Hello,
my (desktop) computer is doing strange things and I am wondering what might be the cause. Maybe someone can give me a tip how to find out what is going on and which part I should replace. If this is not the right place to ask this kind of question I'd be happy if you can tell me an alternative
I start from the beginning, although I don't know whether the phenomenons are linked to each other.
A view weeks ago, the computer started over night - sort of at least: The "idle" LED was blinking, but the cooling fans where not spinning. There was also no display output when I turned on the monitor. This happened multiple times.
A few days later the computer didn't boot anymore. I started a live Linux that revealed that the partition table of the disk containing the operating system was vanished (At least it could not read from the partition table anymore). I also could not write a new partition table or do anything else with that disk. GParted even could not analyze the disk and skipped it with an error message ("could not read /dev/sdb"). I had this problem with another disk of the same type two years ago, so I thought it was just the bad quality of that SSD.
I have replaced it with an old SSD which also lost its data one year ago but apart from that it was still working.
Last week, the computer booted again over night - this time the "idle" LED was fully shining, but the fans where not spinning. However, I could hear my second disk (HDD) clicking once a second or so. When I tipped the "power" button, the computer booted normally.
Since then I turned of the power supply when I was not using the computer.
Just now the computer wasn't booting anymore: The partition table of my SSD was gone (I did expect this already since this has happened earlier with that SSD, but I did not expect it that early).
Apart from the mentioned problems the system was running very stable, I never had issues with it suddenly switching of or making "strange" things.
Now I am a bit confused which part could be the culprit - and how I could find this out.
The motherboard has been replaced one year ago by an ASRock B450m. The power supply is from Xilence.
Thank you!
my (desktop) computer is doing strange things and I am wondering what might be the cause. Maybe someone can give me a tip how to find out what is going on and which part I should replace. If this is not the right place to ask this kind of question I'd be happy if you can tell me an alternative
I start from the beginning, although I don't know whether the phenomenons are linked to each other.
A view weeks ago, the computer started over night - sort of at least: The "idle" LED was blinking, but the cooling fans where not spinning. There was also no display output when I turned on the monitor. This happened multiple times.
A few days later the computer didn't boot anymore. I started a live Linux that revealed that the partition table of the disk containing the operating system was vanished (At least it could not read from the partition table anymore). I also could not write a new partition table or do anything else with that disk. GParted even could not analyze the disk and skipped it with an error message ("could not read /dev/sdb"). I had this problem with another disk of the same type two years ago, so I thought it was just the bad quality of that SSD.
I have replaced it with an old SSD which also lost its data one year ago but apart from that it was still working.
Last week, the computer booted again over night - this time the "idle" LED was fully shining, but the fans where not spinning. However, I could hear my second disk (HDD) clicking once a second or so. When I tipped the "power" button, the computer booted normally.
Since then I turned of the power supply when I was not using the computer.
Just now the computer wasn't booting anymore: The partition table of my SSD was gone (I did expect this already since this has happened earlier with that SSD, but I did not expect it that early).
Apart from the mentioned problems the system was running very stable, I never had issues with it suddenly switching of or making "strange" things.
Now I am a bit confused which part could be the culprit - and how I could find this out.
The motherboard has been replaced one year ago by an ASRock B450m. The power supply is from Xilence.
Thank you!