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August 24th, 2025 21:46
Aurora R10, won't bring monitors out of standby
Bought the R10 brand new probably 3 years ago. Today our power went out, not a lightning strike, just a random outage for a minute or so. The computer was on when it happened. Went to go turn it back on after the power came back, and the monitors say "no DP1 signal from your device". The alien head logo and the large oval around it is illuminated and changing colors like usual. All of the fans are on and running. The GEFORCE RTX logo is illuminated.
It makes the usual "ding, ding, ding" noise when it powers up. Usually about 15 seconds after that, it will make three deeper sounds and that's when the monitors will come on. Now it makes the first of those deeper sounds and then nothing. I have the case open and in the top left corner I see a white LED labeled "HD# LED". Since my startup issue has been happening, this LED sometimes blinks every few seconds and other times I can't see it blink at all when I turn it on. I have gone through and unplugged everything and seated again. I removed the 2032 battery for 15 minutes. I have tried just using 1 stick of RAM. I've read other posts about faulty MB's in these but I would like to know for sure before I spend $125 on a used one. Any thoughts or steps for me to try?
Tesla1856
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August 25th, 2025 00:36
If you ever get it working again, please get a good UPS (like an APC or CyberPower).
Unplug, press power button (to release flea-power), remove video-card, and let it sit there over-night.
If it has an on-board video (like on the CPU ... usually secondary and mostly un-used) ... leave Nvidia card out and try to boot with on-board. If not, drop in any old PCIe video card you have in the closet.
Try to get it to Post or BIOS screen to appear.
Lightning-blown part could be ANY part in whole computer.
bradthetechnut
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August 25th, 2025 03:36
@Tesla1856 I Googled rear panel image for the R10. It doesn't have onboard graphics. It has a USB-C port. Not sure if that can be used for graphics.
Tesla1856
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August 25th, 2025 04:05
@bradthetechnut ,
I kinda doubt it as I think these are just USB-C ports and not Thunderbolt-4 ports like on a Apple-Mac.
But I think it has more to do with the CPU chip that is installed (as now-days the IGP is on the CPU chip when available). My Aurora-R6 has nice K-class Intel-i7 with on-board video (IGP) but can't say I ever used it (it has always had it's Nvidia GTX-1070 installed and working).
Hopefully OP has an old PCIe video-card they can drop in there. And as I said, could be anything that is blown (motherboard, power-supply, video-card, whatever, who-knows).
One time, (decades ago) the lightning found a way into my old Gateway-2000 PC , bypassing my APC-UPS ... it went through the telephone-line into my modem. Blew a hole in my modem and started a little fire. Blew every AGP and PCI card in the computer. Gateway sent me all new ones, covered under warranty. They worked fine. The Power-Supply and drives were all fine. The motherboard did NOT get damaged and worked fine also. The computer lasted a long time after that. I got a phone-line filter to protect my modem.
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August 25th, 2025 11:06
Thanks for the replies. I do not have another video card to try. I did remove the RTX 3060 and have left it out overnight. I will install it this evening and see if she comes back to life.
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August 25th, 2025 23:15
No luck. Put the video card back in, plugged the PC into the wall, fired it up, and it's doing exactly what I said in my original post. Keyboard is lit up. The mouse is lit up. It makes half of the noises it used to make, as far as beeps go, but it won't display anything on the monitors.
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August 25th, 2025 23:19
I ran the PSU BIST by holding the black button next to the green LED. The fans kick on and the green LED stays steady green. Think I might just bite the bullet and get a used MB off of Ebay.
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August 26th, 2025 02:45
I've been letting the PC sit turned on for the past 3 hours. Just walked over to the PC and it was in sleep mode. I moved the mouse and everything has returned to normal 🙃 thanks for all the suggestions! It's decided to fix itself.
bradthetechnut
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August 26th, 2025 02:53
Glad it's working again. :)
Tesla1856
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August 26th, 2025 20:38
@Drews240sx ,
Nice.
Cheaper and easier than a motherboard replacement.
Get the UPS-Battery when you get a chance.