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Adramlech

Adramlech

Adramlech

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Lo' there.

Recently ran into some issues with what I originally thought was my power supply, unfortunately that was not the case so I bought the same motherboard as I had before and lo and behold my computer still wont start up.

My motherboards LED will light up when it's turned on but the extent of my computer working is the fan on the power supply and processor spin for a mille second and then nothing. I've been testing with every other part removed and I'm left with the last option that it's my processor thats broken.

Any thoughts?

Heres my rig.

Asus M4A79XTD Evo (Socket AM3) DDR3 Motherboard
AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition 3.40GHz (Socket AM3) -
Corsair XMS3 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-10666C9 1333MHz Triple Channel
Sparkle GeForce GTX 275 OC 896MB GDDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Card

With all that said I've been using this since september with zero trouble.
 
Welcome to the forums :)

Not sure if you have tried this, try running external to the case, just to rule out any shorting, you never know.
I assume you have tried each ram module individually.
 
set the board fully up in the cardboard box the motherboard came in, just run the psu cables from the case to it, that will eliminate grounding issues
 
Just to expand slightly on that explination. If you remove the mobo from the case, and place it on a non conductive surface like cardboard box it came in, then connect the PSU, RAM, CPU and GFX, use a screw driver or paper clip to short out the power button pins for about a second and see if it all comes to life.

It is consistant with CPU failure though.

Can you just confirm it was a working rig but now has developed this fault or was it a new build?

EDIT, also you say you thought the problems were the PSU but that's not the case, did you replace the PSU. Unbranded PSUs are never a good idea!
 
Are u oc'ed or running from stock?

If you are oc then try resetting the cmos on the board, incase it some bios config that preventing the mobo from working properly?
 
I did try a new PSU and Mobo and niether worked, both were store bought too and main names.

I tried running it out of the case and it's a no go.

J.B it was a working rig; me and my ex-step-father built it together, It had turned itself off while I was at work. I normally keep my computer on 24/7 as I have a lot of downloads/uploads typically. I never had it overclocked at the time either. Not for several months infact.

Why would a AMD Phenom II X4 Quad Core 965 Black Edition just stop like that after half a year though.
 
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