MOBO Troubleshooting

[Trionth]

Good evening, I think the motherboard on my rig just died on me. It's an asus rog maximus vii gene. Power on and all the fans spin up (including GPU), HDD spins up and sounds just like a normal boot but there is no output to display. Tested an old GPU, same result. Either GPU in a different PCIE slot is the same result. I've pulled CMOS and held power for 30 seconds a few times with no change. The cherry on top is when I remove all RAM it still powers up the same and throws no error codes. I've also reseated all power to the board, removed peripherals and other drives etc.

 

I'm assuming the motherboard is a goner, just thought I'd see if anyone had other ideas. Really not in a position to upgrade so hoping there's something I can do to revive this thing.

[RONOTHAN##]

If the POST code isn't lighting up at all, even if you say disconnect the CPU power connector and remove all the RAM, the board is dead, most likely the chipset or BIOS chip died. You can attempt to replace the BIOS chip with a known working one with the proper BIOS installed (this is relatively cheap to do), but at best the odds are 50/50 that would work, so unless you're sentimentally attached to that board I'd be looking into just getting a system upgrade

[Trionth]

8 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

If the POST code isn't lighting up at all, even if you say disconnect the CPU power connector and remove all the RAM, the board is dead, most likely the chipset or BIOS chip died. You can attempt to replace the BIOS chip with a known working one with the proper BIOS installed (this is relatively cheap to do), but at best the odds are 50/50 that would work, so unless you're sentimentally attached to that board I'd be looking into just getting a system upgrade

Yeah replacing chipsets it's going to be beyond me. Not attached to the board just to having a functioning computer. Probably chance ordering a "new" LGA1150 board off Newegg and hope for the best. Thank you!

[RONOTHAN##]

43 minutes ago, Trionth said:

Yeah replacing chipsets it's going to be beyond me. Not attached to the board just to having a functioning computer. Probably chance ordering a "new" LGA1150 board off Newegg and hope for the best. Thank you!

It's probably cheaper to just upgrade to a 12th gen i3 at this point. The "new" boards are really expensive for what they are, and odds are they'll end up suffering the same fate sooner rather than later. The new 12th gen chips are so much faster than Haswell anyway, so you'd get a pretty massive upgrade, even from a 12100F, and end up spending about the same amount you would on just a new motherboard. 

[Trionth]

17 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

It's probably cheaper to just upgrade to a 12th gen i3 at this point. The "new" boards are really expensive for what they are, and odds are they'll end up suffering the same fate sooner rather than later. The new 12th gen chips are so much faster than Haswell anyway, so you'd get a pretty massive upgrade, even from a 12100F, and end up spending about the same amount you would on just a new motherboard. 

I snagged one for $80usd, for better or worse. Not a bad idea though.