gigabyte gaming k7 370 not working

vintage-x · 16 Sep 2017 at 19:23

Hi,

I took apart my pc to do a bit of cleaning up last night.

Came to switch it on this morning and it was completely dead. Not switching on even though the power LED is on the motherboard.

PSU works fine.

I took out the CEMOS battery and unplugged the motherboard for around an hour. Plugged everything back in with the board outside the case and it was starting.

Put it back in the case and nothing

Motherboard now starts without a CPU however reading around I'm not sure weather its a CPU problem or a Motherboard issue.

I have taken out the CEMOS battery for now

mickyflinn · 16 Sep 2017 at 20:00

If you took everything out of the case and it worked then it sugest to me that something is shorting on the case. What cooler do you have and is it overtightened ?

vintage-x · 16 Sep 2017 at 20:03

mickyflinn said:
If you took everything out of the case and it worked then it sugest to me that something is shorting on the case. What cooler do you have and is it overtightened ?

I have an alphacool eisbear.

I have tried it without the cooler on but still the same thing

vintage-x · 19 Sep 2017 at 11:16

just an update on this.

I replaced the CPU and its now working.

I think I may know what I did wrong. I plugged a temp sensor into the clear CEMOS pins instead of the temp sensor pins. Must have sorted the CPU or something while I was power cycling quickly as one of my fans got stuck

vintage-x · 19 Sep 2017 at 11:16

double post

Danny75 · 19 Sep 2017 at 13:09

Aware of this issue? https://www.techpowerup.com/236659/...herboard-bios-broken-dynamic-vcore-up-to-1-7v

vintage-x · 19 Sep 2017 at 22:48

Danny75 said:
Aware of this issue? https://www.techpowerup.com/236659/...herboard-bios-broken-dynamic-vcore-up-to-1-7v

Highest bios I ever flashed to was f4 not f5

Hoaca388 · 19 Oct 2017 at 05:42

vintage-x said:
Hi,

I took apart my pc to do a bit of cleaning up last night.

Came to switch it on this morning and it was completely dead. Not switching on even though the power LED is on the motherboard.

PSU works fine.

I took out the CEMOS battery and unplugged the motherboard for around an hour. Plugged everything back in with the board outside the case and it was starting.

Put it back in the case and nothing

Motherboard now starts without a CPU however reading around I'm not sure weather its a CPU problem or a Motherboard issue.

I have taken out the CEMOS battery for now

Look like no sign of the life on your motherboard ? No power, no led , nothing...etc. Nothing happened affer you push the power button.
You should try to start your system without CMOS battery.
I had same issue like you with my ax370 k7. And i tried to remove Cmos battery and starting my system without cmos batery. It was working well.

vintage-x · 19 Oct 2017 at 13:51

Hoaca388 said:
Look like no sign of the life on your motherboard ? No power, no led , nothing...etc. Nothing happened affer you push the power button.
You should try to start your system without CMOS battery.
I had same issue like you with my ax370 k7. And i tried to remove Cmos battery and starting my system without cmos batery. It was working well.

Ended up swapping both the motherboard and the CPU in the end. Was told it was a manufacturing defect due to something in the socket that was sticking out or something.