If it hasn't been done within the last 5 years, replace the size 2032 CMOS battery. A low battery can cause all sorts of bizarre problems. Energizer or Duracell is suggested as Sony only lasted me 2 years.
You know how you said everything is plugged in? It's time to do just the opposite. Unplug all peripherals on by one, starting with the GPU card if you have one, and see if anything changes. If not, go internal. One by one again, unplug DVD drive, card reader, and if still nothing changes, unplug HDD. If you do end up going as far as unplugging HDD, when you turn on PC, you should get an onscreen Boot error message.
Before unplugging HDD, if it boots up after you unplugged something, then you know where the problem is.
bradthetechnut
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July 19th, 2020 12:00
Hi @GarethS10,
If it hasn't been done within the last 5 years, replace the size 2032 CMOS battery. A low battery can cause all sorts of bizarre problems. Energizer or Duracell is suggested as Sony only lasted me 2 years.
You know how you said everything is plugged in? It's time to do just the opposite. Unplug all peripherals on by one, starting with the GPU card if you have one, and see if anything changes. If not, go internal. One by one again, unplug DVD drive, card reader, and if still nothing changes, unplug HDD. If you do end up going as far as unplugging HDD, when you turn on PC, you should get an onscreen Boot error message.
Before unplugging HDD, if it boots up after you unplugged something, then you know where the problem is.
tigerwife
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July 19th, 2020 12:00
power button lid white is normal boot....
if protect mode it will turn in orange and flash....
you plug the monitor cable on board VGA port or on add-on GPU??