Mpower problems

[SeekaX]

No build without any problems, right?
I got the Mpower z87 board, 16gigs of corsair vengeance 2133 cl9 ram and a 4770k. i just finished the build, try to boot it up...no image. i switched the gpu, i checked all cables, everything seems fine.
the fans spin up and the mainboard lights up, all as usual.

 

[maniac]

Try pressing the hard restart button while it is already on for a couple of minutes and see if the post screen comes up.
Try reseating the gpu, usually this fixes it if no hardware failures are present.

 

[SeekaX]

i just redid the entire cabling, now it turns on for a sec, then turns off and the clear cmos button lights up.

 

[maniac]

It happened to me sometimes after I did cable managment and no boot nor post, sorry for implying this but did you reseat the gpu, it fixed 90% of problems I ever had with any of mine/brothers/friends pc's

 

[SeekaX]

It happened to me sometimes after I did cable managment and no boot nor post, sorry for implying this but did you reseat the gpu, it fixed 90% of problems I ever had with any of mine/brothers/friends pc's

i went one step further, i first exchanged it and now there is no gpu in the system at all
/edit
this isn't the nicest way of doing things, but i removed the mainboard from the case and now have it on my wooden desk with the cables wired to it.

 

[maniac]

clear the cmos
reseat the ram
are you sure the psu is good?
cpu cooler seated correctly?
remove all peripherals and try again
power it off for a couple of minutes and then power on again
unplug the hdds/ssds
re-check the cables

I know some of these are basic and I'm pretty sure you know them, but those are the first things that come to mind if my pc did that and probably before going to Scan's technical department (here in Malta it's the best and its the fastest)

 

[SeekaX]

clear the cmos
reseat the ram
are you sure the psu is good?
cpu cooler seated correctly?
remove all peripherals and try again
power it off for a couple of minutes and then power on again
unplug the hdds/ssds
re-check the cables

I know some of these are basic and I'm pretty sure you know them, but those are the first things that come to mind if my pc did that and probably before going to Scan's technical department (here in Malta it's the best and its the fastest)

got only one dimm in now, PSU is definitely good, peripherals are all removed, waited a couple minutes and no ssd/hdd is plugged in. cables reseated for the third time.
i'll give the cpu a look
/edit
way too much TIM. redoing that, i hope it will fix it, but i doubt it.

 

[SeekaX]

i am completely clueless by now. i reseated everything, new TIM, no peripherals. what's weird is that it at least ran for a couple minutes when i first assembled it.

 

[MrKambo]

check for bent pins?
doesnt that board have a LED poster?

 

[SeekaX]

check for bent pins?
doesnt that board have a LED poster?

no bent pins.
yes it does have a poster, but the system shuts down in a split second, it doesn't post anything. it doesn't boot loop either like when you accidentally f*ck up the core voltage.

 

[MrKambo]

do you know what....i had the exact same issue when my PSU shit its self!

you got a spare psu to try?

 

[SeekaX]

yea i do, but it only has one 8 pin eps, so that won't work. i will reassemble my old system, if the PSU really shit the bed it won't work.

 

[MrKambo]

you only need one EPS connected, the second one is when you are heavily overclocking and the CPU requires extra power, i think, sure someone else can confirm this

 

[SeekaX]

this day was by far the worst in a while. this morning my beloved bose in ears died, then i was running around for an hour trying to locate my package because the post office fucked up and then i end up with a destroyed cable management and just another case for RMA. which is btw the fifth case this year, every order i placed this year had to get RMA'd. my back hurts from standing over my pc for 8 hours, my room is a mess, i wasted a good bit of my thermal paste and i still don't have the rig i want. i am waiting for a random car to crash my wall for the glorious finale of this awful day. i am starting to fear my waterloop plans.