MSI H61M-P31/W8 Error Code 99

[cdominic3]

Building a friend a $150 gaming PC. Bought a used MSI H61M-P31/W8 motherboard, just shows error code 99 on the bottom right corner of the screen

 

Things I've done:

Replaced CMOS battery, cleared CMOS, checked for bent pins, took out both RAMs and placed one of each DIMM slot at a time, tried with and without a GPU.

 

Nothing seems to be working, anyone know if I could still salvage this board? Fucking wasted $20 on this LOL (I know, it's the price of buying off of Craigslist)

[ApolloX75]

2 hours ago, cdominic3 said:

Building a friend a $150 gaming PC. Bought a used MSI H61M-P31/W8 motherboard, just shows error code 99 on the bottom right corner of the screen

 

Things I've done:

Replaced CMOS battery, cleared CMOS, checked for bent pins, took out both RAMs and placed one of each DIMM slot at a time, tried with and without a GPU.

 

Nothing seems to be working, anyone know if I could still salvage this board? Fucking wasted $20 on this LOL (I know, it's the price of buying off of Craigslist)

IIRC code 99 for most MSI boards is an I/O error. Humor me here and try unplugging anything USB from the back and boot it up, that includes keyboard and mouse. It may just work.

 

When my little H61M went from a power delivery failure it gave me no codes whatsoever, just dead. So that tells me yours is at least trying to POST.

[cdominic3]

@ApolloX75 Actually I've tried booting it with nothing on the back. I have read on other forums that plugging something on the PS2 ports that it may help, but unfortunately I don't have any PS2 keyboards or mouse anymore. I haven't tried booting it with all of the ports occupied though. Thanks will try the I/Os!