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Nov 9 2017 12:14am
I left town for the weekend and when I returned home I found my computer powered down, which turned out to be a breaker that had popped, however my machine wont boot on after resetting the breaker. I took my machine to get a free consultation and he hooked up a power supply meter, which turned on my machine fans and such, but said the power supply is good, and would assume that the graphics card and hard-drive are okay as well. He mentioned that there might be a 50/50 chance that the CPU or RAM might have went, however he was quite positive the motherboard had went out because the power supply was working and the motherboard reset and power didn't cause a reaction.

Current Dead Machine

Motherboard: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157262
Processor: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103674
Power Supply: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371015
Graphics: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102801
Hard-Drive: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136319
Memory: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145200 (plus 16gb random - 20gb total)

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I didn't pay the diagnostics fee to see what all exactly went, but I believe that it might be just the board, however I'd hate to waste time replacing that and the processor is bad too! I have tried finding a motherboard that is compatible and could be delivered next day, but I'm not finding anything online or locally. Money is tight, but time down is super important.. I can't tell if it would be worth the $50 for diagnostics and dust cleaning just to verify it's only the board.

I'm not trying to spend more than about one-hundred on the board and less than an additional 50 on quick shipping to Michigan. Thoughts?
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Nov 9 2017 12:54am


Did you try and reset the BIOS to defaults?

After a power interruption, the BIOS can sometimes, get confused.
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Nov 9 2017 12:35pm
Quote (Ghot @ Nov 9 2017 02:54am)
Did you try and reset the BIOS to defaults?

After a power interruption, the BIOS can sometimes, get confused.


good memories of overclockong on am3 and getting terrified at the glitched to shit looking color explosion that was the splash screen/bios
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