Computer dead after shoddy overclock

[Culiostratus]

I tried overclocking my i7 9700k to 5GHz. I put the voltage at 1.4 and everything was fine for about an hour. Then, while playing a game, everything froze and on restart the corsair logo on my cpu aio will flash with color, then immediately turn off. Then the rgb ram lights will turn on until the power is turned off. Nothing else will happen, no fans spin. Is it a dead motherboard, cpu, or both?

[Constantin]

Specs of the PC?

[WereCatf]

Reset your BIOS-settings before you rush into any conclusions.

[SidM]

clear cmos  thats it

[Culiostratus]

I tried clearing cmos,  I took the battery out for 5 minutes and nothing happens still, my specs are cpu: i7 9700k, you msi 1080 Seahawk x, ram: 16gb gskill trident rgb, mb: auros z390 master psu:cooler master silent pro 1200w

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, Culiostratus said:

I took the battery out for 5 minutes

Did you remove the power-cord or flip the PSU-switch off?

[billstelling]

1.4 is a bit much.. cmos clear should have gotten you back up though. Try switching to the other bios if your board has that.

[Culiostratus]

Just now, WereCatf said:

Did you remove the power-cord or flip the PSU-switch off?

I did both

[Culiostratus]

1 minute ago, billstelling said:

1.4 is a bit much.. cmos clear should have gotten you back up though. Try switching to the other bios if your board has that.

Typically how would you do that?

[billstelling]

the little switch at the bottom right of your motherboard, just looked up your board. I have the aorus gaming 7 pro myself.. great board.

[GoldenLag]

3 minutes ago, Culiostratus said:

I did both

Did you drain capacitors by attempting to turn it on while it was in that state?

[Culiostratus]

2 minutes ago, GoldenLag said:

Did you drain capacitors by attempting to turn it on while it was in that state?

I'll try that now

[Culiostratus]

11 minutes ago, billstelling said:

1.4 is a bit much.. cmos clear should have gotten you back up though. Try switching to the other bios if your board has that.

My apologies it is a z390 ultra, the boards look similar. I don't believe mine has the bios switch though

[billstelling]

Yeah, it has dual bios as well. Same location..

[Culiostratus]

5 minutes ago, billstelling said:

Yeah, it has dual bios as well. Same location..

I'm not seeing any switches on the bottom of my motherboard both in person or on the images on the auros website

[billstelling]

Trying to find it as well. Moght be a jumper.. It does say dual bios,,,

[billstelling]

2 x 128 Mbit flash Use of licensed AMI UEFI BIOS Support for DualBIOS™ PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.7, WfM 2.0, SM BIOS 2.7, ACPI 5.0

 

 

The manual sucks though.. Still haven't found the section for it.

[billstelling]

17) CPU/DRAM/VGA/BOOT (Status LEDs) The status LEDs show whether the CPU, memory, graphics card, and operating system are working properly after system power-on. If the CPU/DRAM/VGA LED is on, that means the corresponding device is not working normally; if the BOOT LED is on, that means you haven't entered the operating system yet.
CPU: CPU status LED DRAM: Memory status LED VGA: Graphics card status LED BOOT: Operating system status LED

 

[Culiostratus]

2 minutes ago, billstelling said:

17) CPU/DRAM/VGA/BOOT (Status LEDs) The status LEDs show whether the CPU, memory, graphics card, and operating system are working properly after system power-on. If the CPU/DRAM/VGA LED is on, that means the corresponding device is not working normally; if the BOOT LED is on, that means you haven't entered the operating system yet.
CPU: CPU status LED DRAM: Memory status LED VGA: Graphics card status LED BOOT: Operating system status LED

 

Yeah neither the large troubleshooting led not the 4 in the bottom right turn on when powered on

[Radium_Angel]

2 minutes ago, Culiostratus said:

Yeah neither the large troubleshooting led not the 4 in the bottom right turn on when powered on

According to this very large picture...

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13407/Z390-AORUS-ULTRA-Rev10.png

Just by the SATA ports there is a THB_C connector, and to the right of that is a small table that looks to be about clearing the CMOS (aka resetting the BIOS back to default) so pull the BIOS battery out, find the jumper associated with the table, swap it out to the "clear CMOS" setting, give it a few minutes, plug CMOS battery back in, power it up briefly, pull power cord, set jumper setting back to normal, then try to power it back up as normal, see what happens

[billstelling]

Yeah, What they said...

 

The two bios chips are right behind the sata ports as well I see.

 

My MSI board has a little toggle switch for the dual bios but looking at my aorus board I don't see anything for it on that board. Thanks Gigabyte,,

[Culiostratus]

12 minutes ago, Radium_Angel said:

According to this very large picture...

https://images.anandtech.com/doci/13407/Z390-AORUS-ULTRA-Rev10.png

Just by the SATA ports there is a THB_C connector, and to the right of that is a small table that looks to be about clearing the CMOS (aka resetting the BIOS back to default) so pull the BIOS battery out, find the jumper associated with the table, swap it out to the "clear CMOS" setting, give it a few minutes, plug CMOS battery back in, power it up briefly, pull power cord, set jumper setting back to normal, then try to power it back up as normal, see what happens

No change unfortunately

[Radium_Angel]

Just now, Culiostratus said:

No change unfortunately

Sounds like your attempt at overclocking fried something. Easy way to tell which is dead:

 

Pull out everything from the motherboard, except the CPU and cooler. Yank the video card and RAM.

Assuming you have a BIOS speaker, when you power it on, you should hear beeping, indicating the board is missing RAM.

Beeping is a good sign. If you don't get that, then you toasted the board.

[billstelling]

More than likely cooked the CPU having it at 1.4... You on air or water for the cpu?

[Culiostratus]

Just now, billstelling said:

More than likely cooked the CPU having it at 1.4... You on air or water for the cpu?

Water