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My computer currently won't boot, so I believe it is either the motherboard other the power button.

I don't know how to test the power button.

I have however tested the PSU and it's fine.

 

PSU: EVGA SUPERNOVA 1000 G2*

Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty 970 Performance/3.1*

CPU: AMD FX 6300 (Stock)*

Cooler: Cooler Master Nepton 240M

GPU1: MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming 4G*

GPU2: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 4GB

RAM: 4x 4GB G.SKILL Ripjaws X(*1/2 is new)

SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB

HDD: Western Digital Blue 1TB

 

*=Under 2 months old

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1 hour ago, CJ5579 said:

My computer currently won't boot, so I believe it is either the motherboard other he power button.

I don't know how to test the power button.

I have however tested the PSU and it's fine.

 

PSU: EVGA SUPERNOVA 1000 G2*

Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty 970 Performance/3.1*

CPU: AMD FX 6300 (Stock)*

Cooler: Cooler Master Nepton 240M

GPU1: MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming 4G*

GPU2: Sapphire Radeon R9 270X 4GB

RAM: 4x 4GB G.SKILL Ripjaws X(*1/2 is new)

SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 120GB

HDD: Western Digital Blue 1TB

 

*=Under 2 months old

Look at your manual to see where the power pin is and touch the 2 power switch pins with a paperclip or something

  • CPU: AMD athlon  860k
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A58M-HD2
  • RAM:2x4gb HyperX Fury
  • GPU: XFX R9 380 4gb
  • Case: NXZT S340
  • PSU: EVGA 650G
  • Display: BenQ GL2460HM
  • Cooling: Hyper 212 Evo
  • Keyboard: Corsair k60 
  • Mouse: Steelseries Rival 300 (white
  • Sound Logitech g430
  • Operating System: Windows 10 64bit
     
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1 hour ago, CJ5579 said:

Would it immediately turn on if I do that and the PSU is on?

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1 hour ago, CJ5579 said:

Would it immediately turn on if I do that and the PSU is on?

 

  • CPU: AMD athlon  860k
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A58M-HD2
  • RAM:2x4gb HyperX Fury
  • GPU: XFX R9 380 4gb
  • Case: NXZT S340
  • PSU: EVGA 650G
  • Display: BenQ GL2460HM
  • Cooling: Hyper 212 Evo
  • Keyboard: Corsair k60 
  • Mouse: Steelseries Rival 300 (white
  • Sound Logitech g430
  • Operating System: Windows 10 64bit
     
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1 hour ago, CJ5579 said:

Would it immediately turn on if I do that and the PSU is on?

Did it work?

  • CPU: AMD athlon  860k
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte F2A58M-HD2
  • RAM:2x4gb HyperX Fury
  • GPU: XFX R9 380 4gb
  • Case: NXZT S340
  • PSU: EVGA 650G
  • Display: BenQ GL2460HM
  • Cooling: Hyper 212 Evo
  • Keyboard: Corsair k60 
  • Mouse: Steelseries Rival 300 (white
  • Sound Logitech g430
  • Operating System: Windows 10 64bit
     
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7 minutes ago, KearneyMC said:

Did it work?

 

7 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

If you want. I mean, it saves you the trouble of needing to find something to short the pins with.

Nothing at all. Second ASRock board that has failed. The vrm failed on the first one.

 

Time to get an EVGA Z170 classified K. AMD and ASRock are getting annoying.

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2 minutes ago, CJ5579 said:

 

Nothing at all. Second ASRock board that has failed. The vrm failed on the first one.

 

Time to get an EVGA Z170 classified K. AMD and ASRock are getting annoying.

You sure? My PC wouldn't boot up at first... Turned out that one of my cables wasn't all the way in.

It's extremely unlikely you have a dead mobo.

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CPU: i7 6700k, CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3, Motherboard: MSI Z170a KRAIT GAMING, RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 Series 4x4gb DDR4-2666 MHz, Storage: SanDisk SSD Plus 240gb + OCZ Vertex 180 480 GB + Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 7200 RPM, Video Card: EVGA GTX 970 SSC, Case: Fractal Design Define S, Power Supply: Seasonic Focus+ Gold 650w Yay, Keyboard: Logitech G710+, Mouse: Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum, Headphones: B&O H9i, Monitor: LG 29um67 (2560x1080 75hz freesync)

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CPU: Pentium G4400, CPU Cooler: Stock, Motherboard: MSI h110l Pro Mini AC, RAM: Hyper X Fury DDR4 1x8gb 2133 MHz, Storage: PNY CS1311 120gb SSD + two Segate 4tb HDDs in RAID 1, Video Card: Does Intel Integrated Graphics count?, Case: Fractal Design Node 304, Power Supply: Seasonic 360w 80+ Gold, Keyboard+Mouse+Monitor: Does it matter?

Laptop (I use it for school):

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Surface book 2 13" with an i7 8650u, 8gb RAM, 256 GB storage, and a GTX 1050

And if you're curious (or a stalker) I have a Just Black Pixel 2 XL 64gb

 

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4 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

You sure? My PC wouldn't boot up at first... Turned out that one of my cables wasn't all the way in.

It's extremely unlikely you have a dead mobo.

I have reseated cables like 3 times, and it turned on yesterday. I haven't touched it since I tried today.

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2 minutes ago, CJ5579 said:

I have repeatedly cables like 3 times, and it turned on yesterday. I haven't touched it since I tried today.

It turned on yesterday? Oh.......

Well nvm then 

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Do this:

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And make sure you do it by hitting the quote button at the bottom left of my post, and not the one inside the editor!

Or this:

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Buy whatever product is best for you, not what product is "best" for the market.

 

Interested in computer architecture? Still in middle or high school? P.M. me!

 

I love computer hardware and feel free to ask me anything about that (or phones). I especially like SSDs. But please do not ask me anything about Networking, programming, command line stuff, or any relatively hard software stuff. I know next to nothing about that.

 

Compooters:

Spoiler

Desktop:

Spoiler

CPU: i7 6700k, CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock Pro 3, Motherboard: MSI Z170a KRAIT GAMING, RAM: G.Skill Ripjaws 4 Series 4x4gb DDR4-2666 MHz, Storage: SanDisk SSD Plus 240gb + OCZ Vertex 180 480 GB + Western Digital Caviar Blue 1 TB 7200 RPM, Video Card: EVGA GTX 970 SSC, Case: Fractal Design Define S, Power Supply: Seasonic Focus+ Gold 650w Yay, Keyboard: Logitech G710+, Mouse: Logitech G502 Proteus Spectrum, Headphones: B&O H9i, Monitor: LG 29um67 (2560x1080 75hz freesync)

Home Server:

Spoiler

CPU: Pentium G4400, CPU Cooler: Stock, Motherboard: MSI h110l Pro Mini AC, RAM: Hyper X Fury DDR4 1x8gb 2133 MHz, Storage: PNY CS1311 120gb SSD + two Segate 4tb HDDs in RAID 1, Video Card: Does Intel Integrated Graphics count?, Case: Fractal Design Node 304, Power Supply: Seasonic 360w 80+ Gold, Keyboard+Mouse+Monitor: Does it matter?

Laptop (I use it for school):

Spoiler

Surface book 2 13" with an i7 8650u, 8gb RAM, 256 GB storage, and a GTX 1050

And if you're curious (or a stalker) I have a Just Black Pixel 2 XL 64gb

 

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