- Jun 19, 2015
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Hello,
I purchased an ASRock 970 Performance (Fatal1ty) about 3 months ago with the following parts from NewEgg:
1) AMD FX-8350 Black Vishera 8 core 4.0GHz
2) Rosewill Valens-700W PSU
3) G. SKILL Ripjaw X series 8GB DDR3
Everything worked fine for about 6 weeks until one night, my computer just shut down. When I rebooted, sparks and smoke appeared until I powered it off (about 3-4 seconds of utter fear).
Long story short: ASRock sent me a replacement, the exact same mobo...but now I cannot get it to post or even beep.
I have tried the following:
1) All the steps in this thread: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems
2) I have removed everything, including ram and gpu...still no beep.
3) I have replaced the PSU with another (500W) and still the same behavior.
4) I have "breadboarded" the mobo to no avail.
I am left with two hypotheses:
1) They sent me a dud
2) My cpu was fried during the "explosion"
I do not want to buy another cpu in order to perform a test...
Is there anything else I can do to debug this?
I purchased an ASRock 970 Performance (Fatal1ty) about 3 months ago with the following parts from NewEgg:
1) AMD FX-8350 Black Vishera 8 core 4.0GHz
2) Rosewill Valens-700W PSU
3) G. SKILL Ripjaw X series 8GB DDR3
Everything worked fine for about 6 weeks until one night, my computer just shut down. When I rebooted, sparks and smoke appeared until I powered it off (about 3-4 seconds of utter fear).
Long story short: ASRock sent me a replacement, the exact same mobo...but now I cannot get it to post or even beep.
I have tried the following:
1) All the steps in this thread: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems
2) I have removed everything, including ram and gpu...still no beep.
3) I have replaced the PSU with another (500W) and still the same behavior.
4) I have "breadboarded" the mobo to no avail.
I am left with two hypotheses:
1) They sent me a dud
2) My cpu was fried during the "explosion"
I do not want to buy another cpu in order to perform a test...
Is there anything else I can do to debug this?
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