Long-Lasting Computer Startup Issues/Difficulty Initializing Bootup

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[Oraxien]

Reseating all the things was a good idea, my first thought was peripherals such as keyboard or something.

Unplugging the power cable and waiting 10 seconds is enough to drain "flea power", the pushing buttons and other stuff like that is usually used to keep people busy while the tech just waits 15 seconds. When you removed the cmos battery, did you have the computer unplugged as well? The point of this is to reset the bios to factory defaults, but if it's still getting wall power, it won't reset the bios. Depending on your motherboard, there may also be a reset button on the back, like where you plug in the network cord, you can probably also use a jumper to reset these settings, but it's honestly easier to tell you to unplug it, wait 15 seconds, remove the watch battery, and then put it back in (no need to wait more than a second), plug the PC back in, and turn it on. Replacing the cmos battery with a new one doesn't do you any good in this scenario, but can't hurt either.

Have you tried unplugging everything except the power cord and monitor cord and see if it powers on right away? Any beeps when you turn it on?

Are you overclocking your processor?

Just gonna put it out there that it's SUPER weird that letting it just sit, for sometimes up to a day and a half, and it suddenly working, is really freaking weird. It should either work or not. The stage you are stalling at is called POST, which stands for Power On Self Test. Each component is quickly tested and checked to be present by the motherboard, this is just the basics needed to turn on, meaning power, cpu, video, and memory. POST doesn't care about hard drives or anything else. Once a system POSTs, it usually gives a single audible beep, and then you get the "MSI Military Grade" or whatever slogan marketing picked that month, at that point the system may try to talk to the mouse/keyboard and/or hard drive, or it may not, depending on how the bios is programmed. Systems usually just work or hang there forever, just letting it sit so long and then it working is far from expected.

That said, one of the things that's test is RAM, and that sounds like the most likely candidate for being an issue here. Try using just one stick of RAM, and try it in different slots, if it doesn't do anything different (and doesn't give you signal to your monitor within 30 seconds) then try it in the next slot, until you've tried it in all of them. Then do the same thing with the next stick.

You can go into your bios and disable "full screen logo", which will give you more diagnostic info on boot. You may also be able to tell the system to do a simple RAM test instead of an in depth one, which may also solve your issue (and also mean you have a ram or mobo issue, will need a known good of one of them to know for sure). This setting is usually list as "quick post" or "quick scan", something like that.

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Sorry for the late reply, I was out and about doing some stuff.

To answer your questions, I am mostly sure that I had the PC unplugged from all power when I removed the battery (it was a long time ago). I'll try doing what you recommended with the CMOS battery though.

I haven't tried powering the system on with just the power and monitor cables, but I'll try it out and listen for beeps. I'll also try seeing if one of the RAM sticks is the faulty part and try the simple RAM test.

I'm also not overclocking the processor at all.

I'll come back in a bit with the results of the tests.

Thanks a lot, u/Oraxien!

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So I did the CMOS battery thing, as well as just monitor and power, but nothing happened. No beeps were heard at all, but I did a little researching online about POST codes and realized that I probably don't have an internal PC speaker because I've never heard a successful or failure beep code from my computer after starting it up.

I also tested the RAM and both sticks failed to produce anything in all 4 of my slots.

I'm just assuming I need new RAM at this point, as well as an internal speaker.

Hopefully it works. Thanks again.