Hi guys! Here's my question:
My workplace was recently throwing out a bunch of their old PCs that didn't work, and they were up for grabs. I grabbed two. One of them is a pretty clear case: the water cooler burst and leaked onto the CPU and (I'm assuming) pretty much fried everything.
The second one, though, I can't diagnose. It powers on for about one second, then shuts off. This repeats over and over again as long as its plugged in.
The board is a Sabertooth X79 with an Intel i7-3930k.
6x4GB DDR3 Adata RAM.
GS800 800w PSU
No video card or HDD (the company removed those before putting them up for grabs, obviously).
I've tried removing every single thing from the board and powering it up, but the problem persists (one stick of RAM, no stick of RAM, etc). I've done the "paper clip test" to the PSU to determine if that was faulty, and the PSU works fine. I even swapped out both the PSU and CPU from the other computer to test them out, but there is no difference in its behavior. I don't see any visibly damaged capacitors or parts on the mobo, either.
Does anyone have any idea what I should try next?? I'm hesitant to throw out the board completely because I feel that there's a possibility that its fixable (and I'd rather fix it than spend $500+ on a new one when that might not even be the main problem D
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My workplace was recently throwing out a bunch of their old PCs that didn't work, and they were up for grabs. I grabbed two. One of them is a pretty clear case: the water cooler burst and leaked onto the CPU and (I'm assuming) pretty much fried everything.
The second one, though, I can't diagnose. It powers on for about one second, then shuts off. This repeats over and over again as long as its plugged in.
The board is a Sabertooth X79 with an Intel i7-3930k.
6x4GB DDR3 Adata RAM.
GS800 800w PSU
No video card or HDD (the company removed those before putting them up for grabs, obviously).
I've tried removing every single thing from the board and powering it up, but the problem persists (one stick of RAM, no stick of RAM, etc). I've done the "paper clip test" to the PSU to determine if that was faulty, and the PSU works fine. I even swapped out both the PSU and CPU from the other computer to test them out, but there is no difference in its behavior. I don't see any visibly damaged capacitors or parts on the mobo, either.
Does anyone have any idea what I should try next?? I'm hesitant to throw out the board completely because I feel that there's a possibility that its fixable (and I'd rather fix it than spend $500+ on a new one when that might not even be the main problem D
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