Problems with Am3+ M5a97 Pro boot.

[NathG79]

So my Brother had a incident with his PC the other night.

whilst gaming black screened and now problems.
Does not post.
No display.
No beep.
CPU led lit up.
No fan spinning on CPU aircooler.
GPU fan not spinning either.
3 case fans plugged into motherboard headers don’t spin.

I haven’t been able to get round there to try and diagnose but told him to to pull the battery and leave for a couple hours.

same problem.

it’s a fairly old build.

M5a97 pro AM3+ Motherboard.
AMD 960t CPU
MSI R9 380 4Gb GPU
16gb Corsair vengeance ddr3 ram.
Zalman 9700 CPU cooler.
Corsair TX850 PSU.

Without looking at it properly I’m thinking the board has gone bye bye as case fans and cpu/Gpu fan not spinning. but would appreciate some help on the matter.

Thanks.

 

[Jamin280672]

So my Brother had a incident with his PC the other night.

whilst gaming black screened and now problems.
Does not post.
No display.
No beep.
CPU led lit up.
No fan spinning on CPU aircooler.
GPU fan not spinning either.
3 case fans plugged into motherboard headers don’t spin.

I haven’t been able to get round there to try and diagnose but told him to to pull the battery and leave for a couple hours.

same problem.

it’s a fairly old build.

M5a97 pro AM3+ Motherboard.
AMD 960t CPU
MSI R9 380 4Gb GPU
16gb Corsair vengeance ddr3 ram.
Zalman 9700 CPU cooler.
Corsair TX850 PSU.

Without looking at it properly I’m thinking the board has gone bye bye as case fans and cpu/Gpu fan not spinning. but would appreciate some help on the matter.

Thanks.

First thing to test is the PSU, either with a spare, or the paperclip test.....if the PSU works fine then in that situation id put it down to the board, however, depending on the PSU, if its a quality one, verything else should be fine, however, if its a cheap and nasty PSU, when they die, they have the potential to take everything else out with them.

 

[NathG79]

First thing to test is the PSU, either with a spare, or the paperclip test.....if the PSU works fine then in that situation id put it down to the board, however, depending on the PSU, if its a quality one, verything else should be fine, however, if its a cheap and nasty PSU, when they die, they have the potential to take everything else out with them.

That was gonna be my 1st thing to try when I get round there, It’s a Corsair TX850 Watt Bronze certified, not sure how reliable they are.
I would say it’s probably 5 or 6 years old now.
Thanks.

 

[Jamin280672]

That was gonna be my 1st thing to try when I get round there, It’s a Corsair TX850 Watt Bronze certified, not sure how reliable they are.
I would say it’s probably 5 or 6 years old now.
Thanks.

https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Categ...nce-Power-Supply/p/CP-9020043-NA#tab-overview

Just out of warranty then, the site says it comes with a 5 year warranty, however, on the plus side, it does say that it comes with all of the over voltage, under voltage, over current protection etc at the bottom of that page, so if it is the PSU thats died, everything else should be fine.

 

[champion1642]

As suggested above always start with the PSU in terms of diagnostics, then move onto other possible parts.

PSU or the motherboard are usually the main problems when nothing powers up.