Is my motherboard dead?

yonyz

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Hi,

I have OS X and Win 8 both installed on the same ssd. It's a Windows PC, by the way. Yesterday I ised GParted cd to remove the Mac partition and then Windows didn't boot. So I used the bootrec buildbcd command to fix it and it booted fine. Then, within Windows, I copied some files from a Mac partition in my 2tb hdd to an NTFS partition within the same hdd. It went fine. Then I had to restart to go back to GPARTED CD and do more deleting, but the computer didn't boot. It was stuck on 1333mhz memory or something like that. So what I did to fix that was unplug the ssd where win is installed. Then the boot succeeded and it asked me if I wanted to revert to "last known good" bios settings. I selected to do that and it booted fine. Then I restarted, win installed updated and since then, the following happens when I turn the PC on:

It powers on. The lights on the motherboard turn on. The cpu fan is running. However, there's no image on the screen - it stays on power saving mode. There's no beeping from the motherboard whatsoever as well. I removed everything from the motherboard: ram, gpu, audio cases and the ssd and hdd. When I turn it on, it sounds no beeps at all, not even an error beep, like the long one you'd get by removing the ram.

Is the motherboard dead? I tried removing the cmos battery for a few minutes, to no avail.
 

yonyz

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Yes it has another PCIe slot. Here's some news: Ive used another power supply with the motherboard and it beeped once and said it was fixing the bios. Then it restarted automatically and got stuck on 'loading operating system'. I've installed the usual power supply back and the same happens. Also, I can't access the boot menu or anything because the keyboard won't turn on. Maybe the USB ports don't work now.

This is weird. It definitely seems like a faulty motherboard to me. I just wonder if there's anyway to fix it.
 
Sounds like a corrupt BIOS. If something said fixing the BIOS. If this is an AUS mobo reflash the BIOS .

Or if a beta BIOS is / was on this. Reflash the BIOS to the previous non beta BIOS.

Because beta BIOS's can do strange things (like corrupt itself - I know this can happen. It's happened here before)