No POST No HDD light

hotdoh

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I just reinstalled windows 10 on my rig and everything was fine when I went to sleep, but now it won't post and the HDD light isn't lighting up.

The HDD is getting power. The SATA cable has been checked. The GPU has been confirmed to work in another machine, and I've tried using another GPU. I threw the HDD into another machine and windows boots from it there just fine. I've removed the mobo battery with the PSU unplugged and held the power button down. I've used different RAM, and I've tried using only one DIMM. All fans are going; everything seems to be getting power. I can hear the HDD spin up normally. I've tried to use other HDDs in it too and still nothing. No beeps. I get confirmation of a signal to the monitor with both GPUs and a little splash with the GTX 650. That's all.

I'm kinda baffled; did my mobo just choose that moment to die? It's about 3 years old. I know it's not the best MOBO in the world, but...I dunno. Everything was working normally even after reinstalling Windows. I just powered down, went to sleep, woke up, turned it on, and got screwed.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks.

MSI 970a-g43
FX-6300
Corsair 750W modular
GTX 970 / GTX 650
2X4GB RAM 1600
WD 1TB blue (and a different WD 1TB known to work was tested with no differences)
 

hotdoh

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I'm not sure if my mobo comes with one built-in. I don't have a dedicated speaker to put in, but i'll go buy one if no other solutions come up. Thanks.
 

Endless8

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Well it would be easier to decode what happens is we have a beep code. :)
BTW, you can still do this without a speaker then connect the GPU, 1 stick of RAM, and run it (without HDD and Keyboard only)
 

hotdoh

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I attempted as you suggested and received a screen as follows:

"EFI Shell version 2.31 [4.653]
Current running mode 1.1.2
map: Cannot find required map name.

Press ESC in [x-1...x-2...x-3...] seconds to skip starup.nsh, any other key to continue.
Shell>_"

I can type with my keyboard after "Shell>_" is displayed, but pressing ESC does nothing. I am totally unfamiliar with this mode of operation. I have no idea what this means or what to do when faced with this situation. Any advice is openly welcome.