Call the waaaaaambulance my PC is broken

Lithium

Lithium

Lithium

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The other day my pc was turned on and someone moved the table it was on. When I got back it was on but had frozen, the screen was kinda scrambled and neither the power button nor reset worked. I had to turn the psu off.

Now it won't power on. I've stripped it and reseated everthing. Now just have the motherboard, CPU and memory installed but no joy. No power up at all, no fans nothing. The motherboard blue backlight does light though. Tried CMOS reset.

Assuming something is shagged, what should I by first? Don't have any spares to test unfortunately.

Spec:

Asus p5b deluxe
E6300@2ghz
2x ocz 6400 crossfire
Xfx 7900gt
Seasonic 500w
 
First thing is to check the PSU. Take the PSU out and jump start it on its own. If it powers up the next thing to do is check the motherboard ON ITS OWN with just the CPU, nothing else. It wont post but should still power on and emit some beep codes. If it dosn't post then you have narrowed it down to the mobo (most likely) or the CPU which has probably died due to a power spike.
 
Yep good idea on the PSU. Tested and it powers on and fans go.

I can't get the motherboard to power on so looks like CPU or motherboard. Could be either I guess. Im thinking CPU?
 
Just because the PSU powers up doesn't mean it's functioning correctly.

When you jump start the PSU, hook up some case fans and a CD drive to see if they get power, then look at the mobo next.

I'd find it very surprising for it to the CPU, if not PSU i'd say mobo...
 
Managed to test my CPU at work and it booted up just fine in a Dell.

So my motherboard seems to be the culprit here. Seems a bit odd. Do you think it's totally dead and buried? I tried taking the battery out and letting it sit for a day but it's still not turning on though the blue light is still working lol :)
 
Not much components left than motherboard...
If fans or anything won't even try to start when you press power button that would mostly mean two things, motherboard doesn't tell PSU to start up or there's some serious short circuit somewhere.


Lithium said:
Do you think it's totally dead and buried?
...though the blue light is still working
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Of course not totally FUBAR... 5Vsb indicator LED still works. :p

If table was moved shoddily bumbs might have caused also HDD damage so running full surface scans would be first thing to do after getting PC up.
 
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