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Hey guys! Im having so many problems with my newish upgrade.

Its an e3110, DFI x38 mobo, 2x2gb geil PC8000 Ram and my old 8800gtx. It's water cooled also. Power supply is Corsair TX750.

As the thread title suggests, when I power it on, it turns on(kind of, fans spin up and pump turns on). The mobo's LED post code indicator is scrambled so I cant read what it's saying. After about 3 seconds, it shuts off. After another 3 seconds, it tries again. Infinite loop.

I tried using the search, because I've seen posts similar.

Here is what I tried so far:

1) Reseated the CPU.
2) Used each RAM stick individually
3) Unplugged HDD, GPU, Optical, just mobo, pump and fans powered.

Tomorrow morning I'm going to try out my old E6600 in it.
I also am going to try using a different power supply.

What do you kids think? Power supply? CPU? Grounding problem?

Thanks,
Michael
 
BIOs issues remove battery and reset CMOS if this doesn't fix RMA time
 
What kind of PS do you have? Could be a number of things. I say unplug MB and remove from case and go with the basics and try.
 
Changed Processor to E6600. Works perfectly! :-(

So heres my question... I know my e3110 is fubared, but the only thing that went wrong with it was when my radiator popped a leak, and drained(no water dmg).

This obviously increased my temps.... But I thought Intels will throttle, even down to without a heatsink. I was playing WoW when it happened.

The heat obviously caused my processor to become unstable. How did this happen?

Thanks,
Michael

New e8400 on the way!
 
Cloud15x said:
Changed Processor to E6600. Works perfectly! :-(

So heres my question... I know my e3110 is fubared, but the only thing that went wrong with it was when my radiator popped a leak, and drained(no water dmg).

This obviously increased my temps.... But I thought Intels will throttle, even down to without a heatsink. I was playing WoW when it happened.

The heat obviously caused my processor to become unstable. How did this happen?
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Maybe it's just me, but didn't you just answer your own question?
 
No not really. It's just you. See when I looked at my computer, as it was leaking, the entire loop was empty. The pump actually was what got me to take my headphones off since it was dry and noisy. The Processor, Chipset, and GPU were dry. With Intel's throttling, why did the processor burn up? Was under the impression after the video at Tom's about AMD vs Intel throttling, the intel could pseudo-run without a heatsink. Meaning it wouldn't burn up, but would clock itself down infinitely.

I solved the problem by testing the CPU, which I didn't feel like doing at 4:00AM. That's why I asked [H], to point me at what to try.

What was odd, after I let the system stay off for the entire night, it booted to bios, showed my e3110, and when I restarted, cold.

Is it on life support?
 
Without knowing more it's really hard to say why. Yes intels will throttle down but if this was a slow leak and your proc was running at a high temp for awhile it could have started the issue slowly then when you noticed it, that was the final straw. It's possibly your proc had a small defect which at the higher temps caused it to fail. It's also possible that when you removed the waterblock from the proc you may have damaged it and that's why it went bad. There are a number of other things that could have gone wrong as well...

Processor failures are very had to diagnose as there's virtually no troubleshooting to do with the proc itself except: "Will this run my system, yes or no?"
 
I had a similar situation.
I had an OC'd e6700 and when I reseated my waterblock, I screwed up and didnt get it on the CPU all the way.

It took literally 30 seconds to blow up my CPU, there was no down throttle. It was dead.
Of course I had all the speedstep and thermal protection stuff disabled in the bios....:eek:

I just figured it was God's way of telling me I needed a Quad core.
 
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