Computer died after moving house - now problems with NZXT

MrRockliffe

MrRockliffe

MrRockliffe

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I've just moved house (10 min walk away), unpacked my PC, plugged it in and nothing. Power button doesn't do anything.

What's strange however, is that the RGB lights are working on the motherboard.

I've tried shorting the pins, clearing CMOS, removing GPU, RAM, re building etc and changed plug sockets, different cables.

I personally moved the computer to and from the house (in a car obviously). It wasn't knocked or anything.

Any ideas?
 
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Try building the pc outside of the case with the bare minimum of parts single stick of ram.

Psu do the paper clip test to see if it works and add a fan or hard drive to see if it outputs .

 
MrRockliffe said:
It was a H100i, but it was faulty so I had to remove it anyway (one of the fans died). Didn't make a difference :/
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I thought it was a bit odd till I read this. What do you mean by "faulty" if one of the fans died the H100i is not faulty itself just needs a new fan.
It sounds like you have a big chunk of info missing - what cooler are you using now ? When did you fit it ? After/before the move ? Could be fitting the new cooler is the problem ? etc etc.

If you read the thread from beginning to end #3 suggest you are using the PC without a cooler! Get my drift ?

A bit like calling the AA and saying your car isnt working, you only drove it half a mile now it doesnt work.
The AA start working on it then later you add oh by the way I removed the spark plugs as they didnt work.

:)
 
varkanoid said:
I thought it was a bit odd till I read this. What do you mean by "faulty" if one of the fans died the H100i is not faulty itself just needs a new fan.
It sounds like you have a big chunk of info missing - what cooler are you using now ? When did you fit it ? After/before the move ? Could be fitting the new cooler is the problem ? etc etc.

If you read the thread from beginning to end #3 suggest you are using the PC without a cooler! Get my drift ?

A bit like calling the AA and saying your car isnt working, you only drove it half a mile now it doesnt work.
The AA start working on it then later you add oh by the way I removed the spark plugs as they didnt work.

:)
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The retailer I got the cooler from listed the whole thing as faulty and let me return it rather than replace one fan. I tested the fan everywhere else (other fan headers)

When I noticed the computer was dead, the H100i was still attached. I only removed it afterwards as I'm a university student and was moving back home - I had to take it back to the store on Sunday. There is now no cooler attached, but all testing was done with the cooler in place and another functioning fan in place of one of the stock corsair fans. It was used like this before I moved. Nothing changed from turning off the computer, moving and then attempting to turn on the computer again.
 
snips86x said:
CPU cooler mount screws too tight? Something could be shorting on the case.
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I gave that a shot too. Strangely enough I remembered this morning having a similar issue before I moved (not long after building the computer in fact) - couldn't get the computer to turn on with the power button, but shorting the pins worked. It didn't this time though.

I've checked and checked again to make sure all cables are in the correct place. All screws were removed and put back in until just tight enough.
 
MrRockliffe said:
The PSU is less than 3 years old - around 2 I think.
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MrRockliffe said:
I gave that a shot too. Strangely enough I remembered this morning having a similar issue before I moved (not long after building the computer in fact) - couldn't get the computer to turn on with the power button, but shorting the pins worked.
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Actually that could be very sense making...
Boot problems (not starting at first try etc) are one of the possible symptoms of PSU going bad.

And that cheap ass built Cors'ass doesn't have single high quality capacitor in it.
Just "in good day" second tier Teapos and even worser.
So if that PC has seen lots of use (running whole days and possibly over night) those might have well gotten cooked up especially if PSU is skimping on in turning that fan to keep them cool.
 
MrRockliffe said:
I gave that a shot too. Strangely enough I remembered this morning having a similar issue before I moved (not long after building the computer in fact) - couldn't get the computer to turn on with the power button, but shorting the pins worked. It didn't this time though.

I've checked and checked again to make sure all cables are in the correct place. All screws were removed and put back in until just tight enough.
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Long shot but remove the motherboard from the stand mounts and try booting on a cardboard surface using iGPU. If it boots you've got an issue with a short somewhere. Just put it all back in making sure the rear I/O plate is in place along with the standmount and screws not being too tight.
 
snips86x said:
Long shot but remove the motherboard from the stand mounts and try booting on a cardboard surface using iGPU. If it boots you've got an issue with a short somewhere. Just put it all back in making sure the rear I/O plate is in place along with the standmount and screws not being too tight.
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I have tried that but had no luck :/
 
EsaT said:
Actually that could be very sense making...
Boot problems (not starting at first try etc) are one of the possible symptoms of PSU going bad.

And that cheap ass built Cors'ass doesn't have single high quality capacitor in it.
Just "in good day" second tier Teapos and even worser.
So if that PC has seen lots of use (running whole days and possibly over night) those might have well gotten cooked up especially if PSU is skimping on in turning that fan to keep them cool.
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The PSU is really the only thing that's old in the computer (and the HDD - but that's off most of the time since it's a secondary drive; I keep everything on SSDs).

It should be in warranty so I'll send it to corsair. I just hope the warranty doesn't expire before I get a chance to send it back as I'm now away for over a month
 
I've just checked, and assuming a 3 year warranty (which I think it is with this PSU) it seems as though it's out of warranty. Purchased in 2013.

Of course I'll test it first, but which PSU would people recommend to replace it?
 
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