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Think i am having motherboard issues

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September 18, 2013 8:06:48 PM

Me and my brother have been trying to build a pc for about a month now and clearly if its taking this long we are doing something wrong. We have gone through

4 motherboards

3 Powersupplys

2 Graphics Cards

So the first mother board we had got static shocked while we built it(we built on carpet, i know that was stupid). We got a replacement motherboard got it in and hooked everything up, hit the power button. Nothing powered on. Took the computer to our friends who tested the power supply to tell us it was dead. Sent the power supply back and got a replacement. still nothing turns on. So we sent out the motherboard assuming thats where the issue lied. Got our 3rd motherboard put it in, hooked everything up and still nothing turned on. We took the it to GeekSquad who despite the reviews were kind of helpful. They unhooked all the wires and put them in the 100% correct way and nothing turned on. It was another dead powersupply. They brought out a working powersupply hooked it up and everything worked for a brief moment before the graphics card burnt out. The graphics card burnt into the motherboard rendering that motherboard useless too. So now i have a working graphics card and working powersupply that they showed worked. I have my fourth replacement motherboard and everything im assuming to be plugged in right, but still nothing turns on. I need suggestions on what to do or what im doing wrong or what parts need to be changed or fixed. My build currently consists of:

ASRock 960GM/U3S3 motherboard

TR2 600W Thermaltake powersupply

Radeon R7850 Graphics Card

Corsair 8gb Vengenace series Ram

AMD Processor

Sentey Eagle GS-6020 Case

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a b ) Power supply
a c 96 U Graphics card
a c 162 V Motherboard
September 18, 2013 8:18:36 PM

did you check if your cpu is on the support list of the motherboard if it needing to much power that the cpu socket could give he wiil ask more from the psu and blow evrything out .the other thing do you have a surge protector between the system and the outlet ?
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a b ) Power supply
a c 209 U Graphics card
a c 491 V Motherboard
September 18, 2013 8:44:24 PM

First off try posting parts outside the case to rule out dead short. Make sure the four or eight pin CPU power plug near the CPU is connected and all of the gpu power plugs. On the replacement mb make sure there sending you mb with newest bios on them if the bios file to old the system won't post.
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September 19, 2013 4:45:16 AM

scout_03 said:
did you check if your cpu is on the support list of the motherboard if it needing to much power that the cpu socket could give he wiil ask more from the psu and blow evrything out .the other thing do you have a surge protector between the system and the outlet ?

When i wa picking out parts i had my friend help me build it on pcpartpicker.com the website said all the parts were compatible and no i dont have a surge protector in place, should i?
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a b ) Power supply
a c 96 U Graphics card
a c 162 V Motherboard
September 20, 2013 7:12:24 PM

yes that help to protect from power surge from the outlet .
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