One rig down, maybe two

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I'm pretty sure the BFG PSU in my gaming rig died yesterday. When I turned the machine on, LEDs on the mobo would turn on, but no fans would spin up. That scared me actually. I don't like the fact that somehow the mobo was getting power but lights weren't turning on.

Swapped out the PSU with the Enermax from my SR2. I've been wanting to do that anyway. The rig turned right on, but wouldn't boot to windows. I realized it wasn't recognizing my Vertex SSD at all. So, I figured, the PSU took down my SSD. Unplugged the SSD and tried to boot, but now the mobo won't POST at all. It's giving me error code "b8" on the mobo LED. I tried troubleshooting the RAM, but changing the RAM doesn't fix the problem. So, I'm suspecting either mobo or CPU.

And, since the working PSU is in the gaming rig, the SR2 is obviously without a PSU at this point as well.
 
pop out the batery chip and let the bios reset. before you do anything else.
 
I hope it ends up as a simple and cheap soulution.
 
Sorry to read of this, Jebo. Hardware problems/failures come part and parcel with folding. God knows I've had my share of them. Hope you can get everything operational again. :( /crosses fingers
 
I have the same problem with my p6t rig didnt have the fund for new parts soo its been sitting for a couple months. also bfg power supply
 
Filter said:
pop out the batery chip and let the bios reset. before you do anything else.
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Agreed, pop the battery and ram out, unplug it and let it sit for 12 hours. My old DFI boards needed this semi often and my Shuttle requires the same thing with failed OC settings.

Also, when the PSU died in the shuttle the mobo lights were also lit up without the system being able to spin up. I think this is because a single voltage rail in the psu died so while the system was still getting the voltage that powered those LED's, the rail required for startup wasn't there.
 
Good insight. Thanks.
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I had a BFG PSU die on me last year and it probably killed my P6T motherboard as well. May they both rest in peace.
 
R-Type said:
Agreed, pop the battery and ram out, unplug it and let it sit for 12 hours. My old DFI boards needed this semi often and my Shuttle requires the same thing with failed OC settings.
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My DFI used to require same thing. Then it finally died, and took the PSU with it. It's often hard to distinguish a bad PSU from a bad mobo. If there's a short on the mobo somewhere, it can cause the PSU to act weird, or eventually fry it.
 
sending test chips in the morning... hopefully he can get backonline soon
 
Put the working PSU in the Sr2 for now.

Down about 75k ppd for the time being though.
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