PC lights on but nobody home

From:	milko	25 Jul 2015 20:48
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Absolutely nothing happening. I've got the motherboard out of the case, no ram no graphics, literally just the CPU and cooler (corsair h80i so it's using a few plugs to supposedly power that). The motherboard lights come on as so as I turn on the PSU, but I can't get it to go any further. Is it possible for the CPU to cause this, or am I pretty much able to blame the motherboard at this point?

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From:	koswix	25 Jul 2015 20:57
To:	milko	47 of 60

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Any dodgy looking capacitors on the motherboard? I'd suspect motherboard over cpu tbh.


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From:	milko	25 Jul 2015 21:52
To:	koswix	48 of 60

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I can't see anything, but much of it is covered by this armour stuff which I have liked for durability but maybe not so much now.

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From:	CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)	25 Jul 2015 22:28
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Heat-spreading armour stuff or hardened against nuclear blast armour stuff? ---- "Giant pig hot air balloon crashes after tangling with a cowboy-shaped one"

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From:	99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)	26 Jul 2015 06:57
To:	milko	50 of 60

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And, perhaps more importantly, would the armour be sufficient in the event of a shark attack? I read that Sharknado 4 is in the offing. bastard by name bastard by nature

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From:	Drew (X3N0PH0N)	26 Jul 2015 12:57
To:	milko	51 of 60

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Quote: the motherboard's current version costs £275 fucking pounds, there is no way that's getting matched. I wonder what level of downgrade I can get without missing something noticeable. Motherboards that cost that much are just laden with 'features' that literally no one will ever make use of. And, I suspect, just create more potential points of failure. If you can't get it sorted under warranty (via your friend) then just get a decent normal-person motherboard and it'll be fine. I got this one when I built a new PC in January and it's serving me well. Even when I accidentally ripped one of the PCI slots off the motherboard because I didn't notice they had clips. , , , , , , , , , , `' (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) \ \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) ''`>-,--”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---- ,'.*''`

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From:	milko	26 Jul 2015 13:13
To:	Drew (X3N0PH0N)	52 of 60

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Agreed. I was looking at that one as a replacement! Or a Gigabyte of approximate equivalence seeing as it's ASUS that just messed up on me.

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From:	Drew (X3N0PH0N)	26 Jul 2015 13:37
To:	milko	53 of 60

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Anything at about that level should be fine. Expensive enough not to have cut-corners but cheap enough not to be loaded down with nonsense. , , , , , , , , , , `' (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) (o,o) \ \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) \|)__) ''`>-,--”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---”-”---- ,'.*''`

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From:	ANT_THOMAS	26 Jul 2015 14:26
To:	Drew (X3N0PH0N) milko	54 of 60

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I've got a Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 in my server that came as part of a bundle from Scan. Looks like it's a more basic version of all the Z97 based boards. A

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From:	william (WILLIAMA)	10 Aug 2015 17:12
To:	milko	55 of 60

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So, is it fixed yet? never trust a man in a blue trench coat, never drive a car when you're dead

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From:	milko	10 Aug 2015 18:53
To:	william (WILLIAMA)	56 of 60

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Oh, I forgot to update the thread. Yeah, it was the motherboard. Swapping that utterly jiggered Windows but it so happened to be the Windows 10 release day so I had an excuse to do a clean install (of 8 so I could upgrade to 10) anyway.

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From:	99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)	10 Aug 2015 19:41
To:	milko	57 of 60

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Glad I was able to help! bastard by name bastard by nature

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From:	milko	11 Aug 2015 09:39
To:	99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)	58 of 60

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The shouting and screaming was particularly effective.

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From:	99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)	12 Aug 2015 04:38
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Thought as much, it's always worked for me bastard by name bastard by nature

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From:	Serg (NUKKLEAR)	24 Aug 2015 05:27
To:	milko	60 of 60

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Sounds like Fozza (well, maybe not quite..) Are you sure you didn't over-volt the AGP slot? [...Insert Brain Here...]

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