- May 23, 2013
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I recently got a new Z87-G43 board with an i5-4430 with 16gb DDR3 to swap out my older motherboard with. I seated the CPU into the board and then stuck the heat sink on, making a mistake of connecting the CPU fan to the Sysfan1. I was short 3 screws installing the board into my 2004 Antec ATX Sonata (case http://techreport.com/review/6247/antec-sonata-atx-case ) and proceeded to plugging the front panel into the board. I encountered an issue with the power LED connection since the case had a 3 long connector while the board had two pins. Since the middle connection had no wire a friend of mine told me it was fine to cut the middle connection to be able to sit the two outer connections next to each other.
Connection with wire= 1
Connection without= 0
Originally looked like; 1 0 1
After cutting middle out; 1 1
I was able to make every pin and connection work and proceeded to putting the PSU cable on the board. What I made the mistake of doing was sticking a connection to a CPU fan. ( Call me stupid all you want ) after connecting everything else correctly I tried to boot up. Nothing happened. I noticed the mistake, fixed it, and the board still doesn't start. My question is, is the board fried? Or am did I make another mistake somewhere? There are no lights I can see on the board and my PSU most likely doesn't have a indicator to show its powered (at least to my knowledge). I have been worried I fried my board and if so, will MSI replace it? Any words of advice, fixes, further questions, or explanations would be greatly appreciated!!
Connection with wire= 1
Connection without= 0
Originally looked like; 1 0 1
After cutting middle out; 1 1
I was able to make every pin and connection work and proceeded to putting the PSU cable on the board. What I made the mistake of doing was sticking a connection to a CPU fan. ( Call me stupid all you want ) after connecting everything else correctly I tried to boot up. Nothing happened. I noticed the mistake, fixed it, and the board still doesn't start. My question is, is the board fried? Or am did I make another mistake somewhere? There are no lights I can see on the board and my PSU most likely doesn't have a indicator to show its powered (at least to my knowledge). I have been worried I fried my board and if so, will MSI replace it? Any words of advice, fixes, further questions, or explanations would be greatly appreciated!!
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