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"Sleeping desktop" and not booting.

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So @Shugotenshii 's desktop has some issues. It's a

FX-6300
Gigabyte 990FXA UD3
2x4GB DDR3
GTX650
450w 5-ish year old PSU.

What happens is his desktop would "sleep" and not wake up. The only way he can get it to start up is if he unplugs it from the wall.

Right now he can get to the BIOS but once he exits the BIOS, it shuts off and won't start up. The ONLY thing we changed was making the vcore -0.05 because it was hitting 1.367v on full load. Ran OCCT Linpack on the lowered vcore and was stable.

We need some advice ASAP.
 
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Remove your cmos battery and reset to defaults in bios.
 
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Probably unrelated but: That PSU sounds very very old. Is it possibly even close to it's capacity limit? It's probably putting out 2/3rds it's rated capacity.
 

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Probably unrelated but: That PSU sounds very very old. Is it possibly even close to it's capacity limit? It's probably putting out 2/3rds it's rated capacity.
He went from an old Wolfdale Pentium to that 6300 and newer memory/board. I'm guessing that jump is enough to rattle the old PSU, yes?
Remove you cmos battery and reset to defaults in bios.
I'll have to see if he's able to do that.
 

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old psu is old replace it anyway
 

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old psu is old replace it anyway
That's the plan as he's bumping the GPU to hopefully, an open box GTX970. He won't be getting a Raidmax, I can say that.
 
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