A few days ago my system shorted out on a few molex pins, but it seemed to work fine. Then one day, after shutting it down for a restart it started freezing on the POST screen, and eventually not displaying anything at all. After a while of restarting and CMOS clearing I got it back up, got through a cmos checksum error, and happily used it for the entire day, even playing through 5 hours of Bioshock on it. Then, the next day, it wouldn't turn on at all, and even stopped displaying anything. (my E4300 was overclocked to 3.06 ghz, 340 fsb, 9x multi, 1.36 vcore in bios)
So far I have tried 4 sticks of DDR2, 4 different graphics cards, a 650 and a 400 watt PSU, and 2 different motherboards (my DS3 and a new P35C DS3R that I bought yesterday, since I thought the motherboard was dead). The new motherboard exhibits the exact same symptoms as the old motherboard, it displayed for the first few post attemps but now doesn't display anything at all.
Since the only thing left to try is a new CPU, that's what I'm going to do. Annoyingly enough Boston got a foot of snow last night, so everything is closed today.
When I get the new CPU should I try it in the old motherboard first? It's possible that the old motherboard also might have been damaged by the power short, could the new cpu be damaged by a faulty motherboard?
any ideas / suggestions are appreciated.
So far I have tried 4 sticks of DDR2, 4 different graphics cards, a 650 and a 400 watt PSU, and 2 different motherboards (my DS3 and a new P35C DS3R that I bought yesterday, since I thought the motherboard was dead). The new motherboard exhibits the exact same symptoms as the old motherboard, it displayed for the first few post attemps but now doesn't display anything at all.
Since the only thing left to try is a new CPU, that's what I'm going to do. Annoyingly enough Boston got a foot of snow last night, so everything is closed today.
When I get the new CPU should I try it in the old motherboard first? It's possible that the old motherboard also might have been damaged by the power short, could the new cpu be damaged by a faulty motherboard?
any ideas / suggestions are appreciated.