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R0B75

R0B75

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Ok, slightly over-dramatic thread title but hey ho :D

I moved house over the weekend and on Friday I had a working PC as I was listening to music on it whilst doing some final packing. I then boxed up the tower in its original box and it was moved along with all my other crap by a removal company.

Fast forward to Monday and setting up the PC in the new house. I switch everything on and get no video on the TV via HDMI through the av receiver, set up exactly as it was in the old house. Odd..

So, I proceed to try the following.

Several different HDMI cables in both on board and dedicated GPU. With and without the dedicated GPU installed.

Tried clearing CMOS and repeating the above process.
Tried on board VGA with a friends monitor
Tried DVI to HDMI cable from dedicated GPU.
Tried bypassing the AV receiver, straight to TV.

At this point I'm convinced it is not an actual video issue but another component, possibly the motherboard itself or CPU. Bear in mind I get no POST beeps as there is no speaker.

I then try disconnecting everything from the board except CPU and fans and VGA. Still nothing.

When I power on the PC it just stays powered on but does nothing, no beeps, no video, doesn't turn off.

I'm not convinced anything is shorting so have not taken the board out of the case....yet.

My thoughts are that the weight of the CPU cooler has maybe damaged the board and/or CPU in the move and this is the problem.

The board is an ASUS P8Z77-LX2 and the CPU is an i5 2500k.

Has anyone had any similar experiences and is there something I haven't tried that might save me having to buy a new PC or try and source a new CPU and board of the same type? :(:D
 
Some huge Coolermaster thingy, Hyper 212 I think. I realised yesterday that I should have removed it before transporting the PC, and it's advice I would've given to other people when I was seriously into building/upgrading PCs some years ago, so a potentially silly mistake.

I suppose now I either, try and find an equivalent motherboard and CPU to try or just buy a new PC.
 
Yeah, I drew the same conclusion. I've tried everything I know and nothing will make it work.

I have access to the MM but the prices of equivalent CPUs and motherboards on there mean it's probably best to buy new and upgrade, if only a slightly. I have therefore bought following bundle. https://www.overclockers.co.uk/reco...ore-value-skylake-gaming-bundl-bu-234-ok.html

I don't game on my PC but do use Zwift (cycling sim) so need the same or better performance as Zwift ran nicely on my current set up.

Everything I have currently should work with it and I know I (almost certainly) need to re-install Windows. Anyone see any potential issues I might have?
 
I suppose there could be a PSU issue here but given that the tower was packed in it's original box with polystyrene I dismissed it as it sounds less likely than CPU and or motherboard being damaged.
I suppose it's worth trying a new PSU. I did try each stick of ram in each slot individually. No luck there.
 
Tried another PSU today. Same problem unfortunately. Any other ideas? If not, come on OcUK hurry up and post my stuff! :D
 
Tried taking everything out of the case last night. Placed the motherboard on a piece of wood and hooked up the spare PSU. Only things connected to the board were CPU fan, Power Switch, VGA, RAM and of course the PSU.

Switch on and once again, nothing. I think I've now done everything I can short of trying parts of the same spec so whilst I cannot determine which part is at fault I'm going to classify it as FUBAR.

My new motherboard, CPU and RAM should arrive from OcUK today.
 
The movers were insured but only against obvious physical damage. My fault completely really, I should have moved it myself or taken the cooler off the board.
 
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