Friend's PC not posting!

[MADCATZ]

Hi guys! 

 

My mate just finished building his new PC, and it is failing to post. Resulting in four beeps, according to the manual, means component hardware failure. 

The parts 

 

i7 6700K 

Asus ROG Maximus viii hero 

G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 8GB

GTX 980 ti 2x in sli 

Samsung 850 256gb SSD, 1 TB seagate HDD 

Corsair RM series 1000w gold 

 

I am talking to him at the moment, he said just after the power button was pressed it made a loud pop and there was a burning "wire" smell coming from the PC. I honestly have no idea what could be causing the problem, he has tried the PC with no GPU's in, no HDD's, and different ram combinations including running with no ram in the system. Any help would be amazing! thanks guys...

[Guest Philosophy]

It sounds like something in the power supply or power delivery if he smells burning computer parts. Best bet try a different PSU if motherboard doesn't work you probably fried it. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

I'd want to try the system with a different PSU. If there was a popping sound, it could have been a capacitor going. 

[Finn the Potato]

Power Supply has most likely gone.

[Guest Philosophy]

I'd want to try the system with a different PSU. If there was a popping sound, it could have been a capacitor going. 

My thoughts exactly. I am guessing if the PSU failed it took the Mobo with it though?

[Oshino Shinobu]

My thoughts exactly. I am guessing if the PSU failed it took the Mobo with it though?

It's possible. It's also possible it took the rest of the system with it too (if it was the PSU that went), but let's hope not. 

[MADCATZ]

Thanks guys, he will try a different PSU! 

[corbetto]

Don't have another psu on hand atm, mobo still working after pop tho. Before the pop happened we were still having problems posting.

[MADCATZ]

Corbetto is the PC owner BTW! 

[EIijah]

Hi guys! 

 

My mate just finished building his new PC, and it is failing to post. Resulting in four beeps, according to the manual, means component hardware failure. 

The parts 

 

i7 6700K 

Asus ROG Maximus viii hero 

G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 Series 8GB

GTX 980 ti 2x in sli 

Samsung 850 256gb SSD, 1 TB seagate HDD 

Corsair RM series 1000w gold 

 

I am talking to him at the moment, he said just after the power button was pressed it made a loud pop and there was a burning "wire" smell coming from the PC. I honestly have no idea what could be causing the problem, he has tried the PC with no GPU's in, no HDD's, and different ram combinations including running with no ram in the system. Any help would be amazing! thanks guys...

Probably the PSU, hopefully didn't fry the MoBO. The RM series of corsair isn't a high quality psu probably wasn't the best idea to use it with such a high demanding rig although the 1000w are decent I though

[EIijah]

Don't have another psu on hand atm, mobo still working after pop tho. Before the pop happened we were still having problems posting.

If you don't wanna buy one like a cheapey to test you'll need to take most of the stuff to a pc repair shop and they'll test it but charge you like $50

[corbetto]

Prior to the poping i was still having troubles posting. Any ideas?