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Karaya1

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Alright, so my friends father gave him 2,500 to spend on a computer. He decided to do it him self. He knows nothing about anything. So, he went to one of his friends. He is one of those kids that thinks he knows everything, but is really a dumbass too.
He never consulted me because i was 5,000 miles away in Germany, where i still am.
I've been building systems for myself and friends for 5 years and have never had one problem, ever.
Long story short, they went through monarch computer.
Bought
a Fx55, 7800GTX, 1Gb CorsairTwinx, Asus A8n SLI Premium, ect, ect. Spent all of the money before he even got a Monitor or speakers, fucking terrible. Well he bought a Thermaltake Tsunami with a 550W PSU, i believe it was an Antec unit, either way, should have been fine.
So the disaster starts.
They put it together, works for an hour, PSU blows, or so they claim. I was never here for any of this, i am still in Germany. They call monarch, RMA PSU, new one comes, blows again. They call monarch, monarch says return the whole fucking computer and we will do it, retards.
HE gets computer back, all works fine for two days. He shuts down, computer won'T turn back on.
The power LED is ON when the PSU is plugged in. No fans start when the button is pushed. All connectors were obviously correct from monarch because it did work. I concluded this was a motherboard failure after hearing his description. YOu all know just as much as i do now at this point. The kid knows nothing about building computers and the kid who did most of the building isnt exactly much better. I did have him make sure all the wires were still good to go, but he isnt capible of anything too complicated. He is just scared he will fuck something else up really.

NOW he has come to me for help and wants me to call monarch, from Germany, for him. We've been buds for 8 years so i will help him out, even when he gets it working it's still going to be a waste of 2500 considering he could never have any kind of respect for what he has under the hood. And the fact he is using a 17'' old CRT with a 7800GTX...Jesus i want to bitchslap the kid the 'configured' this system so fucking hard.

So would you all conclude it'S a bad motherboard too, and have him RMA it and then WAIT with the new one until i arrive back in 9 days?

Thanks.
 
If you try and "help" him by talking to monarch about a computer that you have never touched or even seen, then thats going to group you into the "idiot" catagory also. :)

Save yourself some grief and don't call them. Tell him he is SOL until you can look at the machine (tell him to send it to you)
 
How the hell are you supposed to diagnose a problem like that without seing the computer.

Please don't call Monarch and waste their time with this. tell your friend to call them. What are you gonna tell them that he can't tell them?

I can't tell you how many times I've talked to a "mom" on the phone while her "son" was in the background telling her what to say. Ma'am, please just put your son on, this phone call will go soooo much quicker.

And besides, he didn't buy any parts from you, or even bother to ask your opinion before buying anything. Tell him to go screw himself, and call Monarch to take care of his own problems.
 
You say that the power LED is on and the PSU is plugged in, but you also say that you don't hear any fans start up. Does this include the fans inside the PSU? If you don't hear them start up, its the PSU, and probably not the mobo.
 
Yea, not even the PSU fan fires up.
I figured it couldnt be the PSU because obviously if the LED is lighting up some power is getting through. The mobo just won't fire up. Of course, as stated above, i am being TOLD this, have not seen it.

Sarver systems, i am taking your advice on this one. I told him i'D love to help, but because i was not consulted before the purchase nor did i assemble this shit i couldn'T do much for him. I told him to call monarch and tell them what he told me and go from there. It's not my problem.

Sometimes i really think its better for the average person to just buy a fucking dell or something.
 
basically. Dell saves a lot of people from wasting money so they are good for something. like i said before. tell him not to touch the thing and wait on you to LOOK at it. im betting there are some burnt out PCI slots on the mobo from all that.
 
Stupid is as stupid does. Run Forrest, run. Let your friend deal with his own problems...its part of growing up. :D
 
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