Quote (Ghot @ Aug 8 2015 06:27pm)
If you unplug the PSU from the wall socket, then the PSU and therefore the chassis has no ground. Any capacitors in the CPU can't discharge then. Just that in itself could blow the motherboard. I don't believe that's what happened, but it IS possible.
It sounds like a standoff issue. Well it used to. Now it sounds like it may just be the mobo.
I checked all the BIOS's for his mobo, and none say for bulldozer or piledriver compatibility.
One of the old ASRock mobo I had did the same thing,
I powered off my psu, unplugged then took cmos out for an hour or so, and it worked.
It's just after a week or two the problem comes back, I'd have to do it again. So I tried rma but lolcanadia happened and was ignored/slow ass responses. So I just said fuck it and went with the good ol gigabyte ud3h =)