Check PSU cables first

[octester]

If your PC is in a boot loop, check the cables from the PSU, some of them (like mine) have a metalic braid on it, and if your case doesn't have room for cable management (or you're just lazy) the cable can touch the motherboard and cause a short.

[Orange1]

8 minutes ago, octester said:

If your PC is in a boot loop, check the cables from the PSU, some of them (like mine) have a metalic braid on it, and if your case doesn't have room for cable management (or you're just lazy) the cable can touch the motherboard and cause a short.

Yeah not a good idea to get metal braid on cable, you're just asking for it.

[octester]

29 minutes ago, Orange1 said:

Yeah not a good idea to get metal braid on cable, you're just asking for it.

Was an hour before I found the cable touching this tiny part on the board, moved it turned the pc on...and voila working pc

 

Why TF do they put metal braiding on the cables, they could've used anything else, nylon, rubber...etc

 

[Orange1]

1 minute ago, octester said:

Was an hour before I found the cable touching this tiny part on the board, moved it turned the pc on...and voila working pc

 

Why TF do they put metal braiding on the cables, they could've used anything else, nylon, rubber...etc

 

You got lucky on your pc working.

 

Where did you purchase the pc from? A store, classifieds, prebuilt?

 

[octester]

32 minutes ago, Orange1 said:

You got lucky on your pc working.

 

Where did you purchase the pc from? A store, classifieds, prebuilt?

 

Some dude from Craigslist, I think it might've been a prebuilt, but have no idea.

[Orange1]

2 minutes ago, octester said:

Some dude from Craigslist, I think it might've been a prebuilt, but have no idea.

Well yeah that seller would have installed metal cables.

One smart cookie that seller is.

You lucked out man, you really did.

Get normal cables!

[octester]

28 minutes ago, Orange1 said:

Well yeah that seller would have installed metal cables.

One smart cookie that seller is.

You lucked out man, you really did.

Get normal cables!

The original psu was an ancient 400w, with no pcie power cables, I bought an EVGA 600W PSU recently, that's where the metal braid is.