I messed up

[Calvin Flowers]

Alright, so I was doing some updates on my PC I built a few weeks ago and the thing froze. Being stupid I turned it off....now it won't turn back on, no lights, sounds, nothing. I feel pretty awful because I spent a lot of (at least for me) on the computer and I'm afraid I broke it. 

[Kilovice]

The way you make it sound, it was a prebuilt PC (Meaning you bought the PC at a store with everything already in it), if thats the case then I'd check to see if there is still a valid warranty on it.

[SageOfSpice]

That's.... Not good.

 

Does your motherboard have a light to indicate that it's powered anywhere? Is it on if so?

I can't even tell you how many motherboards I've seen fried due to stupid crap like this. Not stupid on your part, but stupid in the sense that turning the computer off kills it.

[W-L]

I would recommend to try as basic of a config as possible to see if you can get the system to firsr Post. 

 

-Moved to Troubleshooting-

[Calvin Flowers]

Just now, Kilovice said:

The way you make it sound, it was a prebuilt PC (Meaning you bought the PC at a store with everything already in it), if thats the case then I'd check to see if there is still a valid warranty on it.

I built it all from scratch. It has been working fine too

[Kilovice]

Just now, Calvin Flowers said:

I built it all from scratch. It has been working fine too

When you press the power button, does anything happen at all?

[Calvin Flowers]

2 minutes ago, Kilovice said:

When you press the power button, does anything happen at all?

Nothing at all

[Calvin Flowers]

5 minutes ago, W-L said:

I would recommend to try as basic of a config as possible to see if you can get the system to firsr Post. 

 

-Moved to Troubleshooting-

Do you mean remove ram and whatnot? 

 

[Beskamir]

Was one of those things you were updating the bios? If so I hope your motherboard either has dual bios or a removable bios. If it's dual, then the fix should be pretty easy, just switch to the fine one and then fix the broken one once you boot it up. If it's removable then you should be able to buy one from the motherboard manufacturer and then replace the one you've got. If there's only one and it's soldered then you're screwed. Clearly I've managed to break my bios before and learned the dangers of powering off a system that's updating the bios. Fortunately for me my motherboard had a removable bios and I was able to buy a replacement from Asus.

 

Edit: Although iirc the pc was giving an error code which you don't seem to be getting so maybe this has nothing to do with that.

[Kilovice]

2 minutes ago, Calvin Flowers said:

Nothing at all

If nothing at all happens, I would check first to make sure that your power switch is fully plugged in. (Alternatively you could plug your reset switch into the power switch pins)

[W-L]

Just now, Calvin Flowers said:

Do you mean remove ram and whatnot? 

Only have the PSU, CPU and cooler of course, with one stick of RAM to see if your system posts, one thing to try before it is to try and power on the PSU using the paperclip method to see if it's a PSU issue. 

[Calvin Flowers]

1 minute ago, ElfFriend said:

Was one of those things you were updating the bios? If so I hope your motherboard either has dual bios or a removable bios. If it's dual, then the fix should be pretty easy, just switch to the fine one and then fix the broken one once you boot it up. If it's removable then you should be able to buy one from the manufacture and then replace the one you've got. If there's only one and it's soldered then you're screwed. Clearly I've managed to break my bios before and learned the dangers of powering off a system that's updating the bios.

I was updating a display driver and I'm not sure if my motherboard does. I have a gigabyte H170 gaming 3 motherboard 

 

[Beskamir]

Just now, Calvin Flowers said:

I was updating a display driver and I'm not sure if my motherboard does. I have a gigabyte H170 gaming 3 motherboard 

 

Okay that doesn't sound like it'd be bios related. Maybe the psu died or something. Since otherwise you should be getting error beeps when the system fails to post.

[Kilovice]

5 minutes ago, ElfFriend said:

Was one of those things you were updating the bios? If so I hope your motherboard either has dual bios or a removable bios. If it's dual, then the fix should be pretty easy, just switch to the fine one and then fix the broken one once you boot it up. If it's removable then you should be able to buy one from the manufacture and then replace the one you've got. If there's only one and it's soldered then you're screwed. Clearly I've managed to break my bios before and learned the dangers of powering off a system that's updating the bios.

op said his motherboard is a Gigabyte H170-Gaming 3 (which has DualBios)

[Kilovice]

3 minutes ago, Calvin Flowers said:

I was updating a display driver and I'm not sure if my motherboard does. I have a gigabyte H170 gaming 3 motherboard 

 

If I were you, I'd just go through troubleshooting the PSU.

1) Test wall jack and psu to wall cable

2) Use paperclip method (bend paperclip and inset one end into pin 16 (green) and the other into 3,5,7,15,17,18,19,or 24 (black))

If the PSU does not turn on at this point, its dead.

[Calvin Flowers]

Just now, Kilovice said:

If I were you, I'd just go through troubleshooting the PSU.

1) Test wall jack and psu to wall cable

2) Use paperclip method (bend paperclip and inset one end into pin 16 (green) and the other into 3,5,7,15,17,18,19,or 24 (black))

If the PSU does not turn on at this point, its dead.

Thank you and everyone else soooo much! I really genuinely appreciate all the help. I'm going to try all of this stuff tomorrow because it's 1:00am and I'm stressed. I feel like I'll have her up and running tomorrow. I'll give you an update tomorrow (: cheers 

[Calvin Flowers]

15 hours ago, Calvin Flowers said:

Thank you and everyone else soooo much! I really genuinely appreciate all the help. I'm going to try all of this stuff tomorrow because it's 1:00am and I'm stressed. I feel like I'll have her up and running tomorrow. I'll give you an update tomorrow (: cheers 

Alright, so I've tested the power supply with the paperclip and it's working. Do you think the motherboard is dead?