The system in question:
Gigabyte H61M-D2P-B3 (with latest BIOS - F15, I think)
Core i7 3700
2 x 4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 Ram
1 old OCZ Sata II SSD (Windows 10 on here)
3 Hard drives of 500GB - 1TB each. 2 Western Digital, 1 I forget, Hitachi, maybe
Gigabyte GTX 970 - I forget exactly what model this is, but it has the three-fan windforce cooler, and comes slightly overclocked
Corsair 650 watt power supply - TX series, I think. It's a modular type, at any rate.
Hauppauge HVR-1650 TV tuner card
The other day, I needed to boot into OSX (which I have installed on a separate, not listed, SSD) to make an OSX install disk. It had been a while since I used my OSX SSD, so I plugged it in, forgetting that I'd also swapped out my CPU in the interim. OSX complained about this, so I swapped the old CPU back in (an i5 2500K), booted up OSX, and did my thing. Later, I shut the system down, swapped the i7 back into the socket, and tried to start the system back up. When I swapped the CPU back in, I fumbled it just a little getting it into the socket. I couldn't see any visible damage to the socket or the CPU so I carried on.
At this point, the system powers up for a few seconds, and them immediately shuts down again. Then it starts up again on its own. It seems that it will start up and shut down indefinitely, but it never POSTs or boots.
I've tried the following to rectify the issue:
Reseat the CPU and RAM
Swap the i5 2500K back in
Removed both PCI-E cards (GPU and the TV Tuner)
Replace the PSU with a known-good Corsair CX750
Unplug all the SATA drives
At this point, the common components are the two CPUs, motherboard and RAM. Is it reasonable to conclude at this point that, maybe as a result of fumbling the CPU, the motherboard is the culprit here?
If that's the case, and I have to replace a motherboard, would it be prudent for me to think about upgrading to a Skylake CPU? I really like the 3770, and from what I can tell, the latest CPUs, even at the high end, aren't that much faster, but new motherboards have some nice features I wouldn't mind having, like USB 3. Also, I don't relish the idea of spending a Saturday reinstalling all my software, just to back where I started.
The cost of upgrading to DDR4 RAM, a 6500K or 6700K and a Z170 board appears to be $450-600. This is obviously not nothing, but it's not going to kill me, either.
What say you guys?
Fake edit: I've never seen corrupt or bad CMOS settings cause the system to behave like this, but it just occurred to me that resetting the CMOS is something I should try this evening as well, and also the RAM. I think the CMOS was just set to all the defaults, though.
Gigabyte H61M-D2P-B3 (with latest BIOS - F15, I think)
Core i7 3700
2 x 4GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 Ram
1 old OCZ Sata II SSD (Windows 10 on here)
3 Hard drives of 500GB - 1TB each. 2 Western Digital, 1 I forget, Hitachi, maybe
Gigabyte GTX 970 - I forget exactly what model this is, but it has the three-fan windforce cooler, and comes slightly overclocked
Corsair 650 watt power supply - TX series, I think. It's a modular type, at any rate.
Hauppauge HVR-1650 TV tuner card
The other day, I needed to boot into OSX (which I have installed on a separate, not listed, SSD) to make an OSX install disk. It had been a while since I used my OSX SSD, so I plugged it in, forgetting that I'd also swapped out my CPU in the interim. OSX complained about this, so I swapped the old CPU back in (an i5 2500K), booted up OSX, and did my thing. Later, I shut the system down, swapped the i7 back into the socket, and tried to start the system back up. When I swapped the CPU back in, I fumbled it just a little getting it into the socket. I couldn't see any visible damage to the socket or the CPU so I carried on.
At this point, the system powers up for a few seconds, and them immediately shuts down again. Then it starts up again on its own. It seems that it will start up and shut down indefinitely, but it never POSTs or boots.
I've tried the following to rectify the issue:
Reseat the CPU and RAM
Swap the i5 2500K back in
Removed both PCI-E cards (GPU and the TV Tuner)
Replace the PSU with a known-good Corsair CX750
Unplug all the SATA drives
At this point, the common components are the two CPUs, motherboard and RAM. Is it reasonable to conclude at this point that, maybe as a result of fumbling the CPU, the motherboard is the culprit here?
If that's the case, and I have to replace a motherboard, would it be prudent for me to think about upgrading to a Skylake CPU? I really like the 3770, and from what I can tell, the latest CPUs, even at the high end, aren't that much faster, but new motherboards have some nice features I wouldn't mind having, like USB 3. Also, I don't relish the idea of spending a Saturday reinstalling all my software, just to back where I started.
The cost of upgrading to DDR4 RAM, a 6500K or 6700K and a Z170 board appears to be $450-600. This is obviously not nothing, but it's not going to kill me, either.
What say you guys?
Fake edit: I've never seen corrupt or bad CMOS settings cause the system to behave like this, but it just occurred to me that resetting the CMOS is something I should try this evening as well, and also the RAM. I think the CMOS was just set to all the defaults, though.