Is My Motherboard Dead?

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My PC took ages to wake from sleep this morning and when it finally did it restarted. Event Viewer just showed a kernal error. It seemed ok but after about 5 mins it rebooted and wouldn't come back on.

I have a Taichi X370 with a Ryzen 3600, 1080Ti and 16GB 8 Pack 3200 RAM. I decided it was time for it's spring clean so I spent the afternoon taking it apart and cleaned it all up. In the process I checked the PSU with the tool that comes with it and the fan was working so I think that's ok.

After putting it all back together it now won't boot at all, no fans spin up, no beeps - nothing. I've tried CMOS reset, using 1 stick of RAM, used another GPU but still nothing. There is power to the board as the blue LEDs that are behind the SATA sockets slowly flash but stiil it won't switch on.

I've got another (Should have said PSU!!) not CPU I can try just to be sure but I think my board might be dead. Hoping it isn't as I wanted to try and keep this board for as long as possible.
 
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bagleyboy said:
Nothing causing any shorts on the board? Stand off missing anywhere?
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It's not been touched (upgraded) for ages so wouldn't have thought so but I'll have a check tomorrow. Tried 2 PSU's and 2 GPU's, time to treat myself to a new board I think. I fancy the MSI Carbon Max but don't think it's out yet.
 
3 year warranty on that board. so worth the rma via asrock directly. message them and see what can be done as I had good service from them when my board caught fire due to faulty aio.
 
I left the CMOS battery out and changed the jumper before going to bed last night. Got up this morning and put everything back, switched on and the bugger worked! No idea what caused it not to boot yesterday but so far so good. Think I'll be looking for a new board though just in case :)
 
ezekial said:
That's a luck! Scary not knowing what went wrong though :D
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It is but it's still not right though. Won't wake from sleep properly now, takes about 5 mins of powering on/off to finally boot. Might have to re-install W10, it's due and gets rid of all the crap I've installed over the months.
 
Just set the power options to never go to sleep. I thought my new set up was borked as it seemed dead and would not come out of the sleep option which windows defaults to.
Once turned off all is well.
 
timmy222 said:
Just set the power options to never go to sleep. I thought my new set up was borked as it seemed dead and would not come out of the sleep option which windows defaults to.
Once turned off all is well.
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Don't think it's the sleep options, been using this setup for a long time and never had this problem with waking from sleep. It turns off and then won't start at all. I've ordered a new board so I'll pop that in and see if that cures the problem.
 
I bought a Tomahawk Max and installed it this afternoon. I couldn't see anything wrong with the X370 Taichi either.

The PC booted first time with the new board and also woke from sleep so I thought I'd sussed it. I then started to do a clean install from USB when I heard a loud pop from the PC and the power went off. I unplugged it and could smell burning, checked and it's from the PSU. Makes me think that perhaps it was the PSU all along that was dying and not the board. However, I did try it with a 650W PSU and it wouldn't boot either so a bit confused as to what's the problem. Think I'll strip it down completely tomorrow and build from scratch with a new PSU so time to start looking for one.

The EVGA one that's blown is only a couple of years old so I think it's still under warranty.
 
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