Am I screwed?

[carsonian]

So I was gaming last night, and pc randomly shut off. Thought it was an unstable OC but when I turned it back on it gave me the temp warning. Idle was sitting at 75C and not moving even sitting in bios. So I popped out the cpu and remounted it. It sat at 65C but I know it was not that hot since the cooler was cold to the touch. I start messing in bios and now the pc wont post at all! Nothing comes on the screen. I Flashed back 3 different bios' and still nothing comes up. All the fans and everything turns on just fine. I tried CMOS reset, still nothing. I tried all possible ram configs and nothing. My keyboard will light up but not my mouse, which I also thought was super weird.

Some error codes I were getting:

DXE initialization errors (code 63)

Microcode loading (06)

System Agent DXE SMM initialization is started (6A)

AP initialization before microcode loading (02) - current error on board

 

Specs:

MB - Asus Maximus X Code

CPU - I7-8700k

RAM - V Skill 3200 mhz 8 gb (32 gb total)

GPU - GTX 1080TI

PSU - Corsair 600w

 

I would really appreciate any help you guys might have to offer because right now I'm staring at a black screen 

[Izineth]

What cpu cooler do you have?

If its an AIO possible pump failure?

[carsonian]

 

2 minutes ago, Kawaii_Desu said:

What cpu cooler do you have?

If its an AIO possible pump failure?

I have a coolermaster Ma410m, so no watercooling here 

[DarkEnergy]

Try to re-seat graphics card and boot with one stick of ram. Try the ram in different slots if it's not working.

[Izineth]

hmm, well I googled around a bit for you.  Most people seem to hint at it being a power or GPU issue.

I would suggest trying to re-seat your GPU and check all your power cables.  If none of that helps I'm afraid I'm out of ideas.

 

Edit: haha DarkEnergy beat me to it.

[carsonian]

Just now, DarkEnergy said:

Try to re-seat graphics card and boot with one stick of ram. Try the ram in different slots if it's not working.

I tried with another gpu still pure black monitor. tried all 16 ram configs as well no go

[carsonian]

Just now, Kawaii_Desu said:

hmm, well I googled around a bit for you.  Most people seem to hint at it being a power or GPU issue.

I would suggest trying to re-seat your GPU and check all your power cables.  If none of that helps I'm afraid I'm out of ideas.

I even tried the onboard graphics and that still posted nothing at all. I'm obliterated on why this even happened lol

[DarkEnergy]

2 minutes ago, Kawaii_Desu said:

hmm, well I googled around a bit for you.  Most people seem to hint at it being a power or GPU issue.

I would suggest trying to re-seat your GPU and check all your power cables.  If none of that helps I'm afraid I'm out of ideas.

 

Edit: haha DarkEnergy beat me to it.

Lol, you're doing what I'm doing. So far it has something to do with during the initialization phase. It's definitely a component issue. Some things I'm finding is related to a faulty PSU. 

[carsonian]

Just now, DarkEnergy said:

Lol, you're doing what I'm doing. So far it has something to do with during the initialization phase. It's definitely a component issue. Some things I'm finding is related to a faulty PSU. 

I really appreciate the both of you taking the time. I do have some spare psu's in the attic. I'll give them a shot now 

[Izineth]

Yikes try another PSU if you can.  But I did find a person on youtube that has the same 02 error code but he has slightly different hardware.  He is on a Formula VIII Z-170 board with a 6700K.

But his computer still boots to the BIOS, he went into the BIOS and for some reason decided to drop the active CPU cores to 2 in the advanced CPU settings and then his computer started booting again.

He also mentioned the random high CPU temp.

 

His problem ended up being a bad CPU.  But that would be strange as its awfully rare for a CPU to just die like that.

[carsonian]

4 minutes ago, Kawaii_Desu said:

Yikes try another PSU if you can.  But I did find a person on youtube that has the same 02 error code but he has slightly different hardware.  He is on a Formula VIII Z-170 board with a 6700K.

But his computer still boots to the BIOS, he went into the BIOS and for some reason decided to drop the active CPU cores to 2 in the advanced CPU settings and then his computer started booting again.

He also mentioned the random high CPU temp.

 

His problem ended up being a bad CPU.  But that would be strange as its awfully rare for a CPU to just die like that.

just tried another psu, still pulls error 02, and nothing shows on monitor at all still. Might send it to linus and see if he can do a troubleshoot vid on it 

[DarkEnergy]

1 minute ago, carsonian said:

just tried another psu, still pulls error 02, and nothing shows on monitor at all still. Might send it to linus and see if he can do a troubleshoot vid on it 

This will sound weird but do you happen to have another monitor to test? I was reading an instance where a faulty monitor was the issue (like the display worked but caused booting problems). Otherwise perhaps try booting with the GPU removed and use display connection from motherboard.

 

If that doesn't work, then the issue is most likely either the CPU or motherboard. It's very rare for a CPU to just die though.

 

It could also be something you missed. Perhaps you reset the CMOS incorrectly? Can you boot the computer without the battery? (All computers can boot without CMOS battery installed).

[carsonian]

1 minute ago, DarkEnergy said:

This will sound weird but do you happen to have another monitor to test? I was reading an instance where a faulty monitor was the issue (like the display worked but caused booting problems). Otherwise perhaps try booting with the GPU removed and use display connection from motherboard.

 

If that doesn't work, then the issue is most likely either the CPU or motherboard. It's very rare for a CPU to just die though.

 

It could also be something you missed. Perhaps you reset the CMOS incorrectly? Can you boot the computer without the battery? (All computers can boot without CMOS battery installed).

I thought of that too. I'm using a spare monitor with a different hdmi cable than I normally use. Without GPU it doesn't post with the on board graphics (cpu issue?) 

 

As far as the CMOS, there is a button on the back plate specific for resetting cmos since its hard to get to. But I'll see if I can remove the battery 

[carsonian]

14 minutes ago, DarkEnergy said:

This will sound weird but do you happen to have another monitor to test? I was reading an instance where a faulty monitor was the issue (like the display worked but caused booting problems). Otherwise perhaps try booting with the GPU removed and use display connection from motherboard.

 

If that doesn't work, then the issue is most likely either the CPU or motherboard. It's very rare for a CPU to just die though.

 

It could also be something you missed. Perhaps you reset the CMOS incorrectly? Can you boot the computer without the battery? (All computers can boot without CMOS battery installed).

with no CMOS and no gpu it gives me error 63 (CPU DXE initialization is started)

 

Startin to loose hope on the cpu being alive 

[DarkEnergy]

9 minutes ago, carsonian said:

with no CMOS and no gpu it gives me error 63 (CPU DXE initialization is started)

 

Startin to loose hope on the cpu being alive 

While rare, I suppose it could happen. I think intel has a 3 year warranty on CPUs, try to see if they could cover it. You could even link them this discussion if they have questions.

 

Motherboard do have more parts that could fail such as capacitors.

[carsonian]

1 minute ago, DarkEnergy said:

While rare, I suppose it could happen. I think intel has a 3 year warranty on CPUs, try to see if they could cover it. You could even link them this discussion if they have questions.

I'm sure it would take about a month for them to get back to me, going to be such a hassle. My biggest fear is that I get a new cpu and its actually the mobo 

 

Maybe time to upgrade to an I9 though 

[DarkEnergy]

1 minute ago, carsonian said:

I'm sure it would take about a month for them to get back to me, going to be such a hassle. My biggest fear is that I get a new cpu and its actually the mobo 

 

Maybe time to upgrade to an I9 though 

Check out AMD's Ryzen CPUs. Especially with zen 3 around the corner. They've been performing better for a lot less money.

[Izineth]

I'm gonna say its looking like a dead CPU to me.  Intel does warranty for 3 years but they don't like it when you overclock. 

Also you might wanna check out Ryzen if you're gonna do a upgrade.

 

LMFAO DarkEnergy we did it again.

[carsonian]

Ryzen does look pretty sweet, but I'm gonna try to order another cpu and if it works then shweet... if not then *cough* it was dead on arrival I swear amazon, so pls accept my return *cough cough*

 

THEN I'd switch 

 

Nice try you ryzen baptists 

[DarkEnergy]

6 minutes ago, carsonian said:

Ryzen does look pretty sweet, but I'm gonna try to order another cpu and if it works then shweet... if not then *cough* it was dead on arrival I swear amazon, so pls accept my return *cough cough*

 

THEN I'd switch 

 

Nice try you ryzen baptists 

All hail team red!

[carsonian]

I don't think I'm going to be purchasing another $300 mobo considering it slayed my cpu with a 4.3 ghz oc

 

Any mobo suggestions for ryzen?

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, carsonian said:

I don't think I'm going to be purchasing another $300 mobo considering it slayed my cpu with a 4.3 ghz oc

 

Any mobo suggestions for ryzen?

 

Try one of these on the FP and see if you get any beep codes.

 

[carsonian]

@ShrimpBrime correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't the purpose of having that led error code teller nullify the need to get one of these?

[Guest]

Just now, carsonian said:

@ShrimpBrime correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't the purpose of having that led error code teller nullify the need to get one of these?

Negative. Half the numbers you see are post code indicators, not always an "error" code. 

 

Your code is exactly that. It hangs on it, but it's not an error code, it's a post code. It seems to get stuck there at ---->

 

02 = AP initialization before microcode loading.

 

But the speaker may give you actual error indication and is what it's designed to do.

 

You can view more information here. Look at the bottom of Colonel_mortis's first post there, There's post code lists and Beep code lists.

 

[carsonian]

Just an update: cpu came in today. Swapped it out and it all posted and booted just fine!

 

thanks for all the suggestions. 
@DarkEnergy

@Kawaii_Desu
@ShrimpBrime