Asrock Extreme6 shutting down after lightning strike outside house.

[Seireitou]

opening new topic after my last one got derailed. So lightning struck outside the window of my house, my computer immediately shutdown and now won't boot. I replaces the psu and its still not working. Before I go out and buy a brand new mobo is there anything I can do? The mobo still holds power, USB ports can hook up and still charge things. Its not bricked. Am I missing something? Can I reset it? Is it broken?

[W-L]

2 minutes ago, Seireitou said:

opening new topic after my last one got derailed. So lightning struck outside the window of my house, my computer immediately shutdown and now won't boot. I replaces the psu and its still not working. Before I go out and buy a brand new mobo is there anything I can do? The mobo still holds power, USB ports can hook up and still charge things. Its not bricked. Am I missing something? Can I reset it? Is it broken?

IIRC you didn't have a surge protector. If your PSU didn't take the brunt of the surge it could have potentially taken out some other things with it I would get it back to the absolute bare minimum need to boot the machine with the new PSU and see if you can get a post first. Try resetting the CMOS also to see if that makes a difference. 

[Seireitou]

2 minutes ago, W-L said:

IIRC you didn't have a surge protector. If your PSU didn't take the brunt of the surge it could have potentially taken out some other things with it I would get it back to the absolute bare minimum need to boot the machine with the new PSU and see if you can get a post first. Try resetting the CMOS also to see if that makes a difference.

I have one stick of ram in, CPU, and no hardrives connected. Still won't power on longer than 1 second.

[W-L]

4 minutes ago, Seireitou said:

I have one stick of ram in, CPU, and no hardrives connected. Still won't power on longer than 1 second.

DO you hear the PSU click off or anything, it just goes on then off I assume even with the CMOS reset. 

[WashMachine]

Reset CMOS. Check the wall to see if there is electricity or plug it anywhere else around your house. 

Good luck

[Seireitou]

3 minutes ago, WashMachine said:

Reset CMOS. Check the wall to see if there is electricity or plug it anywhere else around your house.

Good luck

6 minutes ago, W-L said:

DO you hear the PSU click off or anything, it just goes on then off I assume even with the CMOS reset.

yes I do hear a click from my psu. How exactly do I reset my cmos. I have a clear cmos button on my mobo is that the same? Is there something special I need to do? I feel like I'm missing something simple, that or its broken.

[stealth80]

8 minutes ago, Seireitou said:

yes I do hear a click from my psu. How exactly do I reset my cmos. I have a clear cmos button on my mobo is that the same? Is there something special I need to do? I feel like I'm missing something simple, that or its broken.

hold the button down for like 5 secs, take the battery out

[W-L]

21 minutes ago, Seireitou said:

yes I do hear a click from my psu. How exactly do I reset my cmos. I have a clear cmos button on my mobo is that the same? Is there something special I need to do? I feel like I'm missing something simple, that or its broken.

As mentioned holdin it for 5 seconds or taking out the battery in the motherboard for 30 seconds will work. 

[Seireitou]

9 minutes ago, W-L said:

As mentioned holdin it for 5 seconds or taking out the battery in the motherboard for 30 seconds will work.

9 minutes ago, W-L said:

As mentioned holdin it for 5 seconds or taking out the battery in the motherboard for 30 seconds will work.

okay I had a break through. The led of the actual mobo are coming on and it lasts for much longer. About 5-7 seconds now. A various amounts of codes are coming through on the mobo which even with the manual is hard for me to figure out. I tried hooking up my monitor but i don't seem to be getting a signal using the ports on the mobo, perhaps I should try putting my gpu in or is there something else I should do. I really don't think its fried now. But I'm just hoping it didn't fry my CPU. Its an i7 4790k....

[W-L]

4 minutes ago, Seireitou said:

okay I had a break through. The led of the actual mobo are coming on and it lasts for much longer. About 5-7 seconds now. A various amounts of codes are coming through on the mobo which even with the manual is hard for me to figure out. I tried hooking up my monitor but i don't seem to be getting a signal using the ports on the mobo, perhaps I should try putting my gpu in or is there something else I should do. I really don't think its fried now. But I'm just hoping it didn't fry my CPU. Its an i7 4790k....

Your best would be to note down the post codes and search online to see what they mean for that motherboard manufacture, sometimes the manual helps other times I find they make it more confusing

[Seireitou]

14 minutes ago, W-L said:

Your best would be to note down the post codes and search online to see what they mean for that motherboard manufacture, sometimes the manual helps other times I find they make it more confusing

Haha thank you for your help, yours and the other people. This is my first time needing to trouble shoot my pc and I'm totally in the dark. I am in a step in the right direction, let us both hope it didn't fry my cpu. 

[Seireitou]

1 hour ago, W-L said:

Your best would be to note down the post codes and search online to see what they mean for that motherboard manufacture, sometimes the manual helps other times I find they make it more confusing

How actually do I read post codes? As it goes through tons of them... do I worry about the last one? The one that comes on first? Stays on the longest? I can't find much online.

[W-L]

1 minute ago, Seireitou said:

How actually do I read post codes? As it goes through tons of them... do I worry about the last one? The one that comes on first? Stays on the longest? I can't find much online.

Approx how many are you getting if it's going through all of them or a lot then there is a problem as they are all issues. 

[Seireitou]

Like 7 but some of them aren't on the manual o..o Like 4F.... 95 is the last one before it shuts down and still no signal to the monitor. 95 is supposed to be a PCIE problem but it happens whether or not I have my gpu in or not as well. I unplugged my ram to see something. The code was 53, it stayed on 53, it didn't go through anything else. Do you think that the codes that are passing are just a check list?

12 minutes ago, W-L said:

Approx how many are you getting if it's going through all of them or a lot then there is a problem as they are all issues. 

 

[W-L]

3 minutes ago, Seireitou said:

Like 7 but some of them aren't on the manual o..o Like 4F.... 95 is the last one before it shuts down and still no signal to the monitor. 95 is supposed to be a PCIE problem but it happens whether or not I have my gpu in or not as well. I unplugged my ram to see something. The code was 53, it stayed on 53, it didn't go through anything else. Do you think that the codes that are passing are just a check list?

Usually it's a list of issues all of code should be an indicator of what they can be but yeah unplugging the RAM and having the code 53 stay constant would make sense as it is missing memory.

 

Only other thing I can think of doing is reflashing the BIOS where the original may have potentially gotten corrupted, if it still doesn't fix it then it's most likely something else fried, hopefully the motherboard. 

[Seireitou]

7 minutes ago, W-L said:

Usually it's a list of issues all of code should be an indicator of what they can be but yeah unplugging the RAM and having the code 53 stay constant would make sense as it is missing memory.

 

Only other thing I can think of doing is reflashing the BIOS where the original may have potentially gotten corrupted, if it still doesn't fix it then it's most likely something else fried, hopefully the motherboard. 

How do I refresh the bios?

 

My motherboard allows bios profiles just in case one gets corrupted. I don't know if that has to be set up or it does it automatically but I switches and it still doesn't boot. It's the cpu isn't it??

[W-L]

12 minutes ago, Seireitou said:

How do I refresh the bios?

My motherboard allows bios profiles just in case one gets corrupted. I don't know if that has to be set up or it does it automatically but I switches and it still doesn't boot. It's the cpu isn't it??

It's hard to say exactly what the issue is but for the BIOS usually there is a switch if you have a dual BIOS, if it still doesn't work then I would see if you have a friend that has a motherboard they don't mind lending you to test and troubleshoot. 

[Seireitou]

6 minutes ago, W-L said:

It's hard to say exactly what the issue is but for the BIOS usually there is a switch if you have a dual BIOS, if it still doesn't work then I would see if you have a friend that has a motherboard they don't mind lending you to test and troubleshoot. 

I don't unfortunately, so I'll have to buy each part and test it from there.... it wouldn't be so bad if the store wasn't 40 mins away.... nothing else I can try?

[W-L]

3 minutes ago, Seireitou said:

I don't unfortunately, so I'll have to buy each part and test it from there.... it wouldn't be so bad if the store wasn't 40 mins away.... nothing else I can try?

Hmm it's hard to say unfortunately, we have a good guide here but I think we've gone over the majority of it already.

[Seireitou]

28 minutes ago, W-L said:

Hmm it's hard to say unfortunately, we have a good guide here but I think we've gone over the majority of it already.

I'll buy a mobo tomorrow, damn I hope the mobo is just fried. Please don't tell me my ignorance just destroyed my $300 dollar cpu...

[W-L]

1 minute ago, Seireitou said:

I'll buy a mobo tomorrow, damn I hope the mobo is just fried. Please don't tell me my ignorance just destroyed my $300 dollar cpu...

Pickup a decent surge protector while your at it, while they can't prevent everything 100% of the time it's another level of protection. 

 

[Seireitou]

16 minutes ago, W-L said:

Pickup a decent surge protector while your at it, while they can't prevent everything 100% of the time it's another level of protection. 

 

I picked up a 4000 joules surge protector. I'm thinking about just bringing my pc in to microcenter for them to figure it out than me buying mobo, it doesn't work, buying cpu and it does work. Does anybody have any experience with their technical support?