Professor CrescentFresh wrote:
Baron von AngstyCoder wrote:
Also if the MB is touching the case at any point, you get a loverly flat short right after it juices. Use the spacers! :)
(Not that I learned this in an annoying fashion :)
I learned this one the hard way too. Symptoms were pretty much as the OP describes. I had actually put in 1 spacer too many, and the extra spacer was touching some random part of the motherboard.
Lol. Did that *twice* when upgrading a computer once. Took the old MB out, didn't take all the brass risers out. Put the new one in. Powered it on. Bad juju... Fortunately, you can just claim it didn't work the first time and get the store to replace it (technically it *didn't* work the first time, but whatever...).
Oh. And Kao is most likely correct. If it's powering up the videocard, then the board *is* working. If the memory is bad, you wont get that far either. Easiest test is to strip it down to just mainboard, with cpu, memory, and a videocard. If it allows you to go into the bios and stays there without crashing, it's not a heat problem (but it sounds like this *didn't* work). If it turns off, it could still be a component problem, but I'd go with heat as the first culprit, especially since you did pull the cpu off and reseat it.
If that doesn't fix the problem, then the swaps I'd do in order would be: Memory, CPU, MB, videocard.
This is actually one of the reasons I typically buy my MB/CPU/Memory as a unit and install the rest on top of that. Those three really form the core of your system, and it's amazing how often problems crop up when swapping them.