Must be my mobo faulty, right?

[RobCrezz]

Spec:
i5 2500k
Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3
Corsair Vengence 1600mhz (2x 8Gb)
CX750M PSU
etc..


Im pretty sure my mobo has shit it self, but just thought I would post this incase someone thinks of something else...


So.. the computer was on all day Saturday downloading ESO quite happy, I checked on download progress a few times, all was fine. When I checked it late evening it was stuck in a reboot loop - 2seconds on followed by 5 seconds off and repeat - no beeps no post, no disaplay etc.

So yesterday I breadboarded it and tried to boot it only with one ram stick (tried different sticks too), no graphics card, no sata drives. I also tried a different PSU. Still the same reboot loop.

Fairly sure its the mobo or CPU, but experience tells me its far more likely to be the mobo and plus I dont have another sandy/ivy cpu to test with.

Anyone got any good ideas?

 

[SeekaX]

Spec:
i5 2500k
Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3
Corsair Vengence 1600mhz (2x 8Gb)
CX750M PSU
etc..


Im pretty sure my mobo has shit it self, but just thought I would post this incase someone thinks of something else...


So.. the computer was on all day Saturday downloading ESO quite happy, I checked on download progress a few times, all was fine. When I checked it late evening it was stuck in a reboot loop - 2seconds on followed by 5 seconds off and repeat - no beeps no post, no disaplay etc.

So yesterday I breadboarded it and tried to boot it only with one ram stick (tried different sticks too), no graphics card, no sata drives. I also tried a different PSU. Still the same reboot loop.

Fairly sure its the mobo or CPU, but experience tells me its far more likely to be the mobo and plus I dont have another sandy/ivy cpu to test with.

Anyone got any good ideas?

I once bought an MPOWER board and a 4770k, but i had that problem right off the bat, it never worked before. I tried fixing it for 2 days with all kinds of techniques, i ended up RMAing it.
The only thing you can do is switch the CPU, but since you don't have another 1155 CPU lying around i'd just RMA both and let them either send you two new parts or send the working part back.
It's not like you will be able to fix it if it's a physical problem.

 

[RobCrezz]

I once bought an MPOWER board and a 4770k, but i had that problem right off the bat, it never worked before. I tried fixing it for 2 days with all kinds of techniques, i ended up RMAing it.
The only thing you can do is switch the CPU, but since you don't have another 1155 CPU lying around i'd just RMA both and let them either send you two new parts or send the working part back.
It's not like you will be able to fix it if it's a physical problem.

Unfortunately I cant RMA, I bought these back in 2011 (so out of warranty now), been working fine until now.

Ive ordered a Z77 mobo in hopes that it is the board.

Anyway, appreciate the reply!

 

[RobCrezz]

Yeah turns out it was the mobo. Now working fine with a Z77 board.