Friday night head scratcher help :(

jamesfreddie · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:05

pgi947 said:
Really? I've never had a dead motherboard and/or CPU before so I have absolutely no idea.

Any specific way of testing?

Not really, without another CPU.

Have you tried jumping the PSU?

pgi947 · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:09

Yeah I've jumped the PSU, everything connected powers up just fine. Tried with no GPU, 1 stick of memory (alternating between different sticks), any combo I try atm including removing the CPU results in, well, nothingness

Going to setup a better test bench tomorrow and see what happens.

scottmuir424 · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:10

no one near you with a 2011 board to test cpu for you

pgi947 · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:13

Not that I know of, might pop into one of the local independent stores on monday (provided I don't make any headroom tonight/tomorrow) and see if they would mind giving the motherboard/cpu a quick test without charging me an arm and a leg.

scottmuir424 · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:16

if you were closer would have helped you out bud

pgi947 · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:18

scottmuir424 said:
if you were closer would have helped you out bud

Cheers

Right im going to rip it back out and have one last dry run before I get some sleep.

scottmuir424 · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:19

unless your wanting to post the cpu down and i can test it and post back to you

scottmuir424 · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:20

is the cpu located the correct way on the mb which way is writing on the chip

doyll · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:27

Might be a good idea to have CPU tested before you return it to seller.

pgi947 · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:44

scottmuir424 said:
is the cpu located the correct way on the mb which way is writing on the chip

Writing is upside down as you look at the chip installed in the board, so the little arrow thing points to the top right corner as indicated on the socket clamp.

doyll said:
Might be a good idea to have CPU tested before you return it to seller.

Yep, Scott I may well take you up on that offer if I don't make any headroom by tomorrow!

pgi947 · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:45

scottmuir424 said:
unless your wanting to post the cpu down and i can test it and post back to you

That may well be a very very good option, I'll see how I get on tomorrow and let you know.

Have just tried with everything completely removed from the case and still get the same thing...nothing.

scottmuir424 · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:48

options there bud if you need it help you rule out the cpu runnin a 3930k system here so would be a straight forward swap in swap out

pgi947 · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:52

Good to know, I'll be in touch with you either way tomorrow! This is why these forums are awesome

I've been going at this now for 9 hours straight, I'm tired, pretty hungry and stink of TIM so I'm going to leave doing anything else until I've had some sleep and cleared my head, make sure I don't do something daft out of tiredness.

wazza300 · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:54

have you done a full cmos clear? leave mb battery out overnight and then try

linwelin · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:56

damm that sucks, hope you get your money back.

pgi947 · 14 Jul 2012 at 23:58

wazza300 said:
have you done a full cmos clear? leave mb battery out overnight and then try

Not yet! I have had the cmos battery out for a few mins at a time but I'll go take it out just now to make sure, the manual clear for the cmos is via a jumper of which I don't have

Edit: Motherboard manual says just to touch the pins with a screwdriver!

pgi947 · 15 Jul 2012 at 00:02

linwelin said:
damm that sucks, hope you get your money back.

Me too buddy, me too, I should be ok either way, if its the chip I have Paypal on my side should things get nasty and if its the motherboard thats died then I got it from a member of OcUK staff on the MM

wazza300 · 15 Jul 2012 at 00:09

pgi947 said:
Not yet! I have had the cmos battery out for a few mins at a time but I'll go take it out just now to make sure, the manual clear for the cmos is via a jumper of which I don't have

Edit: Motherboard manual says just to touch the pins with a screwdriver!

leave it out overnight,a quick cmos clear by shorting pins ect doesnt always cure things,esp on gigabyte boards,you have nothing to lose tonight anyway just pop battery out overnight,i dont think youve screwed your chip

pgi947 · 15 Jul 2012 at 00:18

Its out, probably won't get back to it for another 12-15 hours so should be nice an clear by then

I don't know what the problem is at all, I've never had a dead motherboard or dead cpu in the 15 years i've been fiddling with computers so I've not a clue on the symptoms.

The only fault I've ever had similar is from a dead PSU, but in this case the PSU fires up fine once i've jumped it.

wazza300 · 15 Jul 2012 at 00:27

any debug code on the boards led clock? tried switching the back panel bios switch to use the main or back up bios chip?