barney2x4

Tighten the screws on the MB socket itself. Not kidding.

Haha, it's working....and the problem was the stupidest one I have seen. Different RAM sticks in different slots - nothing. I cleaned the CPU and applied thermal paste again - nothing. The PSU was fine - all non-essentials were disconnected, I tried reconnecting the 4+4 and 24pin cables - nothing. I cleared the CMOS - nothing. I changed the CMOS battery - nothing. And I finally tried something that worked....wait for it....I tightened the screws of the socket itself. Duh, right? I have never had such an issue. This is a new board, I bought it on a discount because the box was opened and damaged. This goes into my own personal troubleshooting list.

Hi! I had a H170 MB and it had some problems - it started failing to find the monitor more and more often. It started crashing on boot and at the end could not even find the SSD on that SATA port. I thought it was a MB issue so I sent it back (it has 1.5 years of warranty left). In the meantime I got a 200-series MB (GA-H270-Gaming 3, Socket 1151) but when I connect only the essentials (PSU to MB, no GPU, no HDD, SSD or whatever) it cannot start. When you press the on/off button it starts for half a second, the fans begin to spin and that's it, it stops. On the the edge of the MB there are 4 LED's and one of them (for the CPU) is flashing. The MB is 200-series, the CPU is 6-gen (i5/6600k), it should not be an issue. I plugged and uplugged everything. The CPU fan is properly connected and starts spinning...for 0.5 seconds, like all other fans. It's not a PSU issue either. Aside from a bent pin or spilled thermal paste (both of which are not the case) - is there anything else I can try before sending them both for warranty repair? A test with a different CPU is obviously my next task, but that's going to be in the coming days. Any ideas? Is it possible it was the CPU all along? Or is it a faulty socket issue?

I suppose so. I was probably looking for a justification for myself, haha.

I have a Be Quiet! Silent Base 600 case, which has no vertical mount feature for my VGA (Gigabyte 1050Ti OC Windoforce). The aesthetic component was the most important one for me, but there is another issue. The motherboard (ASUS H170 D3 Plus) has 2 PCI-E 3.0 slots - one x16 at the top and a x8 at the bottom. It's almost impossible to fit the VGA on the top (faster) one and even if I could - it would make the GPU and CPU too close to each other and would restrict the airflow. So I thought about buying a Cooler Master vertical VGA mount, but it kind of sux that you have to cut up the case. So I thought that it would be harder to dissassemble the whole thing just to cut away several pieces of metal...it wasn't, hah, this thing took 3 months to make and I changed the idea several times. But I wanted to see what a DIY mount can do. Btw, the performance boost (by using the x16 instead of the x8) wasn't significant - about 3% (measured with Unigine and Cinebench) but then again I have nothing on the other slot and if that changes I might get a bottleneck. I don't know, the important thing is it was fun to make and looks way better. DIY vertical GPU mount (VGA stand) [youttube] [/youttube] Please share your DIY vertical GPU build, I am interested to see what other people have come up with.