least I can be reasonably sure the PSU is drained. This will give you an idea of what I have said https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_...unit_(computer) and a good reference for the future.
I see; I'll definitely try to hold down the power button for longer as well, just in case!
Oh, and I just remembered something, thought this might sound a bit stupid of me. The motherboard and the case both have front USB support, and I tried to plug them but it never worked, so I probably got the wiring wrong; however, I completely forgot about it until this moment and never unplugged it, could it be possible it caused some issues?
Ok no worries we all do things absent minded at time mate
Now by USB on the board and front I am assuming you mean you have front USB ports with cables so on the board there should be a header for them usually they are easily connected up as from what I have done in the past it is just a matter of getting them installed the right way round and again I think you can only connect them one way round anyway.
I wish I was that easy, heheh. The USB header is no single header, it's a bundle of cable, and I couldn't find a schematic for them. It's two black grounds, two red +5v, blue 1+D, green 2+D, white 1-D, yellow 2-D (I was able to find a guide just now, though I'll try another time). Now that I checked however, I did unplug them all afterall, so no issue there. It just did its thing again, so I took the chance to look inside.
There doesn't seem to be anything wrong that I can see of, no scratches or bent stuff, though I cleaned the dust and moved the cables around a bit just to be sure, but nothing worked. Also tried holding down power for ~60s, no dice. I still have to power it off and on a hundred times. Maybe the GPU got damaged (I did have some firmware issues) and now it can't flush the charge when going to sleep? If that's possible and that's the case my only choice would be to have it repaired or get a new one.
Yep I know when I built my first desky I was thrown a bit but you can get those cable holders to fit up first - in the correct order of course then just plug it in. Same goes for all those cables that are used for the power ,reset, and LED lights for the front panel.
Basically there are only power and data connections for USB and this is quite a good guide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB for how to line them up.
Now just as a by the by if you intend ever to put in one of those USB cards on the board for extra USB on the back panel make sure it is a good brand and it is fitted well and has the drivers properly installed because my experience with them is nightmarish but that could have justbeen me.
Gotcha, I'll be wary of that. I'll definitely try to plug them in again in the future and see if I can get them working properly.
In the meanwhile, I've noticed that the NVIDIA utilities weren't working properly so I reinstalled them, along with updating the drivers, and finally uninstalled the last trace of the old AMD card's drivers. Fingers crossed!
Ok well if you want to check in the registry HKEY's LOCAL_MACHINE & CURRENT_USER > Software scroll down each list to see if there are any refs to AMD in there. If you find some then right click them and delete - you will need to be the admin to do that and I always do this before I change reg entries so that if a I mess up I can merge the old reg back in Registry - Backup and Restore personally I find exporting the whole registry is so simple and easy and quick.
Done; let's hope I don't have to replace the GPU or something else..
Sorry late reply mate well if push comes to shove then that is what it may need but as you say lets see.
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