help - its blown again!!

grantsmith82

grantsmith82

grantsmith82

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hi all
back in jan my custom built pc stopped working. the psu was fine and it turned out that both my asrock fatal1ty p67 pro m/b and also the CPU were both blown!!

I bit the bullet and replaced the cpu and m/b. I got the exact samw mb as I didn't want to rebuild windows.

how tonight I wanted to test some ram with memtest. so powered off the machine pulled out my ram and put the single chip of ram in I wanted to test.. but then the machine would not power on at all..

I have tested the psu (by bridge the pins) and its fine everything powers on. but as soon as I connect the 20+4 pin connector back on the mb dead!!!
it cost me nearly £400 to fix last night (4 months ago!)

question is I get the asrock fatality pro z77 mb would windows see this as different hardware and ask me to rebuild windows?

anything else I can try for testing other than ripping all the watercooling out and taking the mb out of the case and putting in a new mb?
 
From what I have read online, you will be fine swapping the motherboard, but a reactivation will be needed. You should be able to do this over the phone with the reactivation option in Windows.
 
pastymuncher said:
You need to find out why this is happening first. Motherboards and cpu's don't just blow. What make and model is that psu?
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Jumping the PSU is not testing it. Its just turning it on and off and having no load on a PSU is also a bad thing! I would get that PSU tested properly (by using a PSU tester) or buying a new, quality PSU to see if its the culprit.
 
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