Really need some help with this problem(s) so hopefully someone will be able to suggest what to try next. I was playing world of warplanes and the pc locked up when I added a xbox 360 wired controller. No problems I though and reset the pc....
PC will not boot, beep but fans spin and led's light up on the motherboad. So removing components one at a time from the motherboard and still no beep.
Tried booting with and without graphics card and with 1 stick of ram and no ram - no beeps
Reseated CPU and heatsink - same behavior
Reset cmos and removed battery while powered down.
All voltages testing fine on the PSU with a multimeter.
Replaced the motherboard and cpu as I thought it must be one or the other with a brand new gigabyte 1150 board and i5.
Removed motherboard and components from the case - still nothing
Same thing.
I have tested the ram in another pc and that's working fine. I cannot test the GPU but when I remove this from the motherboard it makes no difference.
My only thoughts at this point are;
1, maybe I have received another faulty motherboard/cpu
2, there's something funky going on with the connections in the case.
Hardware
Original motherboard - Asus M5A97 pro AM3+
CPU - AMD fx 4100
8gb ram 2 x 4gb kinston hyper x 1600mhz
MSI Radeon HD 7850
PSU - OCZ 700w modular
New motherboard & CPU
Gigabyte Z87 HD3 1150
Cpu intel i5 4670k
Advice very welcome at this point, i'm no newbie with building pc's I have been at it for 20+ years. Have built a watercooled pc a few years ago as a project. The only time I have had something similar to this was a fluctuating 3.3v rail on a crappy thermaltake psu, but the pc would boot but crash.
PC will not boot, beep but fans spin and led's light up on the motherboad. So removing components one at a time from the motherboard and still no beep.
Tried booting with and without graphics card and with 1 stick of ram and no ram - no beeps
Reseated CPU and heatsink - same behavior
Reset cmos and removed battery while powered down.
All voltages testing fine on the PSU with a multimeter.
Replaced the motherboard and cpu as I thought it must be one or the other with a brand new gigabyte 1150 board and i5.
Removed motherboard and components from the case - still nothing
Same thing.
I have tested the ram in another pc and that's working fine. I cannot test the GPU but when I remove this from the motherboard it makes no difference.
My only thoughts at this point are;
1, maybe I have received another faulty motherboard/cpu
2, there's something funky going on with the connections in the case.
Hardware
Original motherboard - Asus M5A97 pro AM3+
CPU - AMD fx 4100
8gb ram 2 x 4gb kinston hyper x 1600mhz
MSI Radeon HD 7850
PSU - OCZ 700w modular
New motherboard & CPU
Gigabyte Z87 HD3 1150
Cpu intel i5 4670k
Advice very welcome at this point, i'm no newbie with building pc's I have been at it for 20+ years. Have built a watercooled pc a few years ago as a project. The only time I have had something similar to this was a fluctuating 3.3v rail on a crappy thermaltake psu, but the pc would boot but crash.
