New Build Trouble

[Mephistopheles Janx]

So once you removed the video card and the wifi card did you attempt to fire it back up? If so, did it just stall out again? If so, have you attempted to just the cmos pin to reset it and see if it would then fire up?

If not... reset the jumpers and try to fire it up and let us know if it posts.

Could the video card or the wifi card not been properly seated causing a short and frying the motherboard? Take a look at the connectors on both cards, and shine a flashlight onto the mobo where the slots are, and see if you see any scorch marks.

Re-seat both power cords that go into the motherboard as well.

[allen_kcCard]

Originally Posted by MephistophelesJanx

So once you removed the video card and the wifi card did you attempt to fire it back up? If so, did it just stall out again? If so, have you attempted to just the cmos pin to reset it and see if it would then fire up?

If not... reset the jumpers and try to fire it up and let us know if it posts.

Could the video card or the wifi card not been properly seated causing a short and frying the motherboard? Take a look at the connectors on both cards, and shine a flashlight onto the mobo where the slots are, and see if you see any scorch marks.

Re-seat both power cords that go into the motherboard as well.

Correct, removing the video card and wifi card and trying again resulted in nothing firing up still. Tried shorting the CLTRC this morning per the mobo documentation and also removed the on-board battery for a time and non of those helped get it to fire up.

I think the cards were seated well. The PCI-e slot has a clip that was engaged and the card wouldn't come back out without depressing it, and the wifi card seemed secure when I took it out, but my son had put it in so I can't say how it felt when installing it. Looking at the slots I can't see any sign of scorching, same for the cards themselves on the slot pins.

All the power cords have been re-seated, both on the connection to the board, and in the connection to the PSU, but nothing has helped so far.

The motherboard lists having a RGB indicator light on it that will light up based on power on failures with a color based on what errored, and nothing on that has lit up at all so far.

[Mephistopheles Janx]

Originally Posted by allen_kcCard

Correct, removing the video card and wifi card and trying again resulted in nothing firing up still. Tried shorting the CLTRC this morning per the mobo documentation and also removed the on-board battery for a time and non of those helped get it to fire up.

I think the cards were seated well. The PCI-e slot has a clip that was engaged and the card wouldn't come back out without depressing it, and the wifi card seemed secure when I took it out, but my son had put it in so I can't say how it felt when installing it. Looking at the slots I can't see any sign of scorching, same for the cards themselves on the slot pins.

All the power cords have been re-seated, both on the connection to the board, and in the connection to the PSU, but nothing has helped so far.

The motherboard lists having a RGB indicator light on it that will light up based on power on failures with a color based on what errored, and nothing on that has lit up at all so far.

**** me.

Ok, I can think of one last thing. There is a series of wires that lead to the motherboard that control features to the case... among them is the power, reset, and other lighting.

Remove them all. Take a metal object and short the two pins that control the power switch. It is a long shot but perhaps those cables were put back in the wrong order or the switch on the case broke.

This is a long shot but the only reason I bring it up is because when I was putting the wife's rig back together after taking it apart to clean it up about two years ago... I was pulling my hair out because the damn thing wouldn't fire back up. Turns out that the power switch, or the soldering, broke.



The pin itself will be labeled. Here is the one on the wife's rig (labeled pwrbtn)... which I apparently need to clean up again.