as I said if he has another rig able to check part by part do it. Check ram in the other rig, gpu, etc etc.

Didn't work, perplexed on what the problem could be....

It still could be the PSU. If his "current" rig is less power hungry than the new one you are trying to build.

Cooler Master makes great cases and fans...but PSUs, not so much.



/e I guess it could be the CPU...but that would be a true rarity. Where did he get the parts from?


/ee More likely than the CPU being bad, would be a few bent pins on the CPU socket.

/eee Could also be some TC leaked into the CPU socket. That might kill the motherboard...again. ??

This post was edited by Ghot on Jan 1 2016 03:34pm

it was the psu

how weird....

took my shitty seasonic 580w out of my comp, tried it, instant success

he's picking up a psu on his way home and it should be golden

I just never would of thought that it would not power this system, must be something wrong with the PSU

that's why you never cheap out on PSUs.
only buy quality ones!

It was given to him, not his fault

And it was a nice psu, must just be old or have a bad 8 pin connector, something like that

i recently ran into this problem as well.. i had to source an older cpu to get the system to boot into the bios, where i then had to flash to a newer release ( to read the new cpu )

you have to download the flash from the manufacturers site, save/extract it to a flash drive thats formatted in "FAT" NOT NTFS/FAT32.......

if you haven't seen it before it is hard to think it is the psu. have seen this a couple times where everything turns on but fans and such all spin up 100% has always been the psu.