//.DK

alright to start off, I need help fast, because I'm freaking out here. I haven't slept in 36 hours so please try to bare with me.


As described my rig won't post now since all I wanted to do was just add 2 Slipstreams for better air-flow and reseat my block, but now it won't even post anymore.

So here are the things I've done so far:

-removed and put back in the CMOS battery.
-removed all the junk such as my extra fans that I wanted to put in.
-checked that I didn't have any SD cards in the card reader like an idiot.

some questions I'm thinking is whether or not my Corsair TX750W can handle all this stuff here in my case. Worse case scenario is my bloodrage fried, and have to RMA/replace it since I'm not sure if it's still under warranty.

also could having too much pressure on a board kill it? Because I do have my HK 3.0 pretty tight on my board with the backplate.

my rig is of course listed right below this post.

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woodpigeon4

I'm pretty sure the PSU can handle it. Have you tried with only one stick of RAM? If it still doesn't work, take all the parts out of the case and try booting with the bare minimum.

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//.DK

I've tried running everything bare just monitor, keyboard, mouse, board, singled out each ram, video card is fine, and my harddrive is fine. I even made sure that I don't have any of my external HDD's connected beside my primary and nothing is in the CD drive.

OK for some reason, now after pushing the "Force restart" button several times, It boots up, but now it'll post until I restart again which will force me to go back to stock everything.

also I noticed that when it doesn't even post that the little debuger thing that usually lights up red with various codes doesn't even come on and I've let it sit for 5 minutes and still it does nothing. I've checked my temps to makes sure everything was fine which it also was.

I'm really hoping it's not my mobo failing

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Dannythm

Try to disconnect all and boot up with just the CPU 1 stick of ram and the graphics card. I had similar problems some time ago and I had busted ram that made my mobo go wrong.

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//.DK

just tried that with every stick, in every slot. Still no luck

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Dannythm

Then the next step I'd try is trying with a different GPU if you have one at hand.

Does the fans and stuff work when you try to boot it or it's jus nothing appear in the screen?

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//.DK

GPU is fine since it was running when I got lucky with the "Force restart" button a couple times when it actually did boot up on stock settings. And Also all the fans are running, my pump is running, and I can feel the fan on my PSU running also.

Edit, I also gave my 4870x2 a try, and it didn't even work either, but it did have like 3/5 little red LED's lit so I have no clue what that means since I primarly use my 9800GTX

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//.DK

alright I'm sorry for the double post but just as an update, my fans on my rad aren't even coming on anymore. Could this seriously be the first time I've see an actual Cosair PSU die?!

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Inktfish

When my 4870 gave me red lights I forgot to plug in a power cable to either the mobo or the graph card.
You haven't slept for a long time, its easy to overlook things at this moment.
I suggest sleeping a bit for now

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Dannythm

Yeah it souds like a PSU or mobo failure to me, but get some sleep then come back and see how you see things.

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