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Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5 Motherboard Power Failure

A friend of mine bought a new beast rig today to replace his old one. He got a 5960X with Gigabyte X99 Gaming 5 Mobo, 4x4GB DDR4 RAM from Crucial, Corsair RM 1000W PSU, and a Cooler Master Eisberg 240L CPU Cooler AiO. It took him around a day to get it done in his good old CM HAF X (942) and he finally got to start it. But it didn't start. The motherboard light up and starts to produce short beeps indefinetly. A quick Google search showed that this means "Power Failure". The first thing that came to my mind is that he might have connected the modular cables of the PSU the wrong way. So he tried with his old non-modular PSU where it is pretty much impossible to mismatch the connectors, but the board still wouldn't boot. He is going to return it for repairs tomorrow. Until then thou, do you guys have any suggestions?

I don't have much experience with GB mobos. I have used Asus my whole life and no plans to change - never had problems with Asus mobos.

I don't have a picture of the build. Sorry :(

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Pretty much impossible to help from here, get someone who knows what they are doing to help if you can't take pictures.

 

Perhaps read the motherboard's manual?

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Maybe try the psu in a different computer to see if it's the problem.

 

Probably should do that in a machine you REALLY dont care about so that if the psu killed the mobo due to a defect, it wont kill your good computer.

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It's possible the motherboard is DOA, tell your supplier the motherboard is DOA and they should fix the motherboard without any problem. Only other cause could be the PSU but that's probably not it, you tested it with 2 psu's so...

If an other part would cause the problem you would get another beep code.

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We tried pulling stuff like RAM out to see if it's going to change the beep code. It doesn't. The probelm occurs before the board even starts doing POST.

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What video card? check cables and make sure they are all plugged in correctly and where they need to be

OAS || AAS || LLS

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Windforce GTX 680 2GB , Everything is plugged in correclty. I think the board is just DOA. Or is the CPU. More like the board.

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