xenomorphx
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I ordered a i5 4670k along with a asrock z97 fatal1ty board as a step forward from my fx 6300.
After building the (rig) the system booted up fine. Installing windows onto my new ssd was ezpz. However after I was required to reboot as I had forgotten to plug in my optical drive for the mb driver my pc would enter a power cycle, in which it would turn on and off every couple seconds. Sometimes it would work a little longer say 5 seconds but not booting into bios.
After removing/repositioning ram, re-checking cables and all that textbook stuff. I was convinced it was my motherboard. After removing the Heatsink I noticed at a certain point of releasing the socket clamp the case fans would start. Anyway after removing the CPU I saw that 2 pins were bent and sent it back for a refund and buy a new motherboard. So it was the motherboards fault right? wrong!
I purchased a Asus z97 Ranger to replace the motherboard only costing £29 more and having the money left over for it by the time I originally bought the asrock mb. So tonight I finally got around to assembling the system again having had my PSU etc being used in my AMD build. I had faith that this time everything would work out fine but it didn't. Here I was watching my PC power on momentarily then shut off. Again reseating RAM, installing speaker, reseating the CPU and such the system still did not work properly.
When I began disassembling the build again a crazy idea came into my head and I thought I should try connecting my PSU power cable without the CPU installed. (crazy because I didn't know a system could start without one) So the fan turned on along with the motherboard LED once I hit the start button. I know my powersupply can handle the wattage, I know it works fine. I also know my ram should work too. Replacing the graphics card would be useless.
Am I right to believe the CPU was "bad"? I've been waiting for about a month if not more to get this all started up with respect to different delivery times, trouble shooting and the time it took to get a refund on my asrock board.
(2x4gb Corsair Vengeance
500watt 80+ Silverstone Strider Plus)
Please if you can, take the time to read all of what I typed, it would be appreciated. I may have missed out some details but nothing I can currently think off as it's late.
After building the (rig) the system booted up fine. Installing windows onto my new ssd was ezpz. However after I was required to reboot as I had forgotten to plug in my optical drive for the mb driver my pc would enter a power cycle, in which it would turn on and off every couple seconds. Sometimes it would work a little longer say 5 seconds but not booting into bios.
After removing/repositioning ram, re-checking cables and all that textbook stuff. I was convinced it was my motherboard. After removing the Heatsink I noticed at a certain point of releasing the socket clamp the case fans would start. Anyway after removing the CPU I saw that 2 pins were bent and sent it back for a refund and buy a new motherboard. So it was the motherboards fault right? wrong!
I purchased a Asus z97 Ranger to replace the motherboard only costing £29 more and having the money left over for it by the time I originally bought the asrock mb. So tonight I finally got around to assembling the system again having had my PSU etc being used in my AMD build. I had faith that this time everything would work out fine but it didn't. Here I was watching my PC power on momentarily then shut off. Again reseating RAM, installing speaker, reseating the CPU and such the system still did not work properly.
When I began disassembling the build again a crazy idea came into my head and I thought I should try connecting my PSU power cable without the CPU installed. (crazy because I didn't know a system could start without one) So the fan turned on along with the motherboard LED once I hit the start button. I know my powersupply can handle the wattage, I know it works fine. I also know my ram should work too. Replacing the graphics card would be useless.
Am I right to believe the CPU was "bad"? I've been waiting for about a month if not more to get this all started up with respect to different delivery times, trouble shooting and the time it took to get a refund on my asrock board.
(2x4gb Corsair Vengeance
500watt 80+ Silverstone Strider Plus)
Please if you can, take the time to read all of what I typed, it would be appreciated. I may have missed out some details but nothing I can currently think off as it's late.