Hi everyone, my Rampage V 10 has served me well for several years but two days ago while just surfing internet, it suddenly shut down and got in a continuous loop of trying to post for a second, with fans starting to turn, leds comming up, and then shutting down again. Only black screen and no acces to reboot or safe boot knobs. Checking the internet for help, I did all the usual tests, deconecting everything but the absolute necesarry, removing all but one bar of ram, checking all cables and connections, checking the power supply (CorsairMX1200i), reset of Bios, etc but to no use. Then I removed the CPU Intel i7 LGA 2011-3 for visual inspection of the CPU and the socket for damages but saw nothing unusual but I did noticed that for some reason one of the retaining bolts of the CPU cooler was snapped. The cooler is a CORSAIR Hydro Series H115i. So I cleaned everything, putted new cooling paste an put everything together again with, for now, only 3 bolts. I tried to start up the pc but still the same pendeling. I let it try for a while to see if it could get past post and after 10 minutes or so, the pendeling stopped with all fans running and leads lit but still no screen or responsive and Q-code 00. Trying to restart several times didn't change anything. So I left the pc running this way for quite some time while searching the internet for a solution and at some moment I tried again to start the pc and this time it got through post and but got a message that "no operating system was found". I hit ctrl-alt-delete and the pc rebooted normal and with Del I got into the bios. My OS is on 2 SSD's 250 in raid so I set Sata1 back to raid, checked that the proper HD was selected for booting, saved and restart but still the same message and the advise to disconnect all hd's but the one with the OS (Windows 10 pro) . It was getting late, so I shutt down the pc and went to bed. This morning I disconnected all hd's with exception of the two raid SSD's with the OS and tried to start the pc but again the pc would not post and started pendeling. So from my experience from yesterday, I let it do this way for maybe an hour and then started trying to start up again every 10 minutes or so and at some moment it got past Post again but still got the message that no OS could be found. So I restarted and got into the Bios and set Sata1 back to AHCI instead of raid. Checked the booting sequence and it showed WIN10. I saved change of settings and restart and this time I got the windows logo followed with the message "windows is initiating" followed by a message "windows is applying updates, don't shut down the pc" While this was still ongoing, I was clicked out windows, back to the Bios with a warning that the CPU was getting to warm. I checked core temperature and it was 83celcius at that moment. I waited a few minutes with only the bios screen displayed, but temperature did not got below 80 so I shut down the pc and started this post to seek advice.
Sorry for the long read. Tried to be as complete as I could. But do hope someone has a clue to what is going on with my pc. I think it isn't just a problem of overheating because when I tried starting this morning, the pc was cold but overheating may have done some damage to the MB and/or CPU causing the initial shut down. But then again, why does it starts up at some moment after idling for some time? And once it does get past Post, it seems to run normal with exception of the CPU getting to warm and I also don't understand why it suddenly has problems in finding the OS?
I got to the end of thinking possible solutions based on my knowledge. I hope someone can help.
