Is it possible for one bad component to kill others?
I have had numerous problems with a custom system. I was having trouble with a build I put together, which I concluded after a year's worth of frustration to be memory problems and a bad motherboard. I sent for RMA on the motherboard, and the same set of problems occured with the replacement. After consideration and research, I decided to go with a new Asus board for the 3rd attempt, a M5A97R2.0. I put the new system together with the following components:
Asus M5A97R2.0 (brand new)
Corsair Vengeance (2x4GB) (brand new)
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black
Antec EA650 Green PSU
Asus EAH5670 1GB Graphics card
Antec Kuhler H2O 620
SIIG 3-port IEEE1394 PCI card
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB
WD Raptor WD360 36GB
Lite-On iHAS422 DVDRW
All of these are from my previous build, except the MoBo, RAM, and IEEE1394 card (which I had laying around, never used).
So I fired it up, and booted into BIOS fine. After a period of 2 minutes or less, the system froze. Initially I thought maybe the IEEE1394 card was questionable, so I removed it. Then I was able to get into BIOS to adjust the basics. No more than getting date & time and boot sequence set, the system froze again. I rebooted again, thinking "what the hell happened?", and went back to BIOS and restored factory defaults. Immediately I rebooted again, and no POST, no beeps, nothing. I stripped everything off except the CPU, cooler, and graphics card. Still nothing. Took the graphics card out too, so all that was left was the MoBo, CPU, and cooler. Nothing.
I tested the PSU (with a tester), and it checks out fine. Now I am pretty much at a loss. Could my graphics card or CPU or other device be faulty and keep killing my motherboards? Any input and/or suggestions are appreciated greatly.
-Chew
I have had numerous problems with a custom system. I was having trouble with a build I put together, which I concluded after a year's worth of frustration to be memory problems and a bad motherboard. I sent for RMA on the motherboard, and the same set of problems occured with the replacement. After consideration and research, I decided to go with a new Asus board for the 3rd attempt, a M5A97R2.0. I put the new system together with the following components:
Asus M5A97R2.0 (brand new)
Corsair Vengeance (2x4GB) (brand new)
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black
Antec EA650 Green PSU
Asus EAH5670 1GB Graphics card
Antec Kuhler H2O 620
SIIG 3-port IEEE1394 PCI card
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB
WD Raptor WD360 36GB
Lite-On iHAS422 DVDRW
All of these are from my previous build, except the MoBo, RAM, and IEEE1394 card (which I had laying around, never used).
So I fired it up, and booted into BIOS fine. After a period of 2 minutes or less, the system froze. Initially I thought maybe the IEEE1394 card was questionable, so I removed it. Then I was able to get into BIOS to adjust the basics. No more than getting date & time and boot sequence set, the system froze again. I rebooted again, thinking "what the hell happened?", and went back to BIOS and restored factory defaults. Immediately I rebooted again, and no POST, no beeps, nothing. I stripped everything off except the CPU, cooler, and graphics card. Still nothing. Took the graphics card out too, so all that was left was the MoBo, CPU, and cooler. Nothing.
I tested the PSU (with a tester), and it checks out fine. Now I am pretty much at a loss. Could my graphics card or CPU or other device be faulty and keep killing my motherboards? Any input and/or suggestions are appreciated greatly.
-Chew