Pc died.

TheMeekon · 8 Mar 2013 at 11:33

Not sure where to put this but could do with some advice!

Rebooted my pc last night and it went to load windows. Got a blue screen with it only saying fatal exception at the top. Rebooted and then nothing, no display and no power to keyboard.

specs:

Intel Core i7-3770K auto overclock to 4.4ghz I think.
Asus Z77 Maximus V Gene Intel Z77
Geil Black dragon 2 x 4gb
128gb samsung ssd
650w corsair PSU

The motherboard has the LED screen with a code saying b7 which in the manual says 'configuration reset (NVRAM settings)

I've tried each stick of ram in every slot by itself, cleared cmos but still nothing. Unplugged all HD's and drives. I tried the RAM at work today and its fine. Will try a flash to latest bios with the ROG connect usb thing.

Dead motherboard? Could a cpu just die like this?

15 years building my own PCs and never had a dead part, good luck until now I guess.

Any help much appreciated, I got work to do!

wazza300 · 8 Mar 2013 at 11:35

did you leave the cmos battery out a good 30 minutes to be sure? if you cleared it with shorting the pins or onboard cmos button it doesn't always work

TheMeekon · 8 Mar 2013 at 11:37

This board has a button to press to clear the cmos. I'll remove the battery tonight and try that, was lazy last night as its bang under the fx card haha.

Cheers

TheMeekon · 8 Mar 2013 at 20:00

Tried the battery trick, flashed to latest bios using rog connect, reseated cpu

Still error b7.

Any other ideas or am I looking at an RMA?

Also I bought this off MM. Does asus rma go off serial or am I screwed?

TheMeekon · 9 Mar 2013 at 09:46

Anybody?

Is it most likely the motherboard with the testing I've done. Tempted to go get another board today, lots of freelance work to do

Nickolp1974 · 9 Mar 2013 at 09:55

Do you have another psu you can test with?
Do you have gfx card in your system?

TheMeekon · 9 Mar 2013 at 10:27

Nope no other PSU to test with unfortunately. Everything appears to be powering up fine but of course I cant test the rails.

I have an ati 6950. I get the same error code with that removed from the system.

I'm going to ask the local supplier if they can see if my cpu boots then I will buy the motherboard ift does.

TheMeekon · 9 Mar 2013 at 10:57

Its all out of the case. Only cpu, one stick of ram and still code b7.

TheMeekon · 9 Mar 2013 at 13:09

Bought new asrock z77 ex 4. Booted first time so was a dead asus motherboard. Does anyone know if you need original receipt for asus rma?