Reset the BIOS basically. That's another common reason and easy fix for a non booter - dunno why I forgot to mention it. May or may not fix your problem - if not we're into damaged hardware territory having eliminated everything else, I fear. Best consult your mobo manual. There should be a jumper probably with 'Clr CMOS' or something printed by it. It will probably be 3 pins with a jumper over two of them. You would just move the jumper over for 10 seconds then move it back. But check in the mobo manual to confirm. Removing the battery and reinserting it pretty much does the same thing. Hopefully will work - give it a go. You'll lose your overclock settings and have to redo them (or just reload them if you saved a profile).
Got my NZXT phantom and now no boot
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Do it by removing the battery and power from the board, and then pressing the power button a few times/leaving it for 30 minutes. In the past pressing the clear cmos button, doing a jumper etc hasnt fixed it but just taking it out from all power has.
Can you confirm you have reseated your cpu/heatsink as before I've had a PC not boot because of that.
Can you confirm you have reseated your cpu/heatsink as before I've had a PC not boot because of that.
when I say not booting I mean anything from nothing happens at all up to it BSOD's during boot, unless specified otherwise.
CMOS could well help, if not, try re-seating everything including all power connections. If none of that helps chances are youve broken something somehow. Did you do as suggested and boot without a HDD, RAM or (most) fans, no DVD drive etc. (take out power from drives as well incase its your PSU).
CMOS could well help, if not, try re-seating everything including all power connections. If none of that helps chances are youve broken something somehow. Did you do as suggested and boot without a HDD, RAM or (most) fans, no DVD drive etc. (take out power from drives as well incase its your PSU).
i took it out of my old case as a whole build then plopped it in
I know, but its easy as hell for push pins to come unclipped, or something to shift itself a little and need reseating. Moving my pc from one house to another made me have to reseat stuff.
Worst I've had before was I pushed a pc along the floor from one room to the next (was heavy and i cba to lift it, and it was only like 3m) and the GPU broke and started artifacting to hell :/
yep tried everyone lol it must be the case or parts
even with no ram it would at least stay on
He hasnt yet, ive told him to re seat everything and to try booting with basically nothing plugged in
even with no ram it would at least stay on
He hasnt yet, ive told him to re seat everything and to try booting with basically nothing plugged in
nothing except one stick of ram is in do you want me to take everything apart?
may as well, there isnt much else you can try to be honest. Take it out the case and build it on the motherboard box/bag and then give it a go. This way you can eliminate any possible shorting form components to the case etc. You dont have another PSU you could test with do you? If you do, its worth testing this before/at the same time since its already out the case etc.
Had a PSU kill itself by unplugging it from the mobo and plugging it back in...stupid cable management lol.
Had a PSU kill itself by unplugging it from the mobo and plugging it back in...stupid cable management lol.
thats why i dont wann do it so soon i jsut spent about half an hour building and hours on cable management