DRAM LED, pc stopped displaying. help please. Z97-a

Alex Stupak

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Jun 24, 2015
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Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I just built my first gaming pc and every thing was great until i started cable managing. The pc parts are: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/FFFvQ7 . Before cable managing the pc worked and all the parts worked. There was no hint of any problems. After i tried to clean up my computer just won't start. All the fans spin and the LEDs light up but there is no display and the dram LED is red.

Things i tried:
reconnecting all connections
switch the ram, different combos, different slots (the ram is compatible, i checked in the mobo manual)
MemOK with every stick (The LED just blinks and nothing changes)
Taking out the battery for a few minutes
Taking everything out of the case
Benching it with only the bare minimums
Reseating the cpu
Stock heatsink
on board graphics

Ive seen people with this issue on here before so i tried every possible suggestion. I'm just really disappointed that i spent $1.5k on something that doesn't work. Any tips, help and suggestions would be great. the computer worked for like one day. enough time for me to install windows and play some games. Temps were great. When i was cleaning up the cables it was off and unplugged. at first i thought it was a grounding issue but it doesn't seem like it is anymore.

I don't know much about computers so if there is no solution to this problem please tell me what parts i should replace.
 
Solution
Since you've tried almost everything, I suggest RMA-ing both motherboard and CPU. It's probably the board, but just to make sure.

Alex Stupak

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Jun 24, 2015
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yeah all the connections are tight. this computer is really hard to understand, when i benched it it wouldn't work but when i put it back in my case i gave it another go. after going through a sequence of leds the boot led stays on. so i reset the bios and then my vga led stayed on. i played around with my sata connections and matched the one bios has set up as the boot drive and the pc loaded windows. so the problem is fixed i guess but when i turn on the pc it starts and shuts down like 3 times. each time it stays on for a few seconds longer until it finally boots. what could the problem be here?